* Posts by richieadler

3 publicly visible posts • joined 20 Jan 2024

Core Python developer suspended for three months

richieadler

Re: Sad day

Certain communities (and countries are also communities) are so devoid of good people that allowing only Good People™ would keep them perennially empty.

richieadler

Re: Sad day

Agreed on "Rain Man", but a reading beyond cursory of any book by Oliver Sacks, including the one you quote, is the opposite of a factory of happy myths.

For a moment there, Lotus Notes appeared to do everything a company needed

richieadler

Re: The problem with Notes

20+ years Notes developer/admin, I could subscribe every word you wrote. The diverse applications we created in the insurance company I worked on were very used, even if quirky if they needed close integration with Microsoft.

I still recall with fondness how the car surveyors missed their local replica of the survey application I created and were forced instead to work with some app running in the limited phones at the time (this was prior to smartphones and generalized mobile Internet access).