Judging from the results of the project not even God believes that.

Nah. I think they appreciate themselves enough to make up for it.

Just my thoughts as requested.

Bought a late-2013 model iMac a couple of years ago (it was right after they announced the 5K model so the price dropped a couple hundred bucks).

Now, I had used a Mac only once before, on the mid-90s back when the difference between Apple and MS was stark.

But the first thing I noticed was that even though OS X (now MacOS) is still elegant the difference in ease of use is quite small now - at least at first.

It really took awhile before I began to glom onto the power under the hood. The trick is to hunt up some sites with "tips and tricks" for OS X and learn a bit each time you have a moment to play around with it.

I think as a development platform it's superb especially with Xcode.

I discovered that what I thought was "plenty" hardware wasn't. It was only after I upgraded 16GB to 32, and replaced the HDD with an SSD, that I started getting satisfactory performance.

I don't regret the purchase.

"Friends?"

I've gotten five marriage proposals.

Pretty sure that could function as an artificial human central nervous system.

Somebody's gotta do it.

I think it's a new academic discipline.

Zen coding.

Get a restraining order.

I don't get it.

@Jumpshot44 The three things I remember about punch cards:

1. Waiting for your turn at the card-puncher.

2. Waiting for your turn at the card-reader.

3. Dropping your 1,000+ deck as you're trying to get the rubber band on it while reading the printout from the run you just tore off the line printer.

Good ti...

Oh, eff no.

@LucaScorpion It's almost as if the Google business model, I dunno, works or something.

@LucaScorpion 1) If I start hunting for some piece of code I won't see what I'm looking for right away, and just start clicking blindly at links

2) Inevitably I will click on something the search engine *wants* me to see.

3) Next thing I know I've bought a new SSD or even a new box - which will inevitably be noticed by my wife when the credit card statement arrives.

4) She will murder me.

ERGO: hacking my own code keeps her out of prison and me out of the morgue.

@LucaScorpion Yeah but the net cops are far more likely to pull it over.

maybeHeJustHatesTheWayCamelbackLooks

I'm an old fart just trying to get back into coding after many years (since grad school mid-80s in fact when I depended on a VAX). Hey it's either learn to dev for retirement or work at Wal-mart.

I know I'm supposed to go find someone else's snippet but I insist on reinventing the wheel my way.

Anyway, struggled with an algorithm to transform a large square matrix of double floats.

(Remember now, I've only just got the hang of pointers. FORTRAN and Pascal and PL/I didn't need no stinkin' pointers!)

Gave up late one night in frustration. Got up next morning, wrote a bunch of pseudo code and nailed it by noon.

Personal achievements are the only real ones you know.

@matchacookie http://www.googone.com

Reminds me of young woman I saw on a plane several years ago. Had a "f*ck corporations!" sticker on her Macbook right next to the Apple logo (NYSE: AAPL).