My first week at my current company, back in 2011 they gave me an empty desk without a computer, and told me to wait for one.
I did, for a whole week. Came to work, read some books, talking with colleagues, etc
Computer arrived Monday morning and then I could start working

But the colors are so nice

Replace the battery of your old notebook and keep it

It is a good analogy for non tech people

Ternaries are shit

Get a laser printer, "it just works ™"

@lbfalvy git/github for open source seems niece due to the forks and all that.
For closed source projects, you won't need forks anyway

Use the manager as a rubber duck.
Work just as well as a rubber duck

Svn is better that git, change my mind

Reject cold interviews, embrace networking

I have learned that meetings should be conducted or directed, not just had. I have left some Of those unscheduled meetings early by saying "i see you guys have asked everything from my side,bye"

Most of code comments I see in the wild are about the how something is being done, but not about the why, which in general is what needs being explained.

That login screen was the network login, not the local login. At the time, windows did not have any local security, and everything you ran was with full access

Comments should be about the why, and not the how.
But most of them seem to be about the how

Good old <table> comes back to life in a different form

Some jobs pay very well exactly because they are very shitty (finance and management consulting come to mind). Your compensation is in part from that, whether directly or indirectly.
Now you may want to accept a lower compensation with a more palatable job, or not

Most of the price of a macbook is the brand and the ability to run macOS. If you are using linux, then there will be much cheaper options

I am really against laptops for gaming, way more expensive and no upgradability. I would only recommend if it is your only option

@wiki phosphine

Use a laptop cooling fan. Works wonders to fix their faults

Many times the bots are not bots, but real people in clickfarms and mturk
That is why bot protection wont work

Xsd is the standard

Just assume it is and work from that

Don't

And why do you dream about it? What would improve in your life if you had it?

Tab on the keyboard. The editor may or may not convert it to spaces. I leave it to luck.
Only relevant for python anyway, which i don't use much

@odite it is vintage now

Copying wrong example code from the question has happened to me several times

My Google search is ten times better than the intern, that is why I am a 10x developer

I press tab, and the editor converts to spaces, so I guess both?