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After staring at a spinning loading wheel for a significant portion of your finite lifespan, the machine finally restarts. You eagerly look for vast…
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Microsoft subtly embedded the actual silhouette of Bill Gates' infamous 1977 driving offense mugshot into the default generic profile picture for Microsoft…
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Before he became one of the wealthiest men in human history, Bill Gates was up at 4 AM coding a pixelated driving simulator. Included in the early versions of…
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Because compiling endless financial reports is soul-crushing, developers built their own escape hatch. If you opened a specific worksheet in Excel '97,…
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Your kitchen appliances are statistically smarter than Apollo-era spaceships. The Space Shuttle's primary flight software had about 400,000 lines of code. A…
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If the public actually saw the code running their lives, society would collapse in panic. Critical platforms holding immense databases are often a tangled…
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