Jonathan Blow

anything that can be successfully replaced is a significant help. The trick is to make the replacement as simple and good as it really can be, which is hard when one has grown up surrounded+informed mostly by bad software.

so how to change surrounding and how to study on good examples when you can't distinguish between good and bad on the start of career? Also more experienced colleagues can show bad examples as 'right' thing

It is difficult!

Do you remember? http://doc.cat-v.org/bell_labs/utah2000/utah2000.html … Anything changed? I don't think so.

Regarding file search - have you tried Everything? It's one of my favorite programs, use it all the time to find files in Windows. Unless you mean search *in* files?

Yeah, I want to find files with particular text in them. Finding files that match a particular name is trivial.

I use Notepad++ for that. It's a bit slow if you search in a lot of files, but you can narrow the search with filters etc. Works well imho.