DougHolland

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   by DougHolland 2y ago

   Sure, I'm in much the same boat. I did my last programming in COBOL in the 1980s, and it wasn't even the main part of my job. I've made no effort to keep my knowledge current. I'm simply not a techie, if ever I was. But
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   by DougHolland 3y ago

   Plain corporate propaganda. Sorry, no. The harder you work, the harder you're expected to work. Wisdom says, work hard enough to earn your wage, but remember everything that matters in life happens after hours.
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   by DougHolland 3y ago

   Location: Seattle, USA. Remote: Sure, and for a lower wage. Willing to relocate: Probably not. Technologies: None. I'm an office flunky mostly, but I'm good at it. It's actually the only thing I'm good at. R
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   by DougHolland 3y ago

   Uh, that's me. I didn't know it was clickable until reading these comments.
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   by DougHolland 3y ago

   It is paranoid of me to envision conversations planning this, a conspiracy amongst corporations? I don't remember ever seeing prices rise so steadily, so quickly (and I am old).
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   by DougHolland 3y ago

   https://www.itsdougholland.com/ Not at all tech-oriented. It's just me — a cranky, anti-social old man — and my opinions, about old movies, public transit, news, politics, my mom who gets on my nerves, and long-ago mem
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   by DougHolland 4y ago

   For me it's just the paywall. I pay for my local newspaper, pay for the NY Times, pay for The New Yorker, but I'm not made of money and I know of nothing at medium.com worth paying for.
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   by DougHolland 5y ago

   USA: Wisconsin.
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   by DougHolland 5y ago

   I never met the guy. It's entirely possible he was a raging racist. I've read some of the papers in question, though, and while it's been some years and maybe I missed the white pointy hoods, I don't remember the racism