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by Zenst 5y ago
Did you also have to endure the era of `4GL` code generators that would produce COBOL code and marketed shortly as would make COBOL coders redundant? I worked at Eastern Electricity Board in the early 80's - No JSP there, but did work
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by Zenst 5y ago
Biggest erk and put-off many in COBOL had with JSP was exception handling and with that - without using GOTO (which was banned for JSP hardcore mentalities) you would end up setting flags and having checks - adding a lot of processing into
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by Zenst 5y ago
I started out from a BTEC (changed to BECTEC and 2 years instead of just 1 year shortly after I did mine) and was taught COBOL. First Job doing COBOL and I wrote a program, really upset the analyst - as with JSP exception handling done way
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by Zenst 5y ago
Age and health are funny things, sometimes it slowly creeps along, other times it jumps. At 20 my perspective of old age was different from when I was 30,40,50... One concern as I get older is the whole aspect that you can reach a point of
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by Zenst 5y ago
Wasn't it Disney and other media companies that pushed copyright duration towards this 140 year value? I vaguely recall that as a driving factor though maybe wrong and one of those unproven theories or meme'd news of times past.
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by Zenst 5y ago
I'd also add - verify at least a day ahead that those on-call know they are on-call and those making such calls - know who to call. Nothing worse than getting a call and that's the first you find out that your on-call. Experienc
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by Zenst 5y ago
The market for backup/emergency phones with long battery life will welcome this, but more so I have many older friends that struggle with touch screens and this will go down well with them. Must admit though after the recent 3DFX (1) a
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by Zenst 5y ago
There are plants (including tree's) that depend upon fire to propagate. Pyrophytic plants and some examples covered here: https://www.britannica.com/list/5-amazing-adaptations-of-pyr...
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by Zenst 5y ago
The whole polarization of political issues into right and left is and always will distract from the issues being debated and more so, ends up derailing any debate and discourse about the issues as they get drowned out by the labels. Very ea
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by Zenst 5y ago
As in send them an email that will trigger the system in a way to cause grief or induce further evasive exploration of the recipients life. Show me a guarantee that will never happen as that is the fear as we all know - any system can be g
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by Zenst 5y ago
Oh I think you will find that the "think of the children" model has been abused more than most emotional heart-string pulling for agenda.
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by Zenst 5y ago
Minefield warnings kinda usurp clothing labels from experience.
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by Zenst 5y ago
List of songs linked below and of course they had to start with Buggles "Video killed the radio star" https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_first_music_videos_air...
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by Zenst 5y ago
Yes that was very much the case, less so these days but dare say in some circles it still plays out akin to which school you attended etc etc. One sign of change though would be accents in adverts and what is being advertised. That I have
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by Zenst 5y ago
In some aspects I'd agree, though the drive by some companies to be seen to have some perfect gender balance, has seen meritocracy take a second seat.
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by Zenst 5y ago
It always irked me the lack of tree's in Scotland, but many reasons for it - https://treesforlife.org.uk/into-the-forest/habitats-and-eco...
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by Zenst 5y ago
Too early for that, though does open up other science that may well. Might finally pave the way for gravity shields, food replictor...or nothing. The aspect that this tetraquark breaks down into something with more mass will certainly be in
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by Zenst 5y ago
Electric boats without that petrol motor noise would be welcome in many area's. Though what is needed is an easy drop-in solution for existing boats. That's the breaker and charging.
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by Zenst 5y ago
> Science is not an appropriate epistemic tool to answer an historical question. But it is used to validate, and without validation you would not have history, only opinions.
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by Zenst 5y ago
When it comes to odds in mammalian species, you can't but help be reminded of https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Infinite_monkey_theorem
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by Zenst 5y ago
I like to think of such unlikely things in the context of winning the lottery, that I find gives a perspective based upon however large the odds are - somebody does win in the end. I didn't see any numbers in the article to give some w
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by Zenst 5y ago
> I'd love to get into stenography but it seems like the amount of memorizing involved is akin to learning a new foreign language, too much to learn as a hobby. Why learn when you can invent your own shorthand, more natural for you
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by Zenst 5y ago
How did you get on with the keyboard? Also feel the advent GSM mobiles which brought T9 input killed that off. But read reports iirc of 60wpm being achieved by many, which whilst not epic, is darn impressive for one hand. Though looking
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by Zenst 5y ago
Given the number of buttons afforded some mice, you could technically implement a microwiter keyboard in full upon just the mouse. I say technically possible, I personaly never played with the https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki&
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by Zenst 5y ago
There are always edge-cases. Though in this case, one that could send you over the edge. Really does sum up edge-cases in a whole new way of thinking.
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by Zenst 5y ago
Whilst it looks like it will be well clear of Earth, from the trajectory, it does seem to cross the orbit of Mars.
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by Zenst 5y ago
I also do wonder, how grey the area of hate crime is in some countries and might of seen YouTube guilty of that possibly if they had left it up, certainly the comments section would of been a light to the moths.
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Super Mario 64 game sells for record-breaking $1.5m at auction(bbc.co.uk)
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by Zenst 5y ago
Reading https://www.techradar.com/uk/news/apple-app-store-was-a-majo... I'd say it is not so much the consumers that would be impacted by such a hissy fit that Apple has mooted.
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by Zenst 5y ago
In 2020, the UK was still part of the EU and with that Apple could and did move much EU based sales to Ireland for tax purposes. So with that in mind, along with how companies game the tax systems, I take any figure with a pinch of salt. T

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