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by anadem 7y ago
There seem to be only four OGR funeral homes in the whole of California. I better try to die in the right place.
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by anadem 7y ago
"My" FORTH was done in 6502 assembler, and used for a water company records and billing system which included interfaces for the company to get the local water flow rates! The meters reported with synthetic voices. Back then BT ow
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by anadem 7y ago
Commenting as an uninvolved bystander: your entire reply sounds like corporate-speak to me, and it's offputting. I get that you're trying to state your intent, and perhaps English isn't your native language, but it's de
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by anadem 7y ago
I had just gotten hired as employee #9 by a startup which was growing fast making software network components, and after me three more devs were hired in the next month. Next month we moved into a much bigger office, with a lovely view and
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by anadem 7y ago
Lucky you! Just fyi wikipedia says "the city is well south of the Arctic Circle" and ".. has a tundra climate, featuring long, cold winters, and brief summers that are too cool to permit the growth of large trees." [ htt
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by anadem 7y ago
This is another fascinating window on the impact: https://news.berkeley.edu/2019/03/29/66-million-year-old-dea... "the first mass death assemblage of large organisms anyone has found associated with the
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by anadem 7y ago
The first paid programming contract I got, back in the late 70s, was writing a records management system for a water company .. we wrote the Forth interpreter too, for a 6502 CPU, to get low-level access to hardware such as water level sens
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by anadem 8y ago
And the age of consent is ..
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by anadem 8y ago
Yes! In 1981 my wife gave me Loeliger's book as a birthday gift, which led to Forth being the first language I implemented and worked with for pay! Excellent book (though the book's pseudocode has a couple of bugs .. I forget just
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by anadem 8y ago
Yeah, I made and listened to a crystal radio as a kid in Britain. With a big antenna hung outside between trees I could listen in bed to Radio Luxemburg! (this was in the days when the BBC was the only broadcaster in Britain; Radio Luxembur
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by anadem 8y ago
There's some wonderful prehistory in the Orkneys. When I was a little kid (1950) Skara Brae was just open to run around; my sis played house.
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by anadem 8y ago
Lucky man, what a wonderful place to be. Nice job you're doing there! Many years ago I bought a similar place on Skye to renovate, but had to pass it on as I went broke (unrelated to the renovation project). It was one of life's
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by anadem 8y ago
Unfortunately deregulation leads to consolidation which leads to monopolies.
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by anadem 9y ago
Here's Kessler's excellent How We Got Here (pdf): http://www.andykessler.com/andy_kessler/excerpts/How_We_Got_...