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by bluedino 1y ago
I don't remember what the first Linux distribution I used was, but it a set of floppy disks I downloaded from a local BBS. I somehow got it to boot up but didn't really know what to do with it after that.
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by bluedino 1y ago
You could see the files as you scrolled through them. I don't think you understood how it works, I didn't do a great job explaining it. You can see the content of the files instantly on the screen as you go through them. Similar t
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by bluedino 1y ago
Right, but you could just hit up/down to scroll through the files in the directory listing. Very simple
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by bluedino 1y ago
A lifetime ago when I was doing MSP work, our law office clients were using the DOS versions of WordPerfect because the Windows version was too slow. They refused to store files in directories and use good file names (although they were lim
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by bluedino 1y ago
The Mac version is even worse.
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by bluedino 1y ago
Even right now a lot of people retire and then liquidate their 401k I just don't get it. My father and father-in-law both did it.
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by bluedino 1y ago
Machines were often so slow back then, 30 second logins were 'normal' (or maybe even quick), especially once you load a bunch of crap like AV and other enterprise crap. If I had dollar for every minute of my life I spent troublesh
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by bluedino 1y ago
Sure, but don't fix fake reviews or counterfeit products or...
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by bluedino 2y ago
Why weren't binary files used like I would expect in the 1990's DOS game? fread into a struct and all that
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by bluedino 2y ago
I remember the GI joe aisle, remote control car aisle, and of course the video game isle with the tickets you had to take up to the cage at the front of the store.
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by bluedino 2y ago
I was on a coffee shop kick for...15 years? And then I just quit. I'm not sure if was the price, waiting in line, or the quality going down since so many places popped up or what. But I just have zero interest in buying a coffee. I dri
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by bluedino 2y ago
> I’m traveling through Puerto Rico. On every nice beach, when there are people, they are playing loud music. Now that is part of the local culture A lot of American beaches will have signs up saying no music. As well as no beer etc but
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by bluedino 2y ago
We're still buying tons of things from IBM. Storage, Linux, automation, data analytics... Part of it is the old guard saying "Let's see what IBM has" when we're looking for solutions, but they do provide a pretty la
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by bluedino 2y ago
Yet, 40% of our students can't read at a basic level.
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by bluedino 2y ago
> Aren't US tech interview notoriously difficult? Many rounds of interviews, background checks, etc.? Not really, people get hired all the time that can't do a fizzbuzz.
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by bluedino 2y ago
I tried a little bit 20+ years ago. Bought a 'road Apple' Performa for $50, download Pangea's game programming book, can't remember if I used MPW or CodeWarrior... It wasn't anywhere near as simple as DOS game progr
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by bluedino 2y ago
The real jobs are in building the datacenter and the people involved with the software that runs on the datacenters computers
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by bluedino 2y ago
Shoe dealerships don't sell used shoes and have service/parts departments where they make most of their money
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by bluedino 2y ago
What about the $25 shoes at Walmart?
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by bluedino 2y ago
It's really no different than your company CEO storing confidential documents on their personal DropBox. It was the easiest place for them to put it.
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by bluedino 2y ago
You can tax whoever you want as much as you want but the problem is the industries from the past are no longer in this country.
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by bluedino 2y ago
> I do not understand why would anyone believe that creatine can influence muscle gains. This is the entire fitness/supplement industry.
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by bluedino 2y ago
I never watched Real Genius, so when I read Andre Lamothe's game programming books I didn't get any of the jokes.
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by bluedino 2y ago
> Apparently they felt that a visual representation would be easier. Screenshots, printed out, and then faxed, with a question or remark hand-written on the page, I'd have to go check my office mailbox for issues submitted by 2-3 us
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by bluedino 2y ago
Mid-90's in the United States... Somehow I bought a Hauppauge TV tuner card, it may have been this one: https://www.ebay.com/itm/325897614012 "Receive data broadcasts with Intercast and Wavetop" Now, I d
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by bluedino 2y ago
It has a lot of calories and other things in it. If you don't have access to a lot of food, milk supplements well
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by bluedino 2y ago
Dating apps. By instinct I swipe back like I am in Safari, and that does something else in those.
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by bluedino 2y ago
We use this for interactive GPU apps we run on clusters
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by bluedino 2y ago
I came from Visual C++/Basic world when I first got my Mac and dove into Xcode for the first time (2002? 2003?). Flexible layouts, connecting UI elements to datasources, localization... Oh my was I amazed.
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by bluedino 2y ago
> There’s probably still a lot of critical Windows enterprise software being maintained that needs consulting and support. At my old company, it took 2 years and $2 million to re-write an application in Java. That's the cheapest pro

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