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by cafard 2y ago
It has been a while since I read memoir, but as I recall he came to the US in 1939 to take up an appointment, not as fleeing anything.
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by cafard 2y ago
I came here to say that. The US government's fiscal year runs October to September.
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by cafard 2y ago
a. That depends on the suburb. One can live well enough in some close-in suburbs without using a car, at least without using it much. b. The prison aspect does offer a degree of parental control, until the offspring are old enough to drive.
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by cafard 2y ago
They develop gray hair and a paunch, and settle in to write opinion pieces about the immaturity of their juniors. (Boomer speaking.)
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by cafard 2y ago
The brutality of the system, particularly but only under Stalin, was not really a secret by 1978. By then, people were readier to hear about it.
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by cafard 2y ago
Well, that was the policy of his employer (Guinness).
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by cafard 2y ago
The book is well worth reading.
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by cafard 2y ago
My neighborhood book club most recently read James by Percival Everett. I can't say I liked it that much, but if it doesn't qualify as literary fiction, I don't know what will. Having said, that, most of the fiction best se
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by cafard 2y ago
Probably 30 years ago, a Washington Post columnist (a recent arrival from Philadelphia) thought it an illustration of Washington compulsiveness that he had seen a man at the gym take his pager into the showers. That I should say makes less
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by cafard 2y ago
The books that I feel compelled to finish are those for our neighborhood book club. The household that picks furnishes dinner, so I feel that there is a contract there. (Not every one does. "Well, I've been really busy, and I list
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by cafard 2y ago
We buy very little on-line. Our grocery shopping is done at the store, also hardware, etc. Our last two delivered book purchase were from McGill University Press and Barnes and Noble.
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by cafard 2y ago
I have never been there, but I have ordered from them. My recollection is that they do ship promptly.
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by cafard 2y ago
Yeats mentions Penn Station in his Autobiographies --which are worth reading whether or not you care for NYC architecture.
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by cafard 2y ago
Recently I probably did read 100 pages a day for a couple of days. It was a book for the next meeting of a neighborhood book club, sloppy and to be hurried through to get back to more interesting reading. So I am indifferent to the number.
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by cafard 2y ago
I came here to say: not just text processing. Thirty-odd years ago I worked on a government contract supporting users of Data General minicomputers. From time to time we needed to inspect the logs, but the log reading utility was not fast.
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by cafard 2y ago
According to my father, a number of GIs blinded or otherwise injured themselves experimenting with antifreeze around VE day.
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by cafard 2y ago
> Umm, they made the same comments about Gen X workers. And the boomers. My wife still quotes my stepmother on the remarks of a boss of mine ca. 1971.
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by cafard 2y ago
Anthony Burgess wrote that learning Malay, where semantics trumped syntax, made a considerable difference to his understanding of language.
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by cafard 2y ago
SQL*Plus is pretty basic, but L will show you the previous command, a number will give you that line of the previous command, to edit, etc.
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by cafard 2y ago
The 14th Amendment put birthright citizenship into the Constitution. The concern was not at all with immigration, but with preserving the legal status of the Black population.
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by cafard 2y ago
New York reported an arrest clearance rate of 39% for murders last year, nearer 48% last quarter.
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by cafard 2y ago
Boomer here: at 25, I was living in a group house with three other men. I strongly suspect that men of 25 working at dead-end white collar jobs can still afford to share a group house. There seems to be a belief among some on HN that the pr
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by cafard 2y ago
Not Byron De La Beckwith, or the guys who killed Emmett Till?
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by cafard 2y ago
Abraham Lincoln brought back from the dead couldn't have won as a Republican in 2008 with the economy the way it was.
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by cafard 2y ago
I'm not sure how to answer that. Some can write a short, personally useful script. Some can do much more. Which are the crudest parts of Python, and which are less or not at all crude?
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by cafard 2y ago
Here is what a search of The Washington Post yields: https://www.washingtonpost.com/archive/local/1983/03/18/susp...
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by cafard 2y ago
Back in the 1980s, a Marine at Quantico made the mistake of picking up a sick raccoon--one heard a lot about rabid raccoons in the area then, but I guess he hadn't. He developed rabies, and survived.
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by cafard 2y ago
Generally, if the script is more than a one-off, I will write in Python, since all the young seem to know Python, and very few seem to know Perl. There are two recurring jobs that I have not rewritten from Perl, one because "pack"
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by cafard 2y ago
Most of the someone else's I have read has been in stuff from CPAN, and I recall it as pretty good. I have written some pretty bad Perl, and wish that I had encountered the O'Reilly Perl Best Practices long before I did.
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by cafard 2y ago
I was about to say, Hey, I use Perl, but then I saw this posting with the over 45 qualification. Yep, that's me (way over). Honestly, I write about a script a quarter in Perl, but it definitely is handy now and then.

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