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by csixty4 12y ago
I was fed up with college in the summer of 1998. I was tired of a computer science degree program which required classes in COBOL and IBM 370 assembler. So, I went home to get an associate's degree and start earning some of that hot do
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You just described most of 1996 for me.
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I'd be interested in trying . Can't promise anything. Might be a good excuse to get out of the apartment this winter. Contact info in my profile.
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I've been working on something similar for Doctor Who and I have nothing but sympathy. Best of luck!
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by csixty4 12y ago
Been married twelve years & loving it. My wife is my friend, my lover, and my gaming rival. I wouldn't say she distracts me from my work. It's just that most of the time I'd rather snuggle with her and watch TV or play a
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by csixty4 12y ago
The Friendly Toast isn't right in the heart of Kendall Sq. but it's good for when you're craving diner food. Fun place, friendly staff, and boozy frappes. As for meetups...what kind of things interest you?
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by csixty4 12y ago
> This vulnerability applies to all versions of WordPress 3.0 and higher. Problem can be solved upgrade engine to version 4, where no such problem. The XSS patches from 4.0.1 were back-ported to 3.9.3, 3.8.5, and 3.7.5. People should sti
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by csixty4 12y ago
A decade ago worked I worked at a company run on a PA-RISC HP 9000 running HP/UX. I had no complaints. The system was incredibly stable, even if the legacy code base running on it was crap. Their "pro" gear used to be really
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https://archive.today/dmmJI
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That's the big thing for me. It's not the lack of a witty response or a canned reply. It's knowing you did something for free, out of love, and there's an endless stream out people going "more! more!" and getti
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by csixty4 12y ago
I haven't run the numbers, but I get maybe $20 a month in "buy me a coffee" donations on http://statetable.com . It's enough to cover the domain & hosting, and the rest goes to fueling my caffeine habit. I
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by csixty4 12y ago
It's not just the problem of having astronauts hanging out in their ship playing zero-gravity poker for an extra couple months. You also need to have adequate supplies for that time and make sure the crew is protected from any addition
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by csixty4 12y ago
Ling Valentine was the keynote speaker at The Future of Digital Marketing 2012. Basically, her site is built to be emotionally engaging, personally branded, and completely different from what you'd expect from a car site. She attracts
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At least in the US the outdoors are no place for cats. I see dead cats on the side of the road far too often. People leave out antifreeze to poison cats so they won't poop in their yard or attack birds. Sometimes they shoot them for fu
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I tried it with Frotz when Apple added speech recognition to iOS. It was really fun.
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I believe it's all true, because around that same time I bought some web design software at Microcenter. When I got home, I learned it was a cheap Photoshop clone that output a giant image and an imagemap. It was pixel-perfect, but com
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by csixty4 12y ago
You inspired me to write up another one: Entry-level programmers, non-breaking spaces, and user experience https://davidmichaelross.com/blog/entry-level-programmers-no...
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The "W" Screen, the story of an Easter Egg : https://davidmichaelross.com/blog/the-w-screen-story-of-an-e...
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Any question that ends in "...at your last job". I've worked for companies and agencies in the past that actively resisted good coding practices (ex: prepared queries are "too slow") and been pigeonholed way too oft
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I like having separate "work" and "play" accounts on my machine, and Cask isn't really set up to work with multiple accounts (issue #5887 in their github issue tracker). That's something you'll need to kee
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by csixty4 12y ago
I keep forgetting Yunohost can do that. Is there a guide to setting up email services?
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130% of market. When you're working as an engineer at a startup, too much is out of your control. You have to have a lot of trust in the people steering the ship to take on that risk.
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"Consult" can mean a couple different things. Are you working as a contractor just focused on improving the dev workflow? If so, there's not much I can offer you other than to keep beating the drum and trying to get some atte
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Four of the last seven Illinois governors served time in prison for corruption. For decades, Chicago was run by the "Daley Machine", first under mayor Richard J Daley and later by his son, Richard M Daley. It was common knowledge
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I haven't read [1][a] but I highly recommend b & c. The Non-Designer's Design Book is what got me really understanding design after a decade as a developer.
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There's the php[tek] conference every year in the Chicago area.
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Rucker made the Ware books available free online under a Creative Commons license: http://www.rudyrucker.com/wares/#waresdownload if anyone wants to check them out.
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Has anyone tried this with the Microvision CPU+ROMs?
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> rather than acting like a society with its members' interests at heart, has been acting as a for-profit publisher It's not just their publishing arm. Try letting your membership lapse. I had to block their call center's
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If you like ACM's content, IEEE Spectrum has some good stuff too.

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