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by csixty4 10y ago
My kid turns one in a month. I'm just starting to get coding time back in my life. Usually it's after everybody goes to bed, which I known is a bargain with the devil because I can't remember the last time I was allowed to sl
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"I read the manual on all the DOS, where's the book with all the DON'TS?"
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I was one of those 256k early adopters. I found that there just wasn't that much demand for a site listing my contact info. Everybody just added me to their address book after calling or emailing me.
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It took the Surface Pro line three iterations to hit its stride. I imagine it'll be the same here.
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If you're only interested in it for job hunting, there's WAY better options. I reopened my LinkedIn account after a long absence once I got into management. One of the first thing clients are going to do before hopping in a meetin
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Nice!
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It's a pottery technique
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Was that hard? I hate bouncing between bash and PowerShell.
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I love management, and I've been approaching it like I've approached programming for a decade and a half. I mostly read business books these days, subscribe to business/leadership podcasts & newsletters, and so on. I even
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- PHP 7 + WordPress + memcached + sometimes React + sometimes ElasticSearch. Once in a while Gearman for big tasks. - node.js. One project testing out AWS Lambda. - One project trying out React Native. - AWS, Azure, WP Engine, Cloudflare, A
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Microsoft Opens Cortana Virtual Assistant to Third-Party Hardware Makers(macrumors.com)
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Cortana to open up to new devices and devs with Cortana Skills Kit and Devices SDK(blogs.windows.com)
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> As it turns out, you could probably have gotten a job as a programmer then if you could turn a computer on by yourself. My first programming job was with an obscure, outdated platform & language. They pretty much did hire anyone wh
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I started looking for work as a programmer in 1999, in the shadow of the dot-com crash. There weren’t many programming jobs to go around in the Chicago suburbs. And if you wanted to know what work was out there, you looked in the newspaper,
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This is pretty standard for dealing with enterprise clients. They literally just want a copy of your code in escrow so they're not left hanging if you go out of business. They usually pay the escrow costs and you ship a CD-ROM or somet
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Eaten by a Grue: podcast on Infocom games, text adventures and interactive fiction(monsterfeet.com)
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Queued it up for this weekend. I'm sure I could listen to Ms. Wilson talk about CPUs for hours. To have been designing chips in those early days and still making them today must be as mind-blowing to her as the advances in software hav
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> The crowd looks pretty old Oh man, don't say that! When I first got into C64 nostalgia, you had the older camp that was still staying productive on the 64, and us twenty-somethings nostalgic for the computer and games we grew up w
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The 2600 had paddles & "driving controllers". The former were potentiometers, the latter used quadrature encoding like a mouse. All the Pong (and clone) controllers I've come across were analog. But the Fairchild Channel
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> during the 90s the idea seemed to be that that the next step after the outsourcing was actually no programmers at all Lest someone think this is an exaggeration, no, this was literally the conversation at the highest levels of some c
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Pagent has become a sort of de-facto standard for ssh agents on Windows. Once I get my Yubikey set up, I can even substitute gpg for Pagent and have it speak the same protocol (it's a setting, off by default). Git for Windows drops in
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The page is kinda light on details. From my experience doing web development, msys2 + PuTTY/Pagent give me pretty much everything I need. I don't even use bash; everything I need is available from cmd.exe, including tools like ls
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Wow. When I posted this, the only replies were about the Commodore line. Now there's an actual conversation going on!
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I'm in a Clippy t-shirt. That's as much costume as you get from me this year. It's my first Halloween with a kid. All the fun is in dressing him up like a little astronaut now.
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This thread makes me happy.
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That's what Microsoft is pursuing on their latest phones under the name "Continuum". It doesn't run x86 apps (unless you connect to something like Citrix) but it provides a desktop environment very similar to regular Win
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MIT Museum http://mitmuseum.mit.edu
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Wasn't Linus already pretty familiar with Minix at the time, too?
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Yes. It all depends on your background. How many languages do you speak already? How many do you program in? Are you learning "mainstream" Spanish, or a dialect? PHP for WordPress or PHP for Laravel? PHP 5 or PHP 7? This morning,
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Three programmers come to a one-way street. The computer scientist looks left, sees there's no cars coming, and crosses. The professional programmer looks left, then looks right -- just in case! -- before crossing the street. The distr

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