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by dwarman 11y ago
The example of lost US jobs, given in the article, is actually about off-shoring. Not related to H1-B at all. Lets get that under control first. Secondly, the process I went through back in the 70s, the position should be advertised for som
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by dwarman 11y ago
Also used on the Elliott 803, but the 4100 series used .050 core memory, hand-woven.
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by dwarman 11y ago
Don't know where I sit in this bell curve. Probaby far to the right. The question is - what moral to the story can be gained from my case. I turn 68 next month. 7 years ago I was cold-call recruited (they called, not me) and offered by
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by dwarman 11y ago
You'll be wanting the first one, volume 1, and also Volume 2 for data structures. These are classics, still relevant, and will give you a good grounding to pursue the more recent offerings suggested by other answerers here. Fascicles i
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by dwarman 11y ago
British money is - or was - explicitly an IOU. The notes bore the phrase "I promise to pay the bearer on demand the sum of (n) pounds ..." Used to be gold, not sure what you get these days. Other countries also, like India.
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by dwarman 11y ago
Um, why? 1990's board configuration (VGA, RS 232, etc). While I happen to like FORTH, surely this would be cheaper and more effective and more usable on a Raspberry Pi or similar? FORTH is still available, actually a nice language for
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by dwarman 11y ago
Coincidetally, this article showed up in my feed. Apart from the advice to carry a notebook to record what got one into the Hyperfcus Zone (I tried, I did, but I cannot remember to remember to make the note), it is a professional take much
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by dwarman 11y ago
It seems that Safari iOS's latest "helpful" behavior, sliding the tabs and favorites bar out of sight, is changig the window size and so invoking reflow. Which moved what I was reading off the bottom of the screen. Scrolling
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by dwarman 11y ago
I have 2e ADHD, diagnosed only a few years ago at 63. A revelation. Lots of study ensued. This might be be a good article, the intro seems ok, but I cannot tell. I cannot read this article. It reflows differently every time I scroll the pag
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by dwarman 11y ago
I was very enthusiastic about Smalltalk in the late 80's when I got Digitalk's System V to play with. And one thing torpedoed its use for me - local variables in code blocks are local to the code object, not the execution stack, s
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by dwarman 11y ago
Mild medication and habits are my saviours. Habits around when I sleep, wake, eat, and what I eat. Interruptions to habits result in drop-outs, things get forgotten watch, lunch bag, keys, appointments, ...). Medicatio: be careful exploring
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by dwarman 11y ago
we don't have it now. The prism art has been replaced by a photo-realistic actual glass prism. Looks tacky. iTunes refuses to let me get the original artwork back.
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by dwarman 11y ago
And the CCS at Bletchley. http://www.computerconservationsociety.org/index.htm Simon Lavington wrote a book about the Elliott Brothers company, one of the earliest UK computer manufacturers. They did a lot of stuff. I worke
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by dwarman 11y ago
AFAIK, Chris is the only person to have blown a Klein bottle. I don't think the mass produced version is hand-blown like his original. Maybe there are a few shy chemistry equipment blowers, but not many if so.
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by dwarman 11y ago
I do like Cliff. This reminds me, I dropped my bottle last year; time to replace it. If Klein bottles catch your fanvcy, there's another and very different artist doing metal and glass algorithmic artwork in 3D printers: Bathsheba (at
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by dwarman 11y ago
Seems the answer is all the above. In my case, I got two major jobs via LinkedIn. And I've never got one by sending resumes out. Most of my career has been via personal network. So, YMMV.
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by dwarman 11y ago
Interesting. Attempting to load this page deadlocks Safari on iOS 7.1.2 on my iPad Air.
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by dwarman 11y ago
Many years ago - 2010 to be precise - I installed Desktop for iPad by Aqua Eagle. I don't think it ever got updated. It is still installed, still works on iOS 7.1.2, but is no longer in the store nor, interestingly, does it show up in
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by dwarman 11y ago
see Fred Brown's "Answer" at http://www.roma1.infn.it/~anzel/answer.html
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by dwarman 11y ago
Many times this question has come up. All oldsters have different stories, but the one constant seems to be that programming is what we do anyway, and still a bit surprised people want to pay us. I'm 67, wrote my first program in 1963,
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by dwarman 11y ago
certainly could, and did. What enabled digitization and reproduction of digital audio were the works of Nyquist and Shannon, work that showed how it would work. FFT is an elaboration useful for filtering and spectrum contouring, and for co
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by dwarman 11y ago
also: things can get really ugly if your corp. decides to throw post-911 terrorism charges at you. I know of several instances where just using work machine for personal email got that treatment so the corp could get out of paying contract
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by dwarman 11y ago
... and then out of those specific tools emerges a meta-cognition of language as an abstract, now retargetable even to the point of easily generating new languages where needed, and also of becoming really fast picking up previously unexplo
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by dwarman 12y ago
Not exactly a new idea. What is you prime distinguishing feature? Have you reviewed the other hundreds of Apps with similar claims to be sure you are actually filling a need? Like, say, Garage Band (for a high profile freebie and highly pol
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by dwarman 12y ago
At the time it was a revelation. And I did too read all. I guess I'm no-one then, by your standards. I'd warrant you never read a dictionary in your childhood either. No-one. Well then. Creds are perhaps in order. So, now - 50 yea
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by dwarman 12y ago
To my down-voter: TAOCP is essential foundation to understand the whys and wherefores of writing good code at any higher level; one must understand the mechanics and limitations of the systems one is using. Hoping for Moore's Law to sa
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by dwarman 12y ago
You are young and so forgiven to have not included as #1 the seminal works of Donald Knuth, "The Art of Computer Programming", still as relevant today as it was in the late 60's and 70's. What he described is to this day
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by dwarman 12y ago
It's called "Hyperfocus", and is common in ASD and ADHD. You might want to get a proper diagnosis. It does not particularly correlate with intelligence as far as I know. Somewhat unintuitive too, but there it is. Low filter t
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by dwarman 12y ago
"leaky" filters are also characteristic of ASD and ADD/ADHD. I have often wondered if these conditions occur at a higher frequency in the creative thinkers vs general population. I wonder if they will look at that too?
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by dwarman 12y ago
Never ditched us. To this day every store I visited had a wall of electronic components and breadboards etc.

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