dwarman

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by dwarman 12y ago
Sounds like ADHD, diinished Executive Function. Get tested. Properly. (not being flippant, that is one of my problems too).
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by dwarman 12y ago
The Long Now folks have been warning of this for at least twenty years. Their definition of a "Dark Age" is one for which we have no extant original records. Which describes the state of digital data precisely. Their concern with
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by dwarman 12y ago
Back in the days of Windows 3.11, in frustration, I coined one that so far has not gained any traction: "that which can be configured must be configured" Just like there are few people with IQ exactly 100, there are few users for
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by dwarman 12y ago
Stay awake, pay attention, and love what you do. Clearly, everyone commenting here must be doing so from the position of believing themselves to be good programmers with pure skill sets already in place. I have to include myself in that ass
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by dwarman 12y ago
Stand on Zanzibar, Snow Crash, Cryptonomicon, Childhood's End, A Cantilce for St Leibowitz, The Stars My Destination, Midnight At The Well of Souls, Nine Princes in Amber, Halting State, Strnger In A Strange Land, The Moon Is A Harsh M
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by dwarman 12y ago
Lua. Simple yet powerful. And - important for me - easily embedded into C and C++ programs, also pure ANSI C so very portable. Sorta like Javascript but with all the fat removed.
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by dwarman 12y ago
How is that: a bit different, possibly the closest is a music synthesizer for signal, and for controller response time. Is it interesting work?: Games _are_ different, so the past 6 years have been quite interesting. What I do relates to th
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by dwarman 12y ago
67, still developing, still inside game console audio DSP engines.
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by dwarman 12y ago
I only respond to contacts who address me by name and show they have actually read my cv, not just reacted to search term hits. That said, my response is typically "thankyou, I'll keep you in mind should circumstances change"
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by dwarman 12y ago
On going uphill both ways - my first 8 bit was one I designed and wrote the assembler for myself. 1973.
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by dwarman 12y ago
None of them. Mine was a 24 bit mainframe (Elliott 4130) in 1967, where my job was debugging them so I had to learn to code. In ASM. On paper tape. In the snow backwards uphill both ways etc etc etc.
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by dwarman 12y ago
A company for which I used to work decided to buy rather than invent some new technology. In this one case, after the principles had taken their money and run, I was asked to look at the IP that money purchased. This came in the form of 8 8
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by dwarman 13y ago
I started age 19 in 1967. Maybe even earlier. Dropped untrained into the deep end commissioning 4100 computers at Elliott Bros near London, and turned out I could swim. Passion - always had the feeling of "You actually want to _pay_ me
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by dwarman 13y ago
Self taught. No choice about that in 1967. No computers in schools, no such thing as a CS degree, and anyway for family reasons I had to drop out. By pure chance I got a job as a computer commissioning tech at a local computer manufacturer
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by dwarman 13y ago
Knuth's "The Art of Computer Programming" - linked lists, state machines. Carlos Castenada's Don Juan series (yes, I know it was fiction) - "one has no choice but to believe. What matters is what you believe".