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by fm2606 4y ago
_What Should I Do With My Life_ by Po Bronson There are a lot of stories of people who hate their jobs and make a switch. One was a lawyer who became a truck driver. A doctor who became a programmer (iirc ... I do remember she was in tears
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by fm2606 4y ago
I want a flip phone (or slider) with a full qwerty keyboard for texting and that has GPS/maps and that's it. Oh and the ability to use it as a hotspot. It's asking a lot for something that doesn't have a lot.
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by fm2606 4y ago
>> should we also worry about the “dev getting bored” problem? This is one thing I worry about. I would love to start a one dev, money making, app...but I know me, I'll get bored. I would have to find something that I am reall
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by fm2606 4y ago
Pascal was the introductory computer language at my college in 1988. I don't remember much of it.
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by fm2606 4y ago
>> I've been looking into dynamic DNS services a bit That will still expose your IP address, at least NOIP did when I was using it. NOIP was a good service but after 5 years I noticed that my IP never changed (yeah! took me a wh
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by fm2606 4y ago
>> One thing I really would like to have and get working, is a little selfhosted homeserver, instead of putting my websites on someone else's servers (although cheap). It becomes more peer-to-peer this way, and I'm only rely
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by fm2606 4y ago
My current job that I started in August of this year. It is a huge health care org Happy with the pay Benefits are top notch: insurance is less than half of what I was paying at previous job. Traditional pension plan (no monetary input from
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by fm2606 4y ago
I started Emacs, Paredit and Clojure all at the same time. What helped me the most was Chapter 2 from _Clojure For The Brave and True_ ( https://www.braveclojure.com/basic-emacs/ ). Knowing that the learning curve wo
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by fm2606 4y ago
I can completely relate to this. What helped me the most was Ch 2 from "Clojure for the Brave and True" https://www.braveclojure.com/basic-emacs/ Basically how to open, save and basic editing. I knew it was
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by fm2606 4y ago
I guess I'm too old school. Pen and paper don't require batteries or recharge (though possible more ink or lead, if a pencil instead of pen). I've read enough of "how to take notes" and every one of the articles sai
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by fm2606 4y ago
This in my opinion, is the one true answer. Same when people post "I built X with Language Y" and some one comments "Why did you use Y? You should have used Z". What difference does it make? You don't like it don
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by fm2606 4y ago
I jumped into the Common Lisp rabbit hole and enjoying it. I've completed Touretzky book on CL. I'm now reading Norvig's Paradigms of Artificial Intelligence Programming. I know enough to start some project which would help
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by fm2606 4y ago
> I miss Turbo C I started college in 1988 and they were offering copies of Turbo C with all the books for $5, but you had to supply the 5 1/4" disks. I only lasted 1 1/2 years in college (that time around) so I didn'
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by fm2606 4y ago
I missed being a kid prodigy as well. Started programming on C64 in BASIC at age 12. Why I never learned assembly language is beyond me; for what ever reason I don't recall it being on my radar. After high school I went to college f
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by fm2606 4y ago
Is it really self-hosting if it is on someone else's server? This is an honest question for which I am curious about other's thoughts. I am all for Indie web. If we all took the time to put our own content (self-hosted or not) o
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by fm2606 4y ago
I have no doubt that for most of the people making the decision of which person to lay off it would be hard. They are human. But, I wonder; are these the same people (managers) that were making decisions that allowed the company to loose
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by fm2606 4y ago
If I were asked back I'd take it (hopefully with an increase in salary) then I'd actively search for another job. Once I landed it I'd give zero day notice. Fuck them. I understand I could be potentially hurting coworkers b
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by fm2606 4y ago
Thank you! One would think with as much education as I've had and amount I've read that my spelling would be a bit better, but, here we are! My smart-ass comment would be "I knew that and just wanted to see if someone would
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by fm2606 4y ago
So my very first thought of reading this comment is "I 100% whole-hardily agree". But... I have read a few posts from different people who say blog about it even if it isn't new or unique. The thought being is that it 1) imp
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by fm2606 4y ago
Hello from Space Coast of Florida. I guess right now I'm "passionate" about learning Common Lisp. I put it in quotes because there are so many areas of computer science/programming I'm interested in that I'm n
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by fm2606 4y ago
Planes are designed to fly with both wings. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z7ULyt20bkY
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by fm2606 4y ago
Thanks for this! I had to set keybinding to C-c C-n because I got unmatched parentheses error with C-M-n. I've been slowly moving to emacs since this summer and got to where I like it better than Vim. I was "forced" to learn
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by fm2606 4y ago
I go through phases where I won't read. Right now I'm in a phase of reading but I no longer feel like I have to read X amount of books. If it takes me 2 weeks or 2 months to finish a book so be it. This has helped me a lot in s
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by fm2606 4y ago
Initials of who typed up the letter. Standard practice back then. I learned about it in H.S. typing class in the late 80s Edit: s/resume/letter/g
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by fm2606 4y ago
Archive: https://web.archive.org/web/20221019082034/https://www.nytim...
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by fm2606 4y ago
> I remember being always like that. But it seems the ambition of making it big has infected my passion. For anything I want to build, I am obsessed with the possibility of monetizing it. The story of SaaS millionaires only reinforces th
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by fm2606 4y ago
I know I swapped them out on the power board but not sure if I did it on the video board. I'll check this weekend. Thanks for the tip.
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by fm2606 4y ago
Good to know, thanks!
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by fm2606 4y ago
Thanks...bookmarked it.
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by fm2606 4y ago
I was in 8th grade and the library had a room with 4 or 5 TRS 80 Model 3. Students were not allowed in the room unless accompanied by a teacher. One day in math class we watched a TV show about computers that ran that small program only th

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