fortyrod

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   by fortyrod 6y ago

   A similar mistake is to include your reports in speculation about potential termination of yourself. Especially if they are "The Talent", and you are not so much. I had a non-technical manager (sales background, and probably not b
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   by fortyrod 7y ago

   I was one of the 12 people who wrote a lot of Apple Pascal in the early 80s. One a day I got a call from a tech writer who was reviewing Turbo Pascal for Byte or some other programming mag. He had heard through the grapevine that I did Pasc
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   by fortyrod 7y ago

   It seems like there used to be a lot more women in computing. In my first job out of college (late 80's), I worked in a group of software developers with 12 women and two men. It was not considered odd.
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   by fortyrod 7y ago

   I'm finishing up an embedded side project over the holidays. It's C, FreeRTOS and the STM USB host stack. I spend most of my time with the likes of React JS, Swift and Kotlin so it does give me a good, honest, fresh feeling. Also