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by hsmyers 16y ago
The article does not deal with 'how' an employee gets hired. In my experience, HR is an almost airtight barrier against age while direct communication with the individual or team that you might work with is usually fair and quite open. You
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by hsmyers 16y ago
If you look at the second to the last photo, you can see two things; it is a single barrel and the barrel in question is smaller in diameter than his thumb. I'd say that weighs heavily in favor of a 22 instead of shotgun...
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by hsmyers 16y ago
Given the age survey posted a little while ago, most HN members have no particular reason to note this. But for me, one by one the pioneers that pulled me into the world of computers are dying--- I will miss them.
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by hsmyers 16y ago
I remember all the way back to the 8080, the 8085 and the Z80--- all quite fondly in fact. Wrote a great deal of assembler code even with the problem of Z80 differences </nostalgia>
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by hsmyers 16y ago
So how many voted in the poll just to see what the stats were?
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by hsmyers 16y ago
I am so GD tired of "--- is dead" as the title of what amounts to a rant (seemingly quite factual in this case) based on what someone dislikes about the subject. Cloud Computing is not dead. At worst the media has in their usual bandwagon r
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by hsmyers 16y ago
It has been too many years since I spent careful time (on foot with backpack in the late 60's) in SF so I can only relate my experience in Berkeley. First an admission--- I am invariably biased in or out of favor of a city based on it's boo
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by hsmyers 16y ago
The OP is paraphrasing: First They came... - Pastor Martin Niemoller First they came for the communists, and I didn't speak out because I wasn't a communist. Then they came for the trade unionists, and I didn't speak out because I wasn't a
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by hsmyers 16y ago
Without attempting to read the obscured code, the reason for the middling high Elo lies in the algorithms implemented. One of the AI discoveries is the sad fact that chess does not need intelligence, just horse power and a good per move che
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by hsmyers 16y ago
If it would display a background of my choice, grid or typical notebook lines then it would very quickly replace several of my 'must have' travel items--- where travel is a variation of 'don't leave home without it'...
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by hsmyers 16y ago
IBM BAL360---Basic Assembler Language
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by hsmyers 16y ago
A non-relevant question, which one? St. Louis, Tulsa, Chicago, New York, etc... Since the shirt doesn't say, it won't make a difference from the sales point of view, just wondering which one was your inspiration?
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by hsmyers 16y ago
The flame thrower is his, but how about the operator? Double hit points if she is also the M-18 operator...
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by hsmyers 16y ago
One of the problems with software that changes how you work is that it changes how you work! There is a lot of resistance to such things--- the user has to see clearly that there is something to be gained with this modification. I like the
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by hsmyers 16y ago
While I applaud such an improvement, I still despair over Google's inability to handle context. For instance the search phrase 'tex decorative rules' is totally miss managed. First it overrides the search and changes tex to text. Humorously
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by hsmyers 16y ago
Possibly more interesting than the article itself are two links towards the bottom: http://hexayurt.com/ and http://www.tilings.org.uk/Hexayurt_Family.pdf . Have to say if I had the money though I'd hire him to tile my front entry way in
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by hsmyers 16y ago
Go here for info on the additional symbols like the sergeants stripes--- http://www.w3.org/html/logo/
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by hsmyers 16y ago
We still argue about color names today--- no longer about the basic 7 or 8, but over what to call the ones we can easily display on the screen. Even if we limit it to say 256, it is hard to find universal agreement on what to call them. If
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by hsmyers 16y ago
I had little trouble with a first AppKit app after finding http://www.gnustep.it/nicola/Tutorials/WritingMakefiles/node... There are links to additional articles/tutorials suggesting more complexity is available...
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by hsmyers 16y ago
I don't mind the effort, but I'm too cheap for the kind of fees he is talking about. Given the price of a white box of almost any capability, better can be had at your corner computer shop...
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by hsmyers 16y ago
Yeah, he probably just doesn't understand numbers--- got his Nobel with boxtops I bet, whereas you got yours by popular acclaim wasn't it?
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by hsmyers 16y ago
So if you write a CAD package in Lisp, your user language will be JavaScript instead of base='C', user='Lisp'. I suppose this is progress :)
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by hsmyers 16y ago
plus a monthly of $39.00 or more and a $15.00 data plan...
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by hsmyers 16y ago
I only indirectly depend on browser based RSS feeds as I use Google Reader. Which does precisely what I want it to and is available without regard to browser.
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by hsmyers 16y ago
1. Make it easier for people to comment on your text--- some sort of wiki perhaps? 2. Beginners forget, so telling them that you won't repeat information (key strokes to evaluate an expression) isn't going to help. 3. In the line 'The way i
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by hsmyers 16y ago
With regards to call centers, you might want to first ask those with a job there if they want their job destroyed. Without regard to their current job search plans, they are there for a reason...
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by hsmyers 16y ago
even cache is down--- use the text link instead...
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by hsmyers 16y ago
Every now and then--- mostly when I look up something and it is incomplete or wrong or if I spot a typo. Used to be an editor and I can't help myself...
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by hsmyers 16y ago
In the 80's our company (very small) received a letter from an official/whatever in the German Postal service wondering if he could arrange the purchase of around 5,000 manuals for our software. This came as a enormous surprise in that we h
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by hsmyers 16y ago
First thing to do is realize that for many (most?) older programmers, this is the norm. Being self-taught in the days before Programming as a major or Comp-Sci for that matter isn't a new thing for the profession. That said, best thing to d

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