johncla99

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by johncla99 3y ago
I'm a former professional librarian. Left the field in 1985, but have never heard of anyone anywhere paying for use of the dewey decimal system. OCLC services is a different issue. You're paying for their provision of cataloging f
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by johncla99 4y ago
I was completely unable to get it to "scroll": iPhone, MacBook running Firefox or Chromium, trackpad, arrow keys, the handle thingy on the right edge of the browser... nix nada nothing.
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by johncla99 5y ago
US: Washington
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by johncla99 5y ago
Wait...I was a tech writer for 20+ years at a major software developer. To me, a tech writer is someone who documents apps or APIs. If true, I don't see what this article has to do with tech writers.
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by johncla99 6y ago
Sorry...TFA? What's that?
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by johncla99 7y ago
I spend week-long visits at a remote cabin in the Central Cascades. During the winter I have to get outside and get some significant exercise every day. Outside. Exercise. Every day. Or I will go crazy. That's it. Think of the trappers
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by johncla99 7y ago
Egypt to the Black Sea is UPSTREAM via the Dardenelles and the Bosporus. That's step one in the original route. It seems that a test run in the DOWNSTREAM direction will be less than convincing.
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by johncla99 9y ago
Ditto. The Economist covers topics in depth that I don't see covered at all elsewhere. I also subscribe to 'The New Yorker'. I disagree vehemently with their politics but respect them as a source of good writing on diverse an
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by johncla99 10y ago
I'm halfway there...not an engineer and my academic background is social sciences; but with a technical background occupationally. I'm here because it is an exceptionally diverse news source for all kinds of topics, technical and