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by justanother 8y ago
Hi there, programmer since age 4, professionally for about 27 years. You haven't heard of me. There's a fair chance you've used something I've worked on, but more likely you haven't. I'm over 40 and haven'
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by justanother 8y ago
A few years back, I once mused to friends: What happened to the hackers and revolutionaries, the teenage determination to liberate technology at all cost, writing cool text-philes along the way? A friend's answer has stuck with me ever
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by justanother 8y ago
1990. Not very many people had even heard of it. Some of us who'd gotten tired of wardialing and Telenet/Tymnet might have had friends in local universities who clued us in with our first hacked accounts, usually accessed by first
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EFF Responds to Bird's Legal Threats to Boing Boing(boingboing.net)
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by justanother 8y ago
Yes I still use it for simple edits (usually removing a line from ssh known_hosts or similar) these days. My fingers learned it at 1200 baud on hacked Xenix machines and it's too late to knock it off.
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by justanother 8y ago
SEEKING WORK - experienced full-stack developer Location: Tampa Bay, Florida, USA Remote: Preferred, but will discuss other options 20 years of full-stack web development experience, with embedded development history before that. We can get
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by justanother 8y ago
Wife has Scheuermann's and Levoscoliosis (spinal deformities) and spends a large (often majority) percentage of her time in agony. American doctors refuse to give her opioids because their idea of resolving the 'opioid crisis&#x27
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by justanother 8y ago
Was a Senior Member for years until they backed software patents and I quit. I didn't get tons from it honestly, although it was fun to read Spectrum.
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by justanother 8y ago
To me (American by birth, Francophone by grace of dieu), it's more than just baguettes and Eiffel towers. This is the country that frightened Europe to the core by taking the still-bleeding head off of a monarch and setting an example
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by justanother 8y ago
Chances are, he was just remarking on your pronunciation, which is all anyone cares about with French. I studied it for 5 years (IB/college many years ago) and still managed to get the brusque English-menu treatment in Quebec. For the
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by justanother 8y ago
So cities should subsidize your multi-million-dollar operation by reducing urban on-street parking inventory and donating that space to you? Okay, but here's some free advice about how cities work: You won't get that by writing in
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by justanother 9y ago
I had Hakarl at that lodge near the Blue Hole. I was the only American they could recall who asked for seconds. Wait. I had whale at a restaurant near Hella. It was more amazing than any beef steak I had ever had and was more or less sustai
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by justanother 9y ago
Regardless of whether or not you regard opioid addiction as a disease, please please consider the slippery slope you're sledding down if you buy into this. Who's going to deny insulin to people whose credit card statements show mo
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by justanother 9y ago
No. I have to be an adult and deal with a lot of people, some of whose personalities will get on my very last nerve, and do a lot of reactive (as opposed to proactive) things. A lot of investigation and fixing as opposed to greenfielding. S
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by justanother 9y ago
Productions such as the faux-BBC video and "The Day After" remind me that the word 'obscenity' is utterly wasted on pictures of naked people, when it applies perfectly to high-altitude nuclear mushrooms created by global
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by justanother 10y ago
It isn't just police. I have a somewhat common American name. A bank once opened a signature loan for one of my 4 or so same-state doppelgangers and sent me the payment coupons. One of the doppelgangers is a felon, which sucks for back
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by justanother 10y ago
> The keyboard has suffered so much criticism that I have to wonder: who of those who condemn it, have actually used it for a sustained period? I got a 2015 Macbook as soon as it shipped. Within a few months, the butterfly mechanism had
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by justanother 10y ago
this means that back in my teenage years I never encountered a properly configured VMS cluster
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by justanother 10y ago
If this message is helpful, it is only by way of empathy. I have some amazingly hotrodded Commodores and Apple IIs myself, although you really should consider opening those boxes and playing with the goods. I enjoy discovering games I'
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by justanother 10y ago
This happens a lot more commonly than people might think. Not sure if this is still the case, but Florida DHSMV (motor vehicles department) used a Honeywell mainframe as recently as a few years ago, and the word around Disney World Ride &am
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by justanother 10y ago
"Hackers penetrate and ravage delicate public and privately owned computer systems, infecting them with viruses, and stealing materials for their own ends. These people, they are terrorists."
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by justanother 10y ago
After unfortunate experiences in Real Estate, I began a new life as the Renting Scum in decent, fiber-optic-Internet-having neighborhoods. As you may imagine, this Floridian enclave of happiness has an HOA which utterly lacks enthusiasm for
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by justanother 10y ago
Debt isn't possible without a counterparty.
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by justanother 10y ago
+1 for the above. This sure was a dick move, but from the past week OP has probably already discovered Toronto is an amazing, clean, and courteous city (from my limited experience) compared to many others. Don't know what their work&#x
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by justanother 10y ago
Can pretty well confirm this isn't true; 97 for PSX etc was a fresh rewrite in C++.
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by justanother 11y ago
I am not familiar with the geological features of the Netherlands, but much of the Florida coastline is formed from porous oolitic limestone, meaning you can build as many dikes and dams as you want, and the water will go under them and app
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by justanother 11y ago
This is really nice for those of us who run vintage computers (e.g. Apple II) with ethernet adapters. I hope they keep this around.
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by justanother 11y ago
Another possibility that we are forced to consider is that the Executive is not as unitary as it looks; There is likely severe coalition-building and politics even within the Oval Office itself, such that even a Constitutional scholar with
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by justanother 11y ago
The beating that we Apple IIgs owners took in the BBS scene from the Amigans in the early 1990s was downright brutal. It gives me no particular pleasure to note that the Amigans suffered approximately the same fate as we did (horrible marke
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by justanother 11y ago
Nice read. I being somewhat younger than the author, didn't get into the scene (such as it was) until after the dust settled from Operation Sun Devil. There was a lot of what he describes, excepting less emphasis on long-distance codes

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