masterponomo

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by masterponomo 14y ago
Please tell me when it was ever easy. Rumors of the job market being easy in the past are vastly overstated. Before the Internet, before entry to IT was as easy as it later became, I graduated high school as valedictorian and took the highe
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by masterponomo 14y ago
Makes me think about programming IN a foreign language. One time we had to fix some code a Turkish client had added to our system. The spec and the code were in Turkish (imagine Turkish COBOL if you will). We somehow got it done by trial an
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by masterponomo 14y ago
Not so difficult if you keep one pinkie nail 3 inches long and razor-sharp (as do I).
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by masterponomo 14y ago
The BEST part was that some years later, the cops busted a coke ring that was operating out of the cafeteria. Lots of cafeteria workers and IT folks went down. Not me--I was at my desk with Campbell's Soup every day. I realized my post made
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by masterponomo 14y ago
How nice. On my first day 27 years ago as a programmer, I followed the team to the bank op center cafeteria at lunch time. I loaded up my tray and went to join them at the long table. As I sat down in the only empty seat, someone said, "Tha
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by masterponomo 15y ago
You mean like the Opti Grab? We learned a lot about blindness from having guardianship of our blind teenage nephew for a year. True, the ear piece would be the big benefit for him (though one eye was very slightly sensitive to light). Other
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by masterponomo 15y ago
Ahem. Beat you by a mile (or 173 days): http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3085082
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by masterponomo 15y ago
I was being tag-team interviewed for a programming job. The first guy asked me what I disliked about my current workplace. I said, "Nothing," because money was my only reason for leaving. He didn't believe I couldn't find one negative thing
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by masterponomo 15y ago
I tried the site with some minor nuisances in my sit-upon. It thinks I have Crohn's Disease. This IS like Dr. House.
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by masterponomo 15y ago
You do know this is the final season of House? Would you rather see them continue to turn Chase into a Mini Me version of House (getting scruffy, painful injury, ignoring protocol) or witness a battle for relevance against a robot with smar
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by masterponomo 15y ago
I think "House" should end with him and his team being replaced by a computer. It will need to be a robot (like the one on Lost in Space, ideally), not a web page, but symcat has the right idea. It would also be cool if the robot was a mast
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by masterponomo 15y ago
Mr. Moglen: Thanks for the warm up. I'm having lunch with Stallman in un poco minutos. Bye! Reporter: Like, bye?
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by masterponomo 15y ago
That reminds me of a similar experience I had with a bag of Portuguese Men of War I collected and then set free. We must never hoard Nature, no matter who gets stung.
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by masterponomo 15y ago
Bazinga.
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by masterponomo 15y ago
Karma-whoring is a very hit-or-miss proposition, so I would say deliberate but also lucky. Thanks! I'm here all week...
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by masterponomo 15y ago
The misery can be avoided. I have my girl print off only the most relevant "wall postings" along with my morning emails. I review these over my after-breakfast coffee or sometimes (God willing) over a mid-morning BM. Either way, I only allo
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by masterponomo 15y ago
I'm confused. I'm trying to get rich writing jokes, and you tell me to quit being a joker and just get it done. But "it" is being a joker. Seb, are you going meta on me? Am I supposed to consider my professional joking to be something else,
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by masterponomo 15y ago
That's a great idea. Back in the 90's, hoping to cut down on my contact with work during vacation, I told people I would be "rafting in Utah." I had no idea that Utah was such a popular rafting destination--living as I did in Atlanta, it so
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by masterponomo 15y ago
I wonder: If he's sleepy and you don't provide a couple of Pepsi's, does he just nod off in mid-speech? "Let me remind you, it's not just Linux, it's Zzzzzzzzzzzzzzz..."
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by masterponomo 15y ago
In England, we don't dent the tuba.
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by masterponomo 15y ago
My dad learned IBM assembler and COBOL from the IRS in 1968. When I, at age 10 in 1970, asked him what he did at his job, he handed me an IBM Principles of Operation (POOP) manual, an IBM green card, and a stack of punched cards with a prog
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by masterponomo 15y ago
Go 1 is a good idea. I just hope Go 2 is not considered harmful.
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by masterponomo 15y ago
In his defense, I had made a somewhat obnoxiously worded point about not wanting special treatment because of my handicap. I was in no danger. Those woods are rife with people making job offers and someone was bound to come along sooner or
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by masterponomo 15y ago
I got one of those email invites, to work on my specialty (accessibility features). It was a bit of a fiasco as my chair got stuck in some mud on the trail. MZ kept walking and talking while my wheels spun and dug me ever deeper into the sl
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by masterponomo 15y ago
I've been in very similar situations, except I did not turn my life over to the ones I was helping. If you have shown someone how to organize their money (a dubious enterprise with people in their 70's who have never done so), and have help
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by masterponomo 15y ago
Not so odd: we're targeting the Indian market. We lost our PM to an arranged marriage (or rather to his new in-laws' family business) and we needed an Indian, fast. They are in short supply in our part of the Blue Ridge Mountains, so we wen
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by masterponomo 15y ago
Well, one of the PM's duties is managing our outsourcing contracts, so we're kind of stuck until they fire themselves.
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by masterponomo 15y ago
We outsourced our PM function some years ago. After a couple of years working remotely with an excellent PM in Mumbai, we noticed that the spelling and grammar in his emails had changed radically. We asked through discrete channels whether
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by masterponomo 15y ago
I usually need to pinch a mega loaf right around lunchtime. I would love to do it earlier, but getting ready and commuting all use up too much time in the morning. Call me anti-social, but I treasure the "me time" that allows me to get it d
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by masterponomo 16y ago
Nope, true story with speculation added.

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