masterponomo

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by masterponomo 16y ago
I once saw Gosling in an airport terminal waiting for a flight. He was consuming a large hot dog. I considered approaching him but decided to respect his privacy. When he finished his hot dog, he threw the messy wrapper directly onto the ca
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by masterponomo 16y ago
I wish I'd read that before I forsook Common Lisp for Java to make myself marketable when I wasn't even looking for a job.
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by masterponomo 16y ago
I stand corrected. The point of sale devices, the card association IT systems and networks, the bank IT and networks (a worldwide network that predated the 'net), the whole departments of people who support merchants, the fraud prevention m
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by masterponomo 16y ago
The main issue banks are dealing with is the Congressional move to limit debit card interchange fees. I have spent a good part of the past 25 years working on systems that allow acquiring banks to claim the lowest interchange fee. It's not
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by masterponomo 16y ago
You're right. They would state the answer, and the contestant would ask the question. My bad.
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by masterponomo 16y ago
Mechanical Turk.
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by masterponomo 16y ago
Watson will pull it out in Final Jeopardy: name the first billion digits of pi.
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by masterponomo 16y ago
There is a stigma attached to middle-aged job hunters. Why hasn't he found his dream job by now--is he fickle and hard to please? Why isn't he already rich? Why does he need to work for me, the youngish owner/manager, instead of me working
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by masterponomo 16y ago
Draft John Sculley?
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by masterponomo 16y ago
Ah, my mistake, I didn't notice the difference in name spelling. It was indeed John Harrop, not Jon Harrop, who appeared to vanish from Clojure after the licensing discussion. I should have made my point without reference to individuals.
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by masterponomo 16y ago
"heavyweight" was my opinion of him based on his education, demonstrated ability, and publications, not anything to do with his way of representing himself. I found his comments very interesting, informed as they were by his extensive work
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by masterponomo 16y ago
From what I've seen, Rich does things to end controversies quickly rather than talk them to death. There was a religious war developing in the user group some time ago over licensing terms of products that were developed in Clojure. Rich
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by masterponomo 16y ago
Um...you're welcome?
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by masterponomo 16y ago
True. The black eye and split lip idea was wishful thinking. Perhaps a number of people showing up and glaring at the bully, or at least getting between him and the victim, would suffice.
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by masterponomo 16y ago
True. The written no-harassment policy should also address such things as hand-kissing of maidens after rescuing them.
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by masterponomo 16y ago
I'm sure this will sound sexist as well, but the chivalrous guys far outnumber the jerks. If someone crosses the line, by all means call the cops but also consider making an immediate and loud protest, and you might get help from an ad hoc
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by masterponomo 16y ago
Finally, I can align my HNews user name with my "street" nick. Sincerely, Chaz Wannamaker
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by masterponomo 16y ago
It was 81 because they assumed there would be some attrition among the newbies. They probably really only need 67 or so.
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by masterponomo 16y ago
I worked for a bank long ago. Realtime authorization requests and responses went through an IBM Series/1 box--at the time a stack of computing power in a 6-foot cabinet. It locked up occasionally, choking off communications to/from our auth
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by masterponomo 16y ago
My employer allows napping, but it takes a bit of work to fit it into our agile development style. Obviously, it's poor form to nap during a scrum. You might miss something important, or you might awaken refreshed but with your name on all
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by masterponomo 16y ago
That was just during the job interview. And they say Google is a tough interview.
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by masterponomo 16y ago
I did say "a close second".
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by masterponomo 16y ago
Actually my first small, fast program used only the 360 command set because that's what my tech school had taught me. It had lots of moves of variable length data, but my "mentor" at work didn't clue me in about MVCL so I rolled my own var
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by masterponomo 16y ago
For me, it's a close second to "Swordfish" for movie depictions of computer programming (at least the way I do it at home).
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by masterponomo 16y ago
Sheesh. I interrupted myself with my parenthetical expression and didn't finish the tantamount thing. Worse, now I don't remember what it was tantamount to.
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by masterponomo 16y ago
IBM/370 Assembler with command-level CICS, probably because I used it early in my career on an app where every program had to be small and fast. Nothing since then has approached the sheer fun of all that bit-diddling.
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by masterponomo 16y ago
COBOL is used quite heavily for all kinds of online apps using messaging (MQSeries and others), any big database you care to name, TCP/IP, and interfacing nicely with Java (among other languages). The apps are only as poor as the programmer
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by masterponomo 16y ago
Another bank/plastics mishap in my yute: one of my colleagues had a PIN pad on her desk. I ran my own credit card through it for a $1.00 charge, and it was approved. I tried a few more times, approved each time. Finally I got a "pick up
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by masterponomo 16y ago
When I was a junior programmer at a bank, I had an assignment to change some reports in the plastics issue/reissue system. I used made-up cardholder names, such as Malaguena Splunt, Maxie Terwilliger, and all the Beverly Hillbillies. I ran
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by masterponomo 16y ago
The guy making over $250K can easily wind up just as bankrupt as Scalzi's sad sack who stumbles around dropping his mac 'n' cheese on the floor (grip the bowl firmly, people). Saying the higher income folks just have a money management prob

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