mech422

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by mech422 4y ago
Oddly enough - Wow and Runescape are like the only 2 we didn't play...WoW's art style just never appealed. But we played SWG/SWTOR, EQ/EQ2 (lots of EQ2 - one of our favorites), Darkfall, FF:ARR, ESO, Ryzom, DDO, CoH, Ne
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by mech422 4y ago
I'm another 50+ gamer - I tend to like MMOrpgs but I'm not a fan of PVP..I prefer a nice story based setup. I also like lots of 'leisure' activities like crafting, hobbies, fishing, collections, housing and cosmetics (I
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by mech422 4y ago
I've been programming professionally for 45 years now (55 atm). Started writing invoicing systems on heathkits and database systems for real estate on C-64..then Cobol/PL1,C,Perl,Python.. oh - and I don't have any degree at a
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by mech422 4y ago
Heh - my first chuckle of the morning :-)
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by mech422 4y ago
That would be a copyright violation, not a licensing issue. GP is giving you a _license_ to use his code without having to say "GP wrote this", he is NOT giving up his rights to the code.. edit: to clarify, he's allowing you
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by mech422 4y ago
Oh, sorry - guess I mis-interpreted your "highly paid" comment.. As for decision making - like every other field, I think that has more to do with the individual then anything else. Some people are good at it sorta naturally grav
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by mech422 4y ago
LOL - Heh, COBOL didn't work out to well for making 'developers' entry level personnel. :-D IBM had dreams of minimum wage programmers what - 50 years ago now ?
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by mech422 4y ago
Thanks for linking straight to old reddit :-)
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by mech422 4y ago
Doctor Dobbs was hyping AI in the 80s... Fifth Gen project, prolog etc. - Didn't change much Expert systems were the rage for medicine back in the 90s? Don't see doctors out of work.. IBM Watson passed the bar in UK and was hired
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by mech422 4y ago
Heh - way back yonder - Dice.com used to be Awesome!
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by mech422 4y ago
man - if you've been at it 20 years, this isn't your first rodeo... I've been working 40 years in Tech.. Saw the Wall St. ups/downs in the 90s - NYC was feast/famine back then Saw the Y2K 'end of the world&#x27
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by mech422 4y ago
I love EasyDNS - not the cheapest, but the service is EXCELLENT. Over 10 years or so, I've had to call support a couple of times to setup new features, and not only do they answer the phone - but you get a real engineer! It costs me a
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by mech422 4y ago
Hehe...thats a blast from the past :-)
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by mech422 4y ago
In my mid-50s, and a consultant for a F500 - I've not had any issues with age discrimination. I tend to think its mostly a matter of staying up to date, and weeding out places that want to pay fresh graduate rates for experienced pers
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by mech422 4y ago
>> there are still large segments of the industry where experience is an asset and not a liability. I gotta agree with this, I'm mid 50s and got 'hired' 3 times in the last 2 years (once with actual employer, twice with
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by mech422 4y ago
I wonder how that's handled now... last I hear the USPS had a database on CD-ROM you could get. Wonder if its api based now? We used to run 'zip correct' jobs for large merchants at the service bureau I worked at just out of
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by mech422 4y ago
The one I learned on Wall St. in the 80s: SSN are not always unique or available.
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by mech422 4y ago
Heh - seems like we had a similar path... I ended up making a lot of coffee and doing a lot of crap work for the best coders in the companies I worked for, just so I could look over their shoulders and learn :-D
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by mech422 4y ago
Pretty much the same here...I started programming around 10, and by 12 I couldn't imagine doing anything else. 40 years later, I'm still loving it :-D I still get surprised when I see people making money without a computer..it ju
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by mech422 4y ago
I snorted...stealing that line for future use :-) You win the interwebz for today :-D
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by mech422 4y ago
I agree ... but lots of companies seem to be penny-wise and pound foolish.
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by mech422 4y ago
Dunno about 'most' ... but myself and my cohort are over 50, and it hasn't been an issue. I think salary is a bigger issue then age - why pay for a senior engineer (10+ YOE for most of my cohort) when a recent grad is cheape
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by mech422 4y ago
Police are looking for a large hyper-active bunny.. Wonder if he put them all the same basket ? These yolks just write themselves! :-D
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by mech422 4y ago
Eh - I guess it depends on how tied to FAANG you are... Still getting plenty of inquiries from non-FAANG stuff.
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by mech422 4y ago
In addition to the two you mentioned, I've enjoyed 'cool worlds' by some prof. at Columbia University. He's a cosmologist (?) by trade, so lots of stuff about new planet discoveries, new detection techniques/tools.
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by mech422 4y ago
I combine containers with profiles to achieve this... I have totally separate profiles for: 'temp' (delete everything on close) 'shopping' (containers for my common stores) 'finance' (containers for banks, etc)
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by mech422 4y ago
Err...I'll get more coffee and read that a few more times. My basic 'hunch' was that when enough quantum particles 'popped' into an area close enough together, they formed a 'stable' standard particle, whi
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by mech422 4y ago
Pretty sure she knows the drill (1). She's actually talking about scientists 'faithfully' looking for a grand unification theory when there is no evidence one exists. I always enjoy her stuff... edit: I guess she's mor
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by mech422 4y ago
Darcs, monotone(1), and arch all seemed really interesting back in the day.. I was really rooting for Darcs and Monotone. Then one day git and mercurial popped up and grabbed the limelight. And now Git seems to have stolen the show... Pijul
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by mech422 4y ago
Def con was a bit 'demanding' on my concentration for hacking.. but 'Fluid' was nice fit.

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