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by mech422 5y ago
Ancedotally, I agree with zerr's comment below. Its generally not the syntax/keywords that make code hard to read, or easy to maintain. If you're familiar with the language, you learned to parse those basically sub-conscious
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by mech422 5y ago
Just wow... Sounds like you need better employers and more interesting friends. And perhaps some realization that not everyone has the same demands on their time.
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by mech422 5y ago
Oh! I should probably mention - Assembly was one of only 2 languages you were sure would be supported: you got ROM Basic, and an assembler. Later, you might get Forth,C,Pascal,Logo... especially if you could afford the 'big' CP&#
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by mech422 5y ago
Actually, unless you lived in a big city or near a university getting any level of programming books was tough... However, assembly was more common back then and really wasn't consider a 'black art'. It was just what you did
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by mech422 5y ago
PC's were big in the 80s, and 'PC' meant IBM PC (or clone). The rest of us had 'commodore's or 'atari's - we didn't have 'pc's. It was also the heyday of computer magazine's from PC sh
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by mech422 5y ago
Yeah - the wrap up video was pretty good... I _did_ notice that while the professor appeared to have been very gracious in conceding - none of the 'witnesses' seemed to have much to say.
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by mech422 5y ago
Oh wow - that brings back memories... I had a 'VGA Bible' type book too, that was just awesome.. wish I could remember the name
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by mech422 5y ago
>>there will come a time in the near-future when the average software job starts being outsourced en masse I've been hearing this for 30 years, and went through all buzzwords: outsourcing (India), off-shoring (China) and whatever
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by mech422 5y ago
Fair enough... But the other side of the coin is miners trying to reduce the energy consumption and use green sources. Again, everyone just wants to point at a vocal minority and call it good. edit: I should probably point out the trend to
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by mech422 5y ago
sorry - I lost track of the former and the latter... Guess I need more coffee :-) What are they referring to?
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by mech422 5y ago
>>Certainly anyone who seriously argues "but you forgot to account for the energy cost of nuclear carriers in propping up fiat currency" I honestly don't think I've seen anything like that here - but once the crypt
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by mech422 5y ago
I suppose...the world today seems to be driven by FOMO and FUD.. It's like the yin-and-yang of our brave new world :-(
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by mech422 5y ago
Anyone who thinks crypto prices will continue to rise forever is not 'the crypto crowd'. 'The crypto crowd' has seen bitcoin go up and down countless times. The problem is, everyone seems to equate noobs getting suckered
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by mech422 5y ago
Nice! They really are great chairs :-)
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by mech422 5y ago
We have a couple of secret labs titans here as well... Awesome chairs, and have held up perfectly for 3 years now. People complain the cushions are 'hard' but that's because they actually support you rather then just compres
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by mech422 5y ago
They grew phenomenally... what does that have to do with trying to guess when the next paper might come out? I was just guessing what the publishing timeline might be :-P
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by mech422 5y ago
Man, I loved the Stratus... VOS was great, and the hardware just kept chugging :-) We used them for finance, and they were sooo much better then the AS/400s, and Primes.
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by mech422 5y ago
Wow - I had no idea this was still around :-)
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by mech422 5y ago
Fair enough. Can't say I agree with your 'on it' conclusion, but I guess time will tell. It took them about 15 years to get rid of the brain teasers (1998 to 2013ish from what I can tell), so if they're consistent we sho
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by mech422 5y ago
I would think this depends on your market? Boomers might have the most disposable income, but aren't millennials the largest generation by size? Assuming you're not making luxury/big ticket goods, I would assume this would m
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by mech422 5y ago
Oh! Zoom meets email... It actually sounds pretty neat :-) Good Luck!
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by mech422 5y ago
I didn't cite it, and I didn't say some other article existed.. What I said was basically "google admitted their old method didn't work, here's a link if your interested. I wouldn't be surprised if the new met
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by mech422 5y ago
eh - I wouldn't be surprised to see the same article about the leetcode stuff. Maybe using methods that have nothing to do with the job, just don't lead to good results ?
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by mech422 5y ago
Yet :-P I wouldn't be surprised to see a similar article about leet code...
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by mech422 5y ago
google admitted years ago, it didn't help.. https://www.theatlantic.com/business/archive/2013/06/google-...
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by mech422 5y ago
Google actually admitted their 'elite' leet code interview process didn't actually help the outcomes... This is the first link I dug up about it: https://www.theatlantic.com/business/archive/2013&#x2
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by mech422 5y ago
I've been thru off-shorting with India, China, Russia... I'm sorta wondering what country would be next. It has to have a large enough labor pool to fill the positions, and still be cheap enough to at least look good on paper..
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by mech422 5y ago
Cool! I put my old mining rigs on FAH from 3/20 to 4/21.. Between those, and the home lab I managed to get in the top 2K for both single and team contribution :-)
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by mech422 5y ago
Ohh...are they finally getting around to prosecuting James? BitConnect was the Madoff of crypto, stole from the rich and the poor. Wow - has it been 3 years already ?? https://coingeek.com/sec-charges-btctre-trevon-james-an
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by mech422 5y ago
Odd...I'd guess that would just wipe out the small traders. I'd have thought the larger traders were going directly from USD to whatever (what I normally do) or BTC/whatever. Starting to do ETH/whatever too as more ETH

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