mkovach

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   by mkovach 6y ago

   I started with Duolingo, then reading children’s books and slowly progressed up. Also I started reading French news sites with lots of help from google translate
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   by mkovach 6y ago

   I learned Korean, re-learned French. Learned to build cigars and since I'm a later bloomer, learned about parenting (had my first child at 40).
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   by mkovach 6y ago

   There is an easy way to display re-display a lines with a time stamp. While I enjoy seeing people awk, the command is a bit terse. Instead I recommend something like: tail -f /some/file | perl -nle 'print scalar(localtime),&q
4. 154.▲
   by mkovach 6y ago

   I typically like to use cwm and instead of modifying it to bring up dmenu or the like, I use TkDesk.
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   by mkovach 6y ago

   Well, I still use tkcon and tkdesk quite a bit, so I wouldn't comment on the popularity. I am a bit biased and generally don't use fancy graphical stuff. But I do follow the Tcl/Tk lists and newsgroups and there are quite a f
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   by mkovach 6y ago

   In addition to the Core Team, D. Richard Hipp ( sqlite3, fossil-scm ) is a pretty avid user, contributes to tcl and writes apps that use TCL (wapp is one, sqlite3 has easy hooks to TCL). TCL isn't widely popular but has a strong core t
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   by mkovach 6y ago

   I love TCL, but using it since 7.6. Although now it is mainly for personal scripts and developing proof of concept scripts for work. If fact in 1999 I used TCL (and Expect) on an ISP I worked for to run various tests checking for Year 2K is
8. 158.▲
   by mkovach 6y ago

   I use rc quite often for a default shell when circumstances allow me. Heck, I hacked up rc-httpd, a web server written with rc, for a few projects and it work out nicely.
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   by mkovach 6y ago

   The only version of Emacs I ever used regularly was (Lucid|X)emacs. According to folks on the Lucid side working with RMS was difficult[1] to say the least. In the end, Xemacs lost traction (and development) and I moved on from Emacs, it ju
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    by mkovach 6y ago

    I wrote a ton in WordPerfect. During college, they had WordPerfect on the UNIX and OpenVMS systems. Then, at a job, we did all our documentation using Wordstar, WordPerfect was only for the legal team. Because of that, I still tend to insta
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    by mkovach 6y ago

    I am not sure of the benefit of writing a critic on an ignored proposal from the late 1990s. DJB didn't modify anything going since the initial proposal had been updated little. If course it has flaws, it was never a fully developed id
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    by mkovach 6y ago

    I built three cigar box guitars for my son, my father, and myself make from repurposed wood from my son's', my father's and my baby cribs. Coolest computer related thing? I used to run http://uptime.openacs.org (w
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    by mkovach 6y ago

    There is a guy on Youtube, moshix, that does a number of videos on IBM mainframes and does quite a bit with Hercules and various OS distributions that run on it. He helped my remember some stuff from my early career. I was able to get some
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    by mkovach 7y ago

    I know there are places that still offer support for MPE/ix so I am sure people are relying on it. HP EOL'd in 2006 and stopped all support in 2010. System was around for about 40 years and I spent about 4 years in the mid-90&#x27
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    by mkovach 7y ago

    Aww, AOLserver and OpenACS. Some of the best sites I worked on were OpenACS sites. In fact if fact when they shutdown Uptime, I ported his AOLserver/Oracle code to AOLserver/Postres and ran Uptime, from my home, on a Sparc pizza b
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    by mkovach 7y ago

    I ran into a situation about the same as you. I just explain things to places I was interviewing with that the situation didn't match the interview process and despite my best efforts, I just have to move one. Now, I was lucky that I h
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    by mkovach 7y ago

    Michel de Montaigne, his Essays are awesome and touch a wide range of subjects. The 100+ chapters in three books require an investment that will payoff.
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    by mkovach 9y ago

    Location: South Shore of Lake Erie, Cleveland, Ohio Remote: Yes Willing to Relocate: No Technologies: Been doing this for 20 years, so lots. I've done FORTRAN, C/C++, Perl, TCL, Python, Go, various SQL servers, all flavors of UNIX
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    by mkovach 9y ago

    The market is at an all-time high because there is simply no other place to put money and see any reasonable interest.