neoeno

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by neoeno 5mo ago
Under 16s can’t buy energy drinks in the UK Edit: currently a voluntary but widespread scheme by retailers, proposed to be law. TIL
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by neoeno 1y ago
Love to see fixed format mode in use :) For those who are unaware — you can use COBOL in two modes: free mode and fixed format mode. Fixed format mode is (afaik) the original, based on punch card affordances, and specifies specific columns
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The Stir-Fry Masters You’ve Never Heard of [video](youtube.com)
1 points by neoeno 4y ago|0 comments
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by neoeno 4y ago
First, understand that you are trying to control them. This might sound odd, but it's true. You're trying to change their behaviour because you'd prefer it another way. Maybe that's because you want to be a good person o
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by neoeno 4y ago
Self-motivation is much harder than people give credit. I believe that we’re mostly not cut out to work alone. Our motivation comes from other people — either leading, following, or serving them. If I’m right, you’ll probably find that the
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by neoeno 4y ago
Software engineering education is a good job market right now and (I believe) has better pay and working conditions than public sector teaching. If she’s up for that path, she could learn some technical skills and then teach them. I’m proba
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by neoeno 4y ago
I was developing some architecture training recently and had this very same question. It’s not easy to find realistic architectures. The best I found was the German contact tracing app — Corona Warn App. It was done by a group of consultanc
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by neoeno 5y ago
I didn’t — I made it from scratch and tried to get as close as I could to the original behaviour. But I bet I also lost a fair few more weekends than OP…!
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by neoeno 5y ago
Did a similar thing but made my flat. And it’s gen 1 :) https://herostrat.us/gary
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Illeris's Two Basic Processes of Learning, Acquisition and Interaction(herostrat.us)
1 points by neoeno 5y ago|0 comments
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by neoeno 5y ago
I’m Thinking Of Ending Things by Iain Reid. Without wanting to spoiler you — it’s about a few introverts, and it’s narrated in a way that focuses heavily on the inner world, on their thoughts, the culture they enjoy, their deliberations, wh
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by neoeno 5y ago
You mention you have borderline. If you’re interested in exploring that more it might be helpful. The feelings you’re describing are familiar to a lot of people, but particularly troublesome for those with personality disorders. If I’m righ
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by neoeno 5y ago
One use: I was teaching some developers COBOL, and I wanted to illustrate for them how the Y2K bug came about. So I gave them a project to do parsing a file with contemporary dates in. Then towards the end I quietly supplied them with a sim
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The Thousand Year Language(softwarearchaeology.substack.com)
2 points by neoeno 5y ago|0 comments
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Building software to last 1k years(softwarearchaeology.substack.com)
4 points by neoeno 6y ago|0 comments
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Learning: the hardest problem in computer science(herostrat.us)
2 points by neoeno 8y ago|0 comments