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by punk-coder 2y ago
I worked at a web hosting company in Atlanta back in 2002, called Interland. In 2003 we purchased a company called Trellix which let you build websites through a web interface. I remember our first meeting with Trellix when some guy walked
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by punk-coder 2y ago
I may have put them in a rung higher than they are, since I didn’t listen to them back when they were big and touring, so I only know them more by who they tour with now, but his band is Sister Hazel.
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by punk-coder 2y ago
I have a friend that is the drummer in a band that had a couple big hits in the 90’s, not going to drop names, but their contemporaries are bands like Collective Soul, Gin Blossoms, that kind of stuff. They have a few gold records. To this
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by punk-coder 2y ago
“Knowing when not to code is possibly the most important skill a programmer can learn.” - The Art of Readable Code
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by punk-coder 2y ago
I think if you look at some companies that have been around for a long time you’ll find quite a few older people that are still doing development. I just celebrated my 20th year being at the media company I work for. There are still a few d
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by punk-coder 2y ago
I’ve seen a lot of these lists lately, but this is the first one I can say I really agree with a lot of the points. I’ve been a professional developer close to 30 years, and have picked up a lot of these same lessons. I like lesson number 1
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by punk-coder 2y ago
As a quick follow up. When I started development professionally in 1996, it definitely wasn’t for money. My roommate who was a waitress in a nice restaurant here in Atlanta made twice what I brought home. I just loved that I went into work
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by punk-coder 2y ago
I was born in 1971, my first exposure to a computer was an Apple II running Logo in one of my gifted classes. I was hooked at that moment. My main hobby today at 52 is still coding. At work I am an analytics architect. Pretty much means I h
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by punk-coder 2y ago
I wasn’t affected by the dot com bubble luckily. I worked for a consulting firm in Atlanta during that time, and we had an office in an incubator called TechNest. My boss lent us out to various people there. I worked with a guy that ran a c
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by punk-coder 2y ago
My grandfather was a medic and was part of the storm of Normandy beach on D-Day. He never really spoke of it and had a stroke and passed away before Saving Private Ryan came out. We wondered what he would have thought of the beginning of th
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by punk-coder 2y ago
Just playing around with it with the remote they don’t have to be older than maybe in elementary school like my neighbors kid. If you mean assembly and doing some programming I would think middle school with an adults help for a few steps i
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by punk-coder 2y ago
I have the authors Programming Atari 2600 Games and really enjoyed it. I started my professional programming career programming in Assembler on an OS/360 mainframe back in the mid 90s and it really helped me starting out at such a low
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by punk-coder 3y ago
Xcrement
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by punk-coder 3y ago
My wife and I were in Washington DC back in 2018-2019 and happened to go into the Botanical Garden while out walking. There was a crowd gathered and we found out a corpse flower had bloomed there. It was quite a sight to see and the smell
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by punk-coder 3y ago
A majority of the cars on my street, in Decatur, GA, are electric. It sound like a scene from a sci-fi movie when the wife and I sit on our front porch. All the cars making a light whirling sound as they drive by. I think the loudest vehicl
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by punk-coder 3y ago
I live in Georgia, City of Decatur. My house is a 1920 craftsman, 2,800 sq ft, 4 bedroom, 3 bath. We pay ~$1,200 a month in property taxes.
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by punk-coder 4y ago
I’ve been at my current job almost 19 years. I’ve been in many roles on many teams over that time, so even though I’ve been here a while I moved around enough to keep it feeling fresh. I turn 51 in a few weeks, and as much as I would love t
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by punk-coder 6y ago
I actually went through something like this back in 1996. A few local companies (AFLAC, TSYS and Blue Cross/Blue Shield) sponsored a program that taught Assembler, COBOL, IMS, DB2, JCL, Rexx, etc. Those who made it through all the test
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by punk-coder 7y ago
Is this different than if I worked as an employee at a pizza restaurant as a delivery driver and I use my own personal car for making the deliveries?
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by punk-coder 7y ago
Nice article. I had big plans for using a Raspberry Pi as a Plex Media Server once. The set up was easy, I attached my external HDD and let it scan the libraries. My wife and I watched a few movies, it worked perfectly. The next evening whe
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by punk-coder 7y ago
My ex worked at Home Depot corporate office, and their Christmas bonus was Home Depot gift cards.
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by punk-coder 8y ago
Back in 1996, I lived in Columbus, GA. There are a couple companies down there that used Mainframes for their processing. Synovous/TSYS, AFLAC and Blue Cross Blue Shield. Those companies teamed up with Columbus State University to prov
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by punk-coder 9y ago
My first exposure to computers was in elementary school. We had a couple Apple II computers which had Logo installed on them. We had fun typing in commands to draw Spirograph looking images on the screen. My parents got me a Commodore 64 wh
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by punk-coder 10y ago
I've lived in Atlanta since 1997 and I always found the pay to be great, while the cost of living isn't all that bad. I'm an application architect pulling in a little over $160k. I recently bought a house over in Decatur with
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by punk-coder 10y ago
My typical workday is more like 9:30 - 4:30 or 5:00, although if needed I'll hang around until 6:00 or so. I work as an Application Architect in a large enterprise. We have some developer teams that work start-up hours, working 60+ hou
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by punk-coder 10y ago
My '94 Saturn had a timing chain instead of a belt, which was awesome until the chain broke. Due to it being metal it shattered and fused itself in various parts of my engine, destroying the whole thing. Instead of having to pay for a
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by punk-coder 10y ago
I went to University back in 89-90 in Munich Germany while my dad was in the military. When the first Iraq war broke out he went and I ended up heading home. I did some night schools, but never got a degree. In 96 there was a program in Col