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by ralphc 6y ago
From the outside, developing, it can be. But running and configuring the platform from the inside pays well and has several "low-code" way of doing reasonably scoped tasks.
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by ralphc 6y ago
Look into Salesforce. You might do well as a Salesforce administrator. You can set up your own small "org" and do their training, Trailhead, try some administrative training and see if it's up your alley.
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by ralphc 6y ago
Every time one of these articles comes along we hear about fast I/O and how other hardware can't handle the volume. Why not? What makes mainframe hardware so special that it can't be duplicated in other architectures?
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by ralphc 6y ago
If you're worried about remotely letting a housekeeper into your place, this article isn't about you.
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by ralphc 6y ago
I guess we'll see how much of that was what you said and how much is "I need to be in the same room as these people to do my work", which won't, or soon won't be true like it was for the past 100+ years.
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by ralphc 6y ago
Just wait until it's decades. I look at some of the Windows C++ code I wrote in the 90's and it's unrecognizable. Until I look at the sarcastic comments and think "yep, that's me".
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by ralphc 6y ago
You kids with your fancy websites. Our 36th anniversary is this week. My first "love" program was a Windows 3.1 application based on the cute banter we had. Hand-drawn icon! Writing text to the Windows Device Context! In the 90&#x
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by ralphc 6y ago
I like multiple monitors when you have two of the same size and vertical resolution next to each other at the same height. Having the mouse cursor jump I find to be distracting. On a laptop I usually stick to the one "monitor".
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by ralphc 6y ago
Like others here, I have 10,000+ bookmarks on pinboard and add several daily. I can be on any number of computers, iPad, phone at any given time so an online, centralized database of sites, personally tagged, is extremely useful.
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by ralphc 6y ago
18,000+ bookmarks for me, although I started with del.icio.us back in 2006 and imported them when it went away. So yeah, I'm a fan.
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by ralphc 6y ago
I'm a patient at a (physical) rehab place, and my case manager is expecting. With COVID-19, any gifts like baby clothes seem too germy, and the best I can think of is a gift card that she can sanitize. Better than paper cash, and we do
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by ralphc 6y ago
Related to the future time travel. You somehow get thrown into the past, say 100-150 years. How do you put out a message proving you're from the future and requesting time travelers to come back and rescue you? My proposal is to take o
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by ralphc 6y ago
Here's the problem I see with unplugging to work; maybe it's an actual problem, maybe I'm just fooling myself. I work on software. I want the finished product, to build something useful for myself or others. I don't nece
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by ralphc 6y ago
Would the entire stack be checked for a job in the private sector?
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by ralphc 6y ago
American with a question here. In the U.S. you can legally change your name. What would happen if a Dalit went to court and petitioned to get his named changed to Gupta or Sharma?
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by ralphc 6y ago
I'm enjoying Manning Book's "The Joy of JavaScript", in early access but available. I'm currently reading about how mixins are done using JavaScript's unique features, and I'm looking forward to the functi
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by ralphc 6y ago
I loved the switch to Intel, it made virtualization on par with Windows and Linux, and lately it's easy, for example, to load games from Steam. I'm glad I got a 2019 MacBook Pro, I hope to use it for many years, then I'll hav
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Apple Just Killed the MacBook as We Know It: ‘Don’t Buy a Mac’ Is Good Advice(forbes.com)
27 points by ralphc 6y ago|12 comments
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by ralphc 6y ago
OMG yes. So many times all you needed was what Tomcat delivered, but had to go through the convoluted and slow config of WebSphere. WebLogic was better but that's damning with faint praise.
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by ralphc 6y ago
Like writing or art, you have to can't not do it. I've been retired for 3 years and I still do it, can't imagine not doing it, even if I don't do it every day.
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by ralphc 6y ago
I have a Windows 98 machine I use almost daily, for games and as a "bridge" PC. The UI is just better than what we have now in modern Windows.
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by ralphc 6y ago
Some of the book recommendations seem outdated, such as Effective JavaScript, which was published in 2015, no use of any of ES6+ features. They help a lot. For modern JavaScript I'm really liking Manning Book's The Joy of JavaScri
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by ralphc 6y ago
One of the selling points of tensorflow.js is that you do your processing on the client, for privacy reasons. This is heavy, heavy processing, and you're doing it right.
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by ralphc 6y ago
This needs to be on a Raspberry Pi.
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by ralphc 6y ago
My 16 year old self found it the opposite of confusing on my TRS-80, especially with everything in ROM. Hit the power button and in seconds you can start programming and exploring. It's how thousands of kids got their start programming
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by ralphc 6y ago
I bookmarked this tweet from 2012 - "I wish I had enough money to run Oracle instead of Postgres." "Why do you want to do that?" "I don't, I just wish I had enough money to."
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by ralphc 6y ago
Will it still be that way though? B.C. (Before Covid) the thinking was you took online courses because you "couldn't get into a real college", but for a few years at least _everyone_ will be having online classes.
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by ralphc 6y ago
Another synonym is Some in some languages.
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by ralphc 6y ago
People are talking about clothes and hair, don't forget teeth. Get them whitened. I wasn't looking for a job but I did it because being 50+, coffee drinker, you can tell a difference. And since I did it I started noticing it in ot
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by ralphc 6y ago
Ever hear of the urban legends of knocking people out and stealing one of their kidneys? This would make it real. There's a whole bunch of science fiction based on this, Larry Niven coined the term organlegger: https://blog.

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