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by ralphc 6y ago
Oracle laid me off in 2012, then Ellison bought a volcanic island. He truly is a Bond villain.
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by ralphc 6y ago
You can see some online learning drama unfold here. Student has to go back home to bad home situation, bombs online test, complains about prof, to the point where prof gets on to defend themselves. https://www.reddit.com/r&#
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by ralphc 6y ago
It's popular opinion with the US government https://www.bbc.com/news/world-latin-america-40090809
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by ralphc 6y ago
BlackPink in your A-RE-A!
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by ralphc 6y ago
58 years old, graduated high school 1979, 30 years old in 1991. I do listen to things from that time, but there's sooo much interesting music that came out after that. Different genres of metal like metalcore and doom metal, nu metal,
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by ralphc 7y ago
Forget the talk about pay too high, too low. This is a way to help our neighbors who are hurting, a way to help with our skills. A question I'll ask is, someone like me; retired from a long development career, experience in many langua
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by ralphc 7y ago
All this. At a minimum the head of the company or some C-level should have delivered this message themselves, with video on. Let employees have a way to contact each other for a while, so they can network for their next job, or at least say
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by ralphc 7y ago
I'm a retired developer, successfully avoiding management through my career. This is sooo bad, and I can come up with several things to do better, but I'm having a hard time figuring out what would have been a _good_ way to do thi
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by ralphc 7y ago
Oh wow, Screamer. I used it to write a Sudoku solver 14 years ago, and blogged about it. http://i-need-closures.blogspot.com/2006/03/ Looking at the code now, well, it's like looking at any code you wrote a d
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by ralphc 7y ago
I'd hate it but I'm sure this will help some people.
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by ralphc 7y ago
Can you expand on the "forbidden technologies"? What else was on the list, what were the penalties for entering forbidden territory? Could you use it on your own machine for research?
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by ralphc 7y ago
I didn't look at the list, but I ran Cloudready from USB on a Lenovo Yoga Pro 2 and a Toshiba laptop I have, without issues. Also installed on to a hard disk on the Toshiba and it ran well. I didn't try the offline use after getti
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by ralphc 7y ago
I've taken my "gaming PC" to Ubuntu for running Tensorflow & Keras. Is there a Linux version of this?
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by ralphc 7y ago
I'll add my own little data point to the pile. I changed jobs in 1998 so I fixed problems at two companies, small to mid-size. At each place they would have had problems if they weren't found and fixed. At second company they aske
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by ralphc 7y ago
If you want to use Tor in another country then come through a border, what's the advantage of HiddenVM over putting Tor on a bootable thumb drive, using it, then throwing away the drive before crossing the border? Just the persistence?
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by ralphc 7y ago
In the 80's I went to a college's "yard sale" and picked up a HP 9100B programmable calculator; they have core memory. When I plugged it in I remember it starting to run the program it had in it, not missing a beat. I st
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Python programming language: Now you can take NSA's free course for beginners(zdnet.com)
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by ralphc 7y ago
I can understand setting aside time to not get on HN or twitter, but how does a developer keep up without these? As in, work on a needed library for weeks only to find out later that there's a good open source one that meets your needs
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by ralphc 7y ago
For others coming along later, right click, pick "open". If you don't get an "open" button on the dialog, go to system preferences, security, general. You should see a button that says "Pharo Launcher wouldn&#x
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by ralphc 7y ago
16" MacBook Pro, Catalina, I get "“PharoLauncher.app” can’t be opened because Apple cannot check it for malicious software." "This software needs to be updated."
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by ralphc 7y ago
I have a 20-year old machine that came with Windows ME. With the help of your site I've turned it into a Windows 98 SE gaming and DOS machine, it's more useful now. Thank you for the site.
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by ralphc 7y ago
For the sake of argument, let's say someone had to run Windows 95 or 98 at a business, to support an old piece of equipment with an expansion card and drivers can't run on newer software. Is it even possible to pay for a license f
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by ralphc 7y ago
At a previous job I had different Linux boxes I had to run a browser “on the box” through ssh connections. Both FF and Seamonkey have socks proxies in their UI so it was handy to have both to point to different machines.
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by ralphc 7y ago
Once you get into a FAANG company, do you actually use these algorithms? OOP/FP design, "clean code", the System design I would see as important, but in an actual dev job how much does the hard-core algorithm stuff come up?
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by ralphc 7y ago
Reading these stories, I see two possible issues. One is pure age, the potential slowing of cognitive processes, to outright dementia in some of them. The other is lack of deep familiarity with technology, which is a symptom of growing up b
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by ralphc 7y ago
Care to elaborate on this? All we hear about is how behind the US is on health care, at least on the cost.
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by ralphc 7y ago
Salesforce CRM? Hosted CRM, with software for customization, built in database, all that. Although I haven't looked around at alternatives.
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by ralphc 7y ago
Why Ruby on Rails? Perhaps I'm hanging out in the wrong places, but the hotness seems to be with JS/Node or Python/Django/Flask.
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by ralphc 7y ago
I have a few of this on my vintage vacuum-tube shortwave radios. They're used to indicate how strong the signal is for tuning.
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by ralphc 7y ago
I'm one of the "programmers of yesteryear", part-time in the early '80s on CP/M them on to Windows 3.1 after graduation in 1984. Doing things the old-fashioned way was harder but less was expected of you, time-wise.

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