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by robaato 6y ago
Worked at Logica in the '80s when they had were engaged by Microsoft to port Xenix to other platforms. So played with it a little at the time.
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by robaato 6y ago
According to family folk lore, during WWII when they had double summer time, my grandmother managed to put the clocks 2 hours forwards instead of 2 hours back. So woke up in the small hours and turned on radio to BBC and heard German (they
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by robaato 6y ago
Looks good, but you might want to get a little editing help just to sharpen up the language - a liberal arts major would help fix various little things quite quickly I suspect. E.g. "I spoke in [more than a hundred conferences]" -
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by robaato 6y ago
How times change - comment from OP: https://dev.to/yg/comment/11cog That's awesome! Agreed they have the best support team I ever have seen!
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by robaato 6y ago
Takes me back to my university days and the holiday project I got involved in as part of the Middle English Dialect Project lead by Dr Michael Benskin. http://www.lel.ed.ac.uk/ihd/elalme/intros/atlas_preface.h
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by robaato 6y ago
My aunt went to a great retirement community outside Boston. In her 80's she was Chair of the Computer club, and helped lots of newcomers find their feet. She also edited the newsletter etc. She wasn't alone in that community in b
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by robaato 7y ago
Occam was introduced as part of my Computer Science course at Edinburgh University (graduated 1984) - interesting times! One of my classmates went off to Inmos - though unfortunately lost touch with him...
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by robaato 7y ago
Search for Dr John Sarno (books/videos etc). I remember reading an article by Tony Schwartz about how beneficial it was. Easy to search for.
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by robaato 7y ago
Cultural differences apply. I remember realising when socialising with Italian students, that arranging a time to meet was a precursor to 60-90 minutes of chat about what we might do, who was going to turn up etc, etc. I warned a friend who
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by robaato 7y ago
So what did you charge them?!
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Five hundred goats save the Ronald Reagan library from wildfires(theguardian.com)
6 points by robaato 7y ago|1 comments
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by robaato 7y ago
Slight off topic, but I wonder how accurate the references in novel/series "The Clan of the Cave Bear" where medicine man/woman skills are mainly handed down from one generation to next. However also handed down is the s
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Home Office App Has Poor UX and Is Android Only(theguardian.com)
2 points by robaato 7y ago|0 comments
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by robaato 7y ago
Source Depot == Perforce
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London stock market suffers worst outage in eight years(theguardian.com)
1 points by robaato 7y ago|0 comments
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by robaato 7y ago
Generally agree, except for: 10. Has a very good understanding of stack/technology/project you are working on A manager doesn't need to understand details of the stack etc, for example they can delegate those decisions to tec
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by robaato 7y ago
Be interested in technical reasons for this. Presumably those closest to it having a hard time getting on the net!
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Electrical failure cuts power to all of Argentina and Uruguay, supplier says(bbc.co.uk)
6 points by robaato 7y ago|3 comments
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by robaato 7y ago
From a recent tenancy agreement I've seen: g) Permit the Landlord or the Landlord's agents on reasonable notice and at reasonable hours to enter the premises to view the state and condition thereof and if necessary to carry out re
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by robaato 7y ago
True enough, but I remember being accused of deliberate misunderstanding by friends when they emphasised wrong syllable in English. Some minutes later with me racking my brain I might come up with the answer. But the mispronunciation had se
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by robaato 7y ago
I think the comment meant that git took ideas from Mercurial rather than BK taking ideas from Mercurial.
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by robaato 8y ago
From article: But Dr Bouman, now an assistant professor of computing and mathematical sciences at the California Institute of Technology, insisted the team that helped her deserves equal credit. The effort to capture the image, using telesc
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by robaato 8y ago
Yes! Though Ronaldo is also known for how hard he trains - he is not relying just on his (massive) talent. Experience gives you exposure to other solutions and can give insights and alternative ways of approaching stuff which as you say can
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by robaato 8y ago
Amen!
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by robaato 8y ago
Too annoying in current format - needs better writing/delivery format...
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by robaato 8y ago
Entrenched business models/relationships/incentives no doubt at work... Rather like ancient guilds and raising the bar of entry to newcomers who might otherwise undercut them.
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by robaato 8y ago
Slightly off topic, my first significant job in '80s was programming a Stratus in their PL/1 implementation. As I recall it was really quite a nice mix of some COBOL record structures with more modern language options. Shame it di
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by robaato 8y ago
Did some programming for analysis of the Middle English Dialect project way back when. This was based on corpus of 320 words as they were spelt by scribes in different parts of the UK. Often the same scribe would spell a word 3 or 4 differe
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by robaato 8y ago
I grew up on the Moray coast in Scotland, with a shotgun and shooting pigeons, rabbits etc from the age of 9. I used to sell them to my mother - the key was she bought them "dressed for the table" as in plucked/skinned/g
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by robaato 8y ago
Yup - life becomes more complicated with kids especially. You get a schedule which works for a year or two, then school start times switch. Then your partner has to leave at 5.30am a couple of days for work shifts and you're on duty th

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