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by skipkey 3y ago
ocation: Phoenix, AZ Remote: Yes Willing to relocate: No Technologies: Perl, Python, NodeJS, C#, c++, a little bit of everything Resume: on linkedin, or email me for formal resume Email: skipkey@gmail.com I like to say that I have 5 years e
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by skipkey 3y ago
They also had DOS/16M which targeted 286 protected mode. The company I worked for used it when moving the Clipper programming language to protected mode.
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by skipkey 3y ago
Not really. The east side of the area where I live is bounded by mountains, so can’t really expand more. To the southeast they are putting in thousands of starter homes. I’m not sure where the water is going to come from. The problem is
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by skipkey 3y ago
My house has roughly doubled in value in the Phoenix area in the 5.5 years since we bought it. We couldn’t afford it today if we were buying new.
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by skipkey 3y ago
Location: Phoenix, AZ Remote: Yes Willing to relocate: No Technologies: Perl, Python, NodeJS, C#, c++, a little bit of everything Resume: on linkedin, or email me for formal resume Email: skipkey@gmail.com I like to say that I have 5 years
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by skipkey 3y ago
In the 80s there would possibly be a smoking lounge in the bigger offices. Heck, my high school had one for teachers until probably 1986 or so. By the mid 90’s they were all gone, smoking moved outside.
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by skipkey 3y ago
For me it wasn’t usually the balls, but the rollers that got all gunky. I kept a dental pick around to quickly clean them.
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by skipkey 3y ago
I worked for a company that did this for awhile - they had custom written clients for all the major sites, just watching tables and recording the hand histories, which they provided as a subscription service. You could absolutely use the da
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by skipkey 3y ago
From experience, appetite mostly goes away, and when I do get hungry it doesn’t take much to fill me up. My wife basically eats almost nothing, but I find I still need to eat a small amount several times a day. I do tend to eat more candy
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by skipkey 3y ago
On a related note, I would really like to buy a used card catalog cabinet, but they’ve seemed excessively expensive when I’ve seen them.
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by skipkey 3y ago
> Which is to say, assuming you are not actively looking for the exit door, why even bother to do your job There’s one reason - from experience, it’s a lot easier to find a job if you are currently employed. So if you think you will lik
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by skipkey 3y ago
I had this happen with my iPhone a few years ago. Basically there’s a setting where some combination of the side buttons pressed together calls 911. I was in a borrowed car and the cup holder was just the right width to do this when I hit
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by skipkey 3y ago
Yep. I have two group family chats, one with everyone and one that leaves off the two people on Android. I’m sure that social groups where the percentages go the other way do the same thing.
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by skipkey 3y ago
Exactly. There is a server which is drawing bingo balls, against a card. Someone is going to eventually win. So if there is only one player, you will eventually win. You can actually set up a situation where one player is guaranteed a win
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by skipkey 3y ago
Vegas is well-regulated, but when you move outside that realm, things get a bit more loosely-defined. I spent a couple of years in the mid-2000s working in the edges here, so I have a bit of knowledge. Note: I've been out of this indu
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by skipkey 3y ago
I personally had a similar situation. We had an accounting firm whose servers we were maintaining, and occasionally the print server would reboot, always between 9 and 10 am. So I sat in there for a week between those hours and noticed the
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by skipkey 3y ago
It means that the donations to the church are generally tax deductible, and thus divert some money from the federal government to the church. And the church likely has many charitable activities.
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by skipkey 3y ago
Not sure if it’s still the case, but a few years ago I was traveling and staying overnight near St Louis, and was shocked to find that it actually required a prescription there, but only in the county that St Louis was in.
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by skipkey 3y ago
The one thing I would add is, if at all possible, write a unit test that fails, reproducing the bug. I have found when working on a code base that is only lightly unit tested, it’s one of the best ways to increase coverage.
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by skipkey 3y ago
I picked up a copy of Old Mr Bostons cocktail guide that was printed in the sixties. From a note written in the front, it was clear that the book was a gift to a son for high school graduation. Times sure were different then.
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by skipkey 3y ago
I’m honestly not sure. I met a couple of the developers at a convention a few years later, and found out the carnage one was where a stack of tokens from the tokenizer was unexpectedly deleted, but we didn’t talk about the other one. I su
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by skipkey 3y ago
The old Clipper 5 compiler had some fun error messages. The two that I remember running into were “Ford Maverick Error”, and my personal favorite, “Carnage! Module name crushed in compilation disaster!”. I ran across both abusing its prep
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by skipkey 3y ago
I don’t recommend the first book. At least in my edition the typesetting is just odd, which makes it harder to read than it should be. The front matter indicates it was typeset in Mathematica, which probably explains it. The later books
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by skipkey 3y ago
My wife and I have definitely used Nordstrom’s return policy by buying two sizes and returning the one that fit worst. But Nordstrom still benefits because we would return the online orders at the store in person, and if we are there we ar
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by skipkey 3y ago
Arguing something only tangentially related to the debate topic is a decades-old strategy, at a minimum. We called them squirrel plans, or something like that. When I was in high school in the late eighties, one semester the tournament top
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by skipkey 3y ago
So how do you describe a 400 person team? Mid-level?
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by skipkey 3y ago
That’s definitely selection bias. For big companies, in my experience, if you need a Unix-like development environment you’re going to be on a Mac. Small companies and startups are different of course.
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by skipkey 3y ago
For years, I kept my wifi with the passphrase “This is my passphrase. There are many like it, but this one is mine.” Without the quotes of course. With two spaces after the period. At this point I am not going to overcome forty years of
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by skipkey 3y ago
It was the first thing I learned to program on. My father went to a conference where they gave him one as swag, and he gave it to my older brother and me. I was, I think, seven years old or so. Writing code that we hand assembled taught m
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by skipkey 3y ago
Honestly the UBI images seem like the best option. They publish those, they have to publish the source for them. Sure, they can make it more difficult by making them static, but it seems doable.

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