tallpapab

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by tallpapab 14y ago
Ah yes, rotary phones. What a wonderful modern invention. Saved much time and prevented many errors over having to tap on the handset cradle.
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by tallpapab 14y ago
Nice. Learned something.
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by tallpapab 14y ago
Actually, there were also hard disk drives. The drive was the motor attached to a spindle which would spin the disk whether the disk was floppy or hard. Your point still holds that spinning media are starting to be replaced by solid state d
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by tallpapab 14y ago
Oh yeah? I'm so old that my mouse was hairy and used to squeak and vomit when I squeezed it.
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by tallpapab 14y ago
This. I get a couple dozen channels over the air eight of which I watch from time to time. Still having a hard time recognizing rabbit ear icons though. One pole on mine is broken.
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by tallpapab 14y ago
Clearly a thought provoking article none the less.
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by tallpapab 14y ago
Nice. I particularly like your zooming icons.
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by tallpapab 14y ago
Directories in Unix were/are files that just contain pointers to other files. So they are a bit like a directory in a building. However, "folder" is probably an improvement if you think in terms of it _containing_ other things. Folders are
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by tallpapab 14y ago
How does this compare with WebOS?
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by tallpapab 15y ago
It may also have something to do with the availability of computers and software. It was very rare before about 1980 for people to have home computers that their kids could learn on. Before about 1970 it was rare for anyone outside a univer
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by tallpapab 15y ago
1969 - Fortran and APL on an IBM 1130.
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by tallpapab 15y ago
So many job adverts ask for creative people, but on the job creativity is discouraged. Employers want employees to implement the employer's creations. That said, getting along socially is enormously important. Smart, creative people figure
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by tallpapab 15y ago
Stopped reading because site would not let me resize in my eye pad. Too old to squint.
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by tallpapab 16y ago
Paper
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by tallpapab 16y ago
After 83 weeks I did find work. The reason it was difficult was my age plus few openings. The age thing is interesting. Some places where I applied I got past phone screens that gave fairly little programming quizzes. When I got to the in p
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by tallpapab 16y ago
Phil suggest that I should have bettered myself whilst unemployed. I have a masters degree in Mathematics, professional programming experience in 13 languages including Java, JavaScript, and Python, more if I include things like SQL, HTML,
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by tallpapab 16y ago
Inflation adjusted money I paid for unemployment and disability insurance over a 30 some year career (roughly): $40,000. Money paid to me by said insurance over 83 unemployed weeks $38,475.
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by tallpapab 16y ago
Thanks for posting. Now I don't feel so lonely.
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by tallpapab 17y ago
Move over Rush Limbaugh and Sarah Palin. The right has a new hero and it's ... Phil Greenspun? Who knew!? Now Phil is surely much smarter than I. No argument there. I would never have the confidence to go to Harvard and try to straighten ou
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by tallpapab 17y ago
KMail
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by tallpapab 17y ago
As Artie Johnson might have said, verrrry interestink, (long drag on cigarette, turn back to camera) but risky.
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by tallpapab 18y ago
So we grade tests with two significant digits (0-100%). Then we partition these to a letter grade (<1 significant digit) Then we average the letter grades to a GPA with three significant digits. So what's a bit more confusion? Small won
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by tallpapab 18y ago
Whistling past the graveyard. Keeping your skills up is necessary, but insufficient. Over 50? Welcome to the top of the layoff list. The baby boomers are getting kicked out of the workforce. There has long been worry about what will happen
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by tallpapab 19y ago
Masters in Mathematics UC Berkeley Programming since 1969.
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by tallpapab 19y ago
56 - It has been and continues to be fun. I started in College in 1969 in a physics class. "There's a computer down the hall (IBM 1130, cards, FORTRAN). Go figure it out and analyze your experiments." Since then I have been learning non-sto
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by tallpapab 19y ago
You have an infinite loop when i < 2^30. static int nextOne(int theInt) { int answer = 1; while (answer < theInt && 0 < answer) { answer <<= 1; } if (answer < 1) { throw new Il