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by theodpHN 3y ago
Practice. https://www.carnegiehall.org/Explore/Articles/2020/04/10/The...
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by theodpHN 3y ago
I like the concept of 'walkouts.' And I'd add they don't necessarily reflect badly on those being walked out on - sometimes they're just the result of a disconnect between what a person thought they were getting int
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Path of least resistance.
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Matplotlib is amazing and nice to have when you need it but can be way too complicated for the average user and visualization. Most users' needs, I think, would be better served by something like Plotly Express or other higher-level da
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by theodpHN 3y ago
OpenAI CEO Demos How Its GPTs Can Eliminate Mark Zuckerberg's K-12 CS Teaching Position https://slashdot.org/submission/17304520/openai-demos-how-it...
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by theodpHN 3y ago
Dang, Alan Kay's old talks are so amazing. Check out this Smalltalk program written in 1975 by a 12-year-old girl. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p2LZLYcu_JY&t=2274s
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by theodpHN 3y ago
While much-maligned, what JCL (and software like CLISTs and REXX for interactive processing) brings to the table in the mainframe world is a STANDARD way for programmers to not only decouple code and the data resources the code will process
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by theodpHN 3y ago
How about Big Tech and The Cloud? Certainly didn't hurt that the tech giants embraced and helped extend Python. Python's Guido van Rossum has been an employee of both Google and Microsoft (with a stint at Dropbox in between). Visi
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"IBM on Tuesday announced generative AI tools to help address that problem, modernizing antique mainframe software for the cloud by refactoring COBOL code to Java." Anyone else thinking, "Now they have two problems"? :-)
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IMO, SQL is more straightforward if not quite as terse: select count(*) from ages where age > 17
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Makes one long for a Cloud version of available-since-the-1970s granular IBM mainframe job accounting controls, eh? https://www.ibm.com/docs/en/zos/2.1.0?topic=parameter-exampl...
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by theodpHN 3y ago
Also, database tables where unique key constraints aren't enforced. Programming and operational mistakes happen. :-) https://stackoverflow.com/questions/62735776/what-is-the-poi...
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by theodpHN 3y ago
Comparing for exactness is one challenge, but just a start - identifying what has changed is a bigger challenge. And that's where the world of file/database comparators come in. A somewhat niche but easy-to-use example of one with
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Regression testing.
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Someone else already mentioned, "Hackers" by Steven Levy, which was great. Levy's "Insanely Great: The Life and Times of Macintosh, the Computer that Changed Everything" was also a vey good read (and only $4.99 for
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by theodpHN 3y ago
Not a book but Paul Ford's epic (free!) 38,000 word "What is Code?" essay in BusinessWeek's "The Code Issue" (2015) has a dose of history. https://www.bloomberg.com/company/press/bloom
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What's the state of 'traditional' turnkey time sharing for coding + development in 2023? Are always-on, signon-and-go servers or clusters of servers with shared storage and a wealth of pre-installed software used by a communi
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Earlier this month, the NY Times warned students and their families to "Expect Interest Rates on Federal Student Loans to Rise" to as high as 8.05% for new PLUS loans this fall. That news came as Apple, just days after a recent $9
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Salesforce: If You Don't Come Into the Office, We'll Kill This Dog Charity https://slashdot.org/submission/17239476/salesforce-if-you-d...
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Stanford Golf Phenom Rose Zhang Turns Pro, Vows to 'Never Code Again'(developers.slashdot.org)
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Is It Time to Stop Saying 'Learn to Code'?(developers.slashdot.org)
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by theodpHN 4y ago
Airbnb meets WeWork: The next YCombinator unicorn? :-)
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by theodpHN 4y ago
This. There is certainly a Catch-22 here - to get hired by a Tech Giant, one ideally needs the knowledge of how to solve problems at Tech Giant scale, but that really only comes after being hired at a Tech Giant that has the kind of money a
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by theodpHN 4y ago
But PLATO did pretty much re-invent terminals in the 70's, with a touchscreen (infrared), flat-screen plasma display which later earned Don Bitzer and his two co-inventors an Emmy, was mentioned in an IETF IRC, and was also credited -
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Computer History Museum DON BITZER 2022 Fellow https://computerhistory.org/profile/don-bitzer/ For pioneering online education and communities with PLATO and coinventing the plasma display When networks like the I
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While U.S. Secretary of Education Arne Duncan marveled in 2014 that his kids could learn to code online using Khan Academy, a 1975 paper on Interactive Systems for Education notes that 650 students were learning programming online using PLA
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If you're looking for a longer PLATO read, check out Brian Dear's definitive book: The Friendly Orange Glow: The Untold Story of the PLATO System https://www.amazon.com/Friendly-Orange-Glow-Untold-Cybercult...
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by theodpHN 4y ago
Amazon Wants 10,000+ Employee Dogs Back in Office, Facilitating Collaboration https://slashdot.org/submission/17188709/amazon-wants-10000-...
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by theodpHN 4y ago
Beauty is in the eye of the beholder. While clever, this is (IMO) far less understandable and more error-prone than say COBOL's positively ancient built-in SEARCH ALL binary search statement. Here's an example of a 3-key binary ta
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I'm doing alright, getting good grades / headlights are so bright, I gotta wear shades https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8qrriKcwvlY

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