uptownJimmy

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by uptownJimmy 12y ago
Recently-graduated student here, middle-aged and with more than my fair share of life challenges under my belt. I fell in love with coding by accident, after half a life in the restaurant trenches. But one of the things you can learn in the
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by uptownJimmy 12y ago
You seem confused.
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by uptownJimmy 12y ago
I went to tech school at age 41, after owning/managing in the restaurant business my entire adult life. I worked full time and studied full time and helped raise my little 2-year-old boy. I got my degree this spring. Now I'm 44 an
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by uptownJimmy 12y ago
Who would ever have guessed?
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by uptownJimmy 12y ago
Yeah, as an obsessive newbie/student, I can attest that JavaRanch is almost enough to put you off Java forever...
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by uptownJimmy 12y ago
That's what I'm talking about. That's the good stuff.
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by uptownJimmy 12y ago
Has nobody here read "Gravity's Rainbow"? Love and rockets, indeed.
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by uptownJimmy 13y ago
This stuff can be no surprise to many of us, right? I'm not sure I would have made it out of the darkness of my formative years without those profound psychotropic experiences I had as a young man.
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by uptownJimmy 13y ago
For me, it was a tidy set of lifestyle choices that I made, all at once: 1. Stopped drinking. 2. Started running three miles every morning, crack of dawn. 3. Stopped watching TV. 4. Cut out almost all junk/fast food. The change in my p
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by uptownJimmy 13y ago
Much of this is nonsense. This, for instance: "If you get infected with a deadly viral disease, like rabies, it's curtains. There's nothing any hospital can do for you except sedate you until you're dead."