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March 30, 2017 at 7:35 am
A few years ago I was stuck working a retail job. We noticed that almost every day a truck pulled into the parking lot around 9, with the driver sitting...
March 30, 2017 at 7:21 am
.....IBM 360
FORTRAN (Hollerith cards)
COBOL
IBM 360 Assembler (Hollerith cards)
Pascal, SNOBOL (and several other languages I can't think of, from a survey course)
.....Atari 800
Basic
Forth
Lisp
.....HP...
February 24, 2017 at 9:33 am
I'll be writing up some workshop proposals for Penguicon 2017, for the writing and anime tracks. And completing a couple musical instrument cases, and trying to get some practicing done.
For...
December 16, 2016 at 7:15 am
David.Poole (11/30/2016)
Has anyone blown the whistle and NOT had to leave the company shortly afterwards? Did the act of whistle blowing damage your long term career?
As long as the...
November 30, 2016 at 7:26 am
I suspect in many cases the task is broken down and parceled out to several people, none of them may have a large enough picture of what's going on. That's...
November 30, 2016 at 7:14 am
In all fairness people applying to permanent jobs do the same thing 😛
Very true!
December 15, 2015 at 7:55 am
Sometimes being a consultant (especially a self-employed consultant) can be a skills trap. As a consultant, you're hired for skills you already have, and nobody wants to pay big bucks...
December 15, 2015 at 7:36 am
It seems the 'sell-by date' for IT workers gets lower and lower, yet I never see this pointed out to people starting out in the field. IT has that in...
February 17, 2015 at 7:40 am
I just want to claim copyright on all my life data. Then if someone's using it without paying the price I set, I'll go all "RIAA" and seize their servers...
December 18, 2014 at 11:21 am
I know someone in the US who committed a minor "stealing a snickers bar" offense that ended up in the police blotters of a couple local newspapers. When you search...
December 18, 2014 at 10:26 am
The way I've heard it, a "Wild A$$ Guess" is making up a figure that sounds good to you. A "Scientific Wild A$$ Guess" involves basing your guess on a...
December 5, 2014 at 10:25 am
Sometimes there's a hidden and perverse reason for not accepting a proposal that seems perfectly reasonable to you.
One place I worked had a rotten system that needed constant attention from...
December 5, 2014 at 10:13 am
Wouldn't a Linux Tux costume, BSD's Beastie, or Open BSD's Puffy rate highly on the geek-o-meter?
Ooooh! Even better- the superhero Sudo! Sudo can do ANYTHING!
October 31, 2014 at 7:29 am
One of the fun things about steampunk stuff is that it encourages you to come up with your own character/backstory and figure out a way to reflect that in your...
October 31, 2014 at 7:20 am
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