AugieDB

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by AugieDB 5mo ago
For a senior developer, $150,000 is about right. I'm looking at the latest half dozen jobs I've seen on LinkedIn for open senior developer positions and they all start at that number, and range up to $185k to $200k. Digging a lit
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by AugieDB 3y ago
Looks like something Launchpad McQuack would fly. Actually, it kind of looks like Launchpad....
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by AugieDB 3y ago
Yeah, but Hockridge and Bell did an amazing job with Asterix. It's still hilarious in English.
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by AugieDB 3y ago
Sadly, they're not popular in the U.S., but I love them. I switched my comics reading habit after nearly 30 years to European comics and haven't looked back. I prefer Asterix over Tintin, but I think reading Tintin with some of
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by AugieDB 3y ago
And the series is still going -- the latest book in the series just came out last year. Cinebook is publishing English translations of the series, too.
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by AugieDB 4y ago
Wow, that brought me back, thanks. My final project in my college computer graphics course was a Boulder Dash clone from the version I had on my Commodore 64 growing up. I brought in the C=64 to compare and contrast the two versions. Wro
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by AugieDB 6y ago
I loved this episode when I first heard it, but reading your recap of it reminds me of a similar story from my college days. I had a CompSci professor who had worked at Bell Labs, which was all of 10 minutes down the street from the colleg
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by AugieDB 11y ago
That was a shrewd marketing move by a developer to get his app blocked by Apple so he could make hay on it. Unfortunately, it paid off. The app shot up the charts after they manufactured that controversy for all the free publicity.
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by AugieDB 13y ago
"Programming Perl" was the first computer "textbook" I ever read with a sense of humor. Before that, it had been all dry C books and the like. That's why I liked it so much. Yes, "Learning Perl" would def
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by AugieDB 13y ago
Dancer2 is also great for creating a web service, of sorts. Need something to send out JSON chunks with a URL front-end? Very simple to set up and get going. I've been translating some code I wrote for web pages into little engines
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by AugieDB 13y ago
Was introduced to Perl in a programming languages course in college in 1996/1997. Brought it to my first job, where it gained fame there for being the language that took a 12 hour process and ran it in less than a minute. (They had or