LocalMan

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by LocalMan 6y ago
1. Retired. Mostly I read and surf the web. Take care of my health. 2. I left because I got old. Twelve hours of concentration just isn't worth it any more.
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by LocalMan 6y ago
Attachment to a leader and/or parent seems to be a deep part of human personality. Especially in the first decade or two of life. I suppose a teacher-at-the-front could be replaced by a soft robot. But that's not a really large ch
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by LocalMan 6y ago
Attachment to a leader and/or parent seems to be a deep part of human personality. Especially in the first decade or two of life. I suppose a teacher-at-the-front could be replaced by a soft robot. But that's not a really large ch
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by LocalMan 6y ago
Writing code in a commercial IT shop in the late seventies, the manager though he was progressive since he guaranteed that we could get as many as one compilation per day. We'd submit punched cards and get back the card deck and a comp
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by LocalMan 6y ago
I got old and retired.
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by LocalMan 7y ago
I've written many tens of thousands of lines of C, but retired 15 years ago. The two best books I know are: 1. C: A Reference Manual, by Harbison and Steele. https://www.amazon.com/Reference-Manual-Samuel-P-Harbison&#x2
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by LocalMan 7y ago
One trick that works well for a limited set of situations: When reading a math or science textbook chapter, read the questions before the text of the chapter. The keywords in the questions will clue you in to the keywords of the chapter.
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by LocalMan 7y ago
I'm pretty sure those M3's are around-the-ear. Unless you have gigantic ears. I'm wearing the M1 right now and it's around-the-ear.
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by LocalMan 7y ago
If the company goes belly up that can be a good point for you. You left "Because it was becoming clear the company could not survive." Don't put all the blame on the managers, put a lot of blame on their competitors and custo
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by LocalMan 7y ago
I've been using Lastpass for years now. It's good but not perfect. Occasionally I have to fiddle with it. There are a few web sites that Lastpass can't deal with. I opt for big passwords so I'm sure it's more secure
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by LocalMan 7y ago
Programming languages are like culture. If you're embedded in one then moving to another sometimes seems like a maze of funhouse mirrors. I once had the misfortune of changing from an Algol environment to a Cobol environment. After a y
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by LocalMan 8y ago
The most fundamental things in learning to make software: 1. Alternate writing programs with classwork or book-learning. Back and forth. 2. Learn a programming language that a friend knows, so you have a place to get on-the-spot help. Ideal
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by LocalMan 8y ago
Google Keep for notes, recipes, shopping lists on my Ubuntu desktop and my Android phone.
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by LocalMan 8y ago
The one thing you probably haven't been doing is having friendly work-oriented talks with your boss. A couple of times a week you should have been raising some easy issue just as a "heads-up" so the boss is up to date. The id
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by LocalMan 8y ago
Of course, the optimal way to respond to this is a contradiction: Raise a big stink, but secretly. This is not easy. I think the history of the "Tempest" security bug should be re-read every few years.
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by LocalMan 8y ago
Your description of git raises a 'code smell' with me. I've found git to be far too complex to rely on. No, I don't have a replacement for cooperative development, but the thing is a bug trap (it leads you into complexit
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by LocalMan 8y ago
And therefore you learned that wisdom can be most obscure.
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by LocalMan 8y ago
70.17 years: Last big thing was the programming language Go, a few years ago. The last thing was differing opinions of Maimonides and Yehuda Halevi on primeval substances with regard to Creation Ex Nihilo. The very last thing
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by LocalMan 8y ago
For a real software developer, PHP is a horrible language. And Javascript is almost as bad. The software tools to help you build and deploy are also a painful mess. You'll have to test on multiple browsers running on multiple operating
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by LocalMan 8y ago
Learning Fortran II programming in 1965 on a super-computer at a local university. It had almost a megabyte of memory! Actually, it was a CDC 6600, which had 131,072 words of 60 bits each, which is kinda the same as nearly a megabyte. I was
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by LocalMan 8y ago
Work with friends or whatever to find a new position before you end the one you have. Unemployment is very depressing. Avoid it. One week or two is okay.
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by LocalMan 8y ago
Google Keep is free, has multiple subsections, and automatically syncs between my smartphone and my PC with no intervention on my part.
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by LocalMan 8y ago
To cool summer bedrooms, blow the air out the kitchen window, and open the bedroom window. This will draw cool night air in the bedroom window. You may be sweating at 7 PM but you might need a blanket at 1 AM. This works brilliantly. And pu
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by LocalMan 8y ago
As you get older, it gets harder to learn new stuff.
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by LocalMan 8y ago
I dropped out in 1971 for reasons similar to yours. I am now retired. I've supported myself by writing software since the 1970's. Dropping out has cost me several hundreds of thousands of dollars. I don't know how many. Lots
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by LocalMan 9y ago
Consumer demand is endless. The more they have, the more they want. Machine Learning, or whatever it turns into, will just expand the opportunities and the requirements.
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by LocalMan 9y ago
1. Many managers and customers really do not know what a computer is. At all. We know they don't understand code. Many don't even understand data. This problem very slowly dissolves over the decades, as the populace ages and gets
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by LocalMan 9y ago
NYTimes.com elderofziyon.blogspot.com Newyorker.com
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by LocalMan 9y ago
I rely on Chrome and Firefox Bookmarks. But I have too many (thousands) and find that Xmarks doesn't help all that much.
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by LocalMan 9y ago
I was one of 7 people coding one of the 7 different real-time sensors for a large networked product. Another team was programming the central network manager and data processor. The project was late and there was a daily-charge penalty clau

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