ToddWBurgess

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by ToddWBurgess 2mo ago
Found the December 1994 article I read that was my first introduction to HTML and helped me write my first home page. One of the few articles I read that has stayed with me for over 30 years
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by ToddWBurgess 4mo ago
Before watching that video all the IBM employees would have had to get together and sing songs. It was a long standing tradition at IBM that all employees at the start of the day had to get together and sing songs praising IBM and Thomas Wa
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by ToddWBurgess 5mo ago
It has never really went away. Check the news and you can see news stories about employees at anatomy schools and funeral homes who were engaged in the illicit sale of bodies and body parts for a variety of purposes. I am a former funeral d
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by ToddWBurgess 6mo ago
sysop breaking in for chat: I remember getting a modem for Christmas 1990 (2400 baud modem) and logging into BBSs and my world would never be the same. I was a hardcore BBS user from 1990-1994. In 1994, I got my first Unix account with Inte
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by ToddWBurgess 6mo ago
In Canada because of our privacy rules we have the ability to opt out of having our address published in the official government ham database. American hams don't have that option which complicates things for them.
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Ask HN: How many of you hold an amateur radio license in your country?
80 points by ToddWBurgess 7mo ago|102 comments
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by ToddWBurgess 7mo ago
I am a ham radio operator and also a member of Radio Amateurs of Canada. As we all know, the weather can be a matter of life and death and it is important Canadians have access to the latest weather. I am glad that RAC is taking up the caus
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by ToddWBurgess 10mo ago
Writing a blog nobody reads is called a diary.
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by ToddWBurgess 11mo ago
This article reads like study notes for the Canadian Advanced ham license exam. It's a great crash course on diodes.
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by ToddWBurgess 1y ago
Sounds like the start of the plot for a heist movie
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by ToddWBurgess 1y ago
There is a great YouTube video on the subject if you are interested. Its 38 minutes long but worth the watch. When The Soviets Hunted Down Their Own Warship https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kkBQl7YRI3E
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by ToddWBurgess 1y ago
I thought the joke was things were running on HP-UX (said the guy that had to use campus services running on HP-UX in the 90s). Let the 90's Unix flame wars begin!
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by ToddWBurgess 2y ago
QModem allowed me to explore the wonderful world of BBSs before the Internet was a thing. Having access to BBSs gave me a leg up when I got to University and got access to the Internet. BBSs are what got me seriously interested in computers
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by ToddWBurgess 2y ago
I was one of those Linux evangelists back in the 90s. Tried to get all the undergrads in my CS program migrated to Linux back in the day. Fun times.
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by ToddWBurgess 2y ago
I had the opposite experience. I actually left the industry and then suffered a workplace injury in the new job(PTSD). Trust me when I say this, PTSD really messes you up. One of the biggest injuries was my brain's ability to logically
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by ToddWBurgess 2y ago
Spent hours back in the day getting my ass kicked playing this with my grandfather. It quite often got used as a chance to get some grandfatherly advice. The one lesson he taught me and has stuck with me: "If you can't win. Make i
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by ToddWBurgess 3y ago
Seeing the name Watcom takes me back to my days of high school computer science doing BASIC and Pascal.
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by ToddWBurgess 3y ago
Anyone here old enough to remember from the BBS days when Phil Katz was embroiled in a legal dispute over his program PKARC and the ARC compression file format? At the time it was cast as a David and Goliath story (with Phil being David) wh
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by ToddWBurgess 3y ago
Lost my mother to ALS. She was a nurse so she made a point to ask if there was a chance she passed it onto her kids and was assured no we are fine. It is a small consolation considering all she had to endure. ALS is a horrible way to exit t
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by ToddWBurgess 3y ago
How about some love for Quick BASIC? That was my big Christmas present once upon a time when the dinosaurs still roamed the earth.
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by ToddWBurgess 3y ago
As an ex Excite@Home employee (anyone remember Excite??) I think its cool to see the old company pop up on HN in 2023
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by ToddWBurgess 3y ago
Dr. Dobb's Dec 1994 had an article on writing HTML. I used it as a reference to write my first homepage (remember when homepages were a thing?) in Dec. 1994 on the computer science club's server. It was my first introduction to th
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by ToddWBurgess 3y ago
I was the high school student that used to teach the teachers how to use WordPerfect 5.1 for DOS back in the day. So many memories seeing it again
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by ToddWBurgess 4y ago
To be fair maybe the app is done but not rejected by the Apple review process so there is some back and forth getting the app to pass. A lot of app politics to navigate for both Apple and Google to get your app out and published. More then
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by ToddWBurgess 4y ago
If it is a dead body and it is being cremated you take it out so it doesn't explode in the crematorium. I say this as a former funeral director who had to remove them.
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by ToddWBurgess 4y ago
Speaking as a Flutter dev, I would say it depends. If you want to go all in on Android then do the native Android route. Gives you access to the full Android platform. If the app is for personal use you can see what UI framework works for y
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by ToddWBurgess 4y ago
I used to know a BSD kernel developer who wrote all his kernel code with ed
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by ToddWBurgess 4y ago
Just curious, are people here still using master or did you migrate to main?
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by ToddWBurgess 4y ago
I met an Amazon Echo developer once. Apparently the biggest use case for voice assistants is getting the weather.
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by ToddWBurgess 4y ago
I was a software developer during the dot-Com days. Lost everything when my company folded. Transitioned to being a licensed funeral director. Some of my funeral director highlights include working for the Office of the Chief Coroner, suppo

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