codgercoder

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by codgercoder 14y ago
it does not turn "elements" into gold, but a gold compound; lame title, guys.
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by codgercoder 14y ago
blue collar wages, not blue collar skills
33.
by codgercoder 14y ago
fail: "You do not have permission to preview drafts"
34.
by codgercoder 14y ago
worked for AOL (for a time, anyway)
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by codgercoder 14y ago
simplest answer: the 1996 Telecom Deregulation Act. Sold as a way to bring real competition after the breakup of ATT, what it did instead was: 1) coax Baby Boomer money into the stock market, causing the Telecom boom, with all the mis-inves
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by codgercoder 14y ago
Problems: 1) HIPAA? a big, scary barrier to entry for experimental firms; I imagine it to be like the FAA; the time and money it takes to get things qualified for use in the air presents an enormous barrier to small groups with good ideas.
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by codgercoder 14y ago
You haven't seen the lightning bolts, yet!
38.
by codgercoder 14y ago
and yet, nobody respects TCL/TK anymore. The only time it's useful on a resume is for testers.
39.
by codgercoder 14y ago
And the relationship to Inferno is...?
40.
by codgercoder 14y ago
just what we need
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by codgercoder 14y ago
I find programming very intellectually satisfying, and have for many years. I now find myself in competition with people from all over the world, making it much more difficult to maintain the income I came to depend on. I have some anecdota
42.
by codgercoder 14y ago
I could see reporting how many, but who steps over the line.
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by codgercoder 14y ago
1. Normally, when a market has a shortage, the prices go up until equilibrium is re-established. In this case, however, the market just seeks satisfaction elsewhere. 2. Income pressure leads to young people who are deciding on a career path
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by codgercoder 14y ago
Another innovation?
45.
by codgercoder 14y ago
I think I might have said "capable" programmers. Using a common metaphor, a show needs "roadies" as well as "rockstars".
46.
by codgercoder 14y ago
the whole situation is a counter-example to first mover advantage
47.
by codgercoder 14y ago
not very "Right" thinking are we
48.
by codgercoder 14y ago
let's call it Wintter
49.
by codgercoder 14y ago
I suppose NASA has been keeping stats; I wonder what they look like.
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by codgercoder 14y ago
Too bad the results would likely be different in other jurisdictions.
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by codgercoder 14y ago
If the actual question was "why wasn't C...?", the whole point of C was to achieve the maximum amount of power with a minimal language system. Making a preprocessor that is powerful enough to handle lexical and syntactic analysis of source
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by codgercoder 14y ago
How about the other side of the coin: the successful people who insist that they absolutely did it by themselves, with no government-funded infrastructure, no societal acceptance, and no community support of any kind?
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by codgercoder 14y ago
I hope one of the parts deals with people's aversion to C declarations. The declaration syntax allows vastly complicated data definition, and the fact that declaration looks like use simplifies things immensely. (I also have a personal styl
54.
by codgercoder 14y ago
a 1999 reporting of a 1992 event. Over, much?
55.
by codgercoder 14y ago
doping?
56.
by codgercoder 14y ago
Welcome to enforced exhibitionism. The world is becoming less and less kind to people who just want to keep to themselves.
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by codgercoder 14y ago
It just reinforces my feeling that it's easier for simple, bad ideas to get funding than complicated, good ones. Modulo the reporting, of course.
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by codgercoder 14y ago
The universe is a dangerous place. Despite millenia of superstition, science has proven to be the most reliable way to protect ourselves (at least as a species) from the vagaries of nature. We have advanced from making sure we know where ou
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by codgercoder 14y ago
I knew turning away from Fed bashing to Internet freedom was too good to be true.
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by codgercoder 14y ago
I think SDR is a really good idea, but has two major stumbling blocks: 1) it makes government control of the airwaves trickier (IE removes some technical obstacles to misuse), and 2) major military contract failure involving emergency/terro

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