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by coldcode 4y ago
I wonder how you can tell the underlying language when you have multiple languages sharing the same script?
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by coldcode 4y ago
I once worked for a company during Dotcom that failed to pay rent for 7 months, was then forced into Chap 7 at 4:30 PM on a Thursday (we were given 30 mins to vacate the office). The building management then padlocked the doors leaving ever
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by coldcode 4y ago
I bought a C compiler at my job in 1984 because I thought it was the future, then spent nearly a decade writing MacOS apps in C. I even added object extensions to it (for our use) in 1989 because C++ was not an option yet. I worked with Obj
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by coldcode 4y ago
SABRE is ancient technology, but very reliable and at the same time extremely inflexible. Last time I saw it upclose in the early 2000's much of the core was still coded in IBM assembler, although over the decades more pieces were slow
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by coldcode 4y ago
I always loved APL when I was a student around 1980, I had access to the little IBM "transportable" that supported APL and Basic, I think it was the 5100 or 5110. I remember writing a little table tennis game in APL, which was lik
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by coldcode 4y ago
Real work is more than making snippets of things. At my last employer, changes were requested every single day, in large and small ways, requiring insane amounts of reworking previous ideas in the codebase on a continuous basis without brea
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by coldcode 4y ago
It's not about hosting, it's about discovery. If no one knows your content exists, no one will read it. At least on Medium you have an opportunity to be seen. Sure, if you already have a huge online presence, then you don't n
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by coldcode 4y ago
My first exposure was in the 6th grade, around 1969 or so, we took a field trip to a local university with a computer. They set up a terminal to run the fox-chicken-corn puzzle, so each student got to try to solve it once. I kept wondering
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by coldcode 4y ago
At my last (non tech, extremely large) employer we joked that every product (supporting our business, not standalone) was Maximum Viable Product, as every user story was required for launch, including endless change requests. Sometimes we e
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by coldcode 4y ago
The main issue to me seems to be sideloading apps, playstore apps seem to be protected. Sideloaded apps could be anything since its the app key that is compromised.
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by coldcode 4y ago
I finally retired in 2021 as I was working too many hours. At least the last year was at home, so I could avoid the hour commute. Most of the people I needed to meet with were 3000 mi away from me anyway, my immediate team sat around me, bu
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by coldcode 4y ago
As an artist I love when when other artists push the edge of art and do something different. These are amazingly inventive.
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by coldcode 4y ago
Having done some XSLT coding I agree; it's a language that was both unreadable and unwritable.
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by coldcode 4y ago
I worked as an engineer for a very large non tech company (but used a lot of tech, both bought and in-house). We had 100s of teams supporting services, internal apps (web and mobile), external apps (web and mobile), and connections to vendo
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by coldcode 4y ago
If I were inexperienced and clueless I might, but I am neither. I have worked at places where I was tasked with supporting something no on there knew anything about and made it work. But they were apps used internally or for a limited custo
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by coldcode 4y ago
It will until it stops. Then no one will be available to make it go again. Inertia eventually fails.
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by coldcode 4y ago
It's not universal, my iPhone 14 pro with 16.1 does not crash for any letters I can type, spaces or not. Suggestions work fine for me. Clearly there is another factor not obvious causing the crash. In any case Apple would see a whole i
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by coldcode 4y ago
Given how much engineers make at Google after a long interview process to supposedly only get the best people, how significant the login system is to security, how "industry standard" the Google process is, it's not a bug tha
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by coldcode 4y ago
It's interesting, but still a small sample size in a single country with potentially similar gut microbiomes. It would be much more meaningful to do the same study across different parts of the world and with a larger number of people.
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by coldcode 4y ago
I would rather be at ground zero for any missile that works (assuming most of them won't even get out of their silo due to corruption). While much of the world will survive initially, the disruption to economies world wide will likely
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by coldcode 4y ago
Hmm if your money is in Charles Schwab, and NY is turned into atoms, do they have backups in non-attacked countries, along with infrastructure to run their code on, and there is a functional internet connection from there to you, maybe. I h
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by coldcode 4y ago
At my last employer before retiring (not tech but used a lot) has a very unique (and way larger than Twitter) complex set of businesses. They change at an insane pace and often involve things that in the end don't ship, resulting in cr
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by coldcode 4y ago
Mentor Pilot's videos are top notch. Watching this one made me dizzy I can't imagine debugging a system while enduring 4+ Gs.
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by coldcode 4y ago
I am not normally claustrophobic, but being tall and some of these shafts are very low, I would be unlikely to make it very far before abandoning the attempt. I am glad I saw this though, I can at least do it remotely. How anyone did this o
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by coldcode 4y ago
I must resist asking if it used Java. I would love to see the Vasa but have not made it to Stockholm yet. I did see the Mary Rose in Portsmouth which was incredibly fascinating to see (large portions of the ship remain so you can see the la
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by coldcode 4y ago
My first interview for my first job in 1981 consisted of the manager asking me general programming questions ending in a description of an errant program which I had to explain how I would figure out what was wrong, and what it was likely t
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by coldcode 4y ago
Losing your house and possibly family members is a poor investment strategy. When you community is wiped up it can take years to rebuild it and it might not recovered entirely at all. You might have no good place to live since everyone is i
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by coldcode 4y ago
Driving off road works too! One thing I wish it had was a look around function so you could admire the scenery when not driving.
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by coldcode 4y ago
My browser is not supported. Maybe they should tell me why.
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by coldcode 4y ago
If they were at all time highs the stock market would not be done so much.

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