ghamrick

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by ghamrick 8y ago
I grew up (career wise) on CTOS systems with 286/386 processors that could address the full 16MB in protected mode without memory extenders or expanders that were available for DOS back in the day. Also premptive multi tasking. It wa
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by ghamrick 9y ago
I worked on an (now obscure) OS named CTOS back in the 80's. In an error message file, the error message that would be delivered in the unlikely event that the correct error message could not be found was "Pressed Rat and Warthog
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by ghamrick 9y ago
if they know you. I recently visited the town my dad grew up in, deep in the bowels of WV. Every single person there, at the stores, restaurants and gas stations said to me "You're not from around here, are you?" When I to
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by ghamrick 9y ago
I would posit that it is a strategy as well, sort of like calling a bluff. If you have committed a crime, let them charge you. If you yell 'lawyer' and they leave, it is likely you are not chargeable, at least at that time. Mig
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by ghamrick 10y ago
I question the ethical culpability of big pharma. Taken from the article "Drug companies had bombarded West Virginia’s rural towns with record numbers of narcotics, according to court records: 300,000 tablets of hydrocodone to the mom
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by ghamrick 10y ago
I've worked most of my career in cube farm configurations and had little reason to complain. At my last job of 15 years, the 26 yr old newly appointed manager announced that we were moving to 'an open, war room atmosphere'.
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by ghamrick 10y ago
I don't participate in virtual currencies because I am not smart enough to understand all the nuances, or at least I don't take the time to try and understand them. Plus, I don't have money to throw away. However I find the
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by ghamrick 10y ago
when I was a kid I would tell people I was a 'Senior IT Consultant', now if anyone asks I tell them I'm a computer guy
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by ghamrick 10y ago
Formally uneducated developer here. Due to the circumstances of my youth (foster homes, boys homes), I did the usual service level jobs (construction, restaurants) until I stumbled into a data entry job back in the day and managed to lever
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by ghamrick 10y ago
"This isn't your average everyday darkness.... this is Advanced Darkness." - S. Squarepants
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by ghamrick 10y ago
In prehistoric times on an OS named CTOS, a distributed client/server OS, I was charged with making tape backups of user's local workstations, IVOLing (formatting) the disk, and restoring from tape. The contract specced that 2 ta