hackerbobtas

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   by hackerbobtas 1y ago

   The free sample is good reading and makes me want to read more. However Amazon has only made the book available as a free Kindle download (to Kindle devices) or as a $$$ paperback. As author, can you ask Amazon to make the book available as
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   by hackerbobtas 3y ago

   I remember BBSes as having much more polite conversations than you find these days on social media, too!
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   by hackerbobtas 3y ago

   Does your aunt or f-i-l really need to know? I know older nerds who only use a smartphone for texts and voice calls, and who can't be bothered wasting time on social media. So far (anyway) "essential" apps like banking ones a
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   by hackerbobtas 3y ago

   See https://www.datafix.com.au/cookbook/ and https://www.datafix.com.au/BASHing/
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   by hackerbobtas 3y ago

   "The look on the faces of a fresh crop of 20-something developers"... My equivalent is doing a data reformat or analysis on a big dataset that someone has been struggling with in (please excuse my language) Excel. The data owner&#
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   by hackerbobtas 3y ago

   Dinosaurs of UNIX?
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   by hackerbobtas 3y ago

   VM/CMS still exists in some form in the IBM world, I think, but it would be hard to find a device that still runs RSTS/E. I haven't used Windows since 2007 and don't miss it.
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   Ask HN: Old Folks with Unix Skills

   40 points by hackerbobtas 3y ago|26 comments