mgrennan

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by mgrennan 5y ago
If I could up vote this 100 times I would. I love open source. But 40 years in computing (hardware to apps) has left me with questions. Like, Why could I write an entire Point of Sale system in 64K in 1987 (Apple - The Store Manager) and
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by mgrennan 6y ago
I can't believe this is a thing. I showed this to my grade school teacher and she told me I was doing it WRONG. I just new it worked so I kept using it.
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by mgrennan 6y ago
After 40+ years as in electronic, software developer, OS and App, Networking, SysAdmin, DBA and DevOps I see it all as a multi discipline. Knowledge in Electronics, CPU design, Compiler development, OS design, communications, Business mana
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by mgrennan 7y ago
No man's Life, Liberty, or Property is safe while the legislature is in session. - Will Rogers
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by mgrennan 7y ago
Has anyone seen a RID device? Are any available? Approved? Will this be a "LAW before the device" like CA Gun Microstamping?
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by mgrennan 7y ago
Jason Scott uploaded all the video he took trailing to places making the BBS Documentary to the Internet archive. There is more there.
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by mgrennan 7y ago
"checks fall of the list" issue has always been a thing. There is a term in electronics call "Muntzing". Named after Earl Muntz who, after the engineers created a thing (TV) he would start pulling parts until it failed.
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by mgrennan 7y ago
Funny you say that. When I was sending compressed FidoNet Trafic (Looking like encryption) to Soviet block countries I got a knock on my door from men in black suits (FBI) asking me what I was doing?
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by mgrennan 7y ago
If you like this document you should watch the documentary. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BBS:_The_Documentary During this time I was the REGION 9 cordionar for Fidonet and latter to become the president of IFNA. I ag
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by mgrennan 8y ago
Thanks for this. This is such an exciting field. W5TSU
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by mgrennan 8y ago
Wounderful radio. w5tsu.net:8073
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by mgrennan 8y ago
As a person with 40+ years experence (Yes I started with a 4004) I aggee. Change is constend and the advancement of more and more complex systems is inevitable. Most of these is good but some with issues. The quote "A sufictly advanc
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by mgrennan 8y ago
I have developed a term for this. EARLY ADOPTER TECH DEBT.
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by mgrennan 9y ago
And if the went so busy putting as steering wheel on the skateboard they might have some time to thing about how the seatbelt fits and bumpers. Speed Kills.
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by mgrennan 9y ago
Having worked for the state, I learned licensing is about protecting jobs of the license holders now protecting the public. Case in point. You need to go to school for two years to be a beautician. You only need to go to school for six m
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by mgrennan 9y ago
I have never understood for profit medicine. There is a very fine moral line between, selling a blue pill that gives someone a "fun time" and selling cocaine for the same resin? Drug companies are making dugs and machines to &quo
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by mgrennan 9y ago
Why does something old (C) have to be bad these days?
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by mgrennan 10y ago
How we got here: Tech bobble gold rush, big tech (google/s) takes best talent, investors only want good enough (build to a price), young bro-grammers fill need, flood of millennials (like the Chinese army) take over IT. Now we are mov
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by mgrennan 10y ago
Location: Oklahoma City, OK, USA Remote: Yes Willing to relocate: No Technologies: MySQL, PostgreSQL, AWS, SALT, Linux from kernel 0.82 Résumé/CV: https://goo.gl/dPQ1HV Email: Mark@Grennan.com
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by mgrennan 10y ago
Time to through down on the IOTs.
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by mgrennan 10y ago
This is what happens when management gives up and turns IT to developers. And I believe that happened when accountants took over because of Sarbanes Oxley. The accountants had no idea what they where getting into. Then the Tech Bubble hap
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by mgrennan 10y ago
Just seems like another piece of code in search of a problem and ways for things to go wrong, because someone didn't take to time to research how things work now.
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by mgrennan 10y ago
yes, Knowledge is a two way street. We can learn from each other. Age bias is bad both ways. The saying "Its hard to teach old dogs new ticks" is WRONG and this articular stinks of it.
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by mgrennan 10y ago
Keep it up Carl. Your not the only one. I help fight Westlaw and put the Oklahoma State Constitution and Statutes online. www.oklegislature.gov / tsrs_os_oc.aspx
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by mgrennan 10y ago
I think I'll buy a copy for all the BRO-Grammers in my office.
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by mgrennan 10y ago
10,000 hour rule seems to be true. But I believe you can work on more then one skill at a time. So in a 40 year career you can master about eight to ten skills. I didn't say I'm also an artist.
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by mgrennan 10y ago
Totally hands on. I mentor not manage. Overwhelmed, no. More excited by advancement in knowledge. I'm more frustrated by the number of subjects that could be investigated that go un-explored.
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by mgrennan 10y ago
We all have hopes that new things like languages will make things better or easier. Mostly it does. Today's hardware beats the 4004 CPU I started with. Technology will move forward but building tech on back tech is a bad idea.
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by mgrennan 10y ago
If you hear "..It's like..." or "...we always..." then the mentor is doing it wrong. Experience is only good in details. Single wire morse code with distributor becomes X bit X stop bit serial becomes teletype. Tele
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by mgrennan 10y ago
Explains why stile matters. ... if (!spfont) return; ... Just add the CR and all is reveled.

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