mrlyc

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by mrlyc 3y ago
Thank you for writing the "How to Find Lemmy Communities" guide. It was very helpful. https://tech.michaelaltfield.net/2023/06/11/lemmy-migration-...
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by mrlyc 4y ago
It got me my first programming job. Back in 1984, I wrote a BBS for a Vic-20. It had multiple rooms (message areas) which users could create and make public or private, private email and an online game, all in 9.6K of BASIC. It was very pop
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by mrlyc 4y ago
I just wrote echo "open $mainframe\ \nuser $mf_username $mf_password \nsite lr=160\ \ncd ..\ \nmput \*\ \nquit" | ftp -i -n -v > $ftp_log 2>&1 The program collected data from the telephone company&#
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by mrlyc 4y ago
I rewrote 2,650 lines of C as a seven line shell script. The previous programming team had written a data transfer program with its own implementation of ftp. I just used the one that was already on the computer.
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by mrlyc 8y ago
It depends on what you're used to. When I stated programming 42 years ago, it took two days between submitting the punched card deck to the computer centre and getting a printout of the results. Now I get concerned if my program take
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by mrlyc 8y ago
I live on my own so I prefer being with people at work.
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by mrlyc 8y ago
Another interesting documentary about this topic is "Born Rich" by Jamie Johnson, one of the heirs to the Johnson & Johnson fortune. He interviews several of his peers. The film was nominated for two Emmys. It's availa
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by mrlyc 8y ago
One thing to watch out for is when the board manufacturer changes its memory map without telling you. Boards built before April booted and the new ones didn't. Fortunately, the product was still in the development stage.
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by mrlyc 8y ago
For my dopamine hits, I prefer Reddit (frat party) to Hacker News (church).
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by mrlyc 8y ago
Zimbardo was an evil man who tried to justify his behaviour by setting up a sham experiment to "prove" that everyone can be evil, given the right circumstances.
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by mrlyc 8y ago
We're trying to do the same with the country.
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by mrlyc 8y ago
What worked for me was to tell my employer that I was taking the time off to get allergy shots.
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by mrlyc 8y ago
I'm cobbling together a language that is stock standard C with classes. Just classes, nothing more. I'm calling it C+.
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by mrlyc 8y ago
Hacker News, The Register Reddit Documentaries from https://www.reddit.com/r/Documentaries/new/ Lectures from https://www.reddit.com/r/lectures/new/ YouTube Sub
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by mrlyc 8y ago
Some years ago, Gmail changed so using Eudora with it became difficult. I've worked out the following procedure: after checking email fails the second time, Server SSL Certificate Rejected pops up click on Yes click on Tools then Optio
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by mrlyc 8y ago
That happened to me when I went for a job at Wang to work on Australia's EFTPOS network. The position required using protocol analysers but the recruiter had removed all references to them from my résumé. I gave the interviewer my orig
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by mrlyc 8y ago
Do what you love, what you are good at and what people are willing to pay for. Sometimes you have to do the first one as a hobby and the last two as a job.
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by mrlyc 8y ago
I started with a Vic-20. I wrote a BBS for it with multiple rooms (message areas), private mail and an online game. Users could start their own rooms and make them public or private. It was very popular with each user spending an average
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by mrlyc 8y ago
Facebook is still moving fast and breaking things, just not their things. The morality of an organisation reflects that of its senior management. Zuckerberg doesn't care about breaching privacy so why should Facebook? He only cares
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by mrlyc 8y ago
Sometimes deleting code isn't enough and you have to do a rewrite. I once rewrote 2,650 lines of C as a seven line shell script. The previous programming team had written a data transfer program with its own implementation of ftp. I ju
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by mrlyc 8y ago
I deleted Facebook before it was cool. They wouldn't stop sending me "Won't you please come back" emails until I made a formal complaint about the spam to the Australian Communications and Media Authority. No more emai
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by mrlyc 9y ago
Google's C++ course at https://developers.google.com/edu/c++/ looks useful to start with.
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by mrlyc 9y ago
Oh great. Now my robot wants to go skiing.
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by mrlyc 9y ago
Peer review of code and documentation works well. It can be formal or informal. After I was unexpectedly put in charge of a three-person programming team 32 years ago, I started giving my code to another programmer to look at before it ship
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by mrlyc 9y ago
I've done better with my home investment than I have with my managed investment funds. I bought my flat in 1994 for $107,000 and it's now worth $715,000 after Melbourne had the same rise in house prices as San Francisco. Two probl
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by mrlyc 9y ago
It's probably a reference to the debate on Reddit about whether a dress ( http://i.imgur.com/9VWYggm.jpg ) was black and blue or white and gold.
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by mrlyc 9y ago
When I moved from programming into management, the hardest thing I found was to change from flow-driven work to interrupt-driven work. I started with the golden rule: "Manage people the way you would like to be managed." That last
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by mrlyc 9y ago
> HI-EMA did not have an automated way to send a cancellation of an "event" message, so it had to issue one manually. Why is this kind of engineering so common in the US? Another example would be the No Fly List which, until re
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by mrlyc 9y ago
I'm confused. Both my Samsung Galaxy Ace GT-S5830T (January 2011) and Galaxy Ace 3 GT-S7275Y (June 2013) phones came with an app called "FM Radio" that works. They cost me $100 on sale. Why don't the more expensive on
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by mrlyc 9y ago
I find it useful to remind myself that I am interviewing them while they are interviewing me.

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