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harold aptroot31-Mar-14 6:10

harold aptroot

31-Mar-14 6:10

None

Pete O'Hanlon31-Mar-14 6:12

Pete O'Hanlon

31-Mar-14 6:12

My eyes. I tried fingertips, but I was getting nothing running my fingers over the screen. The blind are even more incredible than I previously thought.

mikepwilson31-Mar-14 6:27

mikepwilson

31-Mar-14 6:27

There's not a damn one I like any more. I'm gonna have to write my own.

The least bad one was bloglines, which I used for years.

dan!sh 31-Mar-14 6:44

31-Mar-14 6:44

What is blog reader?

image processing toolkits | batch image processing

C^hris L^osinger31-Mar-14 7:37

C^hris L^osinger

31-Mar-14 7:37

Firefox

Marc Clifton31-Mar-14 8:17

Marc Clifton

31-Mar-14 8:17

Blog readers are like condoms. Haven't used one in years. Tried a few times but didn't find the experience very satisfying.

Marc

MarkTJohnson31-Mar-14 9:11

MarkTJohnson

31-Mar-14 9:11

Usually my eyes unless I'm tired, then my wife reads them to me.

Dr.Walt Fair, PE31-Mar-14 13:11

Dr.Walt Fair, PE

31-Mar-14 13:11

I'd like a beautiful lady to read blogs to me.

CQ de W5ALT

Walt Fair, Jr., P. E.
Comport Computing
Specializing in Technical Engineering Software

Kent Sharkey31-Mar-14 16:58

Kent Sharkey

31-Mar-14 16:58

Feedly[^], assuming the other fine answers weren't what you were looking for.

TTFN - Kent

Dear NSA

dan!sh 31-Mar-14 5:29

31-Mar-14 5:29

If you do not have the list of old people who can write programs with you already, please refer to thread below.

OriginalGriff31-Mar-14 5:35

OriginalGriff

31-Mar-14 5:35

I'm not old!

It's just that my birth certificate is wrong... Blush | :O

Those who fail to learn history are doomed to repeat it. --- George Santayana (December 16, 1863 – September 26, 1952)
Those who fail to clear history are doomed to explain it. --- OriginalGriff (February 24, 1959 – ∞)

Keith Barrow31-Mar-14 5:52

Keith Barrow

31-Mar-14 5:52

So you are saying the NSA only employs computer illiterates?

My guess is you have just made a powerful enemy in the States.

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OriginalGriff31-Mar-14 5:55

OriginalGriff

31-Mar-14 5:55

Keith Barrow wrote:
So you are saying the NSA only employs computer illiterates?

Of course it does!

Otherwise they would know too much Suspicious | :suss:

How much computer illiterate were you when...

Ennis Ray Lynch, Jr.31-Mar-14 9:26

Ennis Ray Lynch, Jr.

31-Mar-14 9:26

Whenever I want to write a letter to the NSA I just save the email in drafts. No need to send it.

Need custom software developed? I do custom programming based primarily on MS tools with an emphasis on C# development and consulting.

"And they, since they Were not the one dead, turned to their affairs" -- Robert Frost

"All users always want Excel" --Ennis Lynch

dan!sh 31-Mar-14 4:43

31-Mar-14 4:43

...you wrote your first program?

In my case, I had no idea what operating system is. I did not knew I was using windows. Hell, I could not even start a computer. It was really scary. However, if someone could open the "black screen" for me, I could write C++ programs for them.

This was the state for a long time. I was proud of myself thinking I could do anything in C++ but had no clue how to reach that black screen. I say anything as I was easily able to understand concept of pointer and templates and was even able to do graphics code. I thought I was awesome back then in year 2000.

How about you?

Edit: The sole purpose of this post is to feel young. Poke tongue | ;-P

modified 31-Mar-14 10:58am.

Argonia31-Mar-14 4:53

Argonia

31-Mar-14 4:53

My first programming language was Pascal way back in the days. I remember writing my programs when i was about 5th grade eh the old Program p; Back then we had to use dos compiler and that alone was pretty scary for me and the things i was fighting was the . and ; after the end in the different cases. And don't forget mod and div i still call the c++ operators that way Laugh | :laugh:

. For 5th grader that was preety scary :P

Microsoft ... the only place where VARIANT_TRUE != true

dan!sh 31-Mar-14 4:56

31-Mar-14 4:56

Argonia wrote:
mod and div

Isn't that what they are called? At least I call them that since it is more related to mathematical terms.

Argonia31-Mar-14 5:04

Argonia

31-Mar-14 5:04

In english maybe, but i didn't know that back then. Laugh | :laugh:

After all programming is good for your brain it teaches you english better than the textbook. Noone can make me spell break or switch wrong Wink | ;)

Microsoft ... the only place where VARIANT_TRUE != true

chriselst31-Mar-14 4:55

chriselst

31-Mar-14 4:55

Define Computer Literacy.

When I wrote my first program I could plug the Commodore 64 into the TV, turn it on, get to the bit to type in the code and then run it.

There wasn't a lot else to do, I could also put the tapes for the games into the tape player to load and then start the games.

Some men are born mediocre, some men achieve mediocrity, and some men have mediocrity thrust upon them.

dan!sh 31-Mar-14 4:58

31-Mar-14 4:58

Literacy as in knowing basic user operations before going to programming. For instance, knowing what left and right click is. I, for one, had no clue when I wrote programs for first few months.