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That'll take some time to read.
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Ah, you chil'un. Always needing your instant gratification. 
TTFN - Kent
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She lost me at:
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I usually listened for awhile, before I pointed out that they were going in the wrong direction for schools—they should be working on developing small, personal computers; computers used by only one person rather than time-shared through Teletype or some other kind of terminal connected to a large mainframe. That kind of equipment, I told them, would never really take hold in schools, at least not for instruction. ... a salesman for Digital Equipment Corporation came calling ... , laid out his brochures and sales materials on the coffee table, and made his pitch for using a large mainframe DEC computer with classroom terminals, for instruction in schools. ... I listened to his pitch, looked at his brochures, then politely gave him my usual lecture. “Time-sharing could work for awhile, but it’s not a permanent solution, not for teaching,” I said.
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In the 80s all my computer training was on DEC mini-computers (PDP and VAX), with classrooms full of VT100s, VT200s, and VT300s. And we liked it!
Likewise, my employment from 1989 until 2002 was all on DEC mini-computers (and a smattering of Stratus  ). DEC didn't make mainframes, particularly not large ones.
The big benefit of a PC for classwork is the ability to take your work home. I have soft copies of some Turbo Pascal and Turbo C from late in my college career, but only printouts of much of my earlier student work.
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The pitch: Develop with Yahoo, and we’ll give you everything you need to make money. Because when you say, "Yahoo", you think about making loads of money
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The site said: Zoinks! There's a problem
I'm at home on my _supposedly_ open Internet connection so why would it be blocked or failing?
What kind of malicious site are you putting us onto, Kent? 
Bummer, I was completely ready to make my Billions from Yahoo! too.
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ReadWrite is zoinks territory? OK, try The Next Web[^]
TTFN - Kent
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I have the same problem with RW at work. One of the other times it came up, someone said they're doing something a bit screwy and non-standard with their web server; which is apparently playing havoc with the net-ninny proxy at work.
Maybe your home ISP is demonstrating why carrier grade nat isn't a real solution to running out of IPV4 addresses. 
Did you ever see history portrayed as an old man with a wise brow and pulseless heart, waging all things in the balance of reason?
Is not rather the genius of history like an eternal, imploring maiden, full of fire, with a burning heart and flaming soul, humanly warm and humanly beautiful?
--Zachris Topelius
Training a telescope on one’s own belly button will only reveal lint. You like that? You go right on staring at it. I prefer looking at galaxies.
-- Sarah Hoyt
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I didn't realize Yahoo was based out of Nigeria.
Marc
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Microsoft loves giving away free OneDrive space. "First there was space—endless, limitless space"
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Kent Sharkey wrote: "First there was space—endless, limitless space"
And Nadella saw that the space was filled with all things, and Nadella saw that it was good.
And on the second day, Nadella said "behold, let coin and currency move across the lands and the waters to fill our coffers as We now change our mind, as We Gods are wont to do, and require a pittance of a payment for what once was free."
And Nadella saw that it was good.
Marc
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I just signed on for the extra 100gb. today, thanks.
I note that while you have to agree to what appear to be sacrifice of privacy rules when you sign-up for the 100gb., you can go and edit your account immediately and change those rules to "leave me alone."
Well, I reversed those sacrifices, and they haven't taken the 100gb. away from ... yet.
«I'm asked why doesn't C# implement feature X all the time. The answer's always the same: because no one ever designed, specified, implemented, tested, documented, shipped that feature. All six of those things are necessary to make a feature happen. They all cost huge amounts of time, effort and money.» Eric Lippert, Microsoft, 2009
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eeeeew.
I see lots of confusion and unexpected behavior in the future. Or I would except that that structs are the redheaded stepchildren of .net.
Did you ever see history portrayed as an old man with a wise brow and pulseless heart, waging all things in the balance of reason?
Is not rather the genius of history like an eternal, imploring maiden, full of fire, with a burning heart and flaming soul, humanly warm and humanly beautiful?
--Zachris Topelius
Training a telescope on one’s own belly button will only reveal lint. You like that? You go right on staring at it. I prefer looking at galaxies.
-- Sarah Hoyt
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Researchers warn that a glut of code is coming that will depress wages and turn coders into Uber drivers. Except for the ones who code the robots. Get started today!
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Quote: But as we slide down the backside of the cycle, the pain will be shared quite broadly
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I don't think this is the case. I think they might lose their jobs to automation eventually, but they will be the last ones to do so. If the programmers will lose job to some form of A.I. (because robots really won't do) it will probably at such state of things (civilization) that it won't matter financially. It would mean that either utopia or dystopia of society has arrived. If somehow I'm wrong and highly expert system would replaced us without being intelligent then you can still either program better A.I. or better software automation programs or just go easy and turn to the dark side (of programming). 
modified 19-Feb-15 15:41pm.
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I have a few thoughts, first the shameless plug:
Why Computers Haven't Replaced Programmers[^]
- I'm irritated by the sensational title the author puts on their article, then 4 paragraphs in he changes from robots replacing programmers to robots replacing other non-technical jobs for the remainder of the article.
- Otherwise, the point about Junior and chess is valid. But then again, chess is such a well defined game with a small set of rules that just happens to have a large problem space. This has made it difficult to beat humans up to this point.
Unleashing robots to write software for LOB applications. If the managers and customers can't specify the requirements clearly enough to humans the first time, what hope is there that a robot will be able to decipher what was meant/desired/intended/needed and provide the right solution.
I do plan on worrying about this for quite a while.
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Well, maybe they are already doing our jobs but we choose not to tell anyone.
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For a career that involves a lot of sitting, it’s strange that most developers peak at the same age as footballers. So what do older programmers have to look forward to if they’re not making a beeline for that management position? You can find out how old they are by counting the layers of cruft in their keyboard
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They fade away, bit by bit.
Kent Sharkey wrote: it’s strange that most developers peak at the same age as footballers.
I actually doubt I've hit my peak, and I'm going to be 53 this year.
Marc
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Good to hear that, young man 
According to my calculations, I should be able to retire about 5 years after I die.
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Marc Clifton wrote: peak at ... footballers
I'd much rather peek at cheerleaders.
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Kent Sharkey wrote: You can find out how old they are by looking at the manufacture date of their
keyboard
FTFY
Which would you like to see, the DEC keyboard from 1986, or the IBM keyboard from 1997 ? ![Badger | [badger,badger,badger,badger...]](https://www.codeproject.com/script/Forums/Images/badger.gif)
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The old IBM keyboard was unbeatable. A nice clacky, strong feedback set of keys, all in the proper places. If I could have obtained a USB version of the old one I used to use, I would still be using it. I wouldn't even need the "Windows key", I never use it or the "menu key" on the other side of the keyboard.
- I would love to change the world, but they won’t give me the source code.
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