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I was in 10th grade (1970) and they started a new class called Computer Math. We learned Basic. We would write our code and then type it on a teletype. Then we would call into a computer in Washington D.C. and sign in. Then feed the ticker-tape through and wait like forever for our answers.
Didn't really do anymore after that until early 2000s when I decided to go back to school. Had a class in Visual Basic, ASP (legacy), C++, Cold Fusion, Java, JavaScript, PHP. Now I do web development front and back end with PHP mostly.
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I was in college working for a EE degree and started reading about these new things called microprocessors. I read about the IMSAI 8080 computer and thought that I could probably build one of those. I started designing boards (s100 bus) and then wire wrapped the memory board (4K RAM), a dual port serial board, the CPU board. I did purchase a 16 line by 64 character terminal board (connects to a TV). I finished the day after my last final senior year. All I did for the next 3 weeks (before I started my job) was play/learn how to program the CPU by the numbers. All I had for programming was the Zapple monitor program (kind of like DOS Debug). All I could do with it was dump memory to the screen, peek and poke memory, set break points and start running from a memory location. I eventually learned most of the z80 instruction set by the numbers.
After I start my job, they found out I had a computer at home and said that they were working on a microprocessor controlled smoke detector tester/calibrator. They asked me if I'd like to work on it and I said yes of course. I then spent the next 40+ years (just retired this year) writing embedded code for a multitude of devices. I just love the low level stuff, writing RTOSes, embedded languages for industrial controllers, DSP algorythms, etc.
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I always loved that stuff too. My interest in computers started after an interest in circuit building and i like hardware hacking, but alas I'm extremely creative but not very rigorous in how i approach the world, including my code.
What i learned managing teams is virtually every shop has someone like I am in that way, but too many derail a project. One or two is good to keep the creativity going in the shop.
But bank software, mission critical embedded (though I've done a little bit of embedded) that sort of thing, I don't really touch. It's not my wheelhouse and I'd blow up the project without a test team behind me.
When I was growin' up, I was the smartest kid I knew. Maybe that was just because I didn't know that many kids. All I know is now I feel the opposite.
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If there was Karmic justice the firm would have fallen (hard!)...and then the escapees could have spread there true message to all us Waterfall dwellers... 
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Scrub would have been nicer under the waterfall 
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Yeah, who the heck needs sissy programming like that.
I still remember changing classic asp code directly in prod using notepad. No silly intellisense or precompilation. Not even checks to see if you've spelled the variable names correctly or not... 
Anything that is unrelated to elephants is irrelephant
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Johnny J. wrote: Not even checks to see if you've spelled the variable names correctly or not...
hard to misspell 'a' 'b' and 'x'
just gotta watch for 'i' and 'l'
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Johnny J. wrote: Not even checks to see if you've spelled the variable names correctly or not
I always checked. I used the F5 key to check and make sure the variables were typed correctly. 
Social Media - A platform that makes it easier for the crazies to find each other.
Everyone is born right handed. Only the strongest overcome it.
Fight for left-handed rights and hand equality.
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Yes, that was when User Acceptance Test was exactly that... 
Anything that is unrelated to elephants is irrelephant
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The problem with quotes on the internet is that you can never tell if they're genuine
Winston Churchill, 1944
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Never argue with a fool. Onlookers may not be able to tell the difference.
Mark Twain
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you mean you don't use notepad anymore?
xkcd: Real Programmers[^]
When I was growin' up, I was the smartest kid I knew. Maybe that was just because I didn't know that many kids. All I know is now I feel the opposite.
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i was the first tech upstart.
When I was growin' up, I was the smartest kid I knew. Maybe that was just because I didn't know that many kids. All I know is now I feel the opposite.
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I have the feeling you weren't, I think there were plenty of upstarts before you and I and will plenty after us...
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but they don't count, because they're not me
/upstart
When I was growin' up, I was the smartest kid I knew. Maybe that was just because I didn't know that many kids. All I know is now I feel the opposite.
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honey the codewitch wrote: i was the first tech upstart.
Hmmmm. How many Hollerith cards have you punched, at 3AM, drunk, in COBOL, that ran successfully?
Will Rogers never met me.
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Hey guys just recently updated my Macbook pro 12.1 to MOjave 10.14.6
Every hour or so the Macbook crashes , shuts down, and sends me back to the login screen.
This happens more often when I'm watching videos (Prime or Netflix) but it happens regardless of what I'm doing. I know its not an issue when my mac falls asleep, its crashed as I'm actively typing in Pages. I haven't downloaded any programs since the update so im pretty sure its not a software issue.
I've installed the Mojave Supplemental Update and that doesn't fix anything, I've reinstalled Mojave also and the problems persist.
modified 9-Sep-19 6:44am.
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You should try one of these forums.
Google[^]
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Did you remember to discombobulate the fleem? If it isn't degaussed properly, the elliptical cam gradually slides up the beam shaft and catches on the flange rebate, with disastrous results as you can no doubt imagine. You'd need a 3/8th Gripley to fix that.
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Never throw anything away, Griff
Bad command or file name. Bad, bad command! Sit! Stay! Staaaay...
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But ultimately, it comes down to visually inspecting the internally adjustable throwout resistex in the monitor's free-gapped thrisker plug.
I 5'ed your response anyway, because you put him on the right track.
".45 ACP - because shooting twice is just silly" - JSOP, 2010
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I find coffee works best:
- pour 3/4 cup into operator
- pour other 1/4 cup into problematic machine
- complete time sheet and go home
usually find that by the next morning all those small niggly issues will be gone.
or beer as an alternative, but in that case have to be careful because the proportions change:
- pour beer into operator
- when no more beer left forcefully insert hammer into problematic machine.
- go home, time sheet can wait till next morning
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I'm sure it's the Q 36 Immodium space modulator[^]. Distract the thief by placing somme carrots nearby.
I have lived with several Zen masters - all of them were cats.
His last invention was an evil Lasagna. It didn't kill anyone, and it actually tasted pretty good.
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No, with the Q36 you'd get an Earth-shattering kaboom.
You need the Q37[^] for Apple products.
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Never throw anything away, Griff
Bad command or file name. Bad, bad command! Sit! Stay! Staaaay...
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Apple uses the Q37 data bus? But that's a unidirectional bus, not a bidirectional bus.
I have lived with several Zen masters - all of them were cats.
His last invention was an evil Lasagna. It didn't kill anyone, and it actually tasted pretty good.
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The last bus I caught only went in one direction at a time (plus it could go around corners). Since, technically, it could reverse (although I never witnessed that) this could potentially make it bidirectional, at least in theory.
- I would love to change the world, but they won’t give me the source code.
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