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I was born at the perfect time to pursue a career in full-stack software development. I grew up programming 8-bit computers, then learned Unix in college. I entered the workforce at the emergence of Windows for Workgroups and Linux, and I'll be retiring right about the time the AI's make me redundant. Also, the year Social Security goes broke.
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Months and months of planning by lots and lots of middle management can save literally hours of programming.
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Give a man a program, and you'll frustrate him for a day. Teach a man to program, and you'll frustrate him for a lifetime.
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I have a mental illness that makes me think that people will change their minds if I present the correct arguments with the appropriate facts and data.
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I've put all of my skill points into arguing with blinking lights.
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But I say unto you, that whosoever looketh on a new piece of Apple gear, to lust after it, hath committed purchase of it already in his heart.
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Don't say you're easy on me; you're about as easy as a nuclear war.
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I sold the Renoir and the TV set; don't wanna be around when this gets out.
Duran Duran, The Reflex
Author Archives: David K.
Nightbirde Speaks Out During AGT Finale After Exiting Due to Cancer Battle | PEOPLE.com
“I spend a lot of time squeezing my eyes shut and trying to remember what I believe; counting my breaths in the grief cloud; burying my face into God’s T-shirt. I remind Him sometimes, (and not kindly) that I believed … Continue reading
Vintage Gaming
So I recently refreshed my RetroPi “gaming rig.” I wanted to mark the occasion by listing some of my favorite games from each of the generations. I’m not saying that I’m a connoisseur, and have played thousands of games, and … Continue reading
Unseen Effort – The Daily WTF
The only downside to working for him was his disdain toward open source solutions. Anita couldn’t use any NuGet packages whatsoever; everything had to be built from scratch. She learned a ton while making her own JSON parsing library and … Continue reading
The Ticking Bomb of Crypto Fascism – In These Times
Crypto, like meme stocks, is a poor replacement for the American dream. A functional nation would end gerrymandering, pass campaign finance reform, end the filibuster, abolish the undemocratic U.S. Senate, tax great wealth, institute public healthcare and build a social safety net to … Continue reading
From Node to Ruby on Rails | D U N K
Building the web app in Rails took me 2 days – the same thing in Node would have taken 2 weeks. I’ve also included things I wouldn’t have attempted to build on Node/Express until I proved the idea out (editing … Continue reading
Why Don’t They Believe Us?
You’re struggling to understand where all this vaccine hesitancy comes from. Let me help you. Source: Why Don’t They Believe Us? Terrific summary of the last few years of politics, as played out in the media. N.B., Twitter is never … Continue reading
The Oracle in the Matrix movies, explained before Resurrections – Polygon
The Oracle is, according to the Architect, the “mother” of the Matrix. She is an intuitive program originally designed to study the human psyche who proposed a solution by creating a simulated reality that would offer humanity a choice to … Continue reading
The Galaxy of a Single Cell
This is the most-detailed photo of a human cell to date. The simplest single-celled organisms aren’t materially less complex. Each tiny strand in the center is a chain of thousands of very-specific combinations of four, very-complicated organic molecules. Then there … Continue reading