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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'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
Category Archives: Politics
Analysis | Can Congress resurrect Roe if it’s overturned? Well, it could try.
To that end, Democrats in Congress are calling on their colleagues to “codify Roe” in federal law. The Women’s Health Protection Act (WHPA) introduced by Rep. Judy Chu (D-Calif.) in June 2021 would do just that. Here’s what you need to … Continue reading
Unpopular opinion: Social media is a great scapegoat, but it is not the source o… | Hacker News
Source: Unpopular opinion: Social media is a great scapegoat, but it is not the source o… | Hacker News I just felt this was a great post, serving to highlight the capriciousness, hypocrisy, and exploitation of kids just trying to … Continue reading
Sex Education Acts As A Wake Up Call To Parents And Teachers
Old-fashioned parents and teachers needed a wake-up call, and Netflix’s Sex Education has provided just that. The hit series, which recently blessed our screens once more for its third – and not final! – series, should act as a bible … Continue reading
Compelled Speech vs. The First Amendment
In the lawsuit, she argues that denying requests to allow her to ignore students’ preferred names and pronouns “deprived her of due process and equal protection of law” and violated her First Amendment rights to free speech and exercise of … Continue reading
Disney CEO apologizes to LGBTQ employees, halts political donations in Florida
Chapek said Disney was rethinking how it approaches political donations on Wednesday; on Friday, he said the company would pause them altogether pending an internal review. However, Disney will increase its “support for advocacy groups to combat similar legislation in … Continue reading
Cats and Dogs Living Together; Mass Hysteria
Remember when people said that if you changed the definition of marriage, you’d have people marrying, like, robots, or whatever? And then, like, the next year, a bunch of Japanese men did just that, in a mass ceremony? This has … Continue reading
Hillary Clinton mocks Trump, says his followers’ conspiracy theories are getting ‘wilder’
Hillary Clinton suggested Thursday that a desperate President Donald Trump hopes to divert attention from his deepening legal trouble by spreading ludicrous lies about her. “It’s funny, the more trouble Trump gets into, the wilder the charges and conspiracy theories … Continue reading
Joe Rogan’s use of the n-word is another January 6 moment – CNN
But what Rogan and those that defend him have done since video clips of him using the n-word surfaced on social media is arguably just as dangerous as what a mob did when they stormed the US Capitol on January … Continue reading
Monopolize All The Things
This is a perfect, illustrated example of venture capital squeezing out individuals, cornering a market, and trying to extract ALL the profits from it. This sort of behavior is why housing prices have shot up nationwide. Home ownership was already … Continue reading
Wealth Tax
I once had a strained conversation with a good friend over the concept of a wealth tax. I was for it; he was very much against it, on the grounds that most of the “wealth” we’re usually talking about is … Continue reading