mrlyc

It got me my first programming job.

Back in 1984, I wrote a BBS for a Vic-20. It had multiple rooms (message areas) which users could create and make public or private, private email and an online game, all in 9.6K of BASIC. It was very popular with each user spending an average of 70 minutes on it. One of my users hired me as a programmer, saying "Anyone who can write a BBS for a Vic can program!"

Thirty years later, that same guy wanted me to work with him at Google.

I just wrote

  echo "open $mainframe\

  \nuser $mf_username $mf_password

  \nsite lr=160\

  \ncd ..\

  \nmput \*\

  \nquit" | ftp -i -n -v > $ftp_log 2>&1

The program collected data from the telephone company's Nortel MD110 switches, tidied it up and sent it to their mainframes.

I rewrote 2,650 lines of C as a seven line shell script. The previous programming team had written a data transfer program with its own implementation of ftp. I just used the one that was already on the computer.

It depends on what you're used to. When I stated programming 42 years ago, it took two days between submitting the punched card deck to the computer centre and getting a printout of the results. Now I get concerned if my program takes longer than 20 seconds to compile.

I live on my own so I prefer being with people at work.

One thing to watch out for is when the board manufacturer changes its memory map without telling you. Boards built before April booted and the new ones didn't. Fortunately, the product was still in the development stage.

For my dopamine hits, I prefer Reddit (frat party) to Hacker News (church).

Zimbardo was an evil man who tried to justify his behaviour by setting up a sham experiment to "prove" that everyone can be evil, given the right circumstances.

We're trying to do the same with the country.

What worked for me was to tell my employer that I was taking the time off to get allergy shots.

I'm cobbling together a language that is stock standard C with classes. Just classes, nothing more. I'm calling it C+.

Hacker News, The Register

Reddit

    Documentaries from https://www.reddit.com/r/Documentaries/new/

    Lectures from https://www.reddit.com/r/lectures/new/

YouTube

    Subscriptions from https://www.youtube.com/feed/subscriptions/

I download the videos, convert them to MP3s then add them to the podcasts I've downloaded.