arnmac

I worked with a few customers on implementing this for some of our products. The customers never went live due to the eventual cost of the individual devices being more than they wanted to incur.

I love these USGS publications. So much history in them.

You can now get it again with an additional $75 subscription addon to your membership.

I am not sure there is anything else on the Internet worth reading today.

All depends on when it was put in. $40 in 1999 is now about $70 in today's money.

Not going to lie. If you submitted a resume for a job I was hiring for and you 1. Pass the HR check 2. Had some of what I was looking in skills 3. Had Eagle Scout on your resume

You are going to get an interview. Might not get the job but I would give you a chance.

Just like anything in life the Eagle Scout Rank is not the same to everyone. Not everyone put in the same amount of effort. They all should have met the same requirements but in the end what did you personally learn? Some scouts learn and grow in leadership others it was just a thing they did.

As an 11 year old scout I was almost immediately introduced to conflict resolution, setting and achieving goals, leading groups in small tasks. Looking back most of the lessons didn't really take root until years later when I got a real job. Then I had a group of concepts that some of my peers did not and I was able to take the early lessons and build on them more quickly.

This made me laugh. Many a scout has been 1 merit badge away.

I am already a part of several Mastadon instances. Each with several thousand users. The great thing is you can create your own environment where just your own users can communicate with each other or you can federate with other mastadon systems to be able to communicate with those off your server.

This is not about branding or making it big. It is more about being able to control your own ability to control your communication channels. No canceling no deplatforming. Just communication. If you don't like someone you can block them. If you don't like the content from their server you can just choose not to federate with them.

This is a platform talked about all the time on the No Agenda podcast. They have used this for several years successfully. ITM.

This is not true. My father normally crushed my forces in about 5 hours.

Our economy was roaring not to long ago because everyone had more money and there was stuff to buy. Now I have less money and less stuff to buy. Good bye economy.

What a world we live in! Just read how shoplifting isn't worth prosecuting so it isn't a "crime" anymore. Now using a VPN is. Yeah!

Of course this article on microfocus.com is going to talk about how great Cobol is. Microfocus is one of the major Cobol vendors. That said I had a professor that made lots of retirement money off his Cobol abilities. He laughed and said he made more money fixing his optimizations for Y2K then he did in all the years he was a full-time professional Cobol dev.

The USPS from time to time does do testing on delivery. I was part of a test program a few years ago where the USPS was testing the delivery of mail. They would send me addresses and postage and I was to send them from a drop box or at some times send them from the counter. The addresses were both US and domestic. I would also get letters from people around the world or in the US. Inside was just a code that I would have to go put into a website run for the USPS by IBM. As a reward I would get a booklet of stamps or a letter opener. In truth the coolest part was getting the stamps from around the world showing up in my mailbox.

Other is the South Texas Nuclear Plant - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/South_Texas_Nuclear_Generating...

I had tons of problems with my TB16 and one prior Dell dock but the WD19 has been working flawlessly all year. I have used it with my XPS 7550 and 7590 and had no problems. I also have had good experience using it with a MacBook Pro 15.

And they also supposedly only have 93k confirmed COVID cases. Not sure I believe this.

I remember spending hours with ResEdit exploring what I could do by flipping bits and changing resources. So much fun and so many good memories.

My company just had a lay-off. Lots of good people gone not because they did anything but because the market we are in tanked. Went from a we are going to crush it this year and hiring like crazy to WTF in a matter of weeks. I feel extremely bad for everyone that got laid off. Bad time to lose your job.

Since everyone was working at home there were no goodbyes or good luck. I had people on my team I realized I didn’t even have their cell phone number to check in on them.

Feel for you. Don’t beat yourself up. Find best thing you can and work to prep yourself for the next thing.

Nice

Had a coworker that found that out the hard way. Got a DUI and didn't tell anyone. Then one day a few months later had a work trip in Canada. They stopped him at customs in Canada and shipped him back. Company had to fly someone else out there on short notice.

Still better than the coworker that flew to Canada on business and then while on the trip his name got added to the "NO FLY" list. That was a fiasco.

The current court is often rejecting cases that they feel are more the responsibility of the legislature to resolve. I had heard an opinion on this that the court thought it was the problem of Congress to fix this NOT the court.

I spent a decade of at least 1 hour in and 1.5 hours back every day. That is a lot of time I wish I could get back in my life. When you work 8 hours + 2.5 hours commute it all adds up. Plus 8 hours wasn't really the amount it was more. Go in earlier to avoid traffic. Get stuck in a late meeting and work time increases plus more time in traffic.

I now work remotely and do enjoy some aspects of it. However, there is much to be said for the co-location of coworkers. If everyone on your team is in an office and you are somewhere else you lose part of the dynamic. You have to work harder to stay in the loop on things instead of just organically being in the know.

I was a subscriber for 15 years. When they went digital it lost a lot of value for me. However when my subscription came up for renewal in June I realized I had not even read an issue in a few months.

Yeah when I saw the email I was kind of sad. kind of because I saw it coming. When my subscription ran out in June I didn't renew. So i guess I am partially to blame.

As I tell my children it doesn't matter what you actually do or intended your action to be. It is all in what is perceived and interpreted by the other person. This is the problem that everyone's perception and interpretation can be entirely different from each others.

I loved HyperCard is got me interested in development and I spent HOURS working on the perfect stack.

If you have ever worked at walmart before you know they already have walmarts. Work there long enough and you become like one.

Glad I saw this. I had missed their email telling me so. That would have sucked.