coder4life

Am almost 53, and after 33 years in the field, I encountered a lot of ageism (at least in hiring) in the Bay Area, so I moved back to the Midwest and worked a gig for a year, then budget cuts axed the newly expanded team. As one Bay area firm said in their rejection letter )the last straw that got me to pack up:)

"You're great technically, but you're not a good cultural fit"

(Yes, I was current at the time. I know node and frontend, did two decades of JS, SQL, cloud, Java, C, rails, PHP, Perl)

Well fuck me then, because all I've done is worked in coding forever. I've managed teams but like coding much more.

I tried getting remote work, had some 20-30 interviews before COVID hit, but no gig. Haven't tried much since and that's my own fault.

So it's been two years since I worked in software. Am not working at the moment. Wouldn't say I'm happier

There's nothing funny about programming!

Okay, that said... some showing my age jokes:

Q: How can you tell COBOL programmer from other programmers? A: They're the ones with the stubby fingers

Q: How is Halloween and Christmas the same? A: Because OCT 30 = DEC 25! (Octal, Decimal....groan)

but don't listen to me, go to /r/ProgrammerHumor

It's early and I haven't had enough coffee

You could do everything that flash did with IE 5.5/6 tech as well. SMIL 2.0 and VML, in 1999, did all of what flash did

The waters will always be muddied

Nothing will come back, but maintenance/features(?) on code you and others wrote during a certain time period will continue - many companies are tepid about rewrites (as an example: a web app I wrote in 2013 for a company is still in production, but not used as much since most people use their phone app)

Something tells me I'll be riding out into the sunset doing a lot of JavaScript, Java, or C (I'm 52, been doing this fulltime since 1989).

this will end badly. We all know it

Affecting the most people? Smart phones, 4G/5G

Working with 1 or 2 large files is vasty more productive/faster (for me) than working with 50

Seeing as Bellard is very prolific and has done more than you me and three others in a lifetime, there must be some merit to his approach.

Coded various pieces of the HotBot one for years

Auto accident liability self-insurance with a large enough escrow acccount (which can still be invested and is yours). You'll also get a fancy small window decal, at least in CA, telling the world this fact (self-insured and registered to the state)

It's not super-rich, but I've only seen people with net worth >$2 million do this

Half of life is just showing up

yeah I've known and used this forever to trace sources of spam, etc

I turned at 49, two and a half years ago.

My reasons are many. Besides the moral side, I think having a lower % of methionine in my diet then someone who eats meat/eggs/dairy will help me live longer. I also lost 70 pounds, and nothing else I ever did got me to lose and appreciable amount of weight for long.

Get good sleep

Go vegan

Avoid shitty fats

Not many numbers involved, so I can't take this article seriously. I looked up this Doctor. See for yourself:

https://rationalwiki.org/wiki/Malcolm_Kendrick

Here's an easy way to determine spread and increased severity:

Deaths recorded this month last year / million population

vs.

Deaths recorded this month / million population

Of course you'd have to be a month off because these things don't always bubble up quickly, and people are found dead in their home after having been there a week

You could get tricky with it, and filter out obvious non-viral deaths - murder/suicide, car accidents, drug overdoses.

lol, impressive! you have to really try to get lower than that (got a 5)

Last time this was mandated for me it was Eclipse. Slow as molasses and gets in the way (way back in 2008 that is). IDEs should keep up with your typing, not just eventually catch up to it, IN ALL CASES! A slow editor kills performance for me

You've given this 51 year old coder (31 years in the coding seat) new hope! I did 21 years of those in start-ups, so it's been kind of harrowing. Hoping this year to go full time remote. Started with RPG-III/System38s, now doing nodeJS/nextJS/react. Adapt or die :)

Anyone else would have already been banned, so this is kid gloves

Yes. Read this instead. Says same, better.

https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2020/04/03/science/coron...

About 3/4 of a large pot, so about 3 large coffees

Me neither. I _do_ test my JavaScript knowledge everytime I look at a .js file, lol

Sure, we would test positive if we went to the hospital and gave us tests! The prevailing view is "unless you're dying don't go to the hospital". With that said, I feel I had COVID-19 March 8th-12th, with some symptoms in the week prior, and feeling like someone beat me up for a week after that.

I feel fine now, except coop'd up from quarantine. How did it progress?

The week prior, I went home early from work one day after throwing up a little bit and feeling woozy. But that came and went. In subsequent days, I was late a couple times - felt pretty fatigued and was sleeping longer.

On the 8th, I thought it was because I drank too much the day before. I was extremely lethargic - only able to get out of bed to check messages on my laptop, then right back to bed. I think I slept the first day, but that was the last day in the next 5 I would get any.

Symptoms: Dry, hacky cough. Fever, chills/sweats. Diarrhea. Only drank water, no food for 4 days. Strange heart palpitations. Muscle twitches/spasms sometimes on my extremities (mostly by my ankles). Extreme fatigue. Unable to sleep. Dizziness/Vertigo - very unsteady on my feet!

By the 12th I was finally able to eat something. After the 12th, I went through another week of fatigue, but it felt like the virus was gone, and I was dealing with my body repairing/cleaning up after that disaster.

It's horribly verbose. It's slow a molasses It reminds you when looking at it that it's from the 1970s. All the applications have ever been business. Where's the fun in that?

I learned it in High School, and had to read it on a couple jobs while we were transitioning to another language (probably RPG/III, another dead dead language)

Nope we didn't. The WI supreme court shot that down this afternoon, so it's on tomorrow.

Had it March 9th-14th. Was crappy; not much cough though, but the cough I did have was very dry and hacky and not like a cold. The chills and fever and diarrhea and not eating for 4 days or sleeping for 6 also sucked. Now I've been inside since then.

Yeah, all the time, it's how it works - they don't want to give you any feedback (which IMO I should make a prerequisite for even interviewing me and wasting my time) but I barely get that. Just keep chugging along. I once worked at a company that barely hired anyone for 6 months, just kept wasting our afternoons interviewing people.

I just use brotli compression in fastify to stream JSON (or anything really) to the browser

This is an interesting spec though. Kinda weak they only have gzip and deflate that have been around for DECADES. At least support some newer specs like brotli that have better compression. It already exists in the browser goddamnit!

https://www.fastify.io/

AGE crosslink breakers are the dream man. I remember when Alteon's AGE breaker ALT-711 started getting hot... they were waiting on stage 2 clinical trials to measure arterial stiffness and ED shit, and it didn't live up to the hype. The stock cratered 95% in one day, and two days before I was desperately trying to get an e-trade account set up so I could invest.

This is why I don't invest.

I got two minutes but I don't see a link

Damn it's paywalled though