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silviumatei

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silviumatei··on IBM will offer free COBOL training
I'm working in IBM (Europe) in a project that has the main business app in COBOL. Using Java and jt400.jar we just expose via web services the business. Even now we have in team COBOL programmers that creat new programs.

I find the main issue when you want to learn COBOL is the access to a machine as close to real one an not a simulator. Maybe openmaineframeproject is the missing link between learning and practice.

silviumatei··on Facebook’s image outage reveals how the company’s AI tags your photos
I know for sure that this technology improves life of visual impaired persons as special software will read respective text.
silviumatei··on Mark Zuckerberg Refuses to Admit How Facebook Works
I have on my phone Facebook app and Facebook Lite, on Lite I have a fake account that I intended to use to like other things (see beyond my bubble) short story -never used account. I receive push notification from Lite app to connect to new friends. People suggested are from my real account friend list and between the 2 accounts we don't have mutual accounts. I've visited my parents and suggestion to be friend with them pop up.