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Re:Ellen Ullman wrote the most precise account of “computer ... by agentultra on Tuesday August 22, 2023 @09:18AM (#37222286)
My friend, it happens to everyone.

I typed in my first BASIC program in ‘89. I dropped out of high school in the late 90’s to program uh… high quality adult entertainment websites. I had a small e-commerce site for a while selling weird stuff. I eventually finished school and tried to move on but I got back into programming for a living to this day.

Twenty some odd years of doing it professionally. For fun. For curiosity. And looking at trying to keep at it for twenty more. Life’s a trip.

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Re:Ellen Ullman wrote the most precise account of “computer ... by mikelevins on Tuesday August 22, 2023 @10:10AM (#37222958)
"My friend, it happens to everyone."

Indeed. When you were typing in your first BASIC program, my younger daughter was two years old.

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Re:Ellen Ullman wrote the most precise account of “computer ... by agentultra on Tuesday August 22, 2023 @10:40AM (#37223422)
My daughter is 11 now and just getting into creating her first Minecraft mods. Life is wonderful!
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Re:Ellen Ullman wrote the most precise account of “computer ... by quickthrower2 on Tuesday August 22, 2023 @04:25PM (#37228073)
The oldest possible HN might have been a great grandparent at that point
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Re:Ellen Ullman wrote the most precise account of “computer ... by KineticLensman on Tuesday August 22, 2023 @02:06PM (#37226476)
> I typed in my first BASIC program in ‘89.

I created my first program on punch cards in '79. I can't even remember what the programming language was although I suspect FORTRAN. I wish I'd kept a listing.

Tangentially, my valued copy of The Lord of the Rings that I loved as a child has the date 'Christmas 1973' inside the front cover. I'm going to read it again this Christmas, 50 years later. I've been avoiding anything Tolkien-related since about 2017, when I last re-read it (and noticed the upcoming anniversary), to come to it as fresh as possible, accepting that I know the story backwards.

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Re:Ellen Ullman wrote the most precise account of “computer ... by ubermonkey on Tuesday August 22, 2023 @03:08PM (#37227215)
If we're lucky, it does.

When you were typing in '89, I was on a mainframe in college.

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