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Re:MI5 moves UK Terrorism threat level to “SEVERE” on Tuesday November 03, 2020 @07:18PM (#24985531)
More chance of getting run over by a fucking bus. car. bike. But yes sometimes you win the lottery
Re:The Hacker Way: How I taught my nephew to program on Wednesday August 05, 2020 @08:08PM (#24066949)
11yr old has a successful Youtube channel about unreal mods. I'm a prog but I can't catch up with his skills cos he's working in a completely different medium to me (VR, Sound?). 15 year old is a silly sod buying 'gaming' hardware to play click games. His only hope is girls I'm afraid.
Re:One Hundred Ideas for Computing on Saturday February 08, 2020 @08:34PM (#22279838)
I think I'm one of the few people who actually developed a Lotus Notes application. It was well received at the time doing standard (template) letters!
Re:MSX History: The Platform Microsoft Forgot on Monday April 01, 2019 @05:00PM (#19548173)
Completely derailed my career. Wrote a ZX-Spectrum game and refused to port it to MSX. The pay for the ZX game was a compiler so I doubt much would have come of it anyway.
It's too big to do dev on IMHO, but what is fantastic is using a big screen as a second monitor. You can drag files over instead of closing them and have everything important open at the same time. It's God mode for code viewing.
Re:Zkeme80 – A Forth-Based OS for the TI-84+ Calculator on Saturday January 19, 2019 @09:00PM (#18950466)
Definitely easier in C but you literally create your own language for each problem. Mind was blown. Try it!
Re:How the 0.001% invest on Monday December 17, 2018 @05:30AM (#18698082)
There's a lot more fragmentation than this suggests. I've worked at a hedge fund that had exactly one investor for example.