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Re:Who Killed the Junior Developer? on Wednesday February 14, 2018 @10:38AM (#16376516)
That's why I've always told people that I'm a "studio musician" developer. Not a rock star, but a competent professional the studio calls when they need to make a record.
Came here to say this.

Remember the Ron Paul newsletters? You can draw a continuous line from the old communication network to our current one.

Re:Google will turn on native ad-blocking in Chrome on February 15 on Wednesday December 20, 2017 @11:27AM (#15970978)
Microsoft wanted you to buy their software. Google gives it away for free. That's the only thing I've come up with that explains the enduring romance.
Re:GNU nano 2.9.0 on Saturday November 18, 2017 @10:54PM (#15732166)
Some of my favorite memories are of learning C++ using the nano editor. I ended up a C# dev, put I still put nano on all my Windows boxes. It can be quite handy.
Re:NBA GO – Watch NBA in Your Terminal on Tuesday November 07, 2017 @09:57AM (#15643821)
I wrote a similar MLB application in C# over the summer:

https://github.com/matt-j-smith/ballgame

I, for one, love terminal apps like this. We need some one to do a hockey one next.