VERY INTERESTING STUFF

email from a friend | 4/12/2020 | unknown

[SamAdams76]

1 x 1 = 1
11 x 11 = 121
111 x 111 = 12,321
1,111 x 1,111 = 1,234,321
11,111 x 11,111 = 123,454,321
11,111 x 111,111 = 12,345,654,321
1,111,111 x 1,111,111 = 1,234,567,654,321
11,111,111 x 11,111,111 = 123,456,787,654,321

14,875,265 x 8.72 = 12,971,231,080

Therefore p = 7.31x(4n-3n)*♏

[meadsjn]

If a statue in the Park of a person on a horse has both front legs in the air, The person died in battle.

Andy Jackson statue in New Orleans. (Andy died in bed, of old age.):

He was "killed in battle" twenty or thirty times; he just kept coming back to life.

[GingisK]

Did you ask them anything about software or computer science?

[Daffynition]

So many things made from that era were beautiful to look at; aesthetics was part of the mechanics.

[ConservativeInPA]

Of course not. I just hoped they could code upside down.

[Daffynition]

I think I had an Undwerwood portable, I hauled off to college....TAP-TAP-TAP.

GET R DONE!

[GingisK]

That surely is how you find the RPG programmers. ;-D

[GingisK]

Even mere telegraph keys were ornate. There used to be pride in the product.

[ConservativeInPA]

FORTRAN IV programmers, using an old WATFOR compiler ... no need for new fangled languages like RPG.

[Getready]

Xlnt.

[stuckincali]

He saved apple twice. The MAC and when he came back. Apple has always been visionary even when not was him and Woz. They were the most popular in schools with Apple II.

IBM drafted away when there Mac came along. Even Gates knew he had to imitate the Mac look and point and click technique.

It has been a characteristic of the US that we have had great visionaries and inventors. A benefit of capitalism. I believe the culture and politics of China hold them back. Let’s hope that continues.

[MikelTackNailer]

The IBM Selectric typewriter was a thing of utter beauty.

Especially the more refined Models II and III. The precise design and engineering to get a little plastic ball with raised letters on it to move so quickly and perfectly is still astonishing.

[aquila48]

“It has been a characteristic of the US that we have had great visionaries and inventors.”

Yes. And today the top visionary and fearless doer is Elon Musk.

The guy is a force of nature.

[stuckincali]

agreed

[GingisK]

You and I are older than dirt. RPG was so very ugly that I never put it on a resume. Same for Perl, for that matter.

I also had a long period of time using FORTRAN, the last being on Computer Automation Alpha LSI-4 minicomputers. That compiler wasn't reliable.

[ConservativeInPA]

Yeah, I’d say we are a tad bit old. I grew up on FORTRAN and 360/370 assembler. I did two terrible years of work in COBOL. I hated it. I never wanted to touch RPG, so I avoided it like the plague and never had to do it. My hard core professional experience later on was in C and then C++, although I coded in all sorts of languages here and there as I found opportunities. Then as I was no longer able to code as fast as in my younger days I moved into design and architecture work. I still dabble, but these days it is mostly PHP.

[GingisK]

I still do C/C++ on microcontrollers, as well as design those circuits. I retired years ago, but still have three clients that keep me busy making stuff. I also taught Embedded Computing in high school for three years. That was fun, but a lot harder than I thought it would be. From time to time my robotics team students still come to piddle in my workshop.

Assembler is still needed from time to time, particularly for interrupt handlers. I even managed to get a couple of my students turned into C/C++ bigots with occasional lapses into assembler. They tell me they kick butt at Georgia Tech because of that grounding.

[bert]

Well, well, we live and (some of us) learn.

The glass of beer looked to be 8 oz but is in fact 10 1/2

[HeadOn]

Here’s a true one: There are four of those. The others are in Washington in Lafayette Square, close to the White House, on the Capitol grounds in Nashville, and in Jacksonville Florida. The first three are the originals, cast in the 1800’s, and the one in Florida was cast in 1987.