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Comment crap (Score 2) 15

I tried a coursera course, the test failed to run, couldn't click one of the test buttons. Went to a proper location to take the test after studying. I was fully ready. They could not fix it, they could not get back to me over the next several days after several attempts. I finally gave up, and had my company push them for a refund.

Comment Chromebook Gamers !!! (Score 1) 13

Hello ISP! I am calling again to complain about my connections, it works fine when ping is 8ms, but every time it drop to 28ms, I loose my ranking. I just KNOW something is wrong. Your network exists for the express purpose of letting me play games on a Chromebook. Now, I want a credit, so I can re-buy my loot box that you made me loose. You're wasting my valuable time. Windows gamers with expensive PCs are bad enough. Now we have Chromebook gamers?

Comment Medical Plans (Score 1) 98

Im not saying who's fault it is, but HR must be busy changing my medical plan every year, because it keeps changing! Surely it was less work for HR, when they didn't have to change it every year.

Comment Starting Salary: Who cares about California (Score 1) 178

In HS I had written several APPs used by the staff and students, learned fairly advanced networking, wrote the school's website, and knew what ever single file did in the System directory. When I graduated at 18, I tried to transition from washing golf carts in the summer to an actual foot-in-the-door tech sector job where I could make connections at. But this was after the .com crash. I remember one of my interviewers was at an ISP, I was asking for $12/hr and afterwards the interviewer told me: What your asking for is not impossible, but frankly, most of the tech support guys here are in high school and ride their bike to work for minimum wage. So after a few years of retail electronics which Is all I could find in my area, I finally found a real tech sector job. Over the next 25 years I worked at 3 different companies, and rose from entry to lead engineer to director at each of them. I moved on in each case for better pay. But I'm still not anywhere remotely near 160k yet. The jobs have never been cushy high paying jobs, they have been stressful and require continuous-education. Sure maybe if you had moved to California it was possible to start with a six figure entry level salary but how about some numbers that actually have any meaning whatsoever to the rest of the US.

Comment Re:What did HyperCard even do? (Score 2) 53

Hypercard was kind of a forerunner to Visual Basic with a Document based theme. Add buttons, fields, menus, graphics. you could place these items in the foreground or background idea of a stack, meaning user could then add new cards which shared the same background elements sort of like making a new row of a database but in graphical form. on top of that, you could copy binary functions into the resource fork of its stack, and then call those functions from its simple scripting language. Those add-on functions (XCMDs) ment you could do almost anything in a stack. It was fun to copy those extensions into your stack from vast libraries of third party created functions publish on AOL(years later). In some ways its ability to link from page to page with interactive content was a precursor to the web and AOL before it existed. I wrote a hypercard stack that was like AOL instant messenger for our school's local network.

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