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2020-04-14 at 11:32 AM UTC in Learn COBOL!
Originally posted by Fox Isn’t this what the US DoD uses
Largely, especially in their logistics tracking system. Some things, like planes, have to use Ada from what I understand. Some platforms use Java, famously the Patriot missiles, which had to be continuously rebooted every 50 hours to avoid an integer overflow bug. The overflow bug is what caused Sadam to be able to hit a Marine base with a Scud missile in the Gulf war, killing a load of grunts.
Cobol is still one of the most widely used programming languages in the world, but because it's mostly used in big companies no one ever hears about it. -
2020-04-14 at 8:44 AM UTC in Vocaroo thread
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2020-04-14 at 8:42 AM UTC in I warned you all
Originally posted by Hikikomori-Fujoshi When the lockdown is over many millions will become infected and die in the us
Probably. The soonest realistic date for a mass vaccination is 2021, and the virus isn't going anywhere, so it'll just wait out the summer and for everyone to have to come out of lockdown. -
2020-04-14 at 8:27 AM UTC in Vocaroo thread
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2020-04-14 at 8:20 AM UTC in Game of Life mathematician dies from corona
Renowned mathematician and Princeton University professor John Horton Conway died April 11 as a result of complications from the coronavirus. He was 82. Conway made contributions to many areas of mathematics, including game theory, but was most well known for the invention of the cellular automaton called the Game of Life. The Guardian once called Conway the world's most charismatic mathematician. "John Horton Conway is a cross between Archimedes, Mick Jagger and Salvador Dali. For many years, he worried that his obsession with playing silly games was ruining his career – until he realized that it could lead to extraordinary discoveries," wrote journalist Siobhan Roberts in a 2015 profile.
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2020-04-14 at 8:11 AM UTC in Vocaroo threadI think OP dislikes the jedis.
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2020-04-14 at 8:03 AM UTC in Learn COBOL!Big bucks and easy job maintaining code in a bank awaits once you learn this 1950s programming language. This language has an amazing future.
http://www.csis.ul.ie/cobol/course/ -
2020-04-14 at 7:39 AM UTC in Anyone have a smart watch?Are they worth while, or are they just a gimmick?
I used to have a Pebble Time, it was pretty amazing and did everything I wanted, but eventually the battery died and the company got bought by fitbit. -
2020-04-14 at 7:35 AM UTC in I'm drinking wine v2My stomach hurt really badly all day yesterday, apparently any sort of booze, even just wine, causes me to have severe reflux now. It was fun while it lasted.
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2020-04-14 at 7:30 AM UTC in Vindictive Vinny Is good at playing the Devil's Advocate, and getting under poster's skin...
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2020-04-14 at 7:23 AM UTC in The one thing that gives hustling a bad name
The image of a hustler as a patient, persistent and hardworking citizen is often punctuated by the reality of men and women who take shortcuts.
https://www.standardmedia.co.ke/business/article/2001356990/hustlers-aren-t-always-honest
In fact, one reason many hustles die is because of dishonest hustlers. They’ll sell you pishori rice, which is only pishori at the top. If it’s all real, it will become less real the more frequently you buy.
They will sell peas with half the bucket filled with sack cloth. They’ll tamper with weighing machines to sell you less meat. They’ll sell you contaminated petrol or cook chips with transformer oil.
One hustler took six months to import a car for me. We can add the list – I’m sure most readers of this column have been victims of dishonest hustlers.
Whether in the city or in rural areas, dishonest hustlers give honest ones a bad name.
Customers aren’t that foolish; they discover your shortcuts and disappear. You’ll be left with first-time customers and your base will never grow. Instead of graduating to a formal business, giving you time to rest, you’ll stagnate. Instead of graduating from hustling and leaving it to the next generation, you prolong your struggle.
Great business empires are built on honesty. It takes longer to make money honestly, but the money lasts longer and can flow on to the next generation. If you’re honest and customers trust you, you’ll thrive and grow a business you can leave to your progeny.
That’s how Ford, Toyota and other famous brands have remained with families either as managers or shareholders.
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Honesty can be a great asset in your hustle. Think of why you leave your Sh10 million car in the hands of a hustler – or your children in the care of a househelp.
Sadly, taking shortcuts, conning and outright theft without being caught are celebrated. No wonder huge multinational firms are rare in Kenya.
Westerners and Easterners are perplexed by our propensity to take shortcuts, and then we complain that the economy isn’t growing, that there are no jobs and that insecurity is rife. Is it our upbringing? Is it our schools? Is it our religions or governance?
The cost of dishonesty is high and even intergenerational. Individuals, families and the whole nation pay. What if we had more honest hustlers? Suppose we made honesty instead of dishonesty the badge of honour? Suppose we made honesty part of the hustler’s culture?
Are you an honest hustler? If yes, keep up. If not, the market will deal with you sooner rather than later …. -
2020-04-14 at 7:17 AM UTC in Vindictive Vinny Is good at playing the Devil's Advocate, and getting under poster's skin...Living in sin means being shacked up as a couple without being married.
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2020-04-14 at 7:06 AM UTC in Take heart, hustling is a universal artI'm never on facebook
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2020-04-14 at 6:57 AM UTC in Take heart, hustling is a universal art
We have been writing about hustling, but no one’s really defined who a hustler is.
https://www.standardmedia.co.ke/business/article/2001358792/take-heart-hustling-is-universal
We can try and define a hustler as anyone whose source of income is never guaranteed, who doesn’t enjoy formal social protection like a pension, and who has activities aligned to natural cycles, like the weather.
This definition excludes those formerly employed or those with a sizable fortune from an inheritance. The definition also means more hustlers are likely to be found in developing than developed counties.
But hustling is universal because rarely will any society ensure no one ever falls through the cracks. Money from employment is never enough and side hustles are common. Monotonous jobs also lead to hustling. Hobbies can become hustles. In fact, writing about hustling is my hustle.
It was, therefore, exciting to find hustlers in China. They include photographers at Tiananmen Square. They carry small albums showing you the photos they’ve taken to entice you to pay for one of your own. Anyone who’s visited KICC is familiar with this sales strategy.
On the last stop to the Great Wall of China, before you walk up or take a cable car, you’ll come across hustlers who are busy selling fruits, food, souvenirs (I carried a stone as my souvenir) and other items popular with hustlers. They try to entice you to buy with the price of one dollar, which I was told they later raise.
They are great bargainers. Without knowledge of Chinese or Mandarin, I used a calculator. They write, I write, until we agree on a price.
Being the Kenyan that I am, I kept multiplying the price by 16, the approximate rate of 1 yuan or RMB to the shilling. I was told once you bargain, you should buy, otherwise the hustler gets very annoyed.
Another man near the Great Wall carries a traditional Chinese sword. You pose with him for a photo and pay him. Does that sound familiar? Ever been to Narok or that neighbourhood?
What came out clearly from my sojourn in the East is that hustling, though popular with low-income groups, is universal. Hustlers, whether in Kenya or China, behave the same way. They set the price based on the day, and sometimes on the buyer.
I noted that wearing spectacles into fresh food markets like Wangige will raise your budget; there’s a belief that spectacle wearers are rich. Try it out yourself.
One would have thought China has no hustlers. But the market system is slowly setting in. Beyond Communism, individuals are realising they can make money in small ways.
I, however, didn’t find any hawkers on the streets as in Kenya.
The Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development notes that in China, micro, small and medium enterprises comprised 97 per cent of all firms, and accounted for 80 per cent of urban employment and 60 per cent of total GDP in 2013. Beyond the big brands like Huawei and Haier are small firms ran by hustlers and contributing immensely to economic growth.
If you’re a hustler, take heart; you’re part of a bigger group that transcends borders and contributes immensely to economic growth. Walk with your head held high. The global economy depends on you.
What's your hustle? -
2020-04-14 at 6:49 AM UTC in I warned you all
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2020-04-14 at 6:45 AM UTC in Random image threadI always thought finny avatar was the Persian king from 300. That guy was pretty cool.
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2020-04-14 at 6:41 AM UTC in Teen Killed for Shoes. Guess the Race
Originally posted by vindicktive vinny none of this would happen had addidas nkt price their shoes beyond the ability of niggers to buy it.
This is actually kinda true. Where are nogs going to get money for flashy shoes?
Feral blacks are the only real free market capitalists.
"Fuck you nigga I hustle for muh money be out on dem streets yanking shit and popping caps in cracka ass"
I doubt these nogs even agree that they did anything wrong. -
2020-04-14 at 5:53 AM UTC in I warned you all
Originally posted by vindicktive vinny
thats the equivalant of closing the windows and leave the door open.
stopping chineses from comming in and yet letting people from elsewhere who may or may not have been to china and having contacts, intimate or otherwise with chineses freedom to travel rampant and free in the US will do nothing to stop an EPIDEMIC.
:torvald:
Dude, reality is we all imported this deliberately and eagerly, like an aids riddled somali gang rapist asylum seeker, because we thought we were so mighty we could handle it, like an aids riddled somali gang rapist asylum seeker.
Cos everyone knows only blacks and yellows have problems with diseases. -
2020-04-14 at 5:41 AM UTC in Teen Killed for Shoes. Guess the RacePoor kid. She learned the hard way not to bother trying to sell to a gang of nogs
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2020-04-13 at 8:14 PM UTC in Have you ever done any personality testing when applying for a job?DISC is another personality classification system that I think may help better with work than Myers-Briggs
