Posts by pdominey@mastodon.sdf.org
(DIR) Post #2880881 by pdominey@mastodon.sdf.org
2019-01-11T22:42:57Z
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Hi - new to Mastodon😀
(DIR) Post #2880947 by pdominey@mastodon.sdf.org
2019-01-11T22:45:56Z
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@tomasino Hi - thanks for the Welcome and the hints. I don't mind sharing a bit on Mastodon - never would on FB
(DIR) Post #2880956 by pdominey@mastodon.sdf.org
2019-01-11T22:46:13Z
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@profoundlynerdy Thanks for the welcome
(DIR) Post #2881068 by pdominey@mastodon.sdf.org
2019-01-11T22:51:44Z
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@profoundlynerdy Hi - thanks for the welcome. A very friendly place. Trying to reply to everyone who sent a welcoe message.
(DIR) Post #2881144 by pdominey@mastodon.sdf.org
2019-01-11T22:47:57Z
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@igeljaeger Hi thanks very much for the welcome
(DIR) Post #3336730 by pdominey@mastodon.sdf.org
2019-01-24T20:37:18Z
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@marmite The thing to keep clear in mind is; are you referring to 'free' as in free beer, gratis, costing nothing. or 'free' as in free speech, libre, in which case it might cost something. The second, 'free/libre' is the more important principle of the two.
(DIR) Post #3560186 by pdominey@mastodon.sdf.org
2019-01-30T20:24:59Z
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@ParadeGrotesque That is quite ridiculous. I mean that assumes access to a mail server, probably the Internet and it seems perfectly reasonable to assume not everyone has Internet access. And even if that have access via the schools, that's not available all the time and therefore the communications can't be relied upon. If we spent as much time teaching our children properly & not inflicting technology on them we'd have much better level of education, including engineers, scientist & IT workers
(DIR) Post #9fOtguTkHn8EvWVVL6 by pdominey@mastodon.sdf.org
2019-02-01T18:37:44Z
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Has anyone detected any good reason for the human existence?
(DIR) Post #9fUVloxFABrVPkxlCq by pdominey@mastodon.sdf.org
2019-01-22T19:52:57Z
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@seven1m I don't think there is anything wrong with you :) I do think there is everything wrong with how to teach 'Computer Science'. It is the only engineering discipline not taught as Engineering. We don't use exemplars to build on, we don't cover the developmental history of CS, we don't build from a foundation of basics. So across much of the software industry we just reinvent or just create another version of something that's already got 100s of similar products.
(DIR) Post #A8oZ5Dlfp9gJMawL9E by pdominey@mastodon.sdf.org
2021-06-30T14:48:15Z
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@elb I've tried all the window managers and I still end up returning to FVWM
(DIR) Post #AFdZ1yLQJTfkD9Mabw by pdominey@mastodon.sdf.org
2022-01-20T16:30:29Z
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@SDF So interesting to watch. Reminded me of when I'd connect to the Data Center via a 1200 baud teletype TTY to do work. As part of that teletype machine was a paper tape puch, so to have a back up you'd create a paper tape as well.