Well, there's nothing as important as reliable backups. Including,
but not limited to, your wrist, evidently.
-Ross.
On Thu, Apr 3, 2008 at 2:49 PM, Genny Engel <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
> Actually, the whole reason my wrist is so bad is the stress on it from
> writing out code -- wouldn't be so bad except for having to press down
> hard to write it in triplicate through all that carbon paper.
>
> Genny
>
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> On 4/3/08 6:51 AM, "Walter Lewis" <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
>
> > Sebastian Hammer wrote:
> >> > A true hacker has no need for these crude tools. He waits for
> cosmic
> >> > radiation to pummel the magnetic patterns on his drive into a
> pleasing
> >> > and functional sequence of bits.
> > Alas, having been doing this (along with my partners, the four
> > Yorkshiremen) since the Stone Age ...
> >
> > We used to arrange pebbles in the middle of road into the relevant
> > patterns (we *dreamed* of being able to afford the wire for an
> abacus).
> > Passing carts would then help "crunch" the numbers.
> >
> > Walter
> > for whom graph paper, templates, pencils, 80 column punchcards
> and
> > IBM Assembler were formative experiences
> >
>
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