"Learn to code". What would be a new expression to replace it, for Twitter employees?

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You are much older than I thought, possibly not that much younger than I am

Ah, a fellow dinosaur! My 1st go-around was at Indiana State in the 70s. Yeah me and Larry Bird.
Man, that computer center was *cold*! I shouldn't complain too much, though. Those sorry sad sack business majors taking COBOL carried moving boxes of punch cards across campus. While our Fortran programs took an hour or less to compile, we could sit at the teletype machines and play text-based "Antietam" or something, while praying that our **** would compile. COBOL programs took hours, sometimes overnight.

 

[oze]

You forgot, "Try clearing your browser cache."

Check your power cord.

 

[oze]

I forgot to code today. I meant to write some code. Just got busy with other stuff and forgot. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

I like your artwork. But you should have encrypted it with ROT13.

 

[Nazgul]

That's exactly how it was in the late 80s at Purdue Cal. 1st semester, 1st day: 70 people in Calculus I. After midterms, maybe 30. Day of the final: 15. 2nd semester was about the same. 3rd semester, at least for EEs, was the big weedout. About 10% of the people sitting in class on the first day of Electromagnetics and of Multivariate Calculus were still there for the respective final. I would guess that out of the 150 or so total freshmen who started in the combined Electrical and Mechanical Engineering curricula, 30 or so graduated with degrees in one or the other.

Son went to Rose Hulman. Thermo Dynamics weeded 50% + from the program.

Don

 

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Son went to Rose Hulman. Thermo Dynamics weeded 50% + from the program.

Don

Unless you were lucky enough to get the lazy Thermo professor who gave open book exams (so that you could use the steam tables). For the exams, he'd just list chapter and problem numbers on the board, referencing end of chapter exercises for which solutions were in the book.

Unfortunately, I had a prof who was young enough to make his own tests and to stay awake while we took them. As a EE, I hated spending that much time on an ME class. :-(

 

[Nazgul]

Unless you were lucky enough to get the lazy Thermo professor who gave open book exams (so that you could use the steam tables). For the exams, he'd just list chapter and problem numbers on the board, referencing end of chapter exercises for which solutions were in the book.

Unfortunately, I had a prof who was young enough to make his own tests and to stay awake while we took them. As a EE, I hated spending that much time on an ME class. :-(

I am a simpleton compared to the kids. Spent my youth as infantry in the Marines then 30 years as a mechanic. Wife was a HS teacher.
We have a Lilly scholar Rose Hulman Chem E, Purdue Lilly scholar IT daughter married to a Univ of Wisconson IT, Daughter RN in Oncology ICU married to an Electrical Eng.

We don't play cards with them, they will lacerate you.

Don

 

[jamil]

I like your artwork. But you should have encrypted it with ROT13.

Now that’s old school. Can’t we just base64 it instead?

 

[Leadeye]

Ah, a fellow dinosaur! My 1st go-around was at Indiana State in the 70s. Yeah me and Larry Bird.
Man, that computer center was *cold*! I shouldn't complain too much, though. Those sorry sad sack business majors taking COBOL carried moving boxes of punch cards across campus. While our Fortran programs took an hour or less to compile, we could sit at the teletype machines and play text-based "Antietam" or something, while praying that our **** would compile. COBOL programs took hours, sometimes overnight.

Fed punch cards into IU's CDC 6600 back in the 70s. Seems like eons ago. Played "Lander" while waiting, made a lot more craters than landings.

 

[indyblue]

Fed punch cards into IU's CDC 6600 back in the 70s. Seems like eons ago. Played "Lander" while waiting, made a lot more craters than landings.

Playing Snake on a UNIX VT100 terminal.

 

[oze]

Now that’s old school. Can’t we just base64 it instead?

Well ok, but I already have my super secret ROT13 decoder ring handy right here. I got it in the mail by sending in Ovaltine labels.

 

[oze]

Fed punch cards into IU's CDC 6600 back in the 70s. Seems like eons ago. Played "Lander" while waiting, made a lot more craters than landings.

Forgot about that one! Excellent!

 

[jamil]

Well ok, but I already have my super secret ROT13 decoder ring handy right here. I got it in the mail by sending in Ovaltine labels.

Does it handle non-alpha characters? I mean. Old school ROT13 is only letters of the alphabet.

 

[oze]

Does it handle non-alpha characters? I mean. Old school ROT13 is only letters of the alphabet.

Guess the old brain is losing it. I was thinking of the elaborate ascii art that people used to post on the old usenet boards. I mean elaborate to the point of being NSFW. Doing a DDG search, I guess it was Rot-47 that they used on the ASCII characters. Like these:

 

[jamil]

Have to admit. That's pretty amazing. Geek-art.

 

[jwamplerusa]

Learn to weld

 

[oze]

Have to admit. That's pretty amazing. Geek-art.

Did those nerds do that by hand in the 80s? I saw some ASCII art generators on-line today, but those didn't exist back then, right? Talk about dedication to nerd porn!

 

[jamil]

Did those nerds do that by hand in the 80s? I saw some ASCII art generators on-line today, but those didn't exist back then, right? Talk about dedication to nerd porn!

I think they used special text editors to generate them. But still the dedication to it is apparent.



That's from 1962. Now they have ascii art generators and it's really astonishing what they can do. Like the ones you posted.

 

[oze]

I think they used special text editors to generate them. But still the dedication to it is apparent.

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That's from 1962. Now they have ascii art generators and it's really astonishing what they can do. Like the ones you posted.

Did you run across any of not suitable for INGO animated ones? Wow.

 

[tackdriver]

Learn to swim.

... or not...

SPLASH! (better be a quick learner.)

 

[tackdriver]

Learn that most employers expect more than a 4 hour work week, and don't provide gourmet food, coffee and juice bars, and don't have nap rooms you can live in.