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I've been coding for a living for 41 years this July. I loved it for about the first 30 but then the world changed somehow. Maybe I just got old. Anyway, I also arrived at the point where it just seemed pointless to keep learning new programming stuff. I have hobbies but I just don't have the time for them as long as I'm working. The gig I'm on now is the last one. When it's over, I'm retiring so I can do all the stuff I want to do without programming. Oh, it only took me ten years to discover that working more than 40 hours a week is a loser's game. There's no way you will get that time back and you miss out on a lot of more important stuff when you are working that much. In all those forty years, they kept trying to turn me into a manager but I refused. There's no way I would do that when I could stay coding.
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Since 1964: so 50 years.
COBOL, Focal, Fortran, ALGOL, PL/1, APL, Basic, Burroughs Assembler, Datapoint Databus, IBM Assembler, Intel 8088/8086/..., Perl, Dialog, Ksh/Csh/Bash, Javascript, PHP, C#, ...
Now mostly: Perl, Bash, Javascript, PHP, C#.
Lots of others to learn for fun on the weekends. I am interested in them all ...
"Courtesy is the product of a mature, disciplined mind ... ridicule is lack of the same - DPM"
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Coded first program in 1966. Solved Shrodinger Wave Equation given boundary conditions using Fortran which we had to learn on our own to do the homework for Physics class at Miami University.
Since have programmed in assembly (mainframe and PC), PL/I (mainframe and PC), Cobol, Basic (original and later versions), Turbo Pascal, Delphi, Delphi Prism, RemObject's Oxygene. And dabbled in others including C#, Modula II, Ada, etc.
I prefer the Algol derived langugages. Don't much care for C and its derivatives.
Made a spreadsheet program for the mainframe in PL/I which IBM marketed and made $10 million from.
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At least once a day since I arrived here. 
Anyway, greetings from Fieni.
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Are you in Romania?
- I would love to change the world, but they won’t give me the source code.
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Da. 
Moved my wife and kid here this week.
I'll follow in a few years...after I get tired of the peace and quiet at home. 
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GenJerDan wrote: At least once a day since I arrived here
And - oh wait you are not in the tropics!
Never underestimate the power of human stupidity
RAH
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I'd be surprised if this isn't a Leslie, but Super Planet Crash[^]
If you don't think any of the places below are really that great to live in, design your own solar system.
Some men are born mediocre, some men achieve mediocrity, and some men have mediocrity thrust upon them.
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Totally unrealistic - them orbits ain't elliptical (Yes - I know some pedant will say that a circle is s special type of elipse)
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I'm an optoholic - my glass is always half full of vodka.
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Psh. A circle is a special type of ellipse.
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Why are they even orbiting? There is no gravity to keep them in position. If there was, it would have been an elliptical orbit.
Overlapping orbits and overlapping celestial bodies does no damage to system. Funny.
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What do you think the big yellow thing in the middle is? 
Those who fail to learn history are doomed to repeat it. --- George Santayana (December 16, 1863 – September 26, 1952)
Those who fail to clear history are doomed to explain it. --- OriginalGriff (February 24, 1959 – ∞)
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Well, if there was any gravity in that yellow thing, orbits would be elliptical.
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They are, just as soon as they are perturbed, even slightly.
Those who fail to learn history are doomed to repeat it. --- George Santayana (December 16, 1863 – September 26, 1952)
Those who fail to clear history are doomed to explain it. --- OriginalGriff (February 24, 1959 – ∞)
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It's harder than it looks!
My "best" score: (only two planets)
3,534,634
points over
2.8
years! But with twelve planets I got the full distance.
24,039
points over
500.1
years!
Those who fail to learn history are doomed to repeat it. --- George Santayana (December 16, 1863 – September 26, 1952)
Those who fail to clear history are doomed to explain it. --- OriginalGriff (February 24, 1959 – ∞)
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Thank you, I needed a new and good time-killer today, you made my day 
There are two kinds of people in the world: those who separate humankind in two distinct categories, and those who don't.
"I have two hobbies: breasts." DSK
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15,839,988 over 500.1 years. Thanks a lot
modified 17-Jun-14 15:54pm.
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9,838,64 points over 500.1 years.
I presently hold the top score.
7 planets ~ 2 Dwarfs (5000x) and 5 Earth (1x) planets.
Yeah, total time waster!
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24,528,699 points after only 87.9 years 
The language is JavaScript. that of Mordor, which I will not utter here
I hold an A-7 computer expert classification, Commodore. I'm well acquainted with Dr. Daystrom's theories and discoveries. The basic design of all our ship's computers are JavaScript.
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Well, yes - it is actually.
Those who fail to learn history are doomed to repeat it. --- George Santayana (December 16, 1863 – September 26, 1952)
Those who fail to clear history are doomed to explain it. --- OriginalGriff (February 24, 1959 – ∞)
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No. No, I don't think so.
BTW, Eldest gave me Raising Steam for Fathers Day - I'm something over halfway through already.
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It's a good'un, isn't it?
I stretched that one out over a couple of days to make it last, given the speed at which he is forced to work these days... 
Those who fail to learn history are doomed to repeat it. --- George Santayana (December 16, 1863 – September 26, 1952)
Those who fail to clear history are doomed to explain it. --- OriginalGriff (February 24, 1959 – ∞)
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I love TP ... so sad
"State acheived after eating too many chocolate-covered coconut bars - bountiful"
Chris C-B
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He has some determination: I find it hard enough to write articles with a keyboard; to do it all by dictation and then get it read back to him by his assistant at the end of the day...that's gotta be seriously difficult. And he still produces recognisably "Pratchett" books. Kudos to him.
Those who fail to learn history are doomed to repeat it. --- George Santayana (December 16, 1863 – September 26, 1952)
Those who fail to clear history are doomed to explain it. --- OriginalGriff (February 24, 1959 – ∞)
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