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Don't EVER accept a counter-offer once you have stated you intentions to leave. The company is going to give you what you want until they find your replacement and then you will be canned. I've seen this scenario happen to people time and time again. Do NOT do it!
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Am I too late? I wouldn't take the counter-offer. You decided to leave that company for a good reason and always best to leave on your own terms.
You can't worry about whether a route to management would be better in one job or another. As far as I can tell its never a simple progression from A to B to C. Luck and personality have a lot to do with whether you wind up in management or not. Unless or until it actually happens for you, just focus on being the best developer you can be. By all means prepare for being a manager - business studies & management courses perhaps. If you're honest are you really talking about being your own boss and/or earning more money? If so then there are probably better routes into management.
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Who would have thought that there were any home computers at all in 1969? At a bargain price just above 10000 $. I found this one[^] in a computer museum, and behold what it was intended to be used for!
The language is JavaScript. that of Mordor, which I will not utter here
This is Javascript. If you put big wheels and a racing stripe on a golf cart, it's still a f***ing golf cart.
"I don't know, extraterrestrial?"
"You mean like from space?"
"No, from Canada."
If software development were a circus, we would all be the clowns.
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There's no "Buy Now" button 
I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!
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Thereb was in 1969, but apparently nobody used it.
The language is JavaScript. that of Mordor, which I will not utter here
This is Javascript. If you put big wheels and a racing stripe on a golf cart, it's still a f***ing golf cart.
"I don't know, extraterrestrial?"
"You mean like from space?"
"No, from Canada."
If software development were a circus, we would all be the clowns.
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Nice find.
CDP1802 wrote: behold what it was intended to be used for
An extravagant gift according to Honeywell 316 - Wikipedia[^].
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Recipes. On a binary display and toggle switches for input. That's really extravagant. 
The language is JavaScript. that of Mordor, which I will not utter here
This is Javascript. If you put big wheels and a racing stripe on a golf cart, it's still a f***ing golf cart.
"I don't know, extraterrestrial?"
"You mean like from space?"
"No, from Canada."
If software development were a circus, we would all be the clowns.
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The base model allowed connecting a teletype.
This would have probably also worked with the kitchen model
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Have you ever seen something like that in action? Ten years later a friend got such a teletype for it's Netronics Elf II[^]. Loud like hell and if you were unlucky. you were stuck at 75 baud. Printing a single page may take some time at such a rate.
The language is JavaScript. that of Mordor, which I will not utter here
This is Javascript. If you put big wheels and a racing stripe on a golf cart, it's still a f***ing golf cart.
"I don't know, extraterrestrial?"
"You mean like from space?"
"No, from Canada."
If software development were a circus, we would all be the clowns.
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CDP1802 wrote: Have you ever seen something like that in action?
I have used them (not as computer terminal but as ticker). Last time was around 1993.
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I used them to enter programs at school. Sure beat punched cards!
I still have an IMSAI and a couple of Xerox 820 II bare boards that I haven't finished in my closet.
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Hey, don't knock teletype!
It was the bee's knees, when it was all we had.
I never used it to print pages, though; more for chat -- it was kind of a precursor to e-mail, but with faster response times, in that I'd type something (which would type itself out almost instantly on the other end), then whoever was on the other end would type something in reply (which would be typed out on my machine immediately).
And it was an order of magnitude cheaper than the phone, for international communication.
Maybe that doesn't sound like much, now that we've got the Interwebs, but it was a huge leap, back in the day.
I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!
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Mark_Wallace wrote: It was the bee's knees,
More likely you had paper piling up to you knees.
The language is JavaScript. that of Mordor, which I will not utter here
This is Javascript. If you put big wheels and a racing stripe on a golf cart, it's still a f***ing golf cart.
"I don't know, extraterrestrial?"
"You mean like from space?"
"No, from Canada."
If software development were a circus, we would all be the clowns.
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And it was a 16 bit machine! In 69!
Skipper: We'll fix it.
Alex: Fix it? How you gonna fix this?
Skipper: Grit, spit and a whole lotta duct tape.
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At 2.5 MHz. In 69. Just don't look at the memory cycle times with that core memory.
The language is JavaScript. that of Mordor, which I will not utter here
This is Javascript. If you put big wheels and a racing stripe on a golf cart, it's still a f***ing golf cart.
"I don't know, extraterrestrial?"
"You mean like from space?"
"No, from Canada."
If software development were a circus, we would all be the clowns.
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"Here darling, I bought you a computer for the house."
And that's how the fight started. 
veni bibi saltavi
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And the best thing: You will have to learn how to read a binary display.
The language is JavaScript. that of Mordor, which I will not utter here
This is Javascript. If you put big wheels and a racing stripe on a golf cart, it's still a f***ing golf cart.
"I don't know, extraterrestrial?"
"You mean like from space?"
"No, from Canada."
If software development were a circus, we would all be the clowns.
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CDP1802 wrote: You will have to learn how to read a binary display.
Well, duh, it's either on or off. 
* CALL APOGEE, SAY AARDWOLF
* GCS d--- s-/++ a- C++++ U+++ P- L- E-- W++ N++ o+ K- w+++ O? M-- V? PS+ PE- Y+ PGP t++ 5? X R++ tv-- b+ DI+++ D++ G e++>+++ h--- ++>+++ y+++* Weapons extension: ma- k++ F+2 X
* Never pay more than 20 bucks for a computer game.
* I'm a puny punmaker.
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And you can't read the display when it's off.
I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!
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Nagy Vilmos wrote: "Here darling, I bought you a computer a house for the house computer."
FTFY.
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Wonder if it had a Rolodex app for all those store mom's used to visit. And coupons...don't forget coupons.
Someone's therapist knows all about you!
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I am going out on a limb here...
But those buying this device... Were not saving 5 Cents on Paper Towels with a coupon.
Like they said, this cost about 3-4 new cars worth of cash. WOW.
So, cars got more expensive, and computers got much cheaper.
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I want three, ... no wait, doesn't do IoT, ... if I can't use it to spy on the cat then forget it.
Sin tack
the any key okay
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You spy on your poor cat? you know that this means that eveyone and his dog, from Mickeysoft to Homeland Security and the CIA now know about the poor thing. If you spy on it, it must be involved in something.
The language is JavaScript. that of Mordor, which I will not utter here
This is Javascript. If you put big wheels and a racing stripe on a golf cart, it's still a f***ing golf cart.
"I don't know, extraterrestrial?"
"You mean like from space?"
"No, from Canada."
If software development were a circus, we would all be the clowns.
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Well, apart from the should-not-be-mentioned-here*, what else is the IoT good for?
* note to self: must not mention "sabotaging the neighbors' appliances."
Sin tack
the any key okay
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