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Lovable Sidekick

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  • I doubt that the pay is insane yet. There are a lot more PHP devs than COBOL devs. About half of the web still runs on PHP. It's true that COBOL runs about half of the financial world, but PHP is less than 30 years old whereas COBOL programs are relics from decades earlier, and generally only get updated minimally if the systems around them change.

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  • I agree. A lot of people who mock PHP know almost nothing about it but they know they're supposed to hate it because all the cool kids do.

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  • Or TSP (trisodium phosphate) - which you can't even make websites with, but it's great for cleaning oil spots off the driveway.

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  • Last week I found the code for the first website I created, way back in the mid 90s. The server-side part was written in Perl.

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  • Less than 200 miles. But I grew up about 400 miles farther. And no.

  • Was there ever a time where you were incredibly lucky?

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  • Jake Peralta?

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  • Exactly my thinking. Could have been born and raised in much worse circumstances, considering everything going on in the world.

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  • This is like a condensed movie! Jump scare, epic battle, moments of stark terror, problem resolved - or was it? Clearly open for a sequel. And also a better love story than Twilight!

  • What's something people incorrectly assume about your line of work and/or hobby?

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  • Can't everybody?

  • If you have an inner voice, does it sound like you or someone else?

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  • Maybe I do hear it in some sense, but in my head it doesn't seem to have the sound of a voice in the sense that you hear Professor Farnsworth's distinct voice when you read, "Good News, Everyone!" My own thoughts don't seem to have a sound. Maybe it's just a neutral sound that doesn't seem to be a sound because it's my own thoughts, I dunno.

  • What's something people incorrectly assume about your line of work and/or hobby?

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  • People assume programmers know all about hacking. Because we "know about computers."

  • If you have an inner voice, does it sound like you or someone else?

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  • It doesn't have a sound, it's just the words themselves.

  • Tape drive backups

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  • Great question! If it's only a few GB I wouldn't bother with tape. There are other options like

    • Google Photos - I've been using it for 10+ years without filling up the free 10 or 15 GB, whatever it is.
    • Burning a bunch of DVDs, repeat every 5 years.
    • Get a couple cheap hard drives then replace 1 of them every 3-5 years so one is always fairly new.

  • Peak UI Design

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  • For a truly peak UI make the text very light gray on a white background, in the thinnest font possible.

  • What's a name that you kept mispronouncing?

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  • And Gloucestershire sounds like Glousteshire.

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  • In his comments on the Jeeves & Wooster series Stephen Fry talked a bit about English family names. Among others, he said Mainwaring is pronounced "Mannering", and Cholmondeley is "Chumley".

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  • Same here. One of my favorite bit-part actors is Siobhan Fallon, who played the wife of "Egger" in Men in Black. She absolutely stole the few scenes she was in. I didn't know I was mispronouncing her name for years.

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  • Just mentioned this in another thread - Kraken. I say it phonetically - "krayken - but for some reason the world says "cracken".

  • What's a regional pronunciation of a word that seems normal to you but is weird to people from other parts of the country?

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  • I think that's a common type of slur that comes from familiarity, like how people in New Orleans call it "norlans".