In this episode I play Human Resource Machine by Tomorrow Corporation, a game that simulates programming in assembly. Anyone have any suggestions for optimizing the number of steps in the Fibonacci Visitor (Year 22)?
Thanks to the person on the Dev Edmonton Slack you asked about the game. I didn’t review it but hopefully this video helps you decide if you should buy it or not.
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May your holidays be filled with more joy then discovering a legacy project with 90% test coverage, the happiness that rivals getting a project out the door on-time and under budget, and secure from sensitive information leaks from too much Christmas cheer.
Happy holidays from SaturdayMP and all the best in 2024!
P.S. - The SaturdayMP virtual office will be closed from Dec 21st to Jan 1st. I’ll still be checking and responding to message but much slower then normal.
Today, July 28th, 2023, is System Administrator Appreciation Day. A day I didn’t know existed until now but has been around since 2000.
It was during one of my first paid technical positions that I realized that sys admins, and other support staff including non-technical, can be a thankless job. A job where your only interactions with others is when something goes wrong.
During university I had a summer job as a Systems Analyst Trainee at TELUS Advertising Services (TAS). TAS was division of TELUS that created the phone books, both white (residential) and yellow (businesses) pages. I did typical IT tasks at the time such as setting up new computers with token ring network cards and helping staff issues such as accessing email. Also lots of printer issues.
[Read More]Saturday MP (i.e. Chris and Ada) are taking some time off over the holidays to visit with family, friends, and spending a day not changing out of our pyjamas and playing games all day. We will be back to our regularly scheduled programming on January 2nd, 2019.
P.S. - My daughter wanted a record player for Christmas. I know, everything old is new again. Lucky for my daughter she got the above old timey looking record player as an early Christmas gift when her Aunt and family where visiting this weekend. Not only does it play records but is also plays tapes, CDs, radio, and Bluetooth. Now we just need to get some records.
[Read More]I’m on optimist and generally think things will work out for the best. I like to say:
The future is awesome!
That said it’s easy to forget how awesome individual days can be. How many small but amazing things occur each day that we gloss over. Our day is 99% good and 1% bad but we focus on that one minor bad moment.
Think about your conversations at the end of the day. Does it focus on the negatives of the day? That boozo that cut me off in traffic. The Internet was down for 5 minutes. I had to stay at work 10 minutes late. Etc.
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