I wrote a program in Basic on my Commodore 64 at 6.
I didn’t know how to save my work. I typed and manually proofread code for three hours. It worked. The program was lost when I powered it down.
My brother in arms….
Our Commodore VIC20 came with a big book/manual which mostly taught you how to code. Was an awesome time.
Yeah the “OS” was essentially a basic interpreter and simple editor. I remember that book.
I think it was pretty common back then to have no way to save. Spectrum zx. Amstrad 464. They didn’t initially have a media to save to. Then cassette tapes could be used. Software piracy was recording the tape, like copying a song.
Yeah, my first was a little Timex Sinclair and it didn't have any media. But each button on the keyboard had a Basic command as an alt key, so I taught myself Basic with it. Many years later I got my BS in Computer Science, so I think it was a pretty worthwhile little computer.
I wrote basic on my Apple IIe.
I was all Apple/Mac until 1998 when I built a Windows gaming pc with high school graduation money. Learned to code in art school, after which I switched back to Macs when they went intel, built annoying but fun flash ads and games in AS2 (ECMAscript essentially), then when the iPhone came out I switched to hand coding HTML/CSS/JS web apps and got out of advertising.
Then learned Ruby/Sinatra/Rails/Haml/SASS and did straight web dev into the early days of both React, Angular and Vue. Then quit to do a tech startup with robots.
Now I CAD model original designs for fabrication projects, 3D printing and custom automotive designs.
So I’m pretty technically inclined, but I own 4 Macs, 3 Rpis, dozens of physical computing platforms, and a metric ton of salvaged sensors and ex-RadioShack components.
It’s like looking at a mirror. Only it was a Sharp HotBit (a Brazilian computer) and I was 7 or 8.
Holy crap, I did the same thing! My dad taught me the Random function (RND), which blew my mind. I tried creating a dungeon crawler text based game with random rooms. It was going to be awesome.
Ignoring data to prove your hypothesis is correct sounds like polling.
Good studies correct for outliers.
To correct, you have to measure them first. How else would you know how much to correct. Measure the variable to control for it is basic good practice.
God damnit.
I remember toting around a Linux textbook in 7th grade, because I had just started messing with it.
Same year I got my General and Advanced ham radio licenses.
Does this make me autistic?
7th grade in the US is about 12 years old.
I'm not a doctor, so I won't guess, but...what's your favorite train?
That's easy, The Lionel No. 381E "State Brown" Passenger Cars are 🔥🔥🔥
I really dig futuristic ones similar to high speed rails. I do love variety between Steampunk/Solarpunk/Cyberpunk.
"Allegheny" 2-6-6-6 articulated steamer. One of the most powerful steam locos ever made, 60 of them ran regularly for 20 years. No one cares about it because it's tractive is lower (even though it has more traction) and it's not the Union Pacific Big Boy.
Legitimate question, no judgment. When did you first get laid? If you have yet.
The windows kids know more because there was a possibility some stuff might work with the right sequence of rituals. The mac kids just knew not to try because nothing will work
I started on classic Mac OS and have a successful tech career. I learned to troubleshoot problems on the Mac by disabling Extensions and deleting Preferences files in the prior century. Learned to use Windows after 2000, and it has been garbage the whole time.
I wasn't advocating for windows, they're both trash
Counter argument: boomers who needed to type commands and swap disks to get a word processor loaded, who knew all the hotkeys required to issue commands and the alt-codes for special characters, who today cannot figure out where the file they were working on saved to.
I'm GenX but this is me. I hate modern computing and the cloud in particular. SharePoint is a close second. I think the last excellent word processor was WordPerfect 5.1. Everything since then is worse than the version before it.
I do have sympathy for people who are trying to figure out SharePoint or mobile OS file systems which just arbitrarily change the rules.
The arbitrary rule changes! I have six different folders labelled "android sucks" because different apps are like "I can't access any directory in your filesystem that I didn't personally create." Motherfucker this machine belongs to me. I created that directory. If I tell an app to access a directory, it should do as I command.
When I first got Tasker, it was life changing. Now I can't even tell it to turn off my damn Bluetooth. I hate google with every fiber of my being.
SharePoint was tolerable when I could mount library as a drive. I could use it how I wanted, and the SP people could do what they wanted. But they removed that functionality and we're trapped in an endless cycle of where-the-fuck-is-it and how-come-i-cant-search-for-it.
I think dumb people need to hold onto the idea that smart people are a bunch of nerds with no physical fitness, coordination, game with the opposite sex, autism, allergies, and asthma to distract them from the fact that smart people are on average better people along many correlated dimensions and on others no worse than average.
I can provide an anecdotal evidence of someone who started in MSX-DOS, then PC MS-DOS, went to Windows, then Unix, back to Windows, then Linux, and now is on Mac.
when you're pansexual but with technology:
I used to sell apple gear
I had to keep telling off other sales people who kept saying OSX was based on Linux, not Unix
I started in 1981 at 11yo with a ZX81 writing games in BASIC. In 1984 at 14yo I was cracking games on Amstrad CPC6128, Z80 assembly. At 18 in 1988 it was on PC in DOS (8086). Yes I installed Linux 0.99 on my 486 PC in 1992 or something.
Never touched an Apple device.
If we're talking post-year-2k macs, you're de-facto going to skew the results as those were less affordable than budget family windows boxes.
Shit, I shouldn't have ordered that Ubuntu CD as a kid.
lol. Linux didn’t even exist when I was 12 I think or it was very very young
'Excluded' surely?
Discluded is an uncommonly used word, but it is a word. Could indicate the OP in image is from a UK-English country and an academic - they like the top shelf rare words.
Disclude is a verb that means to exclude or omit something.
https://www.oed.com/dictionary/disclude_v (Oxford English Dictionary. Sorry, they have a dumb paywall now. I used a search engine cached-copy from the definition page).
Only tangentially related:
Bonus vs Malus.
In the context of like uh, a stat boost vs a stat detriment.
I don't even care if that is a valid, currently recognized definition of malus... it makes sense, and its simple and easy to say.
Also I'm American and regularly use 'disclude'.
But also, I'm kinda weird.
I wrote a program in BASIC on my Apple ][, but unlike the Commodore in this thread I knew how to save it. I eventually ended up with a pretty cool maze game. It had several mazes you had to maneuver through, but the mazes would randomly change
I have ADHD. Always have. Diagnosed ADD/ODD as a kid. Grew up with a old 386 running DOS. Mom eventually updated to a PC running Windows 95, then 98, then Windows ME. When I was a young teen I built my first PC because I was playing Halo 2 on Xbox Live and joined a clan that ran a few Halo PC servers. Learned a lot about stuff then, developed a love for it. Was perpetually broke and pirated a bunch of games, eventually buying most of them.
I recently installed SteamOS on my Legion Go after finding an adapter and new backplate to fit a proper full-sized SSD in it. Also nabbed a couple of extra USB powered fans to keep the WiFi card cool, stuck to the back of the thing with double-sided tape. It's a jury-rigged mess and I love it. I also happen to be a circuit board tech. Not an electrical engineer or anything, but I assemble, test, and rework PCBAs. Had a short stint in helpdesk IT, hated it. I'm much more of a hardware guy. Never did learn to code much past a bit of HTML for my MySpace page back in the day.
When I was 10, I installed BackTrack (now Kali Linux) because I liked its background and theme and thought it would look cool to show my classmates
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