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When you work with people that put up with monsoons, somehow having to finish the release paperwork via notebook batteries and cellphone wifi doesn't seem like a big deal. <BR>
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I have actually fired up big DB updates via ssh session on a smartphone, with a magnifying glass. That ain't fun. One of these days android ssh clients will actually do ALL the dang characters on a bluetooth keyboard like CTRL-X and CTRL-E without contortions. <BR>
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On Mon, 2013-07-15 at 11:46 -0400, Jim Kinney wrote:
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On Mon, Jul 15, 2013 at 11:32 AM, Neal Rhodes <<A HREF="mailto:neal@mnopltd.com">neal@mnopltd.com</A>> wrote:
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THAT is some hardcore release work!<BR>
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...last 10 lines were written by hand using a knife switch to enter bits from a pair of D-cells in series while we spun the drive patter by hand...<BR>
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..back when real programmers didn't _use_ "libraries". They used toggle switches.<BR>
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Every time you stop a school, you will have to build a jail. What you gain at one end you lose at the other. It's like feeding a dog on his own tail. It won't fatten the dog.<BR>
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