[ale] fyi - cheaper way to add a smart phone to verizon account

[Neal Rhodes]

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. 

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. 

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 <neal at mnopltd.com>
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>         and we had to finish a software release by candlelight. 
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> THAT is some hardcore release work!
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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
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> ..back when real programmers didn't _use_ "libraries". They used
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> James P. Kinney III
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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.
> - Speech 11/23/1900 Mark Twain
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