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Always wondered where that came from. Knowing that you're from Texas, I'd considered that it might have been a reference to Willie, Waylon and the boys. Of course, if you were programming in Pascal (went to college, did you?), you're clearly an outlaw to begin with. I waited until Turbo C was available on 5 1/4" floppies. A much more reputable environment. But then, I'm no outlaw. :-D
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I went to college (1980-82), but all they were interested in teaching me was mainframe stuff. I figured out two things at roughly the same time - a) all programming languages are pretty much the same, and b) PC's were where the real programming money was going to be. I quite school because they didn't have a PC programming course, and I taught myself Pascal. After that, I taught myself C/C++, and now C# (actually, .Net Framework since C# is so much like C++). And yeah, I like Waylon's music (and I met Johnny Cash on several occasions - my dad and him were friends).
"Why don't you tie a kerosene-soaked rag around your ankles so the ants won't climb up and eat your candy ass..." - Dale Earnhardt, 1997
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I went to college (1980-82), but all they were interested in teaching me was mainframe stuff. I figured out two things at roughly the same time - a) all programming languages are pretty much the same, and b) PC's were where the real programming money was going to be. I quite school because they didn't have a PC programming course, and I taught myself Pascal. After that, I taught myself C/C++, and now C# (actually, .Net Framework since C# is so much like C++). And yeah, I like Waylon's music (and I met Johnny Cash on several occasions - my dad and him were friends).
"Why don't you tie a kerosene-soaked rag around your ankles so the ants won't climb up and eat your candy ass..." - Dale Earnhardt, 1997
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"...the staggering layers of obscenity in your statement make it a work of art on so many levels." - Jason Jystad, 10/26/2001John Simmons / outlaw programmer wrote:
I quite school because they didn't have a PC programming course
That's why I dropped out of computer science. After so many classes with punch cards, I looked in the future and decided I would rather not kill myself out of boredom before age thirty.
Anyone who thinks he has a better idea of what's good for people than people do is a swine. - P.J. O'Rourke
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Pete O'Hanlon wrote:
weird person from Developerfusion stalking me and I didn't want them to know I was here.
My God. I've found you, at last. :
StalkingBigPete wrote:
My God.
I told you to stop calling me that. I'm a minor deity at best.
Deja View - the feeling that you've seen this post before.
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JudyL_FL wrote:
I'll be moving in about 4 months
try JudyL_XX and you don't have to chnage it when you move :)
Yusuf
Naaah, I'll just change it when I move. I'll change my handle when I change my email address. CP goes to work now which will not be good after the move. I'll have to change jobs since it would be a long commute once we've moved to somewhere a good deal farther north where it isn't so #$^$%&$% hot and humid for four months out of the year. The joys of moving and starting a new job within a month or so of each other - oy veh :sigh: :( :sigh: Judy
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I got mine when Turbo Pascal was still distributed on a single 5-1/4 inch floppy shrink-wrapped inside it's single paperback manual. I asked someone on an old-style BBS if they had thought patching the actual Turbo Pascal IDE so it would display certain kinds of text in different colors, and they said "it was impossible" and "I shouldn't do it". So I did it. I wrote an app that allowed you to set certain colors in the Turbo Pascal IDE, and I wrote it with Turbo Pascal. After I posted the code, someone called me an "outlaw programmer", and it kinda stuck with me. CodeProject in 2000 is when I started using it in public, though.
"Why don't you tie a kerosene-soaked rag around your ankles so the ants won't climb up and eat your candy ass..." - Dale Earnhardt, 1997
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That's why I used Christopher. I once asked my mother why she named me that, since people frequently call me Chris. She told me it was just in case I needed to be important someday. I'll let you know how that works out if I ever get there. :)
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Christopher Duncan wrote:
just in case I needed to be important someday
That reminds me of when I bought my first house, it was a new build. The foreman for the street was called "Charles" or at least that's what I was told, so the first time I went to find him I asked where I could find "Charles" to various bricklayers, plumbers, electricials etc that were working on the houses. Turns out he hates that. He preferes "Charlie" and doesn't like people using his "Sunday name".
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Christopher Duncan wrote:
just in case I needed to be important someday
That reminds me of when I bought my first house, it was a new build. The foreman for the street was called "Charles" or at least that's what I was told, so the first time I went to find him I asked where I could find "Charles" to various bricklayers, plumbers, electricials etc that were working on the houses. Turns out he hates that. He preferes "Charlie" and doesn't like people using his "Sunday name".
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Colin Angus Mackay wrote:
and doesn't like people using his "Sunday name".
Thought they only used that phrase in the southern US. :)
Christopher Duncan Author of The Career Programmer and Unite the Tribes Coming soon: Got a career question? Ask the Attack Chihuahua! www.PracticalUSA.com
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I went to college (1980-82), but all they were interested in teaching me was mainframe stuff. I figured out two things at roughly the same time - a) all programming languages are pretty much the same, and b) PC's were where the real programming money was going to be. I quite school because they didn't have a PC programming course, and I taught myself Pascal. After that, I taught myself C/C++, and now C# (actually, .Net Framework since C# is so much like C++). And yeah, I like Waylon's music (and I met Johnny Cash on several occasions - my dad and him were friends).
"Why don't you tie a kerosene-soaked rag around your ankles so the ants won't climb up and eat your candy ass..." - Dale Earnhardt, 1997
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"...the staggering layers of obscenity in your statement make it a work of art on so many levels." - Jason Jystad, 10/26/2001John Simmons / outlaw programmer wrote:
taught myself Pascal. After that, I taught myself C/C++, and now C#
Yeah, those phrases are almost always to be found near any paragraph containing "Borland Turbo Pascal / C." :-D I miss Phillipe Khan. The only guy with a whip and a chair big enough to keep the MS dev tools honest...
Christopher Duncan Author of The Career Programmer and Unite the Tribes Coming soon: Got a career question? Ask the Attack Chihuahua! www.PracticalUSA.com
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John Simmons / outlaw programmer wrote:
I got mine when Turbo Pascal was still distributed on a single 5-1/4 inch floppy shrink-wrapped inside it's single paperback manual
Damn, I have gotten old. I remember that.
Getting old is the point! :-D
Christopher Duncan Author of The Career Programmer and Unite the Tribes Coming soon: Got a career question? Ask the Attack Chihuahua! www.PracticalUSA.com
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in a thread below someone mentioned not remember their old handle. i see tons of crazy handles on here. where did you get your CP handle? i have no idea where i got jgasm from. my first name is jimmie so gasm just seemed fun. it's been my handle for years. :laugh:
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Probably from my father, who btw was not a computer programmer.
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Getting old is the point! :-D
Christopher Duncan Author of The Career Programmer and Unite the Tribes Coming soon: Got a career question? Ask the Attack Chihuahua! www.PracticalUSA.com
Just don't do it gracefully, Walter Matheu is my hero. Got mine from the biggest computer from my favorite book and author, and that is really dating yourself.
Never underestimate the power of human stupidity RAH
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in a thread below someone mentioned not remember their old handle. i see tons of crazy handles on here. where did you get your CP handle? i have no idea where i got jgasm from. my first name is jimmie so gasm just seemed fun. it's been my handle for years. :laugh:
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When I was making my first email address.. School holidays... boredom... A couple of young school kids being idiots...... You all know how it is... But pretty much Thunderbox666 is the Devils Toilet
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in a thread below someone mentioned not remember their old handle. i see tons of crazy handles on here. where did you get your CP handle? i have no idea where i got jgasm from. my first name is jimmie so gasm just seemed fun. it's been my handle for years. :laugh:
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jgasm wrote:
where did you get your CP handle?
Birth. It was assigned to me by my parental units.
Do you know...LinFu?
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in a thread below someone mentioned not remember their old handle. i see tons of crazy handles on here. where did you get your CP handle? i have no idea where i got jgasm from. my first name is jimmie so gasm just seemed fun. it's been my handle for years. :laugh:
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in a thread below someone mentioned not remember their old handle. i see tons of crazy handles on here. where did you get your CP handle? i have no idea where i got jgasm from. my first name is jimmie so gasm just seemed fun. it's been my handle for years. :laugh:
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jgasm wrote:
where did you get your CP handle?
I searched and searched and searched after I was forbidden from using my real name anymore.... and just as I was about to rip my beating heart out... it occurred to me. ;P
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in a thread below someone mentioned not remember their old handle. i see tons of crazy handles on here. where did you get your CP handle? i have no idea where i got jgasm from. my first name is jimmie so gasm just seemed fun. it's been my handle for years. :laugh:
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I was doing a project at uni for the psychology department - it was supposed to be a fairly simple database app but they wanted some monster enterprise application. Someone commented that they wanted the moon on a stick. We called our project team Moonstick and I kept it ever since!
It definitely isn't definatley
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I got mine when Turbo Pascal was still distributed on a single 5-1/4 inch floppy shrink-wrapped inside it's single paperback manual. I asked someone on an old-style BBS if they had thought patching the actual Turbo Pascal IDE so it would display certain kinds of text in different colors, and they said "it was impossible" and "I shouldn't do it". So I did it. I wrote an app that allowed you to set certain colors in the Turbo Pascal IDE, and I wrote it with Turbo Pascal. After I posted the code, someone called me an "outlaw programmer", and it kinda stuck with me. CodeProject in 2000 is when I started using it in public, though.
"Why don't you tie a kerosene-soaked rag around your ankles so the ants won't climb up and eat your candy ass..." - Dale Earnhardt, 1997
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"...the staggering layers of obscenity in your statement make it a work of art on so many levels." - Jason Jystad, 10/26/2001Which version was that? Remember the Technojocks Turbo Toolkit? Ah, those were the days...
cheers, Chris Maunder
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