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mdcrawford@gmail.com
http://guacamoleroad.com/
I can slice, dice, julienne and puree.
Journal of MichaelDavidCrawford (2339)
Before you howl with too much laughter, please understand that I feel far more comfortable writing device drivers than web applications.
I just now finished listing all ninety locations for Synopsis:
The first thing I want to do to automate this is to list a company on
just one page, with a form for all of its locations, then have a
computer program propagate those listings to all the local pages.
This has the complication that many of those local pages won't exit
yet; for example I created the page for Enschede as I was working on
Synopsis' listings in Holland.
But a good start would be to only propagate the listings to pages that
already exist, with manual work required to create the new local
pages.
This because I have to look up the state or province and possibly the
county for almost all over the new localities. I also have to create
folders for them. From time to time I even list an entirely new
country.
While I do plan to use some manner of database by the time I'm done, I don't plan on specifying its schema myself - I'd hire a DBA to do that. I've never really understood why so many people are so into SQL. If I did use SQL I would use PostgrSQL but most likely I won't use SQL.
I'm going to do all the automation in Python, for the simple reason
that I'm already good at coding Python. There are many web
application technologies, each with their own strengths and
weaknesses. I'm not religious about them.
(Score: 2) by MichaelDavidCrawford on Monday May 28 2018, @02:32PM (3 children)
They're the leading ASIC rig vendor and they have the world's largest mining pool.
Yet they don't answer pings.
Surely the problem isn't on _my_ end: I'm a Comcast customer after all.
Yes I Have No Bananas. [gofundme.com]
(Score: 2, Insightful) by realDonaldTrump on Monday May 28 2018, @05:07PM (2 children)
I'm proclaiming today #MemorialDay [twitter.com] Very special day to honor those who died for our great country. 🇺🇸 So many companies won't answer the ping, ping, ping (I call it a ring). But you can leave a message on their answering machine. Or send a fax. And, I assume, they'll answer before long.
(Score: 3, Touché) by MichaelDavidCrawford on Monday May 28 2018, @05:29PM
As a born and raised American citizen I owe you a debt of gratitude for your courageous service not just to our own Mother Country but to Free People everywhere
I had a great uncle who fell in 1918, in Flanders. Mom visited his grave a while back; I will too, some sad day.
Yes I Have No Bananas. [gofundme.com]
(Score: 2) by MichaelDavidCrawford on Wednesday May 30 2018, @06:09AM
well strictly speaking it's not an error, however it's definitely losing - or at least delaying - sales.
I offer an N=1 example of my inability to order a $105 power supply over the last couple days.
While http://www.bitmain.com/ [bitmain.com] is working just fine, http://bitmain.com [bitmain.com] doesn't respond and bitmain.com does not answer pings.
Most likely someone is partway through setting up a new server for bitmain.com that has set the DNS for the new server, but that server has not been installed yet.
Yes I Have No Bananas. [gofundme.com]
(Score: 2) by MichaelDavidCrawford on Monday May 28 2018, @06:27PM (2 children)
I speculate that my hardware RAID's very worn-out backup battery damaged something.
I can't get to it boot off a stick.
I can boot Mint single-user but Mint makes it crystal clear that it resents being used on a brain-damaged box.
Just now I asked a friend to order me up a DVD burner.
This so I can spend about twenty minutes checking out my next client's Windows product.
Apple's Bootcamp Assistant should have enabled me to install Windows on my Mac mini, but Bootcamp is well-documented to fail for no particular reason.
Or maybe all my sticks are toasted.
Reall I Don't Know, And I Don't Care provided I am somehow able to instal Win7 on SOMETHING that I can use for about twenty minutes. :-(
Yes I Have No Bananas. [gofundme.com]
(Score: 2) by realDonaldTrump on Tuesday May 29 2018, @02:14AM (1 child)
Is this what the Cloud is for? So a person -- or a company -- can rent computers to put their cyber in?
(Score: 2) by MichaelDavidCrawford on Tuesday May 29 2018, @02:31AM
se
My client has a windows USB function driver. He wants me to drive the same function for macOS
Yes I Have No Bananas. [gofundme.com]
(Score: -1, Troll) by Anonymous Coward on Monday May 28 2018, @10:44PM (7 children)
Fuck you for running a job board.
Fuck you for helping fraudulent companies advertise fake jobs.
Fuck you for selling false hope to the jobless.
Fuck you to hell, Crawford. Die now and burn in hell, forever.
Fuck MDC
(Score: 2) by MichaelDavidCrawford on Tuesday May 29 2018, @02:41AM
Synopsis claims to have openings in ninety different cities
Surely some of those posts must be truthful
Yes I Have No Bananas. [gofundme.com]
(Score: 2) by MichaelDavidCrawford on Tuesday May 29 2018, @02:46AM
TG hhh jj
Yes I Have No Bananas. [gofundme.com]
(Score: 1, Funny) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday May 29 2018, @11:29AM (4 children)
You keep posting this stuff about fake jobs. Sure the jobs market it a bit weak but had you considered being an asshole isn't helping you get a job?
(Score: 2) by MichaelDavidCrawford on Tuesday May 29 2018, @08:48PM
He too felt that these were fake jobs
He finally gave up molecular biology to become a high school teacher
I was homeless for five years yet convinced most were real openings
Yes I Have No Bananas. [gofundme.com]
(Score: -1, Troll) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday May 30 2018, @01:49AM (2 children)
Blaming the unemployed poor for being jobless, are you? You are the asshole, asshole.
Golly gee, I sure do regret learning to code. I certainly do regret being good at it, too. Because I had to learn the hard way all you asshole fuckers are always lying about the very existence of tech jobs.
Fuck you very much, asshole.
Michael David Crawford is a con man.
Fuck MDC
(Score: 2) by MichaelDavidCrawford on Wednesday May 30 2018, @06:04AM
I hasten to point out that I know of one specific company that advertised two fake openings throughout the dot-com crash.
I expect they aren't the only ones to have ever done that.
I do know that my current client has real job openings, and that their company as a whole is doing really well financially.
Yes I Have No Bananas. [gofundme.com]
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday May 30 2018, @02:44PM
I don't regret learning to code, because computers are fun.
But I sure am glad I didn't fall for the meme of doing what you love for a living.