Re: Whoops! The Atlantic Makes Trump Look EPIC In Cover Intended as a Smear

On 11/13/2024 2:26 AM, The Horny Goat wrote:

On Wed, 30 Oct 2024 16:23:32 -0500, "Jay E. Morris"
<morrisj@epsilon3.comcon> wrote:
 

On 10/30/2024 2:45 PM, Lynn McGuire wrote:

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Most programmers that I have worked with had degrees in engineering but
I can remember at least one guy with a degree in English.

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Psychology! But I had a BS. Switched from chemistry end of my sophomore
year so with all my math/science credits I got the BS.

 I did 3 or 4 years as a programmer before getting a job offer actually
running a business - which is pretty much what one would expect for an
MBA with specialties in finance and systems (I was hoping to end up
running an ATM network which was in the early 80s and just getting
fully up to speed) and had taken night school programming courses at
the polytech to get back in the swing of being a student again before
going off to B-school.
 I ended up doing medical admissions system design - we were porting a
medical admissions systems and in the early 80s our client made it
quite clear to us that not only was it illegal to have a 'race' field
on a hospital admitting screen, we had to physically remove it from
the database, not just remove it from the user screens. 35 years later
in Canada I'd be gobsmacked if I got the same orders!
 DEI is a wonderful thing....yeah right.

The one that blew my mind in my last job was when we were told that
our mail filtering software could not use the terms 'blacklist'
and 'whitelist' in user-visible locations. (It was OK in internal
code and comments).
...then there was the California town government office, 20+ years
ago, where the terms 'master' and 'slave' disk became an issue.
pt