One thing I really like about the current App Store setup is I get a new phone and sign in with my Apple ID and all of my purchases are there for download. I don’t have to worry about buying it again or trying to find that one app I use every once in a while. I’m not sure how this would work with multiple app stores. I assume the other app stores aren’t installed through the Apple App Store? Are they? If not, do I have to remember all the app stores I’ve installed from. Will they be as great as honoring all my past purchases? Since I have no experience with this, just wondering how seamless it will be compared to the current experience?
This is how I interview potential hires. I’ll admit I haven’t interviewed someone below a senior level in probably 10 years, so I interview someone that has a resume with experience that I can draw from. I read what they’ve worked on and just go from there. I hope I never have to submit someone to some stupid take home test or Leet Code interview.
I assume that also means a naturalized citizen has to be VP and Speaker of the House, as that’s the order of who becomes president if the higher up one dies? Or would we have a new election if it ends up being an ineligible individual?
I was at university in Munich in ‘89 when the wall came down. My roommate was from Berlin. We didn’t make it to the evening when the wall came down, but went there a few days later. We got to use a pick-axe to get our own chunks of wall and a few for other classmates. I still have my chunk all these years later. Sadly my chunk is about 85% white paint with a couple other colors around the edges. I have photos of the wall before it came down from visits as even though I am American my dad was in the Army, and I was born in Augsburg and lived in a few other cities over the years.
I turn 53 on Sunday, Dec 15, so a little bit past 47.
I got married for the first time at 47. I’d been with my now wife since 2006, and in 2018 she mentioned she always wanted a wedding, even something small. So we got engaged and got married in Santa Fe, NM, a favorite vacation destination, with 10 close friends. That was pretty much my big change.
I never did the midlife crisis with the fancy car. In fact I use public transport when I go to work, so I ended up selling my car and just relying on that and a ZipCar membership for any day trips.
I guess my midlife crisis was more of a point to enjoy life. I took inventory of my life and found it actually wasn’t half bad. The grass was fairly green on my side of the fence.
I started work at a credit card processing company at the end of ‘96 as an assembler programmer on OS/360 IBM mainframes. The company simulated the date changing to the year 2000 and we saw everything that broke. We then worked over the next couple years fixing everything and Y2K went by without a hitch. If you were involved with it you do tend to resent the people that say it was over blown but you also understand the feeling that it was over blown by the media because it did play upon public fear to sell products and views.
> If you were involved with it you do tend to resent the people that say it was over blown but you also understand the feeling that it was over blown by the media because it did play upon public fear to sell products and views.
I was 10 at the time. I heard about the 2yk bug on the news and they were saying how it was really a serious problem and in a worse case scenario the grid might go down and all electronics could stop working.
As everyone was excitedly counting us into the year 2,000 I remember being stood in the street terrified the world was about to blow up. I remember breathing a sigh of relief when the street lights didn't turn off at midnight, although I still went back into the house to check if the TV and other electronics were still working.
Seems silly looking back on it now, but the media scare stories about bug completely ruined my memory of that night.
Even as someone who was in high school at the time I have no doubt in what you said.
I believe that were indeed a lot of very serious issues, which if not fixed, would have resulted in a very different experience at the turn of the century.
But at the same time, I remember in about 1998 or 1999 my friend proudly professing that the new PC he bought was Y2K compliant. I'm pretty sure that all the software and PCs used by an average person for over 5 years was equally Y2K compliant making silly sticker on the box practically meaningless.
It was stuff like this which was blown out of proportion.
Your average consumer's hardware would be absolutely unaffected, but these consumers were nevertheless aggressively pulled into needlessly buying new PCs which were supposedly more Y2K compliant than their current ones.
There was a team of analysts going through all the companies programs and finding any instance of dates, which took them quite a while to do. Once that was done it was a combo of new work and work to update the affected programs. My team was very affected as it was the collections and queuing team. Collections of course is people going into collections due to non payment. Queueing is the different queues you put accounts into: 30 days past due, 60 past due, etc. all of that broke when the date changed as all accounts were way past due and put into collections.
My dad was in the military, so we moved often. He finally retired at Ft Bennington, Ga, and my parents bought a house in Columbus, Ga. Columbus was a little too small and religious for me, so I got a job and moved to Atlanta. Close enough to visit the family, but a good city with lots of tech jobs. I lived all over Atlanta, but one thing I always did was live inside the perimeter. That refers to interstate 285, which circles the city. After renting for many years my wife and I bought a house in the city of Decatur. I live within walking distance of public transport to take to work, we’re a few miles from the city of Atlanta, and Decatur is a nice walkable town. I will admit that if my family didn’t retire here, Georgia would not be on the list of places I would chose to live, but at least we live in a blue spot in this red, racist, state.
