Scott Jones

Software Architect, MIT '84, consultant, owner/president Gandalf Software, Inc. (AKA @Gandalf62) Proud parent of two teenaged humans. LinkedIn: scottgandalf

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@pephatit @WHLeavitt A

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@randyzwitch @StefanKarpinski MUMPS (and Caché, a object oriented successor to M), make it incredibly easy to write code that handles multiple processes and access distributed databases, even for non computer scientists how recently was he pro (like your father).
How recently was he programming in MUMPS?

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@Patchality @BriannaWu It’s not just genetic abnormalities though. Conditions while the fetus is growing can also affect things. It’s not just a binary situation.
The world is not just black and white, and I think accepting people for who they are, showing compassion, is important.

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@Patchality @BriannaWu And what if they are aware that gender is a lot more complicated than just X or Y? There are all sorts of cases, from having XXY chromosomes, or the SRY gene not being on the Y chromosome, or it being on the X chromosome instead, or other conditions.

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@Audiacious @theo Have you looked at the CliMA (https://t.co/rQFvQwTwXn) project? That is using Julia

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@Audiacious @theo A lot of new scientific/technical/mathematical code that used to be written in Fortran/R/MATLAB is being written in Julia these days.

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@theo Given that COBOL, Fortran, Lisp and Mumps are still in use, languages originally from the 50s and 60s, I’m sure things like Java will still be used.
Languages for the next 60+ years? I’d bet on #RustLang and #JuliaLang (along with others, such as Go)

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@patriothinktank @boonecutler He’s describing Generation Jones, not the Boomers (of the post WWII baby boom)

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@Henry123Marvin @Jaypatriot90 @krassenstein It’s not close to 50% of our voters, the problem is that 90 million didn’t bother to vote 😭

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@xuanalogue @NoSteinNoGate I hope you’ll be able to do great things, wherever you end up (sad that you won’t be able to continue at MIT though)

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@RyanEls4 There are even languages (such as MUMPS or CacheObjectScript) where arrays start at “”, and can be indexed by any value (strings, integers, floating point values).
Wrap your heads around that!

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@daVinchilli @RyanEls4 Go to Europe - they use 0 based indexing for floors!

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@RyanEls4 @DougVegas But that’s not indexing, it’s counting.
If you ask “what was the baby like in their 1st year of life?” you are talking about the time from when they were born until their 1st birthday - you don’t ask about their zeroth year, do you? 😄

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@DoTheRightWing @akafacehots “Voted for in a landslide”? He didn’t even get a majority of the votes (49.74%), just very slightly more than Kamala (slimmest margin in 24 years)
That doesn’t sound like either a landslide or a mandate.

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@StefanKarpinski Unfortunately, with the anti-science, anti-vaccine crowd coming into power in January, I doubt there’s any chance of this happening in the US anytime soon.

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@xuanalogue Envious of you going to a conference in Brazil! Have you had time to enjoy the beach at all?

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@NERDYXNiNJA In the Boston area, we have BBC (Boston Burger company), huge burgers, decent prices, and some great specials (weekdays at 4:20 you can get their 420 burger for $4.20 😂 Delicious!)

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@StefanKarpinski Better to have 3 watches, and hopefully 2 will agree (fairly closely) 😄

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@oxinabox_frames You can do that with MUMPS (unfortunately!)

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@Anaemic_Royalty 3. This was only 24 years after the end of WWII, which may explain their behavior, but still, the border guards were rather rude to a 45 yr old mother with her young kid, just for speaking German but not French.

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@Anaemic_Royalty After a month and a half, we started driving back to Sweden to drop off the car.
At the border to France, they stopped us, and attempted to speak with my mom.
She tried English, then Swedish, and finally German… at that point they got very upset and finally waved us through.