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On Tue, 21 Aug 2012 19:55:34 -0500, sdlfj wrote:

> oric etc
> 
> analyst / programmer £15k
> 
> etc
> 
> remember the ads
> phoned up "oric" I think it was
> ended up working at UCL
> 
> DEC ultimate
> microdata
> 
> they had their own 4GL "UDO"
> 
> price waterhouse FMS and public service systems
> they went bust
> 
> then ICS
> 
> cowboy shop - arev and networks
> selling all over the place - don't want to deliver
> the isoft model the csc model - crooks
> 
> then I think?
> dunno
> 
> poole dorset - terranova
> working for jewish guy 
> supporting his systems linked to fax (something)
> then converted royal insurance system to dec universe at DEC
> actually took the tapes up there
> 
> I think I missed one there
> compument - pickedi (pick on edi)
> all over the country supporting installing training fixing
> was even at mcdonnel douglas
> 
> shoring up the crap (pickedi)
> needed a rewrite
> 
> told em at the time EDI is all its just like pick anyway
> just map it onto pick
> 
> ah whatever
> 
> then the RPSB stormed through the place programming 
> ah well
> 
> i don't want to go into it too much that
> prime information
> 
> did a lot of work
> but was passed over
> 
> ideas/projects stolen from me
> wasn't "favored"
> 
> dealt with an incredibly bad situation there caused by elkie holland
> supplying contractors who had 0 knowledge of pick/mvdbms (prime information)
> 
> was told to train them - was giving them training sesssions
> 
> other places (there's been lots)
> 
> banking merchant banks - commercial banks - worked for major german merchant outfit
> worked for a commodities broker
> 
> went contract
> 
> worked in sydney two contracts worked for credit union australia worked in two departments
> resolved major problems for them - worked with major situations (visa credit card system disintegrating)
> 
> ended up in a sleepy politicized back hollow - just ended sick of it all 
> just wanted to walk away was just sick of it all
> 
> was offered renewal
> was even given the chance of working later in australian tax office
> just ended up nuts
> 
> was going back to agent there knew i'd blown it
> went for a few interviews like north sydney
> 
> remember driving crazily round to find this place
> met @ least 1 pick software house and one just dismal place
> 
> wasn't getting anywhere - they sensed I had just lost it
> it was too hot man I remember driving through north sydney
> 
> honda accord just late late late
> 
> ah well
> 
> yer - think I got three interviews didn't get anywhere
> one guy was like karl reti - theres a certain type in software
> 
> I'm thinking do I really want another situation to go back in?
> 
> eventually I did go back in out of sheer desperation - my final contract
> then I was going to do degree
> 
> sussex uni - had passed year one years before (10)
> I was told that anyone else they would have let them onto year two
> like they didn;t let me onto year two
> 
> i'd PASSED YEAR ONE really well
> 10 years before - was fresh keen - unfazed
> it was all easy
> 
> so I was back there
> 2 weeks after was in hospital
> 
> after that last contract (stomach ulceration)
> it just blew it really for me - ended up drunk/stoned
> 
> it was sort of like a holiday I suppose
> failed the first fucking year again
> 

not "again"
had passed it
was told it was just you
unbelievable snobs running that uni
it turned out
they liked me 10 years before

pretty much covered java
was still learning
read a lot
was reading magic mountain at the time
was running around

liked the psychology course
psychology people seemed to be more reasonable people
got into discrete math again (matlab)

i'm into AI
this is all the fucking project man

AI

from years before
dammit
what is my problem with this law
I can knock this out
it's just that i'm always late
big procrastinator

I can get up tomorrow and just start nailing it
getting the fucking information out

what I think -- i'm just too late all the time
the tools i'm writing are to address everything 
make it  easier

i started getting it together
but it's just a big jump
it's a hell of a big jump

i've written some pretty smart code in python now
it's the language I found it

like I advise here - thats the way forward (python)
it has the same aspect as pick

an it has all the features of pick (but modern)
and it's really taking off

recent slashdot survey (what would you use)
python had torn away --- people know

the studies "why python" from stallman onwards
use it use it use it

it's better than java

it's

I really don't want to go into it specifically
but there will be more code around

I will fucking produce
this is all natural

this is all just what you go through when you're trying to design something big
the stuff they never let me into

it's wide open now 
it's not "owned" -- I've stopped using mvdbms - what is my problem?

maybe I could even re-do my cv without modesty and put it out there
do some consultancy work possibly

I dunno

but I have to start producing again
in an amenable environment I will find

I have to produce something
I have to get software to produce

i'm not going to use emacs - i'm not going to use idle 
or anything else ---- I hate them

it's got to be something from the ground up - the basis is there
i've started writing it - the conumdrum - working through the conundrum

panic and doing self in over it
all kinds of issues

people giving me problems
self destructive people - I think that sometimes
if they can't do it themselves

they attract other people to do it
stuff has been ugly

i'd better sober up and blast through this law
go back to them say 1 bit is late ok please please

will be ok am not too far behind

have put in 5 pieces of work (all passed)
3 to go before course end

what is my problem
in a way I think

a lot of it is finding a way to do it
i've tried multiple approaches

i'm passing
1 bit I got 62pc

which is pretty good going considering how fucked i've been
still been coding

thats the problem
i'm thinking the law is stopping me coding

i will get this out in next few days
hell hell hell 

there I go again i'm thinking why am I even studying law
what's the relevance

but look at the people here
you are the lowest olf the low you people

fuck this
gotta do something meaningful

fuck this

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