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anyone remember 005 ENQ (also called WRU who are you) and its effect on a teletype?


credit to William Crosby, "Note on an ASCII-Octal Code Table", CACM 8.10, Oct 1965

https://dl.acm.org/doi/epdf/10.1145/365628.365652

also defined 6-bit ASCII subset


let's see some "Courage", Apple?


see also Floyd Kemske, "Human Resources: A Corporate Nightmare"

https://archive.org/details/HumanResourcesPdf

> Corporate management is the use of humans as resources. So is vampirism.

>Biomethods, Inc. is a struggling biotechnology company whose venture capital group is growing tired of pumping in new blood every quarter.


Future: Peter Thiel takes lead to rebrand VC as Vampire Capital…


Now, tell us about "ZQX3".


This is the first time in my life encountering "ZQX3" in some context that suggests it has broad meaning.

What does ZQX3 have to do with TFA?


folklore was that IBM used it as an example of a bad variable name, based on Zarathustra Q Xerxes III

Here it is, in fact! Page 19:

http://bitsavers.informatik.uni-stuttgart.de/pdf/ibm/360/os/...

> But if the programmer decided to use ZQX-3 in pl.ace of MINIMUM-BALANCE because it is shorter, or because he once met a cab driver named Zarathustra Q. Xerxes III, then it is a bad name.


> The general population is much larger than the population of child prodigies.

have we forgotten Lake Wobegon?


paranoia increases...


did you include

https://www.web3isgoinggreat.com/


it seems like there's some confusion here between the Graeco-Roman astronomer Claudius Ptolemy (c. 100 – 160s/170s AD) and the Macedonian General/Pharoah Ptolemy I Soter (c. 369/68 BC – January 282 BC).

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ptolemy_(disambiguation)


https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=false&qu...

as for me, i"m looking for a position as an Ornamental Hermit

https://hn.algolia.com/?q=ornamental+hermit


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