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  • It Was 20 Years Ago Today

    From Bradley K. Sherman@21:1/5 to All on Wed Jan 1 19:15:18 2020
    1 january 2000:
    A whole lot of whackjobs were wiping a whole lot of
    egg off a whole lot of faces, and the bottom dropped
    out of the generator market.

    --bks

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  • From Chris Weston@21:1/5 to Bradley K. Sherman on Fri Jan 3 01:01:39 2020
    On Thursday, 2 January 2020 00:15:19 UTC, Bradley K. Sherman wrote:
    1 january 2000:
    A whole lot of whackjobs were wiping a whole lot of
    egg off a whole lot of faces, and the bottom dropped
    out of the generator market.

    --bks

    And a whole bunch of programmers (before we called ourselves Devs) looked up from their new projects having done the hard work previously, and hoped everyone would learn a lesson about technical debt...

    --
    Chris Weston

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  • From Arnold Trembley@21:1/5 to Bradley K. Sherman on Sat Jan 4 21:00:09 2020
    On 1/1/2020 6:15 PM, Bradley K. Sherman wrote:
    1 january 2000:
    A whole lot of whackjobs were wiping a whole lot of
    egg off a whole lot of faces, and the bottom dropped
    out of the generator market.

    --bks


    It was a crazy time...

    https://www.newyorker.com/tech/annals-of-technology/when-russia-and-america-cooperated-to-avert-a-y2k-apocalypse?utm_source=pocket-newtab



    --
    https://www.arnoldtrembley.com/

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  • From docdwarf@panix.com@21:1/5 to arnold.trembley@att.net on Sun Jan 12 13:54:45 2020
    In article <no-dndKNguyhzIzDnZ2dnUU7-VmdnZ2d@giganews.com>,
    Arnold Trembley <arnold.trembley@att.net> wrote:
    On 1/1/2020 6:15 PM, Bradley K. Sherman wrote:
    1 january 2000:
    A whole lot of whackjobs were wiping a whole lot of
    egg off a whole lot of faces, and the bottom dropped
    out of the generator market.

    --bks


    It was a crazy time...

    ... and I'm still getting emails from head-hunters offering jobs... and at
    the same rates, too!.

    DD

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  • From Chris Weston@21:1/5 to All on Sun Jan 12 21:26:27 2020
    Maybe you should stop posting to comp.sci.computerprogrammerjobs ;-)

    --
    Chris Weston

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  • From docdwarf@panix.com@21:1/5 to chris.weston@gmail.com on Mon Jan 13 13:53:01 2020
    In article <210e1fb0-24ec-46de-a17d-fe40731cb09f@googlegroups.com>,
    Chris Weston <chris.weston@gmail.com> wrote:
    Maybe you should stop posting to comp.sci.computerprogrammerjobs ;-)

    It's not easy to stop what you haven't started... but if it were easy then anybody could do it so it's a job for me!

    DD

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  • From wendyg@cix.compulink.co.uk@21:1/5 to Chris Weston on Sun Jan 26 09:36:32 2020
    In article <303bd6da-528c-465e-b58b-585a69e2d86e@googlegroups.com>, chris.weston@gmail.com (Chris Weston) wrote:

    *From:* Chris Weston <chris.weston@gmail.com>
    *Date:* Fri, 3 Jan 2020 01:01:39 -0800 (PST)

    On Thursday, 2 January 2020 00:15:19 UTC, Bradley K. Sherman wrote:
    1 january 2000:
    A whole lot of whackjobs were wiping a whole lot of
    egg off a whole lot of faces, and the bottom dropped
    out of the generator market.

    --bks

    And a whole bunch of programmers (before we called ourselves Devs)
    looked up from their new projects having done the hard work
    previously, and hoped everyone would learn a lesson about technical
    debt...

    --
    Chris Weston

    Yes, and sadly a lot of people now think it wasn't ever really a problem...

    wg

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