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Barmar
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  • Arlington, MA
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I've been in the computer industry since about 1979 (I had a summer programming job after graduating from high school), and I've done a little bit of everything. I've programmed in ancient languages (BASIC, PL/I, COBOL, Lisp) and more recent ones (Perl, PHP, Javascript), with a few random assemblers thrown into the mix. I've been a system programmer, system administrator, tech support engineer, and performance engineer.

I'm currently working as a programmer for Bridge Base Online, the leading online site for playing bridge. I've been learning modern web application development in the process.

P.S. My name is barmar, not barman.

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Why does the pardon of Arpaio show contempt for the rule of law?
Aug 28, 2017
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Why is Elizabeth Warren's Native American ancestry a political issue?
Oct 16, 2018
67
Why would the government force its population to save for retirement?
Apr 20, 2018
49
Why am I being asked to vote?
Oct 19, 2020
48
Why don't Democrats let Representative Greene rename post offices, and how do they prevent her from doing so?
Apr 18
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Why isn't demilitarization used as a defensive strategy?
Sep 7, 2018
42
Does the U.S. president have to disclose their religion to the public?
Aug 3, 2021
40
Why are Republicans (unlike Democrats) heavily criticized for their flip-flopping regarding the 2016/2020 US supreme court justice nominations?
Sep 27, 2020
36
Why does it seem like US conspiracy theorists are overwhelmingly Republican-oriented?
Aug 6, 2021
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Why isn't any unprovoked act of aggression considered a war crime?
Apr 14, 2022
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What does "for" attribute do in an HTML <label> tag?
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What command means "do nothing" in a conditional in Bash?
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What's the difference between .so, .la and .a library files?
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MySQL Select Date Equal to Today (having datetime as the data type)
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How can mixed data types (int, float, char, etc) be stored in an array?