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Barmar
  • Member for 7 years, 1 month
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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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Accused of racism for refusing to name room after foreign name that sounds like an offensive phrase
Oct 31, 2018
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How can I expedite being paid by a HR person who's gatekeeping?
Jan 9, 2019
22
Should I report an unethical behavior from a teammate to our leader?
Nov 22, 2022
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Quitting employee has privileged access to critical information
Mar 7, 2019
18
Would it give a bad impression if I left my job because my past projects "keep following me"?
Dec 12, 2018
15
How does "unlimited holidays" work in practice?
Nov 22, 2019
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Intern not wearing safety equipment; how could I have handled this differently?
Jul 5, 2019
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Saying something to a foreign coworker who uses "you people"
Aug 19, 2019
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How can I recover my reputation and trust after snapping at my boss?
Mar 5, 2020
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How to enforce the use of my full name at work, instead of its shortened version?
Mar 5, 2020
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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?