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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
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What are the advantages for the US in starting a trade war with everyone else at the same time?
Apr 4
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Why would the government force its population to save for retirement?
Apr 20, 2018
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Why am I being asked to vote?
Oct 19, 2020
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Why don't Democrats let Representative Greene rename post offices, and how do they prevent her from doing so?
Apr 18, 2024
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Why isn't demilitarization used as a defensive strategy?
Sep 7, 2018
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Does the U.S. president have to disclose their religion to the public?
Aug 3, 2021
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Why are Republicans (unlike Democrats) heavily criticized for their flip-flopping regarding the 2016/2020 US supreme court justice nominations?
Sep 27, 2020
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Why does it seem like US conspiracy theorists are overwhelmingly Republican-oriented?
Aug 6, 2021
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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?