One thing I really like about the current App Store setup is I get a new phone and sign in with my Apple ID and all of my purchases are there for download. I don’t have to worry about buying it again or trying to find that one app I use every once in a while. I’m not sure how this would work with multiple app stores. I assume the other app stores aren’t installed through the Apple App Store? Are they? If not, do I have to remember all the app stores I’ve installed from. Will they be as great as honoring all my past purchases? Since I have no experience with this, just wondering how seamless it will be compared to the current experience?
This is how I interview potential hires. I’ll admit I haven’t interviewed someone below a senior level in probably 10 years, so I interview someone that has a resume with experience that I can draw from. I read what they’ve worked on and just go from there. I hope I never have to submit someone to some stupid take home test or Leet Code interview.
I assume that also means a naturalized citizen has to be VP and Speaker of the House, as that’s the order of who becomes president if the higher up one dies? Or would we have a new election if it ends up being an ineligible individual?
I was at university in Munich in ‘89 when the wall came down. My roommate was from Berlin. We didn’t make it to the evening when the wall came down, but went there a few days later. We got to use a pick-axe to get our own chunks of wall and a few for other classmates. I still have my chunk all these years later. Sadly my chunk is about 85% white paint with a couple other colors around the edges. I have photos of the wall before it came down from visits as even though I am American my dad was in the Army, and I was born in Augsburg and lived in a few other cities over the years.
I turn 53 on Sunday, Dec 15, so a little bit past 47.
I got married for the first time at 47. I’d been with my now wife since 2006, and in 2018 she mentioned she always wanted a wedding, even something small. So we got engaged and got married in Santa Fe, NM, a favorite vacation destination, with 10 close friends. That was pretty much my big change.
I never did the midlife crisis with the fancy car. In fact I use public transport when I go to work, so I ended up selling my car and just relying on that and a ZipCar membership for any day trips.
I guess my midlife crisis was more of a point to enjoy life. I took inventory of my life and found it actually wasn’t half bad. The grass was fairly green on my side of the fence.
There was a team of analysts going through all the companies programs and finding any instance of dates, which took them quite a while to do. Once that was done it was a combo of new work and work to update the affected programs. My team was very affected as it was the collections and queuing team. Collections of course is people going into collections due to non payment. Queueing is the different queues you put accounts into: 30 days past due, 60 past due, etc. all of that broke when the date changed as all accounts were way past due and put into collections.
I started work at a credit card processing company at the end of ‘96 as an assembler programmer on OS/360 IBM mainframes. The company simulated the date changing to the year 2000 and we saw everything that broke. We then worked over the next couple years fixing everything and Y2K went by without a hitch. If you were involved with it you do tend to resent the people that say it was over blown but you also understand the feeling that it was over blown by the media because it did play upon public fear to sell products and views.