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Hi! I'm Dave Plummer. You might remember me from such Windows components as Task Manager, Windows Pinball, Calc, ZIPFolders, Product Activation, etc. Cheers!
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I was an H1-B immigrant. As far as the United States is concerned, I was born healthy at the age of 25 with a college degree in computer science. I immediately started paying taxes and within 10 years had founded my own company and created dozens of new tech jobs. I stopped saying "Zed" and spelling colour with U and eating maple syrup every Thanksgiving. I learned to like the local dark roast coffee and Seattle grunge scene. I assimilated. That's not to say the H1-B system can't be improved, of course. But it serves a valuable purpose.
About 30 years ago, I wrote the zip support that's still in Windows today. It's slow, and here's why! While the actual decompression is about the same speed as the alternatives, because it's integrated into the Windows shell, it operates through a drag drop (CF_FILECONTENTS) interface. That means you need a SOURCE file and a destination file, but the source is in the archive. So, to get around that, I create a temporary copy in TMP and then do the shell copy operation from there to your real destination. As a result, every file operation is done TWICE, slowing down significantly. Using "Extract to..." should be much faster as it bypasses that step. And of course, it was only single threaded as was the style at the time!
@HenriettaSnacks I'll just leave this here for you. https://t.co/ioOmnf75tw
As someone with autism, I can't detect sarcasm, so I solved it for you: function isValidPassword(password) { return !/^[a-z]{1,26}$/.test(password); } (Though I've only proved it correct, not tested it) https://t.co/vBZyCNS2W4
You get that billionaires don't bury gold bars in their backyard, right? Someone "having" money does not remove it from the economy. It is reinvested and loaned and spent repeatedly, not locked in a vault. If it's more than just jealousy, you'd have to articulate how it harms anyone else.
Before WinZip, there was VisualZip, which ultimately became the Zip functionality in Windows. https://t.co/iAkxQDTWfX
@lycan_warlord I still did. Registered WinRAR user since '99!
Rate my coding desk in the mid to late 90s... I was working on Windows NT and we had multimon support very early on. I got the desk when an IBM executive I knew was upgrading. Check out the Star NX-1000 printer. Venerable! https://t.co/1l9Ss396SR
@HarleyShah Entry level jobs exist not to live on, but to allow you to acquire the skills necessary to move up to a living wage.
@hecubian_devil Because of supply and demand. Too many people are able to do that job, so there is an over-supply and thus it will be lower pay. You have to bring some unique value to the table to generate a living wage, I think. Doesn't have to be rocket science, though.