Not Getting the JobMuns asks - Did you blag your way through a job interview, only to be caught out? Is your photography portfolio full of other peoples work? Did your potential employers google your name, before offering you a lucrative contract and discover something from your past you would rather forget? How did you fail to get the job?
(, Thu 11 Jun 2015, 12:00)
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forward thinking head teacherIt was 1970, we had a teletype with paper tape and a dialup to Queens University Belfast (ICL 1906, OS George 3). We wrote in qubal (QUB Algol). Wrote the code, typed it to paper tape, all uploaded from paper tape at 5pm, batch compile and run overnight, listings couriered to school for following day. I should say happy days, but really I much prefer today with instant gratification edit, and interpretive code, roll your own virtual services, etc etc. Probably quite good 'try and get it right first time' training with 24 hr delay for a typo.
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(, Wed 17 Jun 2015, 2:43, 1 reply)
oooh that sounds familiar!I remember writing code by hand onto paper forms, which would then be sent off to Brighton Polytechnic (as was). A week later we'd get back a stack of punched cards and a printout of the results - which usually told us that they person copying the characters on the form onto the cards had pressed a wrong key.
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