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Hospital Directions
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Grandfather Obit
I just found this and decided I would post it on the eve of my daughter’s birth to demonstrate how life really does come full circle. TAZEWELL, Va. — Walter Curtis Herald, age 70, of Tazewell, Va., died Friday, March 14, 2008 at his home. Born July 3, 1937 at Tazewell, Va., he was a [...]
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What is a Programmer?
Computer programmers write, test, debug, and maintain the detailed instructions, called computer programs, that computers must follow to perform their functions. Programmers also conceive, design, and test logical structures for solving problems by computer. Many technical innovations in programming — advanced computing technologies and sophisticated new languages and programming tools — have redefined the role [...]
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Optimism
All programmers are optimists. Perhaps this modern sorcery especially attracts those who believe in happy endings and fairy godmothers. Perhaps the hundreds of nitty frustrations drive away all but those who habitually focus on the end goal. Perhaps it is merely that computers are young, programmers are younger, and the young are always optimists. But [...]
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