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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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Code blocks surrounded by single backtick then triple backticks
Oct 26, 2022
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Remind users to check web console before submitting JavaScript questions
Jun 7, 2016
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Are questions about cron topical for Stack Overflow?
Aug 20, 2020
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Canonical, language-agnostic question for if(var != "x" || var != "y" ...)
Oct 11, 2014
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Should we discourage links to JSFiddle collaboration sessions?
Nov 8, 2014
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Why isn't this obvious duplicate offered when asking the question
Jun 3, 2014
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Punctuation characters being escaped in code
Mar 24, 2022
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Why does the first line of a code block often get an extra level of indentation?
Jul 27, 2022
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Are questions about webserver config files and rewrite rules on-topic?
Jun 26, 2014
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Users frequently start code blocks on the same line as the triple backticks
Nov 19, 2019

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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?