Our local assturd Greg Walden sided to GUT net neutrality and has taken thousands of dollars from telcoms. Tell him what you think.

Oh, it's been awhile. To be honest, something happened that knocked the wind out of my sails and I lost interest in a lot of stuff. I'm on my way back but there it is.

I've been doing this on and off for the past 30 years or so (first computer was a CoCo 2 that I taught myself BASIC on). I don't have a degree in CS (didn't finish it) but I went to school at Cal Poly, Pomona -- it's pretty expensive but I might finish it up here. I couldn't decide whether to switch to engineering or just physics or math

Cal Poly was a Java school so most of the classes/stuff was in Java. I have experience with the usual suspects -- Lisp, MIPS assembler, Fortran, Pascal, PROLOG, and Erlang (which I really liked and did a bunch of stuff with). I dabbled in Haskell. I think the most complicated thing I programmed at school was my implementation of Rjindael for my crypto class. I think I liked that class and my computer architecture classes the best. I also tutored extensively then in CS and math. As far as professional tutoring/support, I did technical support for Interplay a loooooong time ago. At Ibex I was a senior iOS advisor (although I de facto did a bunch of the Mac stuff too because I'm a nerd).

I used C and C++ before I started school (I was a huge fan of C++). I was pretty hugely into Perl. I started dabbling back in Perl 4 in the 1990s and got into Perl 5 more and more. I was a pretty constant denizen of the freenode #perl channel and would help people all the time. If I picked a language that felt most like home it would probably be Perl 5 or Python 2.

I've done lots of web development but I'm not too familiar with any of the modern frameworks. I'm pretty ok with JS though. I can manage a MySQL database and probably float around postgres okay.

I'm on my Windows machine right this instant but up until a year or two ago I'd been using Linux (a bunch of different distributions but I usually stick with Slackware) pretty solidly since about 2003 (and I'd used UNIX systems off and on before that). As far as that's concerned I'm pretty decent with a few different shells (but I like most of them better than csh).

I might've missed a few languages. It's been awhile. I never learned Scrum or Agile or any buzzword stuff like that. There's always stuff to learn, though. I'm not that great at selling myself. At any rate, that's my $.50 tour. :)

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