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date: 2019-09-01
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This chapter of ally takes place in the <a class="pulse" href="https://github.com/makyo/ally/pull/4" target="\_blank">git commit messages</a>, but here are their contents for completion's sake.
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> I'm ashamed to know you.
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It's a stretch even for me, but hey, here we go.
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> Are you having fun with this?
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Did you really expect me to not approach the idea of writing about software in any other way? Did you expect me to not be something of a nerd about this?
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> I suppose not. Tell me about software, then.
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What's to say? Mom decided that, since I was showing an interest in
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computers, it might be a good thing to let me use her copy of
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VisualBasic 4. From there, I just kept on going.
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> Well, hold on, you're skipping over a whole bunch of stuff.
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I suppose so.
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> You're skipping over your dad joking that, since you spent so much
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time on the computer, that he was always worried that the FBI would
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come knocking on the door one day.
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Well, he was the one who got me the computers in the first place. He
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bought me a copy of RedHat 6.2 on a CD at Circuit City.
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> Oh, my aching bones.
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I know. Every single bit of that sentence was ancient.
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Still, it's largely his fault. We strung coax throughout the house in a
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simple network. He bought a file server, a copy of Windows NT, and we
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worked on setting up IIS together so that we could have both a file
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share as well as a way of getting those files from work for him, and my
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mom's house for me.
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> Very kind of him. Forward thinking.
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He wanted me to be an engineer. What better way to get me into the
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mindset? Besides, *stuff* was his game. Our relationship was not yet
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mature enoug that we could be buddies, so instead, he did what he
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thought parents were supposed to do and punished, instructed, and
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showered with gifts. It's just that some of those were computers.
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As many gifts bounced off of me as those that stuck and proved useful.
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Either way, start a kid on VisualBasic and give her access to AngelFire,
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and you're bound to wound up with at least *some* kind of nerd.
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