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Swinx43
12y ago
I have unfortunately also been having some very bad experiences with books from PACKT Publishing recently. In the beginning the books were of high quality but somehow things have slipped as of late.
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12y ago
I definitely agree. The question I have is if it is worth paying for a verified certificate? It is $250 for the certificate and if it does not really count towards anything I would rather take the course for free and then go write a Linux c
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12y ago
This looks like a good starting point for people from a predominantly Windows background that want to make the jump to Linux. Does anyone know if it is worth doing the Verified Certificate? I would be more than happy to sign up to it if it
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12y ago
I have never been a fan of EF, mainly because my background is more on the database side. That said it has its place but to do everything blanket EF is not always a good idea.
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Swinx43
12y ago
Your troll-craft is weak. For your own sake move to another platform where such blatant attempts at trolling might yield a response.
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Swinx43
12y ago
I would most definitely like to also know why? There are many developers that work using Microsoft technology, everyone organisation does not build their services or products on open source.
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12y ago
This is spot on. There is a lot of us that are in such employment agreements and do work for corporate clients that require NDAs. I find it short sighted to believe that your skill should be solely measured by your Open Source projects plac
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13y ago
Just out of interest, how much worker participation does big tech companies like Google, Microsoft, Apple or Facebook really have? From what I can tell it is all perceived participation and the CEO and more importantly the investors have th
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13y ago
That sounds extremely likely if you look at the way they are going. I completely agree that I have never looked back since I started using Linux instead. If I truly need a Windows machine I will spin up a virtual machine.
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13y ago
Although this is a much better looking concept than what is currently available in Windows 8 I still do not understand how it solves anything for people who actually need to do development on these machines. I would hate to have to do devel
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14y ago
Definitely worth doing that as it is actually a lot more common in the UK for these clauses to be part of any developer's contract than what people realize. Believe me I had to learn it the hard way.