bruce511

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Yeah, I'm more in this camp too. We did a lot of practical modules, things like OS development, databases and so on. So yeah, learning programming was the first couple months, then programming becomes the tool to express progress in kn
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>> It depends on where you took computer science. Well, yeah. That's true for any field of study. Every college has strengths and weaknesses- its the opposite of a franchise. >> I took a few foundational classes at communit
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Firstly, and this is worth pointing out, "computer science" is not about programming. It's about science, in this case specifically the science that makes computers work. At school I thought "computer science" meant
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Age discrimination is real, of course, just about everywhere. My experience though is different to yours. I joined a bootstraped company in 1992 as emp number 1. Basically me and the founder. We were both in our 20s. In those years everyon
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I did this, so I completely agree with this advice. But of course then you really need to do the business first, and right, and the coding comes second. If you plan to go down this route I recommend exposure to accounting either at school
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Somewhat true if you remain a programmer. Much less true once you have an understanding of the business. As a programmer your skills are very replaceable. Your domain knowledge less so, and your knowledge of the code base even less so. If y
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Since whether you have a case or not depends entirely on the specifics of your options (or shares or whatever), it's impossible to give you legal advice beyond "get a lawyer". Presumably when you were an employee you understo
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Behavior is remarkably hard to change. Smoking kills you, but people still smoke. Remarkably people still take up smoking. People like sugar, and the effects of that are well understood, yet we still eat it (some in more moderation than oth
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Currently being certified has no value, not to Open Source, not to Closed Source, since companies are clearly doing fine without it. So it's hard to see them paying extra for it. We've had professional certifications for years. No
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Yeah, it seemed to jump the shark a bit here. Professional bodies, certified engineers, taking on liability for Open Source code... there's a LOT going on here... Here's what'll really happen; no one cares or wants yo be a ce
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I'm upvoting you because you make a coherent argument, and votes here should be for that, not whether I agree with you or not. I would agree he's not George Bush, much less Ronald Reagan. Nevertheless those who voted for Bush and
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>>They thought they voted for something different Like what exactly? I mean the guy ran on cutting the budget by 2 trillion. In his last term he gave tax breaks yo the rich. Where did they think the cuts were coming from? He ran very
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You're talking about an individual stock price. I'm talking about the market. Put another way, your strategy completely works because stocks (as a market) trend upward. You'd want to better define "above" and "
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Frankly there's not much gleaned from stock prices over a short term. The market can be very reactive to events, but then quickly recover once the "new normal" is established. There are certainly indications that the economy
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... all presuposing of course that the authors of that code are still around, and still want to make the effort of updating it. In the enterprise world lots of software is more than a decade old, and no one is prepared to "update"
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It's interesting how personal experience colors this view. Personally I've had the odd colleague who didn't care, but they typically moved on, or got moved on, after a while. But lots of people here have obviously experienced
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Its interesting to see how developers get into a mindset, based on their life experience. What we're seeing here is 40 year old code compile and run with minimal effort. Largely because the C language has respected backwards compatibil
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It's hard to monetize it without doing a bunch more work. I monetize my code for a living. I'd say about 25% of my time is the fun part of writing the code (that just works for me.) The rest is in debugging the code for all the ed
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I'm not downvoting you, because I think you make an argument that many would make. "Tariffs apply to imports, so produce locally instead". The argument unfortunately has 2 flaws; A) local production is expensive (which is why
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Apple can agree to invest 500B to build a factory, but they don't have to actually do it. Building a factory takes years, and a big chunk of that happens long before you actually start work on site. You gotta find a site, work with loc
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I agree, at this point. There is of course voter agency in 2 years. Of course lots of voters (specifically the ones that voted for this) are pretty happy with the way things are going. So any kind of blowback is uncertain at best. If the po
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I'm not sure it takes more space than a menu and toolbar, but regardless, monitors are a LOT larger now than in 2003 so... Frankly, I'm motivated sure customizing is a win either. I fo a lot of remote support and it's nice to
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At the risk of an unpopular view, and the inevitable downvotes, I think it's worth stating the following; If your business model is raising money from VCs then doing things VCs want is important to getting paid. All businesses tailor t
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In an earlier life I was an airport fireman. It was in the late 80's so I'm pretty sure things have changed, but physics stays the same. Firstly the engines on these beasts are massive. My truck had 4500 gallons of water and 500 g
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The largest 3 blocks of the budget are military, social security and Medicare. Personally I'd happily decimate the military budget. Social security however is very popular. As is Medicare.
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Surely though in this example the issue us not taxation but rather spending? I would suggest it until the revenue collection that is the issue, but the outcomes of revenue spent. If 100% of the students graduated, went on to college, and gr
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If not taxes, how do you suggest public infrastructure is funded? That road you drive on for example? What about public service workers? Teachers, Firemen, Police etc? What about external costs? If I'm dumping rubbish in the local stre
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If you work for startups, especially boot-strapped startups, there will always be cash-flow constraints sooner or later. Personally it came about a year into my first job. Fortunately my wife was working, and we had minimal expenses, so we
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He gives people permission to be their worst selves. When the president gets away with all sorts of crime. When he openly mocks people. When he indulges in racism. When he complains about being treated unfairly. When he lies. When he defrau
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>> Just look at problems you experience yourself. This could be in your day-to-day life, at work, in an industry you have experience in, or in something you’re passionate about. Start by simply looking for a problem, not a solution I

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