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by danzig13 8y ago
Solyndra was not some one off government boondoggle. It was the recipient of government loan guarantees from the Department of Energy intended to inject investment into the monopoly run, risk averse energy sector. The same program financed
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by danzig13 9y ago
I pretty much acknowledge that in my second paragraph.
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by danzig13 9y ago
Terrifying. As much as anything, because I could see how it could be justified. How awesome would it be if that guy who drives like an asshole all the time would actually have that affect his life? However, of course the system will be used
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by danzig13 9y ago
Depending on how awful the process / culture is you might be right. However, it does go a long way to avoiding that outcome if technical types can juggle a couple business or other concerns outside of their narrow job description.
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by danzig13 9y ago
For a job after university probably, but I meant to speak to a tuition waiver at a foreign university. I doubt tuition waiver plus stipend would approach that in most other countries. Even for the job scenario, you get a tax credit for fore
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by danzig13 9y ago
Not sure the full story behind the microchip but landing men on the moon took a bit of government money.
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by danzig13 9y ago
Tuition would be much lower, I think you are credited for the taxes you would pay in country, and generally - while you have to report foreign income - you have to make quite a bit before tax would be assessed.
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by danzig13 9y ago
Excel+PowerQuery is and will continue to be the most capable and accessible scratch pad people use. That is: get data out of your central system(s), crunch it in Excel, feed the results back to your central system and reference the spreadsh
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by danzig13 9y ago
If the manager / CEO / businessy business person is holistically concerned with the health of the business and the software engineer is only concerned with their domain of expertise, they are relatively childish compared to that p
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by danzig13 9y ago
Speaking of bad and boring verticals to explore, any aspect of manufacturing software - CAD, CAM, PLM - please would some Silicon Valley types look into it?
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by danzig13 9y ago
I believe this is true in the United States also. I definitely have constant post code envy and look up houses all the time. Housing costs a fortune for anything move in ready in any city/town that is desirable and I'm looking in
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by danzig13 9y ago
Sentimentally, too bad. Spitefully, good. I learned of the framework early-ish and following it introduced me to good concepts that I would not have pursued - my undergrad program was ASP.NET forms based. However, as much as I enjoyed devel
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by danzig13 9y ago
I think the Internet's greatest failure is its inability to protects its own disruptive nature. I can just feel it slowly becoming a set of proverbial cable companies.
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by danzig13 10y ago
This seems to be a theme of my comments lately, but I wonder why the writer doesn't mention SSAS, SSIS and SSRS as alternatives.
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by danzig13 10y ago
I have used it recently. The main thing I like is that it organizes code visually as workflows and it has many pre-packaged "tasks" you can use. This means I didn't have to come up with some structure for 900 script files. I
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by danzig13 10y ago
Not sure if this is a great answer, but many COTS solutions have chosen it as the only DBMS they support for one thing. Also, purchasing SQL Server does not just get you a DBMS, but several serviceable business intelligence tools. SQL Serve
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by danzig13 13y ago
I don't see how the possibility of a revenue stream they have never depended on is going to encourage to decrease the price. I predict they will just take advantage of people's willingness to pay $60 and collect on it.
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by danzig13 13y ago
I have an MIS degree and have had no trouble working alongside CS grads my entire career. Likewise for my family member with an Engineering Technology degree. I don't think there is that huge of a gap. It is still about getting your foot in