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by epalmer 10y ago
I manage 134 branded sites for a university and a handful of other sites. We target IE11, Edge, Safari, FireFox and Chrome compatibility with desktop and mobile (ios, android). Once Microsoft announced sunsetting support for earlier browse
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You would be surprised at how many private liberal arts schools are north of $40,000 / year and how many people pay full pay. Even schools that are mid to low tier are charging a lot for a 4 year education. I suspect that many of the
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I have this conversation frequently. And I am speaking about the USA since that is where I live. The sad fact is that most people need a job to live in the world. And increasingly jobs are more scarce for many majors and not paying as wel
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All suggestions are accepted. She so wants to be a librarian so am MLS is it. I have a friend that is getting a BS in Mechanical Engineering this year. Then next year a ME in Engineering Management. His plan is then to get an MBA.
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My Opinion Only: If you are going to an Ivy League school you are paying for the network / brand. If you are going to a lesser tier selective school you are paying for outcomes. But the outcomes, I believe, are starting to lag the pr
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I'm finding this confusing as well. I write some Java programs for my employer. I just use the SDK/JDK. Most of what we do is use apache came, with spring and apache httpclient with some other non-oracle libraries for processing
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I did not read your comments as disparaging. All is good.
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Packrat I think this is very accurate. My daughter read your comment and agrees.
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Thanks. She is sitting beside me right now and I will tell her.
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FuzzyZeus you are correct. However the free market is dictating that an MLS is required. this may change in time. Many librarian jobs are going away with the advent of great search engines and robotic book stack pickers. She got 4 years of
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by epalmer 10y ago
It is a little more complicated and it is not as bad as it sounds for her. Undergraduate degree in sociology and a minor in anthropology. BA in sociology is not very employable but is the most common undergraduate degree for librarians. Onc
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I have two girls, 24 and 18 years old. Both live at home right now. The 24 year old graduated from a selective private liberal arts college in 2015 and is working part time in a library. She does not qualify for health insurance or many ot
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I don't use SQL that much in my day to day work but I have a need that Windowing will satisfy. Thanks to @mariuz for submitting this. I use Oracle mostly so I don't even have to worry about syntax differences.
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You might be right. I run circles around some of the youngsters I work with. Yet I still feel like an imposter.
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It is not that bad. All are in a push CMS. We have a staff for content and UX. Many sites are small. Probably total 15,000 pages for all sites. These are univeristy sites so they are not complex apps. But there is a lot of backend code
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Sure do.
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I'm 63 with a BS in Chemistry and MS in Environmental Systems Engineer. I was a student teacher of microbiology when I was in graduate school. I started coding fortran in HS about 1969 or 1970. > I'm pretty knowledgeable about
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I'm about as far away from AI and a developer can be. I found this article to be a fun read. When there is hype, there is really hype. This should be a lesson to journalist, fan boys/girls and VC. Pay attention to reality.
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I created and deployed a vagrant centos 6.8 development environment for our dev team because we are developing for RHEL 6.8. It was not very hard to do.
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I guess I was hiding under a rock. I did not see the original post nor the comment that ended the experiment. But I can go days without looking at HN. I try not let is be days but life gets in the way. I like the mostly reflective ability
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> I arrived in Lagos on Saturday night. Sunday I went to church, rode on the back of a motorcycle (it was okay, I’d been to church)... I had to laugh out loud at that. I'm not sure it works that way. Thanks for the post. Its intere
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Yup. I was like no Fing way when I read that one. Keep up the optimism.
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I would have been fine. I've owned two small businesses that paid well at the time. I worked a lot of hours but I had fun with those companies.
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Absolutely right. In my job I find that my seniority gives me time to think more however. It depends on your circumstance and the work culture and boss relationship. I report to the CIO and he has little need to know details. He cares abo
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It was both. With bonuses and options + salary I took about a 50% pay cut. My hours went from an average of maybe 70 / week to 40/week. My kids, now grown, thought I was a grump. Now they enjoy me being around. Same for my wi
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by epalmer 10y ago
I'm going to apologize ahead of time. this might be a ramble. 63 year old white guy with little hair and a lifelong beard that is now white. A tad overweight as well. I feel for so many people expressing angst about ageism. I've
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I started with hallucinogens recreationally when I was 14 in 1967 and continued on and off till I was 28 or so. But I never was into intense partying. My experiences were usually alone, or in small groups with an occasional concert. I was l
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Smiling at that one.
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Farming indoors with LEDs can be profitable now(qz.com)
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I'm senior in many regards and act as a back end dev and system engineer. Plus I manage the dev group. I informally mentor some junior front-end devs on developer productivity and testing. After reading the article and comments I am go

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