lowken10

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by lowken10 9y ago
About 15 years ago my company made a long term investment in hiring software developers from India. Early on were some of them terrible developers? Yes, but so are many United States based Developers. Now 15 years later I can tell you that
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by lowken10 9y ago
My question is why isn't Elizabeth Holmes in prison? She is a disgrace. And I was a huge fan of hers (I thought she would be a good role model for my daughter) before her crimes came to light.
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by lowken10 9y ago
You idea is something that Marshall Brain wrote about in "Manna"... http://marshallbrain.com/manna1.htm
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by lowken10 9y ago
The company I work for has piles of Visual Basic 6 code that will be here for as long as their product is viable (Prepaid credit cards services). The growth is simply not their to perform a rewrite. It's sad but is also a reality.
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by lowken10 10y ago
She should go to prison.
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by lowken10 10y ago
I love that mindset. By your logic we should all be coding in assembly.
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by lowken10 10y ago
I've been programming professionally for 15 years (C# & SQL Server) and I've encountered exactly one Algebra problem in my entire career. Now some jobs require the most advanced math on the planet. For example the guys that de
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by lowken10 10y ago
I try to use the Why, What, How, What If framework.. Why - Why should you care about this, why does this matter. What - What is it. How - How does it work. What If - Here is the thing you can do right now to get started...
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by lowken10 10y ago
I went after the hair stylist market for three months as part of The Foundation. I quickly came to the realization that it was not a good market for the simple reason that the owners of hair saloons like to cut hair. Because of this they ar
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by lowken10 10y ago
Sometimes people make the mistake thinking that people want the perfect solution when often good enough is fine. One great example is .mp3 vs lossless audio compression. The average listener (myself included) don't care about about per
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by lowken10 10y ago
My first job was at a large casino as a systems analyst. The casino switched CMS software and went to an AS400 RPG based application named ACSC. I took it upon myself to learn the database of the application and also to learn RPG programmin
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by lowken10 10y ago
I agree... Who really cares. If something important happens locally someone will tell you about it.
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by lowken10 10y ago
I love thenewboston... He is great for introduction to a variety of technologies.
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by lowken10 10y ago
Anki includes a free sync feature to keep you desktop and mobile device synced. The only cost of Anki is the one time $25 cost of the iOS version. You can get around this by using the we version on your iPhone.
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by lowken10 10y ago
I agree. I always looked at the math questions first. Then I worked backward to figure them out.
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by lowken10 10y ago
I went to community college and did well enough to get into a real university( University of Florida). The biggest shock of my life was that in most cases my community college teachers were superior to the processors at Florida.
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by lowken10 10y ago
This is why StackOverFlow is magical sometimes. The guy who wrote the darn thing answers the question...
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by lowken10 10y ago
I can't wait to teach my eight-year-old how to code using Swift Playgrounds...
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by lowken10 10y ago
The point is not that kids are going to learn how to program in two 90 minute sessions, rather the point is to spark a kids imagination and maybe that kid decides to explore the subject further. My eight-year-old loves making movies on his
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by lowken10 11y ago
This cracked me up! What a great April Fools Prank!
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by lowken10 11y ago
My wife paid $203/month for ATT service before I switched her to Cricket. Now we pay $35/month. Same phone same network...
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by lowken10 12y ago
You need to post this question to Stackoverflow (www.stackoverflow.com).
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by lowken10 12y ago
Check out Discourse.org. I set this for for Dane Maxwell & Andy Drish of the Foundation and it is a solid modern forum solution. And it's open source.
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by lowken10 12y ago
I couldn't have said it better my self. Global Warming is the biggest scientific fraud since Galileo got into trouble with the Catholic church over the idea that the earth is not the center of the Universe.
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by lowken10 12y ago
I recommend TheFoundation.com, Dane's program changed my life and you are a perfect fit for this program. The program centers on building a SaaS application in order to acheive financial independence, but there is just so much more to
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by lowken10 12y ago
I had my own story of glory. I was in college (1996) and I was in the downtown college bar/club strip. It was at the very beginning of my college career and I hadn't made friends yet. Anyway there was an old Galaga game and I st
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by lowken10 13y ago
Great article.