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Ask HN: 44-year old software developer – what now?
17 points by mb_72 10y ago|13 comments
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by mb_72 10y ago
Cut thinner slices; the toaster doesn't need 'fixing'.
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Although my main gig is software, I've also been manufacturing electronic music gadgets for 15 years. The most significant difference in thinking for me was, for hardware, always keeping in mind "this item is being shipped across
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"Sanité" - it's related to 'moissanite', the 'é' makes it sound classy, and of course it's pronounced 'sanity' as that is what it brings to the whole ridiculous diamond situation.
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Some people can be taught to write code, however far fewer can be taught to or have the natural ability to problem solve. This is the 'art' aspect behind software development that I feel the 'teach everyone to code' appr
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Thanks, yes, I have those things on my 'to monitor the progress of' list. Fortunately I've had a very good specialist doctor the the 15 years of my diagnosis, and he is happy to share 'research is going on in the area of
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I never drank when I was first diagnosed, and didn't for some years afterwards. Now I sometimes do, but whether I do or don't there is no noticeable influence on my illness. Still, if you have found something that seems to work, y
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This is excellent news. I am slightly ashamed to admit that an ex-g/f once convinced me to go to a homeopath to try and treat my Crohns, and back then I was completely ignorant of what that meant. Some hundreds of dollars later and a c
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Indeed. I've been using XS on Mac and VS on PC to build a cross-platform product - with shared code for 'core' calculations + view model stuff and dedicated GUI pieces for each platform - for a couple of years now, and I&#x27
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Seems to me some geographic map of interested HN posters + contact info might slow and even reverse this 'friendship loss'; HN 'friendship dating' if you will. People posting here already would have a lot in common, and
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Unfortunately these kind of beliefs can be harmful not only to autistic children but their parents also. This is not about 'belief', it's simply that you have no evidence to support your claims.
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I've worked with a PCB layout designer, and one comment he made is that it's far easier to do a 'by eye' check of, firstly, the virtual layout in CAD, and then the assembled board when things are arranged neatly or at &#
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Same here; I've written a cross-platform (PC and Mac) .NET application that generates reports as HTML in shared code, and both systems create printable output as PDF files created by WKHTMLTOPDF.
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We've got 10-12 users connected to a SBS 2013 server with a couple of RAIDed HDDs and 8GB RAM, and - yes - the SQL Server service pegs out at the maximum allowed RAM (which I think is 1GB or so) pretty much the whole day. However the p
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I've been using the 'Express' version of MS SQL Server in production for some years now with a handful of small clients, including my current 'in-office' employer. It's not hard to setup a 3rd-party backup solu
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IMO, it depends on how long you are planning to stay there. For a year - it might be ok, especially if you are working on your own stuff (that isn't in Delphi) out of hours. There is nothing wrong with Delphi from a technical point of
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Real, but usually only if you have an 'outside toilet'; I had one of these in a WWII-era home located in a country area of Australia, and there would often be red-back spiders + eggs under the seat. Still, easily checked for and d
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Australian here. What you say is true, but avoid long grass (snakes) when out walking and check under the toilet seat (spiders) before sitting and you'll be fine. More importantly, make sure you look up constantly when around gum trees
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Yes, it happens, but that one ant then is apparently too selfish to go back again for the others.
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"People outside the Philippines are greatly misinformed by the media." I'm not sure that the people inside the country are any better informed. For one thing, I'm curious as to how you were presented with the "600K+
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I'm curious - is this a 'known and standard' protocol adopted universally across many airlines? Or how do you know this? I guess I'm thinking that if this is 'known and standard' it may also be possible to desi
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Yes, and what they have chosen - in Estonia for example - is to still claim to be 'Russian' but not actually live in Russia; this is because even such 'true patriots' realise their lives are better and freer not being in
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Cue invasion of the Putin-sponsored posters or raging Russian patriots in 3 2 1 ... Russians are fed, and very often believe, a state-sponsored reality that blames the West for internal problems.
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This doesn't ring true for me, at least - I've been programming professionally (using SQL) since the mid-90s, and these days very much appreciate the time-savings that ORMs (on Windows, for the most part) provide. With my favourit
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Nope. Try adding a Client Group with no clients via the API - you can't. Xero have admitted that it's a problem, and basically won't commit to ever fixing it. There are another couple of examples relating to problems with the
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Why 'unfortunate'? What is 'unfortunate' is developers having prejudice against any OS / IDE / language / etc; it restricts your creation of solutions for the problems that need to be solved. Keeping up wi
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Such components - I use Developer Express components - greatly accelerate development time and offer extra functionality out of the box. None of my clients care one white about open source, they just want their products developed quickly.
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From 1994-2001 I worked (in a small team) on a C++/Paradox school administration system; it's still in use today in hundreds of public schools in South Australia. I think they've tried to replace it via tender at least once,
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I was specifically referring to your comment "There are loads and loads of teams using it, all sure that it's the short cut that will build for everything with one code base, but so few wins." that implied knowledge above one
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6 months is not 'short', and you have - while negging me I presume - overlooked the documentation requirements for such a visa: https://www.border.gov.au/Trav/Visa-1/600-/Visitor-visa-(sub... (botto

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