mech422

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by mech422 3y ago
Honestly, 90 might be a bit much - but especially in drugs I'd be happier with longer trials (5 years really seems a bit short to me - turns out we're always finding odd side effects 10-20 years later.)
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by mech422 3y ago
np - welcome to lurking!! Enjoy :-)
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by mech422 3y ago
that sounds more list lobste.rs ... you have to be 'approved' to post a topic, which you get by commenting on existing topics over time. TBH, I've never even bothered opening an account as I find it relaxing to be in 'r
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by mech422 3y ago
Just something I'm noticing, but it seems the majority of people having problems getting new jobs are front-end guys? Does this seem like a fair assessment? Are we just flooded with front-end/full-stack guys? (curious as I'm
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by mech422 3y ago
Nope - COBOL was supposed to make programming a minimum wage job back in the 60s? 70s? RAD environments ditto (VBasic, Clipper, DBase, etc), 'No-Code' - ditto... 40 years later... I haven't been replaced. Aside from all the t
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by mech422 3y ago
well - my son is out of school - but I'll still pay for good schools cuz when I retire I want a doctor that can read... People forget, the young'uns are the ones you'll be counting on as you get older. Best to give them the
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by mech422 3y ago
I gotta agree there! (in general, things have gone better for me as I got older..) Having the kids grown and living their lives, settled in my home life, and still no major health concerns makes it a pretty good time!
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by mech422 3y ago
Dam - Sorry man..I hope things pick up for you soon.
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by mech422 3y ago
>>I have mixed feeling about github's dominance. Yep - I remember what happened with Source Forge/VA Linux. I actually paid for github when it first came out, just to fund it. Still makes me nervous tbh
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by mech422 3y ago
I keep saying I should trying the Moonlander, but I never get around to it. The ErgoDox thumb clusters were too much of a stretch for my thumbs - I think the adjustable ones on the moonlander would help Edit: A Dactyl with a trackball woul
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by mech422 3y ago
>>First, I believe US companies are figuring out how to hire foreign teams at lower cost. FWIW - they figured that out ...15? 20? years ago with the first wave of out sourcing to India.
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by mech422 3y ago
Heh - that sounds like a really bad deal for the butterfly ?
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by mech422 3y ago
>>Indeed so. The highest-paid devs I personally know earn their living working with old COBOL code. It's highly paid simply because there aren't that many expert COBOL programmers around anymore. Heh - my backup retirement p
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by mech422 3y ago
I actually wonder how animals like sea turtles or fish know what to eat...They are not raised or taught by their parents, so is it just trial and error? What stops them from eating poisonous stuff ?
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by mech422 3y ago
I'd say the most important thing would be deciding if you want to fully outsource implementation, or if you want to 'ramp up' your coding to do it yourself. Starting a biz is stressful enough that you might not actually want
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by mech422 3y ago
God, sales and collections suck ... and Net 90 can be a killer for smaller shops (and big clients tend to expect Net 90)
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by mech422 3y ago
>>I will say though that psychology/neurosciences are more in the 'mapping out the problem' stage, due to the considerable complexity of the subject, I really like that turn of phrase...I tend to think we're still
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by mech422 3y ago
This is the first time younger (<15 years experience) have seen a 'bad' outlook for programmers. Ask the older guys - they'll tell you, it happens every 10-15 years and bounces back within a year or two. Also - from what
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by mech422 3y ago
edit: I'm an idiot and you seem to have already looked into debate club stuff and you seem to be looking more recent written or online references? --- I'm guessing being able to express what you've learned permissively is the
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by mech422 3y ago
oh yeah - Can't believe I forgot about Perl and PHP !! Those could be good bets too. Always fun to speculate whats still gonna be around in 20-30 years :-D
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by mech422 3y ago
TLDR: Half the people in the second group needed $20 :-P
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by mech422 3y ago
COBOL was very widespread - there used to be more lines of COBOL in production then any other language (Mostly mainframe and (super-)mini computer stuff (banks, govt, insurance, etc.) In another 20-30 years, Java might be a lot less popular
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by mech422 3y ago
Wow man - Sorry you had such bad time :-/ Hopefully you got something fun now :-) I have noticed over the years that interviewing has gotten more onerous and ghosting has gotten more common. There's never any reason to treat peop
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by mech422 3y ago
Hehe - yeah.. by the time millennials retire I'm not sure what it would be ... Java maybe ?
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by mech422 3y ago
Yeah - I'm sure there's some of that as well. I think its mostly just 'design by committee' for the most part though. A lot of companies don't do sponsorships, etc. so they don't really need to worry about it.
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by mech422 3y ago
sounds like a good plan :-) Trick is to be on the edges - either leading edge or trailing edge. That's where the competition is lowest and the compensation is highest. I do cloud architecture/infrastructure atm, but I figure I&#
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by mech422 3y ago
as I said, I have no problem with a webcam its just a nuisance to setup. If you think thats 'difficult' oh well. Its never been an issue yet, so I'm not gonna worry about it.
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by mech422 3y ago
Typically, only 1-2 of the 'requirements' are actually required (generally the ones that sound most applicable to the actual job..) The rest are usually added by various levels of management that feel they need to 'contribute
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by mech422 3y ago
I don't have video on my 'non-work' machines, and I usually get a 'work' laptop from the company... a webcam is not exactly gonna break the bank, but I hate polluting my home machines with crap. So I guess its not r
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by mech422 3y ago
I'm 55 and still getting interviews... got my last job at 52. The whole "omg, I'm 40 - no tech will hire me" is a bit overblown...

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