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by steverb 15y ago
Please don't do this. If you can figure out the solution by explaining the problem to someone else, then you've just wasted the time of your co-workers. At least take the time to sit down and write up a detailed explanation of the problem f
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by steverb 15y ago
I think most VS power users do that as well. I honestly can't remember the last time I clicked an icon on the toolbar. One of the really nice things about pair programming is the number of times I've started hunting through a menu for an op
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by steverb 15y ago
Actually, it was basically 2-Legged OAuth 1. I was shaking my head all the way through the article, having gone through the same process about a year and a half ago. We (developers) do love re-inventing wheels.
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by steverb 15y ago
Different types of learning. I got very high grades in all my courses during college, but a number of them were due to the fact that I am really good at cramming and figuring out what to study and what to ignore. That's what it means to be
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by steverb 15y ago
Actually, Microsoft now makes it ridiculously easy to install an AMP stack on Windows. Just run the web platform installer and select the bits you want. http://www.microsoft.com/web/downloads/platform.aspx
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by steverb 15y ago
Windows has power shell, or bash, or zsh, or perl if that's what floats your boat. I use bash myself, but to each their own. You don't have to use the shell that comes preinstalled.
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by steverb 15y ago
No. Learn C#. There is much wider adoption of C#, and in the early days of .NET C# skills actually commanded a higher salary (it has the letter C, it must be good). C# gets a lot more love from MS than VB does.
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by steverb 15y ago
Yes, ASP.NET MVC is very practical. It's not completely main stream in the .NET community right now, and you will find that a lot of enterprises are still on Web Forms. None of that matters in the slightest though. You do not want to work a
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by steverb 15y ago
In my case the two tend to cluster together. I've found that the EHS is usually triggered by a small physical sound in the environment, like the house ticking as it cools. It was scary as hell for me when it first started happening, but I'v
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by steverb 15y ago
I'm not sure how this qualifies as "epic" except in how long it felt. Otherwise, it feels like a poorly conceived ad for Thomvest's companies. At least, that's the impression I got from the first three minutes.
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by steverb 15y ago
That actually explains my interviewing experience pretty well. Every job that I've been hired for I was sure that the interview did not go all that well.
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by steverb 15y ago
If you work as part of a twenty member team, then for most purposes that team is the company to you. Everyone else in the company is more or less outsourced services to your team. But you're right, it is a bigger deal.
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by steverb 15y ago
I don't know about IBM, but I have worked in several large well established companies and when someone (decent) quits everyone looks around to figure out WTF is going on. I have lived through 2 mass exoduses, where a company started going d
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by steverb 15y ago
It looks like a large part of his public career has revolved around getting a rise out of people, but judging from this one article, he displays most of the same faults that he is decrying in "today's youth". The only difference is that he
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by steverb 15y ago
As an older and occasionally burnt out elder: #2: If the intern was interning in a janitorial/house keeping role, then sure make them take out the garbage and restock your toilet paper. But chances are they're not. If you're not giving them
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by steverb 15y ago
My general impression is that whenever someone uses a title like "ninja" is that the company is either a super large, largely clueless enterprise which is unwilling to pay market rates or a super small, largely clueless start-up which is un
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by steverb 15y ago
Yes. It just causes the single page to crash. The rest of my tabs are unaffected. I personally don't think this is a big deal, unless there were some way to execute evil code. It's not the first time I've had a page crash a Chrome tab.
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by steverb 15y ago
It appears to crash Google Chrome on Windows 7 as well, which makes me think that it's a problem with WebKit. Firefox 3.6.3 was a little iffy with it and stopped responding several times, but did eventually pull through. IE 9 did not appear
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by steverb 15y ago
I think the CD popping out of the slot right next to the button would be enough feedback.
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by steverb 15y ago
I don't think the blame can be necessarily be placed entirely on the school systems though. I find that I have to fight my own urges to over schedule my kids' free time. I am also way more involved in my kids' lives than my parents were, fo
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by steverb 15y ago
Well, to be fair, replacement batteries for Dells are crazy expensive too. When the batteries in my wife's laptop start going bad (which they inevitably do because of her usage pattern) she usually just limps along until we can buy a new ma
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by steverb 15y ago
Fortunately, my Apple II GS (Woz Edition!) had a physical disk eject button. I understand the dislike of physical buttons, but I don't understand why Apple doesn't at least put a capacitance button on there (like the 360 has).
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by steverb 15y ago
Reminds me of my first experience with an OS-X Macbook and how I began to hate Apple. I was creating a web site for the company I was employed by at the time, and being the gung-ho developer I am thought that we should test the site out on
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by steverb 15y ago
I've done something similar and flip-flopped back and forth between Ubuntu and Windows. Other than the initial pain of installing Ubuntu and getting everything working just right (which actually wasn't any worse than Windows) I never had an
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Trying Rails and Mac. Confessions of a .NET Developer(blog.jitbit.com)
14 points by steverb 15y ago|8 comments
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by steverb 15y ago
Not to be snarky, but this is the previous/current software revolution. If you pay attention, you'll see that there is a steady pendulum in IT that swings from server side (greenscreen, remote desktops, web apps) to client side. Right now,
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by steverb 15y ago
You should learn both. Presuming that you already know how to program, neither platform is insanely difficult to learn, although I find Android to be friendlier to develop for. Then you should learn HTML5 + Javascript. If you're just wonder
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by steverb 15y ago
Crap. I pitched this idea to about 10 people (other devs) last year and couldn't get anyone interested in trying it with me. I obviously need to work on my sales skills.
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by steverb 15y ago
Because generally you don't merely right click. You right click and then have to navigate a small menu of options to find the one you want. The big button on the ribbon is a huge target and is generally easier for users to hit and click. An
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by steverb 15y ago
What the heck, I'll bite. I'm underwhelmed by the 4S, just as I was underwhelmed by the iPAD. I don't see the appeal of either of those at the price point at which they are offered. In my opinion they're not significantly better than the te

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