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by steverb 10y ago
It's more useful than graduating high school and then having to go through two years of mediocre undergraduate courses, no? What did you find non-useful about it? Did you end up having to take just as much undergraduate coursework to m
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by steverb 10y ago
This is currently the approach used by my daughter's school (and a lot of others in Tennessee), dual enrollment. She has some high school classes and takes a few others at the local community college. Next year she will be a senior and
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by steverb 10y ago
I've heard doctors, truck drivers, construction workers and any number of other people complain about the cost of quality tools. For the same reason that people complain about the cost of Apple machines, they don't perceive enough
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by steverb 10y ago
Heck, come to Knoxville TN. Lower cost of living and 100K is fairly easily attainable for a senior dev.
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by steverb 10y ago
I think it's telling that all of your examples of war vets who are successful are officers. As a vet myself, I suspect the percentages of officers who have trouble acclimating is markedly lower than that of enlisted.
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by steverb 10y ago
Judging from the context, I suspect it mean hiring former blue collar people to fill what would traditionally be professional roles (IT). Basically, they laid off a bunch of expensive, educated and experienced people and are now looking to
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by steverb 10y ago
I had CF on my resume for quite a while as well, although I took it off to reduce the number of recruiters calling me. Back in the age of classic ASP, Perl scripts and CGI scripts, Cold Fusion was a very decent technology choice. It was my
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by steverb 10y ago
My pet peeve is needing a knife to cut steak. If I'm paying restaurant prices for steak, then it ought to be tender.
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by steverb 10y ago
I know with previous versions of .NET you could, using MSBUILD. That's how we actually built things on the CI server. There were .csproj files and other XML files to deal with, but you can edit those by hand if you feel the need to. I
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by steverb 10y ago
It's generally been part my job as a dev manager to be the first one to install Visual Studio RCs. I've never experienced any conflict other than Windows choosing the wrong version of Studio to open a project with when I double cl
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by steverb 10y ago
We call it the lottery factor to try and put a more positive spin on it.
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by steverb 10y ago
I think that's a really good synopsis of Stephenson's style, which is in part why I like his writing. There's always these little gems of actual knowledge buried in there. I find them delightful. I'm not super fond of th
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by steverb 10y ago
Out of curiosity, what difference does any one person's choice of git client matter? As long as the developers are using git, the client they use a front-end shouldn't make any difference to the rest of the team. I've yet to
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by steverb 10y ago
Tolkien was Catholic, Lewis was Church of England. Although I'm not sure what bearing that factoid has on the discussion.
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by steverb 10y ago
The quarrel, I think, is that APCs are not tanks. Completely different vehicles, designed for completely different missions.
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by steverb 10y ago
Funny, I use the quality of the toilet paper as a proxy for how the company treats its regular employees.
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by steverb 10y ago
The original article is at: http://www.wired.com/2016/04/office-technology-assessment-co...
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by steverb 10y ago
Hello younger me. I did go back to college and graduated. It didn't help with the impostor syndrome. It did fill in some gaps in my knowledge and opened a few career doors for me though. It was worth it, but that was due in large part
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by steverb 11y ago
Neither do they seem to appreciate my honest opinion that coworker X is a complete and total moron who shouldn't be allowed to tie his shoe laces unsupervised, much less be writing code. I think that honestly is valued when we are talk
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by steverb 11y ago
Definitely true. Heck, I hate the OSHA guy myself, and the union enforcement guy, and anyone else who it seems is trying to keep me from just getting shit done.
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by steverb 11y ago
It's possible it's a reference to her voice. But not having met her, I don't know. It's also possible, that were she a big burly guy they might not have treated her the same way. Either way, it sounds like the place hand
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by steverb 11y ago
Bad Egg
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by steverb 11y ago
Diagramming also has the added benefit of being a more precise way of communication how a system works. I've found that a 30 minute discussion can be turned into a 2 minute explanation with the use of a diagram. Personally, I can'
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by steverb 11y ago
No the parent you were asking, but my philosophy with my kids has always been to own up to my mistakes as quickly as possible and then make it as right as I can. I've had to apologize to each of my kids more times than I can count. The
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by steverb 11y ago
The lack of jobs growth doesn't seem that surprising, but the lack of productivity growth does. Is it just that new technologies aren't really all that relevant to increasing productivity? Are we just not adopting technologies tha
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by steverb 11y ago
When did iOS and Android become languages?
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by steverb 11y ago
That was my initial thought as well, but the article is referring to holding the DNA that has the information encoded in it, in water. Title was a tiny bit sensationalist.
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by steverb 11y ago
I haven't found that to be the case...but I do mostly LOB apps, which honestly aren't all that demanding from a UI perspective. Requirements gathering is hell though, which is where my team actually earns their money.
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by steverb 11y ago
The reason I use bootstrap: It looks good enough, and I don't have to spend time arguing with the UI guy over the "integrity of the design". The people paying my bills would rather have functionality that looks good enough no
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by steverb 11y ago
Ah. I thought the OP was implying they said "dot". We used both versions depending on context (twenty eight point eight and twenty eight eight). Might be an age thing though, I was post teen years when the movie came out and tende

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