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by vizeroth 10y ago
In most cases, it's probably still easier to use C#, but JScript has always been an option in ASP.Net (and classic ASP). I found that the ability to use the same code on the back-end and front-end was nice when you needed it, but those
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by vizeroth 10y ago
Most of the information that makes some of those books worth reading is only easily accessible on the web in the sense that it's pretty easy to find ebooks of many of those books on the web. Many people learn a lot of their development
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by vizeroth 10y ago
Most of the books on the first list represent those I would only read once, and never again (or never at all, like "Head First [Anything]"). The C Programming Language and Refactoring are the exceptions. K&R was one of the tex
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by vizeroth 10y ago
In my case, we have anywhere from 3 to 20+ types of employees, and "staff" is the word commonly used to refer to one of those classifications. Certain information requires different levels of protection for some of those classific
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by vizeroth 10y ago
From the DoJ letter: "Faculty developing UC BerkeleyX courses can, but are not required to, develop courses in collaboration with the Berkeley Resource Center for Online Education (BRCOE). BRCOE follows best practices in design for acc
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by vizeroth 10y ago
One of the things pointed out in the findings is that Berkeley makes people/tools/systems readily available to the people producing these resources, but does not require them to be used. Generally, the costs may be prohibitive aft
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by vizeroth 10y ago
More than likely, the material released to the public is not the material used for enrolled students. At the same time, they most likely have funding to make material accessible to enrolled students on an as-needed basis. If a person with a
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by vizeroth 10y ago
To expand on this, the government of California requires the University of California (UC) and California State University (CSU) systems to comply with the ADA and the Rehabilitation Act of 1974 (if you've ever heard of 508 compliance,
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by vizeroth 10y ago
I'm also 38, and probably at the high end of the majority of the programmers at my workplace, but we have a handful of much older programmers who will probably be retiring over the next 5-10 years, and not many in between (ages in the
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by vizeroth 10y ago
C#/XAML on the front-end could mean that .Net/WPF is rendering the XAML and wiring up the C#. The C# might do little more than handle events triggered by the user interface and update the user interface in response to events trigg
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by vizeroth 10y ago
In my first job, 70+% of the work force within the division had the same job title, and any number on that title had a pay range associated with it that could easily cover many years of mediocre raises with little basis on performance. Duri
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by vizeroth 10y ago
In the last few years, we've started purchasing Dells with Ubuntu pre-installed. Most of them get imaged with Windows 10, but the machines which stay in IT and a small number of faculty members teaching IT-related courses usually get c
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by vizeroth 10y ago
MPEG-4 ALS and SLS were standardized after ALAC was released in OS X/QuickTime/iTunes, but yes, those are two more possibilities when you have an .mp4 or .m4a file, and the pile of other extensions they can use.
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by vizeroth 10y ago
They could have stuck with the .mp4 extension, but they were attempting to reduce the potential for confusion. It's a file extension, once we embrace the fact that it is just a hint (and can be a lie), it doesn't really matter so
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by vizeroth 10y ago
Vista was the first Windows release I really felt was unsuitable for installing on most systems which were purchased before the OS was released. OEMs made the problem worse by pre-installing it on low-to-mid-range systems which had no busin
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by vizeroth 11y ago
Or, to put it another way, the US GDP is over 6 times that of the UK or France, so a 1% difference in GDP amounts to spending almost 10 times as much money. By comparison, China, the #2 spender by $ spends a smaller percentage of their GDP
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by vizeroth 11y ago
Since I was taught in a California public school in the 1980s, I believe I was taught using the Zaner-Bloser method. As someone else mentioned, the lowercase letters look mostly the same, but there are more differences in the uppercase lett
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by vizeroth 11y ago
My typing speed is more than 80 WPM when I'm 12 hours into a bad day and my handwriting is horrid, but I still often use paper to clarify my thoughts, take notes, and draw diagrams. More often than not, I never actually read what I&#x2
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by vizeroth 11y ago
Don't forget the hard-wired Administrator password: "admin"... and no logging to let someone know that someone may have removed into the machine and replaced the Access database holding the votes.
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by vizeroth 11y ago
This usually has little to do with the field of nutrition or the studies themselves. It has to do with how the media reports the findings of the studies, usually without properly understanding them and without putting them into context. Eve
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by vizeroth 11y ago
The first trick is to not have that thing in your fridge, and I know as much as anyone how hard that trick can be to pull off (one helpful part is to go to the store after you eat). In fact, the only quick meal/snack I tend to have on
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by vizeroth 11y ago
Through most of my life I've been distinctly aware that I was lumped into Gen X (born 1978) with some of my aunts and uncles, while my sister (1980) and, more recently, my wife (1981) were usually lumped into some other generation (the
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by vizeroth 11y ago
This point of view, written by someone over 50, ignores the fact that many baby-boomers still want to see themselves the same way they did in their 20s and 30s, making the advertising nearly as effective on them. At the very least, the data
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by vizeroth 11y ago
We had a semester-long required course in high school (usually taken as a freshman) called "Career and Family" which focused on a re-hash of sex ed. and information on the dangers of drug abuse. We also had a semester-long require
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by vizeroth 11y ago
While the K-9 may not be possible for most departments, I know a few departments in Virginia started requiring all units to have a minimum of two officers because gas prices were too high to send a second car every time they needed a second
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by vizeroth 11y ago
In the time since I got my current phone (an S3), my wife's gone through 3 of them (though all S3s, and primarily through insurance replacement). The primary reason I haven't replaced my phone (as this is my third or fourth "
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by vizeroth 11y ago
In 2010, melons, squash, and cucumbers combined accounted for 10% of the irrigated crop area of almonds and pistachios in California. Source: California Department of Water Resources http://www.water.ca.gov/landwateruse&#x2F
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by vizeroth 12y ago
Your job should never overwhelm your ability to do something important with the rest of your life.
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by vizeroth 12y ago
Melbourne: 4,442,919 people (1,100 people/sq mi) Sacramento: 475,122 (4,700 people/sq mi) California's big cities tend to come in closer to Melbourne, or, in some cases, lower. The water districts cited at the top of that L.A
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by vizeroth 12y ago
The Central Valley has never been a fully arid desert as long as there were not farmers there diverting the water. When they created a desert (in the 1800s), the federal government stepped in and diverted water from even further north and e

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