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by wernercd 8y ago
Can you sync if it's locked?
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by wernercd 8y ago
There are 10 ways to understand everything: 1) A stack 10) a queue
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by wernercd 8y ago
I started as a programmer at 30. I got a 2 year degree at a local college and took the first programming job I could get ($21/k year). 10 years in and I make 6 figures working for a major bank. How to get started? Pick up some classes?
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by wernercd 8y ago
And Windows was dependent in Internet Explorer to operate. And that dependence was both created artificially and then abused. Why can't YouTube switch to, say, Azure? Or Oracle Cloud? or whatever other magic exists? Infrastructure exis
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by wernercd 8y ago
> history of racism US is one of the least racist - up to and including freeing slaves. https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/worldviews/wp/2013/05/15...
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by wernercd 8y ago
The barista can have a degree and 6 figures of debt... And the plumber has a trade degree and 6 figures in the bank. I'm okay not having a 4 year degree (I have a 2 year degree and a 6 figure job) and I'm okay letting others know
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by wernercd 8y ago
The old wisdom that "College is Worth It, No Matter What." is no longer true (assuming it ever was). Trades, IT jobs and the inability to bankruptcy out of bad decisions... paired with colleges that are more focused on head count
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by wernercd 8y ago
> That's not what cloud based means here. Ahh, I misunderstood then... I hear cloud and I think server based. I would think cloud-hosted "gaming" - as in RDP type gaming?... the latency alone would kill it for me. I stand
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by wernercd 8y ago
> do players actually want this? What makes companies the most money? One shot games? Or never ending games with repeat buys? I see more of the later and not really the former... That tells me that whether or not what gamers 'want&
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by wernercd 8y ago
> Rarely finishing a game till the end. Today's games don't have an "end". They have a journey. But seriously... can you blame game companies? How many millions are made by one-and-done games? Even block busters the
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by wernercd 8y ago
Contrary to all economic evidence? Unions don't represent me. What "evidence" is there besides that? As a fiscal conservative republican/libertarian - unions do not represent anything about me. At all. People being &quot
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by wernercd 8y ago
Why not unionize? Unions don't represent me. Unions represent... the union. The labor movement is in a sorry state because unions live longer than their useful period. There are spots where unions remain useful... but those are few and
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by wernercd 8y ago
Smart TVs can be left unconfigured and not plugged in via Ethernet.
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by wernercd 8y ago
How many "over valued" "Amazons" died? Compared to the Unicorns like... well... Amazon? It's like saying "All houses built in 1900 are built SOLID because look at all the 100 year old houses that still exist&qu
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by wernercd 8y ago
The problem with good Dictators - and dictatorships... is a good one is one step away from dying to a bad one.
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by wernercd 8y ago
To see what they'd ask?
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by wernercd 8y ago
> Looking ahead three years, I knew what the better choice would be for my career. Sure there is money now for C# developers but that’s not where the market is going. My decision is real simple... Microsoft has one thing most of those st
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by wernercd 8y ago
I would give one guess: Practice and progression. How do you overcome fear? practice and progression. What's improv? Practice and progression. maybe a bit simplistic... but some answers are just that simple.
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by wernercd 8y ago
.Net Developer here and I've never been unable to find good paying jobs or expand my career in interesting directions. JavaScript is a good goal... but not because there's a lack of C# viability.
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by wernercd 8y ago
if the output is the same but America's cut is greater... doesn't that mean it's a net positive for the US? More US gas = more US profit? Seems like a win to me...
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by wernercd 8y ago
This - everyone judges everyone. It's not an American thing. It's not a black/white thing. It's a "Humans are judgmental pricks without fail" thing. I think it's disingenuous to say "only my people RE
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by wernercd 8y ago
> Technically inferior solutions It wasn't just EA - Blizzard, uPlay, GOG, etc. All with different strengths and weaknesses. > compete with Origin Origin is garbage and a reason I won't own games that are connected to it (I
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by wernercd 8y ago
> A truly liberal (in the John Stuart Mill / Enlightenment sense of the word) education gives you the tools you need to engage with the world. But the current education system doesn't give you either. You don't get tools
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by wernercd 8y ago
"Technical" is part of the excuse... Don't pretend that the "only" reason a company chooses to not do something is "technical". As I said... there are many reasons - and a company exists to make money. If
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by wernercd 8y ago
> they could have emulated it What's the cost/benefit of that? How much would it cost to build it and how much could they make? You can theoretically do ANYTHING... but a business exists to make money... Why does Microsoft sup
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by wernercd 8y ago
Maybe the cities should work towards building more housing in the areas affected?
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by wernercd 8y ago
Yeah... the bigger reason to move away from Java isn't Getters and Setters... The bigger reason is one word: Oracle Whether you go towards C# or other companies... Oracle is a horrible company.
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by wernercd 8y ago
The key to being a good Marine is never give up, always give 100%... I had a good work ethic before and the Marines definitely put the rest of it into me. Other things it gave me was leave work on time (otherwise you are staying for awhile)
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by wernercd 8y ago
Agreed. But, unfortunately, I followed the standard Marine path: Married, deployed, divorced in 5 years. Thankfully, no kids. I almost went back in in 2007... but, basically, had to choose between that path and my current fiance (of 11 year
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by wernercd 8y ago
I started at $21k in 2010 as a programmer * 2000-2005 USMC * 2005-2008 various (Unable to decide what I wanted to do when I grew up) * 2008-2010 A.A.S. Computer Information Systems * 2010-2015 Backend Developer, 21k => 50k * 2015-2016 De

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