Steve, The Pitkin Colorado area is very different from the 'tourist traps' around resort areas.  Pitkin is a small mining town of maybe 300 people in summer and about 100...

One incentive for relocating now is record low interest.  If you're going to have a mortgage, this is the time. I'm 77 and have never seen rates like this.

From Donald Knuth & Sir Tony Hoare:

Computer Programming as an Art (1974)

1974 Turing Award Lecture, Communications of the ACM 17 (12), (December 1974), pp. 667–673

The real problem is that programmers have spent far too...

Where ever there is an ocean I can get in.  Hawaii would be nice, but expensive.  USVI, Caribbean Islands, almost any place where it won't snow.  I would love...

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Yes George, bears.  They would rummage through folks garbage cans if they left them outside, and we even had them come up on our deck right outside the living...

I never worked full-time full-time at home, only selected days when fuel for commuting got very expensive.  After growing up on an Illinois farm, I spent the first parts of...

5 developers (actually more, but 5 was a typical number of SQL developers on roster at the same time) developed a system with weekly -partitioned transaction tables. It was...

The greatest danger of a '10x programmer' or a 'superstar programmer' is WHO THINKS THEY ARE SUCH.

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Ten centuries, I never knew where that advice came from but I told my sons that:  "You don't need to know all the answers.  You just need to know how...

Wingenious, love your handle.  It's very creative.  And congratulations on your 40+ years in IT.   I quit at 42 years myself.  Hope you can retire soon if you aren't already, ...

Two things regarding this article:

First, yes, I have dealt with 'imposters' in the disguise of 'consultants'.  My take on consultants advice is: "I can't do it myself but I can...

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You should all be happy that I have moved for a job instead of going on the dole.

I'm pretty sure I've used every version of Windows since Windows 286 .  I even have the 286 version install saved on 3.5" disks. The oldest version I am using...

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Agreed and true, Eric.  Just be sure to keep up the original skill sets in case some new job opportunity should require them.   When things become too easy,...

Well said, Eric.