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  • Reply To: Micro Credentials

    I think experience is more valuable than education but it is also much harder to get.  Comment for the interviewing process:  "Don't tell me what you know.  Tell me what...

  • Reply To: The Costumed DBA

    Jasona, I remember that on my first job as a developer trainee, all of us in a group of developers at Bendix Corp wore dress shirts and ties.  There were...

    • This reply was modified 5 years, 11 months ago by skeleton567.
  • Reply To: The Costumed DBA

    Hey, good morning to you all.  Sitting here in bed drinking coffee, I'm thinking maybe for my costume I'll dress up like I'm going to work!

    • This reply was modified 5 years, 11 months ago by skeleton567.
  • Reply To: Experiment First

    Geoff,  sorry but I guess I missed the point.  Maybe it's the hot buttered rum I just finished, but that's all right.  I'm retired and sitting at my home office...

    • This reply was modified 5 years, 11 months ago by skeleton567.
  • Reply To: Laptop Recommendations for 2019

    Steve and all:

    I've been using an Asus Republic of Gamers 17" laptop for probably 5 years now and love it.  Specs are:

    Intel i7-4700HQ 2.4 GHz processor, 8gb 64-bit x64 running...

    • This reply was modified 5 years, 11 months ago by skeleton567.
  • Reply To: Experiment First

    Rod

    I'm not all that familiar with Stack Overflow as I have only been on it a few times when it comes up in a general web search.  But I agree...

  • Reply To: Experiment First

    Steve, I appreciate your comments and the invitation to share.  My largest retirement pass time is experimenting with storing, cleaning  and manipulating data and crafting ways to move it among...

  • Reply To: Experiment First

    You make good points this morning.  I think I was always the 'find the answer myself' type, mainly because lots of my career was before the days of electronic interaction...

    • This reply was modified 5 years, 11 months ago by skeleton567.
  • Reply To: The Work of the Ancients

    jarick 15608 wrote:

    You've hit on a great case for virtualization but also makes me wonder if code is getting worse over time because hardware has become so inexpensive.

    I believe this is...

  • Reply To: The Work of the Ancients

    "I was reading a post from someone recently where they noted that they didn't worry to much about the architecture of the system since it wouldn't likely last very long."

    This...

  • Reply To: Very Hot Patches

    Well, Steve, as Bill O'Reilly says, I can see you drank the Koolaid too.  I'll give you a current example.  My credit union, two states away and in a different...

  • Reply To: Very Hot Patches

    Well, it's a realistic view.  Just like calling someone on the phone, if a system is down, another system should be smart enough to 'call back' and retry a process...

  • Reply To: Very Hot Patches

    From the perspective of about 42 years in IT, I always have to ask so what's the big deal if I have to stop a machine to make some patches. ...

  • Reply To: Celebrate Success

    Actually, doing this very thing was what got me the largest salary increase in my 42-year career.  I had been 16 months without any mention of my salary or a...

  • Reply To: What You Should Know About Coding

    Wow, this makes me think about when I started coding exactly 50 years ago.  The way we began was not to write code at all, but to create a 'flow...

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