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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...
November 13, 2019 at 2:40 pm
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...
October 31, 2019 at 12:55 pm
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!
October 31, 2019 at 11:16 am
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...
October 22, 2019 at 7:16 pm
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...
October 18, 2019 at 11:38 am
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...
October 17, 2019 at 12:54 pm
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...
October 16, 2019 at 7:46 pm
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...
October 16, 2019 at 12:40 pm
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...
October 11, 2019 at 3:30 pm
"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...
October 11, 2019 at 10:40 am
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...
October 9, 2019 at 1:19 am
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...
October 8, 2019 at 10:29 pm
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. ...
October 8, 2019 at 12:04 pm
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...
September 29, 2019 at 12:53 am
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...
September 17, 2019 at 12:13 pm
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