I've been wearing RGP contacts for 35 years, and only in the last year as I turned 50 has computer work become difficult. When I refresh again in six months I'm going to seriously consider a pair with acuity at 24", and a pair for general use, as RGPs are stupidly easy to fit and remove. Or possibly combine general use with prescription glasses in conjunction.
In brighter light, your pupils constrict, resulting in a deeper field of vision. It's an optical affect well known in photography. This is why one squints to help bring something blurry in focus.
:) I'm aware of the conflict of interest in play. However I'm more interested in a seamless experience than being pedantic about who aggregates my history since I have no possibility of clicking through ads that are never displayed because of Adblock, and even if they're displayed, by policy I ignore and never click through ever ever ever. Ghostery and Adblock+ in combination do well enough, where Privacy Badger doesn't play nicely with Pale Moon and I'm quite over downloading and manually installing zips as I never grew a neck beard. Yes, to a certain degree I simply don't care, which has actually led to having sex as often as I want and Christmas dinners with people capable of conversation.
Ghostery turns that shit off. With rare exceptions, the only add-on I allow to remain is new relic, since that helps my counterparts actually improve the service.
And, increasingly, F#. I haven't done the leap myself but will soon have to out of necessity, but I haven't seen a single C# -> F# developer want to go back.
Here in Australia, when a company acts fraudulently, they're pretty much forced to declare their misdeed to all their customers, and to go through all the necessary steps to make it right. For instance, when Coles got spanked for calling their bread fresh baked daily, and when it came out they were baking from partially baked and frozen, they had to put several notices on the wall behind their breads spelling out in great detail what they did wrong. Every detail including the placement, frequency, and wording were ordered by the court.
In T-Mobile's case, the court should have (and perhaps actually) ordered them to mail and email every potentially affected customer with details on how to apply credits to their account online, and every affected prior customer to claim a refund online using account number and mailing address to verify. In cases where the actual damage amount can be determined, credits and refunds should be automatic. Anything that requires jumping through one hoop too many is egregiously odious. Ah well one can dream.
Sometimes process is more important than technical competence. A scrum master certification might get you recognized for seeing the bigger picture and potentially affecting change in a team. In addition to just scrum, the PSM course also touches on TDD, definition of done and many things that tie directly into the development process.
Both of my daughters type between 120 and 140wpm, where I topped out at 95. Point being, they grew up surrounded by technology, infrastructure, and encouragement. (D+ in science? I'm surprised, since Science is your best subject. Psych bullshit but I tried every subtle mind game to encourage her. She responded with an A+, and straight-A'd her way through high school and uni from then on.) Eldest is a successful banking marketer expanding into teaching yoga, youngest is doing well in uni but unsure, and I'll be damned if I didn't encourage and support any of their aspirations, and they can bloody well see day to day how I get stupidly rewarded for being tunnel visioned.
I do recruiting screening for a high end consultancy, and not one female applicant that has crossed my path has remotely approached a passing score, even as I would in a heartbeat pass a female with simply a marginal competency in the interest of diversity -- and I'm far from the only one interested here in facilitating gender diversity. Every cultural male is represented where I work, but it's just depressing how male it is. I wasn't able to interest my daughters in tech, nor would I have tried to coerce them, and for decades of trying I have NO ANSWERS.
Retain a consultant with a proven track record to implement your processes. Hire only senior level devs who can do solo heavy lifting across your technology stack. Deliver small increments of potentially shippable product. Insist on emergent architecture. Empirically adapt into better processes.
I've been working with Xamarin's cross-platform support for some time now, and the shared logic between mobile and mobile web pretty much "just works" after you get used to sticking to Xamarin's toolset when targeting multi-platform. I'm keen to see how this all works built into VS.
Take two paradigm shifts with you. You don't say what your background is, but perhaps c# -> f#, java -> c++, c++ -> android. I say two shifts, because one won't last a year. Rewrite -- don't port, rewrite -- a non-trivial application you've written in the new paradigm.
An API is a point of fact, as is a recipe, neither of which is copyrightable. Copyrighting an API is like creating an interface IFoo and then telling the world that they can't implement it.
As an old-school back end specialist, I hated the spaghetti runtime error aspect of Javascript -- until I started decoupling various aspects using, for instance, AngularJs. Lack of compile-time checking is an increasing part of even compiled languages like C# (dynamic, reflection), but since AngularJs supplies dependency injection, sanity has returned to the logic that needs to be in the front end. As I've increasingly shifted page loads to Ajax calls, my pages have become sweetly responsive even on slow (mobile) connections, and the turnaround time of a Javascript code change is often simply that of saving a file and refreshing the browser page, compared to starting a new session from scratch on a compiled back end change. It's also no contest on the turnaround of compiled vs Javascript unit tests.
The decoupled nature of AngularJs leads to remarkably few actual moving parts or Hail Mary references ala jQuery. The last logical step is whether or not Ajax calls are to node.js, but since back end Javascript is as testable as anything out there, it comes down to preference and the maturity of the back end framework.
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I'd give Raul's left testicle for a standard keyboard form factor to return to the Thinkpad W series.
Run-on sentence. -1.
Might want to check your first link.
How about Google it on Yahoo?
Ah, I was wondering where Britney Spears disappeared to.
I've been wearing RGP contacts for 35 years, and only in the last year as I turned 50 has computer work become difficult. When I refresh again in six months I'm going to seriously consider a pair with acuity at 24", and a pair for general use, as RGPs are stupidly easy to fit and remove. Or possibly combine general use with prescription glasses in conjunction.
In brighter light, your pupils constrict, resulting in a deeper field of vision. It's an optical affect well known in photography. This is why one squints to help bring something blurry in focus.
:) I'm aware of the conflict of interest in play. However I'm more interested in a seamless experience than being pedantic about who aggregates my history since I have no possibility of clicking through ads that are never displayed because of Adblock, and even if they're displayed, by policy I ignore and never click through ever ever ever. Ghostery and Adblock+ in combination do well enough, where Privacy Badger doesn't play nicely with Pale Moon and I'm quite over downloading and manually installing zips as I never grew a neck beard. Yes, to a certain degree I simply don't care, which has actually led to having sex as often as I want and Christmas dinners with people capable of conversation.
Ghostery turns that shit off. With rare exceptions, the only add-on I allow to remain is new relic, since that helps my counterparts actually improve the service.
You didn't miss much with voyager.
Just sit right back and you'll hear a tale,
A tale of a fateful trip...
And, increasingly, F#. I haven't done the leap myself but will soon have to out of necessity, but I haven't seen a single C# -> F# developer want to go back.
So Cory did it?
Here in Australia, when a company acts fraudulently, they're pretty much forced to declare their misdeed to all their customers, and to go through all the necessary steps to make it right. For instance, when Coles got spanked for calling their bread fresh baked daily, and when it came out they were baking from partially baked and frozen, they had to put several notices on the wall behind their breads spelling out in great detail what they did wrong. Every detail including the placement, frequency, and wording were ordered by the court.
In T-Mobile's case, the court should have (and perhaps actually) ordered them to mail and email every potentially affected customer with details on how to apply credits to their account online, and every affected prior customer to claim a refund online using account number and mailing address to verify. In cases where the actual damage amount can be determined, credits and refunds should be automatic. Anything that requires jumping through one hoop too many is egregiously odious. Ah well one can dream.
Sometimes process is more important than technical competence. A scrum master certification might get you recognized for seeing the bigger picture and potentially affecting change in a team. In addition to just scrum, the PSM course also touches on TDD, definition of done and many things that tie directly into the development process.
After about 6 years of alimony payments, and found a compatible partner, I consider the alimony a bargain.
Both of my daughters type between 120 and 140wpm, where I topped out at 95. Point being, they grew up surrounded by technology, infrastructure, and encouragement. (D+ in science? I'm surprised, since Science is your best subject. Psych bullshit but I tried every subtle mind game to encourage her. She responded with an A+, and straight-A'd her way through high school and uni from then on.) Eldest is a successful banking marketer expanding into teaching yoga, youngest is doing well in uni but unsure, and I'll be damned if I didn't encourage and support any of their aspirations, and they can bloody well see day to day how I get stupidly rewarded for being tunnel visioned.
I do recruiting screening for a high end consultancy, and not one female applicant that has crossed my path has remotely approached a passing score, even as I would in a heartbeat pass a female with simply a marginal competency in the interest of diversity -- and I'm far from the only one interested here in facilitating gender diversity. Every cultural male is represented where I work, but it's just depressing how male it is. I wasn't able to interest my daughters in tech, nor would I have tried to coerce them, and for decades of trying I have NO ANSWERS.
Retain a consultant with a proven track record to implement your processes.
Hire only senior level devs who can do solo heavy lifting across your technology stack.
Deliver small increments of potentially shippable product.
Insist on emergent architecture.
Empirically adapt into better processes.
Be sure to drink your Ovaltine
Expect divorce rates among the lower income levels to rise as women lose the ability to cope without chocolate.
I've been working with Xamarin's cross-platform support for some time now, and the shared logic between mobile and mobile web pretty much "just works" after you get used to sticking to Xamarin's toolset when targeting multi-platform. I'm keen to see how this all works built into VS.
Take two paradigm shifts with you. You don't say what your background is, but perhaps c# -> f#, java -> c++, c++ -> android. I say two shifts, because one won't last a year. Rewrite -- don't port, rewrite -- a non-trivial application you've written in the new paradigm.
An API is a point of fact, as is a recipe, neither of which is copyrightable. Copyrighting an API is like creating an interface IFoo and then telling the world that they can't implement it.
As an old-school back end specialist, I hated the spaghetti runtime error aspect of Javascript -- until I started decoupling various aspects using, for instance, AngularJs. Lack of compile-time checking is an increasing part of even compiled languages like C# (dynamic, reflection), but since AngularJs supplies dependency injection, sanity has returned to the logic that needs to be in the front end. As I've increasingly shifted page loads to Ajax calls, my pages have become sweetly responsive even on slow (mobile) connections, and the turnaround time of a Javascript code change is often simply that of saving a file and refreshing the browser page, compared to starting a new session from scratch on a compiled back end change. It's also no contest on the turnaround of compiled vs Javascript unit tests.
The decoupled nature of AngularJs leads to remarkably few actual moving parts or Hail Mary references ala jQuery. The last logical step is whether or not Ajax calls are to node.js, but since back end Javascript is as testable as anything out there, it comes down to preference and the maturity of the back end framework.
Hullooo, zeeba neighba!
If the ship is built like their tanks, it goes twice as fast in reverse.