Have you considered not dating these women? Dating women based on shared interests, rather than predefined stereotypes, will probably yield better results.
Sometimes you need to be prepared to move to a new career. I've been working on purchasing rental properties (one down, next one should be in about a year). I want to be in the same position as some of my friends: working because the work is interesting, not because the bills are due.
Amen to that. Somebody looking for the 23 year old who will work through the weekend regularly, or thinks 11 hour days should be the norm, isn't going to be very happy working with me. Because there's a simple calculus: money is just a means to an end, and that end is a warm bed with my wife in it. What are they going to offer that's more compelling than my goal?
Sounds like important warnings were heeded there. If they can't afford a second PC, they can't afford my salary, so I'd be good with not landing there.
That's a perfectly legitimate requirement, and if you don't do those things, you'll be an antiquated fossil anyway. I've got grand kids and I meet that qualification.
I'm sure that will be very helpful for running my vehicle information system. Harvesters love offloading their real time data gathering to EC2 instances.
The book Woodworking With Your Kids http://www.amazon.com/Woodwork... has a misleading title. The kids in question are actually kids in his community and his school. The author set up a community and school workshop back in 1970 on a shoestring budget. He was teaching kids to make some pretty impressive furniture before they were old enough to drive.
We have additional tools now, but the same approach to setting up a maker space would still work.
My workshop isn't for socialization at all. It's my space. Just mine. Occasionally my wife sticks her head in. Mostly it's me, the cats, and a lot of wood shavings.
Not sure how he thinks he's going to come out on top in the public eye for attacking the clergy. Sure, he'll be the hero of his hacker friends, but most of the world has a pretty low opinion of people who attack the clergy.
Amen Brother! If I wanted to sit through a few hours of bad powerpoint every week, I wouldn't have gone into engineering.
After getting burned on a couple of online courses, I discovered the affordable and approachable Dover books on mathematics and computing. They seem to fit my attention span and learning style better, where I might have to spend a lot of time thinking about a short passage or an equation to understand what's important about it. They're also easier to read when I'm on a plane or at the gym.
My own experience has been that C++ is an excellent choice for the work you're interested in. It's full of pitfalls, but it's also full of excellence.
Start with Stroustrup's "The C++ Programming Language" and move on to Scott Meyers' Effective C++ books. Stroustrup makes picking up the language easy and natural. Meyers helps you around all the pitfalls so you can come up with elegant solutions with a minimum of effort.
Don't dismiss boost. As others have said, it's a bit of a minefield, but it also has a lot of well implemented solutions to common problems.
Qt is fun as well, and I make my daily bread using Qt. But if you're not writing a GUI app, there might be better solutions to a lot of the problems their non-GUI classes are trying to solve.
1. It has excellent support for supporting large scale installations, including centralized management for those users who don't really want to think about that stuff.
2. Really great developer support from the vendor, including free high quality IDEs and code examples to solve pretty much any systems programming problem you'll have.
3. A large developer community, making it relatively easy to get bespoke software.
4. Fairly painless printer setup (I'm looking at you Linux).
5. A large pool of ready made software to choose from.
First, your statement flies in the face of pretty much all of the established science. Second, it's horribly sexist to be suggesting that men don't have feelings. It's demonstrably false. If men did not have strong emotions that needed to be expressed, there wouldn't be so many men in prison for crimes of passion.
You might want to look into some of the available Emotional IQ training. You're not seeing something that's happening in front of you every day. Once you can see those things, you'll be very happy with the improvements in your personal and professional life.
Amen! C++ is only complex if you choose to make it so. C++ as introduced is Strustrup is a very simple, easy to use language. Print data by pushing to an output stream. Read data by pushing from an input stream to a variable.
Each new concept can be introduced easily. There are lots of abstractions to show concepts like pass by value and pass by reference, and it still has the low level syntax so you can delve into what is happening under the abstractions.
If I were teaching somebody new to program, C++ would absolutely be my first choice.
That seems unlikely in the extreme. Also, highly insulting to men. Ms. Hudson's statements mesh well with my own experience.
It takes a lot of training and practice to overcome that social conditioning. It's absolutely worth it. You will improve your personal and professional interactions. Because that explosive outburst, it's what gets you in trouble. When you're five, it's no big deal. When you're a full grown adult, it leads to things that get your bad self fired or locked up or dead.
And the model drive views are really powerful. The first one you write is a bit tedious, but after that it's smooth sailing. You can get that data from anywhere: text files, network packet processing, database queries.
Qt does have database access components, but you might be happier working with a native interface. Part of the beauty of C++ is that there's a native interface to most things that's C++ compatible.
I'll recommend Qt and C++ as a workable combo. Learn how to use their Model/View architecture and there's a whole lot of fun stuff that opens up for you. Instead of looking for database components, think in terms of writing a data model that happens to get its data from an SQL backend.
I'll also second the recomendation of others to look at PostgreSQL for your backend. When it comes time to deploy your application, PostgreSQL is a lot easier to package and install than SQL Server. The features aren't identical, but they're close enough for all but some very specialized cases. In a lot of those cases, there are tools that accomplish the same goals via a different mechanism.
Just write it in C++ with TDD, which will run faster, and after you factor in all the pain from debugging server side untyped dynamic languages, will also be faster to develop.
I've been running my Clevo for the last six months and quite happy with it. But I also power down when not in use, and that might make the heating issue better.
If you do go the Clevo route, let me highly recommend buying the Sager rebranded Clevos via http://www.xoticpc.com/ It was probably the best purchasing experience I've had. They're very hands on and keep you in the loop about what's going on with your product from the moment assembly starts to the time it ships, and they will follow up with you after you've been running the machine for a few months to make sure you're still happy.
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Have you considered not dating these women? Dating women based on shared interests, rather than predefined stereotypes, will probably yield better results.
No doubt.
It's pretty rare any more that I'm playing a video game. But it would usually mean that it was too late at night or the weather sucked.
When I'm watching pr0n, I wish I was with a woman. When I'm playing video games, I wish I was outside doing something.
Sometimes you need to be prepared to move to a new career. I've been working on purchasing rental properties (one down, next one should be in about a year). I want to be in the same position as some of my friends: working because the work is interesting, not because the bills are due.
Amen to that. Somebody looking for the 23 year old who will work through the weekend regularly, or thinks 11 hour days should be the norm, isn't going to be very happy working with me. Because there's a simple calculus: money is just a means to an end, and that end is a warm bed with my wife in it. What are they going to offer that's more compelling than my goal?
Sounds like important warnings were heeded there. If they can't afford a second PC, they can't afford my salary, so I'd be good with not landing there.
That's a perfectly legitimate requirement, and if you don't do those things, you'll be an antiquated fossil anyway. I've got grand kids and I meet that qualification.
I'm sure that will be very helpful for running my vehicle information system. Harvesters love offloading their real time data gathering to EC2 instances.
The book Woodworking With Your Kids http://www.amazon.com/Woodwork... has a misleading title. The kids in question are actually kids in his community and his school. The author set up a community and school workshop back in 1970 on a shoestring budget. He was teaching kids to make some pretty impressive furniture before they were old enough to drive.
We have additional tools now, but the same approach to setting up a maker space would still work.
My workshop isn't for socialization at all. It's my space. Just mine. Occasionally my wife sticks her head in. Mostly it's me, the cats, and a lot of wood shavings.
Amen. The thing holding people back from making things isn't usually lack of access to equipment, but lack of access to the knowledge.
Good catch. He might not get on well with his neighbors.
Not sure how he thinks he's going to come out on top in the public eye for attacking the clergy. Sure, he'll be the hero of his hacker friends, but most of the world has a pretty low opinion of people who attack the clergy.
Amen Brother! If I wanted to sit through a few hours of bad powerpoint every week, I wouldn't have gone into engineering.
After getting burned on a couple of online courses, I discovered the affordable and approachable Dover books on mathematics and computing. They seem to fit my attention span and learning style better, where I might have to spend a lot of time thinking about a short passage or an equation to understand what's important about it. They're also easier to read when I'm on a plane or at the gym.
And this, my friend, is why it's a bad idea to subcontract your software development to undergrads in Sri Lanka.
My own experience has been that C++ is an excellent choice for the work you're interested in. It's full of pitfalls, but it's also full of excellence.
Start with Stroustrup's "The C++ Programming Language" and move on to Scott Meyers' Effective C++ books. Stroustrup makes picking up the language easy and natural. Meyers helps you around all the pitfalls so you can come up with elegant solutions with a minimum of effort.
Don't dismiss boost. As others have said, it's a bit of a minefield, but it also has a lot of well implemented solutions to common problems.
Qt is fun as well, and I make my daily bread using Qt. But if you're not writing a GUI app, there might be better solutions to a lot of the problems their non-GUI classes are trying to solve.
1. It has excellent support for supporting large scale installations, including centralized management for those users who don't really want to think about that stuff.
2. Really great developer support from the vendor, including free high quality IDEs and code examples to solve pretty much any systems programming problem you'll have.
3. A large developer community, making it relatively easy to get bespoke software.
4. Fairly painless printer setup (I'm looking at you Linux).
5. A large pool of ready made software to choose from.
First, your statement flies in the face of pretty much all of the established science. Second, it's horribly sexist to be suggesting that men don't have feelings. It's demonstrably false. If men did not have strong emotions that needed to be expressed, there wouldn't be so many men in prison for crimes of passion.
You might want to look into some of the available Emotional IQ training. You're not seeing something that's happening in front of you every day. Once you can see those things, you'll be very happy with the improvements in your personal and professional life.
Amen! C++ is only complex if you choose to make it so. C++ as introduced is Strustrup is a very simple, easy to use language. Print data by pushing to an output stream. Read data by pushing from an input stream to a variable.
Each new concept can be introduced easily. There are lots of abstractions to show concepts like pass by value and pass by reference, and it still has the low level syntax so you can delve into what is happening under the abstractions.
If I were teaching somebody new to program, C++ would absolutely be my first choice.
That seems unlikely in the extreme. Also, highly insulting to men. Ms. Hudson's statements mesh well with my own experience.
It takes a lot of training and practice to overcome that social conditioning. It's absolutely worth it. You will improve your personal and professional interactions. Because that explosive outburst, it's what gets you in trouble. When you're five, it's no big deal. When you're a full grown adult, it leads to things that get your bad self fired or locked up or dead.
And the model drive views are really powerful. The first one you write is a bit tedious, but after that it's smooth sailing. You can get that data from anywhere: text files, network packet processing, database queries.
Qt does have database access components, but you might be happier working with a native interface. Part of the beauty of C++ is that there's a native interface to most things that's C++ compatible.
I'll recommend Qt and C++ as a workable combo. Learn how to use their Model/View architecture and there's a whole lot of fun stuff that opens up for you. Instead of looking for database components, think in terms of writing a data model that happens to get its data from an SQL backend.
I'll also second the recomendation of others to look at PostgreSQL for your backend. When it comes time to deploy your application, PostgreSQL is a lot easier to package and install than SQL Server. The features aren't identical, but they're close enough for all but some very specialized cases. In a lot of those cases, there are tools that accomplish the same goals via a different mechanism.
Just write it in C++ with TDD, which will run faster, and after you factor in all the pain from debugging server side untyped dynamic languages, will also be faster to develop.
Let the flaming commence.
I've been running my Clevo for the last six months and quite happy with it. But I also power down when not in use, and that might make the heating issue better.
If you do go the Clevo route, let me highly recommend buying the Sager rebranded Clevos via http://www.xoticpc.com/ It was probably the best purchasing experience I've had. They're very hands on and keep you in the loop about what's going on with your product from the moment assembly starts to the time it ships, and they will follow up with you after you've been running the machine for a few months to make sure you're still happy.