How do you become a more professional programmer when your full time job isn't programming?
I was a video game tester for six years, went back to school to get an A.S. degree in computer programming, and got into IT support because I enjoy the work. I program at home (Python and web development) and occasionally write PowerShell scripts at work, but the only time I deal with other programmers is when I'm cleaning up their messes over the network at work.
BTW, Microsoft SharePoint IS NOT a proper bug tracking tool.
Wikipedia can be confusing when used to refer to a more or less general description than the specific instance.
The Wikipedia definition is the same definition I've been using since the 1980's.
But attempting to do a hardware upgrade to an assigned laptop is not that unusual in groups where developers and admins have modest hardware knowledge.
My coworker is the IT supervisor for laptops and wireless devices. His extensive hardware knowledge was lacking on a very new laptop that was quite different than all the laptops he dealt with in the past decade.
If they refuse to learn, _that_ becomes frustrating and is grounds to help them find a different career path.
This incident took place a year ago. He's still sulking in his cubicle, no longer talking to anyone. All his assistants do the work. Since this is government IT, no one is going to push him out as long as he meet his metrics. Recruiters in the private sector would tell him that his job skills are obsolete and he's unemployable.
As an IT technician, I'm more than happy to take away your a PC and give you a box of crayons to get your work done. The employer provides the equipment to get the job done. Not every job requires a PC. Some people can get by with a typewriter, a pen or crayons. I once had a boss who gave me a box of crayons and I embarrassed the hell out of him by presenting my finished report in crayons to his boss.
What you describe actually makes me wonder if the colleague decided the SSD drive was undersized and expected to be able to upgrade it to a larger spinning drive for very real needs.
Most people wouldn't humiliate themselves in front of the entire department for an undersized SSD.
That bay could also hold a spare battery, or a _much_ larger drive than a built-in SSD drive can manage.
There was no drive bay. Not for a hard drive, spare battery or coffee cup holder. The guy took the laptop apart expecting to replace a 2.5" hard drive and he couldn't find the hard drive because there was physically no bay. The SSD was a mini PCI Express card that looked very much like the wireless card without the antenna connections.
I'd not automatically tie rejection of a new feature with a lack of curiosity, nor with a lack of professional competence.
Losing your shit in front of the entire department was neither curious nor professional.
I think you're confused as to the nature of "shorting" [...]
If you have read my comment, you would have realized that I'm the kind of investor who pays cash for stocks. The markets goes up and comes down. You need cash to buy on the way down.
Those are what are creating the recent spike in job market.
If you look at the actual job numbers from month to month over the last 18 months, the numbers are fairly consistent in terms of job growth. These are the same numbers that Trump called "phony" and now claims as his own, even though he had nothing to do with them.
Unless you are on the lower end of the intelligence pool, well you probably are.
I spent eight years in Special Ed because I was misdiagnosed as mentally retarded due to an undiagnosed hearing loss. Skipped high school. Got A.A. degree in General Education in 1994, got kicked out of the university in 1995, and I later got an A.S. degree in computer programming and made the college president's list for maintaining a 4.0GPA in my major in 2007.
Then we have to pay for them later with our taxes.
My second associate degree was paid for by a $3,000 tax credit that George W. signed into law after 9/11.
50k leaves zero left.
I save 20% of my paycheck.
You should be worried. You are screwed.
Funny. I hear that a lot from people who are worried and screwed far worse than I am.
You can't have a family and take care of them well.
Not all of us are capable of having children.
And your retirement will still be renting a room somewhere eating Raman.
I'm planning to save up for a down payment on a house in the Sacramento Valley for five years and then pay off the mortgage in 15 years. I'll be 67 then but I probably won't retire and keep on working until I'm dead at 120.
We're in the eighth year of an economic expansion that started on March, 9, 2009, the second longest expansion on record since WWII. Who was president for the last eight years?
[...] it's Trump hype driven.
The forthcoming recession will be Trump hype driven.
Obama era jobs is that shitty temp jobs replaced permanent.
That's been going on for 40+ years.
Meanwhile, perm job market is exploding here in the midwest, [...]
I'm glad that the Obama recovery has finally come to the Midwest.
[...] my friends that couldn't find job under Obama are now getting hounded
That usually happens when recruiters can't find enough qualified people to fill out the head count and take anyone regardless of their qualifications. I was told by recruiters for two years (2009-10) that I was unemployable, and they started hounding me because they couldn't fill positions fast enough in 2011.
Trump did not such thing. He took credit for plans already underway. CEO jumped on the bandwagon to praise him since it cost them nothing to do so.
Not sure what your point is or was it just so you could call the president an egomaniac?
My bad. I meant narcissistic.
Narcissistic personality disorder is a mental disorder in which people have an inflated sense of their own importance, a deep need for admiration and a lack of empathy for others. But behind this mask of ultraconfidence lies a fragile self-esteem that's vulnerable to the slightest criticism.
Maybe, but your predictive track record is shit, right? Like you said there was NO WAY Trump could win.
Prior to the election, I repeatedly stated what the polls said: Hillary had a 95% chance of winning AND Trump had a 5% chance of winning. For Trump to win, he would have to do better than Romney (2012) and McCain (2008). He won an electoral victory despite losing the popular vote by ~11M votes.
Maybe you are full of shit here, maybe you aren't. But you are definitely no fucking oracle.
I can read the economic data. Doesn't anyone find it strange that the economy was slated for low inflation and low growth under Hillary ALL OF THE SUDDEN is slated for high inflation and high growth under Trump?
Trump has been negotiating with these companies to bring forward any plans they had for expansion.
You mean the plans that were already in place long before the 2016 election? It doesn't cost CEO's anything to stroke the ego of an egomaniac in the White House.
Just an anecdote. But I have been looking for a job for 8 months. Lots of cold calls lots of resumes sent out. 0 traction. 3 interviews and 100 resumes sent out. Suddenly in the past week all hell broke loose. I now have 4 interviews lined up for the next week or so. 5-10 emails a day with job descriptions. The mood is most certainly different.
That's funny. When I was out of work for two years after the Great Recession ended, I only had 20+ interviews and no job offers. When I was out of work for eight months after the government shutdown in 2013, I had 60+ interviews and three job offers. I could reasonably conclude, just as an anecdote, that a government shutdown provides a good economic boost to getting hire.
The Republicans will soon regret that Trump accidentally won the White House. The economy is long overdue for a recession after the Great Recession ended eight years ago this week, being the second longest expansion on record. Instead of a Hillary Recession, it will be a Trump Recession (TM).
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How do you become a more professional programmer when your full time job isn't programming?
I was a video game tester for six years, went back to school to get an A.S. degree in computer programming, and got into IT support because I enjoy the work. I program at home (Python and web development) and occasionally write PowerShell scripts at work, but the only time I deal with other programmers is when I'm cleaning up their messes over the network at work.
BTW, Microsoft SharePoint IS NOT a proper bug tracking tool.
Wikipedia can be confusing when used to refer to a more or less general description than the specific instance.
The Wikipedia definition is the same definition I've been using since the 1980's.
But attempting to do a hardware upgrade to an assigned laptop is not that unusual in groups where developers and admins have modest hardware knowledge.
My coworker is the IT supervisor for laptops and wireless devices. His extensive hardware knowledge was lacking on a very new laptop that was quite different than all the laptops he dealt with in the past decade.
If they refuse to learn, _that_ becomes frustrating and is grounds to help them find a different career path.
This incident took place a year ago. He's still sulking in his cubicle, no longer talking to anyone. All his assistants do the work. Since this is government IT, no one is going to push him out as long as he meet his metrics. Recruiters in the private sector would tell him that his job skills are obsolete and he's unemployable.
Why not offer choice?
As an IT technician, I'm more than happy to take away your a PC and give you a box of crayons to get your work done. The employer provides the equipment to get the job done. Not every job requires a PC. Some people can get by with a typewriter, a pen or crayons. I once had a boss who gave me a box of crayons and I embarrassed the hell out of him by presenting my finished report in crayons to his boss.
What you seem to be describing is not a "drive bay", which would normally be a detachable bay.
"A drive bay is a standard-sized area for adding hardware to a computer. Most drive bays are fixed to the inside of a case, but some can be removed."
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Drive_bay
What you describe actually makes me wonder if the colleague decided the SSD drive was undersized and expected to be able to upgrade it to a larger spinning drive for very real needs.
Most people wouldn't humiliate themselves in front of the entire department for an undersized SSD.
I took you for the kind of person who espoused political beliefs. That's antithetical to equities trading.
What does political opinions have to do with investing?
Sound like you've got it all figured out. I look forward to hearing about your newly earned fortune in a few months.
A few months? I'm not a day trader. Come back in 30 years.
Thanks for the info. I'll probably wait until the feature is implemented in BootStrap.
That bay could also hold a spare battery, or a _much_ larger drive than a built-in SSD drive can manage.
There was no drive bay. Not for a hard drive, spare battery or coffee cup holder. The guy took the laptop apart expecting to replace a 2.5" hard drive and he couldn't find the hard drive because there was physically no bay. The SSD was a mini PCI Express card that looked very much like the wireless card without the antenna connections.
I'd not automatically tie rejection of a new feature with a lack of curiosity, nor with a lack of professional competence.
Losing your shit in front of the entire department was neither curious nor professional.
I think you're confused as to the nature of "shorting" [...]
If you have read my comment, you would have realized that I'm the kind of investor who pays cash for stocks. The markets goes up and comes down. You need cash to buy on the way down.
There is more sunlight each day, temperatures are warmer and even flowers are starting to bloom.
That's global warming.
https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2017/mar/01/northern-hemisphere-sees-in-early-spring-due-global-warming
The consultants made out like bandits.
Those are what are creating the recent spike in job market.
If you look at the actual job numbers from month to month over the last 18 months, the numbers are fairly consistent in terms of job growth. These are the same numbers that Trump called "phony" and now claims as his own, even though he had nothing to do with them.
Unless you are on the lower end of the intelligence pool, well you probably are.
I spent eight years in Special Ed because I was misdiagnosed as mentally retarded due to an undiagnosed hearing loss. Skipped high school. Got A.A. degree in General Education in 1994, got kicked out of the university in 1995, and I later got an A.S. degree in computer programming and made the college president's list for maintaining a 4.0GPA in my major in 2007.
Then we have to pay for them later with our taxes.
My second associate degree was paid for by a $3,000 tax credit that George W. signed into law after 9/11.
50k leaves zero left.
I save 20% of my paycheck.
You should be worried. You are screwed.
Funny. I hear that a lot from people who are worried and screwed far worse than I am.
You can't have a family and take care of them well.
Not all of us are capable of having children.
And your retirement will still be renting a room somewhere eating Raman.
I'm planning to save up for a down payment on a house in the Sacramento Valley for five years and then pay off the mortgage in 15 years. I'll be 67 then but I probably won't retire and keep on working until I'm dead at 120.
Wrong, Obama had nothing to do with it [...]
We're in the eighth year of an economic expansion that started on March, 9, 2009, the second longest expansion on record since WWII. Who was president for the last eight years?
[...] it's Trump hype driven.
The forthcoming recession will be Trump hype driven.
Obama era jobs is that shitty temp jobs replaced permanent.
That's been going on for 40+ years.
Meanwhile, perm job market is exploding here in the midwest, [...]
I'm glad that the Obama recovery has finally come to the Midwest.
[...] my friends that couldn't find job under Obama are now getting hounded
That usually happens when recruiters can't find enough qualified people to fill out the head count and take anyone regardless of their qualifications. I was told by recruiters for two years (2009-10) that I was unemployable, and they started hounding me because they couldn't fill positions fast enough in 2011.
He talked them into moving them up.
Trump did not such thing. He took credit for plans already underway. CEO jumped on the bandwagon to praise him since it cost them nothing to do so.
Not sure what your point is or was it just so you could call the president an egomaniac?
My bad. I meant narcissistic.
Narcissistic personality disorder is a mental disorder in which people have an inflated sense of their own importance, a deep need for admiration and a lack of empathy for others. But behind this mask of ultraconfidence lies a fragile self-esteem that's vulnerable to the slightest criticism.
http://www.mayoclinic.org/diseases-conditions/narcissistic-personality-disorder/basics/definition/CON-20025568
Maybe, but your predictive track record is shit, right? Like you said there was NO WAY Trump could win.
Prior to the election, I repeatedly stated what the polls said: Hillary had a 95% chance of winning AND Trump had a 5% chance of winning. For Trump to win, he would have to do better than Romney (2012) and McCain (2008). He won an electoral victory despite losing the popular vote by ~11M votes.
Maybe you are full of shit here, maybe you aren't. But you are definitely no fucking oracle.
I can read the economic data. Doesn't anyone find it strange that the economy was slated for low inflation and low growth under Hillary ALL OF THE SUDDEN is slated for high inflation and high growth under Trump?
Ah yes... Creimer... the paid political troll.
I'm being not paid. I just love trolling the trolls on Slashdot. ;)
Put your money where your mouth is and start shorting the market if you think it's so over-bought.
I'm building up a cash reserve to buy shares of dividend-paying stocks on the way down. I never buy into an up market.
Jobs are up. Stock market is up. Consumer confidence is up. Precious metals are down.
For the eighth year in a row. Thanks, Obama!
If you really think the economy is about to hit the fan, then you can make a fortune by betting against the experts.
"Be fearful when others are greedy, and be greedy when others are fearful." — Warren Buffett
Trump has been negotiating with these companies to bring forward any plans they had for expansion.
You mean the plans that were already in place long before the 2016 election? It doesn't cost CEO's anything to stroke the ego of an egomaniac in the White House.
Just an anecdote. But I have been looking for a job for 8 months. Lots of cold calls lots of resumes sent out. 0 traction. 3 interviews and 100 resumes sent out. Suddenly in the past week all hell broke loose. I now have 4 interviews lined up for the next week or so. 5-10 emails a day with job descriptions. The mood is most certainly different.
That's funny. When I was out of work for two years after the Great Recession ended, I only had 20+ interviews and no job offers. When I was out of work for eight months after the government shutdown in 2013, I had 60+ interviews and three job offers. I could reasonably conclude, just as an anecdote, that a government shutdown provides a good economic boost to getting hire.
These numbers were precipitated by Obama over his last 8 years but to be honest he never inspired this level of confidence.
This isn't confidence, it's exuberance. When fools start tossing money at Wall Street, it's time to run in the opposite direction.
The Republicans will soon regret that Trump accidentally won the White House. The economy is long overdue for a recession after the Great Recession ended eight years ago this week, being the second longest expansion on record. Instead of a Hillary Recession, it will be a Trump Recession (TM).
What's the difference between CSS grid layout and BootStrap's grid layout?
Tables went out of style for content placement. If you have rows of data to present, a table layout works just as fine as it always have.