One size doesn't fit all - and that's exactly the issue with office work. After years in IT business I know exactly what are my "peak" hours/time and when it's better not to do anything work-wise and just focus on…
The current generation of 50+ years old developers came from a way smaller pool of developers when they all started 30+ years ago and that's the reason that only a minuscule of them still codes. The percentage of…
...and next step should a proper audit of the while train fiasco...
'SnapCrap' app invites San Francisco residents to report poop on city streets https://www.sfgate.com/bayarea/article/SnapCrap-app-San-Fran...
San Francisco — where drug addicts outnumber high school students https://www.sfchronicle.com/bayarea/philmatier/article/San-F...
...most innovations were coming from Europe... Not too many people know about Operation Paperclip (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operation_Paperclip) and what it meant for NASA and space race (Wernher von Braun was…
This. Like it!
They got awesome ideas but a really awful implementation of them - Tablet PC and Pocket PC devices/mobile phone (MDA anybody?) are two examples...
1. Nobody cares about handwriting all day long, quite a niche use (the same as for Tablet PC 8 years ago). 2. Nobody cares about MS Office anymore. There are alternatives (and free) for regular folks. 3. There is no new…
Everything is awesome until you stop doing general stuff. Once I started digging into more complex MDX queries in SSAS (calculated fields) the story started to be quite different. I have been doing Win dev since 1993 so…
It's cool until you see the price tag for Visual Studio Profi/Prem/Ultimate (I assume you can't use Python tools with Express versions). In that case I will stick to my old copy of Visual J++...
Best Buy is just a test center for Amazon - a lot of people come in just to see and touch stuff before buying it from Amazon. I saw a guy checking a headphones in BB and immediately buying it from Amazon on the spot…
Insurance lobby - how to find any reason not to pay
How old are you?
1. Comfort zone - if you ever worked in corp world you know what I'm talking about (he mentioned that he enjoys family time after 8 hour work shift so I would like to know how he keeps up to date with skill set). 2.…
If you are sure that you will be able to market yourself after years of working on some no name corporate stuff, by all means. I've been there and seen guys working 10 - 12 years at the same company, enjoying their 8…
Yes. The same here ;-)
Oh those nights! Waiting 15 minutes for a program to load from a tape recorder just to find out that tape is damaged at the end ;-)
>> good idea, but I think this is an industry where you don't >> win with technology...but with connections in the >> industry... Exactly. CRE is slightly a different kind of animal.
As a life expectancy is much longer than it was 100 years ago (~30 years difference - http://demog.berkeley.edu/~andrew/1918/figure2.html) we will see more and more "older" people doing stuff which was not imaginable…
Me. It does nothing when I click on Enroll button.
let us be clear, yoga is for relaxing mind and body, not acrobatic displays as it has been marketed in america. Exactly.
My friend, gravely injured in a nasty accident, told firefighters not to mention anything about the accident to his mother becuase she would be scared - just 5 minutes before he died. It seems that his brain worked the…
Jobs biggest success came when he was over 45 and honestly, we are not talking here about stuff like break-thru cancer cure, new kind of alternative energy or similar. We still use the same network stack (TCP, 1974),…
Exactly, once you settle for a specific amount during an interview, it's over.
One size doesn't fit all - and that's exactly the issue with office work. After years in IT business I know exactly what are my "peak" hours/time and when it's better not to do anything work-wise and just focus on…
The current generation of 50+ years old developers came from a way smaller pool of developers when they all started 30+ years ago and that's the reason that only a minuscule of them still codes. The percentage of…
...and next step should a proper audit of the while train fiasco...
'SnapCrap' app invites San Francisco residents to report poop on city streets https://www.sfgate.com/bayarea/article/SnapCrap-app-San-Fran...
San Francisco — where drug addicts outnumber high school students https://www.sfchronicle.com/bayarea/philmatier/article/San-F...
...most innovations were coming from Europe... Not too many people know about Operation Paperclip (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operation_Paperclip) and what it meant for NASA and space race (Wernher von Braun was…
This. Like it!
They got awesome ideas but a really awful implementation of them - Tablet PC and Pocket PC devices/mobile phone (MDA anybody?) are two examples...
1. Nobody cares about handwriting all day long, quite a niche use (the same as for Tablet PC 8 years ago). 2. Nobody cares about MS Office anymore. There are alternatives (and free) for regular folks. 3. There is no new…
Everything is awesome until you stop doing general stuff. Once I started digging into more complex MDX queries in SSAS (calculated fields) the story started to be quite different. I have been doing Win dev since 1993 so…
It's cool until you see the price tag for Visual Studio Profi/Prem/Ultimate (I assume you can't use Python tools with Express versions). In that case I will stick to my old copy of Visual J++...
Best Buy is just a test center for Amazon - a lot of people come in just to see and touch stuff before buying it from Amazon. I saw a guy checking a headphones in BB and immediately buying it from Amazon on the spot…
Insurance lobby - how to find any reason not to pay
How old are you?
1. Comfort zone - if you ever worked in corp world you know what I'm talking about (he mentioned that he enjoys family time after 8 hour work shift so I would like to know how he keeps up to date with skill set). 2.…
If you are sure that you will be able to market yourself after years of working on some no name corporate stuff, by all means. I've been there and seen guys working 10 - 12 years at the same company, enjoying their 8…
Yes. The same here ;-)
Oh those nights! Waiting 15 minutes for a program to load from a tape recorder just to find out that tape is damaged at the end ;-)
>> good idea, but I think this is an industry where you don't >> win with technology...but with connections in the >> industry... Exactly. CRE is slightly a different kind of animal.
As a life expectancy is much longer than it was 100 years ago (~30 years difference - http://demog.berkeley.edu/~andrew/1918/figure2.html) we will see more and more "older" people doing stuff which was not imaginable…
Me. It does nothing when I click on Enroll button.
let us be clear, yoga is for relaxing mind and body, not acrobatic displays as it has been marketed in america. Exactly.
My friend, gravely injured in a nasty accident, told firefighters not to mention anything about the accident to his mother becuase she would be scared - just 5 minutes before he died. It seems that his brain worked the…
Jobs biggest success came when he was over 45 and honestly, we are not talking here about stuff like break-thru cancer cure, new kind of alternative energy or similar. We still use the same network stack (TCP, 1974),…
Exactly, once you settle for a specific amount during an interview, it's over.