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ESA planetary scientist Nicolas Altobelli and his collaborators have now analyzed the 36 interstellar dust grains detected by Cassini; the number might seem small, but it's more than five times that of previous missions. "We have the organism at Wildfire, and we continue to study it."
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More than a third of IT professionals in the UK (36 per cent) haven’t gotten any professional training through their employers in the last three years. Hopefully you have the time to read thi
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Yeah who really liked working to get that certification anyway. School sucks, making money is better.
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Kent Sharkey wrote: any professional training
I find that learning things on the job is a lot more effective. While there's been a bit of kicking and screaming (literally the latter), I've been learn Django, Python, more Javascript, and Backbone, in a (I use the term loosely) practical environment. I get the benefit (supposedly) of the experience of the person who brought all this tech into the company (I would have preferred C#, but many beers on the company owner's boat with aforementioned person convinced him otherwise, and since I'm 3000 miles away, fat chance I had of making my views heard, hence the screaming) and overall, it's useful resume fodder, but I still would never reach for Django and Python for any website that I would build. Good to learn more about Backbone though.
Personally, the most useful "professional training" I've found was, years ago, the TQM, ISO9000, and Dale Carnegie training, and more recently, the Association for Anthroposophic Psychology[^] workshops that I've been taking on my own. I find it a lot more useful to learn how to work with people than any particular tech. The former are skills that last a lifetime (and if I remember to apply them, results in less screaming), the latter typically has a much shorter half life.
Marc
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Marc Clifton wrote: I find that learning things on the job is a lot more effective.
It is. The trick is being allowed to learn on the job rather than insisting on your already having six months' commercial experience!
Kevin
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Kevin McFarlane wrote: rather than insisting on your already having six months' commercial experience!
Indeed. Sadly, many job requirements (and managers) seem to expect more years of experience in a tech than the tech has actually existed!
Marc
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Yes, I recall quite soon after .NET came out discussing a contract with an agent where they insisted on 10 years' .NET experience. And the agent said this came from the client, not them. May have been a mistake in translation, of course. Might have been one year but even that was onerous at the time.
Kevin
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“We are realizing that this sort of automatic approach of doing everything to Visual Basic that we’re doing to C#, just sort of automatically, that doesn’t seem like the right approach,” said Mads Torgersen, program manager for C# at Microsoft, during Build 2016. Two roads diverged in a wood, but one of them is looking pretty rutty
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Oh yes, this continued support and development of C# should not be perpetrated upon VB.
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It's a fairly moot point - all coding is done in javascript now, isn't it?
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Nelek wrote: cementery I like that, a conjugation of the two words "cement" and "cemetery". Gives new meaning to the mob phrase "I'll give you some cement shoes!"
Decrease the belief in God, and you increase the numbers of those who wish to play at being God by being “society’s supervisors,” who deny the existence of divine standards, but are very serious about imposing their own standards on society.-Neal A. Maxwell
You must accept 1 of 2 basic premises: Either we are alone in the universe or we are not alone. Either way, the implications are staggering!-Wernher von Braun
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I hope they improve C# before they kill VB.NET
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Don't they flipflop on "different languages, different features" and "same runtime, same core library, must converge the rest of the language" every couple of years.
Did you ever see history portrayed as an old man with a wise brow and pulseless heart, waging all things in the balance of reason?
Is not rather the genius of history like an eternal, imploring maiden, full of fire, with a burning heart and flaming soul, humanly warm and humanly beautiful?
--Zachris Topelius
Training a telescope on one’s own belly button will only reveal lint. You like that? You go right on staring at it. I prefer looking at galaxies.
-- Sarah Hoyt
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Parts of the law governing national security requests have been declared unconstitutional by previous courts. "Then as of this moment, they're on double secret probation!"
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Since our initial launch one year ago, 2 million developers have installed VS Code. Today, we’re excited to report that more than 500,000 developers actively use VS Code each month. They grow up so fast, don't they?
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Kite wants to change this by connecting text editors to the Internet and pulling in data from GitHub, language manuals and other sources. Save time with "need codez plz"
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Kent Sharkey wrote: Save time with "need codez plz"
Patrice
“Everything should be made as simple as possible, but no simpler.” Albert Einstein
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Simply.F*ckin.Amazing.
".45 ACP - because shooting twice is just silly" - JSOP, 2010
- You can never have too much ammo - unless you're swimming, or on fire. - JSOP, 2010
- When you pry the gun from my cold dead hands, be careful - the barrel will be very hot. - JSOP, 2013
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Tape backup is old fashioned, I know.
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Oops!
What do you get when you cross a joke with a rhetorical question?
The metaphorical solid rear-end expulsions have impacted the metaphorical motorized bladed rotating air movement mechanism.
Do questions with multiple question marks annoy you???
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Only a moron or rookie (synonymous right?) would do this. He should get out of tech immediately if for no other reason than not maintaining bare metal restore image backups which would make his mistake much ado about nothing, much less misusing rm. Unbelievable.
Kids today. And their delusions of grandeur.
We're so dead.
Host your own stuff in your own facility btw.
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Is that the Halt and Catch Fire command on unix?
if (Object.DividedByZero == true) { Universe.Implode(); }
Meus ratio ex fortis machina. Simplicitatis de formae ac munus. -Foothill, 2016
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He reached the state of Zen... See signature !!!
Zen and the art of software maintenance : rm -rf *
Maths is like love : a simple idea but it can get complicated.
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