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My state is requiring to do 3 contacts of employers to keep my COVID unemployment benefits coming. Since I have last professionally programmed in 2002, and using an extraordinarily obsolete stack (i.e., pre-.NET VC++), I doubt seriously that anyone will hire me, LOL.
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Well, two things come to mind:
If you haven't professionally programmed in 18 years, why would you want to search a list of employers looking for programmers?
Either look for a job in the field in which you were most recently employed, or, if you weren't employed, what are you doing collecting unemployment benefits?
Sounds like a plan to scam the system when it's really gone out of its way to help people. Have you cleaned out all the local church poor-boxes or, perhaps, slept in. That really sucks - maybe your position on the food chain is a much higher than it ought to be?
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W∴ Balboos, GHB wrote: If you haven't professionally programmed in 18 years, why would you want to search a list of employers looking for programmers?
Either look for a job in the field in which you were most recently employed, or, if you weren't employed, what are you doing collecting unemployment benefits?
Because there's lots of employers looking to hire programmers, and not so many that want to hire teachers, which I have been doing as self-employed off & on since being a programmer. I realize that I am even more unemployable now than I was when I stopped getting work then, but I need to do this (i.e., contact 3 employers a week) to continue getting the unemployment benefit; otherwise, I could not care less.
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Your trying to game the ![Elephant | [mastadon]](https://www.codeproject.com/script/Forums/Images/elephant.gif) ing system - which, if you listen to the political winds, is being used as an excuse to cut back the enhanced COVID benefits for those who really need them.
If you were teach - apply for teaching positions - that is seriously try to get a job. You're seriously trying to NOT get a job.
Getting unemployment when self-employed is a genuine gift - and you're not satisfied with what you've gotten when you'd normally get nothing?
Your the kind of person that will be used as an example to screw everyone else.
Putting a childish "LOL" at the end of your original post doesn't make it alright.
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/ravi
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The proper position on the food chain of all humans is ground up as fertiliser.
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At last!
I have a use for you mere mortals!
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If you haven't worked in 18 years I guess you are unemployable. Maybe just try Walmart.
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Richard MacCutchan wrote: If you haven't worked in 18 years I guess you are unemployable. Maybe just try Walmart.
I believe that for the purposes of unemployment benefits during the Covcession, I should work in my previous career, and at the rate I used to be able to get. Yes, I believe that I am ENTITLED to do so.
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swampwiz wrote: Since I have last professionally programmed in 2002, and using an extraordinarily obsolete stack (i.e., pre-.NET VC++), I doubt seriously that anyone will hire me, LOL.
That's not obsolete; it's not up to date, but not obsolete. Patterns and programming concepts don't change much; and if you can write pre-.NET VC++, you can probably read modern VB.NET or C#.
Luck favors the bold, and bosses the willing.
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In the Netherlands you can buy such a list at the "kamer van koophandel" (chamber of commerce); it is a report that shows companies in the region that are in a specific sector, meant to for entrepreneurs to help them with assessing how much competition there would be for their start-up. Costs around 35 euro's here. You could try your local version, but it's not guaranteed to contain email-addresses (should contain a postal address). Also very popular under spammers/"marketeers" 
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If you can't read my code, try converting it here[^]
"If you just follow the bacon Eddy, wherever it leads you, then you won't have to think about politics." -- Some Bell.
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Quote: That's not obsolete; it's not up to date, but not obsolete. Patterns and programming concepts don't change much; and if you can write pre-.NET VC++, you can probably read modern VB.NET or C#.
Of course such a programmer could do that - now try getting a job when the stack release increments by 1, and your shop is hiring exploited H1B foreigners like crazy. I still remember the day I threw in the towel and "early retired" when I had a great interview for a gig that required ESRI 9.2, but since my experience was only 8.3, the body shop said it wouldn't hire me.
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swampwiz wrote: I had a great interview for a gig that required ESRI 9.2, but since my experience was only 8.3, the body shop said it wouldn't hire me.
They do grow on trees, no?
A few years ago, I assumed no-one had Cobol running anymore. Boy, was I wrong. Then I did my part in burying VB6. It just refuses to die.
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"If you just follow the bacon Eddy, wherever it leads you, then you won't have to think about politics." -- Some Bell.
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Quote: My state is requiring to do 3 contacts of employers to keep my COVID unemployment benefits coming.
So essentially you are asking a group of people, many of whom will be paying the taxes that fund your unemployment benefit, to help you game the system.
Maybe consider looking into the benefits of leading a more ethical life.
“That which can be asserted without evidence, can be dismissed without evidence.”
― Christopher Hitchens
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GuyThiebaut wrote: So essentially you are asking a group of people, many of whom will be paying the taxes that fund your unemployment benefit, to help you game the system.
I guess you could say that. Of course, your answer reminds me of the old saying:
Quote: First they came for the socialists, and I did not speak out—
Because I was not a socialist.
And for reference, I support Andrew Yang's idea of Guaranteed Income, as it removes the disincentives of redistribution.
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swampwiz wrote: And for reference, I support Andrew Yang's idea of Guaranteed Income, as it removes the disincentives of redistribution.
You, have, however, still not taken into account the slackers, like yourself.
And as for your throwing in a piece of Martin Niemölle's famous little piece - they have little to do with you. Well, on second thought, in any and every subgroup of people there will be the slackers such as yourself - supplying the example - the excuse - for "Them" to come for the entire group holding you up as an example why.
If anything about that quote relates to you it that you have the heart and soul of an enabler.
EDIT: fixed some typos
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It is better to skin animals in the market than depend on other people. (*)
-- Talmud, Tractate Pesahim, page 113A
When you have tried applying for every position for which you may be qualified, including cashier at McDonald's and greeter at Walmart, then come to me for charity. Unemployment payments are designed to tide over those who lost a job and are looking for another, not as a freebie for the lazy good-for-nothings trying to game the system.
(*) skinning animals (for tanning) was considered the worst possible work - hard, smelly, etc.
Freedom is the freedom to say that two plus two make four. If that is granted, all else follows.
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modified 7-Aug-20 7:22am.
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With your resume I'm sure they'll all give you automated no-thanks that you can use to show you're going through the motions however not even half heartedly.
Did you ever see history portrayed as an old man with a wise brow and pulseless heart, weighing 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?
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Consider the implication that he's so ing lazy he didn't seem to put much effort into finding such a list, himself.
I would say "any" effort but he did ask CPer's to do it so that's at least 'one' attempt.
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he's been out of the market for so long it's possible his last tech job search was done by printing a stack of resumes out, going to an office park and sequentially knocking on doors. I wanted to make the point that there's this thing called the intarwebz that you can use now, without being quite as insulting as to use LMGTFY links. 
Did you ever see history portrayed as an old man with a wise brow and pulseless heart, weighing 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.
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I know hosting providers are plentiful, but I'd like a recommendtion. Preferably a US based company with US based support.
If it's not broken, fix it until it is.
Everything makes sense in someone's mind.
Ya can't fix stupid.
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I switched from (the evil) GoDaddy to NameCheap
CPanel interface
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Wow!! I'm checking out NameCheap right now and it sounds too good to be true.
50 free SSLs that last one year. 
Very inexpensive hosting plans too, but I can't tell if I can host my Windows .NET Core apps there.
Do you know if this is running windows or linux OS?
If windows and IIS do you have control over everything?
Will I be able to push ASP.NET MVC apps up? Thanks
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Contact their support. They know all - tell all.
I happen to pick CPANEL, which is flavored with LINUX.
One of the chief driving forces when I was looking to escape BlowDaddy was the need for free Email forwards. This place will actually let you have them free - even without buying anything! I used that to set it up before I transferred domains - so it was ready to roll immediately. Oh, and I needed minimal service beyond the hosting and they do that very cheaply.
My IIS experience is that one of the servers here, where I work, is running WordPress in IIS. I use Vertrigo everyplace I can (a WAMP server). I don't much like IIS. I'm using their MySQL ("MariaDB") along with the php on the hosting. There's a lot of stuff included and available I haven't even clicked on, yet.
If you decide to go with them, try to find their ongoing specials[^]. They rotate amongst a few every month.
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Thanks for the tips.
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And I searched and found answer on .NET Core support on message board at namecheap...
Hello Namecheap rep, do you support .net core 3.1 on your shared hosting as of 2020?
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Hello,
Unfortunately, we do not support .NET Core on Shared servers.
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