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Mark_Wallace wrote: Just one person of 29-or-younger is all it needs to make an IT project five times more challenging.
I must say... that not all youngsters are that bad and not all elder are that good.
I know / have trained younger people than me and I had the whole spectrum. From people that didn't know how to do things but willing to learn and with working brains (a.k.a. they just needed some guidance until they get a bit of experience) up to zombie idiots that were more a dead weight than any help.
Same in the other way... elder workers that taught me a lot and other ones that were like a zero on the left side and the only thing you could learn from them was how NOT to do anything (what actually is something useful)
In my experience, the worst ones are the ones that being a bit (or very) skilled refuse to talk to / to hear other co-workers because they think they are the best / most intelligent. And even being it (really good), if they are solo players / arrogant assh..., they can still end causing more problems than solving them.
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Nelek wrote: In my experience, the worst ones are the ones that being a bit (or very) skilled refuse to talk to / to hear other co-workers because they think they are the best / most intelligent. And even being it (really good), if they are solo players / arrogant assh..., they can still end causing more problems than solving them.
So, like 30%?
For me, it's the ones who know a little, and assume that it's how everything should be done, so are not interested in learning better ways.
And, of course, the Dedicated Followers of Fashion[^]
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Mark_Wallace wrote: are not interested in learning better ways.
This is the real issue. I agree 100% with you.
I don't remember who told it... but:
The only lost / wasted day is the day without learning something new.
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Userware, on a years-long quest to bring back developer favorite Silverlight, announced an open source implementation of Microsoft's long-deprecated framework for writing rich internet applications, this one based on WebAssembly. "Don't go breaking my heart"
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Kent Sharkey wrote: based on WebAssembly
Tagline: New Silverlight, now with added unsecurity!
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I liked silverlight MUCH more than ASP.NET...
I'll be watching this pretty closely.
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I went to download it, and they wanted to collect personal info, so I decided not to. Too bad.
".45 ACP - because shooting twice is just silly" - JSOP, 2010
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You can never have too much ammo - unless you're swimming, or on fire. - JSOP, 2010
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When you pry the gun from my cold dead hands, be careful - the barrel will be very hot. - JSOP, 2013
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Recently I discovered some computer code I’d written will outlive me — for many centuries. A copy of it has been stored in a chilly cave in the Arctic Circle. "Do you know the Klingon proverb that tells us revenge is a dish that is best served cold?"
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So my code is finally getting the respect it deserves!
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But, but, what about the warming and the polar bears?
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Then your code will melt and get et?
TTFN - Kent
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There will always be a branch of archeology that thrives on digging through sh*t.
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Back in the old days, Windows 95 shipped with PowerToys, which allowed users to resize multiple images. And the PowerToys' Image Resizer feature appears to be making a comeback on Windows 10 later this year. Do you feel the excitement?
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Wow!
So they've finally re-added the power toy that absolutely no-one in the entire world ever used!
And they've added a fourth way to search for stuff on windows computers, in yet another attempt to compensate for the fact that they've f***ed the UI so badly that no-one can find a damned thing!
Truly, windows users are blessed, this year.
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So you're feeling the excitement then? 
TTFN - Kent
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Pick your preferred response:
0:
I'm so far over the moon that I can't tell my arse from Uranus!1:
Can't you see how much better this will make the world for your brothers and sisters, Brother?
Lift your voice and sing your praises to the holy microsoft!
(Fortunately, this is the Internet, so I won't be able to hear it)
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I for one happened to like the image-resize Power Toy
And believe it or not, there is a Live Tile that I actually miss... the Weather app was kinda nice
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Yeah, the Weather live tile was good (it did take me way too many tries to get it to remember my location though).
TTFN - Kent
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MadMyche wrote: the Weather app was kinda nice
... Except for the minor details that its wind vane is displayed 180 degrees out and its wind units are beaufort, making it essentially unusable.
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Kent Sharkey wrote: PowerToys
Is this a joke???? I didn't see anything new at all. Oh, wait, it's a toy... Nevermind.
Yeah, soooo, excited.
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TheGreatAndPowerfulOz wrote: Is this a joke???? I didn't see anything new at all.
You are color blind, aren't you?
They changed the color of the icon 
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Fellow team members may be better at assessing candidates than the actual recruiters, a Blind report found. The other 4% are recruiters
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But HR is perfect -- ask anyone in HR!
I always insist that HR not "filter" CVs for me -- I ask them to just put the ones that they think are the best at the top of the pile, but let me see the cr@p applicants, too.
... And then I start from the bottom of the pile, and usually choose to only interview people from way down low.
If you're allowing HR to reject applicants, you're making a Huge mistake.
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Mark_Wallace wrote: If you're allowing HR to reject applicants, you're making a Huge mistake.
If you have an HR team, you've already lost.
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Gets job posts with C++ and Python. (And one added Perl!)
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