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 You, unfortunately, have a very, very good point.
If your actions inspire others to dream more, learn more, do more and become more, you are a leader.-John Q. Adams
You must accept one of two basic premises: Either we are alone in the universe, or we are not alone in the universe. And either way, the implications are staggering.-Wernher von Braun
Only two things are infinite, the universe and human stupidity, and I'm not sure about the former.-Albert Einstein
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There are plenty of things we bake: cupcakes, pies, cakes, brownies, bread and doughnuts, for example. And, there are certain things we DON’T bake: among, them robots. That is, until now.
To be clear, we aren’t talking about baking a cake in the shape of a robot. Researchers at MIT are working on new technology and materials that enable printable robotic components to self-assemble when heated. I wonder if they will still be edible...
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Today, we are making available a first community technology preview of the next version of Visual Studio, codenamed Visual Studio “14”. This early build is focused on enabling feedback and testing from the Visual Studio community. Visual Studio "14" will most likely be available sometime in 2015, with a more complete preview release and final naming available later this year. Be the first on your block!
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Kent Sharkey wrote: Be the first on your block!
'Hey there Jimmy, did you get the new Visual Studio?"
"Sure did, Glenn. It's the bees knees!"
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Not sure I like the yearly new versions of VS.
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Just seems a lot of hassle having to install new versions every year, especially when some libraries out there don't support newer versions until ~6 months after the new VS is installed.
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OK, I was thinking more the cost if you're not an MSDN subscriber. They seem to be charging the same amount yearly that they were previously charging two-yearly.
Anyway, seems everyone has copied Google Chrome's rapid release policy in some fashion, often without much thought.
Kevin
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The biggest headache for me involves bean counters, an unwillingness to buy a resharper subscription, and the resultant pressure to stick to older versions of VS.
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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Will this replace the version of .net on my PC with some dodgy pre-release version making Visual Studio 2013 unstable like the last 9 versions of .net, or have they actually figured out how to get it to into a different folder now?
modified 3-Jun-14 17:30pm.
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Heh - still on VS2010 and don't even know how many versions behind I am.
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3 versions.
VS 2012/2013/2014 
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What about all of the service packs and updates 
If you include those
1: Visual Studio 2010 SP1
2: Visual Studio 2012
3: Visual Studio 2012 Update 1
4: Visual Studio 2012 Update 2
5: Visual Studio 2012 Update 3
6: Visual Studio 2012 Update 4
7: Visual Studio 2013
8: Visual Studio 2013 Update 1
9: Visual Studio 2013 Update 2
10: Visual Studio 2013 Update 3
11: Visual Studio 14
So she/he is 10/11 versions behind, depending on whether they have SP1 installed on VS 2010
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Me too. I am perfectly happy with VS2010 - it does everything I need. Why should I bother upgrading in this situation - it's a waste of time and an open door for new and better problems.
- I would love to change the world, but they won’t give me the source code.
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Arguably it is just as important to know how to NOT market yourself as it is to market yourself. There are many mistakes you can make that can either cripple your career or severely hurt your chances of getting a job, landing clients, or pursing any other venue you want to pursue. I don't think billboards are the right way to go
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But the Billboards worked fine when I marketed myself as a The Stud.
| "The difference between genius and stupidity is that genius has its limits." - Albert Einstein | | "As far as we know, our computer has never had an undetected error." - Weisert | | "If you are searching for perfection in others, then you seek disappointment. If you are seek perfection in yourself, then you will find failure." - Balboos HaGadol Mar 2010 |
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Well of course. Studness is fine for billboards, just not for devs  You have to know your tools.
TTFN - Kent
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I would say the number 1 way to not market yourself as a software developer is to market yourself at all.
Don't, just don't.
Just be as good as you can be and let the employers come to you and do the legwork, don't play their game.
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HomerTheGreat wrote: Just be as good as you can be and let the employers come to you and do the legwork, don't play their game.
Ding-ding-ding: you win the "right approach" quiz! 
Marc
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I found myself genuinely hating the author of that article. Not because of the content, but because of the number of typos that 2 minutes editing would have caught. Let us hope his CV is better.
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Duncan Edwards Jones wrote: number of typos
I think the author isn't a native English speaker. I've found parts of his Pluralsight videos hard to understand due to his accent.
/ravi
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If you want this kind of thing, it's really been done long before and far better by Richard Bolles in What Color Is Your Parachute. It's really a great book. Read it years ago at the beginning of my IT career and it really does help.
Check it out.
Amazon -- What Color Is Your Parachute by Richard Bolles[^]
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Do you really think and employer cares what you, or I, want?
And right there is the problem. Frankly, if my employer isn't interested in what I want, then I don't want to work with them. The idea is that both parties find the relationship mutually beneficial, beyond just the paycheck for the employee and the work accomplished for the employer.
Same thing with dating. I don't want a "pleaser" (did I really just say that???) I want someone to tell me what they want so I know if I'm a person who meets those wants.
There is always some crisis that is making them the victim yet again.
Yup, and I don't find that with the men and women that do the real work in the company are drama queens. That job seems to be managements.
Your worth is not tied up in how many programming languages you know or how many years of experience you have, but in the person you are and how confidence you are in being that person.
We are talking resumes here, right? Full of facts and figures of how many years doing this, how many technologies used to do that. Sort of contradicts the "nobody cares what you want" idea at the beginning of the article, because my worth is about what I do and what I want, which can't be expressed in those facts and figures very easily.
Personally, I hate resumes. They make for an amusing autobiographical read while sitting on the porcelain throne, to be disposed of in the same manner.
Marc
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