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You're crazy ...but my name's not "Will".
- I would love to change the world, but they won’t give me the source code.
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 Nice, but it doesn't work with the way I placed the comma.
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Darn it! I didn't expect an American to know grammar that well. 
- I would love to change the world, but they won’t give me the source code.
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Forogar wrote: an American to know grammar that well.
Especially if he was born in Serbia...
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Aha! This explains it. My world has now returned to normal. Thank you.
- I would love to change the world, but they won’t give me the source code.
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Java’s emergence 20 years ago was the last time a programming language enamored the industry. "I consider it a challenge before the whole human race, and I ain't gonna lose"
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Ummm... what? That old thing?
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It's easy to win if you never mention the most serious contender and ignore it as if it doesn't exist, and this from a guy that works at Xamarin. 
I seriously disagree that JavaScript is a language that every developer should master. Hate and curse, but not master. 
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FIorian Schneidereit wrote: I seriously disagree that JavaScript is a language
I agree.
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FIorian Schneidereit wrote: I seriously disagree that JavaScript is a language that every developer should master. Hate and curse, but not master
Every web developer must master it, whether they like it or not.
Kevin
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So Kent, you're a Queen fan too?
- I would love to change the world, but they won’t give me the source code.
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TTFN - Kent
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Cortana in Windows 10 will be now able to connect to Office 365 to help you accomplish more at work. Yes. I know I'm working on a document. No, I don't want help with that.
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Does she come dressed as a paper-clip?
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Package ecosystem and graphics are strengths; security and memory management are weaknesses. YR? Can I buy a vowel?
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I've heard that E's can be purchased in some circles
"If you don't fail at least 90 percent of the time, you're not aiming high enough."
Alan Kay.
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Jeremy Kratz has addressed the taboo subject of burnout as a developer. He describes what many developers appear to experience, with the hope more discussion around the issue can help us collectively acknowledge its causes. "They call it the burnout factor, and only the good die young"
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Oh how it burns...
As Daniel H. Pink[^] put it - the secret to motivation (which is the antidote to burn out) is a combination of autonomy, purpose and mastery.
Autonomy means being able to make decisions about what you are doing. It can be a macro decision like the language or architecture to use or a smaller decision on tools, coding standards, even icons and fonts to use.
Purpose is simply that whatever you are doing has some meaning. We need an idea of what things will look like when we are done, or how what we are doing will improve things.
Mastery is the feedback you get from getting better at things. This is one of the major motivations for all software projects but especially the open source or utility software side of things.
If you take away any of these three (as the examples in that article do) then motivation plummets.
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Burnout and Depression (and other stress related health issues) are serious health issues that need to be taken care of seriously by real health professionals.
They are no different than other sickness, except that it has a stigma of the "mental illness".
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I'd rather be phishing!
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Maximilien wrote: Burnout and Depression (and other stress related health issues) are serious health issues that need to be taken care of seriously by real health professionals.
I'm not so sure if this really helps. I mean, first of all, "real health professionals" are trained to cure people in a way to make them functional again - functional within the rat race of this society. They are not there to help you to really solve your problems, that would take too much time and effort, and no insurance will cover that kind of therapy because this society needs only functional, not sound and happy people. After all, the only cure from things like Burnout would be to get off the pressure this society puts upon everybody and return their freedom.
I can only recommend reading Escape from Freedom and other works by Erich Fromm to get the big picture I'm talking about.
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You mean consulting a health professional is not a good thing?
Psychologist do not cure people (wacko sect gurus do claim to be able to cure people); they help you help yourself; it is a two way process (wrong word).
Escapism is not a cure and a full front assault is also not a cure.
Engaging oneself with a mental health professional is one way to help solve the stress/burnout/depression issues.
Well, here, we have insurances that covers that (up to a point).
I'd rather be phishing!
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If I help myself, it is not help - I did it myself. I'm not paying someone to help me help myself. That would be paying someone for me helping me? One must be a psychologist to make that sounds logical.
His point remains unchanged though; you get enough help to continue with the stuff that caused it.
Bastard Programmer from Hell 
If you can't read my code, try converting it here[^]
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When it comes to learning programming, some things have changed -- but not everything. Is there still a long lineup for the card reader?
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Kent Sharkey wrote: Is there still a long lineup for the card reader?
Yes, because it broke and it's a "won't fix" issue.
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On Tuesday, a pair of bitcoin entrepreneurs and the MIT Media Lab revealed a prototype for a system called Enigma, designed to achieve a decades-old goal in data security known as “homomorphic” encryption: A way to encrypt data such that it can be shared with a third party and used in computations without it ever being decrypted.
They probably could've picked a better name than one that graced a famous Nazi code machine...
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