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SantaPope
In Word you can only store 2 bytes. That is why I use Writer.
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So something kinda strange happened with my "programming career" thus far. It started with C#, progressed to things like Entity Framework and MVC, and in the midst I learned a tiny bit of HTML and CSS in there, though frankly I kind of already knew HTML from long ago. Then, hoping to make interactive, awesome front end content, I learned JS and jQuery.
Recently though, I realized... CSS is powerful as hell... And I didn't learn it right. I learned it, thinking it was a simple markup to do things like apply font and color to text, and screw with margins and borders... Turns out, you can animate things, create sidebar menus, do almost anything you could in Photoshop, and even make a 3D animated Pokemon for God's sake...
But... What the hell IS CSS? I'm told it's not a programming language, I'm told people who know CSS and HTML exclusively are not "real programmers" and I have been happy to be a "real programmer"... Until I have been working on projects to boost my portfolio and.... My websites, while functional, and implementing cool things like a database, models, data transfer objects, and a login system... Have been, for lack of a better term, UGLY AS HELL!
But I get so much more satisfaction out of hooking up a database to a website, and setting up a RESTful system... Yet I know for a fact that even I, when faced with an ugly site, couldn't give less of a crap about how the back end is built and want to leave it immediately.
Is this a normal feel for a new coder like me? I'm about to go and try to really tackle CSS, but I feel so pathetic doing it. Yet, it is SO necessary.
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This one[^] sums up my feelings about CSS perfectly! 
Anything that is unrelated to elephants is irrelephant
Anonymous
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The problem with quotes on the internet is that you can never tell if they're genuine
Winston Churchill, 1944
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I'd just like a chance to prove that money can't make me happy.
Me, all the time
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By far the best image I've seen in a month!
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Just because you can does not mean you should, CSS may be a fantastically capable markup tool, it is also a support nightmare (this sage advice comes from someone who hates the entire web stack).
You need to focus on where you want to work, corporate data consumers will only be marginally interested in the UI. Functionality and data are their hot points.
Public facing web stuff is all about the UI look and feel.
Never underestimate the power of human stupidity
RAH
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I believe you are normal, talented, and have a great future ahead of you !
You'll need to investigate what the trade-offs, for you, are in using CSS to do fancy graphic stuff, or animations, that go "beyond tagged mark-up" frontiers vs. using one of the spate of JavaScript libraries that enable such things.
cheers, Bill
«There is a spectrum, from "clearly desirable behaviour," to "possibly dodgy behavior that still makes some sense," to "clearly undesirable behavior." We try to make the latter into warnings or, better, errors. But stuff that is in the middle category you don’t want to restrict unless there is a clear way to work around it.» Eric Lippert, May 14, 2008
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These actually made me laugh (a little anyway):
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Anything that is unrelated to elephants is irrelephant
Anonymous
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The problem with quotes on the internet is that you can never tell if they're genuine
Winston Churchill, 1944
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I'd just like a chance to prove that money can't make me happy.
Me, all the time
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So I get an unlocked Android phone - running the latest android - text messages have all these dang big circles with initials.....
then at my current contract, I am force-ably upgraded to Office 365. All of my email has big circles...
Yahoo Messenger (yes, I know, sigh....) forces me to upgrade to the latest messenger... more big circles.. wtf?
Did I miss a UI pattern?
Charlie Gilley
<italic>Stuck in a dysfunctional matrix from which I must escape...
"Where liberty dwells, there is my country." B. Franklin, 1783
“They who can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety.” BF, 1759
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It makes a change from the blocky square edge design that MS is putting into everything! Are you sure there are circles on Office365? 
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We've had the fisher paykel squares, now you are getting the google circles, next year some idjit designer is going to use triangle and we'll be off on another fad!
Never underestimate the power of human stupidity
RAH
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Triangles at least fit together nicely, and you can use them as "like" / "dislike" buttons as well!
I can see the UI designers salivating as I type!
Bad command or file name. Bad, bad command! Sit! Stay! Staaaay...
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The aliens have landed? 
(Oh, that's crop circles 
If you have an important point to make, don't try to be subtle or clever. Use a pile driver. Hit the point once. Then come back and hit it again. Then hit it a third time - a tremendous whack.
--Winston Churchill
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that's funny
Charlie Gilley
<italic>Stuck in a dysfunctional matrix from which I must escape...
"Where liberty dwells, there is my country." B. Franklin, 1783
“They who can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety.” BF, 1759
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Big circles. Little circles. Who cares about any circles? They are pointless.
There are only 10 types of people in the world, those who understand binary and those who don't.
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charlieg wrote: I am force-ably upgraded to Office 365. All of my email has big circles...
You sure you weren't upgraded to Office360? The 5-fewer-than-a-full-suite knockoff.
No, I'm not being serious.
We can program with only 1's, but if all you've got are zeros, you've got nothing.
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Okay, that was clever
Charlie Gilley
<italic>Stuck in a dysfunctional matrix from which I must escape...
"Where liberty dwells, there is my country." B. Franklin, 1783
“They who can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety.” BF, 1759
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So, I looked at what an ex-consultant at the company where I work posted for his experience:
Contracting onsite and remote as Senior Software Engineer for: [redacted] (fintech industry)
Responsible for check cashing (Datawire XML, FirstData Telecheck packets)
Magnetic stripe (AAMVA, tracks1-3) features
and contributed EMV, RF-ID, ACH (Dwolla), POS (Poynt) features
using Python, Django, PostgreSQL, Javascript, Backbone, Chromium, ATM (Diebold);
Everything, except the first part, is a lie. OK, it was written in Python, but it was so bad that we ripped it out and rewrote it.
- He did no Django, PostgresSql, Javascript, Backbone, or Chromium work.
- The Diebold ATM arrived after he left.
- We've never done RF-ID
- We still haven't gotten our EMV ducks in a row to even begin that work
- He never touched Dwolla and Poynt (and neither has anyone else yet either.)
- He never did anything with the magstripe readers.
I would imagine that the rest of his work experience is equally dishonest. 
Marc
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Marc Clifton wrote: The lies we post on LinkedIn
Maybe you, but I am indeed a scram master. Honestly. For real.
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We need to get you a tee shirt that reads:
I am a reactor technician.
If you see me running try to keep up.
if (Object.DividedByZero == true) { Universe.Implode(); }
Meus ratio ex fortis machina. Simplicitatis de formae ac munus. -Foothill, 2016
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"cashing"??
If it's not broken, fix it until it is
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I thought about listing one of my skills on LinkedIn as CodeProject Lounge Lizard but I don't think most people would get the joke.
if (Object.DividedByZero == true) { Universe.Implode(); }
Meus ratio ex fortis machina. Simplicitatis de formae ac munus. -Foothill, 2016
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