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Sounds like a ready made excuse:"I'll code that routine as soon as I find my desk"
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The question might be not "how much", but "why"?
There are people who make an income by dreaming up ways to change things without respect to whether the change is good or under what set of conditions the changes would be good.
These ideas are quite literally "sold" in a way that tells the buyer that this is the newest/hippest/coolest/etc. thing and it would be good PR to do it. I remember the craze about adjustable desktops. That went over like a lead balloon with most developers (especially those over 30). The desire to be seen as contemporary with current trends is a powerful magnet that leads many to behavior they otherwise would know is useless.
These fads come and go.
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It is a way to make people feel absolutely interchangeable.
This is a problem Management has TOO MUCH OF in Software Development.
When I was first starting out, we had 2.5 developers. We were looking at a huge copy/rewrite of our legacy system to go into a new market. We "estimated" it would take us 9 months to do this, if we dropped everything, which was not possible, but it gave us a cost basis. We would leave the 0.5 developer to maintain stuff. The 2 programmers were above average. And without distraction, we felt we could live with 9 months to do this.
The owner looked at the room, and saw 5 people (a manager who had not programmed in years, a Computer Operations Manager who did not program beyond hobby level, and the 3 other programmers). He said well, if we hire 3 more programmers, you guys should be finished in 2 months.
He just called us COGS in a wheel. Just get more of "us" and he will make us live with this. Never mind it took over a month to find and hire each of us, and I helped bring 2 of them in! LOL.
So, I stood up and said basically "That's Amazing. So if you go out and hire 180 Programmers, we can have it done for you by tomorrow at noon!"
And I walked out of the meeting and went back to work.
My boss pulls me into his office about 45 minutes later to let me know that the meeting was not over when I left... I explained: "It was for me". I later read the Mythical Man Month and learned it has been a problem since knowledge workers became a thing. Management is clueless about the ability of any individual who is smarter than they are, or who have skills they do not!
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Your future work environment is about normalizing all knowledge workers to be the same. A terrible mistake, because I know from experience that there are Programmers that can do 10-100 times the work of other programmers. We have seen it first hand. We have leveraged it.
Good luck!
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If anyone has had some exposure to both, which one did you prefer for backend development? Golang has its perks on the other hand Node.js has that valuable familiarity.
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Golang everytime; just for the ease of creation and communication between goroutines (Go's name for coroutines). This helps to make Go a lot more scalable than Node, plus it's not carrying the JavaScript baggage that Node does - even Typescript can't work around the fact that, underneath, it's JavaScript and that has some significant architectural problems that are still present from day 1 of the language.
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We can’t stop here, this is bat country - Hunter S Thompson RIP
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I wasn't aware of Golang. I knew there is something called Go. Is there any good resource to get to know it better? Preferably video/podcast.
"It is easy to decipher extraterrestrial signals after deciphering Javascript and VB6 themselves.", ISanti[ ^]
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Golang is the name typically given to the "go lang"uage. I'm a Pluralsight subscriber so I use Search | Pluralsight[^] but the place to start is golang[^] itself.
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On Slant GO is top rated, see: https://www.slant.co/topics/7812/~programming-language-to-learn-for-backend-developers
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Hi guys,
I was looking for the visual studio express 2017 and the site of Microsoft is offering me the visual studio 2017 community.
Have you used it? Where are the differences?
I am interested on practice mainly with C++, C# and WPF
is it better?
M.D.V. 
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That's (Community) the one you want.
I've used it and it is great.
They offer free use on Visual Studio Community up to size of your Enterprise.
Very helpful for indie devs.
AT bottom of page they even state:
Quote: For individuals
Any individual developer can use Visual Studio Community to create their own free or paid apps.
modified 7-Aug-18 16:24pm.
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Thanks for your comment.
I had seen the quote, but I thought I was mixing something. Last time I downloaded the express version (2012) it was only allowed for "non-paid" products.
M.D.V.
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community is all you need. same as Pro, minus the $$$.
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cool.
thanks for the info
M.D.V.
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Community is express now. I believe express ended with 2013. 2015 and 2017 both have community editions with are the free versions. Free is the best price.
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My last download was the 2012 Express... let's see.
Thanks for your comment
M.D.V. 
If something has a solution... Why do we have to worry about?. If it has no solution... For what reason do we have to worry about?
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as some pointed out, I had that backwards. Community is the new express not the other way around. Sorry, late day post, my brain was in quittin time mode.
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j snooze wrote: Community is express now.
Mine says 2017 Community.
/ravi
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yeah, I mixed the two, I know its community now. Thats what I get for a full day of using my noggin' and then trying to post intelligently near quittin' time.
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You have that backwards. What was Express is now Community
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ah yes...I"m sorry late in the day post.
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j snooze wrote: Free is the best price.
But I think that means you can't get a discount!
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Walt Fair, Jr., P. E.
Comport Computing
Specializing in Technical Engineering Software
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Nelek wrote: Where are the differences?
Per this page, Visual Studio Community is an updated alternative to Visual Studio Express.
"One man's wage rise is another man's price increase." - Harold Wilson
"Fireproof doesn't mean the fire will never come. It means when the fire comes that you will be able to withstand it." - Michael Simmons
"You can easily judge the character of a man by how he treats those who can do nothing for him." - James D. Miles
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I already saw that before posting. If you see in the bottom the "express" is still listed, that's when I started having doubts.
I will try the community. Thanks for the comment.
M.D.V.
If something has a solution... Why do we have to worry about?. If it has no solution... For what reason do we have to worry about?
Help me to understand what I'm saying, and I'll explain it better to you
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The only available options for Visual Studio 2017 so far is either "community", "professional", or "enterprise". The "community" edition is exactly the same as "express" edition. 
When making a choice about the edition, I basically refer to Compare Visual Studio Product Offerings | Visual Studio[^]
As far as I know "enterprise" edition is for team development, while "professional" edition is slightly the same as the "community" edition, *BUT* supports the unit testing just like the "enterprise". In turn the "enterprise" edition supports Microsoft Team Foundation Server integration, as well as various dev tools for developing apps by a team of developers.
If you don't need the either team foundation server integration or unit testing, the "community" edition is just for you, and fit all your needs in apps development. Also, there's an edition for iMac development.
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