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R. Giskard Reventlov wrote: we're trying to upskill everyone
I call buzzword bingo!
The difficult we do right away...
...the impossible takes slightly longer.
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But I just made it up! 
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John Simmons / outlaw programmer wrote: Google is my alternative.
Alternative? Google is the first choice, next is bing beer the pub
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I have yet to see an online (onsite?) training that is worth anything. If you want to learn bad coding techniques and how to write buggy code, online training is the way to go. Then again, I stopped looking at these things a few years ago.
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Sheesh. What do you call all those articles you write, Marc? 
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dandy72 wrote: What do you call all those articles you write
Those aren't training courses. Many of them are my crazy ramblings. 
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raddevus wrote: PluralSight.com is a actually very, very good.
Good to know. I'll check them out. There's definitely always more to learn, and a recommendation goes a long way!
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Marc Clifton wrote: a recommendation goes a long way!
Agreed. I've wasted a number of hours viewing training at other sites that is not very good.
I've been completely underwhelmed by a number of Edx (edX | Free online courses from the world's best universities[^]) training videos -- but they are all from different sources so you can never tell.
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...the definition of tedium.
When your article stretches out to four or more parts, it borders on a being a psychologically-damaging event. The real bummer is that it's looking like I won't be done with this crap before the world ends tomorrow...
And since I've mentioned the world ending thing, I'll provide Chris with one more item.
I hope everyone will have GOTTEN their affairs in order before tomorrow's big event.
".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
modified 22-Sep-17 12:11pm.
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Nah, I'm gonna leave that until Sunday when I have a little more spare time.
Bad command or file name. Bad, bad command! Sit! Stay! Staaaay...
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My approach is to think about what I want to write while I'm in the shower. In fact, I do some of my best coding in the shower. 
If you're going to follow the advice of the guy that "reads and reads", you have to select material written prior to 1940. Otherwise you'll be reading progressively worse attempts at conveying an idea via the written word.
".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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Agreed, I get my best ideas while I go for a walk in the afternoon, not sitting behind my desk.
This was also shown in the results of a dutch investigation recently that brain activity is much higher after doing a walk, so there's the proof ! 
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Taking a walk is a great distraction from writing. But it's just that: a distraction. If you're writing something long, like a book, you don't have time for such things. You have to learn to be productive every day. You have to think of what you're going to write next when you're eating lunch, going to the bathroom, and any other break you take. Yes, sometimes you simply cannot go on, and must push back from the keyboard, or rip your own eyeballs out. But if you get used to thinking this is a good thing, you will never finish your writing.
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Do you try to establish your articles as a Standard? I hope not, sorry 
It does not solve my Problem, but it answers my question
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I don't understand your question.
If you want brutal honesty, I think a lot of the article writers here could learn a thing or three about how to write articles, from my articles.
".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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John Simmons / outlaw programmer wrote: I think a lot of the article writers here could learn a thing or three about how to write
Is all you need to say ... 
Bad command or file name. Bad, bad command! Sit! Stay! Staaaay...
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Quote: If you want brutal honesty, I think a lot of the article writers here could learn a thing or three about how to write articles, from my articles.
Nope, sorry!
It does not solve my Problem, but it answers my question
modified 19-Jan-21 21:04pm.
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You may not agree, but that doesn't make me any less correct in my claims.
".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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Are you suggesting that all or the vast majority of articles, in terms of communication and not code, are excellent?
Or something else?
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This is all I could think of after reading your post.
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John Simmons / outlaw programmer wrote: ...the definition of tedium.
I have an article in the works that should be published as a SyncFusion e-book. It's easily going to hit 100 pages in Word. 
What started out as "this looks simple enough" turned into anything but tedium. Confusing spec, many things poorly defined, some things contradictory, lots of research into what other people have done to resolve issues, which meant separating the wheat from the chaff, and there's a LOT of chaff out there in various implementations.
But, I'm quite enjoying the process!
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