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Funny how "communication, empathy, responsibility, ownership, work ethic, team building, etc..." aren't on those lists.
At least 50% (and I'm low-balling that #) of the problems I encounter in this career are not technical, they are personality/psychology problems of the people I work with and for.
Hmm, ok, make that at least 95%.
Marc
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To me, it's not the skills someone has, it's the drive and ambition they possess to obtain the skills required. It's had to recruit someone with all the skills required to do a job, and every job requires an element of learning anyway.
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Those aren't skills you necessarily hire for. You hire for technical expertise. To see if a candidate possess the skills you mention (which I agree 100% are important) is down to the interview questions, psychometric tests etc. It's also difficult to evaluate those skills, even with a battery of tests. That's why we have probationary periods where those other skills can be evaluated and assessed.
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Kent Sharkey wrote: Does it involve filling my Inbox? Oh, that's just top skills of LinkedIn
... especially if what they're filling me inbox with is jobs from the company I quit a month ago that I range from at best marginally qualified for in an I'm Sure I Could Learn This if I Had To sort of way like Senior Network Admin or Head of Classified Computer Security to You've Got to be Elephanting Me like Senior Welding Engineer  , but not anything that looked like the job I actually left. (Although that's probably because they handed what was going to be my next task off to someone else who was facing being laid off instead of opening a new staffing req.)
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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Planet Nine—the undiscovered planet at the edge of the Solar System that was predicted by the work of Caltech's Konstantin Batygin and Mike Brown in January 2016—appears to be responsible for the unusual tilt of the sun, according to a new study. Pluto's called in his posse
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interesting if true...wonder if there are any counter arguments though? It seems a little like a solution that happens to fit the data, rather than being the actual cause.
I guess I'm also assuming that something 10x earth would have been noticed earlier (by say, its impact on other planets).
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cjb110 wrote: It seems a little like a solution that happens to fit the data
Well, that's how they found Neptune[^]
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Not if it's that far out.
At that distance from the Sun (~600 AU), a single orbit would take ~14,700 years, so in the 400 years since the invention of the telescope it would scarcely have moved. Furthermore, its effect on the inner planets would be tiny; for example, its effect on Neptune would be ~1/40 of the Earth's effect on Neptune, which is already tiny.
It is quite likely that any perturbation effect is less than the experimental error of the observations.
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We've now found the true cause of Global Warming! 
#SupportHeForShe
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How do we know our sun's tilt is unusual?
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If the accepted explanation for the formation of the Solar System is correct, then it is anomalous.
The accepted explanation is that the Sun and the planets formed from a rotating cloud, Which implies that (a) all planets should orbit approximately in the same plane, and (b) that the Sun's equator should be in the same plane as the planets (this is the same as saying that the axial tilt should be approximately zero). The problem is that the Sun's axial tilt is approximately 6 degrees, which is much too large to be explained by the accepted Solar System formation theory.
The theorized existence of this additional planet would supposedly explain why the inner Solar System and the Sun do not share the same plane, at the cost of having to explain why that planet (and only that planet) is anomalous.
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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With a sampling of one, determining what is or isn't anomalous is impossible. (Beyond comparing something to an idealistic hypothesis.)
That Uranus's axis is tilted at about 90 degrees compared to the plane already indicates that the solar system isn't following the idealistic hypothesis.
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Joe Woodbury wrote: That Uranus's axis is tilted at about 90 degrees compared to the plane already indicates that the solar system isn't following the idealistic hypothesis
The theory that we have is obviously incomplete, but a theory that explains most of the formation of the Solar System is better that no theory at all. It is possible that more evidence will force us to abandon the current theory but until this is the case, astronomers will prefer to "tweak" the current theory and see if their predictions are borne out.
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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Expected to be released in late 2017, Swift 4 will aim to stabilize the language, both at the source code and ABI level. New features will include improvements to generics, and a Rust/Cyclone-inspired memory ownership model. They're updating this language pretty fast
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You mean swiftly?
cheers
Chris Maunder
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A pox on goodly grammar!
TTFN - Kent
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Hey - I speak real good grammar!
cheers
Chris Maunder
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Swift 4 feels kinda old. I am waiting for the fifth 5wift.
... such stuff as dreams are made on
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The final release of .NET Core tools will provide a build and project system that are unified with the rest of .NET project types, moving away from the project.json infrastructure that was specific to .NET Core. Bumpy road ahead
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These guys are doing my head in with their changes.
I fight the tools more than I fight the code these days.
cheers
Chris Maunder
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Actually I use Notepad++.
'Cause I'm hardcore.
cheers
Chris Maunder
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I use it and PSPad as well
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
Rating helpful answers is nice, but saying thanks can be even nicer.
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Rust Language Server provides live information such as code completion and documentation through a Microsoft co-developed protocol I usually have to wait a while to watch my code rust
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