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I say professors are even worse in defining AI and then exaggerating what their redefined ideas actually do.
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This post may contain some of the most important career advice you’ll ever receive — no, really. Using this information, you may be able to earn yourself hundreds of thousands or even a million dollars or more over the course of your career. "You can get much farther with a kind word and a gun than you can with a kind word alone."
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I have to admit, the "Salary isn't Everything" section is very helpful. For me, I prefer holidays and job security, over wages. And I learned a long time ago, I prefer working for a larger company than being a contractor or working for a small firm. When the author broke down the 'real' hourly wage it definitely showed a big difference. Applicants should definitely consider benefits and culture to money when accepting a position.
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For all my grumbling (which you may have come across, or not) after my 6 month contract gig was up, the company wanted to extend the contract for another 6 months. In order to keep my sanity, I walked into my manager's office, knowing:
a) I was in a good financial position to simply walk out the door and never come back
b) I was in a good "we need Marc" position to negotiate
c) I have a good relationship with my manager
and basically said "I'd like to work only 3 days a week, and I'll come in on other days if there are deadlines or work that others are depending on for their schedules" and she agreed. She even counter-offered with, "we really want you to continue here, so if you want to do 2 days a week, that would be fine, whatever makes you happy."
Sweet. So for all my griping, I do work for and with some really cool people.
Marc
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Learning to code with python is like learning to swim with those little arm floaties. It gives you undeserved confidence and will eventually drown you. - DangerBunny
Artificial intelligence is the only remedy for natural stupidity. - CDP1802
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After my 5 week contract, they waited 6 months and called me back for a 1 year contract, and after another year they called me back for a 2 year contract - direct so they did not have to wait the statuary 12 months to dodge the agency, that was 13 years ago.
Never underestimate the power of human stupidity
RAH
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Mycroft Holmes wrote: they waited 6 months and called me back for a 1 year contract
That happened to me once -- the company (A) I was working as lead developer for a contract they had with another company (B), well (A) one day announced that they couldn't guarantee our paychecks (they had several other contracts with other companies on other projects that were sinking the boat) so I left. (B) waited out the contract period with (A) and then gave me the contract directly. Things were wonderful until (B) had to file for bankruptcy and they let go of all their contractors!
Marc
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Learning to code with python is like learning to swim with those little arm floaties. It gives you undeserved confidence and will eventually drown you. - DangerBunny
Artificial intelligence is the only remedy for natural stupidity. - CDP1802
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jgakenhe wrote: I have to admit, the "Salary isn't Everything" section is very helpful. For me, I prefer holidays and job security, over wages
Same here. I'm undecided on the big vs small issue having spent 11.5y at one medium sized company (1300 to 450 people) and less than a year so far at a smaller one (<50); and at that both're contractors as opposed to companies making and selling a single product. Both have their pluses and minuses; OTOH the big one was bureaucratic enough that I suspect that saying something like "coming from 25 days of leave/year only getting 14 is a major step backward" at the bigger one would've gotten something on the line of "our process won't let us give you more" instead of the owner striking out 14 and replacing it with a larger number on the written offer.
YMMV and de gustibus non est disputandum.
Did you ever see history portrayed as an old man with a wise brow and pulseless heart, weighing 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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Dan Neely wrote: de gustibus non est disputandum
scilicet!!
#SupportHeForShe
Government can give you nothing but what it takes from somebody else. A government big enough to give you everything you want is big enough to take everything you've got, including your freedom.-Ezra Taft Benson
You must accept 1 of 2 basic premises: Either we are alone in the universe or we are not alone. Either way, the implications are staggering!-Wernher von Braun
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OneDrive is expanding version history to support all file types for your OneDrive personal account—one of our most highly requested features. For all your, "Undo, undo, UNDO, please undo" moments
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Developers can easily document large JavaScript projects with sphinx-js, Mozilla’s newly introduced solution. According to the company, there hasn’t been a tool able to handle large JavaScript documentation projects up until today. Is it a sign with a big, "DON'T" on it?
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That site is brilliant. 
TTFN - Kent
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There’s no other way to put this, QNAP do not believe that a bug which risks corrupting your data on your QNAP NAS is worthwhile mentioning in their release notes at all.
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We use StorageCraft ShadowProtect a lot for our client backups. It’s been proven to be a solid backup and recovery solution for us for many years. We typically store these backups onsite on QNAP devices with 4 drives in a RAID 5 configuration. Now in “normal” operation this works well. It’s only if a drive in the RAID array fails however did the QNAP device then have to resort to recalculate the missing data, and when it does that it makes errors in the calculations but does not tell you about it. These errors cause the data to be corrupted. Sure – you replace the failed drive, and it then used the same calculations to repopulate the failed drive, with corrupted data. Basically if you have a QNAP with a RAID 5 array AND you have a drive fail, you WILL HAVE an issue with data corruption
Did you ever see history portrayed as an old man with a wise brow and pulseless heart, weighing 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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Wizards of the Coast describes D&D Beyond as a “digital toolset” for players using the game’s 5th Edition rules. Roll D20 to save against buying
OK, maybe that's just for me.
Mind you, a digital version of RuneQuest? I'd be so there.
Wait, there's a NEW edition?! bye y'all
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It is surprising that the publisher is just now getting to the 'digital edition' as it were... I remember writing applications for D&D in the early '80s on a Commodore PET.
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Eh, doesn't surprise me. They stopped listening to people after 3.5 I feel. 4th edition was garbage and I haven't looked much into 5th edition yet. I just play PathfinderRPG (a revamp of 3.5) with some rules modded back to 3.5. Also the Giant In the Playground[^] forum has already come up with excellent online rules they've been using for years. The official digital edition is a bit behind the times.
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My son, who is a great DM, really likes 5th edition. I'm also surprised they are getting on the bandwagon so late, especially since there's numerous sites like roll20 out there.
Marc
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Learning to code with python is like learning to swim with those little arm floaties. It gives you undeserved confidence and will eventually drown you. - DangerBunny
Artificial intelligence is the only remedy for natural stupidity. - CDP1802
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I'll have to check out 5th edition. I heard they moved away from 4th's board-game-esque combat system which was one of the things I disliked about 4th. I still like 3.5's level of customization which I don't think they brought back but house-ruling a combination of 3.5 and 5 could be a fun adventure.
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I wonder if the licensing terms for the DND based RPGs they did back in the day got in the way of them being able to make an official play online product.
Did you ever see history portrayed as an old man with a wise brow and pulseless heart, weighing 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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It’s summertime here at IEEE Spectrum, and that means it’s time for our fourth interactive ranking of the top programming languages. They're engineers, so it must be correct. Right?
I'm sorry, but a list of top languages with Forth only at #47? For shame!
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I read the most used language in programming was profanity. Seems to be missing on the list.
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Sometimes people have a very hard time debugging. Mostly, these are people who believe that in order to debug a system, you have to think about it instead of looking at it. I know none of you need this skill, but you might know someone who does
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Pretty obvious stuff. But he's correct: the right answer is "I don't know" and "I'll go look at ... and figure it out."
#SupportHeForShe
Government can give you nothing but what it takes from somebody else. A government big enough to give you everything you want is big enough to take everything you've got, including your freedom.-Ezra Taft Benson
You must accept 1 of 2 basic premises: Either we are alone in the universe or we are not alone. Either way, the implications are staggering!-Wernher von Braun
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Hmmm.
Sometimes people have a very hard time debugging. Mostly, these are people who believe that in order to debug a system, you have to think about it instead of looking at it.
The thing I do when faced with a bug that looks like those nasty things in colorized electron microscope images is think about it. Because there is no easy answer to:
Debugging is accomplished by gathering data until you understand the cause of the problem.
These are bugs caused not so much by data but by threading issues, workflow problems, lack of understanding the underlying tech, etc. Yes, there's a "data gathering" aspect in the broad sense of the term, but I've found that the really gnarly bugs are solved best by sleeping on the problem -- relaxing the mind, imagining the processes involved and how they interact, and coming up with some ways to simplify the problem down to a testable scenario that verifies the bug.
Marc
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Learning to code with python is like learning to swim with those little arm floaties. It gives you undeserved confidence and will eventually drown you. - DangerBunny
Artificial intelligence is the only remedy for natural stupidity. - CDP1802
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