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I went to university for Fortran, Pascal and Turbo C... none of which I use today.
Should have focused on beer and the ladies. 
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I went to college (I'm American instead of British) to learn how to think rather than learning tools: guidelines for how to solve a problem when you have no clue how to start. I think my school did a good job: I can generally find a solution to ANY problem my work (or life) throws at me. I frequently don't find the optimum solution first, but I discover a solution.
I compare it to being a carpenter. The apprenticeship is not to learn how specific tools work; it is to learn what to do WITH the tools. A good college education is the same.
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"Error CS0122 'ValueBinder' is inaccessible due to its protection level"
Aaaaaaargh!!!
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NuGet:
Nothing
U
Get
Ever
Works.
Including the acronym. 
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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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are you not using any automation? like check in to source control and schedule a nightly build ? email the build report to devs ? what is this new thing ? back in the old days we used to do it like that ...
Caveat Emptor.
"Progress doesn't come from early risers – progress is made by lazy men looking for easier ways to do things." Lazarus Long
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AFAIK there's no point to going to university for thist stuff. I remember my informatics lections being so theoretical, they're pretty useless for getting stuff done and academia didn't prepare me for stuff going wrong in the field (such as a network connection being less reliable than a SATA cable). I've read on some blog linked in the Codeproject news about how programming should be taught in a master/apprentice-manner rather than in an academic manner and from my own experience in the field, I very much agree. I don't think that academia is entirely useless. When it comes to stuff such as designing embedded OS' or compilers yourself, deep theoretical knowledge surely is helpful. But when you're the guy who uses all those background services to get the actual task done, university is a waste of time.
Well, not entirely. I got hired for having a degree sinmply because it indicated to my now-employer that I'm a bright head capable of learning. Apart of that, that's about it.
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Kirill Illenseer wrote: Well, not entirely. I got hired for having a degree sinmply because it indicated to my now-employer that I'm a bright head capable of learning. Apart of that, that's about it.
This is true of many degree "requirements". They are used by the recruiters to winnow out the chaff.
Freedom is the freedom to say that two plus two make four. If that is granted, all else follows.
-- 6079 Smith W.
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My very smart (and wise) roommate:
A college degree proves that you can put up with four years of <nonsense>.
If you can put up with that, you can put up with a job.
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In uni, I learned:
- how to build a complex 3D engine in an esoteric programming language nobody uses (= no internet resources)
- how to assess the complexity of algorithms, theoretically, and measure their actual complexity in the field
- an esoteric variant of opcodes, not x86 based, to drive a CPU in an emulated environment
- how to build data structures, with a comparable quality to the C++ STL
..and that's just the stuff I remember on the top of my head.
In general, I felt the quality of my Uni was good. Totally worth the 1.5K euros a year.
Well, maybe a bit less; if you resell your books, it's more like 0.7K a year. 
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... and all I get to do is decide who gets a desk near a window.
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I've got through my entire ToDo list, and ticked everything off.
And then added some more, but they can't be done today anyway.
That doesn't happen that often: by sometimes, an empty List<Task> is exactly what you want to return! 
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That's perfectly fine for awaitable Tasks.
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Quote: I've got through my entire ToDo list, and ticked everything off.
I know, the Empty List was a remarkable invention.
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Did you tick off people too? 
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Bassam Abdul-Baki wrote: Did you tick off people too?
If he answers no, then you have caught an imposter.
Because it wouldn't really be OG without that, would it? 
Or at least, it wouldn't be real software development. 
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Never really used a to-do-list. Just keep it all in my head.
Luckily, its a big enough void to hold a big list...
A Fine is a Tax for doing something wrong
A Tax is a Fine for doing something good.
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The robots are coming! Gonna get real boring if it really comes to nothing to do.
See @CodeWraith - I knew there was a good reason to start collecting neodymium magnets.  that'll learn them!
This internet thing is amazing! Letting people use it: worst idea ever!
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I once read a definition of a civilized man as "A person who can keep himself busy all day even when he doesn't have to go to work". By that definition, very few of us are civilized.
I predict that if UBI is enacted at present, we will see the following pattern:
- A large number of people will quit their jobs, intending to go on a trip around the world, write the Great <whatever> Novel, etc.
- It will be difficult to find people to perform the essential jobs; the standard of living for everyone goes down (think what happens when all the sanitation workers quit...)
- After a while, some people may return to their jobs, having worked it out of their system
- Many (most?) of the essential workers, from Doctors to Garbage Collectors, will need to be lured back to their jobs by better conditions than they had before UBI
- This results in a decreasing of the size of the pot, possibly making UBI untenable
UBI can only work if:
- The gross planetary product is so high that feeding all the drones is a trivial expense
- All of the drudgery and "sh*t" jobs can be automated
- There are enough people who are willing to do the remaining jobs for the sheer "fun" of it.
I don't see that we're there, yet.
Freedom is the freedom to say that two plus two make four. If that is granted, all else follows.
-- 6079 Smith W.
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Daniel Pfeffer wrote: I once read a definition of a civilized man as "A person who can keep himself busy all day even when he doesn't have to go to work".
I'm trying to figure out what that means, given that an entire vacation day can go by and I'll feel like I've accomplished nothing.
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Among other possibilities, it means that you have interests in addition to food, shelter, and s*x.
Freedom is the freedom to say that two plus two make four. If that is granted, all else follows.
-- 6079 Smith W.
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Daniel Pfeffer wrote: feeding all the drones
Do like bees do. Come winter, kill and/or kick out the drones. 
Everyone is born right handed. Only the strongest overcome it.
Fight for left-handed rights and hand equality.
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Two words: Nice dream. Its not going to happen. Listen to just the talk about Universal Health Care, even at that is impossible in the US.
Unless we found an unlimited source of energy and we figured out energy-matter conversion instantaneously. May be, just may be. The 1% will always try to take advantage of the 99%.
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Leng Vang wrote: The 1% will always try to take advantage of the 99%.
Bill Gates came to my house yesterday and used the bathroom. He didn't even tip. 
Everyone is born right handed. Only the strongest overcome it.
Fight for left-handed rights and hand equality.
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