Ditto. No newsletters for me either.

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I had enough of acronyms in the military, thank you very much.

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Better make it 2% to adjust for inflation.

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I must apologize for my absence but I recently started a new job at a new company. No more boring government work for me anymore. Now I get to work with quantitative developers in investments. I swear that they are trying to make my head explode with all the new jargon. It's been a challenging first few weeks but I am getting the hang of it.

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I am afraid that this is what happens when the press, and I use that word lightly, competes for eye-balls on the web. Honest, factual, unbiased news was thrown out the window and replaced with click-bait headlines and the "first to publish online wins" mentality. These are a few of the reasons why I now subscribe to the Wall Street Journal. It's full of reporters actually reporting the news and Opinions are relegated to their own section of the newspaper.

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If X4 is as bad as X Rebirth, I will fully agree with you. I have hope for it but I am not pre-ordering this time around due to getting burned by X Rebirth and its inability to live up to its own hype. On all other accounts, every other game released this year (that I bought) was disappointing in many ways. I'm a PC gamer so I couldn't talk about console games.

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I would kill for a forever job like that as long as the projects varied enough to keep it interesting.

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I have learned that what you consider important and what office drones consider important never match and rarely overlap. We consider network impacts, efficient CPU utilization, and database read times while they are focused on how many more/less times they have to hit the tab key, use the mouse, and frickin font sizes. Even worse, I swear some people think that all desktop applications should behave like web browsers. X|

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If you really want to bake their noodle, put all the value maps in Attributes and then have the object built via Reflection such as in this article[^]. It's a super complicated way to do simple tasks :laugh:

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Cus' in 'Murica, why use a jeweler's hammer when 15 pound sledge will still work. :-D

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Nurse! He's out of bed again :laugh:

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I know that talent throws all assumptions out the window :-D. I read an article some years back about college degree return on investment. It put degrees from MIT and CalTech at the top. The school's are the two costliest to attend but they also provide a much higher starting pay. This is all generally speaking that is. Statistics are one thing, reality can be different for individuals. I wish I could still find that article.

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Forogar wrote:

A large part of it was learning the history of computing

:suss: You cannot understand where you are going until you understand where you have been. :suss: To answer your question, it depends on what degree it is and where your degree is coming from. For example, having a degree in Computer Science from MIT, CalTech, or Stanford is an order of magnitude better than one from your local college or university. There are several elite schools in each field. Also, degrees in most STEM tracks have a much better chance of landing a job in your field upon graduation. To sum up, the harder it is to get the degree the better the degree is. If one is not willing to pursue a hard degree, they would be better off jumping straight into the workforce. IMHO, nobody with a Gender Studies degree is going to get a high-paying job......ever.

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CodeWraith wrote:

having made the Kessel Run in less than 2475180 AU (= 12 parsec)

Having survived a screening of the Solo movie without serious mental damage, I can attest that they found a interesting way to explain that line from the original. SPOILERS BELOW Kessel is a planet inside a large magnetic storm and there is only one mapped route to make it through without serious risk called the Kessel Run. The length of the route varied over time but it was much longer than 12 parsecs. In the movie, Han had to pilot the Falcon off of the route and through the storm; emerging after only traveling ~12 parsecs. It was one of the better parts of the movie, IMHO, and became the source of the bragging rights.

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Be careful. Some enterprising young grad student might make this a programming language extension for JavaScript X|

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So this is how spammers are getting 'authenticated' email through the ole spam filters. And don't get me started with exposing your database passwords on the internet. :doh:

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If there is any musical instrument that needs to be stamped on, it's the viola.

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I agree that the learning curve is quite steep and there still are things that you cannot do in the designer or XAML (or at least not intuitively). I have, from time to time, built entire controls with children in the code so I don't have XAML documents 1000+ lines long and nested enough to require a lot of horizontal scrolling. However, I still prefer it to WinForms.

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It depends. You really have to think ahead to where your performance bottlenecks will be. If the project's end program will be accessing a lot of information randomly from the database then the design should be DB first. The reason is your database is where your information bottlenecks will be since you can only query from disk so fast. Network doesn't play much into this as network speeds are mostly constant with little gains to be had. If the project isn't making calls to the database constantly, then code-first is acceptable since your bottleneck will most likely be in how the user interacts with the program.

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My use of extension methods has been pretty limited but targeted in scope. Two such extentions are:

public static string RemoveWhitespace(this string value);
// and
public static string ToEnglishProperCase(this string value);

I have also used extension methods to perform basic operations that either are not in the .Net Framework or are in there but I haven't found them yet (e.g. adding bytes without casting, getting a sub array of bytes).

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