Typewriters were typically either 10 (Pica) or 12 (Elite) characters per inch. Some of the later typewriters could support either and had swappable type balls.

I've always thought of it most like an animator. [How to MAKE A FLIPBOOK - YouTube](https://youtu.be/Un-BdBSOGKY)

I prefer the look of dark mode, but found after a while that I just can't focus as well on it. I think part of it is that light mode provide enough light to cause the pupils to contract, which does actually make it easier to focus for those of us with aging eyes.

Hard to say, but it could have something to do with the fact that "The C Programming Language" by Brian Kernighan and Dennis Ritchie is the standard against which all programming books are judged.

megaadam wrote: tar xvf file Does both in one comnand Wrong - you need

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Well it could be that the machine in question is being accessed through some sort of screen sharing app that doesn't support a shared clipboard. I know when I have to get involved in a support call, I often will be using TeamViewer on my workstation to view an RDP session on the support technicians Workstation connected to a VM in the cloud connected through a VPN to an RDP session on a workstation in the customer's environment that is in turn connected to the VMWare hosted server. In those cases copy and paste between my workstation and the customer's server often involves many many steps involving 3 different people at 3 different locations, whereas obtaining a screen grab is quick and dirty. On the other hand, I still can't fathom why I'm getting screen shots of a terminal window from my QA people showing a one line error message when they could more easily copy and paste the text.

Not as much as you would think. I've had two older laptops that should have run lighter linux distros without a problem, but... One was a 2004 Sony Vaio and in the ended up just installing the original XP distro and donate it to a charity because I couldn't find any linux distro that would install on it without hanging at some point. The other is a 2009 Gateway Netbook with a 32-bit Atom processor. I did eventually get an older version of OpenSUSE to install on it, but I was amazed at the number of distros that supposedly target this class of computer that would not install.

The one additional thing you'll want to force yourself to do is become familiar with the relevant standards documents: [ECMAScript Language Specification](https://www.ecma-international.org/publications/files/ECMA-ST/Ecma-262.pdf) [HTML Standard](https://html.spec.whatwg.org/multipage/) [CSS Snapshot 2017](https://www.w3.org/TR/css-2017/) Painful, I know, but sometimes there's nothing like getting knowledge directly from the source.

I'd agree with that - though I would probably say 2011 or newer year to give it a little longevity. My main home machine is a late 2012 Mac Mini that I paid around $600 new and have since upgraded to SSD and 16GB ram and it is more than powerful enough to be a full development machine. One caveat though is that they tend to hold their value - the last time I looked into buying the same model used, they were selling for more than I paid for mine new. That is in part because it was the last model that didn't have the memory soldered in.

When I interned at IBM back in 1985, there was a room full of "Computer Operator"s staffed 24x7, whose primary job was to monitor looking for jobs that didn't run because of an error in the JCL used to submit it and then try to fix the JCL and resubmit. They kept very busy. The wife of one of my mentors there was the manager of that team.

Stefan_Lang wrote: 4. Since more than 20 years, all web developers make sure to be compatible with IE. Unfortunately, even today, the same is not true for any other browser - possibly including Edge. That's a little bit of a skewed view of things. The reality is that yes they work extra hard to make sure it's compatible with IE, but that's because it just works on Chrome and Firefox and IE historically (though less so today, and many of the differences are now hidden by frameworks and libraries) didn't follow the standards and had to do things it's own way. There was a time 15-20 years ago when some developers targeted only IE, but they got burned so many times when IE specific things didn't even work in subsequent versions of IE that they learned their lesson. Everyone I know develops web apps that they expect to sell (as opposed to those who develop custom internal apps) primarily uses Chrome (because the tools are better and it runs on MacOS and Linux) and then scrambles at the end of the development cycle to go back and account for the places where IE still doesn't follow the standards.

I use an external 250GB SSD to store my development projects and other aspects of my development environment so I can quickly switch from my 5K iMac at home where I do most of my work to my Macbook when I need to work elsewhere. The enclosure supports both USB 3 and thunderbolt.

Early 2011 17" MacBook Pro, with 2nd Gen Quad Core i7, 16GB RAM, and 1TB internal SSD. It was my main work machine from June 2011 to May 2015. Now my main work machine is a 27" 5K iMac and I keep my working files on an external Thunderbolt SSD so I can easily switch to the laptop when I need to work away from my desk or on the road. I primarily program in Java using IntelliJ IDEA, but I also run Windows Server and Linux, using VMWare Fusion, which performs fine for my needs. FWIW - I also own 2 Sony VAIO's, a Gateway netbook, and an HP netbook, but all but the newest VAIO (2010, 1st Gen Quad Core i7), rarely see any action.

Sander Rossel wrote: Apparently SOAP requires TLS (and far worse, XML!) SOAP does not require TLS, though it is usually a good idea to use it and many applications require it. There are far worse things to deal with than XML (like ASN.1) and besides, you usually are usually not directly dealing directly with the XML but letting a framework marshall between your business objects and XML, though in the case of WCF, the framework abstraction may be more complicated than the XML.

Scott Meyers' Effective C++ Series of books are a must reads for those who will do a lot of C++ programming, but not until after you've mastered the fundamentals. They cover a lot of things that will eventually bite you in the ass.

kdmote wrote: That's like giving entry-level math students a calculus book. I would strongly disagree. It is much more like teaching them the basics of arithmetic by hand before letting them use a calculator.

The only upgrade to Win 10 that I have done is on a VMWare Fusion VM running on a Mac mini (Late 2012). No problems whatsoever that I'm aware of, but then I've probably only spent an hour total using it since I upgraded in August, since I rarely have a use for Windows Desktop. I have both Windows Server 2008R2 and 2012 VM's that I run much more often since I need to be able to develop/test against Active Directory.

We did at my previous company - IMHO about as effective as the magic 8-ball.

Depends on the woman, but in my experience many women's smart phones have a makeup laced cheek print on the screen.

I get contacted by recruiters at least once a week, though most of them are for opportunities I'm not interested in. There have been some interesting ones, leading to interviews and and some pretty good job offers, that I didn't accept but lead to a sweetened deal with my current employer. The main purpose of LinkedIn from my perspective is that it facilitates networking, which is the way that the best jobs are usually found. I have helped more than one past colleague find jobs because we were connected on LinkedIn and I was able to let them know about openings.