Because there's no month 13 (in the Julian calendar) and no day 37 (again, Julian) and I would suspect a lot of hackers don't use the mm/dd/yy notation but the yy/mm/dd notation.

That was my thought. Celestial Positioning System with a clock broadcasting.

At Mobile World Congress this year, Kyocera was showing off a demo unit running Windows Phone....their first Microsoft device in years. What's the over/under on that unit failing to make it to market........or conversely what's the over/under on Kyocera pushing MORE Windows Phone units in order to save money on the patent settlement?

At the time of my post, "talking/same room" is winning by a large margin. It should give a message to employers about this whole "global workforce" thing. People are more productive when they can work with people face to face instead of via time-delayed e-mails.

I turn on extensions and set my default view to Details sorted by extension.

Also, ban spaces in directory and file names (as well as dots so the Anna.gif.exe is invalid). Spaces in names is a pain when you're typing at the command line......who wants to have to type quotes around their file names?

News, Manuals, etc. I read online.....no need for books when I'm looking for shorter informative articles. Books, however, I'll read fiction.

When I was learning recursion (eons ago, it seems), I was informed that both head and tail recursion could be "unrolled" to a loop of some sort (for, while, do....while, do...until, etc.) And recursion imparts a lot of overhead (push to stack, context switch, process, pop from stack), so you should unroll recursive functions as often as possible.

So, in this example, I don't think most people would think to use recursion at all --- head, tail, or mid recursion.

I would be more inclined to believe that if it were "developers", the screen would be too wide, not too narrow. Developers usually have multiple super hi-res, large monitors and would be more likely to not view it at "normal" resolutions during their unit testing.

It's less of an issue of recreating all of the "basic" controls and more a factor of every single designer wants to style buttons differently. You either buy into the native aesthetics or you don't complain when you don't have a native experience.

It may be the second or third most spoken IRL, but in terms of off-shoring, most of the jobs go to places that speak English (India), Chinese (China), Russian (Russia), and Portuguese (Brazil). So, knowing Spanish or French isn't as useful *in his profession*.

Nope.....that's how you know it's true.

PII should be classified based on sensitivity. At a certain level, that PII must be encrypted during transit. At the highest level, it must be encrypted during transit and at rest. SSN falls in the highest sensitivity level. SOP for years. This doesn't guarantee you won't get hacked, but it reduces / minimizes the impact if you are hacked.

PII - Personally Identifiable Information
SSN - Social Security Number
SOP - Standard Operating Procedure

(per the video description) From Los Angeles, you'd next see it in 2023. Which to me means that it isn't as rare as implied (unless it's like primes where there are some close ones and some far ones and the next next one would be hundreds of years later).

I did.....mostly because I probably won't watch it live. While neat from a rarity stance, it doesn't have much scientific relevance that I can think of. Cool, but the video is good enough for me.

I'd argue C# and then Java because the non-programming pieces are "pointy-clicky, draggy-droppy". Running your web based code in IIS doesn't take a lot of knowledge about how to get IIS up and running --- whereas trying to do the same with something like tomcat is a pain for someone who is already struggling to learn programming. [Plus, Visual Studio is a very developer-friendly IDE.]

Basically, remove all of the pain points so that they can focus on learning to code....... (for those of you who argue the using Microsoft products is enough of a pain point, it's easier for a noob than learning Linux because of the aforementioned pointy-clicky, draggy-droppy approach.....)