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Comment Re:How is this different from Microsoft's... (Score 1) 149

I reboot Windows at lunch and the end of every day, and Windows still crashes a few more times during the week. It is simply unreliable.

My works machine gets rebooted about once a month and my home machine can sometimes go longer, depending on what kind of security issues are being fixed on Patch Tuesday. Font driver bug, yeah reboot now, SMB bug, nah, got a firewall, will wait a bit longer.

If Windows is crashing regularly, look at what crapware you have installed or replace the hardware.

Comment Re:Give specific technical arguments or go away (Score 1) 112

All the GP was saying was that quantum computers are still a worthy investment for humanity at large until proven otherwise. The burden of proof is on YOU, not him. From the sounds of it, you think quantum computers are impossible, prove it, show us some logic that proves the Universe places a limit on them such that they are mostly useless.

Comment Re:Lesson - never chase fads with your education (Score 1) 67

You wind up either a dev, fighting for the scraps that are not offshored with H-1Bs. Or, you go into IT, and hope that the waves of the economy don't get you pink-slipped if the stock market hiccups

Stop looking for a job that makes you easily replaceable. Code monkeys can be replaced with other code monkeys. Don't be a code monkey. My managers don't tell me what to do, they come to me for advice.

Comment Re:Not surprising at all (Score 1) 67

In my perfectly unbiased opinion, the two sets of intelligent and obsessed with money are very separated. If I got to choose one trait on which to guess who will be a good programmer, it would be someone who is interested in the subject.

Intelligence isn't enough to be good, you need to be motivated and being good requires a lot of motivation. CS/Programming is very unhindered in its ability to evolve, allowing for quick changes in short time frames. Programming is one sector where maintaining status quo means you're worthless. The theory that people learn in CS is great, but many can't abstract that theory well enough to apply to new situations. Almost all new "inventions" are just rediscoveries of something already known back in 1970.

The biggest annoyance I see is too many look at issues as cookie-cutter. I've seen too many people who I consider very intelligent and have a wealth of knowledge, but see everything as a nail. They can't abstract out the minor differences and try to shoe-horn too many issues. Like a person trying to view a Tesseract as a 3D object, they over complicate issues because they over-simplify the solution. Just add an extra dimension and the problem is simple, but they instead treat each view of the Tesseract as a new problem.

Comment Re:If something like this slips through testing (Score 1) 62

Until some knob-head inserts an empty string into the database and breaks code that assumes empty will never happen. If something should NEVER happen, then make sure it never happens. That's the whole point of constraints in databases, forcing the business logic to at least conform to basic data model rules.

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