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Comment Re:Job Hopping (Score 1) 282

You should direct the job hoppers to a place like Nerdery where they can develop their skill and learn to work with a team (I've only worked at two companies, neither of them Nerdery, I've only visited their HQ for meetups, it's a nice place). If you need programmers to work on things, you could hire Nerdery to do them or maybe even hire some of their programmers directly (not sure about the latter).

Comment Totally doing this! (Also, Slashdot is evil) (Score 1) 49

SON OF A BITCH! I had a rather large post and clicked "Options" to see what was in there, I saved, and the page refreshed, way to fucking go Slashdot... Anyway -___-

I'm totally gonna use one of my RPis to make a portable gaming computer, I'll probably even make one for my cousin as a birthday or Christmas present so he can enjoy the old games as well. I haven't seen any of the links yet, but I'll probably include a reader if possible*, find something that can interface with the GBA link cable and wireless adapter, and get a high capacity battery so I can play for at least a week on a charge. I wonder if the RPi can handle N64 or PS1/2 games...
* I'll probably rip most of them so I don't need to carry them, hopefully I can get the saves as well.

Comment Re:The problem with traffic engineers... (Score 1) 579

"Programming today is a race between software engineers striving to build bigger and better idiot-proof programs, and the Universe trying to produce bigger and better idiots. So far, the Universe is winning." - Rick Cook from The Wizardry Compiled (1989)
25 years later, it seems the Universe is still winning...

Comment Re:Windows 7 end of life... (Score 1) 681

I'm on Vista still. According to Wikipedia, mainstream ended April 2012 and was extended to April 2017. Honestly I could care less until new games don't work on it or a new version actually does something to make switching worthwhile (Windows 7 isn't that much better, Windows 8 is an irrelevant abomination).

Comment Too worried (Score 1) 466

What can you really expect from a different language? Your code isn't going to look that much different in a different language unless you're taking advantage of something rather unique. There are going to be quirks in any language you learn, so just get used to them and don't worry about it. I'm only 22 and I have no problem using PHP, I don't understand what the big deal is with all these other languages. You mentioned C, I was actually intending on learning C++ (which is pretty much an extension of C) because I liked it more than the other ones I looked at... I just had no reason to make a native program and I wasn't too interested in helping out any OSS projects I saw.
Maybe I'm really just an old geezer in some kid's body.

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