I have an old rant just sitting at 299, refusing to hit 300 so I can get the stress ball 😩

This is how YouTube punishes ad blockers. Just turn off your Adblock, nothing wrong with supporting your favorite content creators with 5-15 seconds of your time!

You must not code at night much

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VS Code is absolutely amazing. If for nothing else, the dev team at Microsoft really listens to the community with VS Code. They're really active in the feedback forums and on the github. Love it!

@Cube189 you're playing a dangerous game

Linux can be a ton of fun to explore. I love finding a flavor of Linux, and then exploring all the desktop themes that exist for it. Ubuntu has tons, but there is also the option of not using a desktop environment at all if you really want!

Go explore!

Lots of companies are moving to agile because it works. Rapid development with the ability to make changes when necessary is important. Waterfall is garbage

@applejag a tautology 😊

You performed manual queries that had potential to delete real values in a production environment... and didn't take any precautions like backing up right before using a DELETE statement? Or perhaps staging to development environment instead of production?

You deserve this lesson.

A professors job is to always be learning, so I'm glad to hear he treated your knowledge (even as his student) with respect!

Get a virtual box or use a cloud service like Azure to host the Linux box for you and SSH in with putty. If you're a student you get free Azure credits too, so check it out.

Not only are you right, he doesn't HAVE to setup a fingerprint on the iPhone. Likely the same on google pixel it's just a feature.

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Reading "while true" in my head always adds the correct semantics, but I like using the for (;;) because it looks like it's crying and I'm usually using it out of desperation anyways

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Oh... did you mean you wanted ++'s?

A standup is literally called a standup to keep it brief. 15 minutes tops, you should physically not even sit. What the hell kind of environment has 3 hour "stand ups"

@FitzSuperUser I have experience in all of those fields as well. Doesn't mean they're not very different, especially for a beginner where the distinction would be larger.

Nested ternary statements... ugh

Trying running updates again too, it may be a virus but I've also heard stories of certain updates not applying/failing and causing a lot of busy resources when they are constantly trying to update again in the background. I had 80% CPU usage all day once because an update was trying to install in the background and just cycling.

@pacman if you're interested in making websites, a place a lot of people like to start, then get involved with some JavaScript. There are tons of free resources online for HTML, CSS, and JavaScript development. If you're not satisfied with what's online I know "JavaScript and JQuery: Interactive Front-End Web Development
Book by Jon Duckett" is a good read.

Not sure about others, but I try to answer people on SO a lot and this is basically how I feel

Hacking, becoming a web dev, and learning about AI are three very very different fields.

What don't you like about what they teach you in school? The best way to learn is to do, so find passion projects and just build them. Writers write, painters paint, so coders must Code.

If you want to get into things that are more than applying coding knowledge and learning a language or something (like artificial intelligence, which requires you to actually do research on algorithms and techniques) then pick up a book in whatever format you want and get some knowledge from others.

What are you interested in? Language recommendations "to get started" isn't helpful really, but just to throw a few out there Python is beginner friendly, same with Java and he syntax is more closely related to many other C like languages which is important.

A meta section or feedback+feature request area would be great

Answering can be an awesome way to learn. In university I would sometimes sit in the lab and answer SO posts for an hour or so about Java because it made me Google things and learn the answer. Kind of like studying, plus you get to help people out 😄

I did exactly this last year. I was undervalued (had low equity relatively) and the CEO kept changing the mission statement of the company when investors weren't interested. Fair enough, but it got to the point where we became a subscription based service instead of single use, provided way less value to customers, etc. so I left.

Another big red flag was a failure to project numbers within reason. "There are over 18,000 students with demographic X, that's $1mil in profit in our first year man!!" Okay but we won't get all of those students, we won't even get 20% in the first year, slow down...

Java is to JavaScript what a car is to a carpet.

Also, only 600 languages? Where does that number come from? I'd argue there are thousands and thousands, maybe <1000 that people use widespread though

Use NetBeans!