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I beg to differ, I went to a community college and everything was locked in to Microsoft; certs, software, and MS approved coiurse guidelines (MS had given them some sizable grants to push the students to leave and use their products. I know work for our states biggest university and it’s still the same way. Literally out of thousands of employees our small group in IT are the only ones using macs and building/deploying products in a Linux environment. Being in the position I’m in allows me to get a look at the other Colleges/Universities across the state and it’s pretty much the same process across the board. A fair enough chunk of CS students coming in are disappointed about the M$ based CS tracks. They came in expecting to learn Linux, Python, Ruby, JS, Docker, and k8s. I’m hoping in the future in the CS guidelines will diversify and let people choose either a OSS/programming, MS, and Cisco/Networking tracks to be a little more open to real world needs.

This has to be one of the dumbest statements I've ever read about docker.

I admit some people definitely abuse the usage of Docker, because of their bad copy/paste practices from basic step-by-step walk-throughs. But the thing that makes docker great is it's easy of use to create reproducible deployments. And if you don't want to use a projects docker images; a projects Dockerfile is still a great reference on how to get a project deployed on a linux platform.

My employer encourages using around 20% of our time learning. Lower level developers can manage this pretty easily. But most of the level 3’s are kind of expected to just know stuff, plus the heavy work load. We still manage about 10% of our time to learn. But if we want to take Udemy classes, paid tutorials, or something else they’ll gladly reimburse us for the costs. They prefer their developers to “be on point”.

I've used Insomnia for a while and absolutely love it. It's become an essential tool in my development process.

This is one reason why I like Brave. It has the Chromium engine, but less Google glut. Mind you they have some funky stuff going on with Brave rewards. But thus far, I have very few complaints.

At a college I worked at a few years ago in one of the larger lecture class rooms. There was a Windows3.1 PC mounted in the podium/lecture counter. It was used primarily for controlling the levels of lights, dropping down the screen and projector, and a few other menial tasks. I don't believe it was wired into the network and don't believe it was ever replaced.

I've done my fair share of Elixir. And this looks like you hit it right on the nail. Elixir is a great language, but I think Python is Python and Elixir is Elixir. We shouldn't me complicating any more than it already is (not that python is complicated, just adding another languages functionality another hurdle to learn).

Could this happen to have been part of the massive CenturyLink/Verizon outage that's been rolling across the midwest the last day or 2? I know it's been a major pain in the butt for me, but I've been super productive at work not having to worry about answering calls.

Checkout almost any new samsung phone, mine has 6gb.

HTTPie is a great tool for testing API and stuff. I love it, I've also started using an Electron GUI app similar to HTTPie that works pretty well as well.

- https://insomnia.rest/

Here's a pretty decent explanation from NootropicsDepot: http://nootropicsdepot.com/articles/magnesium-glycinate-vs-l...

Same here, I have had severe anxiety and depression for quite some time. I was prescribed a few SSRI's bet, but my doctor was a dick and pretty much state I need to just get out and do more, get my mind off shit.

So on trying to improve my mental health I started taking nootropics. Some of them people SWARE BY, yet I never experienced any noticeable effect. But by chance I ordered a batch of Magnesium L-Threonate and it was absolutely exhilarating. I can honestly say I've been dosing for about 6 months now and it's completely turned my around. I don't suggest anyone experiment with supplements and/or medications without professional assistance. Because this was more like one of those one shot wonders, where you just chance it till you find whatever works.

I've used MapBox on an a few projects and absolutely loved the experience and API. But I kind of believe Mapbox is more of a "best tool of the job" type of alternative. (Meaning, I wouldn't use it for general purpose mapping. More like mapping out specific points of data.)

Comcast and SiriusXM are by far the worst I've ever come across. They demand explanations, try to cut you deals, claim they have to transfer you to their manager who attempts to up sale you. I seriously had to get one of my debit cards reissued in order to get charges to stop and to get my XM radio account closed out.

Care to explain how complicated apps are a no go? I've used Vue for about a year and half now. Some of my apps have been very simple some of them have been extremely complex. I can say I've had very few issues along the way. VueJS is absolutely amazing. You just need to throw-in some mixins, Vuex, Vue-Router, and whatever else you may need and you should be golden!

My personal MBP has been chugging along. It's a late 2011 15" MBP, I swapped out the RAM and put in 16GB and I also have a 512GB SSD. And it keeps up with several of my co-workers devices, the only real issue I have with it is the Graphics Card, but it's not like I'm playing all day or anything. The only issue I've had, was when I had send it to Apple for a Logic Board issue; my MPB was a 2.8ghz i7, when they returned it after repairs it was a 2.2ghz. When you go to purchase a mac, that extra procesing speed is hundred of dollars. But after complaining the credit card charges were dropped and my repairs were free. (Even if I'm sure it cost them next to nothing to do the repairs.)

But I'm more than ready for an upgrade, I've actually bought a few Refurbished Mac's in the past and they've always seemed to be a good price for exactly what I needed.

As a Mikrotik devote, I love the active development and patches being pushed for their Packages and RouterBoard. If anyone maintains a Mikrotik router and/or switches and hasn't heard about the vulnerability and actively patched their systems, then they're completely at fault and putting themselves and possibly they're companies at risk.

I've gone to using VueJS full-time as well and it's been absolutely amazing at increasing my productivity.

Looks like they used Let's Encrypt to save the day!

The whole last 2 weeks has been a dip. I'm pondering if I should heavily invest, before the summer seasons typical uptick due to massive consumer spending.

Pretty sad, considering slashdot's traffic used to be a source of what "appeared" to be a DDOS attack because of all the traffic. It used to be the best source around for tech related news, now it mostly consists of reposts from various sites. I think it would have stayed relevant if it had been an entity of it's own, rather than being part of the whole SourceForge tragedy.

I setup a couple of Mikrotik routers at my work and it's done wonders. The CCR (Cloud-Core Routers) are absolutely amazing, but probably overkill for most home users. But considering when I first started at my job the network was an absolute nightmare. Because they were using a NetGear Nighthawk AC1900 (N7000), for around 70-80 users at any given time across 3 separate buildings. Considering every desk has 2 or 3 connected devices (Computer, VoIP phone, and some people also have laptops as well, plus everyone wants to connect their cellphones to the wifi). Now they treat me like a god dam wizard in disguise. They went from massive internet congestion, slow speeds, and phone calls always dropping (VoIP), to smooth sailing. The previous IT guy still works there, but he's more of a media guy.

Now, for the most part I do general IT support and a ton of web development for company, without a ton of oversight.

I'd love to know this as well.

This reminds me of an early build of fmylife. They should definitely add a keyword filter to clean up some of the trash posts.

Ie, the first posts I saw were something along the lines of: Your mom. Fucked! Smoked a bowl out of your ass.

I was able to pull up my representatives without putting in my address and only using my zipcode. I think it really depends on your state/county.

As @micaksica has said Rails is generally a pretty good framework and I've build and contributed to several projects myself and most of them I've never had any problems with.

If the developers put the projects together properly, it should have been very legible and easy to jump in on. Ruby isn't exactly a hard language to learn and generally very legible, almost to the point where each function/statement should be close to reading plain English (other than regexp and a few other things). That is, if the developers are following best practices, separation of roles, and not trying to hack together various work arounds because they don't know the language.

I'm along the North Western New Mexico/South Western Colorado border and didn't notice a difference either. I'm not saying this is shouldn't be a major concern. Just some areas are effected quite a bit more than others, it appears to mainly effect high metro/coastal regions.

Something I found resourceful while setting up SSH on a recent server is Mozilla's SSH Guidelines - https://wiki.mozilla.org/Security/Guidelines/OpenSSH

The commented out content is the best part -

A large office, good pay, and very little work. Frequent expense-account trips to exotic lands would be a plus.

What browser are you using? Because it works fine for me.