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What Bearhugger said is true to an extent. Java has not aged well. Most of the "cool" features are built into other languages which run on the JVM like Clojure and Scala and not added to Java itself. Meanwhile, C# has definitely improved with age. Take a look at the following.

 

 

 

Mono support is typically very good for running on Linux & OSX and with tools like MonoTouch it's possible to write mobile apps in C# which are portable to all major mobile devices. C# is definitely not going anywhere as a language.

That, sir, is purely untrue.
You wouldn't believe the insane amount of people being hired off ties that they may not have foreseen. I understand the need to trim, but seriously, you never know when a cheap-ass job is going to net you an interview. I've seen buger-flippers net an interview based on the fact they had survived that hell for 3 straight years alone. Other applicants with surpassing amounts of years in the industry were not even contacted... attitude counts, and an educated guess can go through looking at what you did before.

That said, yes, you need some trimming...

So you're saying leave random crap in your resume because the person hiring might have a personality quirk?

No one cares where you went to high school, and of course your references are available upon request. It could also use some formatting.

Here is my resume which I am reasonably happy with. I've remove a few companies to keep it at two pages, and I'll have to do some more shuffling to fit in my latest company.

https://dl.dropbox.com/u/13579584/TimothyStrimple-20120820.pdf

The skills section gets changes based on who I'm sending the resume to. I emphasize the skills that the company is looking for. At this point my resume is more of a formality anyway. My last four jobs have been through networking.

There is an excellent StackOverflow answer for shuffling an IList<T>.

Randomize a list in C#

Some important takeaways:

• As already mentioned, you can do inline replacement. No need for a new list.
• Random may not be random enough. (When random is too consistent...)
• Extension methods rock!

And this is why you should never sign up for membership on random websites unless you use a throw away password and don't provide any sensitive information. If you have to ask this question, you should NOT be writing a login system for a website. You should definitely use bcrypt as Bactarius suggessted as MD5 and SHA are insufficient for secure hashes.


Our Password Hashing Has No Clothes
Utilizing the GPU, he was able to crack over 24,000 sha hashed and salted passwords in 45 minutes.

That is not true. Windows Forms and the classical Win32/COM stuff is still there, it is now simply excluded from the Express editions. You have to have at least professional.

Edit: Yep, to confirm it I just opened the VM with Win8 & VS 12. All the stuff and project templates are there. Getting professional edition is easy peasy: it is free for academic purposes (MSDN AA/Dreamspark) and start-ups. If you can afford to hire and pay more than 5 developers, you should be able to afford the $500.

There will be an express version.

http://blogs.msdn.com/b/visualstudio/archive/2012/06/08/visual-studio-express-2012-for-windows-desktop.aspx

They are equivalent except for the fact that C# does not support multiple inheritance. That means while you can implement multiple interfaces, you cannot have more than one base class, abstract or otherwise. If it truly is an abstract base class (no functionality built in at all), I always use interfaces so not to preclude the use of a base class, and question the usefulness of a pure abstract base class.

Oh nice, today we get a look at Fortune 500 companies that pay ZERO dollars in taxes:

http://www.ctj.org/c...dgersReport.pdf

On a combined $160,000,000,000 in profits for these companies.. our government paid THEM a refund of $10 BILLION, making taxation actually profitable for these companies.

How the hell do you keep billions of dollars from being taxed?  Oh.. jeez it gets complicated - http://news.cnet.com...020329-265.html

I don't believe that the problems OWS are complaining about are a problem of capitalism. Our government effectively creates and supports monopolies. Politicians are sitting on the boards of these giant corporations and have a monetary interest in ensuring there are plenty of loopholes for the company to take advantage of all while the would be competition is saddled with one of the highest corporate tax rates in the world. We have a two party system where democrats and republicans simply trade power back and forth as you get pissed off at one side and turn to the other for support. It is a system designed to keep power consolidated in a relatively small group. OWS would probably be more on target if they were occupying DC instead.

The worst part of it is there are jobs to be had, but they are not and are no longer going to be unskilled. We are not just exporting our jobs, we are importing skilled workers from other countries because there are not enough qualified Americans to do the jobs. The US education system is broken and failing at preparing our children to compete in the future market and despite what many claim, it's not simply a matter of being underfunded. The teachers unions have a stranglehold on our education system and are putting the future of this country in jeopardy. There is another great target for the OWS crowd, but they seem more interested in calling attention to the symptoms than the underlying problems.

It is with deep regret that I announce this... He revolutionized personal computing and effectively created the laptop industry. Post your thoughts. And rememer this great man.

Apple sucks! GO Microsoft!





Wrong thread?

Seriously though, I'm no Apple fan, but this guy had a huge impact on the technology industry, and the world is likely better for it. Makes you wonder what he could have done if the had the other 20+ years that he should have had.

When I have to be certain something is erased and not recoverable... I use this tool:

ok I dug out the old keyboard (hence the dust) if you accidentally(*) press the power button it will shut off the machine (just like the power supply has been turned off) i.e. it wont save things first

(*)& with it being so close to other keys I done it ~3x before I got a new keyboard, a little switch on the corner or something that youre accidentally not going to touch is a far better idea

If we're just talking about poor design decisions... there are millions of examples of those floating around. I agree with the others that the concept isn't necessarily useless however.

Wait, what? Who wouldn't want an oral sex light?

No, it's a good thing. If their job ad sucks then it was likely written by an HR drone, which means the company employs HR drones, which indicates it's not a company I'd like to work for. Sounds like a good way to pick out the crappy jobs to me!

Do you live in Europe? Placing capsules onto a plane automagically is another option since it's unrealistic to run the tubes under the ocean and maintain them.

You're just full of these gems. Spanning oceans with your magic pipes is far, far easier than connecting every city in a nation. We already have plenty of cables across the ocean and this has been done for over a hundred years.

http://en.wikipedia....nications_cable

The main benefits would be to lower the labor cost and create a system that requires very little human involvement except for maintenance and upgrades. Ideally it's a system that runs 100% independent of human interaction for sending packages in an almost identical model as the Internet.

It's clear you have no idea what the costs for your magic tube infrastructure is. There is a reason we don't have a fiber internet access to every home in this country, and your proposal is far, far more expensive (and complicated) than a fiber line.

You really think this concept which has been implemented a hundred years ago is as unfeasible as his post?

Sending a tube from inside the bank to the car port? Obviously not.. On a nation wide scale? Absolutely.

Also in the future if you can't refute ideas don't resort to pointless troll threads. They don't work in a real debate.

Your points have been refuted. This idea won't work and you're stubbornly sticking to it with no evidence to support your claim. If anything you're the troll here.

Yeah, I don't think automated mail delivery vehicles are feasible.

You sir are a ignorant fool.  

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Driverless_car#History

Driverless cars are a real possibility and best of all they leverage the already existing infrastructure which already allows packages to be delivered across the country and to individual homes.

I can't tell if you're trolling me since you have nothing valid to say.

You're the one who keeps repeating the same bullshit in the face of criticism from multiple people. It's clear you're either not interested in or not capable of intelligent conversation, but clearly I'm the troll here.