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There’s a lot of truth to this post. I’m very pro AI, and I believe everyone should get comfortable with it because it’s not just the future, it’s already the present. If you want …

100% true. The value is not knowing COBOL the value is hard core banking or insurance knowledge.

This is not true. The reason men tend to rule things is because men tend to lift each other up in life to a higher degree than women do.

Keep voting for democrats.

I want to community college for two years. Then I transferred to the University of Florida. Many of my community college professors were worlds better than their University of Flor…

Postman is the most amazing software development tool I have used in my 20+ year career.

If you live in any medium to large city there are countless young professional organizations available. Join one or two and get involved. Be willing to volunteer for committees and…

It’s called climate change because it’s a marketing term and not a scientific one.

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I just don’t understand people who still want to play music from huge plastic disks.

I’ve worked on AIX (Mohegan Sun Casino in the late 90s). Switching between AIX and Linux as a developer is not difficult. They are are both just different flavors of Unix.

I use Anki every day and it helps in the following ways... 1. It's rare that I have to use Google figure out how to do basic tasks in my Programming Languages of choice (C#, & TSQL…

This technique helped me become a better writer. Get a cheep spiral notebook and a nice pen. Then collect some example writings that represent the best writing style you aspire to.…

I was going to give a flavor of the same advice. This is solid Slack guidance and if followed will work.

It amazes me how far down a dark road folks will travel without taking the time to look around and evaluate if they are indeed heading in the correct direction.

I love Montessori and I had both of my kids in Montessori schools... However, it's not for every kid. My son did basically nothing and they wanted to have him repeat 2nd grade. My …

The software stack is very similar...

I don't know if iSeries (AS/400) counts as Mainframe... But the software stack is similar and I know that hundreds (if not thousands) of casinos run old Main Frame era software.

I skyrocketed up the ladder at my current company in about 18 months using the following technique. I take crude sloppy notes on a topic or project. I listen for concepts it words …

Toyota has looked at the tea leaves and feels Hydrogen is the future. I think they are correct.

This is a core tenet of Montessori and my kids have experienced this their entire school career (currently in 9th and 6th grade).

About three years id my software development career were detonated to AS/400 RPG programming. It was fun but I’m glad I moved on.

I reject candidates if I can’t understand them. They don’t have to speak perfect but if we can’t communicate then no thanks.

I’m working on a project involving Visa Tokenization Services where nonce is used. However, the no replay aspect is not there in Visa’s use of nonce. Instead there is just a signed…

Learning to touch type frees up your mind to focus on coding problems. I agree that speed is not important, but I believe every dev would benefit from learning how to type properly…