jdcskillet

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by jdcskillet 6y ago
My wife (a music teacher) was a Mac only video editing person. She now uses Open Shot almost exclusively, even though for $40 I bought her Sony Vega (she was complaining about Open Shot at the time). I think Open Shot is a good gateway to B
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by jdcskillet 9y ago
I couldn’t agree with you more. I wish I could do more than give you an upvote, so here is an internet cheers and just know there are a lot of people who feel the same way. I also love what I do, read when I can, but at the end of the day I
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by jdcskillet 9y ago
Has to be the financial industry... because it is also eerily familiar.
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by jdcskillet 10y ago
This a million times over. We have a very similar environment except you can add in a mainframe and a few MS SQL Servers in addition to the ridiculously expensive Oracle stuff. However, the cost of moving VERY productive .Net staff to somet
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by jdcskillet 10y ago
I believe the company I work for is writing just under 500K lines of COBOL code per year... now... how much of that is "new" vs extending vs maintaining is a good question. It is very difficult to measure those things in our envir
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by jdcskillet 11y ago
I can confirm this. I don't know why they aren't mentioning the entirety of the broadcast in the article. My favorite is that Simms and Nantz had to think really, really hard about the name of the tablet and just gave up half way
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by jdcskillet 11y ago
I work in a very similar environment. I thought forcing a change would work, "they'll see, if I just work on this and show them", and technically it did. Except it then became the norm. Now if we don't deliver X number o
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by jdcskillet 11y ago
I was just thinking the same thing... We have lines of commented out code from 1988 (yes. that is a correct date) that people flat out refuse to delete. I am so glad I got out of that mess...
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by jdcskillet 11y ago
Ditto... it was a way for them to standardize reports from various teams veiled as a cost cutting initiative. Since they are unwilling to pay for anything (read plugins), our JIRA boards are shells of the tools we were using and paying for
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by jdcskillet 11y ago
I am now left to wonder if IBM Watson will soon follow suit. IBM is really a very well constructed consultancy company.. I wonder if they plan to keep their IP for Machine Learning proprietary or if they see an opportunity to get more peopl
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by jdcskillet 11y ago
This is just a high level thought : Will we eventually converge to the point where Flux will also provide an abstraction to the GPU to help speed up rendering? I know there are some tools in place now, but can we get to the point where the
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by jdcskillet 11y ago
I just migrated from working directly on the IBM Mainframe in COBOL ( gasp ) to my true love of .Net and JS (yep, both of them) within the same company. I have been on a number of greenfield projects with IBM and quite frankly, my opinion o
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by jdcskillet 11y ago
Oh Ada. In college (six years ago), it was the language solely responsible for dragging down my grade right before graduation. I very much disliked the prof who taught it, which probably clouded my perception of the language, but I found it
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by jdcskillet 12y ago
The scale is achieved through the local communities. I understand we would still need large scale farming ventures, but local communities can use aquaponics to be more self-sufficient. A large "regular" ag business can support man