lowken

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by lowken 8d ago
I recently purged my cable box. I had 8 HDMI cables... 8. What do I need 8 HDMI cables for? I tossed them in the garbage with a ton of other use less cables. I kept one HDMI cable (not 8) and a few odds and ends. I kept one rj45 Ethernet ca
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by lowken 6mo ago
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 to stay competitive in today’s workforce, AI is going to be
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by lowken 3y ago
100% true. The value is not knowing COBOL the value is hard core banking or insurance knowledge.
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by lowken 3y ago
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.
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by lowken 3y ago
Keep voting for democrats.
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by lowken 3y ago
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 Florida counterparts. I don’t put Palm Beach Community College o
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by lowken 3y ago
Postman is the most amazing software development tool I have used in my 20+ year career.
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by lowken 4y ago
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 participate in events and you will quickly have a full soci
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by lowken 4y ago
It’s called climate change because it’s a marketing term and not a scientific one.
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by lowken 4y ago
I just don’t understand people who still want to play music from huge plastic disks.
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by lowken 4y ago
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.
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by lowken 4y ago
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). Don't get me wrong I, and everyone on the p
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by lowken 4y ago
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 prefer short stories and essays, but for larger examples
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by lowken 4y ago
I was going to give a flavor of the same advice. This is solid Slack guidance and if followed will work.
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by lowken 4y ago
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.
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by lowken 4y ago
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 daughter, on the other hand, thrived in the same school
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by lowken 4y ago
The software stack is very similar...
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by lowken 4y ago
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.
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by lowken 4y ago
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 I don’t understand. This includes the jargon in my field (Fi
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by lowken 4y ago
Toyota has looked at the tea leaves and feels Hydrogen is the future. I think they are correct.
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by lowken 4y ago
This is a core tenet of Montessori and my kids have experienced this their entire school career (currently in 9th and 6th grade).
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by lowken 4y ago
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.
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by lowken 4y ago
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.
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by lowken 4y ago
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 expiring token (nonce) that must be verified.
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by lowken 4y ago
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.
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by lowken 4y ago
Can someone recommend a good typing tool to teach my daughter touch typing over the summer (5th grade going into Middle School).
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by lowken 4y ago
I don’t understand the hate for w3schools. I found this site super useful when I was first learning web development.
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by lowken 4y ago
Wow a rare rpg reference. Everyone mentions COBOL (still rare) but you almost never see a reference to rpg anymore. I spent a few years early in my career (early 2000s) coding in rpg for a casino and a major bank. I’m still impressed with m
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by lowken 5y ago
I just went through this in July of 2020. I worked at a company for 15 years as a software developer and switched. At my new company I'm now one of the domain experts and I was just promoted. The biggest piece of advice I can offer is