C# is a great language but I’ll always choose Java because the ecosystem around it is so vast. Often times some client library you need has a c# port maintained by one guy and he hasn’t updated in years.

There are 52 weeks in a year not 48. 500 x 52 = 26000.

I used to use an app called moneydance several years ago. It was pretty much the only thing that ran on Linux but it was decent.

I’d bet that the government is probably the largest user of SQL. Unless there are really old systems that predate SQL. I’d imagine they have shitloads of COBOL for example.

He seems to be one of those people that think nosql should be used everywhere.

This sounds just like a former manager that thought nosql was the end all and that SQL had no place.

If course they developed their app that required frequent data migrations because they were in fact very dependent on all the records matching the latest schema.

I just look for a command named ${src}2${dest} like pdf2html

Usually after lots of arguing and crying. But I wouldn’t have had wifi on my first laptop without it.

ndiswrapper shudder

The really good ones understand they are in administration and leave technical things to the technical people.

Someone needs to learn regular expressions.

Power top or bottom?

I started getting messages every week from a carbon black scan blocking access to some npm’s package.json.

IT just white listed files named package.json.

My answer is usually “I don’t care how well it runs on your windows machine. Our deployments are on Linux”.

I’m a old developer that has done a lot of admin over the years out of necessity.

A user

IT is an administrative function and is really part of operations.

Software development is generally a creative position and is a profit center. If you work somewhere where you develop internal apps, you may have a different perspective.

It goes both ways. At my old job, they took away local admin. But for some reason they configured visual studio to run as admin. So, I just wrote a little program that opens the shell. Whenever I needed admin, I just ran that program from Visual Studio.

We’re talking about this: “Who gets to have the time-zone that’s noon at noon?”

That established the context that we are talking about time zones.

Actually you only mentioned timezone “who gets to have the time zone where noon is directly overhead” and then went into a rant about England vs France. You never once mentioned the meridian.

the correct time zone is UTC not Greenwich Mean Time.