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Things I learned the hard way:

• Never agree on anything until can see the existing code and talk about everything.
• Milestone payments only. Stay away from any lump sum payments or percentage cuts.
• Full payments in escrow first.
• Never reply to people you don’t know who seek you out, only seek out jobs.
• In first contacts ask questions first, don’t talk about qualifications. If questions good then customer knows you know the tech well.
• Learn to walk away if instincts kick in

I’m glad I over- steep my tea, also started using loose leaf due to the microplastics found in many grocery store selections

Americans, especially liberals, have a phobia of calling out mass cheating by authority figures.

It’s like they need law and order so much, they are willing to ignore what is obvious. When a subject is taboo it’s not talked about , not dismissed, not encouraged

If exit polls don’t work in your state, and there is no physical ballot counting. And when tests on precinct numbers show strong suggestion of altering votes and the democrats always always underperform, it’s obviously a new phenomena, totally ok. Let’s just stop predicting elections early based on exit polls!

One such test post election for any state:

Arrange all precincts in the state by population and see if there a curve on the more people there are there, the more percentage of votes a particular candidate gets: if it’s only that candidate and it’s a smooth curve upwards that’s unnatural: California has no such correlation but some other states fail.

One should see a random looking up or down plot, or a straight line, or sorta straight. Not a growth curve. That’s because common tactic world wide to alter computer votes is to ads the extra votes based on precinct size.

Usually each state has easy to get data this way to one’s own source if amusement and the dozens of others who are thinking this might be interesting. Occasionally someone publishes graphs of it to thunderous uncaring.

It’s not the only problem but it’s the easiest way for non computer people to understand there is more to this

Both; at the same time ( same week ). 1:10 odds

Sometimes it’s better to hope while closing eyes

It’s really too bad all the four winged did not make through that asteroid

No I ain’t

I don’t know much about why he was picked, other than him being a sycophant who will blindly follow all illegal orders; also he is expendable, but will probably not resign.

Truly, one in a thousand

The fact they both sided this, and feel very strongly about people reacting to it, months later… raises questions about motive and belief.

I’m not here to judge or criticize, that much. But it was very uncomfortable for me to read that and see some comments concerning it.

Too much drama here

He did steal money liberally, so there is that.

Not so sure, except for a last few holdouts in Spain about 40k years ago, who were probably whipped out by natural catastrophe along with regular humans in that area.

I think we kept diluting their gene pool by having sex with them and out breeding them.

When I was learning to program in the 1990s, at university, it was easy to get good advice and learning from the printed word: both in books and on websites. I think if I had to start learning all over again, and not be in a good school, it would be very hard for me to do as well.

Today there is too much advice, too many influencers who recently learned whatever they are peddling, too much AI, too many fields of tech.

I think the best way to learn now is how many of us learned decades earlier; use a list of books that are vetted by many ( can find lists here and there, saw one in GitHub last year). And while reading the books read the documentation even if they are gaps in one’s knowledge and the docs are badly written.

I don’t think one needs recent books for many concepts and basics. The wheel has been reinvented many times in the hundreds of tech stacks in use today. And the same concepts will be easy enough to learn in newer docs once a technology and programming set of tools is invested into by the learner.

As for new software engineering ideas and architecture concepts: usually these are reiterated from earlier ideas and often marketed for profit. So older architecture books, refined by several editions, are still best.