Recent content by neegotiator

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    What music are you listening to now?

    Mad Season - November Hotel
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    Skills atrophy in my current job. How to deal with it?

    Somewhat in same boat, technology stack I'm on is fine, but the problems I'm being asked to solve aren't all that interesting and at times truly mind numbing. Definitely have those days where the motivation isn't there. Currently, I've just tried to keep myself entertained rewriting...
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    WPF application - UI composability

    Thanks guys for the replies, think found what I was looking for. Essentially needed ContentControl tag, and within point DataTemplate tag to the view I want. So now, I can break off my main Window into manageable chunks of related data inputs. <ContentControl Grid.Row="1" Grid.Column="0"...
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    WPF application - UI composability

    Thanks brandon. I get data binding, MVVM and separation of concerns, but I'm specifically asking about View portion. I glanced through the articles and didn't see an example (unless I missed it). If I have multiple Views with their respective ViewModels and want to display contents of those...
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    WPF application - UI composability

    I've been tasked with creating a Windows desktop application for data entry. I'm new to WPF, so apologies if unclear. This will be just a single window, but there will be a decent amount of stuff entered where I'd like to separate out into multiple decoupled views rather than having one big...
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    System Engineer Position

    I was a Software Engineer there years ago on a different team, so can't specifically speak for Cerner Works or the System Engineer position in general. I was definitely in the 50-60 hours along with occasional 2-3 weeks periods where we'd stick around til 10pm and on. It was ok coming out of...
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    MySQL select row order

    Thanks all for the comments! Exactly, wanted to avoid using resources to process that table (i.e. - ORDER BY, temp table with PK, etc...). We came up to essentially same conclusion as well that dump into CSV on another instance, and using that to split then transfer is best option.
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    MySQL select row order

    Thanks much Savatar. Yeah if the table had an auto-incremented ID that was the PK, I wouldn't expect that to be in same order either. But since this table has none, does not currently experience inserts/deletes, and I don't care about insertion order (just the order its currently stored)...
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    MySQL select row order

    Had a question regarding a simple SELECT in MySQL. Assuming the table has no primary key or index defined, I don't really care the order records were inserted, just how they're stored in table. If I do a SELECT * FROM `table` LIMIT n, will I get back the rows in the same order as how it's...
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    Why are PC basketball games so bad?

    PC sales have always been a drop in the bucket compared to consoles, maybe few 100k to 3-4 million at best. Not surprising PC version got no love. It was tolerable when patches were late since I mainly played for modding, but last year was it for me when they didn't even release the final patch.
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    What music are you listening to now?

    HBS - Veritas
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    What music are you listening to now?

    queens of the stone age - my god is the sun
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    Let's talk NBA

    LOL at Popovich's reaction
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    Trailer for The Wolverine

    would love to see proper deadpool as well, sounds like so do the writers. haven't tried looking up the leaked script but seems they're pretty confident/passionate about it. http://www.firstshowing.net/2013/deadpool-writers-talk-test-reel-leaked-script-accepting-the-outlier/
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    import file with variable columns into DB

    I don't have experience with many DB's, so apologies if this is an obvious question. Just learned that SQL Server allows importing files with variable columns into a table. So if table exists with 5 columns, then Col1, Col2, Col3, Col4, Col5 aaa,bbb,ccc,ddd,eee 111,222,333...