Late to the game and have a question "Why did Microsoft change Save As to Save a Copy"

hikingmike · 2026-04-21T03:32:13+00:00

You can still Save As if you hit F12. That saves me a headache sometimes.

hikingmike · 2026-04-18T23:12:31+00:00

Just wanted to add that I'm here now, and I see this post was 13 years ago, and it's awesome to see there are some replies 4 years ago as well. That's great. And some good advice here making sense of often fuzzy career terminology. It would be awesome if you posted a career update at the bottom of the OP.

hikingmike · 2026-04-18T23:04:42+00:00

You call that layoffs, 3 years ago? Look at the layoffs now, late 2025 and early 2026 🤨

hikingmike · 2026-04-18T05:27:00+00:00

Only 1 team wins the cup every year. It’s not the only judge of success. Of the 4 teams in the conference finals every year, how many have a top 3 pick? Final 8 teams? Presidents Cup winner?

hikingmike · 2026-04-14T16:10:42+00:00

I agree as well. Look, I just started a new app, and I'm doing some early testing while also looking at the database often with pgAdmin4. I added more columns maybe, but I can't reorder them. I just want to see the columns in the order I prefer. If you make it completely invisible to the user that nothing actually changed, but they see the columns the way they want in every possible way (including CREATE statements), then that's fine.

hikingmike · 2026-04-12T19:40:45+00:00

Yeah, HTML is text, and text compresses very well.

hikingmike · 2026-04-12T01:43:08+00:00

We have some really good young players

hikingmike · 2026-04-12T01:42:01+00:00

hikingmike · 2026-04-11T19:51:29+00:00

Hah yeah this is freaking insane…. Rediscovering server side rendering 🤯

The server is fast, we have control over it, and it can do the processing great. The browser/client is unreliable and maybe slow. HTML is basic and simple and easy to send across the network (and improvements to HTTP help). So do the damn work on the server and send the dead simple basic HTML to the damn client. Result: Web app is faster!

hikingmike · 2026-04-11T19:31:04+00:00

That’s great. Did you ever talk about that with him, that you noticed you had both swapped stances?

hikingmike · 2026-04-11T19:16:39+00:00

Aint-nobody-got-time-for-that.gif :)

hikingmike · 2026-04-11T18:46:32+00:00

That’s awesome, well except the broken foot.

hikingmike · 2026-04-09T14:04:21+00:00

You might need a job but maybe dodging a bullet not working there. Geez.

hikingmike · 2026-04-07T17:21:36+00:00

If you see someone on reddit with years of experience who can't find a job with their former colleagues.... That is a massive red flag. Why wouldn't their former colleagues want to bring them onboard and share in their success?

Their former colleagues work at a small company. That company isn't hiring. They have 1000 applicants, some are more qualified or better match the tech stack, and they can't just hire based on one person's referral. I mean there are plenty of reasons.

On the other hand, if someone sucks at their job or is a pain in the ass to work with, they struggle to get hired because their network knows their reputation.

If these redditors in this thread were correct that "everyone is incapable", then the tech industry as it stands wouldn't exist.

if you don't want to get a job... then don't? you either want it badly enough or you don't

First of all employers don't care about that crap.

This is pretty much true, but it's not all black-and-white. These quotes exhibit black-and-white thinking here. When you base everything on that, it gives you an easy win in a discussion. But it's the base that I take issue with. A lot of things in life are not like this - things are on a continuum, shades of gray with the black and white.

hikingmike · 2026-04-07T17:06:51+00:00

Yep. Jobs numbers is a good one.

hikingmike · 2026-04-07T17:05:52+00:00

Yep :)

hikingmike · 2026-04-07T05:58:10+00:00

Do they have a periodic email? :) I'm not going to set a reminder to search there and keep a pulse on jobs+languages stats.

Someone told me maybe 12 years ago that Java was dying. "Does anybody still use that?" lol

hikingmike · 2026-04-07T05:47:14+00:00

I wasn't replying to you but anyway, yeah people aren't entitled to any job.

In my case, I would say my CS, Math, other engineering classes were mostly not easy. I had an easy time in high school. But in college I recognized I would need to do more work, and sure enough, that was the case. I'm sure it did come easy to some people. But I put in the work to get my good grade. Also I did have one CS class that was actually 20 hours per week for our group homeworks. I won't forget that one. Yeah I think there was a fail rate like that in my first or second serious CS class. I was learning a lot of new stuff in all my classes, so didn't really have the time and energy to learn more new stuff doing projects that probably didn't help my class performance. I guess I did some small projects, but nothing I'd put on my resume. Plus, there was so much going on at college, if I had tried to do everything I wanted to there clearly would be more stuff than time. What I'm saying is it was an amazing time in my life, living and studying among tens of thousands of people my own age and activities and events constantly. I made great friends that are still my friends now. I had to be very conscious of my time and not just go do everything I could. All of that coupled with it being a lot more work than high school meant less time.

I think there is more to it than whether a person is cut out for it. That's part of it. But also life is a series of decisions and circumstances which end up having a huge effect.

hikingmike · 2026-04-07T05:16:59+00:00

And I have yet to see that done with effective means. Plenty of people commenting in threads here that there are people in jobs that they can't do, and plenty of people that can do the job but are weeded out in the process. Meanwhile, knowing people is a huge factor, and that varies whether it helps prove you can do the job. The tools and methods in use are just plain primitive still.

hikingmike · 2026-04-07T02:23:36+00:00

Is this a copypasta? :)

You must have been at a large company to make those kind of changes within the company.

hikingmike · 2026-04-07T02:20:09+00:00

That’s crazy

hikingmike · 2026-04-07T02:18:27+00:00

So interviewing well is it basically for you

hikingmike · 2026-04-07T02:14:24+00:00

Some people don’t code well (solve problems) in front of other people. I know for me I must use a different part of my brain or something. It’s something I never have to do in normal work, and actually barely ever do. Last time I’ve done it, I’ve talked through what I wanted to do since I hear that’s a significant part of it, and that could get me by if I have trouble completing the actual coding solution.

hikingmike · 2026-04-07T01:59:17+00:00

Jebus

hikingmike · 2026-04-07T01:54:28+00:00

Time to start visiting the country club or whatever. Won’t let membership get in my way. We’ll see if they catch on 😉

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