Shephard AFB... My Dad was in officer's training school there.

Those last two I could have done without but the rest was great. I appreciate now as I am getting older how valuable the experience of traveling and seeing different ways of doing things has been.

We were at Travis, KI Sawyer, Grissom, Barksdale, Athens, and MacDill.

Oh yeah, and Wright Pat for a while, too.

Was in Hanau? Can't remember the base name

Near Frankfurt

Those are all places where I was not stationed. Offutt, Shephard, Lackland, Edwards, Vandenberg, and Spangdahlem.

It was just Hanau Army Airfield when I was there.

In Germany, I never it made it to the base but we had people come over to Spangdahlem for NCO training.

I can totally appreciate where you are coming from regarding differences and fully understand. Progressives have done a horrible job communicating their positions. As with most people, they assume that what is evident to them must be evident to others and treat others that think differently in a condescending manner. It sucks.

Eh, I'm pretty patronizing to them. Comes from being a software engineer dealing with idiot PMs.

Again, I honestly think that was the biggest driver behind the election of Trump. Terrible move for the Republican party but I understand why it happened. Still rather see Trump in office than Biden (Harris really) but that's more because I think some of the most radical left positions are going to be pushed and it's going to cause big problem. I probably would have voted for Tulsi Gabbard or Andrew Yang over Trump but they seem half way reasonable to me.

Tulsi for sure. Yang..... ehhh.... maybe

Honestly #1 priority for me is stop bombing and selling bombs to people bombing.

I would say progressives have done a horrible job representing everybody fairly, mostly because they are ignorant of how many Americans live.

I'll accept any number of progressive policies if that's the result

Well, that was something that Trump actually did well overall minus the whole Solemani incident.

exactly

I also think conservatives have been pretty bad at communicating as well.

I've never liked Trump, but I do appreciate the good things he has done. He would have been much better off to not say really anything at all after he was elected. Many of his policy decisions have been good.

That's a far point.

*fair

I agree that there are things that he did well. As a SW architect/engineer myself, I appreciate his recognizing that we don't need to bring cheap foreign engineers here to work for less.

I think that bringing manufacturing back here is really important.

Ex SW architect and developer. Security architect and hacker (penetration tester and red team member) now.

Also used to be an aircraft mechanic.

I just think the tariff approach is not the right way.

That's one of the things he didn't do so well. I was very happy he was addressing trade deficits but that was handled poorly. On the other hand, I haven't heard any better approaches either. I personally would have probably left that one alone over cause the problems to American businesses that it did.

I have worked in just about every environment. My specialty is relational database development for very large dataset processing. I have done a lot with the Entertainment and Aerospace industries here in SoCal.

@TaLoN132, you just advanced to level 11!

So, Oracle, SQL, Hadoop, NoSQL?

I spent so much time in school learning relational models and as soon as I got out everyone started denormalizing and moving to things like elastic search and Mongo. That was fun.

At least on many of the projects I worked.

I have worked in SyBase, Oracle, DB2, SQL Server, MySQL, etc. I have tinkered with Big Data and want to do more eventually.

LOL. The only thing I used from school was a bit of C#

One of my teachers wanted to teach us Ruby on Rails, but nobody knew ruby

Haven't done a lot with SyBase or DB2 but Oracle, Postgres, MySQL, MariaDB, SQL Server I know well.

Ruby is awesome, almost as good as Python. I have to work up the motivation to learn Go and Rust. I hear those are the up and coming languages for all the new toys.

Python has been of recent intrest. Seems the only Tensorflow Keras impls.

Damn data nerds.

I have been working for quite a while on a unique problem space that is on platform that is C#, SQL, on AWS. a SAAS solution for managing intellectual property rights.