Learn C for when you code needs to be fast. Learn Python for when you need to be productive.
Then you can learn how to write the code that needs to be fast in C and have it run within a Python app.
I am a BSEE and I am nearly 60.
I have been working since I was about 20 and have paid the US Government over 1 Million dollars in taxes.
I may be selfish but I think that entitles me to some protection by my government from the onslaught of H1-B visas.
The criteria should not be "is some H1-B visa person better than I am for the same job" but "can I do the job".
Look: many of us engineers are over 50 now and the sheer number of H1-B visas and wages they are willing to take are putting some of us on the sidelines. That is not right!
I disagree. "I'd love to have open borders for technical talent" Anytime supply is greater than demand wages will go down.
The fact that there are so many H1-B visas in this country is the reason that the middle class is not keeping up.
The real performance for this market should be: Processing Power per Watt and Processing Power per Dollar.
Not which one has the most raw Processing Power.
I have been in consumer electronics for years. The products that I have "invented" have won the innovation award at the consumer electronics shows 6 times. I have worked in Consumer Electronics for GE/RCA/Thomson, AT&T and a couple other small companies.
I decided a few years ago to take some of my ideas and develop them on my own. Some of the Largest Retailers were aware of my work and told me they would be willing to carry new products from my company.
To make a two year story very, very short their is no money in the US for Consumer Electronics, sure there has been some for a couple of products like Slingbox and Firefly but few others have got funding. I had sure fire product, and I finally found minimal funding in China.
So I don't feel it is an innovation problem, it is a money problem.
You missed my point, the point is that the fossil records do not support billions of years and millions of generations. We find no (or very few) fossils that support a slow transision from species to species. So what is being taught in our Jr. High Schools in our state is that "leaps" occurred.
Don't speculate that just because I think evolution theory is weak that I believe in Creationism.
Yeah, my point wasn't so much about evolution on a comet as that these scientist thought that their new theory was 100000000000000000000000 times more likely to be correct about the origins of life than what is being taught today. If "A" is this much more likely to be true than "B" then "B" was never likely to be true in the first place. But yet "B" is being taught as fact.
Sorry; but it is like teaching our Children that Hitler died because he got hit by a Meteor. We would rather teach them this because the other side is saying that Hitler was killed by an Angel of God; and we don't want them to believe that.
I personally think we should teach "We don't know."
I don't think this is a Believe in God or Believe in Evolution decision. The environment for life is so fragile on the Planet for example; life thrives from 32degrees to 140degrees. The temperatures that control our planet is the temperature of space of -460F and the Surface of the Sun of 27,000F. So the allowable temperature deviation of life on the planet is 0.3% of the temperature that control it. We have no evidence that any life on this planet had more temperature bandwidth than we have today. But yet it is very difficult to understand how the temp on this planet could be so steady for 100s of millions of years. Particularly since the ICE-AGE only happened yesterday.
My point is: Even if you don't believe in God, Evolution as it is being taught today is very unlikely.
You must be kidding.
Last week a group of Scientist said life came from a comet. They stated that this theory was 1000000000000000000000000 times more likely than the conventional evolutionary theory. How can anything that has that low of a probably be considered "absolute truth".
When I was a kid they taught that species evolved gradually from one species to another. When they could not find any fossil evidence to support that they changed their story to species jump from one species to another. What evidence was there for this dramatic change? Absolutely none, except their old theory did not work. There are 6 billion people on the planet and each one of them eats an averages 11 chickens a year. So 66 Billion chickens are born each year to support our "chicken habit". With 66 billion chances a year we have never seen a "leap" from a chicken to a new species. And if there is one species that needs a leap it is a chicken.
As we get more information; evolutionary theory is getting weaker not stronger.
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Learn C for when you code needs to be fast. Learn Python for when you need to be productive. Then you can learn how to write the code that needs to be fast in C and have it run within a Python app.
I am a BSEE and I am nearly 60. I have been working since I was about 20 and have paid the US Government over 1 Million dollars in taxes. I may be selfish but I think that entitles me to some protection by my government from the onslaught of H1-B visas. The criteria should not be "is some H1-B visa person better than I am for the same job" but "can I do the job". Look: many of us engineers are over 50 now and the sheer number of H1-B visas and wages they are willing to take are putting some of us on the sidelines. That is not right!
I disagree. "I'd love to have open borders for technical talent" Anytime supply is greater than demand wages will go down. The fact that there are so many H1-B visas in this country is the reason that the middle class is not keeping up.
The real performance for this market should be: Processing Power per Watt and Processing Power per Dollar. Not which one has the most raw Processing Power.
I have been in consumer electronics for years. The products that I have "invented" have won the innovation award at the consumer electronics shows 6 times. I have worked in Consumer Electronics for GE/RCA/Thomson, AT&T and a couple other small companies. I decided a few years ago to take some of my ideas and develop them on my own. Some of the Largest Retailers were aware of my work and told me they would be willing to carry new products from my company. To make a two year story very, very short their is no money in the US for Consumer Electronics, sure there has been some for a couple of products like Slingbox and Firefly but few others have got funding. I had sure fire product, and I finally found minimal funding in China. So I don't feel it is an innovation problem, it is a money problem.
You missed my point, the point is that the fossil records do not support billions of years and millions of generations. We find no (or very few) fossils that support a slow transision from species to species. So what is being taught in our Jr. High Schools in our state is that "leaps" occurred.
Don't speculate that just because I think evolution theory is weak that I believe in Creationism.
Yeah, my point wasn't so much about evolution on a comet as that these scientist thought that their new theory was 100000000000000000000000 times more likely to be correct about the origins of life than what is being taught today. If "A" is this much more likely to be true than "B" then "B" was never likely to be true in the first place. But yet "B" is being taught as fact.
Sorry; but it is like teaching our Children that Hitler died because he got hit by a Meteor. We would rather teach them this because the other side is saying that Hitler was killed by an Angel of God; and we don't want them to believe that.
I personally think we should teach "We don't know."
Maybe they need a "leap" because we keep killing and eating them. ;)
I don't think this is a Believe in God or Believe in Evolution decision. The environment for life is so fragile on the Planet for example; life thrives from 32degrees to 140degrees. The temperatures that control our planet is the temperature of space of -460F and the Surface of the Sun of 27,000F. So the allowable temperature deviation of life on the planet is 0.3% of the temperature that control it. We have no evidence that any life on this planet had more temperature bandwidth than we have today. But yet it is very difficult to understand how the temp on this planet could be so steady for 100s of millions of years. Particularly since the ICE-AGE only happened yesterday.
My point is: Even if you don't believe in God, Evolution as it is being taught today is very unlikely.
You must be kidding. Last week a group of Scientist said life came from a comet. They stated that this theory was 1000000000000000000000000 times more likely than the conventional evolutionary theory. How can anything that has that low of a probably be considered "absolute truth". When I was a kid they taught that species evolved gradually from one species to another. When they could not find any fossil evidence to support that they changed their story to species jump from one species to another. What evidence was there for this dramatic change? Absolutely none, except their old theory did not work. There are 6 billion people on the planet and each one of them eats an averages 11 chickens a year. So 66 Billion chickens are born each year to support our "chicken habit". With 66 billion chances a year we have never seen a "leap" from a chicken to a new species. And if there is one species that needs a leap it is a chicken. As we get more information; evolutionary theory is getting weaker not stronger.