Google recommendations are pretty straightforward, though. If you watch X, they'll recommend what other people clicked on after watching X. It's a bit more subtle than that, but that's the essence. What you're complaining about is "clickbait works", which is a sad commentary on human nature more than anything else.
There is no first amendment right to libel or slander,
There is absolutely a First Amendment right to libel and slander! The government cannot block such speech. You can be sued after the fact, but that's very different from prior restraint, and is an action between citizens, the government is not a party.
YouTube claims no editorial control over videos, and therefore it has no expression that would be infringed upon
YouTube consistently exercises editorial control over videos. They ban, hide, and demonitize videos based on Google's political biases, and they do it constantly. Currently, they have every legal right to do so, but they shouldn't. They should be forced to choose between publisher and platform.
Well, that was the common usage 20 years ago, the be sure, These days, not so much, but it's not germane to the point, I think. If you're talking about non-sysadmin jobs, Java and JS give you experience with the languages needed for most dev jobs these days.
For all Java has grown old and hairy, nothing has emerged to replace it. People are seriously doing server-side JS, odd as that is.
I'm talking only about people who stay engineers, and the world of software development, not the more mature world of engineering in general. It's rare to see more than 1 in 5 developers at a manager-equivalent pay grade; heck 1 in 10 is more common at a lot of places (and that's the minimum for a "senior engineer" job to be more than a bogus title). Most people don't develop the breadth of skills to rise above a mid-career pay grade (below the average manager). And since the field pays well, most people are OK with that.
You said "IT Work", which is almost an unrelated field to software development engineer jobs these days. I don't think you meant "help desk and system admins" but that's what "IT works" means these days.
You said "Web development", but did you mean "UI work", or "stuff that has a remotely-callable API"? The latter is most Java code, though coding for Android has started to shift that balance a bit.
If you know Java, you can usually get hired for a C# job (and vice versa), especially straight out of college. Looking at job post statistics on Indeed for the https://www.codingdojo.com/blo...>past year * 93k - Java + C# * 46k - Python * 38K - JS * 31K - C++
Python is often a "nice to have" in job postings, so it's somewhat misleading. C++ shops generally want more veteran talent IME, as the kind of stuff still done in C++ isn't generally the kind of stuff someone fresh out of college is going to do well, regardless of the language.
Sure, it would be nice to push the boundary the other way, but preventing new things from being legally censored would at least be something! (Actually, there's very little in the US that's legally blocked, most of the effective censorship is by the distribution companies. Kudos to Steam for recently changing to allow adult content. Tumblr OTOH...)
Schools have gotten somewhat better in equipping students to actually code. "Teaching languages" are mostly a thing of the past now, and most students seem to be taught in some combination of Java and JS, which sets you up for more than half the coding jobs out there.
Also, I think you'll find the people who are self-motivated to "learn new languages or techniques all the time" are the ones who separate from the pack over the first decade. The rest... don't, and remain at a mid-career job title their whole career. At least, I've never worked any place where half the engineers were senior.
The reality is that is you offer a candidate a lower than expected "nice to have" salary, say: 50% less, they'll walk to the next employer who is offering more.
first job is to be a full-time developer. To rise above the crowd who claims that can do dev work, and maybe does it part time. My second job paid 3x my first job, because I had that credibility.
Do Millennials really care that that much about work-life balance out of school? When I was in my 20s, I was full of energy and passion, and happy to work my ass off on any project that was actually interesting. Good thing, too, as I had a lot to learn. It was only in my 30s that I started to care about time for other things. Now it's my primary concern, but I'm close to retirement.
How do they even get "game missions include fraud" for Diablo? Of all the things to pick to complain about.
They also complained about "inharmonious chat" for every game. You want to do business in China, either eliminate all chat, or hire a huge team to monitor all chat in real time (I expect TenCent/RIOT will do the latter).
If they ever come close to parity for production/earnings as the West they would easily be able to dominate the world. It's a shame about their government choice, for sure.
They did not choose their government, and they'll never come close to us in terms of productivity per capita, because totalitarian regimes never do. You don't get much economic growth without freedom. China coasts on off-shored manufacturing and stolen innovation, but has very little non-export economy. There are a few tech companies like TenCent that have done a little on their own, but that's a tiny part of an economy (and they, too, got hit by this censorship).
It's doesn't matter what the "notion" is. To Hell with any group pushing for censorship of any legal entertainment content. The censorious part of the left is every bit as bad as the right-wing religious whackos. A pox on both their houses.
Current drones don't really have any EMP hardening. I think it's just a cost control measure. It's makes sense if you're only thinking in terms of asymmetric warfare (which is all we've don'e for decades). I expect the generals will keep optimizing for the last war until the future surprises them.
Perhaps so. The air force seems remarkably unconcerned. But the following generation will all be EMP-hardened, and that particular approach will stop working.
The Olympics were originally directly tied to skills a warrior would use on the battlefield. As you note, some of the non-athletic events are tied to that. Of course, the future battlefield will be dominated by video games skills, so it's just a matter of time,
There is still generally a convention that almost all Olympic sports involve some form of athleticism.
So? There are already non-athletic events, and were more in the past. Meh, it's a business and will calculate what will draw the biggest paying crowd, and highest TV licensing rights. Clearly e-sports aren't there yet.
Phone calls are probably easier to hijack than email these days. Fun fact: authorities in in Las Vegas area have given up on maintaining control of the phone system (organized crime redirects calls to call-girls to their own girls). At least email can be encrypted.
Of course, almost all "six figure investments" are made with a click in a broker's web UI (or an ibank's internal web UI).
Olympic events require physical activity. Moving your thumbs doesn't count./quote>
Why? There's no such rule. It's hard to see much of a difference between e.g. Starcraft and target shooting.
The Olympics were originally competitions in skill directly tied to a warrior's ability on the battlefield. Seems to me that that's coming full circle.
It's an e-sport, not a sport. That's why we have the 2 different words. The Olympics can add anything they like, there's no "sport-only" rule. They broke with tradition when they went beyond the decathlon - it's all just arbitrary competitions. .
Well, the point of "missing mass" is that it's mass that affects the universe. We can see its effects, but we can't see the cause. Most of it turned out to be dark matter, but there's still some missing.
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Google recommendations are pretty straightforward, though. If you watch X, they'll recommend what other people clicked on after watching X. It's a bit more subtle than that, but that's the essence. What you're complaining about is "clickbait works", which is a sad commentary on human nature more than anything else.
There is no first amendment right to libel or slander,
There is absolutely a First Amendment right to libel and slander! The government cannot block such speech. You can be sued after the fact, but that's very different from prior restraint, and is an action between citizens, the government is not a party.
YouTube claims no editorial control over videos, and therefore it has no expression that would be infringed upon
YouTube consistently exercises editorial control over videos. They ban, hide, and demonitize videos based on Google's political biases, and they do it constantly. Currently, they have every legal right to do so, but they shouldn't. They should be forced to choose between publisher and platform.
Well, that was the common usage 20 years ago, the be sure, These days, not so much, but it's not germane to the point, I think. If you're talking about non-sysadmin jobs, Java and JS give you experience with the languages needed for most dev jobs these days.
For all Java has grown old and hairy, nothing has emerged to replace it. People are seriously doing server-side JS, odd as that is.
I'm talking only about people who stay engineers, and the world of software development, not the more mature world of engineering in general. It's rare to see more than 1 in 5 developers at a manager-equivalent pay grade; heck 1 in 10 is more common at a lot of places (and that's the minimum for a "senior engineer" job to be more than a bogus title). Most people don't develop the breadth of skills to rise above a mid-career pay grade (below the average manager). And since the field pays well, most people are OK with that.
Grr, fixed link: https://www.codingdojo.com/blo...
You said "IT Work", which is almost an unrelated field to software development engineer jobs these days. I don't think you meant "help desk and system admins" but that's what "IT works" means these days.
You said "Web development", but did you mean "UI work", or "stuff that has a remotely-callable API"? The latter is most Java code, though coding for Android has started to shift that balance a bit.
If you know Java, you can usually get hired for a C# job (and vice versa), especially straight out of college. Looking at job post statistics on Indeed for the https://www.codingdojo.com/blo...>past year
* 93k - Java + C#
* 46k - Python
* 38K - JS
* 31K - C++
Python is often a "nice to have" in job postings, so it's somewhat misleading. C++ shops generally want more veteran talent IME, as the kind of stuff still done in C++ isn't generally the kind of stuff someone fresh out of college is going to do well, regardless of the language.
Sure, it would be nice to push the boundary the other way, but preventing new things from being legally censored would at least be something! (Actually, there's very little in the US that's legally blocked, most of the effective censorship is by the distribution companies. Kudos to Steam for recently changing to allow adult content. Tumblr OTOH ...)
Schools have gotten somewhat better in equipping students to actually code. "Teaching languages" are mostly a thing of the past now, and most students seem to be taught in some combination of Java and JS, which sets you up for more than half the coding jobs out there.
Also, I think you'll find the people who are self-motivated to "learn new languages or techniques all the time" are the ones who separate from the pack over the first decade. The rest ... don't, and remain at a mid-career job title their whole career. At least, I've never worked any place where half the engineers were senior.
Dang, Slashcode really mangled that one!
That post should start with "My first job paid half of market rate. What's really important in your first job ..."
The reality is that is you offer a candidate a lower than expected "nice to have" salary, say: 50% less, they'll walk to the next employer who is offering more.
first job is to be a full-time developer. To rise above the crowd who claims that can do dev work, and maybe does it part time. My second job paid 3x my first job, because I had that credibility.
Do Millennials really care that that much about work-life balance out of school? When I was in my 20s, I was full of energy and passion, and happy to work my ass off on any project that was actually interesting. Good thing, too, as I had a lot to learn. It was only in my 30s that I started to care about time for other things. Now it's my primary concern, but I'm close to retirement.
How do they even get "game missions include fraud" for Diablo? Of all the things to pick to complain about.
They also complained about "inharmonious chat" for every game. You want to do business in China, either eliminate all chat, or hire a huge team to monitor all chat in real time (I expect TenCent/RIOT will do the latter).
If they ever come close to parity for production/earnings as the West they would easily be able to dominate the world. It's a shame about their government choice, for sure.
They did not choose their government, and they'll never come close to us in terms of productivity per capita, because totalitarian regimes never do. You don't get much economic growth without freedom. China coasts on off-shored manufacturing and stolen innovation, but has very little non-export economy. There are a few tech companies like TenCent that have done a little on their own, but that's a tiny part of an economy (and they, too, got hit by this censorship).
The notion is that videogame characters ...
It's doesn't matter what the "notion" is. To Hell with any group pushing for censorship of any legal entertainment content. The censorious part of the left is every bit as bad as the right-wing religious whackos. A pox on both their houses.
We can do without moral scolds of any variety.
The IOC already recognizes Starcraft, though. The licensing details have already been worked out between the IOC and Blizzard.
Ah, it's the desktop app that's going away, to be replaced by a Chrome extension.
Current drones don't really have any EMP hardening. I think it's just a cost control measure. It's makes sense if you're only thinking in terms of asymmetric warfare (which is all we've don'e for decades). I expect the generals will keep optimizing for the last war until the future surprises them.
Perhaps so. The air force seems remarkably unconcerned. But the following generation will all be EMP-hardened, and that particular approach will stop working.
The Olympics were originally directly tied to skills a warrior would use on the battlefield. As you note, some of the non-athletic events are tied to that. Of course, the future battlefield will be dominated by video games skills, so it's just a matter of time,
Now I'm wondering if this will affect Google Hangouts, Google Drive, and other such amenities...?
I thought hangouts (the free version, anyway) was already going away. No? Always another tombstone i the Google Graveyard.
There is still generally a convention that almost all Olympic sports involve some form of athleticism.
So? There are already non-athletic events, and were more in the past. Meh, it's a business and will calculate what will draw the biggest paying crowd, and highest TV licensing rights. Clearly e-sports aren't there yet.
It's almost as if competition spurs efficiency. Nah, that's crazy talk.
Phone calls are probably easier to hijack than email these days. Fun fact: authorities in in Las Vegas area have given up on maintaining control of the phone system (organized crime redirects calls to call-girls to their own girls). At least email can be encrypted.
Of course, almost all "six figure investments" are made with a click in a broker's web UI (or an ibank's internal web UI).
Olympic events require physical activity. Moving your thumbs doesn't count./quote>
Why? There's no such rule. It's hard to see much of a difference between e.g. Starcraft and target shooting.
The Olympics were originally competitions in skill directly tied to a warrior's ability on the battlefield. Seems to me that that's coming full circle.
It's an e-sport, not a sport. That's why we have the 2 different words. The Olympics can add anything they like, there's no "sport-only" rule. They broke with tradition when they went beyond the decathlon - it's all just arbitrary competitions.
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Well, the point of "missing mass" is that it's mass that affects the universe. We can see its effects, but we can't see the cause. Most of it turned out to be dark matter, but there's still some missing.