The US is not a democracy, it is a republic. We vote for people to represent us and our needs so we can go about our merry little lives without having to spend every day deciding on laws, bills, etc.
The problem comes that the people we, the people, voted to represent us are actually more interested in representing themselves. We, the uninformed electorate, need to vote out those we put in power and replace them with representatives who actually care about the citizens of the United States and our constitution, or we, the uninformed electorate, need to accept representatives like Diane Feinstein are in congress for 20+ years because the majority of our nation believe destroying the constitution is the best thing for our nation.
I'm still relatively new/young in the world of software development - late 20's, 5 years of experience, but I've seen this argument come up regularly and the simple fact of the matter is that there is no difference between older/experience software developers and any other career. You have to: migrate, mutate, adapt or die in any career. If you get set in your ways in any profession and don't adapt with what comes your way you're going to fall behind and become useless or dead weight. I talk to the older/more experienced developers I know all the time because they've had experiences and insights that I haven't.
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I guess Game of Thrones had it right all along.
Avoid this:
s = ""
for substring in list:
s += substring
Use s = "".join(list) instead. The former is a very common and catastrophic mistake when building large strings.
The US is not a democracy, it is a republic. We vote for people to represent us and our needs so we can go about our merry little lives without having to spend every day deciding on laws, bills, etc. The problem comes that the people we, the people, voted to represent us are actually more interested in representing themselves. We, the uninformed electorate, need to vote out those we put in power and replace them with representatives who actually care about the citizens of the United States and our constitution, or we, the uninformed electorate, need to accept representatives like Diane Feinstein are in congress for 20+ years because the majority of our nation believe destroying the constitution is the best thing for our nation.
I'm still relatively new/young in the world of software development - late 20's, 5 years of experience, but I've seen this argument come up regularly and the simple fact of the matter is that there is no difference between older/experience software developers and any other career. You have to: migrate, mutate, adapt or die in any career. If you get set in your ways in any profession and don't adapt with what comes your way you're going to fall behind and become useless or dead weight. I talk to the older/more experienced developers I know all the time because they've had experiences and insights that I haven't.
Romney out performs Obama yet again