The Chinese cohort of anything exceeds the entire population of the United States. This is also true of the number of Chinese brains being applied to science/tech problems of every kind.
And yet they still haven't
Designed a decent car (was going to leave off "decent", but found out they actually do have 4 manufacturers, who knew? You do now)
Sent an astronaut beyond low earth orbit.
return a sample from the moon
etc etc etc
I have yet to see original projects or even leading technology coming from China. This may be the first but I haven't researched it enough. I seem to recall quantum light communications via lasers being demo'd 5+ years ago.
People used to talk shit like this about the Japanese in the 50's and early 60's. They did also with the Taiwanese and South Koreans.
I'm old enough to remember talk of the Soviet Union destroying the American Empire,
I'm old enough (and lived right at the cold war front lines) to remember the USSR came close to it. The USSR lost because it fell for Papa Reagan's Star Wars arms-race trap. The USSR could have continue as-is if it had not attempted to expand. BTW, this should not be construed as an endorsement of the Soviets.
a united Europe destroying the American Empire,
I never heard of this one, though the EU is the largest market on the planet. It doesn't need to destroy the US, it simply needs to flourish. Economic dominance is not a zero-sum game.
OPEC taking over the world,
They almost did but technology had made it possible for the US (and countries like Russia) to tap into oil and energy reservoirs that, at the time, were considered impossible. Natural resources is what has allowed the US to survive the OPEC, not an intrinsic national value found nowhere else.
Japan rising and surpassing America,
Well, it did. 1970, that's the year Japan overtook the US in auto manufacturing. The big-three never recovered from this. Ask them folks in Detroit if this is a falsehood. Japan, Taiwan and South Korea pretty much took over the semiconductor industry also.
What has halted Japan's expansion was a real state bubble coupled with demographics. It has an ageing population. And here is where the US truly excels Japan. It has a greater female participation in the workforce. Should Japan were to make the necessary changes (and they are) and facilitates married women to rejoin the workforce, it would boost the shit out of its economy.
As it is, Japan doesn't need to change anything, and it still has gas in its tank to preserve a 1st world quality of life well into the 2050s. We cannot make that argument with the US.
and now of a Chinese Century. Somehow the US is still on top
Is it? By total national GDP, of course. But individually? Look around. We have millions of people who, quite crudely, aren't worth a damn economically, who will never adapt, who can't compete.
The Chinese are burdened with poverty, but that poverty is being eradicated (same in India and Mexico). Yes, they have as many poor people as people in the US, but they also have as many people already taking part in the production of wealth. And that number is increasing.
The US can still remain on top by focusing on education, on creating an adaptable workforce. So far the country is doing shit about it because it is too busy telling itself that it is still top dog.
I learned the above in the military, and I have seen no reason to unlearn it in 32 years working as an IT professional... Yeah, I'm no longer a programmer, but I still reach for my favorite hammer when I see a nail. Two years ago, I embedded Assembly Code into something that operated on Terabytes of transaction data. It wasn't stupid.
Define "work". I've seen reports that prints the correct numbers but that are built (I shit you not) with cartesian joints executed in loops, over and over, per row.
A more extreme example (I'm not making this shit up) - a reports server that makes a web service call to a "reports composer" service, one call per page, and for each page, the "reports composer" service makes multiple database queries per row (like not one of the a-holes who created this knew how to make SELECT SUM(somefield) FROM table GROUP BY whatever).
Or how about this (truly, I'm not making this shit) - an internal web app A that used JMS to call another internal app B so that it makes a database query on its behalf. But internal app B instead would delegate that to internal app C to talk to the database - internal app C would do all the sins of people who don't know how to use proper SQL and batch statements, like iterating over a relation with a fucking for-loop, each iteration a database call to get a value, to be added to a counter (again, complete ignorance of SQL aggregate functions.)
Then after internal app C shitted on the poor database (who btw, lacked indexes and had tables with fields named tmp1, tmp2 and tmp3), internal app C would return its payload to internal app B in free-form, totally flat, malformed xml, returned btw via JMS because it's enterprisey and hard-core and loosely-coupled (beasts who wrote this system wouldn't know what coupling meant anyways.)
Are you still with me (trust me, I'm truly not making this shit up), finally internal app B would take the shit-flat malformed xml and parse it (it was so bad you couldn't even use xlst to massage it), so it had to traverse the fucking DOM... to produce untyped hash tables of lists containing hash tables and more lists - hash tables and lists all the ways, like turtles in ancient cosmologies.
Then the hashtables-of-lists-of-hashtables-and-lists would be passed, again, via JMS, to internal app A, which would then pass the monstrosity to JSP pages containing thousands and thousands of lines of Java code to render that shit into a pretty HTML page.
It worked... never mind that the company needed to run like, I don't remember, a dozen web servers to make that shit run when all that was truly required (if the system had been built properly) was one server for the application and one for the database.
So yeah, "work" is not enough. I needs to work efficiently and be built for maintainability in mind. The thing that breaks projects is not to print the wrong numbers, but to cost so fucking much in operations that a company is forced to pull the plug.
And Drive, and Photos, and Google Docs (that is not going anywhere). If you are not in need of Excel's analytics capabilities, Google Docs are a good alternative to MS Office for home and small businesses.
Don't give out any contact info and close any avenue for random people to message you. Make your "internet presence" a one-way street.
Alternatively, (I know this goes against your criteria) if having an "internet presence" is making your life hell, STOP DOING IT. Get up from your computer and spend time with people that actually care about you. RandomInternetDude doesn't have the slightest interest in your well-being. You must accept this before wading into the filth.
But see, that's great and dandy for e-plebeian you and I who do not care. What about a public figure, a gymnast, a sports person, a writer, a reporter. Building a presence is essential and yet any horde of trolls can just take a shit on someone's. How is that right?
And going back to your solution, your solution entails that we cannot be transparent, we must be anonymous. That is great when you wish to or when your safety is at stake (as say, an Iranian blogger ranting against the Mullahs.)
But that is not a solution, it is a surrender to one's right to have a personalized presence unencumbered by hate. That we have to deal with such crap is not the result of freedom of speech being exercised, but being abused by the lowest riffraff that society's anus can excrete on the rest of us.
I do not know what the solution is without risking censorship. But putting the onus on the targets of bullying, that's fucked up no matter how we cut it.
Twitter provides a block feature, a mute feature, the ability to report harassment, and various features to control how public your tweets are. If someone is harassing you, why don't you block them? I'm not sure why we need to kill free speech to fix a problem that appears to be already solved...
In other words, the onus of dealing with bullying is on the receiver. Just consider someone like Gabby Douglas and the vitriol she gets. How do you block thousands of trolls without pretty much abandoning your online presence?
And that goes to the core of something very deep, the right to have an online presence, which is a part of freedom of speech and expression. Online bullying when done at scale, it pretty much denies an individual his free speech rights.
Why the strawman argument? Nobody ever suggested anything of the sort. Are you being deliberately moronic or are you failing at basic reading comprehension?
The part where after the month, those that were most successful are invited back...
And for free, boarding and all. So what's the fucking problem? A free college-level education, free boarding included, with the price being to work your hands to the bone?
If you have a problem with this, either you do not need it/want it (which is fair), or you lack the discipline and agency to make it through. #firstworldproblem.
It's called stupid. The fact that I won't work 12 hours a day 6-7 days a week on somehting for months on end has zero correlation with how successful I will be at something.
Well, there goes reading comprehension. No one said anything about that attrition as conditioning to work. It's attrition to eliminate those who won't want it bad enough.
Seriously, you are all a bunch of #firstworldproblem bitches. If you are getting a chance to make a career change, or an education FOR FREE (boarding included) with the condition to go through that attrition, wouldn't you do it?
Actually you wouldn't. Either because you do not need it/wanted it (which is fair), or because you lack the discipline and agency for it (in which case you have no soap box from where to be bitching about it.)
Sounds accurate. Boot-camp to sweatshop to homelessness. Or maybe they have some way to recycle these people into prison after they are burned out?
Well, I've seen college educated professionals from nursing, education and accounting doing a successful transition. But again, how you see the world is a reflection of you, not the world. You have no solution, you have nothing to offer, yet every possible alternative, however flawed it might be, you are quick to tear it down. Can't do shit, won't do shit, won't let others do shit. Whatever rocks your boat.
So what we get out of these "boot camps" is people who know the current technology, can be used for 4-5 years, then get thrown away for the next batch.
I have to say, that's efficient. Provided you don't give a shit about them, that is.
You can look at it that way if it satisfy your nihilistic self. It is not like CS grads don't make their professional universe out of a stack with a 4-5 year lifespan and get stuck there forever. Whether it is a boot camp or a 4-year degree, what you get out of it (for the duration of your professional lifetime), that's on you.
for fuck sake it never ends with you people. we don't want the jobs sent overseas, we don't want you to hire overseas workers here, we don't want you to invest in any kind of education that might prepare future generations of Americans for employment in your sector, we don't want you providing training for local workers.
I completely agree with your sentiment... but this... from the summary?
"Students spend 12 or more hours per day, six to seven days per week. If they do well, students are invited back...
It's called attrition. Students are given free courses and boardrooms, and then it is sink or swim... in C. That's for a purpose. They'll be crunching not just coding, but also theory. Whoever remains, you can be assure they are worth their damn and deserve to get their education and boarding for free for the next three years.
Also, this is not unheard of. I'm not sure about other areas of the country, but here in South Florida there have been several boot camps that take people from backgrounds other than CS - educators, nurses, accountants, people who are already educated and have many years of work experience. In essence, working professionals who want to make a career change. They go for months crunching 12 hours a day Mondays through Saturdays, crunching programming as well as CS theory.
It is expensive, and they do it on their own pockets. Mind you, these are professionals taking a hit on their wallets paying for the course (as well as the loss of salary as they go through the bootcamps.) I've seen them getting jobs as developers, not code monkeys, but actually as developers.
The rigor, the attrition, it is simply necessary. This is the same for people trying to do a career change or start his/her own company. So why is this surprising?
Scrutiny of authority figures is inherently disrespectful as it puts the respect of truth above obedience to your betters.
There is scrutiny and there is stuff like calling the POTUS things like n*, monkey, or calling his daughters whores. For the last 8 years, a good segment of the population have been more than willing to do the later than the former. That is what Twitter blocked. Morally, I have no problem with it.
I have no problem with people asking hard questions. I have a problem with people hurling racial insults and DEMANDING a private company (Twitter) to provide them with a platform.
If only we had an objective standard for "respectful" or "civil" that was applied equally.
Alas there is a very clear double standard which our media helps enforce.
There isn't? How about not using the n* word against the POTUS for starters? Or not calling him monkey? How about not using racism or well known dog whistles? Or not calling her daughters whores?
I'm sorry bro, but there are objective standards for being respectful and civil. Maybe it's just me or the way my parents raised me.
If they want to practice their first amendment rights it is not incumbent upon Twitter to allow them a platform for it.
Precisely. Unless Twitter becomes part of the government or a platform owned by the people, it is disingenuous to demand Twitter to provide a platform it does not agree with. That's like force Joe down the street to put a pro Trump/Clinton/Whatever sign on his front yard, in his own fucking private property, against his political views or wishes. My freedom of speech ends where someone else's freedom of opinion, expression and privacy begin.
If I want to propagate a message, it is not my fucking right to force others to echo it, it is not my right to force others to listen, it is not my right to prevent someone from walking away should they wish not to hear me.
Freedom of speech is about being free to express myself. It does not give me the right to force others to listen to me against their wishes.
The following account has been suspended for violating our terms of service of not agreeing with us politically.
And this is a problem how? Twitter, a company, builds a medium and gives you the right to have an account using a TOS you agreed to (and which can change at any time, which you also agreed to.) Twitter is not a branch of government, a public service or a public space.
If you abuse a right, you risk having it taken away from you
No, you don't. Rights aren't privileges. The right to free speech is inalienable.
Right to free speech is only guaranteed by government and public venues. Twitter ain't it. I'm not saying anything pro or con Twitter's stance, but I'm drawing a line in the sand when it comes to force a private medium as if it were a branch of government, a street corner or public service. The ability for a person or company to build a medium and to apply its own version of censorship is a right on itself, a right closely related to freedom of expression.
Oh great, now you have a 60TB drive that will fail taking everything with it and because of the size making backups very costly to boot.
The lengths some people go just to post some asinine negative shit. People that can afford these things can typically afford redundancy. These things aren't for stashing your pr0n.
How does this affect anyone? Nobody is going to visit these sand dunes and other topographical features anytime soon. We're not going to Mars for awhile and we're really not making much progress. Even so, it's a dead planet that's not capable of sustaining human life. How does this affect anyone at all? This doesn't affect me and it doesn't affect anyone I know. It's a complete waste of money, time, and effort. Can anyone explain why this matters? Now, I know you'll censor my post to -1 to avoid the question and pretend like it doesn't exist. But it's an important question: why does this matter at all? Can anyone explain how this affects me? I think not! But I expect to be censored to -1 almost instantly.
Won't affect you for sure. How sad to live a life without a spark of curiosity.
Tech itself is fascinating, but I don't really understand the enthusiasm to use it for everything. It's like fast cars: cool to look at, lots of great tech, fun to drive once in a while, but for every day I just want something practical that doesn't drink too much fuel and can be parked anywhere - like a bike.
but only technology of the kind that I can compile myself, or at least I know I could because the source is available.
So, do you compile the code that control sensors in your refrigerator, toaster? On your TV? Your smartphone? The computer inside your car? The one sitting on the router that connects you to the internet?
I dont mind meal replacements. there are several used institutionally and in hospitals that never get this much publicity but have been around for years. My biggest concern however is our growing dependence upon multinational and branded consumer food companies to provide replacements for basic food staples. most americans already rely implicitly on betty crocker and stouffers to fill in the blanks of their culinary Repertoire. For the past 20 years most thanksgivings in america have been an olympic feast of multibillion dollar corporate sponsored brands of pre-cooked, processed foods that emerge at the supermarket shelf unaccountably and ubiquitously.
Will the soylent generation know how to steam rice, or properly cook poultry? could they prepare porridge or vegetables, or even remember how to cook dry beans? Does soylent foster an even greater social divide in the 21st century by short-circuiting the social past-time of cooking and eating together? how will this generation cope when there is no soylent?
Almost no one can start a fire with a flint nor build a workable bow or arrow tips anymore. Almost now one knows how weave their own fabric, nor preserve meats with salt, beneficial molds, fermentation or smoking. Almost no one can make antiseptics out of urine, bile and herbs.
And you know what, we are fine. Unless we are waiting for an asteroid strike, the zombie apocalypse or some other shit that collapses human civilization, we will be fine.
"I already did that by doing 18-21 credit hours a semester instead of the usual 12"
Which you did because apparently you could *afford* to do so. Some people cannot do so because they have other pressing issues on their time - generally work in order to pay for rent/tuition/etc - and were not just "goofing off"
See, for him, such issues like paying for shit to live, these aren't a problem. Didn't happen to him then by definition, it is not a problem.
That's the cursed mentality in this country. "I have mine, sucks to be you." It is a mentality that equates economic struggles as the result of some type of moral failure. This lack of understanding, of empathy, and the arrogance thereof, it is going to come back and fuck us in the ass as a country. You will see.
A coworker of mine is from India - green card, permanent resident, married to a US citizen. She told me her credit load per semester was 18 and that "humanities and other general education" were not required. Also that foreign languages were a high school requirement.
She also said her education was fully government paid (and that the admissions requirements are far higher than for US universities).
Most HS in this country have a foreign language requirement, and there is an unrecognized fact: a lot of multi-lingual people in this country are multi-lingual. I'm not referring to descendants of recent immigrants only, but people who by their own volition have learned another language. Yes, there are a lot of people in this country who only speak one language (which is is just a matter of geography), but that is not necessarily representative of the country as a whole.
A lot of people speak multiple languages in this world, but as a matter of geographical accident, not as a sign of greater intellect.
Also, I don't see "humanities and other general education" not being required as a bonus or a great thing. For starters, societies need thinking people with a round education, not just people who know how to turn levers and knobs.
Secondly, it isn't like a great bulk of college coursework around these topics. Certainly not the way I remember college. Three English comp/tech writing classes, one humanities, one arts, one social studies, one psychology. That's just 2/3 thirds out of freshman's year. A lot less for kids who do AP credits or advance studies in HS.
That *can* become a bit of a bigger burden for part-time students or adults returning to school, but for students going full-time, this is not that great of a barrier (except for people who don't care about having a well-rounded education.)
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The Chinese cohort of anything exceeds the entire population of the United States. This is also true of the number of Chinese brains being applied to science/tech problems of every kind.
And yet they still haven't
I have yet to see original projects or even leading technology coming from China. This may be the first but I haven't researched it enough. I seem to recall quantum light communications via lasers being demo'd 5+ years ago.
People used to talk shit like this about the Japanese in the 50's and early 60's. They did also with the Taiwanese and South Koreans.
I'm old enough to remember talk of the Soviet Union destroying the American Empire,
I'm old enough (and lived right at the cold war front lines) to remember the USSR came close to it. The USSR lost because it fell for Papa Reagan's Star Wars arms-race trap. The USSR could have continue as-is if it had not attempted to expand. BTW, this should not be construed as an endorsement of the Soviets.
a united Europe destroying the American Empire,
I never heard of this one, though the EU is the largest market on the planet. It doesn't need to destroy the US, it simply needs to flourish. Economic dominance is not a zero-sum game.
OPEC taking over the world,
They almost did but technology had made it possible for the US (and countries like Russia) to tap into oil and energy reservoirs that, at the time, were considered impossible. Natural resources is what has allowed the US to survive the OPEC, not an intrinsic national value found nowhere else.
Japan rising and surpassing America,
Well, it did. 1970, that's the year Japan overtook the US in auto manufacturing. The big-three never recovered from this. Ask them folks in Detroit if this is a falsehood. Japan, Taiwan and South Korea pretty much took over the semiconductor industry also.
What has halted Japan's expansion was a real state bubble coupled with demographics. It has an ageing population. And here is where the US truly excels Japan. It has a greater female participation in the workforce. Should Japan were to make the necessary changes (and they are) and facilitates married women to rejoin the workforce, it would boost the shit out of its economy.
As it is, Japan doesn't need to change anything, and it still has gas in its tank to preserve a 1st world quality of life well into the 2050s. We cannot make that argument with the US.
and now of a Chinese Century. Somehow the US is still on top
Is it? By total national GDP, of course. But individually? Look around. We have millions of people who, quite crudely, aren't worth a damn economically, who will never adapt, who can't compete.
The Chinese are burdened with poverty, but that poverty is being eradicated (same in India and Mexico). Yes, they have as many poor people as people in the US, but they also have as many people already taking part in the production of wealth. And that number is increasing.
The US can still remain on top by focusing on education, on creating an adaptable workforce. So far the country is doing shit about it because it is too busy telling itself that it is still top dog.
If it is stupid and it works, it is not stupid.
I learned the above in the military, and I have seen no reason to unlearn it in 32 years working as an IT professional... Yeah, I'm no longer a programmer, but I still reach for my favorite hammer when I see a nail. Two years ago, I embedded Assembly Code into something that operated on Terabytes of transaction data. It wasn't stupid.
Define "work". I've seen reports that prints the correct numbers but that are built (I shit you not) with cartesian joints executed in loops, over and over, per row.
A more extreme example (I'm not making this shit up) - a reports server that makes a web service call to a "reports composer" service, one call per page, and for each page, the "reports composer" service makes multiple database queries per row (like not one of the a-holes who created this knew how to make SELECT SUM(somefield) FROM table GROUP BY whatever).
Or how about this (truly, I'm not making this shit) - an internal web app A that used JMS to call another internal app B so that it makes a database query on its behalf. But internal app B instead would delegate that to internal app C to talk to the database - internal app C would do all the sins of people who don't know how to use proper SQL and batch statements, like iterating over a relation with a fucking for-loop, each iteration a database call to get a value, to be added to a counter (again, complete ignorance of SQL aggregate functions.)
Then after internal app C shitted on the poor database (who btw, lacked indexes and had tables with fields named tmp1, tmp2 and tmp3), internal app C would return its payload to internal app B in free-form, totally flat, malformed xml, returned btw via JMS because it's enterprisey and hard-core and loosely-coupled (beasts who wrote this system wouldn't know what coupling meant anyways.)
Are you still with me (trust me, I'm truly not making this shit up), finally internal app B would take the shit-flat malformed xml and parse it (it was so bad you couldn't even use xlst to massage it), so it had to traverse the fucking DOM... to produce untyped hash tables of lists containing hash tables and more lists - hash tables and lists all the ways, like turtles in ancient cosmologies.
Then the hashtables-of-lists-of-hashtables-and-lists would be passed, again, via JMS, to internal app A, which would then pass the monstrosity to JSP pages containing thousands and thousands of lines of Java code to render that shit into a pretty HTML page.
It worked... never mind that the company needed to run like, I don't remember, a dozen web servers to make that shit run when all that was truly required (if the system had been built properly) was one server for the application and one for the database.
So yeah, "work" is not enough. I needs to work efficiently and be built for maintainability in mind. The thing that breaks projects is not to print the wrong numbers, but to cost so fucking much in operations that a company is forced to pull the plug.
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And Drive, and Photos, and Google Docs (that is not going anywhere). If you are not in need of Excel's analytics capabilities, Google Docs are a good alternative to MS Office for home and small businesses.
CNF2 is good. CNF3 is sometimes better. CNF4 is usually worse.
I cannot remember myself going beyond CNF3 (and I can only remember one time I de-normalized to CNF2... and I still doubt if this was a good idea.)
Don't give out any contact info and close any avenue for random people to message you. Make your "internet presence" a one-way street.
Alternatively, (I know this goes against your criteria) if having an "internet presence" is making your life hell, STOP DOING IT. Get up from your computer and spend time with people that actually care about you. RandomInternetDude doesn't have the slightest interest in your well-being. You must accept this before wading into the filth.
But see, that's great and dandy for e-plebeian you and I who do not care. What about a public figure, a gymnast, a sports person, a writer, a reporter. Building a presence is essential and yet any horde of trolls can just take a shit on someone's. How is that right?
And going back to your solution, your solution entails that we cannot be transparent, we must be anonymous. That is great when you wish to or when your safety is at stake (as say, an Iranian blogger ranting against the Mullahs.)
But that is not a solution, it is a surrender to one's right to have a personalized presence unencumbered by hate. That we have to deal with such crap is not the result of freedom of speech being exercised, but being abused by the lowest riffraff that society's anus can excrete on the rest of us.
I do not know what the solution is without risking censorship. But putting the onus on the targets of bullying, that's fucked up no matter how we cut it.
Twitter provides a block feature, a mute feature, the ability to report harassment, and various features to control how public your tweets are. If someone is harassing you, why don't you block them? I'm not sure why we need to kill free speech to fix a problem that appears to be already solved...
In other words, the onus of dealing with bullying is on the receiver. Just consider someone like Gabby Douglas and the vitriol she gets. How do you block thousands of trolls without pretty much abandoning your online presence?
And that goes to the core of something very deep, the right to have an online presence, which is a part of freedom of speech and expression. Online bullying when done at scale, it pretty much denies an individual his free speech rights.
Why the strawman argument? Nobody ever suggested anything of the sort. Are you being deliberately moronic or are you failing at basic reading comprehension?
The part where after the month, those that were most successful are invited back...
And for free, boarding and all. So what's the fucking problem? A free college-level education, free boarding included, with the price being to work your hands to the bone?
If you have a problem with this, either you do not need it/want it (which is fair), or you lack the discipline and agency to make it through. #firstworldproblem.
It's called attrition.
It's called stupid. The fact that I won't work 12 hours a day 6-7 days a week on somehting for months on end has zero correlation with how successful I will be at something.
Well, there goes reading comprehension. No one said anything about that attrition as conditioning to work. It's attrition to eliminate those who won't want it bad enough.
Seriously, you are all a bunch of #firstworldproblem bitches. If you are getting a chance to make a career change, or an education FOR FREE (boarding included) with the condition to go through that attrition, wouldn't you do it?
Actually you wouldn't. Either because you do not need it/wanted it (which is fair), or because you lack the discipline and agency for it (in which case you have no soap box from where to be bitching about it.)
Sounds accurate. Boot-camp to sweatshop to homelessness. Or maybe they have some way to recycle these people into prison after they are burned out?
Well, I've seen college educated professionals from nursing, education and accounting doing a successful transition. But again, how you see the world is a reflection of you, not the world. You have no solution, you have nothing to offer, yet every possible alternative, however flawed it might be, you are quick to tear it down. Can't do shit, won't do shit, won't let others do shit. Whatever rocks your boat.
So what we get out of these "boot camps" is people who know the current technology, can be used for 4-5 years, then get thrown away for the next batch.
I have to say, that's efficient. Provided you don't give a shit about them, that is.
You can look at it that way if it satisfy your nihilistic self. It is not like CS grads don't make their professional universe out of a stack with a 4-5 year lifespan and get stuck there forever. Whether it is a boot camp or a 4-year degree, what you get out of it (for the duration of your professional lifetime), that's on you.
for fuck sake it never ends with you people. we don't want the jobs sent overseas, we don't want you to hire overseas workers here, we don't want you to invest in any kind of education that might prepare future generations of Americans for employment in your sector, we don't want you providing training for local workers.
I completely agree with your sentiment... but this... from the summary?
"Students spend 12 or more hours per day, six to seven days per week. If they do well, students are invited back...
It's called attrition. Students are given free courses and boardrooms, and then it is sink or swim... in C. That's for a purpose. They'll be crunching not just coding, but also theory. Whoever remains, you can be assure they are worth their damn and deserve to get their education and boarding for free for the next three years.
Also, this is not unheard of. I'm not sure about other areas of the country, but here in South Florida there have been several boot camps that take people from backgrounds other than CS - educators, nurses, accountants, people who are already educated and have many years of work experience. In essence, working professionals who want to make a career change. They go for months crunching 12 hours a day Mondays through Saturdays, crunching programming as well as CS theory.
It is expensive, and they do it on their own pockets. Mind you, these are professionals taking a hit on their wallets paying for the course (as well as the loss of salary as they go through the bootcamps.) I've seen them getting jobs as developers, not code monkeys, but actually as developers.
The rigor, the attrition, it is simply necessary. This is the same for people trying to do a career change or start his/her own company. So why is this surprising?
Scrutiny of authority figures is inherently disrespectful as it puts the respect of truth above obedience to your betters.
There is scrutiny and there is stuff like calling the POTUS things like n*, monkey, or calling his daughters whores. For the last 8 years, a good segment of the population have been more than willing to do the later than the former. That is what Twitter blocked. Morally, I have no problem with it.
I have no problem with people asking hard questions. I have a problem with people hurling racial insults and DEMANDING a private company (Twitter) to provide them with a platform.
If only we had an objective standard for "respectful" or "civil" that was applied equally.
Alas there is a very clear double standard which our media helps enforce.
There isn't? How about not using the n* word against the POTUS for starters? Or not calling him monkey? How about not using racism or well known dog whistles? Or not calling her daughters whores?
I'm sorry bro, but there are objective standards for being respectful and civil. Maybe it's just me or the way my parents raised me.
If they want to practice their first amendment rights it is not incumbent upon Twitter to allow them a platform for it.
Precisely. Unless Twitter becomes part of the government or a platform owned by the people, it is disingenuous to demand Twitter to provide a platform it does not agree with. That's like force Joe down the street to put a pro Trump/Clinton/Whatever sign on his front yard, in his own fucking private property, against his political views or wishes. My freedom of speech ends where someone else's freedom of opinion, expression and privacy begin.
If I want to propagate a message, it is not my fucking right to force others to echo it, it is not my right to force others to listen, it is not my right to prevent someone from walking away should they wish not to hear me.
Freedom of speech is about being free to express myself. It does not give me the right to force others to listen to me against their wishes.
The following account has been suspended for violating our terms of service of not agreeing with us politically.
And this is a problem how? Twitter, a company, builds a medium and gives you the right to have an account using a TOS you agreed to (and which can change at any time, which you also agreed to.) Twitter is not a branch of government, a public service or a public space.
If you abuse a right, you risk having it taken away from you
No, you don't. Rights aren't privileges. The right to free speech is inalienable.
Right to free speech is only guaranteed by government and public venues. Twitter ain't it. I'm not saying anything pro or con Twitter's stance, but I'm drawing a line in the sand when it comes to force a private medium as if it were a branch of government, a street corner or public service. The ability for a person or company to build a medium and to apply its own version of censorship is a right on itself, a right closely related to freedom of expression.
Oh great, now you have a 60TB drive that will fail taking everything with it and because of the size making backups very costly to boot.
The lengths some people go just to post some asinine negative shit. People that can afford these things can typically afford redundancy. These things aren't for stashing your pr0n.
How does this affect anyone? Nobody is going to visit these sand dunes and other topographical features anytime soon. We're not going to Mars for awhile and we're really not making much progress. Even so, it's a dead planet that's not capable of sustaining human life. How does this affect anyone at all? This doesn't affect me and it doesn't affect anyone I know. It's a complete waste of money, time, and effort. Can anyone explain why this matters? Now, I know you'll censor my post to -1 to avoid the question and pretend like it doesn't exist. But it's an important question: why does this matter at all? Can anyone explain how this affects me? I think not! But I expect to be censored to -1 almost instantly.
Won't affect you for sure. How sad to live a life without a spark of curiosity.
Tech itself is fascinating, but I don't really understand the enthusiasm to use it for everything. It's like fast cars: cool to look at, lots of great tech, fun to drive once in a while, but for every day I just want something practical that doesn't drink too much fuel and can be parked anywhere - like a bike.
^^^ #firstworldproblem
but only technology of the kind that I can compile myself, or at least I know I could because the source is available.
So, do you compile the code that control sensors in your refrigerator, toaster? On your TV? Your smartphone? The computer inside your car? The one sitting on the router that connects you to the internet?
I dont mind meal replacements. there are several used institutionally and in hospitals that never get this much publicity but have been around for years. My biggest concern however is our growing dependence upon multinational and branded consumer food companies to provide replacements for basic food staples. most americans already rely implicitly on betty crocker and stouffers to fill in the blanks of their culinary Repertoire. For the past 20 years most thanksgivings in america have been an olympic feast of multibillion dollar corporate sponsored brands of pre-cooked, processed foods that emerge at the supermarket shelf unaccountably and ubiquitously. Will the soylent generation know how to steam rice, or properly cook poultry? could they prepare porridge or vegetables, or even remember how to cook dry beans? Does soylent foster an even greater social divide in the 21st century by short-circuiting the social past-time of cooking and eating together? how will this generation cope when there is no soylent?
Almost no one can start a fire with a flint nor build a workable bow or arrow tips anymore. Almost now one knows how weave their own fabric, nor preserve meats with salt, beneficial molds, fermentation or smoking. Almost no one can make antiseptics out of urine, bile and herbs.
And you know what, we are fine. Unless we are waiting for an asteroid strike, the zombie apocalypse or some other shit that collapses human civilization, we will be fine.
a lot of multi-lingual people in this country are multi-lingual.
Quoting myself. Accidental redundancy on that one.
"I already did that by doing 18-21 credit hours a semester instead of the usual 12"
Which you did because apparently you could *afford* to do so. Some people cannot do so because they have other pressing issues on their time - generally work in order to pay for rent/tuition/etc - and were not just "goofing off"
See, for him, such issues like paying for shit to live, these aren't a problem. Didn't happen to him then by definition, it is not a problem.
That's the cursed mentality in this country. "I have mine, sucks to be you." It is a mentality that equates economic struggles as the result of some type of moral failure. This lack of understanding, of empathy, and the arrogance thereof, it is going to come back and fuck us in the ass as a country. You will see.
A coworker of mine is from India - green card, permanent resident, married to a US citizen. She told me her credit load per semester was 18 and that "humanities and other general education" were not required. Also that foreign languages were a high school requirement.
She also said her education was fully government paid (and that the admissions requirements are far higher than for US universities).
Most HS in this country have a foreign language requirement, and there is an unrecognized fact: a lot of multi-lingual people in this country are multi-lingual. I'm not referring to descendants of recent immigrants only, but people who by their own volition have learned another language. Yes, there are a lot of people in this country who only speak one language (which is is just a matter of geography), but that is not necessarily representative of the country as a whole.
A lot of people speak multiple languages in this world, but as a matter of geographical accident, not as a sign of greater intellect.
Also, I don't see "humanities and other general education" not being required as a bonus or a great thing. For starters, societies need thinking people with a round education, not just people who know how to turn levers and knobs.
Secondly, it isn't like a great bulk of college coursework around these topics. Certainly not the way I remember college. Three English comp/tech writing classes, one humanities, one arts, one social studies, one psychology. That's just 2/3 thirds out of freshman's year. A lot less for kids who do AP credits or advance studies in HS.
That *can* become a bit of a bigger burden for part-time students or adults returning to school, but for students going full-time, this is not that great of a barrier (except for people who don't care about having a well-rounded education.)