People who pass the second test are the people who don't join Mensa in the first place. People join Mensa because they don't have friends. This is because they fail your second test.
Why does a community of socially disabled people need a dating site? Do they think it will help them?
I know plenty of people who would qualify for Mensa (I know I do) but they don't join because they have a happy social life with lots of smart friends, and even "normal" people. It's only the "smart" people who are more or less socially disabled who need to join Mensa in order to "get a life". Get a life!
Or rather, we don't want them to find us. Because they most probably are milions of years ahead of us and they'll see us as animals, not as intelligent life.
There should be no blocking of whatever content. What is blocked, is accessible to the people who it's targeted at, but the general audience doesn't see it. It's swept under the carpet. Illegal content that exists on the internet should be visible, so people can complain with their representatives in parliament, or file charges with the police. I say this as one of the founders of Meldpunt (www.meldpunt.org) which is one of the founding parties of Inhope (www.inhope.org).
I think that the chance you get hired depends on your own skills and attitude only. Most programmers stop keeping their skills up to date when they're forty. They shouldn't be surprised that that diminishes their chances to get hired. Attitude is important. You won't fit in if you missed out on Twitter or Instagram or whatever the kids in the team do. You won't fit in if you play golf and people you work with bring their skateboard to work. I'm sixty, I love snowboarding, I ride a super fast motorcycle, I have purple hair, I wear short skirts. I work freelance mostly (yes, that I'll give you, freelance works better) and I get plenty of jobs and projects offered. It helps that the market for Android developers is very good, but then, it was my deliberate choice to switch to Android programminig in 2008.
I've been an Android developer for over 5 years, I've been using Eclipse for Java development almost since it came out. If Android Studio is better, I won't argue, I don't know. But i'll stick with Eclipse for a while, before I spend considerable time on changing my IDE. Maybe I'll give it a try on my next Android project, or maybe not.
Actually, as a programmer, you don't want to learn new tricks. The "trick" you should master is to write decent code and to be curious after the tools you can use to write that code. It doesn't really matter what programming language you use if you have the skill to quickly learn the specifics of that language. Once you know a few, you see the general pattern, and you know them all.
I must agree with this. It's possible for some, but you need to have an explorative mind, that apparently you don't have if you have to ask here.
I first learned to program in Fortran, way back, in university. In my first job I did Cobol, then I switched to C and C++. After that, from 1995 on, I did Java, and now I do Android and Java. On the side I did Prolog, some php which I hate, and all the other stuff that you run into and you try out for a while. I'm sure I'll make more switches before I retire.
Our civilizatin wouldn't be the first to collapse, and disappear. Roman civilization rose and fell. Chinese same. Several civilizations in the Middle East. So, no, I wouldn't be surprised if our civilization would go to hell, and be replaced by another in a few centuries. And as every new civilization in history took civilization further than the previous one, the next guys will be wiser than us, richer, smarter, and better off. Until they go too.
Of course, parents can be held in no way responsible for handing their phone to their kids and having their credit card emptied. Same as when I hand my credit card to my kid, it's not my fault when my kid uses it to buy stuff online.
Why does Canonical keep fixing things that aren't broken, things that everybody's happy with? Ubuntu doesn't want to be Apple, nor does it want to be Windows. Ubuntu wants to be Ubuntu.
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The poster of "Future Proof Jobs" should have read this subject rather than posting his question.
to get one?
Nothing else.
People who pass the second test are the people who don't join Mensa in the first place. People join Mensa because they don't have friends. This is because they fail your second test.
Why does a community of socially disabled people need a dating site? Do they think it will help them?
I know plenty of people who would qualify for Mensa (I know I do) but they don't join because they have a happy social life with lots of smart friends, and even "normal" people. It's only the "smart" people who are more or less socially disabled who need to join Mensa in order to "get a life". Get a life!
it's the patents that are bogus. Judges need to invalidate more patents, they need to invalidate all software patents.
Or rather, we don't want them to find us. Because they most probably are milions of years ahead of us and they'll see us as animals, not as intelligent life.
I thought taking "creation" literally was something of the distant past.
I mean, teach "creationism" in schools? Really.....
How can that be? I thought nothing could go faster than the speed of light.
Or does the universe not have to obey it's own rule?
We're talking about expansion of space itself, not about a body traveling in that space.
There should be no blocking of whatever content. What is blocked, is accessible to the people who it's targeted at, but the general audience doesn't see it. It's swept under the carpet. Illegal content that exists on the internet should be visible, so people can complain with their representatives in parliament, or file charges with the police. I say this as one of the founders of Meldpunt (www.meldpunt.org) which is one of the founding parties of Inhope (www.inhope.org).
It's the pedophile that should be deleted, not the google entries.
Or is it the money that rules?
They would have a point if the money would go to the artists. But it doesn't.
Of course you can. You uninstall IE6 by uninstalling Windows. Then you install Ubuntu, and you have a choice of Firefox or Chrome.
Do tigers have stripes for the same reason? If not, how do we know that Zebras don't have them for the same reason as tigers?
I think that the chance you get hired depends on your own skills and attitude only. Most programmers stop keeping their skills up to date when they're forty. They shouldn't be surprised that that diminishes their chances to get hired. Attitude is important. You won't fit in if you missed out on Twitter or Instagram or whatever the kids in the team do. You won't fit in if you play golf and people you work with bring their skateboard to work. I'm sixty, I love snowboarding, I ride a super fast motorcycle, I have purple hair, I wear short skirts. I work freelance mostly (yes, that I'll give you, freelance works better) and I get plenty of jobs and projects offered. It helps that the market for Android developers is very good, but then, it was my deliberate choice to switch to Android programminig in 2008.
I've been an Android developer for over 5 years, I've been using Eclipse for Java development almost since it came out. If Android Studio is better, I won't argue, I don't know. But i'll stick with Eclipse for a while, before I spend considerable time on changing my IDE. Maybe I'll give it a try on my next Android project, or maybe not.
Actually, as a programmer, you don't want to learn new tricks. The "trick" you should master is to write decent code and to be curious after the tools you can use to write that code. It doesn't really matter what programming language you use if you have the skill to quickly learn the specifics of that language. Once you know a few, you see the general pattern, and you know them all.
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I don't see myself as an old programmer. I started programming in 1978.
I must agree with this. It's possible for some, but you need to have an explorative mind, that apparently you don't have if you have to ask here.
I first learned to program in Fortran, way back, in university. In my first job I did Cobol, then I switched to C and C++. After that, from 1995 on, I did Java, and now I do Android and Java. On the side I did Prolog, some php which I hate, and all the other stuff that you run into and you try out for a while. I'm sure I'll make more switches before I retire.
Our civilizatin wouldn't be the first to collapse, and disappear. Roman civilization rose and fell. Chinese same. Several civilizations in the Middle East. So, no, I wouldn't be surprised if our civilization would go to hell, and be replaced by another in a few centuries. And as every new civilization in history took civilization further than the previous one, the next guys will be wiser than us, richer, smarter, and better off. Until they go too.
Of course, parents can be held in no way responsible for handing their phone to their kids and having their credit card emptied. Same as when I hand my credit card to my kid, it's not my fault when my kid uses it to buy stuff online.
What are these people thinking?
I know, most of you can't do that, but would that be a misdemeanor?
Why does Canonical keep fixing things that aren't broken, things that everybody's happy with? Ubuntu doesn't want to be Apple, nor does it want to be Windows. Ubuntu wants to be Ubuntu.