Nope. I want big government and NO TAXES. I will blame the liberals and listen to Fox News, Drudgereport, Sean Hannity, so I do not have to take responsibility.
You all voted for conservative politicians in the States who ran on cut now pay later starting with Reagan and vodoo economics.
Later is here! No it is not Obama's fault. It is yours and your parents. The banks need their money and it is not fair for the rest of us to pay higher taxes and no services for things like healthcare. Pay the piper man and in 30 years we can pay off the interest and $19,000,000,000,000!
Oh and lets blame it on the liberals so you can keep your nice home? Well expect a dollar crash and Great Depression 2.0 as the value of the dollar is nothing because the credit built on a house of cards for tax cuts and spending increases comes crashing once bankers start demanding a return on their money.
Disagree. 4 core is minimal now if you run Chrome. Each tab has its own process and even Windows itself got leaner and faster by creating more threads for individual tasks. A dual core would have hiccups from one tab slowing down other things. Add several Chrome tabs, Outlook, MCrappy anti virus and you got bottlenecks
That's why even phones are all quad core minimum. They do many things and customers do not want jerky system performance.
Gender dysphoria is still considered a mental illness. What they've done is to separate that from transsexuality. The argument is that once a person is receiving treatment with hormone replacement therapy and/or have had gender reassignment surgery, they no longer experience gender dysphoria, so its transsexuality which is no longer considered to be a mental illness.
Sure, some of that comes down to mincing words, but it's pretty clear that whatever it is that is being experienced is an illness or it wouldn't go away with treatment. From what I've read, it appears as though there is some region of the brain that is responsible for the self's perception of gender and that it is possible for problems during fetal development for the brain to develop in an atypical manner, possibly as a result of incorrect or untimely hormone exposure. Gender dysphoria also seems to have a high comorbidity with other mental disorders, so there could be other factors at play as well.
I think people are reluctant to accept some of this because a lot of the science is relatively new and goes against the idea that environment or upbringing is somehow responsible for this. There's also probably a lot of pushback because there seems to be a new fad surrounding gender and sexual identity with young people creating new genders that don't have any basis in science (or at least none of which I'm aware) and a lot of people are looking at that and lumping all transexuals in with that crowd which leads them to dismiss the whole thing as nonsense.
Nope. It is considered a disorder. Know the difference? Just because you do not want tits or change your penis into a vagina doesn't mean the other person thinks the same? Remember homosexuality is eww and gross and must be a mental illness too just because you can't imagine it a few decades ago.
MRI evidence backs the claims. CHildren as young as 4 and 5 know. That is not time for environmental changes
Considering the mental health field has been moving steadily away from classifying Gender Dysphoria as a mental illness, I'm not sure that argument's as useful as you think it is.
Not even. It was considered a disorder. Never an illness.
Homosexuals at one time too just 30 years ago was considered a mental illness by the majority of Americans too!. We all know today it is not and they are just ordinary people who want to live, work, be married, and half a life just like the rest of us. The fact if you are straight and repulsed by the thought of another man means you are straight and no big deal as it's not a threat. We know it is very hard and for some impossible to change ones orientation due to circuitry.
If computers came out 30 years earlier we would be having this same debate in 1987 about gays in the military.
Today we have evidence with MRI's that MTF (male to female) brains resemble womens or half man/half woman just like MRIs of gays show female like areas in attraction parts of the brain. Citation is here and I also quote this professor here who has a lecture.
By default we are conceived female by the X chromosone. After a month the Y kicks in which generates testoserone and turns out preborn vaginas and ovaries into cocks and balls then cuts our female circuitry off. Our brains then develop male before our birth. Since female is the default sex it is logical to assume a delay or malfunction at this stage could leave a girl brain in a boy body.
And like I said earlier if the thought with another dude grosses you out you're straight. If the thought of changing your penis and getting a vagina freaks you out then congrats again you have a male brain!
The mere fact that transgenders do not think this way shows it is more than a mental illness but something deeply wrong. Please be compassionate and understanding for someone different folks?
No TV since 2003! Yet, I still watch many shows - when I want to and without ads.
Until net neutrality being out enabling ISPs to throttle Netflix and Hulu making your Roku useless and choppy. You can only use a tiered $200 a month service now which mysteriously work just fine. Anything less is communism of government regulation etc.
Get rid of net neutrality ASAP so Netflix can be throttled out of existence so expensive tiers I don't want can be forced upon me!!
Anything else is Communism and Obama had something to do with it. We don't want to end up like Venezuela so let's give up some rights to the big corporations now before it's too late who have our best interests at heart
That's the problem. Bitcoin has not been robbed yet through a vulnerability. That is because every user MUST have a local copy of the whole chain for every transaction ever made before he or she can use their wallet. Right now it is over 120 gb.
Ethereum tries to alleviate this problem but it means without a centralized system it is less secure. Wasn't dodgecoin popular and what about litecoin?
If you support Microsoft Office and do device lockdowns and remote management your opinion of IOS and MacOSX will go drastically down.:-)
Safari too always has problems when trying to do SharePoint Online. It seems Apple becomes good when Steve Jobs is around and leaves again after he is not present.
Mac users (please not saying all but the majority) are in the own little world. I do not like Apple products and these folks really believe MacOSX is superior, never has problems and when they do they are easy to fix, innovate beyond everyone, and that we Linux and Windows users are stupid or cheap because we don't know any better.
Supporting Microsoft Office and Skype are a nightmare on the mac. In Windows if something is corrupt you uninstall and reinstall. Not on a Mac. Outlook 2016 stores its mail profiles in hidden containers that are impossible to view and stick around after an uninstall/reinstall. Just to view hidden files and folders is a bizaare process to just to do a freaking deleting a mail profile. Apple in it's infinite wisdom decides you should never want to do this so you need to put in 4 lines in Bash only to have the view hidden files and folders remain empty after a reboot. Next you need to find the encrypted name of the containers to delete.
Do not get me started on device lockdown policy either. WIth VMWare and Microsoft Intune you simply create the MDM and put them on your Windows Phone or Android device when you sign in for corporate compliance. But no not Apple. You need to buy an $80 key at the Apple Developer Network just to create a series of private keys for each device. They always have problems too with authentication if they get corrupted. Android devices meanwhile never do.... ok enough rant and I am not talking gluing batteries in products either and creating many many hubs with proprietary ports so they can nickle and dime you either.
Back on topic Apple like anything other platform requires good security practices and not an infallible believe that they are roses because they do not get viruses.
Probably got here using Google search on his Android and will later talk about it on Facebook. Yeah Win10 metrics are clearly the problem.
I am not saying Microsoft is a saint here. I am just saying telemetry and appstores all do this. Also you can turn this off now if you install the latest Windows 10 creators update. As soon as you select language and keyboard the very next screen has an on/off switch for telemetry, targeted ads, cortana,
I did not see that for installing Chrome or an option in setting up this in Google.com. Yes, I resent many things and turned some of this stuff off but the anti spyware is old here and MS now FORCES you to accept or unaccept when setting up Windows 10.
Also MS does not track you with a keyboard logger or what you are working on. There are laws agaisn't this. All it does is keep telemtry of stuff crashing, account usage, and search results with cortana over Bing. All the userIDs attached are encrypted and unknown to Microsoft and it is now optional opt-in.
You'd think with all the evil metrics Win10 collects, they'd have some idea about how heavily used this tool is.
Paint 3D is a "modern" app. That means they can collect more evil metrics more easily. The only thing they care about is that it's not packaged as an.exe
...to have a watered down version of Photoshop Elements included as a gateway to the more expensive Photoshop proper. Done correctly it would be a win for both companies and consumers.
They do. They have a Universal app version of it's Android Photoshop express in the Windows Store. I have it installed on my PC
Microsoft is just depreciating a legacy version. it's new Paint 3D will be available in the appstore and will have all the basic 2d functions of old mixed with basic modeling.
He apparently doesnt know that there is a difference between a civil tort and a criminal trial.
You cannot sign away your right to free speech, but you can sign up for a penalty or two.
Contract law is all about keeping people "whole".. and yes thats a legal term. If you sign a contract and then break that contract, the judge is going to try to make the other party "whole" again. It doesnt matter one bit that the thing you promised to do entails exercising one of your rights.
The judge cannot make you shut up nor can the judge cannot make you say things that you don't want to say. However the judge can and will award the plaintiff a pile of money and can and will seize your assets if that becomes necessary. If you think that the 1st amendment is all you need to get out of a contract, then you are in for a rude awakening.
Exactly and well stated. Since the agreement was voluntarly you can also argue no rights were violated. The reason the TSA can search you is because you are not forced to go on a plane but it's voluntary.
However, I am no lawyer. I would imagine a lot of liberal states like California might have labor laws though where such an agreement could be illegal? Then a tort is not N/A. Workers do have rights like a non hostile work environment for example so even if the constitution guarantees free speech another law can say otherwise and can void the contract.
It is scummy regardless but I can see businesses do have a right to limit frivolous lawsuits too and need to fire at will to remain competitive.
No I am not. I am not talking about copyright either.
The US constitution gives rights to the federal government to enforce contracts. It's a contractual issue and you can't be prosecuted. Otherwise employers and parties would have no rights at all. But that doesn't mean you are not liable for damages for breaking said contract.
The courts have also ruled that you can't sign away rights, unless otherwise explicitly defined in law. If that wasn't the law, then slavery would be legal. So, do you have the right to sign yourself into slavery?
THe issue is a fine vs a liability is the same in our pocket books. But in legal terms it is not illegal to be sued for free speech as only have rights to avoid being arrested and jailed or fined from government prosecution. That's it.
Otherwise how would companies create trade secrets and agreements. Yes it is protected speech but there is nothing illegal by paying another party damages.
Long ago the Surpeme Court has interpreted this as no legal prosecution. Sure you can scream HITLER IS GOD in your office and have security and HR throw your ass off in the street and fire you, but no prosecution will happen as that is your free speech and right to say it.
So the question is whether you can be sued for violation of contract? YES. Don't worry you won't be prosecuted. Just like their are financial repurcussions for opening your mouth at work you can freely divulge trade secrets, violate agreements, and do so to your hearts content under free speech. But do not expect not to be sued into an oblivion as that is not a fine.
What does any of that have to do with the fact that the survey is based on bullshit data because recruiters lie?
It's not that recruiters lie Barbara. I believe what it is that Python is used heavily for prototyping and scripting even if it is not part of the main job. When they hear a term that means "+5 years experience" as a requirement. Many are very serious about a lack of qualified applicants and are not making it up for fake job postings.
So if let's say one job requires Python then it is counted. Then another job required java but also some prototyping in python then the survey counts it twice. For sysadmins it is counted 3 times, and financial anaylsts use Python for financial reporting so it is counted again etc.
This adds to inflation to the relative number of real python specific jobs vs someone who MAY use python like a financial guru.
These surveys are strictly for idiots. For example (to use one of the data sources in the article), information drawn from what recruiting companies say they are looking for are complete garbage, as anyone who has spent much time here knows. Some recruiters are just trolling for new applicants to add to their slushpile, some are adding stuff that's totally irrelevant to the underlying job so that their candidate will look more well-rounded, some are bogus posts to supply HR with practice interviews, some are just posted as a way to be able to say "we looked for expertise in x and y before we hired an H1B (who doesn't know x or y, but it's rarely investigated) ".10 years experience in Java 9 or Windows 10? 5 years experience with Red Hat linux 7.3? We've all seen these shit listings, the same as we've seen the same job suddenly pop up from a dozen different recruiters. It doesn't mean they're looking for 12 people with that experience.
GIGO still applies.
It still is relevant. As much as WE HATE HR they are the gatekeepers. Actually they are nto the gatekeepers. Taleo is the gatekeeper and SEO in LinkedIn and abunch of software programs are. They do the work so companies can be lazy and not have to do their job.
If you do not have that experience you will not be interviewed. That is a fact as your score will be below X and the application will be rejected and HR won't even know you applied.
Part of the problem isn't that they are bogus. It just that HR is incompetent and fall for the salespeople in Taleo who tell them software picks candidates for YOU, not it is there to assist you. Scenario one you need a SAP jr financial analyst assistant who can run reports?
They ask the IT manager and finance manager. IT manager says yeah it uses SQL Server on the backend etc... BOOM 5 years of SQL Server administration is now required. HR wants to make sure you know office... BOOM 5 years Excel macro programming experience required. Now add a shitty HR filter app like Taleo and it generates a job description: -5 years SQL Server administration experience -3 to 5 years of Excel financial analysis programming in VBA - 3 to 5 years of actually doing SAP reports (part of the job that is important) - Mentions $15/hr because that is net worth of a college kid in accounting as it is a JR. level assistant.
Taleo reports none are q ualified. CEO lobbies senator. They important an Indian H1B1 visa who meets these requirements as no American can do the job and whines how could this happen? etc.
So my guess is some positions do prototyping in python. The HR software now requires 5 years of python coding and you get filtered out if you do not have it even if the position is really a java developer etc.
Did you even try to install NodeJS on Windows? Click click done. And npm happens to have the biggest number of packages of all package managers. And yes, it includes packages to do a CUDA backed neural network. As if anyone who has meaningful volumes of data to process in a neural net would use Python or JavaScript anyways.
Don't Bash things you don't know (pun intended).
This is 2017 and you can virtualize if your employer sticks you with Windows or you want to do things without breaking your Linux host OS as not all of us are neckbeared sys administrators who know init.
Windows 10 pro even comes with hyper-V! It beats the snot out of VMWare Workstation as hyper-V is a type one hypervisor so no extra license needed. There is KMS for free for Linux loyalists that is type 1 as well and ssds and quad core CPUs galore in 2017.
Windows does suck outside of python and.NET which is why Ubuntu and soon Suse for Windows is coming and MS is in a rush vastly improving visual studio. Node.j's is missing packages and has to use Chromes v8 engine last I looked.
But anyway 2017 is a lot nicer than 2007 where host OS was essential
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Nope. I want big government and NO TAXES. I will blame the liberals and listen to Fox News, Drudgereport, Sean Hannity, so I do not have to take responsibility.
You all voted for conservative politicians in the States who ran on cut now pay later starting with Reagan and vodoo economics.
Later is here! No it is not Obama's fault. It is yours and your parents. The banks need their money and it is not fair for the rest of us to pay higher taxes and no services for things like healthcare. Pay the piper man and in 30 years we can pay off the interest and $19,000,000,000,000!
Oh and lets blame it on the liberals so you can keep your nice home? Well expect a dollar crash and Great Depression 2.0 as the value of the dollar is nothing because the credit built on a house of cards for tax cuts and spending increases comes crashing once bankers start demanding a return on their money.
Go Google 386 sx and 486 sx before bashing AMD? :-)
The chips that failed when the fpu used to take 1/3 of the chip got resold without it. Floating points were run in emulation
My guess is the gold editions which have the pro chipset for business management will probably have an integrated APU.
Liano failed miserably for gamers as dedicated GPU performance on chip never happened
Disagree. 4 core is minimal now if you run Chrome. Each tab has its own process and even Windows itself got leaner and faster by creating more threads for individual tasks. A dual core would have hiccups from one tab slowing down other things. Add several Chrome tabs, Outlook, MCrappy anti virus and you got bottlenecks
That's why even phones are all quad core minimum. They do many things and customers do not want jerky system performance.
Gender dysphoria is still considered a mental illness. What they've done is to separate that from transsexuality. The argument is that once a person is receiving treatment with hormone replacement therapy and/or have had gender reassignment surgery, they no longer experience gender dysphoria, so its transsexuality which is no longer considered to be a mental illness.
Sure, some of that comes down to mincing words, but it's pretty clear that whatever it is that is being experienced is an illness or it wouldn't go away with treatment. From what I've read, it appears as though there is some region of the brain that is responsible for the self's perception of gender and that it is possible for problems during fetal development for the brain to develop in an atypical manner, possibly as a result of incorrect or untimely hormone exposure. Gender dysphoria also seems to have a high comorbidity with other mental disorders, so there could be other factors at play as well.
I think people are reluctant to accept some of this because a lot of the science is relatively new and goes against the idea that environment or upbringing is somehow responsible for this. There's also probably a lot of pushback because there seems to be a new fad surrounding gender and sexual identity with young people creating new genders that don't have any basis in science (or at least none of which I'm aware) and a lot of people are looking at that and lumping all transexuals in with that crowd which leads them to dismiss the whole thing as nonsense.
Nope. It is considered a disorder. Know the difference? Just because you do not want tits or change your penis into a vagina doesn't mean the other person thinks the same? Remember homosexuality is eww and gross and must be a mental illness too just because you can't imagine it a few decades ago.
MRI evidence backs the claims. CHildren as young as 4 and 5 know. That is not time for environmental changes
Considering the mental health field has been moving steadily away from classifying Gender Dysphoria as a mental illness, I'm not sure that argument's as useful as you think it is.
Not even. It was considered a disorder. Never an illness.
Homosexuals at one time too just 30 years ago was considered a mental illness by the majority of Americans too!. We all know today it is not and they are just ordinary people who want to live, work, be married, and half a life just like the rest of us. The fact if you are straight and repulsed by the thought of another man means you are straight and no big deal as it's not a threat. We know it is very hard and for some impossible to change ones orientation due to circuitry.
If computers came out 30 years earlier we would be having this same debate in 1987 about gays in the military.
Today we have evidence with MRI's that MTF (male to female) brains resemble womens or half man/half woman just like MRIs of gays show female like areas in attraction parts of the brain. Citation is here and I also quote this professor here who has a lecture.
By default we are conceived female by the X chromosone. After a month the Y kicks in which generates testoserone and turns out preborn vaginas and ovaries into cocks and balls then cuts our female circuitry off. Our brains then develop male before our birth. Since female is the default sex it is logical to assume a delay or malfunction at this stage could leave a girl brain in a boy body.
And like I said earlier if the thought with another dude grosses you out you're straight. If the thought of changing your penis and getting a vagina freaks you out then congrats again you have a male brain!
The mere fact that transgenders do not think this way shows it is more than a mental illness but something deeply wrong. Please be compassionate and understanding for someone different folks?
No TV since 2003! Yet, I still watch many shows - when I want to and without ads.
Until net neutrality being out enabling ISPs to throttle Netflix and Hulu making your Roku useless and choppy. You can only use a tiered $200 a month service now which mysteriously work just fine. Anything less is communism of government regulation etc.
Get rid of net neutrality ASAP so Netflix can be throttled out of existence so expensive tiers I don't want can be forced upon me!!
Anything else is Communism and Obama had something to do with it. We don't want to end up like Venezuela so let's give up some rights to the big corporations now before it's too late who have our best interests at heart
That's the problem. Bitcoin has not been robbed yet through a vulnerability. That is because every user MUST have a local copy of the whole chain for every transaction ever made before he or she can use their wallet. Right now it is over 120 gb.
Ethereum tries to alleviate this problem but it means without a centralized system it is less secure. Wasn't dodgecoin popular and what about litecoin?
Please wait until after I have a purchaser before hacking so I can get my free GTX 1080 please?
If you support Microsoft Office and do device lockdowns and remote management your opinion of IOS and MacOSX will go drastically down. :-)
Safari too always has problems when trying to do SharePoint Online. It seems Apple becomes good when Steve Jobs is around and leaves again after he is not present.
Mac users (please not saying all but the majority) are in the own little world. I do not like Apple products and these folks really believe MacOSX is superior, never has problems and when they do they are easy to fix, innovate beyond everyone, and that we Linux and Windows users are stupid or cheap because we don't know any better.
Supporting Microsoft Office and Skype are a nightmare on the mac. In Windows if something is corrupt you uninstall and reinstall. Not on a Mac. Outlook 2016 stores its mail profiles in hidden containers that are impossible to view and stick around after an uninstall/reinstall. Just to view hidden files and folders is a bizaare process to just to do a freaking deleting a mail profile. Apple in it's infinite wisdom decides you should never want to do this so you need to put in 4 lines in Bash only to have the view hidden files and folders remain empty after a reboot. Next you need to find the encrypted name of the containers to delete.
Do not get me started on device lockdown policy either. WIth VMWare and Microsoft Intune you simply create the MDM and put them on your Windows Phone or Android device when you sign in for corporate compliance. But no not Apple. You need to buy an $80 key at the Apple Developer Network just to create a series of private keys for each device. They always have problems too with authentication if they get corrupted. Android devices meanwhile never do. ... ok enough rant and I am not talking gluing batteries in products either and creating many many hubs with proprietary ports so they can nickle and dime you either.
Back on topic Apple like anything other platform requires good security practices and not an infallible believe that they are roses because they do not get viruses.
Probably got here using Google search on his Android and will later talk about it on Facebook. Yeah Win10 metrics are clearly the problem.
I am not saying Microsoft is a saint here. I am just saying telemetry and appstores all do this. Also you can turn this off now if you install the latest Windows 10 creators update. As soon as you select language and keyboard the very next screen has an on/off switch for telemetry, targeted ads, cortana,
I did not see that for installing Chrome or an option in setting up this in Google.com. Yes, I resent many things and turned some of this stuff off but the anti spyware is old here and MS now FORCES you to accept or unaccept when setting up Windows 10.
Also MS does not track you with a keyboard logger or what you are working on. There are laws agaisn't this. All it does is keep telemtry of stuff crashing, account usage, and search results with cortana over Bing. All the userIDs attached are encrypted and unknown to Microsoft and it is now optional opt-in.
You'd think with all the evil metrics Win10 collects, they'd have some idea about how heavily used this tool is.
Paint 3D is a "modern" app. That means they can collect more evil metrics more easily. The only thing they care about is that it's not packaged as an .exe
Question? Do you use Chrome at all?
...to have a watered down version of Photoshop Elements included as a gateway to the more expensive Photoshop proper. Done correctly it would be a win for both companies and consumers.
They do. They have a Universal app version of it's Android Photoshop express in the Windows Store. I have it installed on my PC
Microsoft is just depreciating a legacy version. it's new Paint 3D will be available in the appstore and will have all the basic 2d functions of old mixed with basic modeling.
Relax. Microsoft is just depreciating an older version. The new Paint is called Paint 3d and will be available in the appstore for free.
He apparently doesnt know that there is a difference between a civil tort and a criminal trial.
You cannot sign away your right to free speech, but you can sign up for a penalty or two.
Contract law is all about keeping people "whole" .. and yes thats a legal term. If you sign a contract and then break that contract, the judge is going to try to make the other party "whole" again. It doesnt matter one bit that the thing you promised to do entails exercising one of your rights.
The judge cannot make you shut up nor can the judge cannot make you say things that you don't want to say. However the judge can and will award the plaintiff a pile of money and can and will seize your assets if that becomes necessary. If you think that the 1st amendment is all you need to get out of a contract, then you are in for a rude awakening.
Exactly and well stated. Since the agreement was voluntarly you can also argue no rights were violated. The reason the TSA can search you is because you are not forced to go on a plane but it's voluntary.
However, I am no lawyer. I would imagine a lot of liberal states like California might have labor laws though where such an agreement could be illegal? Then a tort is not N/A. Workers do have rights like a non hostile work environment for example so even if the constitution guarantees free speech another law can say otherwise and can void the contract.
It is scummy regardless but I can see businesses do have a right to limit frivolous lawsuits too and need to fire at will to remain competitive.
No I am not. I am not talking about copyright either.
The US constitution gives rights to the federal government to enforce contracts. It's a contractual issue and you can't be prosecuted. Otherwise employers and parties would have no rights at all. But that doesn't mean you are not liable for damages for breaking said contract.
The courts have also ruled that you can't sign away rights, unless otherwise explicitly defined in law. If that wasn't the law, then slavery would be legal. So, do you have the right to sign yourself into slavery?
THe issue is a fine vs a liability is the same in our pocket books. But in legal terms it is not illegal to be sued for free speech as only have rights to avoid being arrested and jailed or fined from government prosecution. That's it.
Otherwise how would companies create trade secrets and agreements. Yes it is protected speech but there is nothing illegal by paying another party damages.
Long ago the Surpeme Court has interpreted this as no legal prosecution. Sure you can scream HITLER IS GOD in your office and have security and HR throw your ass off in the street and fire you, but no prosecution will happen as that is your free speech and right to say it.
So the question is whether you can be sued for violation of contract? YES. Don't worry you won't be prosecuted. Just like their are financial repurcussions for opening your mouth at work you can freely divulge trade secrets, violate agreements, and do so to your hearts content under free speech. But do not expect not to be sued into an oblivion as that is not a fine.
What does any of that have to do with the fact that the survey is based on bullshit data because recruiters lie?
It's not that recruiters lie Barbara. I believe what it is that Python is used heavily for prototyping and scripting even if it is not part of the main job. When they hear a term that means "+5 years experience" as a requirement. Many are very serious about a lack of qualified applicants and are not making it up for fake job postings.
So if let's say one job requires Python then it is counted. Then another job required java but also some prototyping in python then the survey counts it twice. For sysadmins it is counted 3 times, and financial anaylsts use Python for financial reporting so it is counted again etc.
This adds to inflation to the relative number of real python specific jobs vs someone who MAY use python like a financial guru.
These surveys are strictly for idiots. For example (to use one of the data sources in the article), information drawn from what recruiting companies say they are looking for are complete garbage, as anyone who has spent much time here knows. Some recruiters are just trolling for new applicants to add to their slushpile, some are adding stuff that's totally irrelevant to the underlying job so that their candidate will look more well-rounded, some are bogus posts to supply HR with practice interviews, some are just posted as a way to be able to say "we looked for expertise in x and y before we hired an H1B (who doesn't know x or y, but it's rarely investigated) ".10 years experience in Java 9 or Windows 10? 5 years experience with Red Hat linux 7.3? We've all seen these shit listings, the same as we've seen the same job suddenly pop up from a dozen different recruiters. It doesn't mean they're looking for 12 people with that experience.
GIGO still applies.
It still is relevant. As much as WE HATE HR they are the gatekeepers. Actually they are nto the gatekeepers. Taleo is the gatekeeper and SEO in LinkedIn and abunch of software programs are. They do the work so companies can be lazy and not have to do their job.
If you do not have that experience you will not be interviewed. That is a fact as your score will be below X and the application will be rejected and HR won't even know you applied.
Part of the problem isn't that they are bogus. It just that HR is incompetent and fall for the salespeople in Taleo who tell them software picks candidates for YOU, not it is there to assist you. Scenario one you need a SAP jr financial analyst assistant who can run reports?
They ask the IT manager and finance manager. IT manager says yeah it uses SQL Server on the backend etc ... BOOM 5 years of SQL Server administration is now required. HR wants to make sure you know office ... BOOM 5 years Excel macro programming experience required. Now add a shitty HR filter app like Taleo and it generates a job description:
-5 years SQL Server administration experience
-3 to 5 years of Excel financial analysis programming in VBA
- 3 to 5 years of actually doing SAP reports (part of the job that is important)
- Mentions $15/hr because that is net worth of a college kid in accounting as it is a JR. level assistant.
Taleo reports none are q ualified. CEO lobbies senator. They important an Indian H1B1 visa who meets these requirements as no American can do the job and whines how could this happen? etc.
So my guess is some positions do prototyping in python. The HR software now requires 5 years of python coding and you get filtered out if you do not have it even if the position is really a java developer etc.
Anyway done with rant :-)
Did you even try to install NodeJS on Windows? Click click done. And npm happens to have the biggest number of packages of all package managers. And yes, it includes packages to do a CUDA backed neural network. As if anyone who has meaningful volumes of data to process in a neural net would use Python or JavaScript anyways.
Don't Bash things you don't know (pun intended).
This is 2017 and you can virtualize if your employer sticks you with Windows or you want to do things without breaking your Linux host OS as not all of us are neckbeared sys administrators who know init.
Windows 10 pro even comes with hyper-V! It beats the snot out of VMWare Workstation as hyper-V is a type one hypervisor so no extra license needed. There is KMS for free for Linux loyalists that is type 1 as well and ssds and quad core CPUs galore in 2017.
Windows does suck outside of python and .NET which is why Ubuntu and soon Suse for Windows is coming and MS is in a rush vastly improving visual studio. Node.j's is missing packages and has to use Chromes v8 engine last I looked.
But anyway 2017 is a lot nicer than 2007 where host OS was essential