1. No fully online AA program will be accepted as meeting prereqs for any BS degree worth your time or effort. Self-directed learning is great, but none of it currently hold any rigor in the eyes of academe or the evaluators reviewing your transcripts for transfer credit.
2. No fully online BS program will get so much as a whiff of attention from HR at a decent company. See comments on "academic rigor" above.
3. If you are serious about making development your profession, write a ton of code, contribute to open source projects where you can, build a reputation and contacts in a few developer communities so that, if you're actually any good, they can help get you in the door somewhere. Protip: coding a solution to a painful development problem (library, tool, etc.) goes a long way in this regard.
4. Prepare for your 8 - 5 life to collide with the above repeatedly and decide how much impact pain you're willing to tolerate.
And your alternative remedy is what exactly? And how does it make the victim whole again, beyond the tools currently available?
He already can sue for fraud in the current system, if he's so motivated, and recover losses.
For that matter, fraud itself is a crime. Whether or not the federal/state authorities pursue fraud cases energetically enough is a legit beef, but a government issue not a market one. There are well-crafted, legally tested statutes defining commercial fraud and markets have been subject to them for decades, centuries in certain cases.
So what type of market provides novel, effective remedies beyond the above that you'd recommend as a replacement?
"Some have harsh words for this man of renown, But some think our attitude Should be one of gratitude, Like the widows and cripples in old London town Who owe their large pensions to Wernher von Braun."
Pretty sure most of us geezers figured out the "life-draining waste of time" nature of most meetings long ago. Primary difference between the kiddies and us is that the young'uns aren't experienced enough yet to: a) be able to partition the useful ones from the non-useful at first glance, and b) learned the million creative ways of escaping the latter. And if they keep up with this taking the calls, texting and playing Candy Crush business, they ain't gonna last long enough to learn 'em in any moderately structured place of employment.
Back in the day, you had to actually be....thoughtful....to get out of a productivity-trap meeting. Nowadays, it's just easier to pull out the little hand-held whatever and mentally escape. Even if you're being immediately tagged as "lightweight", "rude", "arrogant", etc., by the annoying-but-still-in-charge-for-the-moment management.
You're absolutely right....except you're assuming there is an actual finding/admission of guilt.
The article speaks of a "settlement" being announced. To my eyes, the probability of that settlement including an admission of culpability approaches zero.
Infosys will not be blacklisted, they'll mind their manners and volume for a bit, then quietly pick up where they left off on the contract pile.
And....allowing for that tiny percentage sliver, what if they do admit guilt and are barred from government contracting for whatever period? They just slide the excess capacity over to the contractual pile of Walmart, Sears, etc.
As others have mentioned, $35MM, while not a drop in the bucket, is small enough to be absorbed as a carrying cost of doing business, given the revenue stream.
I hate the whole sordid "enterprise staffing" model that spawns this garbage and hope fervently never to work with it again.
I would agree Milo is laying it on waaaaay too heavy here....but, honestly, have you met the people he's describing? "Evangelists", "Community Developers", "Mentors", "Facilitators" and their ilk? They have no technical skills to value.
Not sure about the stuff you tagged on afterwards about route to future, etc....but if you'd like to propose an example of a truly out-of-nowhere, no-antecedents, Black Swan-class revolutionary *idea*, we're all ears....your thoughts?
but any language *less* popular than Haskell surely has very little practical value, and I haven't heard of functional languages *more* popular than Haskell.
There is this language called Lisp. Might have heard of it before.
Erlang, also.
I understand the kiddies are feeling the Clojure love these days as well (although I suppose that just ends up categorized as a Lisp subset)
So the next set of Snowdens and Mannings will simply have to select a communication nexus other than the Huffington Post website. I think they'll manage.
One of the strengths of the 21st century reboot has been the consistently good fit of actors to the role. If the franchise did decide it was time for the Doctor to be performed by an actress...who would be the best candidates for the part?
Criticism is one thing. Premeditated bashing by zealots who have no interest in honestly critiquing, but seek simply to bash your work to pieces because it is not part of their holy canon or is perceived as commiting some sort of cybernetic lese majeste is completely another. I saw no reference to the former in the article, and plenty to the latter.
He's under no obligation to give the latter a podium simply because he's written software.
Acquiring an open, informed opinion can require no small amount of work. If he sets that work as his bar for critique and commentary, I have no problem with it.
Psychoanalysis != the entirety of non-pharma clinical psych. therapy. Quite a few approaches still in use, particularly along cognitive/behavioral lines.
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1. No fully online AA program will be accepted as meeting prereqs for any BS degree worth your time or effort. Self-directed learning is great, but none of it currently hold any rigor in the eyes of academe or the evaluators reviewing your transcripts for transfer credit.
2. No fully online BS program will get so much as a whiff of attention from HR at a decent company. See comments on "academic rigor" above.
3. If you are serious about making development your profession, write a ton of code, contribute to open source projects where you can, build a reputation and contacts in a few developer communities so that, if you're actually any good, they can help get you in the door somewhere. Protip: coding a solution to a painful development problem (library, tool, etc.) goes a long way in this regard.
4. Prepare for your 8 - 5 life to collide with the above repeatedly and decide how much impact pain you're willing to tolerate.
I don't think they needed to worry....
And your alternative remedy is what exactly? And how does it make the victim whole again, beyond the tools currently available?
He already can sue for fraud in the current system, if he's so motivated, and recover losses.
For that matter, fraud itself is a crime. Whether or not the federal/state authorities pursue fraud cases energetically enough is a legit beef, but a government issue not a market one. There are well-crafted, legally tested statutes defining commercial fraud and markets have been subject to them for decades, centuries in certain cases.
So what type of market provides novel, effective remedies beyond the above that you'd recommend as a replacement?
There are not enough "Funny" mod points on the planet to give this. Well played, VortexCortex!
"Some have harsh words for this man of renown,
But some think our attitude
Should be one of gratitude,
Like the widows and cripples in old London town
Who owe their large pensions to Wernher von Braun."
Poor thing's life probably flashed before him at the last instant, right?
....who cares where they come down? That's not my department." says Wernher Von Braun.
(ok, not exactly the same scientific disciplines here, for sure....but the mindset is certainly close enough.)
....none of 'em answer to the name "Caesar"....
Pretty sure most of us geezers figured out the "life-draining waste of time" nature of most meetings long ago. Primary difference between the kiddies and us is that the young'uns aren't experienced enough yet to: a) be able to partition the useful ones from the non-useful at first glance, and b) learned the million creative ways of escaping the latter. And if they keep up with this taking the calls, texting and playing Candy Crush business, they ain't gonna last long enough to learn 'em in any moderately structured place of employment.
Back in the day, you had to actually be....thoughtful....to get out of a productivity-trap meeting. Nowadays, it's just easier to pull out the little hand-held whatever and mentally escape. Even if you're being immediately tagged as "lightweight", "rude", "arrogant", etc., by the annoying-but-still-in-charge-for-the-moment management.
You're absolutely right....except you're assuming there is an actual finding/admission of guilt.
The article speaks of a "settlement" being announced. To my eyes, the probability of that settlement including an admission of culpability approaches zero.
Infosys will not be blacklisted, they'll mind their manners and volume for a bit, then quietly pick up where they left off on the contract pile.
And....allowing for that tiny percentage sliver, what if they do admit guilt and are barred from government contracting for whatever period? They just slide the excess capacity over to the contractual pile of Walmart, Sears, etc.
As others have mentioned, $35MM, while not a drop in the bucket, is small enough to be absorbed as a carrying cost of doing business, given the revenue stream.
I hate the whole sordid "enterprise staffing" model that spawns this garbage and hope fervently never to work with it again.
I would agree Milo is laying it on waaaaay too heavy here....but, honestly, have you met the people he's describing? "Evangelists", "Community Developers", "Mentors", "Facilitators" and their ilk? They have no technical skills to value.
Not sure about the stuff you tagged on afterwards about route to future, etc....but if you'd like to propose an example of a truly out-of-nowhere, no-antecedents, Black Swan-class revolutionary *idea*, we're all ears....your thoughts?
There is this language called Lisp. Might have heard of it before.
Erlang, also.
I understand the kiddies are feeling the Clojure love these days as well (although I suppose that just ends up categorized as a Lisp subset)
C'mon Guido, you're smarter than this...
I'm not sure they're going for "better discourse" so much as they're going for "less-bad discourse."
So the next set of Snowdens and Mannings will simply have to select a communication nexus other than the Huffington Post website. I think they'll manage.
Since when is "I will find you and kill you" useful feedback, let alone appropriate? And who should have to listen to dreck like that?
Isn't that sorta like abusing the rowing slaves for the lousy conditions on the galley?
One of the strengths of the 21st century reboot has been the consistently good fit of actors to the role. If the franchise did decide it was time for the Doctor to be performed by an actress...who would be the best candidates for the part?
Exactly. Y'all come back to me when you're programming a cell phone switch and then you can talk about low latency...
Amen. And please add "At The Mountains of Madness" to the list.
Criticism is one thing. Premeditated bashing by zealots who have no interest in honestly critiquing, but seek simply to bash your work to pieces because it is not part of their holy canon or is perceived as commiting some sort of cybernetic lese majeste is completely another. I saw no reference to the former in the article, and plenty to the latter.
He's under no obligation to give the latter a podium simply because he's written software.
Acquiring an open, informed opinion can require no small amount of work. If he sets that work as his bar for critique and commentary, I have no problem with it.
Psychoanalysis != the entirety of non-pharma clinical psych. therapy. Quite a few approaches still in use, particularly along cognitive/behavioral lines.
Solipsistic, much, are you?