Liberals restricted the govt's ability to hold people with mental issues.
And by "liberals", you are no doubt referring to Ronald Reagan. As governor of California, he signed the Lanterman-Petris-Short Act, which ended the practice of holding mental patients against their will. Then, as president in 1981, Reagan signed the Omnibus Budget Reconciliation Act, largely un-doing Carter's work at improving the federal mental health care system, which itself built upon ideas outlined by Kennedy before his assassination.
You seem fixated on this point. Yes, we all agree he's a comedian. A "fucking comedian", even. So what? Comedians have always traded on the currency of social and political commentary. At this point, comedians (or possibly just fucking comedians are the only ones left seriously discussing those topics.
You have to ask yourself what kind of shit is in their ads if that's their mentality.
I actually turned off ad blocking on Salon recently, and the ads made the site unreadable. Constant DOM changes that jumped the text up and down every few seconds made for a very unpleasant experience, to the point of unusable. Also, just the ads caused my CPU cycles to jump and set my fans spinning, and the page eventually consumed so much memory that my browser halted it.
So if it's the choice between monero-mining-malware or ad-malware spinning wildly out of control, I guess we should be seeing Salon in a death spiral soon.
Zieroh's First Rule of Internet Arguments: the first person to say "sheeple" automatically loses the argument. Also, a riotous mob of monkeys will descend upon them and eat their genitals.
You can very well have a Software Development Environment without having an Integrated Development Environment. GCC + a crappy text editor is a SDE, but it most definitely is not an IDE.
I guess an interactive python interpreter and nothing more could also be considered an SDE but not an IDE
My point was that SDE is a meaningless term in the industry.
I was a programmer when the Commodore 64 came out, and I'm still a programmer today. So I think I'm reasonably qualified to comment on this topic.
There is in fact an increasing gulf between computer users and computer programmers, but TFA has it completely backwards. It's not getting harder to code. There are two (and only two) factors at work here: 1. Computers have gotten substantially easier to use by non-programmers. My parents wouldn't have been able to do anything with my Commodore 64. But they can use a modern computer for normal user-level tasks just fine. 2. The expectations of what software should do has increased substantially, which means programmers need to be able to create much more complex code to meet minimum baseline expectations. At the same time, though, modern software development has rapidly evolved over the years and now offers better tools, better frameworks, better access to information and documentation, better back-end services (e.g. "the cloud"), better debuggers, and a whole host of other improvements that allow one programmer to do more than they were ever able to do before.
I will concede one point here: programmers today need to be familiar with a lot more different things (e.g. frameworks) than the days when they had literally no frameworks at all. That said, programmers need much less depth in their understanding of those various pieces, since documentation is literally a mouse-click away in nearly any decent IDE.
Also, it's called "IDE". This "SDE" acronym is just bullshit and demonstrates that the author of TFA is a bit light on actual industry experience.
Incurring a penalty is the polar opposite of being free to do something.
Honest, this is a stupid argument. I doubt you're actually this stupid, so you should probably be ashamed for attempting such a pathetic line of reasoning. The First Amendment gets you off the legal hook for most forms of speech. That's all it does.
This is how freedom dies, by redefining what it is.
I think it's you who are redefining what it means.
Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press; or the right of the people peaceably to assemble, and to petition the Government for a redress of grievances.
Nope. Not ever gonna. If speech is free of all consequences, you have essentially just robbed other people of their freedom of speech -- the freedom to say "I think you're a dick for saying that." Speech has always had and always will have consequences. Get used to it.
No, government is paid for with taxes. To confuse government with civilization is sad. really sad.
Civilization happens in spite of government, not because of it.
Good government is the result of civilization, not the cause.
And this is why nobody takes Libertarians seriously. If you're going to state things that run counter to common sense, you'd better have some evidence to back it up. As it stands, your statements appear to be nothing more than the spurious wet-dreams of every other gullible Libertarian on the internet.
Okay, I'll bite. I'm not an anonymous coward, and I think you're a fucktard too. Also, you're incredibly gullible. The sooner you admit that to yourself, the better off you'll be.
CNN was SO afraid of the Comment section... They removed it ENTIRELY.
Lots of websites have removed their comment section. Mostly because of the fucktards.
Isn't that Funny?
It's more of a statement about how persistent fucktards can be.
No? They are certainly democrats, and not moderate democrats by any stretch.
This is completely unsupported by the actual facts. The FBI is overwhelmingly conservative and Republican, both the rank & file and the leadership. This has been true for many years. To claim otherwise is probably a side effect of the cognitive dissonance you are currently experiencing.
Only an ivory tower academic who has never held a real job would make a statement as stupid as the one you've just made.
The hyperbole is probably unnecessary. At the very least, it just weakens your argument.
Trades like plumbing, electrical, construction and manufacturing all require excellent analysis and reasoning skills. These practitioners are often dealing with real world problems and situations that are several magnitudes more complex than anything ivory tower academics deal with.
This is true, actually. And that kind of skill is to be commended. But it's not the same as critical thinking.
When you are in the desert with a busted car, the local repair shop isn't likely to take bitcoin.
You're conflating cash with money. This is a common misperception, so you can probably be excused for this particular mistake. In a conversation about Bitcoin, it would probably be more useful to think of it as money, and not cash. I'm aware that various parties have expressed hope that Bitcoin might someday be as useful as cash, but that appears increasingly unlikely. Ultimately, Bitcoin itself makes no claim to be anything in particular, and it's up to us to decide whether it has utility or not. Clearly, it has utility (and therefore value) to some. Your mileage may vary.
That's all true, but it still ignores the fact that people have to collectively agree that gold has value in order for it to have value. The physical properties (like being inert, and rare but not *too* rare) are just necessary preconditions. The actual value is a shared hallucination.
As for Bitcoin, I don'know if I even want to use it now, in case it's involved in some way with my Firefox getting compromised and this weird extension showing up without me installing it.
I was doing retirement calculations and it seems engineers should have no problem retiring in their 50s. By the time they are 40, they should have earned more than a million and with interest and investing should have between 1-2 million in retirement. By 50 they should have 2.5-5 million.
Here are a few events that aren't generally considered by retirement calculators: 1. Dotcom bust of 2000 2. 9/11/2001 3. Financial crisis of 2008
All of these things had a pretty significant impact on my 401k. It's recovered well in the last couple of years, but I've only recently crossed the $1mil mark.
Early fifties here. Been in the industry for (oh gosh) almost 30 years now, 26 at the same company. I burned out on programming after Year 19 at said company, and moved on to being an engineering manager, running a team of software developers. What I've discovered is that while I do miss the pure programming (a bit), I don't miss the grind. I've also discovered I have a talent for spotting talent, hiring and mentoring young engineers and turning them into seasoned engineers.
I hope to retire by the time I'm 60. Between a 401k, some real estate, and some Bitcoin holdings that have done remarkably well, it'll probably happen. A job candidate I was interviewing once asked me "what advice might you have for a young engineer just entering the industry"? I gave him an answer he wasn't expecting.
Invest in a cryptocoin, then you're not really "investing", but you're speculating, gambling, etc.
Speaking as a hodler of coins, I agree -- it is speculation. I make no bones about that. I put in what I could afford to lose, and I know I might lose it all.
That said, if I'm honest, the stock market is pretty speculative in its own right. Maybe worse.
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Liberals restricted the govt's ability to hold people with mental issues.
And by "liberals", you are no doubt referring to Ronald Reagan. As governor of California, he signed the Lanterman-Petris-Short Act, which ended the practice of holding mental patients against their will. Then, as president in 1981, Reagan signed the Omnibus Budget Reconciliation Act, largely un-doing Carter's work at improving the federal mental health care system, which itself built upon ideas outlined by Kennedy before his assassination.
Liberals indeed.
but he's still just a fucking comedian.
You seem fixated on this point. Yes, we all agree he's a comedian. A "fucking comedian", even. So what? Comedians have always traded on the currency of social and political commentary. At this point, comedians (or possibly just fucking comedians are the only ones left seriously discussing those topics.
You have to ask yourself what kind of shit is in their ads if that's their mentality.
I actually turned off ad blocking on Salon recently, and the ads made the site unreadable. Constant DOM changes that jumped the text up and down every few seconds made for a very unpleasant experience, to the point of unusable. Also, just the ads caused my CPU cycles to jump and set my fans spinning, and the page eventually consumed so much memory that my browser halted it.
So if it's the choice between monero-mining-malware or ad-malware spinning wildly out of control, I guess we should be seeing Salon in a death spiral soon.
sheeple
Zieroh's First Rule of Internet Arguments: the first person to say "sheeple" automatically loses the argument. Also, a riotous mob of monkeys will descend upon them and eat their genitals.
You can very well have a Software Development Environment without having an Integrated Development Environment.
GCC + a crappy text editor is a SDE, but it most definitely is not an IDE.
I guess an interactive python interpreter and nothing more could also be considered an SDE but not an IDE
My point was that SDE is a meaningless term in the industry.
I was a programmer when the Commodore 64 came out, and I'm still a programmer today. So I think I'm reasonably qualified to comment on this topic.
There is in fact an increasing gulf between computer users and computer programmers, but TFA has it completely backwards. It's not getting harder to code. There are two (and only two) factors at work here:
1. Computers have gotten substantially easier to use by non-programmers. My parents wouldn't have been able to do anything with my Commodore 64. But they can use a modern computer for normal user-level tasks just fine.
2. The expectations of what software should do has increased substantially, which means programmers need to be able to create much more complex code to meet minimum baseline expectations. At the same time, though, modern software development has rapidly evolved over the years and now offers better tools, better frameworks, better access to information and documentation, better back-end services (e.g. "the cloud"), better debuggers, and a whole host of other improvements that allow one programmer to do more than they were ever able to do before.
I will concede one point here: programmers today need to be familiar with a lot more different things (e.g. frameworks) than the days when they had literally no frameworks at all. That said, programmers need much less depth in their understanding of those various pieces, since documentation is literally a mouse-click away in nearly any decent IDE.
Also, it's called "IDE". This "SDE" acronym is just bullshit and demonstrates that the author of TFA is a bit light on actual industry experience.
Incurring a penalty is the polar opposite of being free to do something.
Honest, this is a stupid argument. I doubt you're actually this stupid, so you should probably be ashamed for attempting such a pathetic line of reasoning. The First Amendment gets you off the legal hook for most forms of speech. That's all it does.
You know better.
If you create a hostile environment where, people do not feel able to express what they feel or think, freedom of speech doesn't really exist then.
Can you point to me where in the constitution this particular right is enshrined? I'm having a hard time finding it in my pocket copy.
This is how freedom dies, by redefining what it is.
I think it's you who are redefining what it means.
Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press; or the right of the people peaceably to assemble, and to petition the Government for a redress of grievances.
Seems pretty clear to me.
This particular topic aside: stop saying that.
Nope. Not ever gonna. If speech is free of all consequences, you have essentially just robbed other people of their freedom of speech -- the freedom to say "I think you're a dick for saying that." Speech has always had and always will have consequences. Get used to it.
There are no rules anymore, just political agendas. Either pretend to like it, or enjoy being unemployed.
There are rules. You just don't like them. That's not the same as a political agenda.
No, government is paid for with taxes. To confuse government with civilization is sad. really sad.
Civilization happens in spite of government, not because of it.
Good government is the result of civilization, not the cause.
And this is why nobody takes Libertarians seriously. If you're going to state things that run counter to common sense, you'd better have some evidence to back it up. As it stands, your statements appear to be nothing more than the spurious wet-dreams of every other gullible Libertarian on the internet.
Says the Anonymous Coward :-D
Okay, I'll bite. I'm not an anonymous coward, and I think you're a fucktard too. Also, you're incredibly gullible. The sooner you admit that to yourself, the better off you'll be.
CNN was SO afraid of the Comment section... They removed it ENTIRELY.
Lots of websites have removed their comment section. Mostly because of the fucktards.
Isn't that Funny?
It's more of a statement about how persistent fucktards can be.
No? They are certainly democrats, and not moderate democrats by any stretch.
This is completely unsupported by the actual facts. The FBI is overwhelmingly conservative and Republican, both the rank & file and the leadership. This has been true for many years. To claim otherwise is probably a side effect of the cognitive dissonance you are currently experiencing.
Only an ivory tower academic who has never held a real job would make a statement as stupid as the one you've just made.
The hyperbole is probably unnecessary. At the very least, it just weakens your argument.
Trades like plumbing, electrical, construction and manufacturing all require excellent analysis and reasoning skills. These practitioners are often dealing with real world problems and situations that are several magnitudes more complex than anything ivory tower academics deal with.
This is true, actually. And that kind of skill is to be commended. But it's not the same as critical thinking.
A leftist institution publishes a study that only the rightists news is fake? Naaaaaah... no possible way for bias in that!
The fact that you think Oxford is "leftist" says all we need to know about your relative level of education.
When you are in the desert with a busted car, the local repair shop isn't likely to take bitcoin.
You're conflating cash with money. This is a common misperception, so you can probably be excused for this particular mistake. In a conversation about Bitcoin, it would probably be more useful to think of it as money, and not cash. I'm aware that various parties have expressed hope that Bitcoin might someday be as useful as cash, but that appears increasingly unlikely. Ultimately, Bitcoin itself makes no claim to be anything in particular, and it's up to us to decide whether it has utility or not. Clearly, it has utility (and therefore value) to some. Your mileage may vary.
That's all true, but it still ignores the fact that people have to collectively agree that gold has value in order for it to have value. The physical properties (like being inert, and rare but not *too* rare) are just necessary preconditions. The actual value is a shared hallucination.
As for Bitcoin, I don'know if I even want to use it now, in case it's involved in some way with my Firefox getting compromised and this weird extension showing up without me installing it.
I understand your frustration. And I can help. Just send your Bitcoin to this address: 1Q8HcFA3GgTuL1NWr6PYB6mtYgdFgXRfGc and I'll take care of the rest.
Coinbase definitely uses plain old printed paper wallets, spread among many safe deposit boxes.
Have you really sunk this low, slashdot owners?
I think we all know the answer.
Not so anonymous anymore.
I was doing retirement calculations and it seems engineers should have no problem retiring in their 50s. By the time they are 40, they should have earned more than a million and with interest and investing should have between 1-2 million in retirement. By 50 they should have 2.5-5 million.
Here are a few events that aren't generally considered by retirement calculators:
1. Dotcom bust of 2000
2. 9/11/2001
3. Financial crisis of 2008
All of these things had a pretty significant impact on my 401k. It's recovered well in the last couple of years, but I've only recently crossed the $1mil mark.
Early fifties here. Been in the industry for (oh gosh) almost 30 years now, 26 at the same company. I burned out on programming after Year 19 at said company, and moved on to being an engineering manager, running a team of software developers. What I've discovered is that while I do miss the pure programming (a bit), I don't miss the grind. I've also discovered I have a talent for spotting talent, hiring and mentoring young engineers and turning them into seasoned engineers.
I hope to retire by the time I'm 60. Between a 401k, some real estate, and some Bitcoin holdings that have done remarkably well, it'll probably happen. A job candidate I was interviewing once asked me "what advice might you have for a young engineer just entering the industry"? I gave him an answer he wasn't expecting.
"Max out your 401k as soon as humanly possible".
Invest in a cryptocoin, then you're not really "investing", but you're speculating, gambling, etc.
Speaking as a hodler of coins, I agree -- it is speculation. I make no bones about that. I put in what I could afford to lose, and I know I might lose it all.
That said, if I'm honest, the stock market is pretty speculative in its own right. Maybe worse.