Well now that Windows is getting bash instead of powershell, it's definitely taking some lessons from Linux. I'd like to see this trend continue.
A lot of things Microsoft does, they do better than everyone else. Their file explorer GUI is absolutely incredible, for instance. If I'm forced to use OS X I just browses directories through bash since that's so much less painless.
The only people attention-seeking are SJWs who think the Universe really does spin around them and their feelings. Because god forbid someone gets offended. Clearly we have to censor them so other people can cope with their emotions. Or else gosh darn it we're causing other people irreparable mental harm!
If the response to that has been especially vitriolic and aggressive it's only because they've been equally aggressive in pushing their agenda, and succeeding. It's even infected the military.
Nothing is more despicable than people who attempt to shoehorn less qualified people in. If someone, let it be a minority or whatever, then let them succeed on merit alone, not this crap you're peddling about how STEM needs more women. It doesn't, by the way.
So please take your atrocious and neo-fascist bullshit back to whatever SJW pit it came from, where feelings are more important than anything else. And nothing is quite so insulting to women as your bullshit that the only way they're going to do well in STEM is if we give them golden tickets. They can do it on their own, through their own merit.
I'm surprised, really, that those of you who support open source so strongly often default to Libre Office so swiftly as a quintessential example of how open source is so much better. Here's a tip: it just makes you sound ignorant and biased, not educated and thoughtful. So does using "M$" instead of MS.
Libre Office isn't better than MS Office, so it's a pretty bad example. And no, I won't accept your supposed arguments why it's not, because that's just an idiotic bias talking.
There are many excellent examples of open source software that are superior to what MS offers. Like Firefox!
What I hate more than anything is having open source shoved down my throat like it's always superior. I've spent enough time in a hell called Eclipse when using IntelliJ would have saved me many headaches. So just drop this childish favoritism. Use what works. Use what's best. I have a list of software that I use for various things. Some are from MS, some are paid software, and quite a few are open source projects. Because unlike you, I don't suffer from the delusion that software is inferior because it was made by some corporation.
Nah, this is a fallacious way of approaching software development. You only need to learn what you only need to learn.
1) You're never going to master it all or even most of it. 2) What you do write isn't going to be as good as what someone spends a large majority of their time perfecting. 3) Resource constraints.
So while you're hammering away building everything from scratch, someone else will have a finished product. So not that wise, eh?
That's actually the point, the supply is only increasing marginally. Increasing initiatives to "teach" people how to code won't necessarily make them good enough to be software developers.
I never used the word complex, but a task that "requires skill" is not the same as a task that is menial, involved, and requires attention to detail. It's precisely because computers have automated the more mundane aspects of programming that programming has become more about problem solving.
The fact these tasks could be automated by computers means they didn't require a terrible lot of thought to begin with, unless you consider multiplying large numbers together to be a good measure of a person's ability to think.
Nah, because all of this "everyone learns to code" thing is more or less crap.
We also teach everyone how to do math, if you recall. And the vast majority of population/still/ can't do it, despite such a huge educational focus. And despite the efforts of Common Core and other initiatives to improve math literacy, the actual number of people who will end up doing math professionally probably won't change.
The number of competent programmers may increase slightly, but comparing a career in programming to a career of "recreation", it's bullshit. This study is nothing more than some SJW spewed crap and Cornell should be ashamed to even ever put their name on it. It manipulates figures to make itself sound meaningful. Consider:
TFA: "Consider the discrepancies in jobs requiring similar education and responsibility, or similar skills, but divided by gender. The median earnings of information technology managers (mostly men) are 27 percent higher than human resources managers (mostly women)"
Wow so they compared two different fields with supposedly "similar" education and responsibility and then concluded that because one of female dominated, wages are higher for one than the other. I guess logic isn't something they did well with.
TFA: "The same thing happened when women in large numbers became designers (wages fell 34 percentage points), housekeepers (wages fell 21 percentage points) and biologists (wages fell 18 percentage points). The reverse was true when a job attracted more men. Computer programming, for instance, used to be a relatively menial role done by women. But when male programmers began to outnumber female ones, the job began paying more and gained prestige."
I'm sure this had nothing to do with the apparent increase and demand in computer programming, not to mention how the field has evolved over the past five or six decades at an incredible rate. The focus has shifted from menially making punch cards to writing OOP in a high level language. The actual job changed so dramatically and the skills required to do it increased quite dramatically.
TFA: "While the pay gap has been closing, it remains wide. Over all, in fields where men are the majority, the median pay is $962 a week — 21 percent higher than in occupations with a majority of women, according to another new study, published Friday by Third Way, a research group that aims to advance centrist policy ideas."
Another failure to do basic statistics. Maybe women simply choose lower-paying jobs due to social expectations of them to choose said jobs. Other factors also play into it, but this statistic is completely meaningless. They even mention this themselves: "Yes, women sometimes voluntarily choose lower-paying occupations because they are drawn to work that happens to pay less, like caregiving or nonprofit jobs, or because they want less demanding jobs because they have more family responsibilities outside of work."
TFA: "But many social scientists say there are other factors that are often hard to quantify, like gender bias and social pressure, that bring down wages for women’s work."
Then don't fucking try to quantify it until you can.
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And that's all I can handle of this supposedly "scientific" study. Cornell is shit for publishing it, and so is the author.
The thing is, despite the aggressive update pushing, Windows 10 is a pretty solid product. There are a number of products that seriously make sense, especially the new explorer program.
And before you rant about Microsoft, realize that Apple and Google do the exact same thing, only MORE aggressively. But it's okay when they do it, isn't it? I mean Google sells your information, but Android is soooo much better than Microsoft who will sell you out, right? It's a pretty freaking absurd double standard you have there. How long was Google in beta for again?
So unless you're running Linux all around with Linux on your mobile phone with proton mail and host your own ftp server, then please don't preach about how awful Microsoft is when you're perfectly happy with companies who do the same thing just because they don't have the same name.
I'm thoroughly enjoying this article too: "The simulation has suggested that if our Universe is made up of five or more dimensions - something that scientists have struggled to confirm or disprove - Einstein's general theory of relativity, the foundation of modern physics, would be wrong."
So if a thing that we don't even know could potentially exist created using simulations of mathematical models in a computer does exist, then general relativity is turned on its head! Zany!
Programmers aren't designers. And one of the things they do the worst is design UIs for end-users. Every time I hear a programmer complain about how graphic designers don't know anything all I do is laugh, because it's elitist and pretentious to presume you know about designing graphics. You don't. You weren't trained to do that, and you probably don't even have the aptitude for it.
MS's ribbon UI, which is getting so much hate, is because programmers are biased. They're biased because they know what "Window" is but not what "Review" is. They know what "Format" should do, but not what "Design" should do. You're so caught up in your own jargon that you stop thinking like other, normal people do. Do you honestly people think that the Window menu item is going to have everything you need that would manipulate a window object in it? Come off it.
There's a reason why Office and Windows have such a large marketshare. The only reason ANY business, outside of maybe some select tech companies even use libreoffice is because its free. It's time to wake up and realize it's not MS's aggressive business tactics that really make them win the game here: it's that they sell a superior product and you can leave your overly convoluted menus to yourself and the few select people who mistakenly think it's better because they're too inflexible to learn new ways of doing things.
Enjoy your coding in C, since I'm sure you have the same issues with thinking everyone should be managing memory.
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But they did drop the ball with tabs. Then again you can always use Clover to get tab functionality.
Well now that Windows is getting bash instead of powershell, it's definitely taking some lessons from Linux. I'd like to see this trend continue.
A lot of things Microsoft does, they do better than everyone else. Their file explorer GUI is absolutely incredible, for instance. If I'm forced to use OS X I just browses directories through bash since that's so much less painless.
I do .NET development and really there isn't one.
You can develop .NET on Android too now. Windows phone is simple a bust.
It's nowhere near close to gender population of qualified coders.
What we have here is discrimination against men.
The only people attention-seeking are SJWs who think the Universe really does spin around them and their feelings. Because god forbid someone gets offended. Clearly we have to censor them so other people can cope with their emotions. Or else gosh darn it we're causing other people irreparable mental harm!
If the response to that has been especially vitriolic and aggressive it's only because they've been equally aggressive in pushing their agenda, and succeeding. It's even infected the military.
Nothing is more despicable than people who attempt to shoehorn less qualified people in. If someone, let it be a minority or whatever, then let them succeed on merit alone, not this crap you're peddling about how STEM needs more women. It doesn't, by the way.
So please take your atrocious and neo-fascist bullshit back to whatever SJW pit it came from, where feelings are more important than anything else. And nothing is quite so insulting to women as your bullshit that the only way they're going to do well in STEM is if we give them golden tickets. They can do it on their own, through their own merit.
I'm surprised, really, that those of you who support open source so strongly often default to Libre Office so swiftly as a quintessential example of how open source is so much better. Here's a tip: it just makes you sound ignorant and biased, not educated and thoughtful. So does using "M$" instead of MS.
Libre Office isn't better than MS Office, so it's a pretty bad example. And no, I won't accept your supposed arguments why it's not, because that's just an idiotic bias talking.
There are many excellent examples of open source software that are superior to what MS offers. Like Firefox!
What I hate more than anything is having open source shoved down my throat like it's always superior. I've spent enough time in a hell called Eclipse when using IntelliJ would have saved me many headaches. So just drop this childish favoritism. Use what works. Use what's best. I have a list of software that I use for various things. Some are from MS, some are paid software, and quite a few are open source projects. Because unlike you, I don't suffer from the delusion that software is inferior because it was made by some corporation.
Nah, this is a fallacious way of approaching software development. You only need to learn what you only need to learn.
1) You're never going to master it all or even most of it.
2) What you do write isn't going to be as good as what someone spends a large majority of their time perfecting.
3) Resource constraints.
So while you're hammering away building everything from scratch, someone else will have a finished product. So not that wise, eh?
Yeah, real programmer treat integers as byte arrays.
You kids and your new fangled pythons don't know how good ya'll have it.
That's actually the point, the supply is only increasing marginally. Increasing initiatives to "teach" people how to code won't necessarily make them good enough to be software developers.
I never used the word complex, but a task that "requires skill" is not the same as a task that is menial, involved, and requires attention to detail. It's precisely because computers have automated the more mundane aspects of programming that programming has become more about problem solving.
The fact these tasks could be automated by computers means they didn't require a terrible lot of thought to begin with, unless you consider multiplying large numbers together to be a good measure of a person's ability to think.
Nah, because all of this "everyone learns to code" thing is more or less crap.
We also teach everyone how to do math, if you recall. And the vast majority of population /still/ can't do it, despite such a huge educational focus. And despite the efforts of Common Core and other initiatives to improve math literacy, the actual number of people who will end up doing math professionally probably won't change.
The number of competent programmers may increase slightly, but comparing a career in programming to a career of "recreation", it's bullshit. This study is nothing more than some SJW spewed crap and Cornell should be ashamed to even ever put their name on it. It manipulates figures to make itself sound meaningful. Consider:
TFA:
"Consider the discrepancies in jobs requiring similar education and responsibility, or similar skills, but divided by gender. The median earnings of information technology managers (mostly men) are 27 percent higher than human resources managers (mostly women)"
Wow so they compared two different fields with supposedly "similar" education and responsibility and then concluded that because one of female dominated, wages are higher for one than the other. I guess logic isn't something they did well with.
TFA:
"The same thing happened when women in large numbers became designers (wages fell 34 percentage points), housekeepers (wages fell 21 percentage points) and biologists (wages fell 18 percentage points). The reverse was true when a job attracted more men. Computer programming, for instance, used to be a relatively menial role done by women. But when male programmers began to outnumber female ones, the job began paying more and gained prestige."
I'm sure this had nothing to do with the apparent increase and demand in computer programming, not to mention how the field has evolved over the past five or six decades at an incredible rate. The focus has shifted from menially making punch cards to writing OOP in a high level language. The actual job changed so dramatically and the skills required to do it increased quite dramatically.
TFA:
"While the pay gap has been closing, it remains wide. Over all, in fields where men are the majority, the median pay is $962 a week — 21 percent higher than in occupations with a majority of women, according to another new study, published Friday by Third Way, a research group that aims to advance centrist policy ideas."
Another failure to do basic statistics. Maybe women simply choose lower-paying jobs due to social expectations of them to choose said jobs. Other factors also play into it, but this statistic is completely meaningless. They even mention this themselves: "Yes, women sometimes voluntarily choose lower-paying occupations because they are drawn to work that happens to pay less, like caregiving or nonprofit jobs, or because they want less demanding jobs because they have more family responsibilities outside of work."
TFA:
"But many social scientists say there are other factors that are often hard to quantify, like gender bias and social pressure, that bring down wages for women’s work."
Then don't fucking try to quantify it until you can.
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And that's all I can handle of this supposedly "scientific" study. Cornell is shit for publishing it, and so is the author.
Microsoft backs Apple, even while Bill Gates doesn't.
Actually, it is old fashioned. And you can kill a business with that kind of thinking in today's world.
Should your mobile phone be banned too?
Jesus, dude.
And Google. And Apple.
The thing is, despite the aggressive update pushing, Windows 10 is a pretty solid product. There are a number of products that seriously make sense, especially the new explorer program.
And before you rant about Microsoft, realize that Apple and Google do the exact same thing, only MORE aggressively. But it's okay when they do it, isn't it? I mean Google sells your information, but Android is soooo much better than Microsoft who will sell you out, right? It's a pretty freaking absurd double standard you have there. How long was Google in beta for again?
So unless you're running Linux all around with Linux on your mobile phone with proton mail and host your own ftp server, then please don't preach about how awful Microsoft is when you're perfectly happy with companies who do the same thing just because they don't have the same name.
Then don't volunteer to become a beta tester?
You're not being forced to do anything.
I'm thoroughly enjoying this article too:
"The simulation has suggested that if our Universe is made up of five or more dimensions - something that scientists have struggled to confirm or disprove - Einstein's general theory of relativity, the foundation of modern physics, would be wrong."
So if a thing that we don't even know could potentially exist created using simulations of mathematical models in a computer does exist, then general relativity is turned on its head! Zany!
Programmers aren't designers. And one of the things they do the worst is design UIs for end-users. Every time I hear a programmer complain about how graphic designers don't know anything all I do is laugh, because it's elitist and pretentious to presume you know about designing graphics. You don't. You weren't trained to do that, and you probably don't even have the aptitude for it.
MS's ribbon UI, which is getting so much hate, is because programmers are biased. They're biased because they know what "Window" is but not what "Review" is. They know what "Format" should do, but not what "Design" should do. You're so caught up in your own jargon that you stop thinking like other, normal people do. Do you honestly people think that the Window menu item is going to have everything you need that would manipulate a window object in it? Come off it.
There's a reason why Office and Windows have such a large marketshare. The only reason ANY business, outside of maybe some select tech companies even use libreoffice is because its free. It's time to wake up and realize it's not MS's aggressive business tactics that really make them win the game here: it's that they sell a superior product and you can leave your overly convoluted menus to yourself and the few select people who mistakenly think it's better because they're too inflexible to learn new ways of doing things.
Enjoy your coding in C, since I'm sure you have the same issues with thinking everyone should be managing memory.
Even old white men watch porn.
Especially old white men.
Who is paying for prime numbers!!!
The medical treatment is still in its infancy, it hasn't even begun to mature.
What's worse is the medical community clings to their barbaric methods like it's actual medicine, instead of the snake oil piss it actually is.
WPF and XAML are actually pretty damn awesome. The fact you don't know what they are lends me to believe you've never actually tried any of it.
But there are technical problems with this right?
What is sounds like Ballmer wants would be programs for Linux to "just work" on Windows. I hope someone can help me out here.