This typo was accurately transcribed from the article. I think it was meant to say "savely bury 70 percent of the victims".
More than half those with ebola aren't dead yet. Isn't that being just a tad premature? Even if it would work?
(welcome to English 101, where "victim" means "dead" for ebola, "injured" in a car accident, and "stupid" for Nigerian scam emails, and the average sarcasm detector is b0rked.).
Part of the problem is that you can't have the average Joe or Jane go over there and help with things like burial teams. Takes training, equipment, and a support infrastructure for the volunteers (they have to eat, put on protective gear, new gloves - in short supply, and be protected from those who want to prepare their dead in the traditional fashion).
My point was that a catastrophic health event can take it all away, and that has NOTHING to do with participation in marathon coding sessions by "getting into the zone" or work/life balance.
Unpredictable things happen. You can lose it all in one day, or find out you're soon going to in one doctor's visit, without doing anything "wrong" to contribute to it. It could be from bad genes ("You should have chosen better parents!") or just random chance ("You should have known that car was going to burn the yellow light!"). The thing is, it's not always your fault. As programmers, we live in a world that's predictable and replicable. Set of instructions A produces effect B. Life isn't nearly as neat.
But what does all that have to do with my main points, which is that a sudden catastrophic change in your health can take it all away, and that becomes more and more likely as you age, and that employers can do the math?
The net result is, as you age, you're more and more likely to either end up with a career-limiting (and I mean limiting in the sense of not many options) event, or to be seen as too much of a potential health risk.
How are you going to be called in as a consultant if you can no longer read for a year or three while the doctors do their magic (me)? Or if you end up permanently in a wheelchair with only one arm and leg working (a relative)? Or you suddenly have to be available 24/7 for a husband who has dementia at 50 and can no longer be left alone (a neighbor)?
What will we be looking at if his conviction is reversed? Simple - people claiming that killing someone was "performance art" and as such covered by free speech. And as an alternate defense, saying anyone that believed that defense would work is clearly insane...
... coming soon to a crime show plot line near you...
when eating abroad and the prices don't include the expected tip to waitress(fucking tax evasioners)
Here all restaurant bills are done electronically and tied into government computers. The only thing not included is the tip, but the government will hit the wait staff with an "attributed income from tips" of 8% of sales. Sure, 8% is low - but when someone doesn't tip, that waiter or waitress just lost 8% of the total bill out of their own pocket.
some slang words get promoted to acceptable by the language office(tm)(r)(c)
We have that here - and they absolutely refuse to update the language - it has to be "proper french." Of course, their idea of "proper french" is antiquated compared to, say, France, where stop signs actually say STOP, which is illegal here.
You'd have to pry the keyboard and mouse from my cold, dead hands.;)
A catastrophic health problem can change your plans overnight, at any age. Throw in that the older you get, the more likely it is to happen... and employers can do the math too.
I thought I'd be coding until the week I die. After a couple of years not coding (couldn't use a computer because my retinas were messed up) I'm actually kind of glad that I can't get back into it. The allure of the "high" from "getting into the zone" and doing awesome stuff in marathon coding sessions isn't as attractive as it used to be anyway.
moving the gaming machine to a spare room or the basement is simply a concession to the reality that you are no longer living alone, and that maintaining healthy relationships with your wife and kids counts for something more than the latest and greatest in RPGs and first person shooters.
So many posts here say you should just give up your hobbies, as if her feelings about the matter inherently matter more than your own.
How is this telling him that he has to "give up his hobbies." This is just saying that he should keep his toys out of the common space, same as (eventually) the kids.
but the partner doesn't take into account the other person's feelings
How many men would rather talk about anything else except their feelings? Bottling it up, then letting it out all at once - kaboom - is a recipe for conflict. And that applies equally to both genders. The reluctance to open up is what leads to those 4 dreaded words - No, not THOSE, these: "We have to talk."
The game doesn't only totally suck - it's misleading to the point of possibly being a health hazard.
this is an amalgamation of the experiences of the developers and several people close to them.
In depression quest you can go to talk to a therapist. The therapist will eventually bring up the possibility of medication, and if you say ok, writes you a prescription.
However, that's not the way it works. Psychiatrists can write prescriptions - neither psychologists nor therapists can.
In the game, after getting on antidepressants, you get into the habit of socially drinking with people as you become less depressed.
Alcohol use while taking antidepressants is discouraged by all manufacturers of the drugs. In addition, alcohol is known to cause or worsen depression and should generally be avoided while on antidepressants. The recurrent use of even small amounts of alcohol (e.g. one drink per day) has been shown to reduce the potential for full benefits of antidepressants. If you choose to drink alcohol while taking antidepressants, you should use extreme caution.
Even SSRIs, which have the least interaction with alcohol, come with a warning label that says "Do not drink alcoholic beverages."
They're doing this because Rightscorp's current "threaten to pay with no proof" business model has become too risky - they've heard the rumblings about class action suits.
Of course, since Cox isn't hosting the files in question, their liability is the same as the phone company's when someone calls someone else to make a death threat. Common Carrier.
Quad core android tablets with decent specs are now in the $150 price range. How much is an iPad going for? More than an android smartphone and android tablet combined.
Android sales have totally outstripped iOS sales for a while
A "fact" which is obtained by counting devices shipped instead of sold
If you'd bother to get the facts, android activations have been running at 1.5 million a day for over a year, and there are over 1 billion active android users.
Java, on the other hand, is everywhere.
Everywhere on legacy development projects.
Minecraft is a legacy project???
As I said I was a Java developer for over a decade, but there's no way I'd recommend it as a first language now.
Even more true for C or C++ or Objective-C.
I'll repeat myself. His needs are different, he has a limited timeline, and he needs to bootstrap himself with the least possible risk and the most options for a good outcome. Schools have switched from teaching c to teaching java as a first language because it's more beginner-programmer-friendly. And that is what he needs right now.
Once I have sorted this small problem going to try and make a case for the efficacy of a projector to replace the television..... it takes up less space, motorized screen could be hidden when not in use, etc.
Just buy a flat-screen already. The picture is better than you'll get with a projector, you won't have to worry about people walking in front of it and casting a shadow on the screen, and really, a flatscreen by itself looks so much better than a projector and motorized screen hanging from the ceiling - and can be moved a lot easier when re-arranging the room. Projectors are so '90s.
Finland is also dropping the handwritten long division algorithm in 2016.
Now that's just stupid. People will need to use their smartphone's calculator to figure out everything from restaurant tips to spacing between items to make them look equally spaced to adjusting the ingredients for a recipe.
It seems that the smarter our devices get, the dumber we get.
In case you haven't heard, decent android tablets are going dirt cheap
Which, to be clear, is still going to be more than the $100 the dev program costs
And after one year, you have to fork out another $100 to Apple, so your cost over 13 months is $200. And the approval process through Apple is... well, just google for the pitfalls. And if he needs a smartphone anyway...
Several of my friends who were in similar situations after grad school have done so and are making a healthy living getting contract work.
Which means they learned iOS development, not Java generally.
And as I pointed out elsewhere, one thing he can do to "get his feet wet" is to ask them if they would mind if he converted their apps to android. This way, they don't see him as potential competition, and he has a specific project to follow from the get-go.
he needs to be flexible enough so that he isn't locked into just mobile development,
thought you said he didn't have enough time to learn two things, how your tune changes as you dance...
And that's the beauty of it - Java is Java. He may find that, after trying it for a while, that he doesn't want to do mobile development. Then what? BTW - you don't have to learn the "Android programming language" - just the java classes for Android. One language, instead of Obj-C + Swift.
However he doesn't NEED to because mobile development will be quite a good field for many years to come
And that's becoming more and more of a lie as time goes on. The majority of app store devs fail to make a profit, the top half of 1% make 99% of the revenue, the gold rush is now over. Right now the money is in finding suckers who think their idea for an app is "Teh AWESOME11" and are willing to pay someone else to develop their app, and businesses that feel they need an app because the competition has one. I've posted links with stats elsewhere in the discussion.
... and then there's marketing...
iOS is just iOS. There's a big world out there,
And most of it is working with iOS first, Android secondarily.
Not any more. Android sales have totally outstripped iOS sales for a while, the trend shows no sign of slowing down, and there are more apps in Google's store than Apple's. People who own an iPad are buying Android and giving the iPad to their kid, because the value proposition is so much better.
He NEEDS to focus on one thing and do it well, if he wants to find a job.
And if you had read either the summary OR my comment, you'd know he's not looking for a job.
He is not you. He is not me. His needs are different, he has a limited timeline, and he needs to bootstrap himself with the least possible risk and the most options for a good outcome. Once AT&T C++ was out Objective-C became the bastard red-headed step-child of the programming community. Java, on the other hand, is everywhere.
In case you haven't heard, decent android tablets are going dirt cheap. Quad core name brand tablets are now ~$140.00 (I've seen a few good ones as low as $125.00). That's what happens when you have an open market instead of a monopoly - competition makes prices drop.
He doesn't want to "find a job anywhere" so your remarks about "A few weeks of learning Java will be of little use in finding a job anywhere" are irrelevant. He wants to do this:
Several of my friends who were in similar situations after grad school have done so and are making a healthy living getting contract work.
The advantage to this is that even if it takes him 3x as long as an experienced dev to get that first project done, he doesn't care - he's getting paid to get some practical experience and nobody's standing over his shoulder every day criticizing how much longer he's taking than the other devs.
He also doesn't need to learn the extensive class libraries in Java - just a small subset in android and a small subset in Java.
Which will have even worse politics going on than in a normal company, and probably be very draining for the soul...
I only offered it as an option. However, IT has its own craziness - just look at the ongoing misogamy (no, I'm not talking about gamergate), politics is just as toxic, programmers frequently hoard information and engage in juvenile pissing contests, management too often "governs by fiat" with changing demands and not enough time, and then wonders why projects fail, working extreme hours is expected and often not compensated, doing tasks that require long periods of concentration while working in cubicle-land - or worse, open offices without even cubicle walls - is counterproductive, etc.
The poster asked for specific advice. Elsewhere in the discussion he's provided his time frame, which, with help, might be doable. However, as others have pointed out, iOS is just iOS. There's a big world out there, and even games like Minecraft and Runescape are written in Java. And I'm saying this from my perspective as a die-hard c/c++ fan, because (1) c simply has too long a learning curve in comparison to become "good enough", and (2) hardware has now gotten to the point that java is "good enough".
And since he already has 2 friends who are into iOS development, maybe they won't mind if he makes Android (and maybe even java-enabled browser and java on the desktop) versions of their apps as a starting point?
If he had a couple of years, my answer might be different - but that's neither here nor there. Swift isn't finalized yet, and both Swift and Objective-C are platform lock-ins. He simply doesn't have the time to become "good enough" in both Swift (a changing target) and Obj-C, and he needs to be flexible enough so that he isn't locked into just mobile development, because at this stage, he doesn't know exactly what will "float his boat" or what opportunities may present themselves.
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Let me guess - you played a LOT of football without a helmet?
safely Ebola 70 percent of the victims
This typo was accurately transcribed from the article. I think it was meant to say "savely bury 70 percent of the victims".
More than half those with ebola aren't dead yet. Isn't that being just a tad premature? Even if it would work?
(welcome to English 101, where "victim" means "dead" for ebola, "injured" in a car accident, and "stupid" for Nigerian scam emails, and the average sarcasm detector is b0rked.).
Part of the problem is that you can't have the average Joe or Jane go over there and help with things like burial teams. Takes training, equipment, and a support infrastructure for the volunteers (they have to eat, put on protective gear, new gloves - in short supply, and be protected from those who want to prepare their dead in the traditional fashion).
I guess my post was like the joke about the ceiling - it's obviously over your head :-)
My point was that a catastrophic health event can take it all away, and that has NOTHING to do with participation in marathon coding sessions by "getting into the zone" or work/life balance.
Unpredictable things happen. You can lose it all in one day, or find out you're soon going to in one doctor's visit, without doing anything "wrong" to contribute to it. It could be from bad genes ("You should have chosen better parents!") or just random chance ("You should have known that car was going to burn the yellow light!"). The thing is, it's not always your fault. As programmers, we live in a world that's predictable and replicable. Set of instructions A produces effect B. Life isn't nearly as neat.
But what does all that have to do with my main points, which is that a sudden catastrophic change in your health can take it all away, and that becomes more and more likely as you age, and that employers can do the math?
The net result is, as you age, you're more and more likely to either end up with a career-limiting (and I mean limiting in the sense of not many options) event, or to be seen as too much of a potential health risk.
How are you going to be called in as a consultant if you can no longer read for a year or three while the doctors do their magic (me)? Or if you end up permanently in a wheelchair with only one arm and leg working (a relative)? Or you suddenly have to be available 24/7 for a husband who has dementia at 50 and can no longer be left alone (a neighbor)?
Criminals usually are. These are the same idiots who complain to the cops that someone ripped them off on a rock of crack.
What will we be looking at if his conviction is reversed? Simple - people claiming that killing someone was "performance art" and as such covered by free speech. And as an alternate defense, saying anyone that believed that defense would work is clearly insane ...
when eating abroad and the prices don't include the expected tip to waitress(fucking tax evasioners)
Here all restaurant bills are done electronically and tied into government computers. The only thing not included is the tip, but the government will hit the wait staff with an "attributed income from tips" of 8% of sales. Sure, 8% is low - but when someone doesn't tip, that waiter or waitress just lost 8% of the total bill out of their own pocket.
some slang words get promoted to acceptable by the language office(tm)(r)(c)
We have that here - and they absolutely refuse to update the language - it has to be "proper french." Of course, their idea of "proper french" is antiquated compared to, say, France, where stop signs actually say STOP, which is illegal here.
Absolutely.
You'd have to pry the keyboard and mouse from my cold, dead hands. ;)
A catastrophic health problem can change your plans overnight, at any age. Throw in that the older you get, the more likely it is to happen ... and employers can do the math too.
I thought I'd be coding until the week I die. After a couple of years not coding (couldn't use a computer because my retinas were messed up) I'm actually kind of glad that I can't get back into it. The allure of the "high" from "getting into the zone" and doing awesome stuff in marathon coding sessions isn't as attractive as it used to be anyway.
moving the gaming machine to a spare room or the basement is simply a concession to the reality that you are no longer living alone, and that maintaining healthy relationships with your wife and kids counts for something more than the latest and greatest in RPGs and first person shooters.
So many posts here say you should just give up your hobbies, as if her feelings about the matter inherently matter more than your own.
How is this telling him that he has to "give up his hobbies." This is just saying that he should keep his toys out of the common space, same as (eventually) the kids.
but the partner doesn't take into account the other person's feelings
How many men would rather talk about anything else except their feelings? Bottling it up, then letting it out all at once - kaboom - is a recipe for conflict. And that applies equally to both genders. The reluctance to open up is what leads to those 4 dreaded words - No, not THOSE, these: "We have to talk."
The game doesn't only totally suck - it's misleading to the point of possibly being a health hazard.
this is an amalgamation of the experiences of the developers and several people close to them.
In depression quest you can go to talk to a therapist. The therapist will eventually bring up the possibility of medication, and if you say ok, writes you a prescription.
However, that's not the way it works. Psychiatrists can write prescriptions - neither psychologists nor therapists can.
In the game, after getting on antidepressants, you get into the habit of socially drinking with people as you become less depressed.
Mixing antidepressants with booze is a dumb idea.
Alcohol use while taking antidepressants is discouraged by all manufacturers of the drugs. In addition, alcohol is known to cause or worsen depression and should generally be avoided while on antidepressants. The recurrent use of even small amounts of alcohol (e.g. one drink per day) has been shown to reduce the potential for full benefits of antidepressants. If you choose to drink alcohol while taking antidepressants, you should use extreme caution.
Even SSRIs, which have the least interaction with alcohol, come with a warning label that says "Do not drink alcoholic beverages."
Thumb print? Can't be too far off.
We men are the ones discriminated as we don't have maternity leave and that is why we are more valuble for the industry
Preferential treatment based on being male? And you claim that men are being discriminated against?
BTW, here parental leave is split between the parents. They're free to split the time off as they see ft.
The legal definition of Common Carrier is A carrier who accepts to transport goods or passengers indiscriminately.
They just don't want to be subject to the rules, but the times, they are a'changin'.
They're doing this because Rightscorp's current "threaten to pay with no proof" business model has become too risky - they've heard the rumblings about class action suits. Of course, since Cox isn't hosting the files in question, their liability is the same as the phone company's when someone calls someone else to make a death threat. Common Carrier.
Android sales have totally outstripped iOS sales for a while
A "fact" which is obtained by counting devices shipped instead of sold
If you'd bother to get the facts, android activations have been running at 1.5 million a day for over a year, and there are over 1 billion active android users.
Java, on the other hand, is everywhere.
Everywhere on legacy development projects.
Minecraft is a legacy project???
As I said I was a Java developer for over a decade, but there's no way I'd recommend it as a first language now.
Even more true for C or C++ or Objective-C.
I'll repeat myself. His needs are different, he has a limited timeline, and he needs to bootstrap himself with the least possible risk and the most options for a good outcome. Schools have switched from teaching c to teaching java as a first language because it's more beginner-programmer-friendly. And that is what he needs right now.
Once I have sorted this small problem going to try and make a case for the efficacy of a projector to replace the television..... it takes up less space, motorized screen could be hidden when not in use, etc.
Just buy a flat-screen already. The picture is better than you'll get with a projector, you won't have to worry about people walking in front of it and casting a shadow on the screen, and really, a flatscreen by itself looks so much better than a projector and motorized screen hanging from the ceiling - and can be moved a lot easier when re-arranging the room. Projectors are so '90s.
An abacus doesn't use roman numerals, and an abacus can be faster than a calculator here and a child using a "mental abacus" handily beats an adult with a calculator.
Apparently signatures and computer fonts that mimic cursive aren't used either?
And for those who want to imitate block lettering, MS-Comic font to the rescue! :-)
Finland is also dropping the handwritten long division algorithm in 2016.
Now that's just stupid. People will need to use their smartphone's calculator to figure out everything from restaurant tips to spacing between items to make them look equally spaced to adjusting the ingredients for a recipe.
It seems that the smarter our devices get, the dumber we get.
In case you haven't heard, decent android tablets are going dirt cheap
Which, to be clear, is still going to be more than the $100 the dev program costs
And after one year, you have to fork out another $100 to Apple, so your cost over 13 months is $200. And the approval process through Apple is ... well, just google for the pitfalls. And if he needs a smartphone anyway ...
Several of my friends who were in similar situations after grad school have done so and are making a healthy living getting contract work.
Which means they learned iOS development, not Java generally.
And as I pointed out elsewhere, one thing he can do to "get his feet wet" is to ask them if they would mind if he converted their apps to android. This way, they don't see him as potential competition, and he has a specific project to follow from the get-go.
he needs to be flexible enough so that he isn't locked into just mobile development,
thought you said he didn't have enough time to learn two things, how your tune changes as you dance...
And that's the beauty of it - Java is Java. He may find that, after trying it for a while, that he doesn't want to do mobile development. Then what? BTW - you don't have to learn the "Android programming language" - just the java classes for Android. One language, instead of Obj-C + Swift.
However he doesn't NEED to because mobile development will be quite a good field for many years to come
And that's becoming more and more of a lie as time goes on. The majority of app store devs fail to make a profit, the top half of 1% make 99% of the revenue, the gold rush is now over. Right now the money is in finding suckers who think their idea for an app is "Teh AWESOME11" and are willing to pay someone else to develop their app, and businesses that feel they need an app because the competition has one. I've posted links with stats elsewhere in the discussion.
iOS is just iOS. There's a big world out there,
And most of it is working with iOS first, Android secondarily.
Not any more. Android sales have totally outstripped iOS sales for a while, the trend shows no sign of slowing down, and there are more apps in Google's store than Apple's. People who own an iPad are buying Android and giving the iPad to their kid, because the value proposition is so much better.
He NEEDS to focus on one thing and do it well, if he wants to find a job.
And if you had read either the summary OR my comment, you'd know he's not looking for a job.
He is not you. He is not me. His needs are different, he has a limited timeline, and he needs to bootstrap himself with the least possible risk and the most options for a good outcome. Once AT&T C++ was out Objective-C became the bastard red-headed step-child of the programming community. Java, on the other hand, is everywhere.
Sign on the dotted line ... ernnn, uh, well, you see, it's like this ...
Where do I start?
In case you haven't heard, decent android tablets are going dirt cheap. Quad core name brand tablets are now ~$140.00 (I've seen a few good ones as low as $125.00). That's what happens when you have an open market instead of a monopoly - competition makes prices drop.
He doesn't want to "find a job anywhere" so your remarks about "A few weeks of learning Java will be of little use in finding a job anywhere" are irrelevant. He wants to do this:
Several of my friends who were in similar situations after grad school have done so and are making a healthy living getting contract work.
The advantage to this is that even if it takes him 3x as long as an experienced dev to get that first project done, he doesn't care - he's getting paid to get some practical experience and nobody's standing over his shoulder every day criticizing how much longer he's taking than the other devs.
He also doesn't need to learn the extensive class libraries in Java - just a small subset in android and a small subset in Java.
Which will have even worse politics going on than in a normal company, and probably be very draining for the soul...
I only offered it as an option. However, IT has its own craziness - just look at the ongoing misogamy (no, I'm not talking about gamergate), politics is just as toxic, programmers frequently hoard information and engage in juvenile pissing contests, management too often "governs by fiat" with changing demands and not enough time, and then wonders why projects fail, working extreme hours is expected and often not compensated, doing tasks that require long periods of concentration while working in cubicle-land - or worse, open offices without even cubicle walls - is counterproductive, etc.
The poster asked for specific advice. Elsewhere in the discussion he's provided his time frame, which, with help, might be doable. However, as others have pointed out, iOS is just iOS. There's a big world out there, and even games like Minecraft and Runescape are written in Java. And I'm saying this from my perspective as a die-hard c/c++ fan, because (1) c simply has too long a learning curve in comparison to become "good enough", and (2) hardware has now gotten to the point that java is "good enough".
And since he already has 2 friends who are into iOS development, maybe they won't mind if he makes Android (and maybe even java-enabled browser and java on the desktop) versions of their apps as a starting point?
If he had a couple of years, my answer might be different - but that's neither here nor there. Swift isn't finalized yet, and both Swift and Objective-C are platform lock-ins. He simply doesn't have the time to become "good enough" in both Swift (a changing target) and Obj-C, and he needs to be flexible enough so that he isn't locked into just mobile development, because at this stage, he doesn't know exactly what will "float his boat" or what opportunities may present themselves.
2) In this case, the first thing you need to learn is this: Fuck Slashdot.
I thought Slashdot BETA already took care of that :-)