I think after 19 weeks, you'd have at best, someone who can write spaghetti code for an application that may or may not work properly.
Sounds like the typical web programmer, so I guess they're "just meeting business's expectations."
A man was standing at the curb with a dog on a leash.
Passer-by says "Is your dog friendly?"
"Oh yes, my dog is the friendliest dog in the world!"
Passerby goes to pet dog, dog takes a chunk out of him.
"I thought you said your dog was friendly."
"He is. But this ain't my dog"
Applied to webmonkey:
"Can you code in php?" "Yes"
"Perl, Java, C, and python?" "Yes"
"Okay, you're hired."
... 6 weeks later...
"This is an utter disaster. You said you could code in all these languages."
"That's true. But I didn't say I was good at it."
And, here we go again, gratuitously shilling for dice.com.
Well, who else should/would they gratuitously shill for? Besides, it gives us insight into what the buzzwords that PHBs will be throwing around next week, the topic of the next Gartner "study", and some new words for "bullsh*t bingo".
How about we start by defining non-artificial intelligence. Is that the same as natural intelligence? Can we even define intelligence? To do so, we'd also have to define free will (since decision-making strictly by algorithms has no free will, and no innate intelligence).
5 great sci-fi episodic series before 1980? The Outer Limits (1963-65), The Twilight Zone (1959-64) , the original Star Trek (1966-69), Space:1999 (1975-77), The Prisoner (1967-68), and for a bonus (#6) (because of the setting - NASA, the characters - astronauts, the bending of the laws of physics, the humor, etc.) I Dream of Jeannie (1965-70).
There are other conditions that produce many of the same symptoms as an inflamed / ruptured appendix. Relying on the web to make a diagnosis and decision as to whether to seek medical help will certainly fix the problem - a dead person doesn't need a doctor. But that "solution" sucks.
Edgy TV shows from the past: The Twilight Zone (59-64) The Outer Limits (63-65) was also pretty good. Star Trek ('60s) had the first inter-racial kiss on TV. All In The Family ('71-'79) was prime time exposure to per-marital sex, gays, racism and sexism. Ah, good times...
Everybody who has a dog calls him "Rover" or "Boy". I call my dog "Sex".
Now, Sex has been very embarrassing to me. When I went to get his license, I told the clerk I would like to have a license for Sex. He said, "I'd like to have one too." Then I said, "But this is a dog." He said I didn't care what she looked like. Then I said, "You don't understand, I've had Sex since I was 9 years old." He said I must have been quite a kid.
When I got married and went on my honeymoon, I took the dog with me. I told the hotel clerk that I wanted a room for my wife and me and a special room for Sex. He said that every room in the place was for sex. I said, "You don't understand, Sex keeps me awake at night." The Clerk said "Me too."
One day I entered Sex in a contest but before the competition began, the dog ran away. Another contestant asked me why I was just standing there looking around. I told him I had planned to have Sex entered in the contest. He told me that I should have sold tickets. "But you don't understand", I said, "I had hoped to have Sex on television." He called me a show-off.
When my wife and I separated, we went to court to file for custody of the dog. I said, "Your Honor, I had Sex before I got married." The judge said "Me too." Then I told him that after I was married, Sex had left me. He said, "Me too."
Last night Sex ran off again. I spent hours looking around town for him. A cop came over to me and asked "What are you doing in this alley at 4 in the morning?" I said, "I'm looking for Sex..."
That's because until the new Battlestar Galactica, everyone who had seen the original had done their best to forget it. One of the worst sci-fi series ever, I suspect that Lorne Greene agreed to do it only because, years after the cancellation of Bonanza, he had run out of horses to grind up and sell as Alpo.
If they're searching for those things then they're trying to understand themselves and get better. Depressed people turn to escapism, not knowledge.
Your two sentences contradict each other. If they're depressed and searching for terms like PTSD, Major Depressive Disorder and Suicidal Ideation, they're not "turning to escapism."
As an employer I would like to know how many children, how many husbands my new prospective employee has
As an employer, you're not supposed to base hiring decisions on such information, so why would you want to know? "I don't want to hire a woman with kids because they'll take off too much sick time!" or "I only want single women because they can spend more time chained to their desk!" or, if the candidate is male, "Oh, they have a husband... sorry, no gays allowed here!"
The original Battlestar Galactica TV series was over a decade after the original Star Trek TV Series. Battlestar Galactica was far from groundbreaking.
No - the original Battlestar Galactica was real crap. Cheesy as all heck. Soooo bad that when a friend of mine tried to introduce me to the new Battlestar Galactica I was beyond skeptical.
The original Star Trek, on the other hand, has aged well considering the low budgets, etc.
Seriously, these companies should be working on the cacao plant to get it to grow in other environments. Right now, it is grown in many locations that are ran by drug lords, gangs, etc.
However, it is pricy enough that it could be grown in greenhouses further north.
Do those other proposed locations also have access to cheap labour / child labour / slave labour?
The amount of chocolate in the Hallowe'en versions was reduced this year. The Coffee Crisp bars had a layer that was so thin it wasn't funny, the Aero bars wre even more air than before, the Mr Big was the smallest yet... and the price was higher.
Time to come up with chocolate substitutes.
I for one await our GMO-Modified Chocolate Substitute Overlords.
Once corrected for age demographics (which people tallying raw numbers usually forget to do), the suicide rate in US military is lower than civilian population.
You didn't actually read the articles, did you? That was only true up to the last decade.
Traditionally, the Army has been psychologically healthier than the rest of society because of screening, fitness standards and access to health care. Soldiers committed suicide at about half the rate of civilians with similar demographics. But starting in 2004, the Army rate has essentially caught up.
Of course I can. Search for "Javascrpt is not Java" to get a bit of history here
JavaScript is a completely separate technology from Java. Java was the "in thing" back in the days when Brendan Eich at Netscape created a programming language that was originally going to be called LiveScript, so unfortunately they decided to rename it from LiveScript to JavaScript in the hope of catching the media’s interest.
The Java- prefix suggests that JavaScript is somehow related to Java, that it is a subset or less capable version of Java. It seems that the name was intentionally selected to create confusion, and from confusion comes misunderstanding. JavaScript is not interpreted Java. Java is interpreted Java. JavaScript is a different language.
Medical stories are high-tech, or have you never heard the term Bio-Tech? Also, with the advent of "good enough" computing, most people no longer care about the latest cpu and graphic card advances, so gotta find something else to get excited about.
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I think after 19 weeks, you'd have at best, someone who can write spaghetti code for an application that may or may not work properly.
Sounds like the typical web programmer, so I guess they're "just meeting business's expectations."
A man was standing at the curb with a dog on a leash.
Passer-by says "Is your dog friendly?"
"Oh yes, my dog is the friendliest dog in the world!"
Passerby goes to pet dog, dog takes a chunk out of him.
"I thought you said your dog was friendly."
"He is. But this ain't my dog"
Applied to webmonkey:
"Can you code in php?" "Yes" ...
"Perl, Java, C, and python?" "Yes"
"Okay, you're hired."
... 6 weeks later
"This is an utter disaster. You said you could code in all these languages."
"That's true. But I didn't say I was good at it."
19-week intensive coding academy designed to turn out Web developers at a rapid pace
Like we need still more web monkeys? Hey, maybe DICE can hire you to fix the smart quotes crap on slashdot ... not likely.
Separation of the Internet into sub-networks. It is only a matter of time before this happens.
The Great Firewall of China, Putin ordering a Russian Wikipedia uncontaminated by anti-Putin rhetoric, etc. It's happening as we watch.
And, here we go again, gratuitously shilling for dice.com.
Well, who else should/would they gratuitously shill for? Besides, it gives us insight into what the buzzwords that PHBs will be throwing around next week, the topic of the next Gartner "study", and some new words for "bullsh*t bingo".
jail / prison may be the only place to get healthcare. + free room and board on the side.
... you forgot "all the sex you NEVER wanted."
The sad part is that there are already people who are breaking windows and stuff just to get a jail cell to sleep in.
To much hyperbole. A variant is, by definition, not something "completely new".
It's a completely new definition of the word "variant."
It's a variant definition of the word "variant".
Which brings up the question - when was the last time you saw something "completely new"?
How about we start by defining non-artificial intelligence. Is that the same as natural intelligence? Can we even define intelligence? To do so, we'd also have to define free will (since decision-making strictly by algorithms has no free will, and no innate intelligence).
5 great sci-fi episodic series before 1980? The Outer Limits (1963-65), The Twilight Zone (1959-64) , the original Star Trek (1966-69), Space:1999 (1975-77), The Prisoner (1967-68), and for a bonus (#6) (because of the setting - NASA, the characters - astronauts, the bending of the laws of physics, the humor, etc.) I Dream of Jeannie (1965-70).
There are other conditions that produce many of the same symptoms as an inflamed / ruptured appendix. Relying on the web to make a diagnosis and decision as to whether to seek medical help will certainly fix the problem - a dead person doesn't need a doctor. But that "solution" sucks.
If you don't have access to a surgeon and antibiotics, you're no better off than calling a witch doctor.
If a ruptured appendix is left untreated, the condition is fatal.
Edgy TV shows from the past: The Twilight Zone (59-64) The Outer Limits (63-65) was also pretty good. Star Trek ('60s) had the first inter-racial kiss on TV. All In The Family ('71-'79) was prime time exposure to per-marital sex, gays, racism and sexism. Ah, good times ...
Time to come up with chocolate substitutes.
Sex!
Sex is a poor substitute for chocolate.
A dog named SEX
Everybody who has a dog calls him "Rover" or "Boy". I call my dog "Sex".
Now, Sex has been very embarrassing to me. When I went to get his license, I told the clerk I would like to have a license for Sex. He said, "I'd like to have one too." Then I said, "But this is a dog." He said I didn't care what she looked like. Then I said, "You don't understand, I've had Sex since I was 9 years old." He said I must have been quite a kid.
When I got married and went on my honeymoon, I took the dog with me. I told the hotel clerk that I wanted a room for my wife and me and a special room for Sex. He said that every room in the place was for sex. I said, "You don't understand, Sex keeps me awake at night." The Clerk said "Me too."
One day I entered Sex in a contest but before the competition began, the dog ran away. Another contestant asked me why I was just standing there looking around. I told him I had planned to have Sex entered in the contest. He told me that I should have sold tickets. "But you don't understand", I said, "I had hoped to have Sex on television." He called me a show-off.
When my wife and I separated, we went to court to file for custody of the dog. I said, "Your Honor, I had Sex before I got married." The judge said "Me too." Then I told him that after I was married, Sex had left me. He said, "Me too."
Last night Sex ran off again. I spent hours looking around town for him. A cop came over to me and asked "What are you doing in this alley at 4 in the morning?" I said, "I'm looking for Sex..."
My court date has been set for Friday...
Well, there's always Firefly for the kids :-)
That's because until the new Battlestar Galactica, everyone who had seen the original had done their best to forget it. One of the worst sci-fi series ever, I suspect that Lorne Greene agreed to do it only because, years after the cancellation of Bonanza, he had run out of horses to grind up and sell as Alpo.
If they're searching for those things then they're trying to understand themselves and get better. Depressed people turn to escapism, not knowledge.
Your two sentences contradict each other. If they're depressed and searching for terms like PTSD, Major Depressive Disorder and Suicidal Ideation, they're not "turning to escapism."
Try again. Just because you know javascript does not make you a software engineer. It makes you a webmonkey.
As an employer I would like to know how many children, how many husbands my new prospective employee has
As an employer, you're not supposed to base hiring decisions on such information, so why would you want to know? "I don't want to hire a woman with kids because they'll take off too much sick time!" or "I only want single women because they can spend more time chained to their desk!" or, if the candidate is male, "Oh, they have a husband ... sorry, no gays allowed here!"
The original Battlestar Galactica TV series was over a decade after the original Star Trek TV Series. Battlestar Galactica was far from groundbreaking.
No - the original Battlestar Galactica was real crap. Cheesy as all heck. Soooo bad that when a friend of mine tried to introduce me to the new Battlestar Galactica I was beyond skeptical.
The original Star Trek, on the other hand, has aged well considering the low budgets, etc.
Seriously, these companies should be working on the cacao plant to get it to grow in other environments. Right now, it is grown in many locations that are ran by drug lords, gangs, etc.
However, it is pricy enough that it could be grown in greenhouses further north.
Do those other proposed locations also have access to cheap labour / child labour / slave labour?
The amount of chocolate in the Hallowe'en versions was reduced this year. The Coffee Crisp bars had a layer that was so thin it wasn't funny, the Aero bars wre even more air than before, the Mr Big was the smallest yet ... and the price was higher.
Time to come up with chocolate substitutes.
I for one await our GMO-Modified Chocolate Substitute Overlords.
Once corrected for age demographics (which people tallying raw numbers usually forget to do), the suicide rate in US military is lower than civilian population.
You didn't actually read the articles, did you? That was only true up to the last decade.
Traditionally, the Army has been psychologically healthier than the rest of society because of screening, fitness standards and access to health care. Soldiers committed suicide at about half the rate of civilians with similar demographics. But starting in 2004, the Army rate has essentially caught up.
JavaScript is a completely separate technology from Java. Java was the "in thing" back in the days when Brendan Eich at Netscape created a programming language that was originally going to be called LiveScript, so unfortunately they decided to rename it from LiveScript to JavaScript in the hope of catching the media’s interest.
and here
JavaScript, aka Mocha, aka LiveScript, aka JScript, aka ECMAScript,
The Java- prefix suggests that JavaScript is somehow related to Java, that it is a subset or less capable version of Java. It seems that the name was intentionally selected to create confusion, and from confusion comes misunderstanding. JavaScript is not interpreted Java. Java is interpreted Java. JavaScript is a different language.
The Question: What's the difference between JavaScript and Java? The best answer on stackoverflow
Java and Javascript are similar like Car and Carpet are similar.
So, you got any evidence showing the GP was right? Because the GP, contrary to your claim, ignored the facts.
Medical stories are high-tech, or have you never heard the term Bio-Tech? Also, with the advent of "good enough" computing, most people no longer care about the latest cpu and graphic card advances, so gotta find something else to get excited about.
If someone's been searching for PTSD, Major Depressive Disorder and Suicidal ideation, maybe they're at risk?
People at risk tend to isolate themselves during bouts of depression (not just "the blues"), so they turn to the internet.