This is wrong, in my opinion. Expanding education is a great idea, but do so by teaching yourself new languages or platforms, not by degrees.
Right now, Ruby on Rails is an extremely hot technology. Learn it, and there are tons of rails jobs out there for you to jump in to. I promise that your education level will not matter as long as you can show you are good.
I'm sure the same is true for django, node.js, iOS/Cocoa development, and anything else that is "hot" technology. If anything, focusing on C++ and Java will put you into more competition for job spots, since the market for C++/.NET/Java engineers may indeed be tight right now.
I agree with every statement but the last. Ruby's internal implementation is very different from smalltalk. It's syntax from the ground up is very different from smalltalk. It's syntax isn't even convoluted -- can you qualify what you mean by that? About the only convoluted part of the syntax I've found is the lambda/proc/block syntaxes -- they should seriously cut down the number of ways to create anonymous methods.
Javascript does it right with function(){} syntax, but they don't have any way of creating blocks.
Science doesn't claim that all beliefs must be justified by scientific evidence.
Actually, science does say everything you believe should be backed up by evidence. Science allows you to say "I don't know." It also allows you to say the evidence is weak, but the best theory is X. Science never says all you need is faith and/or an old book.
Where the hell does science "say" anything of the sort? Science is a process by which we can reliably improve our understanding of the world around us. Nothing more, nothing less. Some folks might embrace beliefs and views not backed by scientific evidence, but science ain't gonna jump out of the bushes and tell them anything.
Science can obviously refute beliefs it can prove are wrong, but you're conflating that with epistemology -- e.g. the study of defining what "knowledge" is.
This is wrong. Science doesn't claim that all beliefs must be justified by scientific evidence. The question of whether his views are justified or not is an epistemological question, not a scientific one.
I suppose if humans developed the ability to perceive reality beyond the Big Bang -- and we discovered evidence for which the most reasonable conclusion is that the universe simply sprang forth from nothing -- his professed beliefs would then stand in opposition to science.
Personally, I've been doing ruby on rails development for about four years now, and I haven't had to touch proprietary code in as many years. Development platform is linux or OSX, and 100% the software stack is open source.
This is just my personal anecdote, but I think you'll have success working on open source if you find an open source platform that's actually used by your company. (Duh, I know right?)
I disagree. I have no formal education outside my high school "diploma." No such certifications that you speak of. And yet I'm making $350,000 a year, and banging four "perfect 10s" every night in a delicious orgy I'm almost getting bored of. Almost.
I didn't skip over anything. You simply missed my point. I omitted the word "because" simply because my entire post was my reasoning.
Of course Foxconn may be better than the alternatives. My point is that there is no justification for holding another country like China to a different set of standards than our own. Because if we lower our standards just for them, then we are simply moving unacceptable treatment of workers to a different part of the globe. And that's not fair to a lot of people: the Chinese, not least of all, and also to factories in America that are forced to treat their workers better. American factories can't compete because American factories are compelled to treat their workers with a shred of decency.
Either forcing your employees to wake up in the middle of the night and retool the entire factory with no sleep is okay or it is not. If it is not okay for an American or a German, it is not okay for a Chinese person. Or are you suggesting that the Chinese are worth less than humans in other parts of the world? Because I'm looking at this from the perspective that all human life is equal.
If China dislikes less business because of that, I suggest they follow your "pro tip" and either improve their factory conditions, or find customers that don't care what those factory conditions are.
That's irrelevant, though. We shouldn't move production offshore under working conditions that we consider to be barbaric. If China improved the conditions to the point that we *wouldn't* object, then the goods coming out of China would cost *more* than American goods. We're essentially saying "NIMBY" to something almost as bad as slavery.
First they realize that digital bytes can, by their nature, be copied trivially (unlike physical mediums). So they employ unusable DRM and ridiculous laws like the DMCA just to make their digital media behave like physical media.
Now they've got such a hard on for DRM and their ability to lobby that they want physical media to behave more like digital media. It's like they're twisting the knife.
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This is wrong, in my opinion. Expanding education is a great idea, but do so by teaching yourself new languages or platforms, not by degrees.
Right now, Ruby on Rails is an extremely hot technology. Learn it, and there are tons of rails jobs out there for you to jump in to. I promise that your education level will not matter as long as you can show you are good.
I'm sure the same is true for django, node.js, iOS/Cocoa development, and anything else that is "hot" technology. If anything, focusing on C++ and Java will put you into more competition for job spots, since the market for C++/.NET/Java engineers may indeed be tight right now.
So basically hipsters can jump from 100,000+ feet safely?
I agree with every statement but the last. Ruby's internal implementation is very different from smalltalk. It's syntax from the ground up is very different from smalltalk. It's syntax isn't even convoluted -- can you qualify what you mean by that? About the only convoluted part of the syntax I've found is the lambda/proc/block syntaxes -- they should seriously cut down the number of ways to create anonymous methods.
Javascript does it right with function(){} syntax, but they don't have any way of creating blocks.
Actually, science does say everything you believe should be backed up by evidence. Science allows you to say "I don't know." It also allows you to say the evidence is weak, but the best theory is X. Science never says all you need is faith and/or an old book.
Where the hell does science "say" anything of the sort? Science is a process by which we can reliably improve our understanding of the world around us. Nothing more, nothing less. Some folks might embrace beliefs and views not backed by scientific evidence, but science ain't gonna jump out of the bushes and tell them anything.
Science can obviously refute beliefs it can prove are wrong, but you're conflating that with epistemology -- e.g. the study of defining what "knowledge" is.
This is wrong. Science doesn't claim that all beliefs must be justified by scientific evidence. The question of whether his views are justified or not is an epistemological question, not a scientific one.
I suppose if humans developed the ability to perceive reality beyond the Big Bang -- and we discovered evidence for which the most reasonable conclusion is that the universe simply sprang forth from nothing -- his professed beliefs would then stand in opposition to science.
Spat. Coffee. In public.
From one ex pizza delivery driver to another, well played, sir.
Do you wear a seat belt?
This.
Personally, I've been doing ruby on rails development for about four years now, and I haven't had to touch proprietary code in as many years. Development platform is linux or OSX, and 100% the software stack is open source.
This is just my personal anecdote, but I think you'll have success working on open source if you find an open source platform that's actually used by your company. (Duh, I know right?)
It's kind of hard for the OEM to get paid for the crapware like Norton they put on there when the computer sold doesn't even have an OS.
Take 15$ off the sticker price for removing Windows, but then add $30 for NOT being able to put the crapware on there.
I wish there weren't so many douchebags in the world that the three people who replied to me could sense the sarcasm.
I disagree. I have no formal education outside my high school "diploma." No such certifications that you speak of. And yet I'm making $350,000 a year, and banging four "perfect 10s" every night in a delicious orgy I'm almost getting bored of. Almost.
Therefore your argument is bullocks.
G.E.D.
Well played, sir. Well played.
I would say both arms of the Corporatist Party are pretty terrible. I don't think the word "capitalism" actually means anything anymore.
I didn't skip over anything. You simply missed my point. I omitted the word "because" simply because my entire post was my reasoning.
Of course Foxconn may be better than the alternatives. My point is that there is no justification for holding another country like China to a different set of standards than our own. Because if we lower our standards just for them, then we are simply moving unacceptable treatment of workers to a different part of the globe. And that's not fair to a lot of people: the Chinese, not least of all, and also to factories in America that are forced to treat their workers better. American factories can't compete because American factories are compelled to treat their workers with a shred of decency.
Either forcing your employees to wake up in the middle of the night and retool the entire factory with no sleep is okay or it is not. If it is not okay for an American or a German, it is not okay for a Chinese person. Or are you suggesting that the Chinese are worth less than humans in other parts of the world? Because I'm looking at this from the perspective that all human life is equal.
If China dislikes less business because of that, I suggest they follow your "pro tip" and either improve their factory conditions, or find customers that don't care what those factory conditions are.
That's irrelevant, though. We shouldn't move production offshore under working conditions that we consider to be barbaric. If China improved the conditions to the point that we *wouldn't* object, then the goods coming out of China would cost *more* than American goods. We're essentially saying "NIMBY" to something almost as bad as slavery.
Well, of course. Duh. But read what he wrote: "Hardware innovation is very much alive in the USA."
Where they are made != where the digital design happens.
First they realize that digital bytes can, by their nature, be copied trivially (unlike physical mediums). So they employ unusable DRM and ridiculous laws like the DMCA just to make their digital media behave like physical media.
Now they've got such a hard on for DRM and their ability to lobby that they want physical media to behave more like digital media. It's like they're twisting the knife.
Sounds like he's, you know, like, talking all faggy and shit.
C with a struct/macro based object oriented framework. See Linux.
Why not define a singleton object and call it "Null" or "Nil?"
I have no idea what that sentence means.
I have learned this same lesson but not quite as painfully.
A thief thinks everyone else steals.
A manipulator thinks everyone else manipulates.
An adulterer thinks everyone else cheats.
I'm sure the reason is part rationalization, part acting out whatever misbehavior caused them to develop those harmful habits.
We lent aid to a rag tag band of "freedom fighters" led by Osama Bin Laden. You're right that there was no such group recognized as the Taliban yet.
Just a few years ago, I dug up an old Reader's Digest article from 1980 (1981?) that reported the whole story. It made for crazy reading :)
I do stand corrected, your post is entirely correct. But Islamic extremism was just not nearly as feared as communism.
Yea, right, like anyone in America has a strong enough command of Biology anymore to actually work there.