No. If your manager says "we need to do X" and it's something new, they want someone who can learn how to do X. Which you know, devs who have been around a while and seen a lot can do. Unlike some younger ones who think that a web app is the end all and be all of existence.
BS. Utter BS. You really think that older devs can't or won't learn things? Heck, when someone starts talking about some exciting new development, it usually reminds me of something I was doing 20 years ago.
Funny Hibernate story: I joined a project that was using Hibernate. Fairly smart devs, not DB savvy. They had a routine to clear a table in the database. Yep... they loaded up each row as an object, and deleted that object. Because heck, you had Hibernate, it was evil to directly access the database.
Because it makes us all a little poorer when people with disproportionate skill at coding end up not even considering the profession because it wasn't an option at their school and they weren't willing to start from scratch in college and play catch up.
Seriously? "Catch up" as a freshman in college? In one good CS class in college a student learns more than they will in 2 years of CS in high school. This is like those parents who think that if their kid doesn't get into the right pre-school he's doomed.
This reminds me of a cartoon from the 60s with a caption of "your fault!" that shows some hippie pointing to his dad, who is pointing to the granddad, who is pointing to the great-granddad, who is pointing to eventually back to a monkey with a startled look on its face.
No, the baby boomers didn't create all the problems of the world.
Then just what is point of "auto-pilot"? If you need to have your hands on the wheel, paying attention, you might as well be steering. Saying "you don't have to do anything but I'm going to punish you if you don't pay attention to this task that is being done for you" is just dumb.
Then how about Tesla calling their feature "driver-assist" or something similar that makes it CLEAR that the car doesn't "automatically drive itself"... which is what "auto-pilot" implies.
Maybe Thunderbird has gotten better, but when I used it about a decade ago it was the worst email client I've ever used. A simple task like configuring a POP server was impossible till I realized I had to halt it's braindead "auto-configure" mode in midstream. If I waited for auto-configure to fail, I was STUCK, with no option to configure it myself.
So far, all we've got is NK is talking and they aren't currently testing. They've been dying to have direct talks with the USA for decades, and trump is giving them that, basically for free. Let's save the "NK capitulation" talk for when they actually capitulate.
Once NK has a credible threat to deliver a nuke on target to the USA, they really don't have to "learn" anymore. It's not like they are going to first strike and take out the USA's retaliatory capability. All they need is a credible threat, which is what they've got now.
No, he's not suggesting that. He's suggesting that this test site was already getting pretty defunct, so as a PR stunt NK is inviting everyone to watch while they blow up the old test site.
At the point the safety driver looked up, the pedestrian was a few feet in front of the car. The question is whether a human would have seen her far enough in advance to brake / steer around her. The other question is why the pedestrian was paying absolutely no attention to traffic.
I enjoy learning new things but I also enjoy a feeling a mastery. If you are constantly switching frameworks you are constantly relearning from the ground up, which is inefficient.
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No. If your manager says "we need to do X" and it's something new, they want someone who can learn how to do X. Which you know, devs who have been around a while and seen a lot can do. Unlike some younger ones who think that a web app is the end all and be all of existence.
BS. Utter BS. You really think that older devs can't or won't learn things? Heck, when someone starts talking about some exciting new development, it usually reminds me of something I was doing 20 years ago.
Funny Hibernate story: I joined a project that was using Hibernate. Fairly smart devs, not DB savvy. They had a routine to clear a table in the database. Yep... they loaded up each row as an object, and deleted that object. Because heck, you had Hibernate, it was evil to directly access the database.
Duh.
Because it makes us all a little poorer when people with disproportionate skill at coding end up not even considering the profession because it wasn't an option at their school and they weren't willing to start from scratch in college and play catch up.
Seriously? "Catch up" as a freshman in college? In one good CS class in college a student learns more than they will in 2 years of CS in high school. This is like those parents who think that if their kid doesn't get into the right pre-school he's doomed.
Could someone with mod points please mod the parent into oblivion?
This reminds me of a cartoon from the 60s with a caption of "your fault!" that shows some hippie pointing to his dad, who is pointing to the granddad, who is pointing to the great-granddad, who is pointing to eventually back to a monkey with a startled look on its face.
No, the baby boomers didn't create all the problems of the world.
So the person who intentionally put other people at risk bears no guilt?
This is why I decided to not set up the Alexa I was loaned.
Then just what is point of "auto-pilot"? If you need to have your hands on the wheel, paying attention, you might as well be steering. Saying "you don't have to do anything but I'm going to punish you if you don't pay attention to this task that is being done for you" is just dumb.
Then how about Tesla calling their feature "driver-assist" or something similar that makes it CLEAR that the car doesn't "automatically drive itself"... which is what "auto-pilot" implies.
Maybe Thunderbird has gotten better, but when I used it about a decade ago it was the worst email client I've ever used. A simple task like configuring a POP server was impossible till I realized I had to halt it's braindead "auto-configure" mode in midstream. If I waited for auto-configure to fail, I was STUCK, with no option to configure it myself.
So far, all we've got is NK is talking and they aren't currently testing. They've been dying to have direct talks with the USA for decades, and trump is giving them that, basically for free. Let's save the "NK capitulation" talk for when they actually capitulate.
Once NK has a credible threat to deliver a nuke on target to the USA, they really don't have to "learn" anymore. It's not like they are going to first strike and take out the USA's retaliatory capability. All they need is a credible threat, which is what they've got now.
No, he's not suggesting that. He's suggesting that this test site was already getting pretty defunct, so as a PR stunt NK is inviting everyone to watch while they blow up the old test site.
ouch
At the point the safety driver looked up, the pedestrian was a few feet in front of the car. The question is whether a human would have seen her far enough in advance to brake / steer around her. The other question is why the pedestrian was paying absolutely no attention to traffic.
Actually, under the current US gov, the kids may very well starve. Let's just say that "social safety nets" are not a top trump priority.
You left out the UFOs, the grassy knoll and JR Ewing.
So you ended up helping elect trump. Congratulations.
blah blah blah... it's all evil conspiracy by "the man"
If you view it as "shackling yourself to one person" you are having sex with the wrong people.
I enjoy learning new things but I also enjoy a feeling a mastery. If you are constantly switching frameworks you are constantly relearning from the ground up, which is inefficient.
I PAID for social security, and I DAMN WELL am going to get what I paid for. Same for Medicare.
No, she was not paying any attention whatsoever to traffic.
Doing insanely dangerous things is usually its own punishment.