Right. One person's standard (good) is another person's monoculture (bad). As far as I can see, a monoculture is simply a standard that actually worked (was accepted).
Right. Like, I wonder what started these rumors and forced Lego into damage control mode in the first place. Could be shoddy journalism at slashdot, perhaps?
Hmmmm. Let's see. IT stands for "Information Technology". You know, like computers, databases and such. 30 years ago would have been the year 1973. Believe it or not, Junior, American corporations were using these things that long ago, and people were managing them. (They even drove "horseless carriages" to work.)
There was civilization before Eminem.
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Ageism in IT?
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I am older than the oldest Gen-Xers by 10 years. I always thought of myself and my contemporaries as developing "real" stuff: distributed, complex enterprise software. I've thought of Gen-X programmers as the ones who worked for Pets.com. There is some irony in seeing them in the role of the geezers.
I've had a 23-year old recruiter lecture me about industry cycles and interview techniques. I wanted to say, "Go work at Starbucks, Scooter. I was a working software engineer when your mom was still wiping your butt."
If you want to spare yourself this sort of indignity, my advice is to find some people in the same boat and make something that someone will pay for. Then your selling a product, rather than yourself.
>> Don't be afraid to move somewhere where the people are real if it means giving this child a good start in life.
He'd have to move to the Little House on the Prairie to live like this. We live in 21st Century U.S.A. If the kid's not going to be Ted Kozinski, he'd better get used to it.
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No, take my leg! I wear a size 8 shoe, so it would be one small step for mankind.
Right. One person's standard (good) is another person's monoculture (bad). As far as I can see, a monoculture is simply a standard that actually worked (was accepted).
Right. Like, I wonder what started these rumors and forced Lego into damage control mode in the first place. Could be shoddy journalism at slashdot, perhaps?
Hmmmm. Let's see. IT stands for "Information Technology". You know, like computers, databases and such. 30 years ago would have been the year 1973. Believe it or not, Junior, American corporations were using these things that long ago, and people were managing them. (They even drove "horseless carriages" to work.)
There was civilization before Eminem.
No, that's a trash table.
I am older than the oldest Gen-Xers by 10 years. I always thought of myself and my contemporaries as developing "real" stuff: distributed, complex enterprise software. I've thought of Gen-X programmers as the ones who worked for Pets.com. There is some irony in seeing them in the role of the geezers.
I've had a 23-year old recruiter lecture me about industry cycles and interview techniques. I wanted to say, "Go work at Starbucks, Scooter. I was a working software engineer when your mom was still wiping your butt." If you want to spare yourself this sort of indignity, my advice is to find some people in the same boat and make something that someone will pay for. Then your selling a product, rather than yourself.
NPR did a spot on this on Friday.
>> Don't be afraid to move somewhere where the people are real if it means giving this child a good start in life.
He'd have to move to the Little House on the Prairie to live like this. We live in 21st Century U.S.A. If the kid's not going to be Ted Kozinski, he'd better get used to it.
Is the RingWorld really unstable?
Alternate punchline:
"You're still thinking procedurally. What you want to do is send a message to the bulb to tell it to change itself."
Ques.: How many software engineers does it take to change a light bulb?
Ans: None. It's working fine on my system.