They still have to hire someone to do the work you don't get to even if you have the capability to do it.
That doesn't add any value[1], so it can wait for the next release.
Which will be long enough after your boss gets his bonus and moves on that it'll be the next guys fault. And yours, of course. In fact I'm going right now, before they try to blame me.
[1] it doesn't tick any boxes on the feature list from the sales guys, which means nearly the same thing.
You need to know enough of the adjoining layers to talk to that layer's specialist and not seem like an idiot.
Say you're a developer working on an accounting system. You shouldn't be constantly asking the analyst/business process expert what the difference between debits and credits is. You shouldn't need the concept of secondary indexes or hints explaining every time the database guy says your code runs like a three-legged pig.
But being able to actually do all their jobs each day and every day - I don't mean covering in an emergency and taking much longer than the specialist would to do a worse job?
That's a big ask. Not saying they don't exist, but they aren't that common.
You can be gaining experience with more than one thing during the same period.
You gain experience by doing. The more things you're doing, the less you're doing of each. Hours aren't infinite.
Learning one when you already have experience of another will often be faster
Depends how closely related they are. C++/C#/Java - quite a bit. Smegging out JSON from some back end system written in RPG III and building web pages that consume it - not so much.
It's also relevant that the learning curve for these technical fields is typically steepest at the start, with additional experience getting diminishing returns once a certain level of competence is achieved.
That's the level at which you become Jack, not master. The proverb uses a bit of poetic license; it really means "Jack of many trades" (there aren't many surgeons who also practice law, are chartered accountants and have CORGI qualifications as gas fitters[1]) but that doesn't roll off the tongue quite so well.
If someone can understand the basics of a certain tool within a couple of days and master it within a couple of weeks, it doesn't matter whether they have one year or three years or five years of experience with that tool, their capability is still going to be much the same in that respect.
I think a person with one year would have to be pretty exceptional in some other respect to get hired over the one with five.
To some extent yes, but mostly if you're not actively using the skills for an extended period
If you're only using them sporadically they'll also decay. Possibly less so than if you have a complete break, but more than if you're doing it for most of every day.
And even then, the underlying principles, which are the most valuable things you learn with experience, tend to last much longer than the details of some ephemeral tool.
The majority of HR drones wouldn't disagree, but that's because they wouldn't understand a word you're saying.
Unless all your understanding of relational databases and SQL have gone out of fashion as well
They have. It's not webscale because it uses joins.
[1] Asshole'o'drear will probably claim he is one, or at least knows one.
If it says "filter by" and you enter nothing you're saying filter by nothing, i.e. don't filter, i.e. give me everything.
Plenty of software works like that. Otherwise the user is going to have to enter * in 47 different fields.
Now if there's a minimum number of selections (filter by at least one of foo, bar and froblgobl) that should be enforced somewhere in the software, twice.
It was probably created by one of these full-stack unicorns I keep hearing about.
I used to work for another Finnish company. One of the guys said that once you've put in the investment to learn it it's just easier to speak English. Little things like nouns not having 17 (or is it 23?) cases. For comparison, Latin has 5 and a bit.
"Nearly all of the new positions are for engineers" that's the April Fool joke, right? They'll actually be cultural appropriation auditors and pronoun compliance facilitators.
True, but if that's all you got it's not enough to get closer to a viable alternative.
The key is that you don't need the derps, the AOLers, the nitwits. You need people who manage to say worthwhile things in an accessible manner. That means people who both have something to say, and knowing how to say it. Grammar, spelling, writing skill, structuring a post, knowing how to quote, understanding what not to do and not doing it, and the rest of the netiquette are all parts of that.
"September" was a time when you'd get a flood of nitwits and you hoped they'd pick it up by osmosis. The much bigger flood since eternal september precluded that osmosis, even reversed it. It has ment that the level of discourse has gone down and what's left has retreated to small pockets here and there. Even though much more overall is being said, much less is actually worthwhile.
The problem isn't really technical, though the technical means do facilitate going one way or another. facebook is not a facilitator for thoughtful discourse. So a different platform may help. But the root cause is people lacking skill. And if fixing that means teaching entrants, then that is what you shall have to do.
the backlash over Cambridge Analytica "quickens the demise."
It'll all blow over in a week. People have memories like goldfish. Remember how the electronic throttle problems were going to kill Mercedes, or the emissions scandal spelled game over for Honda?
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That doesn't add any value[1], so it can wait for the next release.
Which will be long enough after your boss gets his bonus and moves on that it'll be the next guys fault. And yours, of course. In fact I'm going right now, before they try to blame me.
[1] it doesn't tick any boxes on the feature list from the sales guys, which means nearly the same thing.
You need to know enough of the adjoining layers to talk to that layer's specialist and not seem like an idiot.
Say you're a developer working on an accounting system. You shouldn't be constantly asking the analyst/business process expert what the difference between debits and credits is. You shouldn't need the concept of secondary indexes or hints explaining every time the database guy says your code runs like a three-legged pig.
But being able to actually do all their jobs each day and every day - I don't mean covering in an emergency and taking much longer than the specialist would to do a worse job?
That's a big ask. Not saying they don't exist, but they aren't that common.
You gain experience by doing. The more things you're doing, the less you're doing of each. Hours aren't infinite.
Depends how closely related they are. C++/C#/Java - quite a bit. Smegging out JSON from some back end system written in RPG III and building web pages that consume it - not so much.
That's the level at which you become Jack, not master. The proverb uses a bit of poetic license; it really means "Jack of many trades" (there aren't many surgeons who also practice law, are chartered accountants and have CORGI qualifications as gas fitters[1]) but that doesn't roll off the tongue quite so well.
I think a person with one year would have to be pretty exceptional in some other respect to get hired over the one with five.
If you're only using them sporadically they'll also decay. Possibly less so than if you have a complete break, but more than if you're doing it for most of every day.
The majority of HR drones wouldn't disagree, but that's because they wouldn't understand a word you're saying.
They have. It's not webscale because it uses joins.
[1] Asshole'o'drear will probably claim he is one, or at least knows one.
If it says "filter by" and you enter nothing you're saying filter by nothing, i.e. don't filter, i.e. give me everything.
Plenty of software works like that. Otherwise the user is going to have to enter * in 47 different fields.
Now if there's a minimum number of selections (filter by at least one of foo, bar and froblgobl) that should be enforced somewhere in the software, twice.
It was probably created by one of these full-stack unicorns I keep hearing about.
10 years experience in 4 things. So effectively only 2 to 3 in each.
And bear in mind that experience decays. There are things I have a couple of years experience in that I've almost totally forgotten.
And on top of that, things don't seem to last as long. That database you use is now two cycles out of fashion.
I used to work for another Finnish company. One of the guys said that once you've put in the investment to learn it it's just easier to speak English. Little things like nouns not having 17 (or is it 23?) cases. For comparison, Latin has 5 and a bit.
Garbage. It's not that long ago that Danish, Swedish & Norwegian were considered dialects of the same language.
You asked one, I presume.
Pah. In my day we used to mine our own silicon and we had to make our own doping agents because gallium was divided into three parts.
In the snow and uphill both ways.
I saw one and I wasn't even paying attention.
Australia - 9 hours ahead, 20 years behind.
Do you have algorithmic transparency for human decisions?
Is systemd part of the kernel yet? Or is it the other way round?
Nautical fucks are[1] on rolling decks.
[1] or arrrr
(That's enough - Ed)
Siri, fuck off!
There is no fuck here..
"Nearly all of the new positions are for engineers" that's the April Fool joke, right? They'll actually be cultural appropriation auditors and pronoun compliance facilitators.
Plan B: club them to death. Cheaper than ammo too.
Now you're not even safe on the sidewalk!
He certainly chose his parents very well.
So the smart fucks are in a Rolodex?
Is there an alternative to poking yourself in the eye with a pencil?
Some have suggested that not poking yourself in the eye with a pencil is quite good.
Pics or it ain't true.
I totally agree.
IIRC some groups were moderated and some (probably most) weren't.
But you aren't supposed to talk about it. Rules 1 and 2.
It'll all blow over in a week. People have memories like goldfish. Remember how the electronic throttle problems were going to kill Mercedes, or the emissions scandal spelled game over for Honda?