When I was younger hearing things like this scared me, now that I'm mostly on my way to 45 I know exactly who those people that get laid off are. They're the people that refuse to learn anything new past getting a job. Learning is a life long activity. If you aren't continually updating your skill sets during your entire career you're going to find yourself obsolete.
Take a hypothetical example of an old programmer that refuses to learn about newfangled "Makefiles". For a while they'll be able to carry on just fine doing their job. But add a decade or two and suddenly they're the slowest part of the development process and let go. You have a 'highly skilled' person in their 40s that is lacking a skillset that makes them a non-starter in the hiring process.
The same thing with Engineers and CAD decades ago. It's easy to look back and say that "Everyone" knows CAD but there was once a time when Engineers refused to learn it because it wasn't the same as paper drafting. Eventually those that refused got laid off. People with Masters and PhD degrees were being replaced by fresh college grads. If you asked those that got laid off it was ageism, people stealing their jobs, etc. But it boiled down to the fact that they were no longer relevant.
Some of us are writing the tools of 2050 and are having a near impossible time getting our co-workers to use it. "Oh it only takes 5 minutes." "It's not that hard to do the old way" etc. In most circumstances my life would be better off if I could get rid of half of them and replace them with H1Bs that would actually use the new tools.
What job doesn't change significantly in the ~45 years between when someone starts in their 20s to when they retire in their 60s? Adapt or get left behind.
you wouldn't be bothering with "learning to code" today.
I completely disagree. I got into coding when I was in 5th or 6th grade with Hypercard. Then (mostly in order) Applescript, the Mac debugger, my TI-89 calculator, Matlab, PHP, Java, C, C++, Python.
I'm just a Mechanical Engineer. My job title has nothing to do with any of those languages. No interview I've ever had has ever even touched on how much of those I knew. They're just tools I use to get my job done. It's beyond frustrating dealing with co-workers that refuse to learn to program or worse refuse to use a one-off program to solve a problem they're having. 90% of 'work' is done in Excel. Cell equations that would make small children cry.
I wouldn't be in the job I have now or doing it as proficiently as I do without having learned to code when I did. This national initiative to teach people to code isn't to churn out coders. It's to turn out _____ that can code. Mechanical Engineers that can code. Doctors that can code. And in doing so they don't need to get into all the dirty internals.
It's just "keyboarding" class all over again. I'm sure all of the Typists were crying left and right that schools teaching people to type was going to cut into their job. My wife works at a hospital with older doctors that were told "You don't need to learn to type or use a computer. You'll have a secretary!".
Once upon a time coders didn't even enter their code into the computer, you had the punch card operator.
- Amazon Fire in the living room with Kodi side loaded. Had a cheap Chinese android box with Kodi but random Chinese developers aren't as good as Amazon with keeping their device bug free. (Studding problem). - The TV also has a built in DNLA app which isn't terrible. With MiniDNLA I can play all of my media files and channels from the HD Homerun. - Projector's HTPC is a 1.8 GHz single core celeron with Nvidia card that I've had since ~2011. It runs FreeBSD and Just Works. Half the time I take the time to launch Kodi, the other half I just navigate to my NFS share and use mplayer directly.
Essentially everybody ended up surfing facebook or youtube or something,
That certainly dates you. We played computer games all the time.
In 5th grade I wanted to have the absolute top score in some Math program. I ended up putting it on a floppy drive, taking it home, figuring out how it stored the 'high score' data and Kobayashi Maru'd the results.
Give the Civilization a decent API and let the kids set up bots and automatic governing.
The same thing happened in 1998. Geeks everywhere told Apple to screw themselves for coming out with a 'proprietary' connector USB that no one else used. Forcing everyone to buy new mice and keyboards and... oh the humanity.
Not buying an Apple product? Why the hell do you care?
Enjoy it while you can horseless carriage fans. There are at least a few morons among you who will still do stupid irresponsible things with their toys, someone will get hurt or killed or there will be massive property damage, and the local city council will throw up it's hands and say "We tried trusting you, but you clearly can't be trusted!" and they'll get taken away from you. On that day I and many others will rejoice that the scourge of pesky, noisy, death traps will finally be ended. Then automobiles will be in the hands of professional drivers and the military, as it should be.
And while I don't use Instagram or Moments. I use Snapchat all the time to share short clips of my son with aunts and uncles. Stuff that doesn't need to permanently be on Facebook.
So now I have to load all of this into my car, drive it home and unload it? Grocery shopping should be as difficult as registering for wedding registries. Give me a barcode scanner and let me walk through the store. When I check out let me schedule a delivery time.
YOU DON'T JUST RUN A BUSINESS SUCCESSFULLY BY THROWING SHIT AT THE WALL AND SEEING WHAT STICKS
How do you think the rest of companies operate? Large companies like Ford, GM, VW, etc do that all the time. New engine emissions requirements? Run 5 programs in parallel until one of them works. (Or in VW's case, fake it and try to make it)
Medical and rescue missions come to mind. 23 minutes is a lot of time for a prototype carrying someone.
What's with the slashdot luddites? I feel like you'd be the same group of people to say the same thing about the horseless carriage or that new metal 'bronze'.
My 1998 VW TDI had a 2 sensor setup for the accelerator. If I remember correctly they were inversely linear resistors. 0% pedal was 0.5V on one and 4.5V on the other, 100% throttle was 4.5V/0.5V (respectively).
If they disagreed it did nothing. Yes, it left your car dead by the side of the road but that is the proper failure case for an automobile.
Seriously? Mitsubishi is in mining, shipbuilding, telecom, financial services, insurance, electronics, automotive, construction, heavy industries, oil and gas, real estate, foods and beverages, chemicals, steel, aviation and others.
It's a Japanese Keiretsu, they are not "quietly going under" or being "absorbed by Toyota" any time soon.
Yep. This is what happens when you make EEs design network stuff. Stuff like the CAN bus is incredibly open because it wasn't thought of as a network that needed 'security'. If our cars are going to have networks they need to hire people that take care of 'traditional network' security.
That's exactly why I use it. I don't need a password keeper, I can just make my password on any device that can do a hash. If it comes to it I could do it by hand.
It's unique to both every site and every username I use at the site. And I can use to use the full hash if a site will allow it.
Even if it gets leaked as plain text it'll never work for another site short of someone cracking sha256. If you want to protect against rainbow tables switch to a different delimiter to add entropy.
Just changing the "-n" flag from echo makes a different password you could use.
Slashdot Mirror
Upsetting a bunch of people that spend their free time on Slashdot rather than learning new skill sets.
When I was younger hearing things like this scared me, now that I'm mostly on my way to 45 I know exactly who those people that get laid off are. They're the people that refuse to learn anything new past getting a job. Learning is a life long activity. If you aren't continually updating your skill sets during your entire career you're going to find yourself obsolete.
Take a hypothetical example of an old programmer that refuses to learn about newfangled "Makefiles". For a while they'll be able to carry on just fine doing their job. But add a decade or two and suddenly they're the slowest part of the development process and let go. You have a 'highly skilled' person in their 40s that is lacking a skillset that makes them a non-starter in the hiring process.
The same thing with Engineers and CAD decades ago. It's easy to look back and say that "Everyone" knows CAD but there was once a time when Engineers refused to learn it because it wasn't the same as paper drafting. Eventually those that refused got laid off. People with Masters and PhD degrees were being replaced by fresh college grads. If you asked those that got laid off it was ageism, people stealing their jobs, etc. But it boiled down to the fact that they were no longer relevant.
Some of us are writing the tools of 2050 and are having a near impossible time getting our co-workers to use it. "Oh it only takes 5 minutes." "It's not that hard to do the old way" etc. In most circumstances my life would be better off if I could get rid of half of them and replace them with H1Bs that would actually use the new tools.
What job doesn't change significantly in the ~45 years between when someone starts in their 20s to when they retire in their 60s? Adapt or get left behind.
you wouldn't be bothering with "learning to code" today.
I completely disagree. I got into coding when I was in 5th or 6th grade with Hypercard. Then (mostly in order) Applescript, the Mac debugger, my TI-89 calculator, Matlab, PHP, Java, C, C++, Python.
I'm just a Mechanical Engineer. My job title has nothing to do with any of those languages. No interview I've ever had has ever even touched on how much of those I knew. They're just tools I use to get my job done. It's beyond frustrating dealing with co-workers that refuse to learn to program or worse refuse to use a one-off program to solve a problem they're having. 90% of 'work' is done in Excel. Cell equations that would make small children cry.
I wouldn't be in the job I have now or doing it as proficiently as I do without having learned to code when I did. This national initiative to teach people to code isn't to churn out coders. It's to turn out _____ that can code. Mechanical Engineers that can code. Doctors that can code. And in doing so they don't need to get into all the dirty internals.
It's just "keyboarding" class all over again. I'm sure all of the Typists were crying left and right that schools teaching people to type was going to cut into their job.
My wife works at a hospital with older doctors that were told "You don't need to learn to type or use a computer. You'll have a secretary!".
Once upon a time coders didn't even enter their code into the computer, you had the punch card operator.
My first thought, only killed one person? How many is GM or Chrysler up to this year alone?
- Amazon Fire in the living room with Kodi side loaded. Had a cheap Chinese android box with Kodi but random Chinese developers aren't as good as Amazon with keeping their device bug free. (Studding problem).
- The TV also has a built in DNLA app which isn't terrible. With MiniDNLA I can play all of my media files and channels from the HD Homerun.
- Projector's HTPC is a 1.8 GHz single core celeron with Nvidia card that I've had since ~2011. It runs FreeBSD and Just Works. Half the time I take the time to launch Kodi, the other half I just navigate to my NFS share and use mplayer directly.
Essentially everybody ended up surfing facebook or youtube or something,
That certainly dates you. We played computer games all the time.
In 5th grade I wanted to have the absolute top score in some Math program. I ended up putting it on a floppy drive, taking it home, figuring out how it stored the 'high score' data and Kobayashi Maru'd the results.
Give the Civilization a decent API and let the kids set up bots and automatic governing.
The same thing happened in 1998. Geeks everywhere told Apple to screw themselves for coming out with a 'proprietary' connector USB that no one else used. Forcing everyone to buy new mice and keyboards and ... oh the humanity.
Not buying an Apple product? Why the hell do you care?
Enjoy it while you can horseless carriage fans. There are at least a few morons among you who will still do stupid irresponsible things with their toys, someone will get hurt or killed or there will be massive property damage, and the local city council will throw up it's hands and say "We tried trusting you, but you clearly can't be trusted!" and they'll get taken away from you. On that day I and many others will rejoice that the scourge of pesky, noisy, death traps will finally be ended. Then automobiles will be in the hands of professional drivers and the military, as it should be.
Your process takes much, much longer.
And while I don't use Instagram or Moments. I use Snapchat all the time to share short clips of my son with aunts and uncles. Stuff that doesn't need to permanently be on Facebook.
I turn 34 this year. I definitely remember life without cell phones and more to the point, life without 'smart phones'.
I do not approve to have my money wasted in such a manner to test everyone.
These programs cost more than they 'save' and are all around useless.
Personally I like the Aldi/European model. Never seemed to have that problem.
So now I have to load all of this into my car, drive it home and unload it? Grocery shopping should be as difficult as registering for wedding registries. Give me a barcode scanner and let me walk through the store. When I check out let me schedule a delivery time.
Correct me if I'm wrong, but the Democratic national convention hasn't happened yet. She's just the presumptive nominee.
When you consider that a Tesla car has 700 HP (performance version), it's not unreasonable to have four times that in an electric truck.
What trucks are you using that have 2800 HP?
700 HP is more than all but the largest of on highway trucks.
And so was anything available when I was growing up. TI-BASIC isn't something I use ever these days but it taught me the basics of loops and the like.
YOU DON'T JUST RUN A BUSINESS SUCCESSFULLY BY THROWING SHIT AT THE WALL AND SEEING WHAT STICKS
How do you think the rest of companies operate? Large companies like Ford, GM, VW, etc do that all the time. New engine emissions requirements? Run 5 programs in parallel until one of them works. (Or in VW's case, fake it and try to make it)
For all my stuff I *really* need 2 factor for on I use an old cell phone with custom firmware not connected to anything and Google Authenticator.
https://www.getnikola.com/
If your users can write markdown they can write nikola pages. I have mine attached to git hooks so publishing is done by pushing and pulling.
Additionally GitHub pages.
Apple, going out of business since the 90s.
http://www.macobserver.com/tmo...
Medical and rescue missions come to mind. 23 minutes is a lot of time for a prototype carrying someone.
What's with the slashdot luddites? I feel like you'd be the same group of people to say the same thing about the horseless carriage or that new metal 'bronze'.
My 1998 VW TDI had a 2 sensor setup for the accelerator. If I remember correctly they were inversely linear resistors. 0% pedal was 0.5V on one and 4.5V on the other, 100% throttle was 4.5V/0.5V (respectively).
If they disagreed it did nothing. Yes, it left your car dead by the side of the road but that is the proper failure case for an automobile.
quietly went under or were absorbed by Toyota.
Seriously? Mitsubishi is in mining, shipbuilding, telecom, financial services, insurance, electronics, automotive, construction, heavy industries, oil and gas, real estate, foods and beverages, chemicals, steel, aviation and others.
It's a Japanese Keiretsu, they are not "quietly going under" or being "absorbed by Toyota" any time soon.
Yep. This is what happens when you make EEs design network stuff. Stuff like the CAN bus is incredibly open because it wasn't thought of as a network that needed 'security'. If our cars are going to have networks they need to hire people that take care of 'traditional network' security.
That's exactly why I use it. I don't need a password keeper, I can just make my password on any device that can do a hash. If it comes to it I could do it by hand.
It's unique to both every site and every username I use at the site. And I can use to use the full hash if a site will allow it.
Even if it gets leaked as plain text it'll never work for another site short of someone cracking sha256. If you want to protect against rainbow tables switch to a different delimiter to add entropy.
Just changing the "-n" flag from echo makes a different password you could use.