Learned to use Hypercard on my Mac. Then messed around with changing colors on the Commodore 64 at elementary . - A TI-83 & TI-89 at high school. - Matlab class in college. - PHP in my free time in college. - Then Java, C, C++ in college. - Then 'self taught' Python from code academy (just to learn the syntax).
You and I are apparently the only two people I know that understand that.
College is always going to be there but there's always going to be a need for what needed 'hands on' training. I could train a high school student to do 80% of my job. All that means is I get to spend the rest of my day on that 20% that I couldn't.
If you're doing what you did at your job 10 or even 2 year ago you're becoming irrelevant as other people have automated the hard stuff.
Sounds like IT is more of a vocational training. The problem is we haven't backfilled our Vocations with stuff like IT because "everyone has to go to college".
There are times I would love to replace some co-workers with H1Bs. It takes them 50 hours to do what should take 10. Technically they have the skillset to do X but they're dinosaurs. They've done the same job the way they've done it for 20 years and don't think that any new processes are relevant.
The entertaining part about all of this is that a political party that is fighting for private organizations to deny groups service based on "religious" preference is now complaining that a private organization is denying groups "equal time" based on political preference.
That old FORTRAN code works. It's been beaten to death and unit tested left and right.
Thousands of Engineering Apps are built on that FORTRAN code. Numpy is just a wrapper on it. Matlab is just a wrapper on it. Even the C tools are just wrappers.
Everything from Computational Fluid Dynamics to Finite Element Analysis to Wireless RF Modems uses the FORTRAN (even if it's not exposed as such to the end user). Modern society would grind to a halt without that FORTRAN code.
Not just Hangouts. There's the Messenger app from Google for SMS. The Messenger app that came on my phone for SMS. Google Voice.
I open Hangouts it asks me if I want to use Hangouts for SMS, that turns off both Messengers, but not Voice.
The Google messenger app doesn't seem to work when it's set as default. I still have to go through Google Voice. Half of the time SMS shows up in Hangouts as well.
Meanwhile if I get an Amber alert the only way to dismiss them is to change my default app to the native Samsung SMS app, dismiss it, and then switch back to Hangouts.
I've been ordering Amazon Basics products for a while and been happy with all of them. Basic stuff from AA batteries to USB cords through baby wipes.
They're usually cheaper than the name brand stuff and by time you factor in the fact that they're delivered to my door they're much cheaper when it comes to my time.
Walmart can shove their "but we have the absolute lowest price" in my face all they want, but the convenience of not having to drive to walmart. Fight with the self checkout lane. Load my car and drive it home Amazon comes out cheaper. If any companies want to take them on fight them at their own game.
Progress is measured in inches. I'm a Mechanical Engineer that knows how to code. Years ago when I started off in industry I would write a script or macro to shave a minute off of my work load. My peers laughed and said "Ha, you only saved a minute, what a waste of time". After a while those minutes add up. A minute a day for a year is 4 hours of savings.
A minute an hour for a year is 33 hours. If that's a minute 5 of my other co-workers are also doing it means I saved my boss 150 hours a year. 120 '1 minute scripts' later I can do in 8 hours what would have taken me 10 hours before.
Perhaps something that used relays. That way people could 'chat' a bit more live than e-mail. You could even run your own server locally or join any number of other Internet chat server relays.
We could call it Live Chat Internet Relays (LCIR). If people wanted to they could even create a protocol so that different clients and servers could operate with each other. It could be a very simple protocol with shorthand like "PRIVMSG" so that you didn't waste a lot of band width on all of SMTP overhead.
One day I look forward to a group of forward thinking people coming up with some sort of LCIR service. Until then I guess we are stuck with proprietary chat implementations.
Most of them. Doctors have 'moved on'. If you're in a small rural town you may still get a doctor that does everything but you should be getting stitched up by an RN, PA or other medical professional with more hands on training in that area.
You don't send a PhD CS candidate to be a code monkey, you don't send an MD to do trivial work.
Technically (based on "Age of 18 in the year 2000") I'm Schrödinger's generation. Generation X or Millennial (Gen Y) depending on what the issue is.
My class was the first one that was pushed heavily to college (And the first year my high school started tracking the "Goes to college" metric). A lot of my class would have been better off in a trade school. The good news is 15 years later most of them have shaken out into their place in society. Some went for a degree that was employable. Some did end up in the trades.
At the same time I lack a lot of empathy for those that entered college after 2008 and picked an unemployable major. My college's career services department has been publishing salary and graduation numbers going back to ~2004. An 18 year old should be able to understand that 4 years, 100k of debt for a job that doesn't quite make $25k mean should be a no brainer question. I went for engineering, my wife went for Medicine. We both did end up with good jobs but we both realized that ages ago.
The issues raised seem to ignore a large amount of socioeconomic backgrounds as well. My wife and I both received 'government assistance' at some point in our lives even with our parents busting ass at a slave labor jobs. It made us want better... at the same time a lot of our 'richer' peers, the ones with the latest NES game or dirt bike, did go to college and get something worth the paper it was written on. They did buy into the fallacy of 'do what you like and the money will follow', and perhaps took it a bit too literally. I have a friend from that is a daughter of a multi-millionare. The most difficult thing she's ever experienced in her life is her parents moved while she was in college. Never had a family member die from lack of health care. Never had to worry about where the next meal was coming from. Never had to consider that saltines and scrambled eggs was a meal. It's funny watching all these 'frugal' blogs come up with novel ways to save money or live cheaply and my wife and I look at each other and go "This isn't normal"?
Likewise parenting plays a large part of it. Some of my peers had helicopter parents, I did not. Even into my 30s you can see the long term effects of that. People went to college not knowing how to make Mac & Cheese or do their laundry. I've interviewed people (for professional positions) that had their parents follow up where as I was pushed out of the car door for my interview at Taco Bell when I was 16.
There's more to the picture than the random year someone was born in.
Let me educate you on what "no healthcare" looks like in America. Suppose you got a weird lump growing on your arm. You have no health care (or can't afford the deductibles and out of pocket expenses). You sit at home while it gets worse. Finally you make it to an ER and they tell you it's cancer. You can't afford the visit so the hospital puts a debt collector on you. Meanwhile your tumor gets worse because it's gotten no treatment.
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echo -n "<mypassword>|<username>+example.org" | sha256sum | cut -c1-20
Need to change all my passwords? Change the cut or my password.
Learned to use Hypercard on my Mac.
Then messed around with changing colors on the Commodore 64 at elementary .
- A TI-83 & TI-89 at high school.
- Matlab class in college.
- PHP in my free time in college.
- Then Java, C, C++ in college.
- Then 'self taught' Python from code academy (just to learn the syntax).
You and I are apparently the only two people I know that understand that.
College is always going to be there but there's always going to be a need for what needed 'hands on' training. I could train a high school student to do 80% of my job. All that means is I get to spend the rest of my day on that 20% that I couldn't.
If you're doing what you did at your job 10 or even 2 year ago you're becoming irrelevant as other people have automated the hard stuff.
Sounds like IT is more of a vocational training. The problem is we haven't backfilled our Vocations with stuff like IT because "everyone has to go to college".
If you're not building / automating your replacement, someone else will.
There are times I would love to replace some co-workers with H1Bs. It takes them 50 hours to do what should take 10. Technically they have the skillset to do X but they're dinosaurs. They've done the same job the way they've done it for 20 years and don't think that any new processes are relevant.
"Drag and Drop" programming is being used by engineers every day to write software for cars, planes, etc.
It's called Simulink.
This is the start of the "Hey we have that too" reaction to product RND
You mean like they did with that failed MP3 player of theirs? What was it called the iMP3 or something?
I want to die.
So what you're saying is that trending topics should be equally distributed among biases?
The entertaining part about all of this is that a political party that is fighting for private organizations to deny groups service based on "religious" preference is now complaining that a private organization is denying groups "equal time" based on political preference.
that old FORTRAN
That old FORTRAN code works. It's been beaten to death and unit tested left and right.
Thousands of Engineering Apps are built on that FORTRAN code. Numpy is just a wrapper on it. Matlab is just a wrapper on it. Even the C tools are just wrappers.
Everything from Computational Fluid Dynamics to Finite Element Analysis to Wireless RF Modems uses the FORTRAN (even if it's not exposed as such to the end user). Modern society would grind to a halt without that FORTRAN code.
Not just Hangouts. There's the Messenger app from Google for SMS. The Messenger app that came on my phone for SMS. Google Voice.
I open Hangouts it asks me if I want to use Hangouts for SMS, that turns off both Messengers, but not Voice.
The Google messenger app doesn't seem to work when it's set as default. I still have to go through Google Voice. Half of the time SMS shows up in Hangouts as well.
Meanwhile if I get an Amber alert the only way to dismiss them is to change my default app to the native Samsung SMS app, dismiss it, and then switch back to Hangouts.
who has no experience with government computer systems or protocols
I seem to remember another candidate that seemingly has no experience with proper security protocol.
What industry ever has given up the opportunity at taking more money?
They'll slowly jack up the rates and then offer a 'discount' where the AI will end up costing as much as a normal human does now.
I've been ordering Amazon Basics products for a while and been happy with all of them. Basic stuff from AA batteries to USB cords through baby wipes.
They're usually cheaper than the name brand stuff and by time you factor in the fact that they're delivered to my door they're much cheaper when it comes to my time.
Walmart can shove their "but we have the absolute lowest price" in my face all they want, but the convenience of not having to drive to walmart. Fight with the self checkout lane. Load my car and drive it home Amazon comes out cheaper. If any companies want to take them on fight them at their own game.
The insurance companies can take care of the rest.
A little checkbox on your next renewal saying "This car will be piloted by a human" will double or triple your premiums.
And a little rider that says "If the car was under control of a human during the time of incident we decline all payouts"
It has been Uber is in this for the long game, right now they've got the app figured out. They can't wait to get rid of the drivers.
Progress is measured in inches. I'm a Mechanical Engineer that knows how to code. Years ago when I started off in industry I would write a script or macro to shave a minute off of my work load. My peers laughed and said "Ha, you only saved a minute, what a waste of time". After a while those minutes add up. A minute a day for a year is 4 hours of savings.
A minute an hour for a year is 33 hours. If that's a minute 5 of my other co-workers are also doing it means I saved my boss 150 hours a year. 120 '1 minute scripts' later I can do in 8 hours what would have taken me 10 hours before.
Perhaps something that used relays. That way people could 'chat' a bit more live than e-mail. You could even run your own server locally or join any number of other Internet chat server relays.
We could call it Live Chat Internet Relays (LCIR). If people wanted to they could even create a protocol so that different clients and servers could operate with each other. It could be a very simple protocol with shorthand like "PRIVMSG" so that you didn't waste a lot of band width on all of SMTP overhead.
One day I look forward to a group of forward thinking people coming up with some sort of LCIR service. Until then I guess we are stuck with proprietary chat implementations.
Most of them. Doctors have 'moved on'. If you're in a small rural town you may still get a doctor that does everything but you should be getting stitched up by an RN, PA or other medical professional with more hands on training in that area.
You don't send a PhD CS candidate to be a code monkey, you don't send an MD to do trivial work.
And LaunchD
Technically (based on "Age of 18 in the year 2000") I'm Schrödinger's generation. Generation X or Millennial (Gen Y) depending on what the issue is.
My class was the first one that was pushed heavily to college (And the first year my high school started tracking the "Goes to college" metric). A lot of my class would have been better off in a trade school. The good news is 15 years later most of them have shaken out into their place in society. Some went for a degree that was employable. Some did end up in the trades.
At the same time I lack a lot of empathy for those that entered college after 2008 and picked an unemployable major. My college's career services department has been publishing salary and graduation numbers going back to ~2004. An 18 year old should be able to understand that 4 years, 100k of debt for a job that doesn't quite make $25k mean should be a no brainer question. I went for engineering, my wife went for Medicine. We both did end up with good jobs but we both realized that ages ago.
The issues raised seem to ignore a large amount of socioeconomic backgrounds as well. My wife and I both received 'government assistance' at some point in our lives even with our parents busting ass at a slave labor jobs. It made us want better... at the same time a lot of our 'richer' peers, the ones with the latest NES game or dirt bike, did go to college and get something worth the paper it was written on. They did buy into the fallacy of 'do what you like and the money will follow', and perhaps took it a bit too literally. I have a friend from that is a daughter of a multi-millionare. The most difficult thing she's ever experienced in her life is her parents moved while she was in college. Never had a family member die from lack of health care. Never had to worry about where the next meal was coming from. Never had to consider that saltines and scrambled eggs was a meal. It's funny watching all these 'frugal' blogs come up with novel ways to save money or live cheaply and my wife and I look at each other and go "This isn't normal"?
Likewise parenting plays a large part of it. Some of my peers had helicopter parents, I did not. Even into my 30s you can see the long term effects of that. People went to college not knowing how to make Mac & Cheese or do their laundry. I've interviewed people (for professional positions) that had their parents follow up where as I was pushed out of the car door for my interview at Taco Bell when I was 16.
There's more to the picture than the random year someone was born in.
Let me educate you on what "no healthcare" looks like in America. Suppose you got a weird lump growing on your arm. You have no health care (or can't afford the deductibles and out of pocket expenses). You sit at home while it gets worse. Finally you make it to an ER and they tell you it's cancer. You can't afford the visit so the hospital puts a debt collector on you. Meanwhile your tumor gets worse because it's gotten no treatment.
Then you die.
> A majority of "millennials" probably couldn't find their ass with both hands
Millenials 'started' in 1982. The oldest of them are 34 this year. Some of us have been out in industry for a decade and seen parts of the world.