It's everywhere. Morning TV shows are nothing but ads with actual 'news' tickered at the bottom. Ellen used to be an entertaining talk show. Now it's a 60 minute ad for her sponsors.
Hell Jurassic World was a 90 minute commercial for Beats, Samsung and Mercedes.
In 10 years "programming" is going to be like "keyboarding" or "Microsoft Office" on a resume. They aren't training kids how to be CS majors or IT majors. They're training kids on how to program for what ever job they eventually want to do. 10 years ago when I graduated I was a rarity, a Mechanical Engineer that could program. I automated 80% of my workflow with Python and Matlab, and as a result got to spend my time on the 'hard' stuff. Now when we go recruit engineers if you can't program something, you're glossed over for a lot of positions
My wife works with doctors that were told "You don't need to learn to type, you're going to be a doctor". Now all doctors are expected to know how to type as with electronic medical records (EMRs) they enter their own records. The problem with all electronic medical record programs is they are made by CS majors, not doctors, which is why they're all shit (ask any doctor about their EMR). I'm trying to teach my wife Python so that there can be an EMR designed by a doctor how a doctor uses it.
That's where all of this "everyone codes" initiative is going. Will there be people that don't know how to program? Sure, but those will be the same jobs today that don't require you to know how to type or use Office.
The only part I don't get is why a data center needs 400 people, much less 1000.
It doesn't. They probably included the guy to plow the parking lot in those 1000 jobs. The local news stations are falling overthemselves with how many jobs this will create and bring to West Michigan without understanding how many people it really takes to run a modern data center.
You're comparing an old Chevy to a modern European. You will have all of the same problems
Replacing anything on a '80s VW? Just as simple (if not easier, IMHO) than a Chevy. It helps that VW has used the same bell housing bolt pattern since the first water cooled engines.
A 80s Mercedes Benz diesel engine is the textbook definition of a shade-tree car. I could do 90% of the work on my 90s VWs with a 10 mm, 13 mm and 15 mm wrench
If I wanted to do that with the nearby German car, it would have cost thousands and required a shop visit.
Where are you getting this stuff? It would have required just as much of a shop visit that your newer Cadillac would require. If you are competent to work on your own vehicles no visit necessary.
American manufactures are just as on top of requiring special lubricants and 'certifications' in the latest 2015 models. And part of that is being driven by EPA requirements.
So, pretty much, every make of that diesel vehicle has no engine warranty.
Except it does. Until B20 was mandated in some states only B5 was covered. Now that B20 is mandated in some states B20 is covered under warranty.
My Android STB has 8 cores, plays 4k content decently well. My wife's Christmas present is going to be a Bluetooth NES controller so we can play the games we grew up with.
I started watching "Under the Dome" hoping it was a mini-series. I would kickstart/crowd fund a "10 episode event" of any book or story that was appropriate for that length.
Not a movie. Not a series done to death. 10 episodes. 2 hours. No commercials. That's 20 hours to tell a lot of stories very well.
Right now when something is being built the builders call up the local unions and say "I'm going to need 5 Union plumbers and 2 Union electricians for 6 weeks".
Present a single front to all companies needing developers for work weeks, salary and benefits.
Just call it a Union. (And that's not a bad thing).
> simple as cook a steak properly, a process that requires experience, judgement, and touch.
It doesn't require any of that.
You could easily build a thermal model of a steak and have something cook it exactly to your specifications. I'm still at a loss as to why ovens don't have ramp and soak functions. Industrial ovens control temp very accurately for metal working and solder reflow, there's no reason a home oven can't do that.
> recognising which parts are unpalatable or tough,
Visual recognition systems on production lines aren't new. They just need to be made cheaper.
> smell and sound and even things as subtle as regulating how much force you are using based on how much resistance your tools are meeting.
And we don't have chemical sensors to identify smells (or even things that have no smell), microphones or force sensors?
My local university has one that is completely free and has the source code available upon request. I'm trying to 'rewrite' it in an iPython notebook similar to the AeroPy.
I haven't lectured in two years. I've of course been teaching, but have stopped using the method known as "the lecture"—delivering a set amount of material (aka, "covering") from the front of the classroom to a group of mostly quiet, note-taking students. Like greater profs before me, I am a converted lecturer.1
It was Spring 2012 when I went full-steam ahead with the flipped classroom idea for my Computational Fluid Dynamics course. I've written before about how this came about, but the impetus resulted from already having done the lecture capture, live, in a previous version of the CFD course. I uploaded the videos from that live lecture capture to YouTube (after minor editing and cutting into segments) where, since then, they have collected nearly 220,000 public views (checked 20 April'14). My challenge that semester was coming up with class activities—but that should be the topic of another post.
The problem with working out in industry is that you actually have to work. A few people on Facebook complain that 'the system' is keeping them down. Sorry. Not everyone gets to get promoted. You are not a special unique snowflake that gets every promotion and raise ever.
Where I'm paying them to do the work it's more than minimum wage. Look at what you can get on fiverr. I'm not talking about full time job I just need someone to write me a Python or C skeleton to my specifications.
When I look at how long it will take me to write a simple script to do some boring task automation vs paying someone $5 to do it, it's a no brainer.
My side jobs are contracted at $100/hr. There is a finite amount of time in the day and if I can pay someone to crank out something that isn't worth my time I'll do it.
If you are a programmer, this is what you are competing against. Slashdotters are going to have to justify their $30+/hr in other knowledge & skills.
I'm friends with the principal of a local "Tech" school. They are churning out 'apprenticed' programmers and IT staff. They're trained by local companies exactly what they need. Every single one of them is employed before they graduate and local industry is asking for more.
"Programming" isn't what it was 20 years ago. It's a trade. Not that there isn't a need for CS degrees but they aren't who I'm going to hire to make a new basic program in C. I hire $5/hr coders to get the boring/cheap stuff out of the way when starting a project.
Google is going to come out with their own home automation suite like Amazon's Echo.
They bought GrandCentral years ago to turn into Google Voice. Their 'product' was the voice mail speech-to-text. They just wanted to train their voice systems.
Their 'Desktop' was a stop gap between being on the phone and being in the home. What ever demographic always used it, they're going to make a product and target it to them. They already know the age, geographic location, household, etc of everyone that uses their browser (and doesn't know how to disable them). That is going to be the core demographic
It's why Amazon Echo went to the people with Prime first. It was a limited Beta release and the households that bought Prime were likely the type to actually try out Amazon Echo for what Amazon is using it for.
Amazon was an expert of getting the widget to my door without me leaving my couch.
My time isn't free. Add up the time and fuel it takes to drive to Walmart the time it takes to shop Walmart and the time it takes sometimes just to check out. It's cheaper for me to have Amazon deliver a box of toilet paper exactly when I need it than to remember (and forget) to get some at Walmart.
Amazon's figured out the 'last mile' to the customer. Walmart still puts that on me to get it from the end of their supply chain. Amazon makes sure it gets to my door.
I'm waiting for someone to release reusable shipping containers. I should be able to schedule deliveries of products to my house not stand in line in my 'free time'.
Slashdot Mirror
It's everywhere. Morning TV shows are nothing but ads with actual 'news' tickered at the bottom. Ellen used to be an entertaining talk show. Now it's a 60 minute ad for her sponsors.
Hell Jurassic World was a 90 minute commercial for Beats, Samsung and Mercedes.
It's to make X that can program.
In 10 years "programming" is going to be like "keyboarding" or "Microsoft Office" on a resume. They aren't training kids how to be CS majors or IT majors. They're training kids on how to program for what ever job they eventually want to do. 10 years ago when I graduated I was a rarity, a Mechanical Engineer that could program. I automated 80% of my workflow with Python and Matlab, and as a result got to spend my time on the 'hard' stuff. Now when we go recruit engineers if you can't program something, you're glossed over for a lot of positions
My wife works with doctors that were told "You don't need to learn to type, you're going to be a doctor". Now all doctors are expected to know how to type as with electronic medical records (EMRs) they enter their own records. The problem with all electronic medical record programs is they are made by CS majors, not doctors, which is why they're all shit (ask any doctor about their EMR). I'm trying to teach my wife Python so that there can be an EMR designed by a doctor how a doctor uses it.
That's where all of this "everyone codes" initiative is going. Will there be people that don't know how to program? Sure, but those will be the same jobs today that don't require you to know how to type or use Office.
The only part I don't get is why a data center needs 400 people, much less 1000.
It doesn't. They probably included the guy to plow the parking lot in those 1000 jobs. The local news stations are falling overthemselves with how many jobs this will create and bring to West Michigan without understanding how many people it really takes to run a modern data center.
You're comparing an old Chevy to a modern European. You will have all of the same problems
Replacing anything on a '80s VW? Just as simple (if not easier, IMHO) than a Chevy. It helps that VW has used the same bell housing bolt pattern since the first water cooled engines.
A 80s Mercedes Benz diesel engine is the textbook definition of a shade-tree car. I could do 90% of the work on my 90s VWs with a 10 mm, 13 mm and 15 mm wrench
If I wanted to do that with the nearby German car, it would have cost thousands and required a shop visit.
Where are you getting this stuff? It would have required just as much of a shop visit that your newer Cadillac would require. If you are competent to work on your own vehicles no visit necessary.
American manufactures are just as on top of requiring special lubricants and 'certifications' in the latest 2015 models. And part of that is being driven by EPA requirements.
So, pretty much, every make of that diesel vehicle has no engine warranty.
Except it does. Until B20 was mandated in some states only B5 was covered. Now that B20 is mandated in some states B20 is covered under warranty.
At least that's what the narrative Dice has been pushing.
which doesn't ship any ARM products
Other than the Nexus product line.
I think this is the main thing, the inertia of quality keyboards using PS/2|ADB plugs just makes this a silly decision.
I think this is the main thing, the inertia of quality printers using a Parallel port just makes this a silly decision.
The 3.5mm jack has had a good run. They figured out how to shoehorn in stereo and a microphone. Let it go.
Digging through older code the only logical conclusion I can reach is a lot of LSD must have been involved.
My Android STB has 8 cores, plays 4k content decently well. My wife's Christmas present is going to be a Bluetooth NES controller so we can play the games we grew up with.
I started watching "Under the Dome" hoping it was a mini-series. I would kickstart/crowd fund a "10 episode event" of any book or story that was appropriate for that length.
Not a movie. Not a series done to death. 10 episodes. 2 hours. No commercials. That's 20 hours to tell a lot of stories very well.
Right now when something is being built the builders call up the local unions and say "I'm going to need 5 Union plumbers and 2 Union electricians for 6 weeks".
Present a single front to all companies needing developers for work weeks, salary and benefits.
Just call it a Union. (And that's not a bad thing).
> simple as cook a steak properly, a process that requires experience, judgement, and touch.
It doesn't require any of that.
You could easily build a thermal model of a steak and have something cook it exactly to your specifications. I'm still at a loss as to why ovens don't have ramp and soak functions. Industrial ovens control temp very accurately for metal working and solder reflow, there's no reason a home oven can't do that.
> recognising which parts are unpalatable or tough,
Visual recognition systems on production lines aren't new. They just need to be made cheaper.
> smell and sound and even things as subtle as regulating how much force you are using based on how much resistance your tools are meeting.
And we don't have chemical sensors to identify smells (or even things that have no smell), microphones or force sensors?
http://news.slashdot.org/story...
My local university has one that is completely free and has the source code available upon request. I'm trying to 'rewrite' it in an iPython notebook similar to the AeroPy.
I haven't lectured in two years. I've of course been teaching, but have stopped using the method known as "the lecture"—delivering a set amount of material (aka, "covering") from the front of the classroom to a group of mostly quiet, note-taking students. Like greater profs before me, I am a converted lecturer.1
It was Spring 2012 when I went full-steam ahead with the flipped classroom idea for my Computational Fluid Dynamics course. I've written before about how this came about, but the impetus resulted from already having done the lecture capture, live, in a previous version of the CFD course. I uploaded the videos from that live lecture capture to YouTube (after minor editing and cutting into segments) where, since then, they have collected nearly 220,000 public views (checked 20 April'14). My challenge that semester was coming up with class activities—but that should be the topic of another post.
- AeroPy.
The problem with working out in industry is that you actually have to work. A few people on Facebook complain that 'the system' is keeping them down. Sorry. Not everyone gets to get promoted. You are not a special unique snowflake that gets every promotion and raise ever.
Good news is it's given South Park a great new season.
, and so they are forced to be involuntarily celibate.
Dear god, Please let Red Pill stick to Reddit.
There is equal amounts of bull shit on either side.
The people complaining about stuff like this don't have 'specific skills'.
I like:
1) Doing something once
2) Showing someone else how to do that so I can do 'something once' again.
The 'gig' economy is great for workers like this.
Where I'm paying them to do the work it's more than minimum wage. Look at what you can get on fiverr. I'm not talking about full time job I just need someone to write me a Python or C skeleton to my specifications.
When I look at how long it will take me to write a simple script to do some boring task automation vs paying someone $5 to do it, it's a no brainer.
My side jobs are contracted at $100/hr. There is a finite amount of time in the day and if I can pay someone to crank out something that isn't worth my time I'll do it.
If you are a programmer, this is what you are competing against. Slashdotters are going to have to justify their $30+/hr in other knowledge & skills.
Even basic stuff like FPGA programming is $5/these days.
I'm friends with the principal of a local "Tech" school. They are churning out 'apprenticed' programmers and IT staff. They're trained by local companies exactly what they need. Every single one of them is employed before they graduate and local industry is asking for more.
"Programming" isn't what it was 20 years ago. It's a trade. Not that there isn't a need for CS degrees but they aren't who I'm going to hire to make a new basic program in C. I hire $5/hr coders to get the boring/cheap stuff out of the way when starting a project.
> CS should be in K-12 schools
You think it's going to be Undergraduate CS? They're going to pitch it at the K-12 level.
Stuff like Snap Circuits isn't a BSEE. It's circuits for the kids.
K-12 CS isn't figuring out O(n). It's getting kids exposed to it young. A lot of slashdotters talk about how they got into STEM, by programming young.
SAS M.2 adapter. They already have M.2 SSD to 2.5" SATA III adapters.
I would fit 4x into a 3.5" drive and make a SSD NAS.
Google is going to come out with their own home automation suite like Amazon's Echo.
They bought GrandCentral years ago to turn into Google Voice. Their 'product' was the voice mail speech-to-text. They just wanted to train their voice systems.
Their 'Desktop' was a stop gap between being on the phone and being in the home. What ever demographic always used it, they're going to make a product and target it to them. They already know the age, geographic location, household, etc of everyone that uses their browser (and doesn't know how to disable them). That is going to be the core demographic
It's why Amazon Echo went to the people with Prime first. It was a limited Beta release and the households that bought Prime were likely the type to actually try out Amazon Echo for what Amazon is using it for.
Visual control is pretty good these days
You could program it to shoot anyone holding one of these things automatically.
Police liable for anything?
Lets be honest, this is America where police aren't liable for flash bangs.
Amazon was an expert of getting the widget to my door without me leaving my couch.
My time isn't free. Add up the time and fuel it takes to drive to Walmart the time it takes to shop Walmart and the time it takes sometimes just to check out. It's cheaper for me to have Amazon deliver a box of toilet paper exactly when I need it than to remember (and forget) to get some at Walmart.
Amazon's figured out the 'last mile' to the customer. Walmart still puts that on me to get it from the end of their supply chain. Amazon makes sure it gets to my door.
I'm waiting for someone to release reusable shipping containers. I should be able to schedule deliveries of products to my house not stand in line in my 'free time'.