That, and there are a lot of techies that don't have fast enough internet here in KC. The best AT&T can do is 6mb. The best anyone else can do is 10. Infrastructure around here is ancient and antiquated. So Google is positioned to make a big difference in the lives of every day users.
I will make sure to login to Slashdot and let you know exactly how fast my new internet connection is. I may gloat about it a little, but you'll survive.
Look, this whole business of piracy is a ruse. I know it, and you know it. Let's stop the lying and the code Hollywood code speak for a minute and just admit that what we're talking about has nothing to do with intellectual property, and it certainly has nothing to do with people "stealing" movies and music. If the whole SOPA and PIPA thing has taught us nothing, it's that Hollywood is upset because a) it doesn't drive popular culture anymore, and b) it wants to kill the internet so you have no choice but to buy movies again. So when they talk about piracy, what they're actually saying is that you're a pirate for choosing other forms of entertainment. You're a pirate for ignoring them. Until such time as you buy from them as regularly and through the same channels that you used to, you'll be a pirate, and they'll put every American in prison for it if they have to. There's nothing morally wrong with choosing not to buy Hollywood movies, or pre-packaged auto tuned music. There's nothing reprehensible about choosing the consume other things like indy films, and books from smaller publishers over Hollywood blockbusters or Harry Potter. The problem will not be solved by making better services for movies that nobody wants to see anymore, or by prosecuting every internet user in existence. The problem that their experiencing won't be stopped by fucking up the internet, and making free speech a liability. The cat's out of the bag now, and the only way for Hollywood to survive is by adapting and changing their business model. But until such time as I'm a high powered Hollywood lobbyist... how people consume their media, and whom they acquire it from is not my problem. I just wish they would stop being disingenuous, and say what they mean, honestly, and in a transparent, open way. But they won't, because even the idiots in Washington wouldn't take it seriously.
I feel like there's a lot of possibility in the future of software. Still very little serious computing going on with Android and iOS, even though they're both making inroads to more serious devices. Web based software has been making strides over the last couple of years too, but there are still things that don't really make sense to do on the server. There are fewer still that people have put out there. The possibilities for new and exciting web apps are right now are incredible. So I think America certainly has a future there. Aside from software, someone has to manage these projects. Someone has to market them. Someone has to provide the network, and the infrastructure. Not to mention software that has it's own platform, like you mentioned. There's a lot of ecosystem space around this idea, and I think it's clear that America has a future here.
We've been doing cross browser development for years. This is pretty much the same thing. Only without the ability to copy and paste things in the ui itself. I'm still waiting for these mobile platforms to catch up to where webtv was a year after microsoft purchased them.
Yeah but the evidence against it is shoddy too. And the big problem with evidence against climate change, is one of credibility. These are the same people who are against the idea are also the people who are calling in their "photoshop experts" to examine Obama's birth certificate.
They will. Or they'll hunt them down and make them stand trial. These are people who can find nazis in ohio fifty years after the fact. And you're going to piss them off? Yeah, good luck with that.
The only real reason to use Dreamweaver is because it's far and away the best css editor on the market, in my opinion. It has a lot of asp/php code generation in it, but you're not going to find that anywhere. There was a code generator called Codecharge that was pretty good, had the code generation, but I didn't like the wysiwyg on it.
If you want a pretty good css editor, there's Amaya from the W3c. It's clunkier than Dreamweaver, but it uses a lot of the same parts. If you like the css editor in Dreamweaver, you'll find the wysiwyg and css editor in Amaya workable, but you don't want to put anything other than markup into it. I wouldn't put php code in Amaya.
As far as source code editors: Netbeans is still my favorite source code editor. It's better than Dreamweaver, and more powerful than Eclipse, in my opinion.
Good luck on the transition.
If you want to advance, don't become especially good at anything technical. Have problems, make stupid mistakes.
If you're a really good programmer under 40, it's a dead end job.
No, I think you're missing it.
The world does need more low quality code if we're all going to continue to be gainfully employed. Without really bad code to fix, where would all the lucrative rewriting work come from? I for one welcome our low skilled friends in new york.
I think when Bloomberg says "good jobs," he means what people with no training or skill would consider "good jobs." Entry level stuff. Damn nerds at Slashdot getting in a huff over their esoteric little programming cults. Nobody's taking our jobs. The cheap Indians though, maybe they'll have something to worry about, but I doubt it.
Look, you seriously don't need to know a lot to get started. Some people are talented enough to learn as they go.
And just because you learn something doesn't mean you're going to enter one of the most competitive development marketplaces in the world to do it professionally. Those that do probably would have anyway.
I would like to see programming in highschools. Seriously teach it to everyone, like Spanish. You learn things that are absolutely critical in life when you learn how to program, and a lot of supposedly normal well adjusted people are lacking some of these basic analytical and coping skills. Programming teaches problem solving, patience, linear thinking, humility, and an eye for detail. People that are artistically inclined will find that programming skills make them better artists. People who are not artically inclined will find that programming skills make them better people. Those are the things you take with you, even if you can't remember how to output hello world in base64 a year later.
Maybe I'm being narrow minded and biased, but I'm not seeing the downside.
Dark energy and dark matter are simply lazy science.
The problem is that physics is wrong, or at least incomplete, not that there's some invisible force guiding matter to do strange things that leave only highly questionable evidence behind.
Yeah, but it's not "oh crap, this is going to be a hassle," it's more like "Aw crap, I'm going to debters prison."
Hassle doesn't even begin to describe it.
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Oh dude, you're absolutely right. It's terrible. Horrid even. The job market sucks. It's the worst there is. Seriously, don't bother coming here.
That, and there are a lot of techies that don't have fast enough internet here in KC. The best AT&T can do is 6mb. The best anyone else can do is 10. Infrastructure around here is ancient and antiquated. So Google is positioned to make a big difference in the lives of every day users.
I will make sure to login to Slashdot and let you know exactly how fast my new internet connection is. I may gloat about it a little, but you'll survive.
Look, this whole business of piracy is a ruse. I know it, and you know it. Let's stop the lying and the code Hollywood code speak for a minute and just admit that what we're talking about has nothing to do with intellectual property, and it certainly has nothing to do with people "stealing" movies and music. If the whole SOPA and PIPA thing has taught us nothing, it's that Hollywood is upset because a) it doesn't drive popular culture anymore, and b) it wants to kill the internet so you have no choice but to buy movies again. So when they talk about piracy, what they're actually saying is that you're a pirate for choosing other forms of entertainment. You're a pirate for ignoring them. Until such time as you buy from them as regularly and through the same channels that you used to, you'll be a pirate, and they'll put every American in prison for it if they have to. There's nothing morally wrong with choosing not to buy Hollywood movies, or pre-packaged auto tuned music. There's nothing reprehensible about choosing the consume other things like indy films, and books from smaller publishers over Hollywood blockbusters or Harry Potter. The problem will not be solved by making better services for movies that nobody wants to see anymore, or by prosecuting every internet user in existence. The problem that their experiencing won't be stopped by fucking up the internet, and making free speech a liability. The cat's out of the bag now, and the only way for Hollywood to survive is by adapting and changing their business model. But until such time as I'm a high powered Hollywood lobbyist... how people consume their media, and whom they acquire it from is not my problem. I just wish they would stop being disingenuous, and say what they mean, honestly, and in a transparent, open way. But they won't, because even the idiots in Washington wouldn't take it seriously.
Darn
Right. And as we all recall, Facebook was initially funded by the NSA's venture capitol arm too. Same for twitter.
I feel like there's a lot of possibility in the future of software. Still very little serious computing going on with Android and iOS, even though they're both making inroads to more serious devices. Web based software has been making strides over the last couple of years too, but there are still things that don't really make sense to do on the server. There are fewer still that people have put out there. The possibilities for new and exciting web apps are right now are incredible. So I think America certainly has a future there. Aside from software, someone has to manage these projects. Someone has to market them. Someone has to provide the network, and the infrastructure. Not to mention software that has it's own platform, like you mentioned. There's a lot of ecosystem space around this idea, and I think it's clear that America has a future here.
but first I need to consult with the spirits.
We've been doing cross browser development for years. This is pretty much the same thing. Only without the ability to copy and paste things in the ui itself. I'm still waiting for these mobile platforms to catch up to where webtv was a year after microsoft purchased them.
Sounds like another proof for the "expanding earth" theory. Interesting stuff.
Yeah but the evidence against it is shoddy too. And the big problem with evidence against climate change, is one of credibility. These are the same people who are against the idea are also the people who are calling in their "photoshop experts" to examine Obama's birth certificate.
Ha! Inside Israeli joke! Funny! True though.
They will. Or they'll hunt them down and make them stand trial. These are people who can find nazis in ohio fifty years after the fact. And you're going to piss them off? Yeah, good luck with that.
And one of the big reasons I gave up Desktop Linux.
The only real reason to use Dreamweaver is because it's far and away the best css editor on the market, in my opinion. It has a lot of asp/php code generation in it, but you're not going to find that anywhere. There was a code generator called Codecharge that was pretty good, had the code generation, but I didn't like the wysiwyg on it. If you want a pretty good css editor, there's Amaya from the W3c. It's clunkier than Dreamweaver, but it uses a lot of the same parts. If you like the css editor in Dreamweaver, you'll find the wysiwyg and css editor in Amaya workable, but you don't want to put anything other than markup into it. I wouldn't put php code in Amaya. As far as source code editors: Netbeans is still my favorite source code editor. It's better than Dreamweaver, and more powerful than Eclipse, in my opinion. Good luck on the transition.
It's a terrible code editor.
Ha! Zontar lives! Good one old friend.
If you want to advance, don't become especially good at anything technical. Have problems, make stupid mistakes. If you're a really good programmer under 40, it's a dead end job.
This one needs to be modded up. Anything that brings more low level programming jobs to America by increasing the labor force is a good thing.
No, I think you're missing it. The world does need more low quality code if we're all going to continue to be gainfully employed. Without really bad code to fix, where would all the lucrative rewriting work come from? I for one welcome our low skilled friends in new york.
I think when Bloomberg says "good jobs," he means what people with no training or skill would consider "good jobs." Entry level stuff. Damn nerds at Slashdot getting in a huff over their esoteric little programming cults. Nobody's taking our jobs. The cheap Indians though, maybe they'll have something to worry about, but I doubt it.
And you call yourselves nerds...
Look, you seriously don't need to know a lot to get started. Some people are talented enough to learn as they go.
And just because you learn something doesn't mean you're going to enter one of the most competitive development marketplaces in the world to do it professionally. Those that do probably would have anyway.
I would like to see programming in highschools. Seriously teach it to everyone, like Spanish. You learn things that are absolutely critical in life when you learn how to program, and a lot of supposedly normal well adjusted people are lacking some of these basic analytical and coping skills. Programming teaches problem solving, patience, linear thinking, humility, and an eye for detail. People that are artistically inclined will find that programming skills make them better artists. People who are not artically inclined will find that programming skills make them better people. Those are the things you take with you, even if you can't remember how to output hello world in base64 a year later.
Maybe I'm being narrow minded and biased, but I'm not seeing the downside.
Yep. They're rolling out in my neighborhood, here in Kansas City in March. I love Google.
Dark energy and dark matter are simply lazy science. The problem is that physics is wrong, or at least incomplete, not that there's some invisible force guiding matter to do strange things that leave only highly questionable evidence behind.
Yeah, but it's not "oh crap, this is going to be a hassle," it's more like "Aw crap, I'm going to debters prison." Hassle doesn't even begin to describe it.