The retarded parents that I "love" trhe most are the ones that bring babies and just sit there as they continually cry, or they bring toddlers that they just let scream and run around. I've seen some idiot parents even bring babies and toddlers to R-rated movies. It boggles my mind why the theater can even sell them the tickets.
Yeah I'm totally with you on using tools to build GUIs, and using libraries for other standard low-level stuff like threading and sockets. The problem is that they all seem so bloated and unnecessarily complex. For example QT is such a giant clusterfuck it even comes with its own freaking pre-compiler. I couldn't find anything out there that was just simple, efficient and not going down a road of giant bloat apparently for its own sake, so a long time ago I wrote my own and have used it for pretty much everything for years.
Significant numbers of Indians, Pakistanis and peoples of ex-colonies and British commonwealth countries like South Africa and Trinidad and Tobago were welcomed into the UK in WW2 and after, both to fight and help rebuild. Many that are in the UK today have been there for multiple generations already.
Of course there is. England, Northern Ireland and Wales won't suddenly cease to exist. The UK just wouldn't by definition include Scotland any more. The reality is that England is the UK's financial engine, and England has been financially supporting Scotland since at least 1707. The idea of Scotland gaining independence is like saying a person with no other income has just decided to be voluntarily independent from welfare.
If Scotland got independence they would financially become a 3rd world country overnight as their economy is based on only a few significant export industries. Oil is the biggest but independence means they'd lose its revenue since an independent Scotland wouldn't own or control North Sea oil or gas, or even still be able to use the Pound or Euro. All that has already been decided.
After independence, their main export would be food/drink(whisky) (£4.25 billion/year) then legal, accounting, management, architecture, engineering, technical testing and analysis activities (collectively, £2.3 billion), their total exports (includes other stuff like textiles and farming) would be an estimated £48.5 billion which isn;t sufficient for what they as a country need to survive independently.
Yes but Scotland doesn't own/control the North Sea fields. England does. An independent Scotland will get almost no income from the North Sea oil or gas.
Its wrong to say it was all about immigration, although thats how the remainers gratuitously painted it, in order to make the leavers appear to be racists. The reality is that back in the 1970's the UK signed an open borders trade deal with Europe (then called the EEC), which made perfect sense to everyone. What happened since then is that a series of politicians attempted to turn that agreement into a backdoor mechanism to becoming a federalist superstate with all government power devolved to a vast,corrupt bureaucratic nightmare based in Brussels, all without any recourse to the people. Thanks to Cameron, the people finally got a say in their own country's destiny just before it was too late. Mots Brexiters votes actually had very little to do with immigration.
I'm sure Netflix/Amazon etc have got their own political clout too. The only thing that gives Hollywood any power is their money. As soon as Hollywood becomes less profitable they also start loosing their political clout.
Just a thought but perhaps the government are tired of being manipulated by Hollywood, so are using Netflix et al as a proxy to knock Hollywood down a few pegs, and also undermine Hollywood's control over them. I mean Hollywood (or perhaps more accurately, Hollywood celebs) were pretty much the most vocal and rabid anti-Trump group out there.
>> I can take a machine learning library, stroke it a bit, and hand back a system that can solve problems for which I couldn't even begin to imagine a worthy algorithmic solution.
So what you've basically done is become familiar with the interfaces of a few libraries/packages, and you just glue those together instead of making anything yourself? Congrats you now look just like 99% of new graduates with minimal skills that claim to be software developers but are actually no more than package integrators. I can see you're actually miles ahead of them because you must have an actual clue about stuff from your asm/C days which many people working as developers never went through, however it sounds like your chosen approach means you probably don't look any different to them except in age and salary requirements) to technically illiterate HR people (i.e. just about all HR people).
>> It's probably best to be awake now, before your job goes away.
Actually I think if anything people with your approach are the ones that should be worried, since just doing package integration is very easily outsourced or automatable. It sounds like you haven't used any actual software development/engineering skills in a long time, so if any of the packages you rely on for your professional credibility go away, change in a bad direction or even just become not-cool, your whole career could suddenly be in the shit.
I doubt that. In a world increasingly full of software tools, the complexity is increasing not decreasing, so consequently is the need for software engineers.
I do believe we will come to a point where systems become so complex/expensive to maintain that some enlightened company will try totally ditching computers and actually get a net benefit, which will be the start of a new corporate trend.
I doubt that VERY much in the general sense. You/the world may have automated writing one part of one type of robots software, but that's probably about about it.
No, so I just googled it. It seems to be specifically a salesforce thing. Presuming you're talking about something else, (from the name I'm imagining something like a GUI with preprogrammed "lego blocks" of functionality that you plug together by dragging/dropping to create an app). If you mean that or something similar, then I can tell you' they've been talking about and trying to do this since at least as far back as the 80's, and it already been tried multiple times, and always failed, because its never actually code-free, and its result is never as optimal as what you can get from hand-writing code, especially for things like device drivers.
Not my experience at all. I'm significantly older than that and have people contacting me with job offers all the time. Actually I just quit my job yesterday to take another one.
> it's actually a magnet for a lot of great acting talent.
Understood, but it seems that the vast majority of wannabe actors move to L.A., do several years of demeaning low-paid jobs while going to endless casting auditions with never a positive result, then eventually get a clue, go back home and finally start working on a real career instead.
I'd say you can't really go wrong with Ubuntu at least as a basic introduction to Linux. Probably the first thing you'll wanna do is install Cinnamon desktop environment and use it instead of the default Unity one though.
Once you get comfortable with that, then you can try other distros that may be more optimized for specific jobs or for more experienced users.
The article is based on one massive, ludicruous presumption that we all actually want Hollywood to survive. Hollywood clearly have a stranglehold on the market, but the only output they can create is mindless, formulaic dross aimed at the lowest-common-denominator. They are also a breeding ground for radical left-wing socialists, scientologists, and talentless, shallow, manufactured "celebrities" that are famous just for their "lifestyle", not for actually achieving anything of real merit. I say the world, especially the US, would be a MUCH better place totally without Hollywood.
...to always get it wrong. I nearly always find they give ridiculously high scores to all the most undeserving utterly fomulaic Hollywood dross, and am frequently pleasantly surprised by the entertainment value of movies they give the very lowest scores to.
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The retarded parents that I "love" trhe most are the ones that bring babies and just sit there as they continually cry, or they bring toddlers that they just let scream and run around.
I've seen some idiot parents even bring babies and toddlers to R-rated movies. It boggles my mind why the theater can even sell them the tickets.
Yeah I'm totally with you on using tools to build GUIs, and using libraries for other standard low-level stuff like threading and sockets.
The problem is that they all seem so bloated and unnecessarily complex. For example QT is such a giant clusterfuck it even comes with its own freaking pre-compiler.
I couldn't find anything out there that was just simple, efficient and not going down a road of giant bloat apparently for its own sake, so a long time ago I wrote my own and have used it for pretty much everything for years.
Significant numbers of Indians, Pakistanis and peoples of ex-colonies and British commonwealth countries like South Africa and Trinidad and Tobago were welcomed into the UK in WW2 and after, both to fight and help rebuild. Many that are in the UK today have been there for multiple generations already.
>> Without Scotland, there is no UK.
Of course there is. England, Northern Ireland and Wales won't suddenly cease to exist. The UK just wouldn't by definition include Scotland any more. The reality is that England is the UK's financial engine, and England has been financially supporting Scotland since at least 1707.
The idea of Scotland gaining independence is like saying a person with no other income has just decided to be voluntarily independent from welfare.
If Scotland got independence they would financially become a 3rd world country overnight as their economy is based on only a few significant export industries. Oil is the biggest but independence means they'd lose its revenue since an independent Scotland wouldn't own or control North Sea oil or gas, or even still be able to use the Pound or Euro. All that has already been decided.
After independence, their main export would be food/drink(whisky) (£4.25 billion/year) then legal, accounting, management, architecture, engineering, technical testing and analysis activities (collectively, £2.3 billion), their total exports (includes other stuff like textiles and farming) would be an estimated £48.5 billion which isn;t sufficient for what they as a country need to survive independently.
Yes but Scotland doesn't own/control the North Sea fields. England does. An independent Scotland will get almost no income from the North Sea oil or gas.
Its wrong to say it was all about immigration, although thats how the remainers gratuitously painted it, in order to make the leavers appear to be racists.
The reality is that back in the 1970's the UK signed an open borders trade deal with Europe (then called the EEC), which made perfect sense to everyone.
What happened since then is that a series of politicians attempted to turn that agreement into a backdoor mechanism to becoming a federalist superstate with all government power devolved to a vast,corrupt bureaucratic nightmare based in Brussels, all without any recourse to the people.
Thanks to Cameron, the people finally got a say in their own country's destiny just before it was too late. Mots Brexiters votes actually had very little to do with immigration.
I'm sure Netflix/Amazon etc have got their own political clout too. The only thing that gives Hollywood any power is their money. As soon as Hollywood becomes less profitable they also start loosing their political clout.
Just a thought but perhaps the government are tired of being manipulated by Hollywood, so are using Netflix et al as a proxy to knock Hollywood down a few pegs, and also undermine Hollywood's control over them. I mean Hollywood (or perhaps more accurately, Hollywood celebs) were pretty much the most vocal and rabid anti-Trump group out there.
>> I can take a machine learning library, stroke it a bit, and hand back a system that can solve problems for which I couldn't even begin to imagine a worthy algorithmic solution.
So what you've basically done is become familiar with the interfaces of a few libraries/packages, and you just glue those together instead of making anything yourself? Congrats you now look just like 99% of new graduates with minimal skills that claim to be software developers but are actually no more than package integrators. I can see you're actually miles ahead of them because you must have an actual clue about stuff from your asm/C days which many people working as developers never went through, however it sounds like your chosen approach means you probably don't look any different to them except in age and salary requirements) to technically illiterate HR people (i.e. just about all HR people).
>> It's probably best to be awake now, before your job goes away.
Actually I think if anything people with your approach are the ones that should be worried, since just doing package integration is very easily outsourced or automatable. It sounds like you haven't used any actual software development/engineering skills in a long time, so if any of the packages you rely on for your professional credibility go away, change in a bad direction or even just become not-cool, your whole career could suddenly be in the shit.
> the value of software developers will decline.
I doubt that. In a world increasingly full of software tools, the complexity is increasing not decreasing, so consequently is the need for software engineers.
I do believe we will come to a point where systems become so complex/expensive to maintain that some enlightened company will try totally ditching computers and actually get a net benefit, which will be the start of a new corporate trend.
> We've automated writing robot software.
I doubt that VERY much in the general sense. You/the world may have automated writing one part of one type of robots software, but that's probably about about it.
If you're gonna be a dick then at least grow some balls and post as yourself not AC.
No, so I just googled it. It seems to be specifically a salesforce thing.
Presuming you're talking about something else, (from the name I'm imagining something like a GUI with preprogrammed "lego blocks" of functionality that you plug together by dragging/dropping to create an app). If you mean that or something similar, then I can tell you' they've been talking about and trying to do this since at least as far back as the 80's, and it already been tried multiple times, and always failed, because its never actually code-free, and its result is never as optimal as what you can get from hand-writing code, especially for things like device drivers.
Not my experience at all. I'm significantly older than that and have people contacting me with job offers all the time. Actually I just quit my job yesterday to take another one.
wake me up when they can replace software developers.
Thanks for proving my point.
> it's actually a magnet for a lot of great acting talent.
Understood, but it seems that the vast majority of wannabe actors move to L.A., do several years of demeaning low-paid jobs while going to endless casting auditions with never a positive result, then eventually get a clue, go back home and finally start working on a real career instead.
I would love to watch indie movies, but Hollywood has already made sure that they don't even get a chance to play in the vast majority of US theatres.
Why do you think I watch Fox News? Its just like all the other media outlets: just more shit designed to brainwash the masses.
I'd say you can't really go wrong with Ubuntu at least as a basic introduction to Linux. Probably the first thing you'll wanna do is install Cinnamon desktop environment and use it instead of the default Unity one though.
Once you get comfortable with that, then you can try other distros that may be more optimized for specific jobs or for more experienced users.
urgh. That is so NOT a good solution.
The article is based on one massive, ludicruous presumption that we all actually want Hollywood to survive.
Hollywood clearly have a stranglehold on the market, but the only output they can create is mindless, formulaic dross aimed at the lowest-common-denominator. They are also a breeding ground for radical left-wing socialists, scientologists, and talentless, shallow, manufactured "celebrities" that are famous just for their "lifestyle", not for actually achieving anything of real merit.
I say the world, especially the US, would be a MUCH better place totally without Hollywood.
It would be awesome for deploying in front of all those idiots that text and drive.
Congratiulations, you've won the prize for being the most clueless thing I've read today.
...to always get it wrong.
I nearly always find they give ridiculously high scores to all the most undeserving utterly fomulaic Hollywood dross, and am frequently pleasantly surprised by the entertainment value of movies they give the very lowest scores to.
Go ahead. I'm not stopping you from proving yourself to be an immature idiot.