I've never gotten into StarCraft. Probably because Blizzard's prices defy gravity then and now. Won't be seeing any Blizzard's titles for $5 at Steam's Black Friday sale.
The great news there for us technical folk is that if 20 programmers are working today, you can be sure they will need 40 in a few years to clean up the mess the 20 left.
Maybe, maybe not. High Frequency Trading is losing its luster and might be on the way out.
They don't get sick, take vacations, go on maternity leave, strike, ask for raises, or need benefits.
Robots required maintenance. If a robot goes out spec by the tiniest fraction that prevents it from functioning normally, someone is going to fix it. Robots fixing robots is quite a ways off in the future.
The US pays wages that limit our ability to compete in world trade.
Not quite. China is becoming too expensive to manufacture because laborers there want higher wages for a middle-class lifestyle. Manufacturing is coming back to the US but the new factories are highly automated. When John Deere opened a new factory, they had 10,000+ applications for 800 jobs.
The non working will simply not quietly starve to death or live in want.
Or join the underground economy by doing odd jobs for cash. I had an uncle who ran a landscaping business for cash under the table, his family drew welfare benefits and never filed taxes in 30 years. Just because the jobs don't officially exist doesn't mean people won't find a way to survive through the hard times.
Automation was supposed to be the end of that kind of thing but it just led to higher end jobs.
I'm reading "Chaos Monkeys: Obscene Fortune and Random Failure in Silicon Valley" by Antonio Garcia Martinez, where he saw a trading desk at Goldman Sach went from 20 traders and two programmers to two traders and 20 programmers. That's when he bailed out on Wall Street to go to Silicon Valley to get into ad clicks.
I came across a box of personal papers from the late 1990's that had print out of license keys for dozens of programs that I bought back then. Many of those programs have open source counterparts. Except for some specialized software, I generally don't buy software anymore.
I need to scratch Hadoop off my list of technologies that I need to read about because everyone else in the office is reading a particular Big Data book?
He's very much channeling the political will of the American working class, plus those of us fed up with the corruptness and political theater of the "establishment-media complex".
Uh, no. What Trump says and what he does are opposite things. He says "insurance for everyone," he supporting a healthcare bill that will take away insurance for 26M Americans. What the working class doesn't understand is that ObamaCare covers them, either directly through an exchange or indirectly through small business tax credits. They will get hit the hardest under TrumpCare.
Translation: "Fuck you, working class! My billionaire buddies and I are getting a $200K tax break that was funding ObamaCare."
Most baby boomers don't have their retirement in stocks anymore -- any decent financial manager would have converted the bulk into more stable investments long ago.
Not after the Great Recession. Some seniors have 95% of their portfolio in the stock market to juice returns.
As a moderate conservative and a NEVER TRUMP supporter, I want stop complaining about Trump. He's neither a conservative nor Republican, and, until a few short years ago, a Clinton Democrat.
No argument on the coffee, but likely they are riding on their parent's cell plan getting that unlimited data for $10-$15 bucks a month while Daddy pays the main fee.
My parents paid for my voice-only cellphone for ten years. The catch was to call my mother every day since my older brother couldn't be bothered. Those calls weren't easy when she was drunk and bitching about my brother, and quite painful in the weeks before she died from breast cancer. After she passed away, the cellphone got transferred into my name and I only had to call my father five days a week for eight years until six weeks before he passed away from throat cancer.
Kids have no money and are too stupid to realize why they still work at Starbucks with a college degree.
If they're working at Starbucks and have a college degree, you can't them kids. They're adults. Not every adult gets hired straight out of college. I worked as a kitchen cook for three years after I got my college degree and before I started my technical career in 1997.
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I've never gotten into StarCraft. Probably because Blizzard's prices defy gravity then and now. Won't be seeing any Blizzard's titles for $5 at Steam's Black Friday sale.
Nothing like running Quake with an updated executable on a modern GPU and getting 500+ FPS at 800 x 600.
The great news there for us technical folk is that if 20 programmers are working today, you can be sure they will need 40 in a few years to clean up the mess the 20 left.
Maybe, maybe not. High Frequency Trading is losing its luster and might be on the way out.
http://www.investopedia.com/news/high-frequency-trading-flash-boys-losing-steam/
Did the solar wind stop blowing in space? That could explain the negative sensor readings.
They don't get sick, take vacations, go on maternity leave, strike, ask for raises, or need benefits.
Robots required maintenance. If a robot goes out spec by the tiniest fraction that prevents it from functioning normally, someone is going to fix it. Robots fixing robots is quite a ways off in the future.
The US pays wages that limit our ability to compete in world trade.
Not quite. China is becoming too expensive to manufacture because laborers there want higher wages for a middle-class lifestyle. Manufacturing is coming back to the US but the new factories are highly automated. When John Deere opened a new factory, they had 10,000+ applications for 800 jobs.
The non working will simply not quietly starve to death or live in want.
Or join the underground economy by doing odd jobs for cash. I had an uncle who ran a landscaping business for cash under the table, his family drew welfare benefits and never filed taxes in 30 years. Just because the jobs don't officially exist doesn't mean people won't find a way to survive through the hard times.
Automation was supposed to be the end of that kind of thing but it just led to higher end jobs.
I'm reading "Chaos Monkeys: Obscene Fortune and Random Failure in Silicon Valley" by Antonio Garcia Martinez, where he saw a trading desk at Goldman Sach went from 20 traders and two programmers to two traders and 20 programmers. That's when he bailed out on Wall Street to go to Silicon Valley to get into ad clicks.
You mean humans that will accept deposits and dispense cash from my accounts? That's just crazy talk.
FTFY — I pay no penalty for using human tellers when visiting my credit union.
I came across a box of personal papers from the late 1990's that had print out of license keys for dozens of programs that I bought back then. Many of those programs have open source counterparts. Except for some specialized software, I generally don't buy software anymore.
So you admit that your claims of "best tool for the job" are bullshit. Thanks for playing, son.
You don't like like Java and Python 3 because they're not Python 2. Hmm... That's says lot, grandpa.
I need to scratch Hadoop off my list of technologies that I need to read about because everyone else in the office is reading a particular Big Data book?
When your drone goes outside to take a smoke break, keep them away from ammo dumps.
That is a high price to pay for having someone pay for your cellphone.
Family.
Are you homeless or in some other way destitute?
Nope. I was a late baby. I went off to college the same time my parents retired and moved away. Empty nest syndrome hit my mother hard.
Than is operator>= ()
Maybe you want memcmp ()
Uh, no. Try again.
http://english.stackexchange.com/questions/38917/using-compared-with-in-comparison-with-or-than-to-compare
He's very much channeling the political will of the American working class, plus those of us fed up with the corruptness and political theater of the "establishment-media complex".
Uh, no. What Trump says and what he does are opposite things. He says "insurance for everyone," he supporting a healthcare bill that will take away insurance for 26M Americans. What the working class doesn't understand is that ObamaCare covers them, either directly through an exchange or indirectly through small business tax credits. They will get hit the hardest under TrumpCare.
Translation: "Fuck you, working class! My billionaire buddies and I are getting a $200K tax break that was funding ObamaCare."
The 29% of Android devices with all security patches are iPhone users? Okay...
How else would you explain this discrepancy?
Those are probably owned by iPhone users.
I think there was an article on Slashdot a few days ago where the most likely age group to steal an ebook is rich people in their 40's.
How come nobody goes to see plays anymore? It used to be a point of pride to have a stage in your community for people to put on a play.
That's so elitist. Next thing you want is civics to be taught in school.
AKA Fascist
That's where Trump is taking America.
Most baby boomers don't have their retirement in stocks anymore -- any decent financial manager would have converted the bulk into more stable investments long ago.
Not after the Great Recession. Some seniors have 95% of their portfolio in the stock market to juice returns.
https://www.wsj.com/articles/stocks-have-tripled-since-crisis-but-low-rates-are-still-squeezing-savers-1488969009
As a moderate conservative and a NEVER TRUMP supporter, I want stop complaining about Trump. He's neither a conservative nor Republican, and, until a few short years ago, a Clinton Democrat.
No argument on the coffee, but likely they are riding on their parent's cell plan getting that unlimited data for $10-$15 bucks a month while Daddy pays the main fee.
My parents paid for my voice-only cellphone for ten years. The catch was to call my mother every day since my older brother couldn't be bothered. Those calls weren't easy when she was drunk and bitching about my brother, and quite painful in the weeks before she died from breast cancer. After she passed away, the cellphone got transferred into my name and I only had to call my father five days a week for eight years until six weeks before he passed away from throat cancer.
Kids have no money and are too stupid to realize why they still work at Starbucks with a college degree.
If they're working at Starbucks and have a college degree, you can't them kids. They're adults. Not every adult gets hired straight out of college. I worked as a kitchen cook for three years after I got my college degree and before I started my technical career in 1997.
We're overdue for a recession anyway. This will be the Trump Recession and not the Hillary Recession.