I'm sure the CIA, FBI and NSA enjoyed watching hackers behave like script kiddies in a computer store: "Woo-hoo! We hacked into Hillary's email server!! Oh, look!!! Emails that look like classified information!!!"
Since I already had an Associate of Arts degree, I wasn't required to take extra classes when I back to school ten years later to earn an Associate in Science in computer programming. I did take an all-day Saturday class in ceramics for three semesters, which I never got around to taking during my first tour through college.
That's funny! After 18 years in the I.T. field (including ten years of contract work), I'm sitting on my butt, getting paid $25/hour and reading Slashdot at work as a senior system admin. I must have done something right.
We have a glut of lawyers, which has nothing to do with computers. Good attorneys will always demand higher prices because they are better. Too many law schools are putting out too many graduates who can't find jobs in the legal profession.
My father graduated from the eighth grade, never went to high school or college, and left the military as a captain in the early 1950's. He spent the next 50 years in masonry construction for the same company, where he routinely corrected college-educated architects whenever he got his hands on the blueprints. The blueprints may be "perfect," but a 1/4-inch difference on the ground can be a costly mistake.
Community colleges in California are focused on transferring university bound students and training adults in new job skills.
I skipped going to high school, spent four years earning an associate degree in general education at the community college, and transferred to the university where I got kicked out in my junior year after burning out from five years of college. Playing MAGIC: The Gathering and RISK into the wee hours with my roommates may have been a contributing factor.
A decade later I went back to the community college to learn computer programming, which meant every flavor of Java as the department didn't have the money to renew the Microsoft site license for Visual Studio. When the site license got renewed, none of the computers could run Visual Studio.NET. I took two classes per semester, worked 80 hours per week as a video game tester, and occasionally taught Sunday school for five years. I made the president's list for maintaining a 4.0GPA in my major after graduation.
The funny thing is that I never worked as a programmer after school. I got into help desk support, liked the work, and done contract work for the last ten years. Now I'm doing computer security and write PowerShell scripts to automate repetitive tasks. All the computer theory that I would expect from a university program I taught myself.
I gave a trivial example where I wrote a Python that took 123 seconds to do one million dice rolls. I then use Cython to convert dice rolls into an C extension, which resulted in Python script that executed in two seconds. I didn't convert the entire Python script into an C extension. If the goal is to standardize the code base from C to Python, Cython can fix the performance issues.
I ran into a problem in Caesar III where I needed to build a city and a military to fend off an impending enemy forces. Except the enemy forces weren't in a hurry. By the time they showed up, my sprawling city left me incapable of fending off the enemy forces and I couldn't advance to the next scenario. So I did a Nero (without banging my mother). I went back to my earliest saved file, burned 2/3 of the city to the ground, rebuilt for a stronger military, and won the scenario.
I think recoding C code into Python just to standardize on a language, would be insanely idiotic.
Not quite. You can write a Python script and use Cython to convert part or all into a C extension. I did that for a trivial script to roll dice a million times, which produces a noticeable lag on on my AMD 3.2GHz quad-core processor. The Python script took 123 seconds. Converting the dice rolls into a C extension reduced the time to two seconds.
I'm not familiar with LabView. I just saw C and Java being replaced by Python. Depending the situation, it might work. Or might not. If the summary said, "we're moving away from a proprietary environment," I wouldn't be complaining about summary.
Or a hardware company being run by a marketing hack: "Python is new and popular! Let's get all our programmers and code base on Python yesterday!"
As the summary makes no justification for switching away from C and Java, I'm just assuming the worse possible reason for switching programming languages.
if successful the company is willing to migrate all code to Python
Sounds like a recipe for failure. While Python can do some amazing things, it's not total replacement for C and Java is all use cases. Summary makes no mention as to why Python should be the only programming language for this project. Maybe Python programmers are cheaper than C and Java programmers these days?
You don't need the federal government to build new football fields across the country. The local school boards are doing a fine job emulating California in that regard.
You were complaining that Schoolhouse Rock left out the horsetrading. I pointed that Schoolhouse Rock focused on positive themes during the 1976 Bicentennial Celebrations. Maybe Schoolhouse Rock should have done an episode on the three-fifths compromise.
I'm just a slave Yes, I'm only a slave And I'm sitting here on Capitol Hill Well, it's a long, long journey To the capital city It's a long, long wait While I'm worth only three-fifths of a white man But I know I'll be a free someday At least I hope and pray that I will But today I am still just a slave
And the solution you see to that is to give that same political culture complete control over our educational system???
As opposed to the local school board that can never find money to reduce class sizes and buy supplies for teachers, but has no trouble finding money to build a brand new football fieldl? I can't tell you how many times I've seen that played out in California.
You do realize that the Texas Board of Education decides what go into the textbooks not only for Texas but pretty much the rest of the country?
No matter where you live, if your children go to public schools, the textbooks they use were very possibly written under Texas influence. If they graduated with a reflexive suspicion of the concept of separation of church and state and an unexpected interest in the contributions of the National Rifle Association to American history, you know who to blame.
When it comes to meddling with school textbooks, Texas is both similar to other states and totally different. It's hardly the only one that likes to fiddle around with the material its kids study in class. The difference is due to size—4.8 million textbook-reading schoolchildren as of 2011—and the peculiarities of its system of government, in which the State Board of Education is selected in elections that are practically devoid of voters, and wealthy donors can chip in unlimited amounts of money to help their favorites win.
If you don't like how things are in one state, you are then free to move to another state which is more similar to your beliefs and style of living.
Or we could uniform laws, which we do as many states enact laws that are identical or similar to corresponding federal laws, and living in one state is really no different than living in any other state.
One summer as a teenager I stayed awake for seven days straight and slept three days straight. My parents were not amused. However, it did prepared me for working 48 hours straight as a lead video game tester, and getting up at 4:30AM for my current I.T. job.
That's fine in theory. That's not what happened historically over the last 239 years. The country got bigger, the government got bigger. You can't have limited government in a large country, especially with a population estimated to hit 400+ million in 2050.
For some reason, "Schoolhouse Rock" left out the arm-twisting, horse-trading, and other backroom dealing necessary to get a bill passed.
Schoolhouse Rock came out during the Bicentennial Year (1976) with a strong emphasis on positive themes. I don't think anyone back then wanted to re-visit "the arm-twisting, horse-trading, and other backroom dealing" behind the three-fifth compromise between the free states and the slave states for the U.S. Constitution. A compromise that led to a Civil War in the 1860's, the civil rights movement in the 1960's and the Black Lives Matter movement today.
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But you sill need five years of experience to get called in for a job interview.
I'm sure the CIA, FBI and NSA enjoyed watching hackers behave like script kiddies in a computer store: "Woo-hoo! We hacked into Hillary's email server!! Oh, look!!! Emails that look like classified information!!!"
Since I already had an Associate of Arts degree, I wasn't required to take extra classes when I back to school ten years later to earn an Associate in Science in computer programming. I did take an all-day Saturday class in ceramics for three semesters, which I never got around to taking during my first tour through college.
That's funny! After 18 years in the I.T. field (including ten years of contract work), I'm sitting on my butt, getting paid $25/hour and reading Slashdot at work as a senior system admin. I must have done something right.
A pure-sysadmin in a large organization is basically a computer janitor who cleans up after the technological elephants..
FTFY
We have a glut of lawyers, which has nothing to do with computers. Good attorneys will always demand higher prices because they are better. Too many law schools are putting out too many graduates who can't find jobs in the legal profession.
https://www.bostonglobe.com/opinion/2014/05/09/the-lawyer-bubble-pops-not-moment-too-soon/qAYzQ823qpfi4GQl2OiPZM/story.html
My father graduated from the eighth grade, never went to high school or college, and left the military as a captain in the early 1950's. He spent the next 50 years in masonry construction for the same company, where he routinely corrected college-educated architects whenever he got his hands on the blueprints. The blueprints may be "perfect," but a 1/4-inch difference on the ground can be a costly mistake.
Community colleges in California are focused on transferring university bound students and training adults in new job skills.
I skipped going to high school, spent four years earning an associate degree in general education at the community college, and transferred to the university where I got kicked out in my junior year after burning out from five years of college. Playing MAGIC: The Gathering and RISK into the wee hours with my roommates may have been a contributing factor.
A decade later I went back to the community college to learn computer programming, which meant every flavor of Java as the department didn't have the money to renew the Microsoft site license for Visual Studio. When the site license got renewed, none of the computers could run Visual Studio .NET. I took two classes per semester, worked 80 hours per week as a video game tester, and occasionally taught Sunday school for five years. I made the president's list for maintaining a 4.0GPA in my major after graduation.
The funny thing is that I never worked as a programmer after school. I got into help desk support, liked the work, and done contract work for the last ten years. Now I'm doing computer security and write PowerShell scripts to automate repetitive tasks. All the computer theory that I would expect from a university program I taught myself.
Python will be 20 years old in 2019. Programmers with 10+ years of Python experience shouldn't be hard to find.
I gave a trivial example where I wrote a Python that took 123 seconds to do one million dice rolls. I then use Cython to convert dice rolls into an C extension, which resulted in Python script that executed in two seconds. I didn't convert the entire Python script into an C extension. If the goal is to standardize the code base from C to Python, Cython can fix the performance issues.
I ran into a problem in Caesar III where I needed to build a city and a military to fend off an impending enemy forces. Except the enemy forces weren't in a hurry. By the time they showed up, my sprawling city left me incapable of fending off the enemy forces and I couldn't advance to the next scenario. So I did a Nero (without banging my mother). I went back to my earliest saved file, burned 2/3 of the city to the ground, rebuilt for a stronger military, and won the scenario.
I think recoding C code into Python just to standardize on a language, would be insanely idiotic.
Not quite. You can write a Python script and use Cython to convert part or all into a C extension. I did that for a trivial script to roll dice a million times, which produces a noticeable lag on on my AMD 3.2GHz quad-core processor. The Python script took 123 seconds. Converting the dice rolls into a C extension reduced the time to two seconds.
I'm not familiar with LabView. I just saw C and Java being replaced by Python. Depending the situation, it might work. Or might not. If the summary said, "we're moving away from a proprietary environment," I wouldn't be complaining about summary.
Or a hardware company being run by a marketing hack: "Python is new and popular! Let's get all our programmers and code base on Python yesterday!"
As the summary makes no justification for switching away from C and Java, I'm just assuming the worse possible reason for switching programming languages.
if successful the company is willing to migrate all code to Python
Sounds like a recipe for failure. While Python can do some amazing things, it's not total replacement for C and Java is all use cases. Summary makes no mention as to why Python should be the only programming language for this project. Maybe Python programmers are cheaper than C and Java programmers these days?
You don't need the federal government to build new football fields across the country. The local school boards are doing a fine job emulating California in that regard.
You were complaining that Schoolhouse Rock left out the horsetrading. I pointed that Schoolhouse Rock focused on positive themes during the 1976 Bicentennial Celebrations. Maybe Schoolhouse Rock should have done an episode on the three-fifths compromise.
I'm just a slave
Yes, I'm only a slave
And I'm sitting here on Capitol Hill
Well, it's a long, long journey
To the capital city
It's a long, long wait
While I'm worth only three-fifths of a white man
But I know I'll be a free someday
At least I hope and pray that I will
But today I am still just a slave
How many Americans died because of the three-fifths compromise? (Hint: The Civil War had ~750,000 deaths.)
And the solution you see to that is to give that same political culture complete control over our educational system???
As opposed to the local school board that can never find money to reduce class sizes and buy supplies for teachers, but has no trouble finding money to build a brand new football fieldl? I can't tell you how many times I've seen that played out in California.
You do realize that the Texas Board of Education decides what go into the textbooks not only for Texas but pretty much the rest of the country?
No matter where you live, if your children go to public schools, the textbooks they use were very possibly written under Texas influence. If they graduated with a reflexive suspicion of the concept of separation of church and state and an unexpected interest in the contributions of the National Rifle Association to American history, you know who to blame.
When it comes to meddling with school textbooks, Texas is both similar to other states and totally different. It's hardly the only one that likes to fiddle around with the material its kids study in class. The difference is due to size—4.8 million textbook-reading schoolchildren as of 2011—and the peculiarities of its system of government, in which the State Board of Education is selected in elections that are practically devoid of voters, and wealthy donors can chip in unlimited amounts of money to help their favorites win.
http://www.nybooks.com/articles/archives/2012/jun/21/how-texas-inflicts-bad-textbooks-on-us/
If you don't like how things are in one state, you are then free to move to another state which is more similar to your beliefs and style of living.
Or we could uniform laws, which we do as many states enact laws that are identical or similar to corresponding federal laws, and living in one state is really no different than living in any other state.
One summer as a teenager I stayed awake for seven days straight and slept three days straight. My parents were not amused. However, it did prepared me for working 48 hours straight as a lead video game tester, and getting up at 4:30AM for my current I.T. job.
That's fine in theory. That's not what happened historically over the last 239 years. The country got bigger, the government got bigger. You can't have limited government in a large country, especially with a population estimated to hit 400+ million in 2050.
Says you.
Actually, The New York Times. I couldn't find the link when I posted from work yesterday.
http://www.nytimes.com/2013/02/20/business/college-degree-required-by-increasing-number-of-companies.html
For some reason, "Schoolhouse Rock" left out the arm-twisting, horse-trading, and other backroom dealing necessary to get a bill passed.
Schoolhouse Rock came out during the Bicentennial Year (1976) with a strong emphasis on positive themes. I don't think anyone back then wanted to re-visit "the arm-twisting, horse-trading, and other backroom dealing" behind the three-fifth compromise between the free states and the slave states for the U.S. Constitution. A compromise that led to a Civil War in the 1860's, the civil rights movement in the 1960's and the Black Lives Matter movement today.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Three-Fifths_Compromise