That's actually, in many ways, the problem. If the Constitution were written out in far more formal language, there would be less wiggle room and thus less need for interpretation.
Indeed, what a terrible problem. If only there was some mechanism to, I don't know, change the constitution. To change the language it contains to meet our needs, particularly when we find a certain part of it to be somehow lacking. Perhaps we could call these changes amendments.
No, what a silly idea. It's much easier to simply "interpret" the plain English until it means what we want it to mean. And they called it a country of laws, not men...
My understanding is that the overwhelming majority of those jobs have moved overseas, specifically to China. While I'm not opposed to moving abroad to follow the work, I don't think Chinese wages have quite caught up to those in the west.
I think where I am getting stuck is that there are a million different languages--if I learn one, I just want it to be useful and valuable.
There's one big reason why you shouldn't get too hung up on picking a first language: learning a language isn't nearly as hard as learning to program. When you're first learning, you will only be using Python (or whatever language you end up deciding on) to implement the programming concepts that are your true subject of study. Learning about the concept of iterative control structures is more work than learning the syntax of a for loop. This is why learning your second (and any subsequent) language is significantly easier that learning your first; you're only learning a language, not the whole concept of programming.
Disclaimer: Slightly oversimplified. If you start with Pascal, you may have no idea what to do with Lisp.
I've been coding since I was 14. I still code in my spare time sometimes. I love tinkering, solving problems. I just hate where "enterprise" systems have headed. To each their own, I guess.
I'd take a 50% pay cut to code for systems where I can actually understand the hardware. Seriously.
I was under the impression that embedded software development jobs died hand in hand with leather, cocaine, hairspray, and everything else from the 80s. Please, for the love of god, tell me I'm mistaken!
[Bonus points for positions in or near New York City, San Diego, or Denver]
Congratulations on finding something you can live with.
I'm coming up on my 5 year anniversary at my current job, which means it's just about time to jump ship. No idea what I'll be doing next, but looking through job postings makes me think anywhere else will be just as bad, if not worse.
My apologies, I try not to let my cynicism get the best of me. Even as I was clicking Submit, I knew I had failed this time around.
I didn't mean to disparage the field of IT, as I doubt I could cut it there myself. It's simply a different field than software development, even though the two are often conflated. I was merely pointing out that your submission specifically identified IT as an industry of interest, not software development. Additionally, you implied that you weren't already a coder. If someone says they want to be a car mechanic, pointing them towards a career in mechanical engineering isn't exactly helpful (particularly if they implied that they didn't have any sort of engineering background). Similarly, that doesn't mean that one field is necessarily superior to the other. Just like car mechanics don't really know shit about mechanical engineering (unless by coincidence), it's just as true that mechanical engineers don't know shit about fixing a car (again, unless by coincidence). I hope I didn't come across as some kind of developer elitist, as that's not at all what I intended.
I've never worked in IT, opting to stay on the development side, myself. Most of what I know about IT I've learned secondhand, much of it from slashdot.
That being said, I'm under the impression that if you're competent with computers, a lack of certs shouldn't be too much of a setback. Hopefully others are addressing this issue in more detail.
In any case, I wish you luck. Not so much with breaking into IT specifically, but more with finding employment that you find satisfactory.
How Do I Escape My Tech Career At 30?
I'm 30 and hate computers with a passion. I used to love them, but then money got involved, and now I want nothing more than to punch through the screen of any laptop I see. Is it too late for me to avoid suicide? Has anyone in the community managed to escape the bondage of the keyboard and trackpad and find a fulfilling career that enables them to support themselves and their family without daily stifling back tears of rage provoked by incompetent management?
I can't handle 40 hours of sedation every week for the rest of my life. I chose to work in the defense industry specifically because I thought it would afford me opportunities to work on exciting high-tech shit. That bubble's been burst for some time now.
I'm already "principal software developer" (team lead?); I really, really, really have no interested in moving over to management. I'm sure I could love being a developer if there were any jobs coding assembly, C, hell even perl. It's 2014 though. The era of coding is virtually gone. All we do now is beat various frameworks into submission. The influx of buzzwords over the last decade or so has really made it unbearable, adding insult to injury. Fuck Spring, fuck agile, and fuck this whole industry.
Ironically, I used to do menial electrical work after high school. At the time, I thought it was horrible. The grass is always greener...
He said he can't even code. What kind of contract work is he going to find? Private tutor for some rich fuck's kids?
If your tech knowledge consists of clicking "Next" on a Microsoft installer, you're not heading for a career at Google.
I'm surprised I haven't been modded into oblivion for not being a part of the "everyone is a special snowflake" movement. The world needs some people to do shitty work, and some people are only qualified to do shitty work. No amount of "you get a gold star" spin will change that fact.
1) I wasn't talking to you.
2) I didn't so much as bring up evolution.
3) So far, the discourse has been rather measured. You're the one trying to incite a flame war.
4) I'm assuming you meant fascist. Facism is discrimination based on the perceived attractiveness of a face, according to Urban Dictionary.
Withholding further comment because I only feed quality trolls. Only a snack for you.
Personally, I believe that the benefits you list can be achieved with relaxation, which will not create an addiction.
You say that as though consumption of cannabis (calling it marijuana when the rest of your post isn't written in Spanish makes no sense) leads to addiction. It doesn't, as it is not possible to develop chemical dependency on cannabis.
Of course, if by "addiction" you didn't mean "chemical dependency", then indeed it's also possible to become "addicted" to relaxation (or any other pleasurable activity).
Also, your post is hilarious. Those "drawbacks" that you list are straight out of Reefer Madness. You come across as either an ignorant clown or a subtle troll.
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That's actually, in many ways, the problem. If the Constitution were written out in far more formal language, there would be less wiggle room and thus less need for interpretation.
Indeed, what a terrible problem. If only there was some mechanism to, I don't know, change the constitution. To change the language it contains to meet our needs, particularly when we find a certain part of it to be somehow lacking. Perhaps we could call these changes amendments.
No, what a silly idea. It's much easier to simply "interpret" the plain English until it means what we want it to mean. And they called it a country of laws, not men...
Mod parent up.
The constitution was made to be amended, not interpreted.
It's written in English, and I'm literate. No interpreter needed.
... oh... okay...
That's why we're "a country of laws, not of men".
I lolled. Oh how I wish this were true. It hasn't been the case for over a decade.
My understanding is that the overwhelming majority of those jobs have moved overseas, specifically to China. While I'm not opposed to moving abroad to follow the work, I don't think Chinese wages have quite caught up to those in the west.
I think where I am getting stuck is that there are a million different languages--if I learn one, I just want it to be useful and valuable.
There's one big reason why you shouldn't get too hung up on picking a first language: learning a language isn't nearly as hard as learning to program. When you're first learning, you will only be using Python (or whatever language you end up deciding on) to implement the programming concepts that are your true subject of study. Learning about the concept of iterative control structures is more work than learning the syntax of a for loop. This is why learning your second (and any subsequent) language is significantly easier that learning your first; you're only learning a language, not the whole concept of programming.
Disclaimer: Slightly oversimplified. If you start with Pascal, you may have no idea what to do with Lisp.
I've been coding since I was 14. I still code in my spare time sometimes. I love tinkering, solving problems. I just hate where "enterprise" systems have headed. To each their own, I guess.
Well, even the Dallas Semiconductor TINI can run Java. Never say never.
Good luck, brother.
Where?!
I'd take a 50% pay cut to code for systems where I can actually understand the hardware. Seriously.
I was under the impression that embedded software development jobs died hand in hand with leather, cocaine, hairspray, and everything else from the 80s. Please, for the love of god, tell me I'm mistaken!
[Bonus points for positions in or near New York City, San Diego, or Denver]
Congratulations on finding something you can live with.
I'm coming up on my 5 year anniversary at my current job, which means it's just about time to jump ship. No idea what I'll be doing next, but looking through job postings makes me think anywhere else will be just as bad, if not worse.
Perhaps I can program tractors to traverse an optimal path through the fields when plowing? :P
My apologies, I try not to let my cynicism get the best of me. Even as I was clicking Submit, I knew I had failed this time around.
I didn't mean to disparage the field of IT, as I doubt I could cut it there myself. It's simply a different field than software development, even though the two are often conflated. I was merely pointing out that your submission specifically identified IT as an industry of interest, not software development. Additionally, you implied that you weren't already a coder. If someone says they want to be a car mechanic, pointing them towards a career in mechanical engineering isn't exactly helpful (particularly if they implied that they didn't have any sort of engineering background). Similarly, that doesn't mean that one field is necessarily superior to the other. Just like car mechanics don't really know shit about mechanical engineering (unless by coincidence), it's just as true that mechanical engineers don't know shit about fixing a car (again, unless by coincidence). I hope I didn't come across as some kind of developer elitist, as that's not at all what I intended.
I've never worked in IT, opting to stay on the development side, myself. Most of what I know about IT I've learned secondhand, much of it from slashdot.
That being said, I'm under the impression that if you're competent with computers, a lack of certs shouldn't be too much of a setback. Hopefully others are addressing this issue in more detail.
In any case, I wish you luck. Not so much with breaking into IT specifically, but more with finding employment that you find satisfactory.
Sounds like a new Ask Slashdot is brewing:
How Do I Escape My Tech Career At 30?
I'm 30 and hate computers with a passion. I used to love them, but then money got involved, and now I want nothing more than to punch through the screen of any laptop I see. Is it too late for me to avoid suicide? Has anyone in the community managed to escape the bondage of the keyboard and trackpad and find a fulfilling career that enables them to support themselves and their family without daily stifling back tears of rage provoked by incompetent management?
I can't handle 40 hours of sedation every week for the rest of my life. I chose to work in the defense industry specifically because I thought it would afford me opportunities to work on exciting high-tech shit. That bubble's been burst for some time now.
I'm already "principal software developer" (team lead?); I really, really, really have no interested in moving over to management. I'm sure I could love being a developer if there were any jobs coding assembly, C, hell even perl. It's 2014 though. The era of coding is virtually gone. All we do now is beat various frameworks into submission. The influx of buzzwords over the last decade or so has really made it unbearable, adding insult to injury. Fuck Spring, fuck agile, and fuck this whole industry.
Ironically, I used to do menial electrical work after high school. At the time, I thought it was horrible. The grass is always greener...
He said he can't even code. What kind of contract work is he going to find? Private tutor for some rich fuck's kids?
If your tech knowledge consists of clicking "Next" on a Microsoft installer, you're not heading for a career at Google.
I'm surprised I haven't been modded into oblivion for not being a part of the "everyone is a special snowflake" movement. The world needs some people to do shitty work, and some people are only qualified to do shitty work. No amount of "you get a gold star" spin will change that fact.
I'm 31 and seriously looking into getting out of software development.
It was cool when I was 14. It was still doable when I was 23. Now it's soul-crushing.
I wish I was a farmer or a carpenter.
You're talking about breaking into the IT industry, not politics.
Start applying for help desk jobs. Yes, it really is that simple.
1) I wasn't talking to you.
2) I didn't so much as bring up evolution.
3) So far, the discourse has been rather measured. You're the one trying to incite a flame war.
4) I'm assuming you meant fascist. Facism is discrimination based on the perceived attractiveness of a face, according to Urban Dictionary.
Withholding further comment because I only feed quality trolls. Only a snack for you.
Personally, I believe that the benefits you list can be achieved with relaxation, which will not create an addiction.
You say that as though consumption of cannabis (calling it marijuana when the rest of your post isn't written in Spanish makes no sense) leads to addiction. It doesn't, as it is not possible to develop chemical dependency on cannabis.
Of course, if by "addiction" you didn't mean "chemical dependency", then indeed it's also possible to become "addicted" to relaxation (or any other pleasurable activity).
Also, your post is hilarious. Those "drawbacks" that you list are straight out of Reefer Madness. You come across as either an ignorant clown or a subtle troll.
Don't be mad at Apple... EVERY company does this.
Don't be mad at the Steubenville rapists... EVERY rapist does this.
His driving etiquette was apparent from "Re:"+${previousPostersSubject}?
Why are you a Creationist?