Well, back then the Star Wars universe was fresh and that compensated for a lot and, as you say, editing saved a lot. I do agree that The Return of the Jedi fell short, I just did not know that George "Fuckup" Lucas was the reason. I had wondered why Episodes 4 and 5 were not affected so much by his lack of talent, but your explanation fixes that. Thanks!
Now, the universe is not fresh anymore at all and the new trilogy just copies earlier stuff and does handover to younger actors.
Apparently. I loved the original trilogy back when, but all this new, ahem, "stuff" leaves me entirely cold. No soul left, just bad storytelling, generic "Star Wars" decor and CGI demos. No, thanks.
Indeed. Or rather the ones running the parties already have them and have managed to compromise any rationality they may have had completely. So these people are right about being victims, they are just completely delusional of who they are victims of.
Well, from where I stand, Android and iPhone are both pretty bad and an utter disgrace. All expensive phones are targeted at ripping of the buyer. The only thing here is that there are no cheap (new) iPhones, which tells you something about Apple or rather their cult followers.
Oh yes. Fuckups trying very hard to convince themselves they are not fuckups, but without actually doing anything to change their actual status as fuckups. These people are hugely dangerous and responsible for the majority of the evil in the world, because it is them that support and bring to power the ones that should never have gotten power in the first place.
Anybody that tries this is already a critical thinker. A vast majority of Republicans do want a simple truth and they do not care whether it is faked or wrong as long as they can believe in it. Incidentally, a lot of Democrats are not much better.
The problem with this type of advice is that it does not reach the people that need it.
All the old flaws are coming back, because the younger generation of developers have in general much less of a clue than the ones that created the flaws originally. It is really incredible how utterly clueless many developers are today when it comes to security.
Or get set free after decades. All were convicted by that "beyond reasonable doubt" standard. The courts do not do good work finding the truth, and this guy's organization is likely not any better and probably far worse. What ever happened to peer review, independent repetition of analysis or experiment and generally the Scientific Method?
Funny. I am actually a Computer Scientist with an engineering degree in the field. So I am an actual engineer. The idea that an engineer needs a "license" is a US one, where the education-system is primitive.
I do disagree on the "brain wiring". First, it is known to not be genetic. And second, there is no known implication from "brain wiring" to "talent". Sure, rote skills do change the brain wiring, but even then the implication is the other way round. It is more like the person is programming their brain. But what is needed here is much more subtle.
That said, I fully agree that to be a good software developer or engineer or mathematician or the like, specific talent (whatever that actually is) is required and that "talent" cannot be learned. It seems to be more something a person brings into the world, by whatever (at this time unknown) mechanism.
Well, there is actually research on the topic, and one main contributor put it into a form that is pretty well readable. Some may object to the (clearly marked) personal comments and hence disregard the solid scientific core though (a specific effect of stupidity, namely creating a filter bubble). Anyways, here is the reference. I found it pretty enlightening as it put together quite a few observations I had already made: https://theauthoritarians.org/
The number of people that are really incapable but think they have it all figured out is apparently on the raise. Sure, most humans have been idiots throughout history, but whether they know it or think themselves some kind of genius is more environment-dependent. I guess we are seeing the front of the wave of children that have all been told they are special.
The problem is not the stupid, although that is impressive. The problem is the completely unwarranted inflated sense of his own skills. A Dunning-Kruger example case.
You can learn programming the same way you learn anything else, and there's no reason to teach it or evaluate it differently. It's not magic, and I think with time and a sane approach you could teach most people how to do it in a couple years.
Well, yes. On the level of a _technician_. Technicians are using known methods to solve known and well understood problems. That does not cut it unless it is really only simple business logic and generic web-applications the coder does. In actual reality, many coders work on the level of engineer and that is where you cannot teach things to everybody anymore, because actual, in-dept understanding is required. That is also the reason why so much code is so bad: Technicians doing the job of engineers and sometimes that of scientists. That cannot work.
Of course, the bombastic "teaching" method from the story is not going to make things better in any way.
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Well, back then the Star Wars universe was fresh and that compensated for a lot and, as you say, editing saved a lot. I do agree that The Return of the Jedi fell short, I just did not know that George "Fuckup" Lucas was the reason. I had wondered why Episodes 4 and 5 were not affected so much by his lack of talent, but your explanation fixes that. Thanks!
Now, the universe is not fresh anymore at all and the new trilogy just copies earlier stuff and does handover to younger actors.
Apparently. I loved the original trilogy back when, but all this new, ahem, "stuff" leaves me entirely cold. No soul left, just bad storytelling, generic "Star Wars" decor and CGI demos. No, thanks.
Thanks for demonstrating my point again.
And now you add prejudice along the lines of racism ("poorism"?), basically saying that the poor do it to themselves. That is pretty despicable.
Stay in your filter-bubble. You would be lost outside.
$349 is not "cheap" for a person with an average salary. But being out of touch with reality is one of the signs of a cult membership....
Indeed. Or rather the ones running the parties already have them and have managed to compromise any rationality they may have had completely. So these people are right about being victims, they are just completely delusional of who they are victims of.
Well, from where I stand, Android and iPhone are both pretty bad and an utter disgrace. All expensive phones are targeted at ripping of the buyer. The only thing here is that there are no cheap (new) iPhones, which tells you something about Apple or rather their cult followers.
Oh yes. Fuckups trying very hard to convince themselves they are not fuckups, but without actually doing anything to change their actual status as fuckups. These people are hugely dangerous and responsible for the majority of the evil in the world, because it is them that support and bring to power the ones that should never have gotten power in the first place.
Anybody that tries this is already a critical thinker. A vast majority of Republicans do want a simple truth and they do not care whether it is faked or wrong as long as they can believe in it. Incidentally, a lot of Democrats are not much better.
The problem with this type of advice is that it does not reach the people that need it.
All the old flaws are coming back, because the younger generation of developers have in general much less of a clue than the ones that created the flaws originally. It is really incredible how utterly clueless many developers are today when it comes to security.
... could just use a hammer. This is just another non-issue, blown completely out of proportion.
Obviously. But not well. 50M is laughable.
Google says 115M to 2M, so it clearly is an upcoming new way to write it...
True. Stupid and knowing it is not really stupid anymore as it allows you to compensate.
Sorry. I see so much application of it that I tend to forget it is still somewhat obscure. Thanks for posting the link yourself.
Ah, so he is just a dishonest lying scumbag, not a moron. I thought it was the second. Of course, he can be both.
Or get set free after decades. All were convicted by that "beyond reasonable doubt" standard. The courts do not do good work finding the truth, and this guy's organization is likely not any better and probably far worse. What ever happened to peer review, independent repetition of analysis or experiment and generally the Scientific Method?
Funny. I am actually a Computer Scientist with an engineering degree in the field. So I am an actual engineer. The idea that an engineer needs a "license" is a US one, where the education-system is primitive.
I do disagree on the "brain wiring". First, it is known to not be genetic. And second, there is no known implication from "brain wiring" to "talent". Sure, rote skills do change the brain wiring, but even then the implication is the other way round. It is more like the person is programming their brain. But what is needed here is much more subtle.
That said, I fully agree that to be a good software developer or engineer or mathematician or the like, specific talent (whatever that actually is) is required and that "talent" cannot be learned. It seems to be more something a person brings into the world, by whatever (at this time unknown) mechanism.
Well, there is actually research on the topic, and one main contributor put it into a form that is pretty well readable. Some may object to the (clearly marked) personal comments and hence disregard the solid scientific core though (a specific effect of stupidity, namely creating a filter bubble). Anyways, here is the reference. I found it pretty enlightening as it put together quite a few observations I had already made: https://theauthoritarians.org/
The number of people that are really incapable but think they have it all figured out is apparently on the raise. Sure, most humans have been idiots throughout history, but whether they know it or think themselves some kind of genius is more environment-dependent. I guess we are seeing the front of the wave of children that have all been told they are special.
The problem is not the stupid, although that is impressive. The problem is the completely unwarranted inflated sense of his own skills. A Dunning-Kruger example case.
You can learn programming the same way you learn anything else, and there's no reason to teach it or evaluate it differently. It's not magic, and I think with time and a sane approach you could teach most people how to do it in a couple years.
Well, yes. On the level of a _technician_. Technicians are using known methods to solve known and well understood problems. That does not cut it unless it is really only simple business logic and generic web-applications the coder does. In actual reality, many coders work on the level of engineer and that is where you cannot teach things to everybody anymore, because actual, in-dept understanding is required. That is also the reason why so much code is so bad: Technicians doing the job of engineers and sometimes that of scientists. That cannot work.
Of course, the bombastic "teaching" method from the story is not going to make things better in any way.
Indeed. That is no way to teach engineers. Even less so in a society that critically depends on the quality of its engineers.