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And you think this is limited to just IT?
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Learning to code with python is like learning to swim with those little arm floaties. It gives you undeserved confidence and will eventually drown you. - DangerBunny
Artificial intelligence is the only remedy for natural stupidity. - CDP1802
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Why I'm unhappy:
0) Technology moves to quickly. We don't have time to become truly proficient before something new replaces it.
1) The tech we do have is often half-baked, and the owners of that tech are generally not receptive to maintaining their products
2) Security concerns have become so burdensome that we almost can't develop any more, and it actually adversely affects the SDLC
3) Co-workers are generally in a comfort zone that prevents them from advocating for significant change, even when there is an obvious need
4) Nobody codes on their own at home any more I currently work with nine other devs, and I'm the ONLY one that codes at home as a hobby or to learn new stuff (that I need for work).
".45 ACP - because shooting twice is just silly" - JSOP, 2010 ----- You can never have too much ammo - unless you're swimming, or on fire. - JSOP, 2010 ----- When you pry the gun from my cold dead hands, be careful - the barrel will be very hot. - JSOP, 2013
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For 0 and 1, I think in part the fault lies with #4 - specifically, those that still code at home.
#3 - I (or someone) could write volumes on how workers are beaten into submission, starting from early childhood and parenting, then our educational systems, and finally the cubicle rat maze where the managers get the windows, all designed to subliminally (or overtly) let you know who's really in power. And it ain't you. For all the hype about innovation that is vomited up in the tech rags on a daily basis, the reality is that innovation threatens those in power. Same could be said about proficiency, because proficiency leads to innovation.
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Learning to code with python is like learning to swim with those little arm floaties. It gives you undeserved confidence and will eventually drown you. - DangerBunny
Artificial intelligence is the only remedy for natural stupidity. - CDP1802
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#realJSOP wrote: 4) Nobody codes on their own at home any more I currently work with nine other devs, and I'm the ONLY one that codes at home as a hobby or to learn new stuff (that I need for work). In my old age, I admittedly don't do this as much anymore, however with one or two exceptions, the developers I respect the most all do some sort of techno-geek tinkering at home.
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I code my ass off and maintain a 13-computer network at home.
".45 ACP - because shooting twice is just silly" - JSOP, 2010 ----- You can never have too much ammo - unless you're swimming, or on fire. - JSOP, 2010 ----- When you pry the gun from my cold dead hands, be careful - the barrel will be very hot. - JSOP, 2013
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In other news, narcissists upset at not being praised every second of the day.
(Snark aside, it is irritating for sales to be congratulated for "job well done" with a product I wrote. On the other hand, if they keep writing me checks, that's okay.)
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It took nearly five years into the internet’s life before anyone made a concerted effort to archive it. Much of our earliest online activity has disappeared. Because we didn't think it would amount to anything?
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Auntie said: Much of our earliest online activity has disappeared. ... And how many people wake up every day and praise the Lord for this?
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Except pretty much most of Amazon.
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Which kind of explains why the rest of it is gone (Beware the Monolith!)
TTFN - Kent
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Scientists at the Universities of Birmingham, Bristol and Colorado, Boulder have moved a step closer to developing the next generation of data storage and processing devices, using an emerging science called skyrmionics. You can store data in that Icelandic yogurt?
I think I did a Skyrim "joke" last time they came up, so I decided to spread the lack of humour around.
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They're wasting their time.
AI and icons are the way of the future.
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For 30 years, we’ve bolstered developer stereotypes: a monoculture of introverted, technical wizards, who want little involvement with the business and are perceived to be merely “coders of algorithms” who will get the job done as long as there’s enough caffeine and snacks. "This is the modern world that I've learnt about"
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I don't see much point in reading the article, because the bit you've quoted is so unarguably true that it's not worth the bother of reading arguments against it.
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> Developers are gaining more awareness, involvement, and engagement...
Geez, what are we, a lower life form?
> ...within the open source community.
OK, what? The OS community is built by developers. What did we do, create the OS community in some Freudian subconscious Id reaction to channel our "excess energies"?
Seems like Mr. Merrill is perched too high in his Director tower and needs some more awareness, involvement, and engagement himself!
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Learning to code with python is like learning to swim with those little arm floaties. It gives you undeserved confidence and will eventually drown you. - DangerBunny
Artificial intelligence is the only remedy for natural stupidity. - CDP1802
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No, we're actually smarter than 80% of the population. But always, always be polite to the guy pumping your septic tank.
Charlie Gilley
<italic>Stuck in a dysfunctional matrix from which I must escape...
"Where liberty dwells, there is my country." B. Franklin, 1783
“They who can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety.” BF, 1759
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Here's a straw man, watch me knock him down!
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God, what a metrosexual half-wit. Or maybe I need to get out more. If this bozo really thinks this, we're f'ing doomed. A real developer looks at a user whining and thinks, "omg, what an idiot..." and codes around the stupidity.
Charlie Gilley
<italic>Stuck in a dysfunctional matrix from which I must escape...
"Where liberty dwells, there is my country." B. Franklin, 1783
“They who can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety.” BF, 1759
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Facebook app developers left hundreds of millions of user records exposed on publicly visible cloud servers, researchers from security firm UpGuard said today. You're not just a product, you're also a billboard?
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"Leaving records exposed" appears to be the new delivery method.
The Facebook Marketing Department said: For the right price, we'll let you know the window when the data will be available.
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After watching application teams, security teams and operations teams get the -Ops treatment, data engineering teams are now getting their own process ending in -Ops. Ops. They did it again.
I have a new idea, where the operations team works with the networking team and the server team. I'm going to call it OpsOps.
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Next thing you know, astronomers will start using DarkOps.
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Will beer makers be referred to as "HopsOps"?
- I would love to change the world, but they won’t give me the source code.
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No, surgeons are going to call what they do OpsOps. The nurses who tend to you afterwards are going to be PostOpsOps.
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And then, when everything is some form of 'ops' they'll come up with a new concenpt where ops is old school, and call it 'NoOps'
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