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I think there is too much hope that everything will be automated.
I'm in the same boat as you - I'm just not sure what is the next best thing.
Just yesterday I was talking to someone, there is tons and tons of technical stuff going around, but nothing seems to stick.
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Oh, I fully believe it'll take some time to get there. And there will be bumps along the way. And maybe we won't reach automation nirvana in our lifetime, but in a few hundred years maybe.
Jeremy Falcon
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Abhinav S wrote: I think there is too much hope that everything will be automated.
Almost nothing will be in terms of total work.
When a technology comes along that really works it speeds into the market place. Cell phones, heart transplants, etc. Airplanes were being used in war 10 years after the first powered flights.
Attempts at automation are not new. Been going on for a long time. There have been many attempts that have failed. People look at each new attempt and see doom and gloom while completely ignoring other automation that has been around for decades (as a child I watched documentaries on bottling plants). Even Amazon builds completely brand new delivery warehouses which still employ people as critical parts of the process.
Automating many human roles is hard. Consider the gas station attendant who seemingly does nothing but collect payment yet one must still account for the stocking, cleaning and even security of the store in the process. Not to mention dealing with complaints about the soda machine not working. How is that going to be automated? And done in a way that is economical in comparison?
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Would you please condense and interpret this post, I'm having a hard time reading this and playing with my XBox.
Someone's therapist knows all about you!
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Mike Hankey wrote: please condense and interpret this post "The times, they are a-changin" [^]
«While I complain of being able to see only a shadow of the past, I may be insensitive to reality as it is now, since I'm not at a stage of development where I'm capable of seeing it. A few hundred years later another traveler despairing as myself, may mourn the disappearance of what I may have seen, but failed to see.» Claude Levi-Strauss (Tristes Tropiques, 1955)
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One of my favorites by Dylan...and yes they are. I wonder how many millennia old timers like me have been espousing like fears?
Someone's therapist knows all about you!
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Jeremy Falcon
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Quote: particular the products or services of the future that people will pay for since now we expect so much for free Like subscriptions to my ISP, my TV provider, my smartphone provider, Netflix, Amazon and half a dozen other services that I have to pay monthly for, now that the days of PAYG - ie only paying for what you actually use - are all but over? IS that what you mean?
I don't expect things for free - but I'll damn well take them for that if I can when the only alternative is to pay a monthly fee for something whether I use it or not.
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Jeremy Falcon wrote: In my early 30s I decided to read a ton of self-help books
Ah, that must be how you got your psychology degree.
The difficult we do right away...
...the impossible takes slightly longer.
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You'd be amazed what you can learn if you listen to people (women included) when they talk rather than pretend to. It doesn't take a psych degree to use common sense gleaned from listening.
Btw dude... for real? You still upset about something from weeks ago? I touched a nerve apparently.
Jeremy Falcon
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I'm planning on learning how to weld.
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Yeah, I feel ya. Studying for something for decades only to have someone overlook a resume due to something like a font not being bold, etc. gets old. Supply and demand my friend.
Jeremy Falcon
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Jeremy Falcon wrote: With the millennial generation (arguably) not really learning any new life skill
Like what? How to chop down a tree? Or shoe a horse?
Jeremy Falcon wrote: Every industry on the planet, the longer it exists without real novelty
That is a perception fostered by the speed of the news. Powered flight seemed new at the time but only because no one was continuously reporting one the many people around the world that had been working on it for years (probably since 'powered' existed.) If such reporting had happened then it is likely that even more people would have been working on it and others would have been considering the impact before it occurred.
Jeremy Falcon wrote: Demand goes down.
Not sure what that means. Internationalization of markets means that demands for products that once only had a very local market now have a vastly bigger market and increased demand for it.
Jeremy Falcon wrote: But, as we try and get more and more people "able to code" at a younger age we in essence dilute ourselves in the marketplace - tech wise.
Statistics do not support that. At least not in the US. Demand as measured by actual open jobs in IT (and all technical skills) is growing at a much faster rate than the population and tracking of coursework suggests a decline in those that choose to follow it.
Jeremy Falcon wrote: I know there was a news story on CP the other day about resumes dying
I missed that article. However I have seen no indication anywhere that the hiring process has improved in an objective way. Online allows the process to speed up but it doesn't improve the befuddle and chaotic process of those doing the hiring (HR and technical people).
I wouldn't be surprised if there are some marketing and sales (and only those disciplines) who attempt alternatives to a resume for landing a job. But that isn't really new. 50 years ago they might not have tried that but 20 years ago they were doing it.
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jschell wrote: s
I'm gonna argue with this letter. I don't like "s". You shouldn't use "s".
jschell wrote: .
I don't know why you use periods in your posts. I have no intention of ever agreeing with it though. I'd rather just do nothing but argue with people online to feel better.
jschell wrote: .
Here we are with a period again. Once again, rather than me having a conversation where I can pick up on something I'd rather debate anything being said. So, I think you should consider not using periods.
I mean sure, debating can be good, but if that's all we ever do online, that's a problem.
Jeremy Falcon
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Hallelujah, brother.
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Jeremy Falcon
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We're now on the nth update of VS2017, yet since the beginning, mine constantly litters my editor with red underlines and squigglies for things that are correct. The project builds and works, yet the bloody text editor thinks there are 20 errors in one screen of a Razor view .cshtml file.
Does anyone else share my feelings on this? Or is this situation unique to my Visual Studio only. I doubt the latter because I have seen this logged for VS2017 a few times.
"'Do what thou wilt...' is to bid Stars to shine, Vines to bear grapes, Water to seek its level; man is the only being in Nature that has striven to set himself at odds with himself."
—Aleister Crowley
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I've had this in regular C# code as well, not to that extent though. And yes, it's annoying and another example of "why fix things if there's new shiny stuff to add".
If the brain were so simple we could understand it, we would be so simple we couldn't. — Lyall Watson
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sometimes I use the option "only show build error"
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Brady Kelly wrote: for things that - you think - are correct
FTFY
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Well, if I only think they're correct while they're not, why does the website work 100%?
"'Do what thou wilt...' is to bid Stars to shine, Vines to bear grapes, Water to seek its level; man is the only being in Nature that has striven to set himself at odds with himself."
—Aleister Crowley
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In many case, website still seems to work perfectly even though there are still some uglies in the code.
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That's not necessarily a fix for him. I find it displaying things IT thinks are wrong but aren't just as often.
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I never moved from 2013 - not quite as stable as 2010 but close enough to get work done without random events loosing work or it just going into la-la land.
I did try 2015 but it too had 'issues' and ms had way too soon stopped updating it in the rush to push out 2017.
Seems they are now too involved adding 'features' to the languages to bother with the IDE. (and let's face it, all those 'brand new' features really do is save is perhaps an extra line or 3 something that cant already be done anyway - and for readability as often those actions probably should be done longhand anyway.)
You realise soon it'll be 2018, ms' focus will move off vs2017 and into the already mentioned vs2019 - and just like 2015 (and even 2013 though at least it's safely usable) vs2017 will remain unfinished (no more updates). And yes, 2 years later 2019 too will become ignored and unfinished.
I really wish ms would return to a 3+ year major release cycle, they've amply demonstrated they cant manage anything less.
Installing Signature...
Do not switch off your computer.
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Lopatir wrote: I really wish ms would return to a 3+ year major release cycle, they've amply demonstrated they cant manage anything less.
Maybe. Or they just have jumped the shark and friged the nuke.
I have lived with several Zen masters - all of them were cats.
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