Comment Re:Meh (Score 1) 372
Meh
Just another arbitrary number
Funny, that's the exact same thing your mom said.
Meh
Just another arbitrary number
Funny, that's the exact same thing your mom said.
Nothing resolved itself. People took action, and you fucking idiot don't even bother to figure out that someone else saved your sorry ass.
Just like Y2K, It's the same shit over and over again: society expends resources to head off disaster, because of said expenditures disaster is averted, fucking morons baffled because disaster that everyone was talking about didn't happen.
Fucking morons believe disaster scenario was made up to expend resources.
REALITY FUCKING BAFFLING TO MORONS! FILM AT 11
I've been avoiding GOG for purchases simply because their downloader was/is horrible. I had a Witcher update that required me to download the entire game install all over again in multiple installer files. No proper launcher, no proper game library, just a mess.
Maybe it's time to look into GOG again.
So there could be two groups, those who look to improve their skill, who quickly distance themselves from the group that doesn't. Of course, there will still be wide variance in skill between the members of each group. I'm sure you can think of other ways it could happen.
No, I can't. I started out and I sucked. I got better eventually through experience. In order for it to be truly bimodal, people have to start in either camp A or camp B and end in the same camp they started in. Because if you transition from one to another over time, any point in time will capture a group of people in between the modes. Now, you can argue that people don't spend much time in between those modes but you haven't presented any evidence for that. What's more likely is you have geocities coders on one tail and John Carmack/Linus Torvolds on the other tail. And in between are people like the presenter and I. And since I'm not instantaneously going from bad to good, the reality of the situation is most likely some degree of a normal curve filled with people trying to get better at programming or even just getting better though spending lots of time doing it and learning a little along the way.
For all your attacks on the presenter, your argument of a bi-modal distribution sounds more flawed to me. I would love to see your study and hear your argument.
This guy doesn't know how to measure programming ability, but somehow manages to spend 3000 words writing about it.
To be fair, you can spend a great deal of time talking about something and make progress on the issue without solving it.
For example the current metrics are abysmal so it's worth explaining why they're abysmal. I just was able to delete several thousand lines of JavaScript from one of my projects after a data model change (through code reuse and generalization) -- yet I increased functionality. My manager was confused and thought it was a bad thing to get rid of code like that
Another reason to waste a lot of time talking about a problem without reaching an answer is to elaborate on what the known unknowns are and speculate about the unknown unknowns. Indeed, the point of this article seemed to be to advertise the existence of unknown unknowns to "recruiters, venture capitalists, and others who are actually determining who gets brought into the community."
So he doesn't know......programmer ability might actually be a bi-modal distribution.
Perhaps
If he had collected data to support his hypothesis, then that would have been an interesting article.
But you just said there's no way to measure this
Good riddance to bad rubbish.
I got my wife a Roomba vacuum robot 6 or 7 years ago. She admitted to me that at first she thought it was a waste of money. But after using it for a day or two, she changed her mind completely.
You do realize that this particular Roomba comes with a well concealed dildo option, right?
Maybe the cyber ones will have heaters.
It's been called a WORKSHOP or some close equivalent in various languages for something like 2000 years now! Why the heck do we need to make up a stupid name for it?
We need to save something for the riff-raff. I vote we start calling them "3D Print-shops".
3D Print-shop: like silk-screening T-shirts, only in 3D!
"He who thinks half-heartedly will not believe in God; but he who really thinks has to believe in God."
Isaac Newton
Also, alchemy. Don't forget alchemy.
Why would God do such a thing to such innocent people?
Santa Claus also allowed this to happen. What does this say about Santa Claus?
Anyone who imagines that all fruits ripen at the same time as the strawberries, knows nothing about grapes. -- Philippus Paracelsus