Comment Re:Today I Learnt that... (Score 1) 181
Totally just did the same thing!
You learn something new every day! Thanks wikipedia!
"I can put my fingers on the actual keys just like a typewriter and know they won't slip off and hit the wrong key. I was heartbroken when then got rid of almost all qwerty keyboards in the new phones. They are now almost impossible to find."
What is a "typewriter"?
sorry, old school here. But a sport involves the combo of physical exertion, and skill.
Exactly. Professional Sports athletes put in countless hours of blood, sweat, and tears to become the best at what they do. They need to practice and better themselves physically in order to become the best at what they do. They risk their bodies (from injuries) when playing sports. Sitting in a chair with a controller behind a TV/Computer screen is nothing compared to what "old school" sports athletes go through. 2 a day practices, 6am practices, etc. You just won't find that kind of sacrifice in esports -- at least not right now.
> the surgery is fairly inexpensive [even for a programmer
Oh you programmers have it so hard.
With your three thousand dollar a month apartments.
Actually, I bought a house when I was 22.
And that Honda Fit you drive just to show the world that you don't need the finer things in life.
I drive a Honda Accord, not a Fit, but close.
You should be required to work a year in retail in the same way some countries require a minimum of military service.
I worked at Best Buy (Doing Retail) for 3 years while I was in high school and college. It was a huge motivator for me to get my comp sci degree.
And your three hundred dollar bottle of scotch that you sample alone in your newly remodeled kitchen so you can tell the Internet about what a beverage snob you are.
And I've never drank scotch.
If you're so envious of programmers, there's still time to learn the skills to become a programmer. Heck, you can even teach yourself online.
free from the Mac App Store."
What's an 'App store'?
racked by delays and mismanagement
40 years of code could mean 2-3 years of development, and then fixing a bug here and there and updating this or that every now and then. Just because some of the code is 40 years old does not equate to 40 years of development time.
5 years is a pretty long time to focus on straight dev time. Sounds like the mismanagement part had more of an impact than just using the excuse of it being a "legacy system". I realize that management always portays the timeline as 1/3 of what it will actually take to develop something, but wasting 5 years and $300 million... It's hard for me to think of a justification for that!
Wow. Behind the times much?
No, I'm just a linux programmer.
physicists have never been entirely comfortable with the idea that regions of the universe can become infinitely density.
Infinitely density. Wow. The Engrish need helped.
Why do many people with STEM degrees not work in STEM jobs? They apparently count management and education as non-STEM, even if these people are managing STEM projects or teaching STEM courses. That already accounts for the two biggest groups.
Precisely, agree 100%.
At my college, they had a Mathematics degree inside of an education program. Obviously everyone with that type of a degree are going into the education field. And a degree in IT Management... Although it has IT in the name, is not a STEM degree! A "STEM degree" does not always equate to a "STEM job".
I guess the person who did this study's statistics did not have a STEM degree.
Real Programs don't use shared text. Otherwise, how can they use functions for scratch space after they are finished calling them?
