Comment Re:Wind Industry (Score 1) 310
Do I win?
In the big picture, I'd say very much no.
Hah!
Do I win?
In the big picture, I'd say very much no.
Hah!
vi users...
Being one, I'd have to concur here.
Since when does
I feel sorry for you because you fail at sex.
Any other cliches we've missed that are impossible to apply to everyone who's a 40-something programmer?
Here's one:
The life expectancy of humans was about 30 years not so long ago. Really us 40-somethings are suppose to be dead.
I used the same approach my requiring my users tattoo their passwords on their foreheads. Eventually my user base dropped to almost zero...but for those who stayed I did see an interesting trend. Passwords like %uS*32Ldi# started prevailing because passwords like wafflebunny make for an embarrassing tattoo.
Mansion / Yacht are status symbols of the 80's/90's. You probably have a 3 or 4 character twitter account name.
Maybe not as pell-mell as it is opportunistic.
That makes the assumption that one could only learn the concepts taught in a CS degree by participating in the program. That if you do not participate, then you will never be able to open some of those doors. That is simply not true. A college degree is an expensive certification that usually comes with little to no working experience. That is all.
Formal Education != Eating
e.g. I have CS degree and don't even know which fucking 'Reply to This' link to click on.
If you do not have a good (!) formal education in CS, what you can do is quite limited.
Having a CS degree by no means makes your skill-set unlimited. It is possible for someone without a formal degree to be more qualified. Life is complicated, we don't have to put a stamp on everything. Degrees are great, it tells me someone made it through boot-camp....this accounts for something, not everything.
Riiiight.......I definitely feel more elite taking my own garbage out rather than having someone else do it for me.
We have an employee with a treadmill at his desk. He walks and types. Of course his emails usually read something like, "Hewmy Jammmmes, I gto taht TSp reprt dne!".
Its a new form of crypto...with different levels, depending on the level of difficulty the treadmill is set on:
HILL128 - Hilly Level 1
MNT512 - Mountains Level 5
DED1028 - Death Race Level 10
..and pretty cool masks.
"This decision reminds us that what no individual conscience can change, a free press can. "
While free press exists. Seems 'free press' was treaded on with no recourse. Enjoy your award....free press....enjoy.
Do you suffer painful elimination? -- Don Knuth, "Structured Programming with Gotos"