Comment Re:A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Moon (Score 1) 247
... while doing a shite. Hathankyouverymuch,
Comment Plus ca change... (Score 1) 523
I reckon teh intarwebs would be full of armchair experts spouting a ton of shite.
Millions of Spiders Seen In Mass Dispersal Event In Nova Scotia 81
Freshly Exhumed writes A bizarre and oddly beautiful display of spider webs have been woven across a large field along a walking trail in Cape Breton, Nova Scotia, Canada. "Well it's acres and acres; it's a sea of web," said Allen McCormick. Prof. Rob Bennett, an expert on spiders who works at the Royal British Columbia Museum in Victoria, BC, Canada, said tiny, sheet-web weaver spiders known as Erigoninae linyphiidae most likely left the webs. Bennett said the spiders cast a web net to catch the wind and float away in a process known as ballooning. The webs in the field are the spiders' drag lines, left behind as they climb to the top of long grass to be whisked away by the wind. Bennett said it's a mystery why these spiders take off en masse.
Comment Re:yaaaaaaay... (Score 1) 226
If someone doesn't know more than just JQuery they will be unable to cope when their code doesn't produce the desired result.
You could say exactly the same about Visual Basic. And yet there's plenty of VB monkeys who don't know anything else.
If the project's requirements change in such a way that it can no longer be completed in baby's first development library, that "developer" then becomes a liability to his or her employer.
Then they boot him and hire someone who knows kQuery. Or if he's lucky they send him on a course.
he or she will be unable to assess situations in which JQuery is not used yet may be appropriate, or in which jQuery is used but would not be appropriate.
Why is that part of a JQuery developer's job description?
Comment Re:Nothing I'd like better... (Score 1) 106
Being of Swedish descent doesn't automatically make you a Swede.
Electric Shock Study Suggests We'd Rather Hurt Ourselves Than Others 123
sciencehabit writes: If you had the choice between hurting yourself or someone else in exchange for money, how altruistic do you think you'd be? In one infamous experiment, people were quite willing to deliver painful shocks to anonymous victims when asked by a scientist. But a new study that forced people into the dilemma of choosing between pain and profit finds that participants cared more about other people's well-being than their own. It is hailed as the first hard evidence of altruism for the young field of behavioral economics.
Comment Re:Community college bubble... (Score 2) 226
Your college chose a preferred textbook that required a piece of software that it (the college, not the book) didn't have?
Tell me where this is so I never accidentally hire anyone from there.
Second thoughts, don't bother. It's DeVry, right?
Comment Re:yaaaaaaay... (Score 1) 226
A JQuery coder should be able to also code in plain Javascript
If the job doesn't require that, then why?
I mean it's always good to know more things, but if you take your logic to its conclusion C080L monkeys should know machine code.
Comment Re:Given how most spend their time in college... (Score 1) 226
Yeah, but there isn't a car mechanic analogue to the software engineer.
Not even Web programmer or HTML developer?
Comment Re:Given how most spend their time in college... (Score 1) 226
Not sure if that analogy works as it is more a practical vs. theoretical split.
Designing things isn't practical? Are you an arts graduate?
Comment Re:uh, no? (Score 1) 340
I think you vastly underestimate the capabilities of modern fly by wire systems.
And I know that you laughably overestimate them.
They can steer aircraft that has sustained fuselage damage by design.
There's damage, and there's the damage a SAM causes.
This isn't [sic] autopilot of the past that mostly just hooked into hydraulics and kept them stable.
It's not magic either.
Coding Bootcamps Presented As "College Alternative" 226
ErichTheRed writes Perhaps this is the sign that the Web 2.0 bubble is finally at its peak. CNN produced a piece on DevBootcamp, a 19-week intensive coding academy designed to turn out Web developers at a rapid pace. I remember Microsoft and Cisco certification bootcamps from the peak of the last tech bubble, and the flood of under-qualified "IT professionals" they produced. Now that developer bootcamps are in the mainsteam media, can the end of the bubble be far away?
Comment Re:Got you, Mrs. Sampson (Score 1) 80
Because a force vector that does not intersect with the center of gravity has been applied.
Point me to where it says that. In the original post, please.
What the US Can Learn From Canada's Internet Policy 144
blottsie writes As the U.S. continues to debate how best to establish net neutrality regulations over Internet service providers, author and journalist Peter Nowak explains how how Canada has already dealt with these issues, and what the U.S. can learn from its neighbor to the north."[Canadian Prime Minister Stephen] Harper has made the connection between telecom policy and actual votes, and that has had enormous impact on public policy," says Michael Geist, the Canada Research Chair in internet and e-commerce law at the University of Ottawa. "This is a ballot-box or pocket-book issue that hasn't really been seen yet in the United States."
The New-ish Technologies That Will Alter Your Career 66
Nerval's Lobster writes Over at Dice, there's a discussion of the technologies that could actually alter how you work (and what you work on) over the next few years, including 3D printing, embedded systems, and evolving Web APIs. Granted, predicting the future with any accuracy is a nigh-impossible feat, and a lot of nascent technologies come with an accompanying amount of hype. But given how these listed technologies have actually been around in one form or another for years, and don't seem to be fading away, it seems likely that they'll prove an increasing factor in how we live and work over the next decade and beyond. For those who have no interest in mastering aspects of the so-called "Internet of Things," or other tech on this list, never fear: if the past two decades have taught us anything, it's that lots of old hardware and software never truly goes away, either (hi, mainframes!).
