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Blockchain has entered Gartner's 'Trough of Disillusionment' as a new report cites dozens of purported success stories that turned out to be failures. "Say it again..."
With your choice of this[^], that[^], or the original[^] as an explanation of that blurb.
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I think the Code Project Snark Express (TM) put that one to rest several times.
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The Temptations had already released it on an album (Psychedelic Shack) by then (itself one of my favourite albums.
Psychedelic Shack, that's where it's at!
"If you don't fail at least 90 percent of the time, you're not aiming high enough."
Alan Kay.
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What? A Next Big Thing turned out to be a pig-in-a-poke?
I don't believe it. Every new technology should be adopted fervently, the moment it appears.
I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!
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Governments, corporations, associations in the computer science field and trend-setters all assert that learning to code will play a key role in the future. In this context, learning to code is often presented as a panacea to the job market problems of the 21st century. If everyone writes code, will anyone be willing to QA the code?
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phys.org: our research interest is to develop a teaching and learning model for introducing down-to-earth computer programming concepts and logic.
We want research in computer science education to suit the needs and characteristics of 21st-century learners.Otherwise, the cost will be an ill-prepared and disillusioned workforce.
The more years I have been working in IT the more I have realised how little of it I understand.
I think enough has been done to make very basic entry-level 'coding' easy to pick up(Scratch etc.)
At some point you have to make that leap to abstraction because developers are living most of their working lives at different levels of abstraction. From what I have seen, what determines whether someone will become a developer is their ability to understand and learn to understand abstractions - not how pretty or easy the entry level languages are.
“That which can be asserted without evidence, can be dismissed without evidence.”
― Christopher Hitchens
modified 6-Dec-18 5:46am.
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I wish they'd make their bluddy minds up!
One minute, it's "You'll be able to tell a computer what you want it to do, and it'll write the code itself", and the next, it's "We need everyone to learn machine code!"
I wish people like this would pour all their evangelical energy into the correct causes, e.g. Political Correctness, Abstinence, Anti-smoking, Immigration, or any other hate group.
I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!
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Applying this philosophy to other things:
Learn to write and you will produce Shakespeare quality work in no time.
Learn to add and you can solve Hilbert's problems.
(I'm a very good coder. At times I wish doing software engineering was as easy. Then I look at my paycheck and smile.)
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I worked with a guy who was making a scripting language and he was going on and on about how it needed to be so easy to comprehend that even non-programmers could write in it. It turned out that no one who was a non-programmer ever used it and those who were programmers didn't want to use it. Personally, I thought it was absurd and driven by a bogus premise. I don't think the world needs a whole bunch of non-programmers writing code. We have enough bad code from people who are professionals, nominally. Who really thinks turning a bunch of non-programmers loose is going to result in code that is worth anything?
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At Flutter Live today, we announced that we are experimenting with running Flutter on the Web. Because the world doesn't have enough ways to write for the web
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The world definitely needs yet another PhD thesis or senior project turned into a product.
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I have had the misfortune of working with a few of those. They were truly revolting experiences. To give an example - one was a FSM framework where a change of state was done by throwing an exception. I have heard of very few ideas dumber than that. It was little wonder when the company practically shut down that entire division.
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Attackers with admin control can abuse the feature to create a persistent backdoor. They really want to know your pet's name, but are too shy to just ask
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Oh, come on!
Right from the get-go, it was patently obvious that you should never give the correct answer to any of this type of "security" question; just enter one that you'll remember, or anagram it and add a few characters, or whatever.
Are the geniuses of today finally waking up to what was completely intuitive to the rest of us twenty years ago?
I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!
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Mark_Wallace wrote: Are the geniuses of today finally waking up to what was completely intuitive to the rest of us twenty years ago?
No, they aren't and that stuff is STILL intuitive.
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The Software Heritage was launched with a mission to collect, preserve and share all software source code that is publicly available. "Sometimes dead is better."
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The guy in charge of the "This doesn't work, any more" rubber stamp must have really sore arms.
I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!
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There's a reason you don't keep all your kids' art and it's not just storage.
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IntelliCode has just received some major updates that make its context-sensitive AI-assisted IntelliSense recommendations even better. You can download the updated IntelliCode Extension for Visual Studio and IntelliCode Extension for Visual Studio Code today! tab, tab, tab. Job done!
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Does it also give an OCD rating (based on how meticulous you are with formatting and naming.)
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Because there was such massive user demand for this.
What if, instead, Microsoft fired most of its designers and used that money to hire more, qualified, QA engineers?
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