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W∴ Balboos wrote: The optional usability items will fit into a stylish suitcase
No need for the suitcase, the optional keyboard and monitor will fold up easily so that they will fit into the same pocket as the device. The mouse is already small enough.
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Yes, a flat touchpad keyboard, you could roll it up and put it in your pocket, I want one.
I foresee holographic projectors instead of screens, that would be cool.
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Those roll-up keyboards are gone, now. Some time back, I had noticed an abundance of them on the Clearance Table at Staples Office Supplies for some time. An idea who's time hadn't come.
I'll wait for the roll-up 52" monitor.
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Yeah, you could hook up a Theramin to your computer, too.
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Just curious, so far 5 people voted that response. Do you mean you don't code for a living? Or that you never code, but visit CP for the humour?
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I voted "not a developer" as protest vote. I think the question is all wrong in the first place.
1. Nothing stays the same, so your skills have got to be on the move or you have to go into management where programming skills matter less and people skills matter more.
2. The economy matters more than skills. If the economy is good, companies will hire general purpose programmers to take up the slack to get their products out and people will acquire their skills through OJT.
People always point out that there are still lots of programs written in COBOL, PASCAL, etc. and, while that is true, they have been phased out in many companies over the past 20 years and the number of programmers who work with this have diminished. The number of people who program K&R C (as opposed to ANSI C) has diminished. Do you know anyone who programs Visual Basic that can write in line numbered/no labels Basic like in the 1970s/early 1980s? There is no reason to suspect that the same won't happen with C++, C#, Java, PHP, Perl, Python, and ASP (who programs ASP 1.0 anymore?). Lately, I've been playing around with ASP.NET MVC3 and Razor and I am so impressed with it that I am not likely to develop any new projects in ASP.NET 2.0 and I know others who feel the same way. Everything changes. Usually for the better.
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>or you have to go into management where programming skills matter less and people skills matter more
How come our managers get by without either?
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You are right, but the question was about "skills" and not "current programming language knowledge".
In last 15 year I changed technology at least 3-4 times not to mention changing programming language used at work.
So yes, I think demand for my "SKILLS" will increase. Skills to adopt, skills to learn new language, platform, db engine or anything else
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I voted "Not a developer" because I am a hobbiest, and have made very little money from the pet projects I have developed.
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I am no longer a developer, I do write some code for 'fun' though.
My codz skillz are irrelevant - I have C#, java and some C++ in the bag - as I design and manage developers.
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Nagy Vilmos wrote: I design and manage developers
Can you design some nicer ones, with better hygiene?
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It is very unlikly that having hygiene functions will improve developers.
Anyway, I'm too busy working on a new module called Social Skills. It is not going well.
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I am no developer anymore, but in the quality assurance and processes.
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Rage wrote: I am no developer anymore, but in the quality assurance and processes.
Ouch. I now understand where all the rage comes from.
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The situation could be very different for server, pc application, and mobile application developers but the answers lump all three together.
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The only trend I realistically foresee is an increase in work load.
I say this because in this current economic climate, programmers and developers are diversifying their skill sets and taking on more and more work to survive. This certainly helps one to market themselves competitively, but unfortunately the extra effort will become the expected output or the norm when the economy stabilizes again.
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I for one, don't see people who would prefer developing on those devices. So hey, the PC is here to stay even if it comes to just developing for those tablets. All hail the PC!
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Could you seriously contemplate doing your day to day data entry/programming/etc. on a frigging tablet or phone?
Get real.
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if the "PC-era" is ending, than will it get done by some "killer devices" like (xyz-phones or xyz-pads) which also have the need to get programmed. So skills may change but the "workload" will increase. OMG
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MarqW wrote: Could you seriously contemplate doing your day to day data
entry/programming/etc. on a frigging tablet or phone?
If you could get speech recognition to work reliably, yes.
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Michael Bergman wrote: If you could get speech recognition to work reliably, yes.
Then you have offices full of people talking to their computer, creating a lot of extra noise, and making the speech recognition even harder. I don't think speech is a viable replacement, especially with things that were never meant to be verbalized in the first place... ("int main open-parenthesis close-parenthesis new-line open-curly-brace..." ...I would much rather type it.)
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I disagree. You are thinking of this far too narrowly. First of all, it is true that you would have to filter out the ambient noise. One way would be to use a headset (like a Plantronics) which are used in call center layouts. Second, the programming language would not be C, C#, Lisp, Prolog, Perl or any other language that is out there now but one that does lend itself to verbalization (this would make a really good Master's Thesis project).
It isn't trivial (or it would already have been done), but it is feasible.
m.bergman
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There will always be legacy code using those languages though. I doubt companies are going to want to switch their codebases over just to ditch keyboards, especially considering keyboards are likely cheaper than any headset.
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