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PIEBALDconsult wrote: Maybe it will end all life (as we know it)?
The Large Hadron Collider is going to double down on their efforts.
(TikTok and Facebook sneer.)
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Joe Woodbury wrote: The Large Hadron Collider is going to double down on their efforts.
Fake news. Many "cosmic rays" have energies much higher that those reached by the LHC, but their collisions with the Earth over 4.5 billion years have yet to generate a black hole.
Freedom is the freedom to say that two plus two make four. If that is granted, all else follows.
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Daniel Pfeffer wrote: Many "cosmic rays" have energies much higher that those
Of course... if not we wouldn't have the fantastic four or Jean Grey... 
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And the lack of humor award goes too...
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Perhaps your statement lacked that subtle component of humour known as "being funny". 
Freedom is the freedom to say that two plus two make four. If that is granted, all else follows.
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Based on what I was replying to, I'll stick with lack of humor.
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While numerous libraries exist to abstract away the complexities of asynchronous and concurrent programming, developers still need to drop down to lower thread-handling logic from time to time. more done background even the get in
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Learning to code is no longer fit for purpose[^]
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Unfortunately this article is not available to non-subscribers. The gist is
Quote: Employers looking to hire software developers have noticed something very strange filling up their inboxes recently. Aidan Fitzpatrick, founder of one of London’s genuine technology successes Reincubate, a two times winner of the Queens Award for Enterprise, spotted it a few weeks ago. It was a new kind of job applicant.
“As first blush I was blown away by the positivity and richness of their CVs,” he says. “But it didn’t take long for patterns to emerge.” The patterns were spooky. Each applicant had created a ghostly portfolio website, created a Medium blog, and a Twitter feed, but he walked away from all of them. Their applications rarely included a covering letter. They were the product of a recent development: coding schools.
“These schools are clearly training their adult attendees to exploit pattern-matching techniques in their applications and CVs,” says Fitzpatrick. “We’ve never proceeded with one of their candidates.”
The digital bootcamps that are churning out these generic job seekers are a product of the idea that “everyone must code”. A decade ago, this gripped the chattering classes here in the UK. Without computer programming skills, parents feared that their children could no more navigate the new digital world than a blindfolded traveller could find his way around in a new and alien world.
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I can't read the article unless I create an account to subscribe.
No thanks.
I am sure it was a good article. 
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Sorry about that. I will edit the post.
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You can tell the people with real experience from the recent grads by looking at their skill sets, and their recent job positions should reflect those listed skill sets.
It should be obvious that someone who lists a position was "Assistant Manager at Dairy Queen" within the last five years is not an experienced developer.
".45 ACP - because shooting twice is just silly" - JSOP, 2010
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When you pry the gun from my cold dead hands, be careful - the barrel will be very hot. - JSOP, 2013
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But in some places they might be hired to manage experienced developers. Workers are, after all, nothing more than "resources", are they not?
Freedom is the freedom to say that two plus two make four. If that is granted, all else follows.
-- 6079 Smith W.
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Daniel Pfeffer wrote: Workers are, after all, nothing more than "resources"
Or more likely, "slaves".
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the article has no point.written as if to promote the two time winner of the "queens award" .. yes u will see lot of consumers of online academies for learning code......and soon you will find the new generation of people learning to code using Facebook,Instagram and pin interest... and YouTube.....you will find code influencers.. you can dm them to promote your JavaScript framework... code djs.. devop devas... JavaScript baristas....rust pizza maker... react doctors....sql fixers...cloud angels.....
Caveat Emptor.
"Progress doesn't come from early risers – progress is made by lazy men looking for easier ways to do things." Lazarus Long
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The career path for a developer is usually pretty clear. None of the architects I've worked with seemed to suffer from it
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Kent Sharkey wrote: The career path for a developer is usually pretty clear.
It was clear to me:
0) Maintain an outstanding work ethic
1) Avoid specializing in any single technology
2) Try to stay relevant
3) Do it as a hobby (allows you to try new tech without corrupting production code at work)
3) Avoid the urge to introduce "cutting edge" code at work
4) Most importantly, stay out of management roles
I've been a developer for over 40 years with no management time beyond being a team lead. That's been my self-defined career path.
".45 ACP - because shooting twice is just silly" - JSOP, 2010
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You can never have too much ammo - unless you're swimming, or on fire. - JSOP, 2010
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When you pry the gun from my cold dead hands, be careful - the barrel will be very hot. - JSOP, 2013
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does empathy and what the customer wants match ?
Caveat Emptor.
"Progress doesn't come from early risers – progress is made by lazy men looking for easier ways to do things." Lazarus Long
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One of the things researchers have discovered is that there are limits to how quickly quantum information can race across any quantum device. It's not just the speed limit, it's the Lieb-Robinson bounds
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Wake me up, when they reach the Ludicrous Speed 
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Report demands that the government cleans up its act with technology or risk huge IT bills and damaging cyberattacks. Spend a little, save a lot?
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If the new systems were better... But one only have to read this forum to see that being new is no warranty for being secure. Sadly
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Quote: Report demands that the government
A stunning example of role reversal and wishful thinking.
Quote: A recent analysis by government security indicates that almost 50% of current government IT spend (£2.3b out of a total central Government spend of £4.7bn in 2019) is dedicated to "keeping the lights on" activity on outdated legacy systems...
If you think it's bad now, wait until you see the spend for replacing those legacy systems.
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What percent of those 'legacy systems' could continue on long into the future if the software running them was updated? My guess is it would cost a LOT less to do that coding work and share it than it would to replace those systems. Obsolescence by design makes me angry, and is sickening knowing the state of the world right now.
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Maybe I incorrectly assumed that the software, more so than the hardware, was the problem. The budget for replacing hardware should be fairly predictable, but initiatives to rewrite legacy software are often debacles. You should see what happened when the Canadian federal government decided to overhaul its payroll system, and that's penny ante compared to some US Department of Offense fiascos.
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