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Re: What Is Code?

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Post by barce »

ryandrake wrote: post #108

It's 2015. The audience of this article shouldn't even exist. The reader, as described in the article, is a VP who has so little understanding about what it is his company does, that the only meaningful abstraction he can mentally picture is that of his employees "burning barrels of money". Imagine an auto company VP who says "I don't know anything about engines and drivetrains and all that technical stuff. All I kno…

It should make sense that this article & VP exists. 7 billion people in the world and only 11 million professionally code, and 7 million are hobby coders, according to the author of the article and the IDC.

After auditing the software of at least 20 different startups, I'd have to say there will always be people in positions of power who know nothing. Just look at our politicians.

Re: What Is Code?

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Post by aswanson »

walterbell wrote: post #245
notNow wrote: post #143

Watch it when capitalists pushing incessantly people to learn coding. They're trying very hard to cut the costs of their input "materials" and they will do everything that they could to devalue us in every way possible. So, if you're a talented and competent dev, be super aggressive with these predators and take everything your hands can grab before they have the upper hand and show us their true colors. Happy Coding…

http://www.forbes.com/sites/venkateshrao/2012/09/03/entrepre... "...the balance of power between investors and entrepreneurs that marks the early, frontier days of a major technology wave (Moore’s Law and the Internet in this case) has fallen apart. Investors have won, and their dealings with the entrepreneur class now look far more like the dealings between management and labor (with overtones of parent/child and te…

This sounds contradicted to the mathematics/empirical/quantitative observations. Startups built on texting two alphabetic characters are attracting million dollar financing rounds. Startups based on erased timeouts of texts are declining 3 billion dolllar acquisition offers. VCs are trying to get deal flow by building the reputation of being the most helpful to entreprenuers. Interest rates are at historic lows and hundred billion dollar pension and mutual funds are pouring money into every 1st to 3rd tier vc to chase returns. tl;dr...this sounds like some bs.

Re: What Is Code?

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Post by ZoZoBee »

recursive wrote: post #251
ZoZoBee wrote: post #249

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Can't be good, if Bloomberg is for it

Do you consider to be a photo for your certificate of achievement to be good?

Are you naive enough to not believe the photo will be saved along with a host of other metaData to bloomberg's server?

Re: What Is Code?

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Post by walterbell »

aswanson wrote: post #272
walterbell wrote: post #245

Earlier quoted context omitted.

http://www.forbes.com/sites/venkateshrao/2012/09/03/entrepre... "...the balance of power between investors and entrepreneurs that marks the early, frontier days of a major technology wave (Moore’s Law and the Internet in this case) has fallen apart. Investors have won, and their dealings with the entrepreneur class now look far more like the dealings between management and labor (with overtones of parent/child and te…

This sounds contradicted to the mathematics/empirical/quantitative observations. Startups built on texting two alphabetic characters are attracting million dollar financing rounds. Startups based on erased timeouts of texts are declining 3 billion dolllar acquisition offers. VCs are trying to get deal flow by building the reputation of being the most helpful to entreprenuers. Interest rates are at historic lows and h…

The privilege level of Snapchat's founder would place that particular example closer to the investor segment. Quantitative observations can be complemented by fundamental analysis. tl;dr the articles provide 10 pages of relevant context.

Re: What Is Code?

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Post by alextgordon »

notNow wrote: post #143

Watch it when capitalists pushing incessantly people to learn coding. They're trying very hard to cut the costs of their input "materials" and they will do everything that they could to devalue us in every way possible. So, if you're a talented and competent dev, be super aggressive with these predators and take everything your hands can grab before they have the upper hand and show us their true colors. Happy Coding…

Capitalists only want to reduce unnecessary costs, not all costs.

A programmer is more like factory equipment than a factory worker. If a company invests in superior equipment, they can produce better quality products and net higher profits.

If we're going down in the name of efficiency, the managerial and legal professionals are going first.

Re: What Is Code?

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Post by andars »

zeckalpha wrote: post #257
fragmede wrote: post #223

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I... you're trolling, right? Before Google rose to fame, Altavista was probably the most popular, but in order to find what you wanted, you frequently had to add AND, and NOT to your searches, and still needed to dig in a dozen pages in order to find what you were really after. Then Google came along, and the rest of them died.

I thought Google did it, too, for a while.

I'm pretty sure they did, because I never used a search engine before Google and I remember using boolean operators.

Re: What Is Code?

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Post by andars »

In my opinion, this is what society today needs. I don't feel like we need everyone to be able to code, but rather just have a sense on some level that computers are nothing mysterious or magical, unconquerable or incomprehensible, but rather just machines of human creation.

Re: What Is Code?

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Post by alexqgb »

alextgordon wrote: post #275
notNow wrote: post #143

Watch it when capitalists pushing incessantly people to learn coding. They're trying very hard to cut the costs of their input "materials" and they will do everything that they could to devalue us in every way possible. So, if you're a talented and competent dev, be super aggressive with these predators and take everything your hands can grab before they have the upper hand and show us their true colors. Happy Coding…

Capitalists only want to reduce unnecessary costs, not all costs. A programmer is more like factory equipment than a factory worker. If a company invests in superior equipment, they can produce better quality products and net higher profits. If we're going down in the name of efficiency, the managerial and legal professionals are going first.

The accountants are in even bigger trouble than the lawyers, fwiw.

Re: What Is Code?

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Post by bottled_poe »

alextgordon wrote: post #275
notNow wrote: post #143

Watch it when capitalists pushing incessantly people to learn coding. They're trying very hard to cut the costs of their input "materials" and they will do everything that they could to devalue us in every way possible. So, if you're a talented and competent dev, be super aggressive with these predators and take everything your hands can grab before they have the upper hand and show us their true colors. Happy Coding…

Capitalists only want to reduce unnecessary costs, not all costs. A programmer is more like factory equipment than a factory worker. If a company invests in superior equipment, they can produce better quality products and net higher profits. If we're going down in the name of efficiency, the managerial and legal professionals are going first.

In this industry it seems that product success is only loosely related to product quality.

Re: What Is Code?

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Post by jheriko »

meowface wrote: post #268
mangeletti wrote: post #261

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I agree. This is the best piece of writing I think I've ever read on the web. This touches on everything, and so accurately, and so concisely... this article is giving me a stroke I think.

I've never seen anything like this on a website before. The writing, the formatting, the structure, the animations; it's near perfect.

are we reading the same article??!?!

the content is quite good but the layout, colour, animations etc. are a mess.

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