Anyone know what happens when you allow bloomberg.com to use your camera when you finish reading the article?
Can't be good, if Bloomberg is for it
Do you consider to be a photo for your certificate of achievement to be good?
What Is Code?
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Re: What Is Code?
#252Earlier quoted context omitted.
What do you mean? Theres tons, TONS of resources for learning the basics of programming.
Yes, but a lot of them go through the same hoops - Hello World, variables, conditionals, loops, arrays, functions, OK that's it take this pile of building materials and just turn it into a house mmkay. There are two big problems for would-be programmers: there's a shortage of obvious standards on architecture/program sturcture (not least because it's hard to prove mathematically which structures are optimal), and end…
That page on DOM is the reference Manual.
Do you complain that Gray's Anatomy is just too thick, how do you navigate all that info to find what pill should you take?
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#253It'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…
I though the imaginary VP was pretty clearly not working in a software company. What if random companies suddenly needed to design and build their own automobiles in house? There would be a similar lack of comprehension about just what the automotive engineers were actually doing all day.
At least, I know I would be lost and would greatly appreciate a guide like this.
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#254Earlier quoted context omitted.
Theres tons of successes, we just refuse to count them. Photoshop (as hinted in the article), is a super special purpose language for doing image operations. It no longer "looks" like coding, so we don't count it as coding for the masses. Excel is a much more general purpose language used by tons of "non-coders" (and arguably the most popular programming language on earth). Again, doesn't (often) look like normal pro…
Excel is a perfect example. The core Excel experience is basically functional programming on a virtual machine with a matrix address space laid out visually right in front of you. It even looks like traditional programming if you dive into the VBA stuff, which plenty of non-technical specialists, including MBAs and managers, do on a regular basis in the pursuit of solving their problems. Any specialist user willing t…
Something can't be "basically" functional programming without first-class functions.
It seems more like a non-functional declarative vm to me.
Re: What Is Code?
#255It'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…
I've seen a lot of 50something execs who have been passed by on the technical superhighway. I met a CIO of a large insurance company who didn't know what Python was. I know a senior banker and educator who struggles with the basics of Excel and Word. (Yes, there are still people out there who are used to the days when secretaries did all the work.) I knew an IT exec at a large consumer products company who didn't lik…
I work at a software company where no one likes computers too.
Re: What Is Code?
#256Anyone know what happens when you allow bloomberg.com to use your camera when you finish reading the article?
It adds a photo of you to the certificate, and then allows you to download it.
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#257Earlier quoted context omitted.
Honestly I never heard of search engines working with boolean operators.. I just did a quick search and found this interesting article which gives information about websites using AND, OR, NOT, venn diagrams and concept declarations to deacrease the search node graph....How long ago this search mechanism terminated ???
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.
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#258What an ambitious and beautiful piece! A story like this is probably dangerous - it touches on so many ideas everyone will find something to gripe with, and it's hard to make a comprehensive and consistent story. The last time I read something that so awesomely bridged high level abstractions and low-level implementations with a human touch was Godel, Escher, Bach (albeit with a very different feel). Well done.
He does mention a "golden braid forever weaving", which is reminiscent of: "Gödel, Escher, Bach. An Eternal Golden Braid"
or 'a mind forever voyaging'.
Re: What Is Code?
#259Watch 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…
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.
Did you actually read this article? The article doesn't aim to teach Bloomberg's audience (which consists of VPs, SVPs, and managers, as implied in the first couple of paragraphs) how to code or replace the average developer.
Re: What Is Code?
#260Earlier quoted context omitted.
Excel is a perfect example. The core Excel experience is basically functional programming on a virtual machine with a matrix address space laid out visually right in front of you. It even looks like traditional programming if you dive into the VBA stuff, which plenty of non-technical specialists, including MBAs and managers, do on a regular basis in the pursuit of solving their problems. Any specialist user willing t…
Something can't be "basically" functional programming without first-class functions. It seems more like a non-functional declarative vm to me.
It's more a one-way dataflow language.