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Wait for UBER-Code to replace your job by providing cheaper code...
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Of course this debate is a great one because it is a double-edged sword and it cuts both ways.
But allow me to give an example.
I watched a documentary on Briggs & Stratton, small engine maker for over 100 hundred years, started in US.
They were moving manufacturing over seas to China.
They interviewed a worker and she said, "I always thought I'd have a job and now they're making me train my Chinese counterparts and my job will end next month."
Then they showed exactly what she did. This is the important part. She screwed two bolts into an engine block.
That's it. Her "talent" was the ability to screw two bolts in and she "thought she'd always have a job".
What?
Do you believe the company should continue to pay the woman $60,000USD + benefits to screw two bolts in?
On the one hand we have a human issue: the woman needs a job. She is human and should be valued.
On the other hand we have a person of very limited vision thinking she'd always have a job.
And the company cannot continue to pay her this huge salary as margins of profit dwindle because of economic reasons. Investors do not want to buy stock in a company that has no profit because the employee salary eats up all of the profits.
She should've been training for the day that a robot would come along an replace her, but she did not.
There's more too. Imagine if everyone just thought, "well, we can just hire people to screw bolts in" instead of thinking, "how can we innovate?" If you guarantee the person a job, then you never want to innovate because you have a law saying, "the woman will always be allowed to screw the two bolts in and any other mechanized method is illegal." It is a negative incentive to innovation.
Now, don't think about this being Briggs & Stratton.
Imagine, if you can, you start your own business. You are a sole proprietor and you have to make ends meet.
However, you are unable to go into business because the government has decided that you have to hire a woman at $60,000 to screw two bolts in, even though the technology exists to do that work by paying for a $10,000 robot one time.
Which one would you pick?
Which one would you have to pick, because you cannot afford the other?
Right, the best pick would be the human, in the perfect world. But this unfortunately is not that perfect world which states, "the worker is worthy of his wages".
All people should be valued, but it is not necessarily money that they should be valued with. But in this imperfect world that is what we live on.
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Microsoft is always looking for ways to improve its browser and with growing pressure from Google Chrome and Firefox, there is no time to waste when it comes to pushing out new features. And to no surprise, Microsoft has big plans for its next major update to Internet Explorer, which will arrive with Windows Threshold. "I wish developing great products was as easy as writing a check ... if so, then Microsoft would have great products."
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Why do we like flat so much now?
I HATE chrome.
HATE.
And I'm otherwise a sweet fuzzball.
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Flat's the new black, that was the new gradient, that was the new battleship grey.
TTFN - Kent
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Yeah?
Bleah anyway.
Have a wonderful Friday regardless.
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Ron Anders wrote: I HATE chrome.
For better or worse everyone is now copying it or copying certain features, sometimes not with a great deal of thought.
But if you really don't like it there are other options out there.
Kevin
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Scientists are a step closer to creating quantum computers after making light behave like crystal. "She blinded me with science!"
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Today, Yahoo announced plans to release new documents detailing its legal fight with the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court (FISC). "Blackmail is such an ugly word. I prefer extortion."
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Since its creation, Code.org‘s mission has been to get coding into curriculums for students as schools nationwide. Today, the nonprofit group is launching Code Studio, a combined set of tools and curriculum to get students in kindergarten through high school interested in the underlying concepts behind coding through guided lesson plans. "You who are on the road must have a code that you can live by."
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No tech worker is an island. A recent productivity impact study reveals work efficiency is impacted negatively by co-workers. Or are they just stealing your lunch? I know you're doing it Shane. I can see you doing it.
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Mozilla takes the wrapping paper off a project that could one day make Web developer's lives much easier by allowing them to build once and test everywhere. "Debugging across devices can be a real pain." Ya think?
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If you’ve done any app or game development in the last 10 years, you certainly recognize the criticality and power of third party components. With these components you can add all sorts of amazing functionality to your app with little to no additional coding. Shorter version: "Developers, developers, developers!"
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A leaked build of what Microsoft might distribute as its soon-to-be-released Windows Threshold Enterprise Tech Preview (aka Windows 9) provides a snapshot of the next version of Windows. "Pics or it didn't happen"
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they aren't going to let go of tiles just yet are they.
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Tiles are the way of the future. If you don't believe me, just ask Microsoft!
Just because the code works, it doesn't mean that it is good code.
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“The home of the future is not about the technology and not about being smart and connected,” he said. “It’s about it working in a way that you don’t notice the technology and giving you the right options at the right time. It’s about adapting to you.” It's because it's really cosy. I like what you've done with it.
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There isn’t a single overarching theme (like Generics, LINQ, async/await), but there are a lot of features that enhance your productivity both writing and reading C# code. "I program my home computer. Beam myself into the future"
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I see a lot fancy new crap that brownfielders can get used to in this preview.
Bastard Programmer from Hell
If you can't read my code, try converting it here[^]
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Await in catch / finally blocks and the null-propagation operator look quite handy.
Exception filters? I can see the argument that VB has them, so C# should have them too. But I don't think I've ever encountered a situation where I've thought, this would be much easier / cleaner with exception filters.
Everything else just looks horrible. But I guess that's just another sign I'm getting old.
"These people looked deep within my soul and assigned me a number based on the order in which I joined."
- Homer
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Well I think most of the enhancements looks promising - especialy null propagation and primary constructors. Both makes code shorter and more clear. Exception filtering looks kind of short-hand of "if (e is MyException) {...}.
Why not remove the break-need in the end of switch-case's. I don't see why break is needed - should break out when the next case begins - or?
That is what I can think of.
Michael Pauli
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If you saw Kate Upton or Jennifer Lawrence naked last week, there’s a good chance you saw them on the social news site Reddit. The self-proclaimed “front page of the Internet” was one of the main outlets linking to the celebrity nude photographs hacked from Apple’s iCloud accounts and leaked across the web. Honesty may be the best policy, but it doesn't seem to pay as well as the alternative
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Agreed...
Life is all about share and care...
public class Life : ICareable,IShareable
{
// implements yours...
}
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We are excited to announce that the new SQL Database service tiers, Basic, Standard, and Premium are now generally available. These service tiers raise the bar for what you can expect from a database-as-a-service with business-class functionality that is both built-in and seamless to use—allowing you to dramatically increase the number of databases managed under a single database administrator. I'd try to type something amusing here, but the combination of SQL, "cloud", and pricing has broken my Amuse-o-matic 9000.
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If you've heard that Sitting is Killing You, you probably have some low-grade continuous anxiety about the fact that you still end up sitting at a computer for most of the day, most days. But a five minute/hour slow walking break was shown to guard against the worst circulatory effects of sitting. There you go: doctor mandated break time
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