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Agean90
Jun 28, 2008


Yinlock posted:

how can you say you've lived if you haven't put in a hard day's work in the code mines

id rather not have bit lung thank you

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logikv9
Mar 5, 2009


Ham Wrangler

ex post facho posted:

its also completely obvious that the push for "better skills" is to specifically drive down labor prices in the technology secotr, no wonder its being championed by bad dems

it's all a conspiracy by Big Tech

Xelkelvos
Dec 19, 2012

LinYutang posted:

I was poor and taught myself to code for free, now I have a stable fun job and could move anywhere really

They really need to include Economics somewhere in STEM education.

Right now, there's a large demand for coders. How much of it is real and how much of it is artificial is up for debate, but enough of it is artificial that it's plainly obvious that by the next decade, the market will be flooded with entry level coders and exceed the demand for those types, necessitating in the raising of requirements and/or the lower of wages. Simply, supply is looking to overtake demand so market forces will push to reduce cost or increase the quality of supply to keep with demand.

Shageletic
Jul 25, 2007

Here on Destruction Eve, maybe its worth checking something else. Shag has another Shag book of the week for you.

The Utopia of Rules

From the sociologist who wrote Debt: The First 5,000 Years.

Here's an excerpt:

quote:

We no longer like to think about bureaucracy, yet it informs every aspect of our existence. It's as if, as a planetary civilization, we have decided to clap our hands over our ears and start humming whenever the topic comes up. Insofar as we are even willing to discuss it, it's still in the terms popular in the sixties and early seventies. The social movements of the sixties were, on the whole, left-wing in inspiration, but they were also rebellions against bureaucracy, or, to put it more accurately, rebellions against the bureaucratic mindset, against the soul-destroying conformity of the postwar welfare states. In the face of the gray functionaries of both state-capitalist and state-socialist regimes, sixties rebels stood for individual expression and spontaneous conviviality, and against ("rules and regulations, who needs them?") every form of social control.

With the collapse of the old welfare states, all this has come to seem decidedly quaint. As the language of antibureaucratic individualism has been adopted, with increasing ferocity, by the Right, which insists on "market solutions" to every social problem, the mainstream Left has increasingly reduced itself to fighting a kind of pathetic rearguard action, trying to salvage remnants of the old welfare state: it has acquiesced with—often even spearheaded—attempts to make government efforts more "efficient" through the partial privatization of services and the incorporation of ever-more "market principles," "market incentives," and market-based "accountability processes" into the structure of the bureaucracy itself.

The result is a political catastrophe.
There's really no other way to put it. What is presented as the "moderate" Left solution to any social problems—and radical left solutions are, almost everywhere now, ruled out tout court—has invariably come to be some nightmare fusion of the worst elements of bureaucracy and the worst elements of capitalism. It's as if someone had consciously tried to create the least appealing possible political position. It is a testimony to the genuine lingering power of leftist ideals that anyone would even consider voting for a party that promoted this sort of thing—because surely, if they do, it's not because they actually think these are good policies, but because these are the only policies anyone who identifies themselves as left-of-center is allowed to set forth.

Is there any wonder, then, that every time there is a social crisis, it is the Right, rather than the Left, which becomes the venue for the expression of popular anger?

The Right, at least, has a critique of bureaucracy. It's not a very good one. But at least it exists. The Left has none. As a result, when those who identify with the Left do have anything negative to say about bureaucracy, they are usually forced to adopt a watered-down version of the right-wing critique.

http://www.npr.org/books/titles/387300564/the-utopia-of-rules-on-technology-stupidity-and-the-secret-joys-of-bureaucracy#excerpt

Al!
Apr 2, 2010

:coolspot::coolspot::coolspot::coolspot::coolspot:

Shab posted:

If AI is creatively coding to solve ad hoc problems "in a few years" we've got bigger things to worry about than middle class jobs

my "uncle" who works at "nintendo" tells me that ai is way further along than anyone knows about

Higgy
Jul 6, 2005



Grimey Drawer

Epic High Five posted:

IT management fuckin rules

:agreed:

logikv9
Mar 5, 2009


Ham Wrangler
"learn how to code" i tell everybody i encounter

"why are there so many coders now :smith:" i also wonder a few years later

GobiasIndustries
Dec 14, 2007

Lipstick Apathy
7 years. They've had 7 years and this is the best they can come up with and this idiocy will pass
https://twitter.com/CAPAction/status/890597219186900995

Tainen
Jan 23, 2004
lol this loving picture is real life

https://twitter.com/michaelcbender/status/890607726731997184

fits my needs
Jan 1, 2011

Grimey Drawer

BrutalistMcDonalds posted:


hmmmmmmmmmm

sounding better...

https://twitter.com/KQED/status/890006340487217152

ex post facho
Oct 25, 2007

MysteriousStranger posted:

Coding jobs are being outsourced as fast as possible. The ones that aren't require a clearance. The best thing to do is get a clearance and work as a consultant coding what can't be outsourced for a firm that also makes money consulting on the outsourcing of all those jobs.

the coders for my company are all based out of the ukraine lollllll

FizFashizzle
Mar 30, 2005








the GAO has literally never mattered at all

logikv9
Mar 5, 2009


Ham Wrangler
a coder will make a program that will render coding obsolete so good luck!!

Pittsburgh Fentanyl Cloud
Apr 7, 2003


Xelkelvos posted:

They really need to include Economics somewhere in STEM education.

Right now, there's a large demand for coders. How much of it is real and how much of it is artificial is up for debate, but enough of it is artificial that it's plainly obvious that by the next decade, the market will be flooded with entry level coders and exceed the demand for those types, necessitating in the raising of requirements and/or the lower of wages. Simply, supply is looking to overtake demand so market forces will push to reduce cost or increase the quality of supply to keep with demand.

If they really seriously want better programmers they should ditch the coding boot camps and teach better critical thinking, logic, and math skillls. Period.

Alan Smithee
Jan 4, 2005


A man becomes preeminent, he's expected to have enthusiasms.

Enthusiasms, enthusiasms...

Intel&Sebastian posted:

lmao they went directly from "yeah I guess that's fairly normal for someone who plays golf every weekend of all time" to "Dear leader Kim Jong Trump is master of all sports"

Dear Donald was born on Mount Washington to the auspices of 7 bald eagles

Crusader
Apr 11, 2002


inmates asylum etc etc

Iron Crowned
May 6, 2003

by Hand Knit

More importantly do they have a boner garage?

JHomer722
Jul 30, 2006

And you, you ridiculous people, you expect me to help you.


came here to post this lmfao

Al!
Apr 2, 2010

:coolspot::coolspot::coolspot::coolspot::coolspot:
like ai are already writing academic papers i hear lol

Happy Noodle Boy
Jul 3, 2002



Not going to lie, the Mooch kinda owns.

H.P. Hovercraft
Jan 12, 2004

one thing a computer can do that most humans can't is be sealed up in a cardboard box and sit in a warehouse
Slippery Tilde

Citizen Tayne posted:

If they really seriously want better programmers they should ditch the coding boot camps and teach better critical thinking, logic, and math skillls. Period.

pfffft what kinda stemlord needs liberal arts like math

stuffed crust punk
Oct 8, 2004

by LITERALLY AN ADMIN

Shageletic posted:

edit: CALZONE

juche avocado
Dec 23, 2009





logikv9 posted:

a coder will make a program that will render coding obsolete so good luck!!

defund all universixties now

pathetic little tramp
Dec 12, 2005

by Hillary Clinton's assassins
Fallen Rib
How many hours are left in the debate that got started on Tuesday with poo poo-for-brained McCain ranting about some poo poo?

LinYutang
Oct 12, 2016

NEOLIBERAL SHITPOSTER

:siren:
VOTE BLUE NO MATTER WHO!!!
:siren:

MysteriousStranger posted:

Coding jobs are being outsourced as fast as possible. The ones that aren't require a clearance. The best thing to do is get a clearance and work as a consultant coding what can't be outsourced for a firm that also makes money consulting on the outsourcing of all those jobs.

Not really, coding outsourcing has been uniformly terrible

Admiral Ray
May 17, 2014

Proud Musk and Dogecoin fanboy

Al! posted:

like ai are already writing academic papers i hear lol

those are called grad students

triple sulk
Sep 17, 2014



Xelkelvos posted:

They really need to include Economics somewhere in STEM education.

Right now, there's a large demand for coders. How much of it is real and how much of it is artificial is up for debate, but enough of it is artificial that it's plainly obvious that by the next decade, the market will be flooded with entry level coders and exceed the demand for those types, necessitating in the raising of requirements and/or the lower of wages. Simply, supply is looking to overtake demand so market forces will push to reduce cost or increase the quality of supply to keep with demand.

there are already more coders than what is needed tbh, d-list companies will look forever for a-list talent because they think they deserve it when instead that talent can just go work for a-list companies like google et al, but they don't just hire anyone because there isn't an immediate need either compared to the first tech bubble

byob historian
Nov 5, 2008

I'm an animal abusing piece of shit! I deliberately poisoned my dog to death and think it's funny! I'm an irredeemable sack of human shit!

punchymcpunch posted:

gaius antonius muccio, centurion of the lxix legion, sez:

like a trireme loaded with swarthy slaves, spqr cannot bear many leaks; let those who oppose Caesar present fundaments that i might plunge my cock therein. i have already alerted the roman fbi. true roman bread for true romans!!

sure thing fudgepax romana

Admiral Ray
May 17, 2014

Proud Musk and Dogecoin fanboy

Citizen Tayne posted:

If they really seriously want better programmers they should ditch the coding boot camps and teach better critical thinking, logic, and math skillls. Period.

lol if ur a coder and need to be taught critical thinking!

Brother Friendship
Jul 12, 2013


:eyepop:

Chris James 2
Aug 9, 2012


Oxxidation
Jul 22, 2007
one of my biggest reasons for continuing to draw breath is the anticipation of getting to see thousand and thousand of programmers become unemployed and destitute

BrutalistMcDonalds
Oct 4, 2012


Lipstick Apathy
lmao

ok i got my trump lol of the day thx fam

GobiasIndustries
Dec 14, 2007

Lipstick Apathy
I get why Bannon and Sessions havent quit but Reince is so beyond being effectual and the new guy has spent his first week making GBS threads on him in public.

Alan Smithee
Jan 4, 2005


A man becomes preeminent, he's expected to have enthusiasms.

Enthusiasms, enthusiasms...

so uh is mooch a member of the Saints Row

LinYutang
Oct 12, 2016

NEOLIBERAL SHITPOSTER

:siren:
VOTE BLUE NO MATTER WHO!!!
:siren:

Al! posted:

good money until artificial intelligence automates it in a few years

If AI has automated coding it's automated everything else so we're probably at mad max at that point

triple sulk
Sep 17, 2014



Citizen Tayne posted:

If they really seriously want better programmers they should ditch the coding boot camps and teach better critical thinking, logic, and math skillls. Period.

they also make coding out to be cool to kids when in reality 99.9% of coding jobs are horrible bureaucratic bullshit

Al!
Apr 2, 2010

:coolspot::coolspot::coolspot::coolspot::coolspot:

Admiral Ray posted:

lol if ur a coder and need to be taught critical thinking!

if coders are supposed to be so good at critical thinking why are so many of them libertarians

Ruzihm
Aug 11, 2010

Group up and push mid, proletariat!


ScrubLeague posted:

This is normal

thats why its called a bourgeois democracy

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Jazerus
May 24, 2011


Xelkelvos posted:

They really need to include Economics somewhere in STEM education.

Right now, there's a large demand for coders. How much of it is real and how much of it is artificial is up for debate, but enough of it is artificial that it's plainly obvious that by the next decade, the market will be flooded with entry level coders and exceed the demand for those types, necessitating in the raising of requirements and/or the lower of wages. Simply, supply is looking to overtake demand so market forces will push to reduce cost or increase the quality of supply to keep with demand.

lol how about including economics in all forms of higher education, it's not like an english major gets economics at the moment and STEM folks don't

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