Learn to code or ride the coat-tails of an influential black democrat politician who will give you high paying do-nothing government jobs in return for sex.
It worked for Khlamidia Harris, it can work for you!
Posted on 10/09/2019 8:20:36 PM PDT by upchuck
Better to get a job further up the food chain than writing code which will just be outsourced. Learn skills that are less likely in the mid-term to be mechanized, automated or outsourced.
No, don’t “learn to code.” I’ve been in software since 1980, the days of writing FORTRAN code on punch cards. If you don’t have a knack, a calling to code, don’t bother. At best you’ll only ever be a mediocre programmer. The developers that stand out, that get the good jobs, that actually enjoy what they are doing... They didn’t just learn to code because that’s what you do. They picked up coding because it interested them. They fool around with computers and coding at home in their spare time. If that’s not you, you’re not going to be great, be a standout in the field. Sure, you can be a 9 to 5 code monkey and slog through assignments, but you won’t be a superstar. Software development is a lot like commissioning a piece of art. It takes creativity, inherent skill, knowledge (academic and experience), and an appreciation of the field of software design and architecture. A useful metaphor relates to cooking. There are a lot of line cooks out there turning out perfectly acceptable meals. There are not so many master chefs putting together memorable dining experiences.
My 31-year-old daughter is currently in a 6-month coding camp and killing it. She’s always been good at languages though. I’m just glad she finally found a good career path.
Kamala Harris to Iowans: “Learn to screw.”
Spot-on assessment of real programmers! I'm a long-time programmer, also having done FORTRAN in the 1970s (hated punch cards, especially when the ink was faint or when dropping a stack on the floor). Anyway, I had to deal with training mediocre programmers who switched professions to get the better pay in computer work.
One time I'm in a terminal room around 1980 (we had to wait turns to use time-sharing terminals, coding our work at our desks with pencil and paper before punching it in at a terminal) with some co-workers entering COBOL code. A female mediocre coder suddenly yelled out my name and said "Oh no, I'm missing my period!". All eyes turned to me as I turned red. Her program failed to compile because COBOL wants sentences to end with periods. My buddies gave me a bad time, laughing their heads off. She never did advance much with programming, didn't have the knack for it.
I wonder if she literally told someone to learn to code. She must be too stupid to realize that has become a snarky expression.
Learn to blow.
Nowadays, you simply need to be Indian and accept low pay to get the job.
Sadly she’ll find the doors closed unless she’s Indian and willing to work for Indian rates.
Yes. Maybe this information will help you on Trivia Night some time ;-).
She must have used her mouth as code in her office under Willie browns desk
Read this! (..-. ..- -.-. -.-.) ( -.—. -— ..-)
A lot of potential PHBs.
It’s not coding, it’s writing computer programs, something that not everyone is capable of, and it’s not White Heterosexual Patriarchical males who are preventing the poor oppressed from being able to understand how programs work.
For once in her life Willie’s squeeze is 100% right.
And the blowback from this is going to be the final nail in her coffin.
In my days of COBOL programming those kinds of people usually became managers. Anything to get their fingers away from the terminal keyboard.
To continue your post, you also have to be willing to re-invent yourself. I've been a software engineer for 32 years (taught myself just about every single IT job - whatever they needed), and worked my way into cloud computing. Cool stuff.
Learn to code or ride the coat-tails of an influential black democrat politician who will give you high paying do-nothing government jobs in return for sex.
It worked for Khlamidia Harris, it can work for you!
You’re graphic is perfect. Thanks!
I remember back in the late 80s / early 90s that all the wise gurus were predicting that computer programming was going to be the big thing that finally brought females into science careers in numbers rivaling males. It didn’t. There are plenty of female programmers, outstanding ones in fact, but it’s still a field dominated by men in my experience. Perhaps the predictions of the wise men of those bygone decades are finally starting to come true. Time will tell.
Yep. It was perfectly OK to tell the “deplorables” learn to code.
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