Posted on 08/24/2013 3:52:54 PM PDT by Innovative
McConlogue approached Leo, a 36-year man who lives on the streets of lower Manhattan, on Thursday and gave him two options.
The first was $100 in cash.
The second option on the table was a laptop, three JavaScript books and two months of coding instruction from McConlogue.
Soon, McConlogue will deliver him a Samsung Chromebook with 3G connectivity, three JavaScript books, a solar charger for the laptop and something to conceal the laptop in. He will spend an hour before work every morning teaching him the basics of software coding.
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...which is why I don’t do websites or write (notice I wrote “write”, not code), standalone software anymore. Coding is task mastery. Designing algorithms or thinking at hardware/system levels is a science and an art.
So, we’ve progressed...from “taking in each others laundry” to “coding each others websites”. Hmmm.
“You wrote:
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I’ll be sure to call him when I need an advanced algorithm to calculate the change in frequency as a laser scans across the diffraction grating to determine a chemical reaction.
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In JavaScript? Good luck with that...”
Sure, no problemo, just run it on better hardware...
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It’s not what it costs, it’s what he can fence it for. I mean “fo”.
Anyone can code — it is an avocation.
Only those with a combination of talent, background and skills can design what is to be coded.
Neither do we.........LOL!
It’s a chromebook so its worth 101 dollars.
What is an EBT hotel?
Yeah, how long before this guy cashes the laptop in and tells the guy, “Someone stole it so can I have another one?”
Then, when the guy gives him another, he beats him to death, steals his wallet and car, and hits the road.
He looks as if someone smacked him across the bridge of his nose with a pipe.
That’s just a Pavilions employee as most items there are marked up three times and he’s just making up the difference. s/
I actually saw on Craigslist about an ad about having someone go the Philippines and help set up an IT infrastructure so this “poor fishing village” will be taught how to code.
I go the RP every year and knowing that province, this dude must be wanting to teach kids to code for cheap and eventually made a s a service.
Most people have no idea. Me, I went from Basic to Assembly language, and I have concluded that really the vast majority of people just can not make the jump necessary to program in straight machine code.
You can teach most people how to read sheet music, but there is no blippin' way you can teach everyone how to sing. And by "sing", I do not include the recently-popular chanting done to a heavy beat commonly known as "rap" *cough* music *cough*. I refer to REAL singing. With actual lyrics and a passable tune.
Step #1 should be get the homeless guy *off* the booze/drugs and/or get him *on* the psych meds he’s supposed to be taking.
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Bingo!
His first words would be, "Yeah, Laz, but would you hit it?"
Oh, no, I mean his first words would be, "What dat 'parameter' shit, mah main? That some skydiving jive? By the way, you a computer main, can you tell me how tuh kill all the Five-O in level one of 'Car Thief I'?"
With a few weeks of training, this guy will probably be about as good as many of the ‘software professionals’ that you’ll find on fiverr.com. While many of them may actually be good coders, there are quite a few ‘wannabes’ as well.
Well, said.
LOL!
And yup, if you're talented, you can even make 6 figures doing it without 'wasting years' getting a liberal indoctrination.
There are many way shorter paths to success than writing code - particularly when programmers here in the USA have to compete globally. Why hire the novice programmer who knows a little javascript when you could hire an experienced, college educated software engineer in India for $12.00 per hour?
There is fierce competition for entry level programming jobs, but less so for many trades. And if you can, for example, paint an apartment decently and quickly, you'll be earning cash in days. And nobody will ask for your social security number, or anything else other than "when can you get it done by?" Nor will they care if you show up in a dirty pair of jeans and a torn shirt.
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