Posted on 02/03/2019 6:18:28 PM PST by dynachrome
Dozens of jobs were slashed at HuffPost that day, following a round of layoffs at Gannett Media; further jobs were about to be disappeared at BuzzFeed. It was a grim day for the media, and I just wanted to channel my tiny part of the prevailing gloom.
Then the responses started rolling in—some sympathy from fellow journalists and readers, then an irritating gush of near-identical responses: “Learn to code.” “Maybe learn to code?” “BETTER LEARN TO CODE THEN.” “Learn to code you useless bitch.” Alongside these tweets were others: “Stop writing fake news and crap.” “MAGA.” “Your opinions suck and no one wants to read them.” “Lmao journalists are evil wicked cretins. I wish you were all jail [sic] and afraid.”
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Coding is hard. That’s why it’s funny because journalists would have no chance at being successful at it.
Yep. I have coded in VBA, assembly, FORTRAN, etc. Did not want to eat, sleep, or use the restroom. That is addiction!
I liked building things. Difference between engineers and CS types, maybe?
I first learned to code in FORTRAN, too. Used an IBM 1620 with line-cards. It sort of morphed into BASIC afterward. I was programming into the late 1990’s with the various versions of it. I never made the transition into Visual BASIC since I was doing too little programming by then. BTW, programming was not my primary job. It was just a side job to make my engineering job easier.
TALIA LAVIN doesn’t ‘get it’...
We’re NOT a few hundred citizens who are ticked off at the press... we’re almost half the people who live here. Over 65 million people feel the press isn’t fair. And counting.
If she had two brain cells to rub together she would wonder if maybe - just maybe - the biased coverage by the press might be part of the problem... and cause for much of the anger.
I bought my first PC in order to load lotus 1-2-3 and learn to use it fro accounting class. As a math teacher, I started a new class to teach coding to high school kids. (Now it is called AP Computer Science 1A. (I taught that too.) I had one student get a job coding right out of high school, although most went on to four year colleges.
As an engineer we were able to take coding in our senior year (as a computer was introduced at Berkeley in that year. 1966). I have always loved engineering and working with code was always a part of it. When we went through a layoff as teachers, I was invited to learn to be a bank teller. Fortunately they were hiring engineers at the time.
So I would say don’t just learn to code, if you can go back to school and study engineering and get a real job.
What is both funny and pathetic is that she has this delusion that the world owes her a comfortable living writing her opinion spew when she is totally insignificant. There is so little market for her diatribes and she can’t bear the reality.
Learn to code is terrible advice to give a soon to be unemployed MSM “journalist.” You see, to be good at coding you have to have the right mix of math skill (particularly algebra), a hefty dose of creativity, and more than a little self discipline to follow coding standards and keep things manageable. MSM types generally lack all of these characteristics. Oh, and the computer doesn’t give a rip about your intentions or feelings. The compiler won’t generate workable code just because you tried your best and that’s always gotten you a trophy before. Good software engineering is just about the antithesis of MSM work.
When I was going to college I had a work study job maintaining the computers in the computer lab and helping students with their homework. When a professor couldn’t make it in for some reason they would have me fill in. I was a computer enthusiast for years before this so it all came very easy to me.
I learned very quickly that there were many people who had problems and had unrealistic expectations about their own ability to master any type of activity with computers. I once had a guy who was a plumber who wanted to change professions. Anyone who has worked on designing a multistory DWV (drain waste vent) system knows that this can be fairly complex work. So I assumed that he would be able to get the hang of things, but after awhile I realized that his desire to get into programming was probably never going to work out.
These days young people have grown up with computers so I think a much higher percentage are not intimidated and can figure things out with a little perseverance and a little help. But back in the 70s or even 80s older students especially were sometimes completely unfamiliar with computers and it was very difficult for them to understand even basic concepts.
But even though people are now used to using computers, tablets, “smart phones”, and etc... many if not the majority still cannot tell you even how to organize their work or even their collection of photos, music, movies or books into nested directories. Most of them let apps or programs do all of the “organizing” for them. These people have a difficult time writing a computer “program” more complex than very simple BASIC routines.
To me it was an incredible development when they first incorporated a macro language into Lotus 123. At that time it seemed incredibly powerful and easy to use compared to using a programming language. People were just amazed by what a you could accomplish with just a short routine. It seemed like almost no one knew that the capability was even there.
I make it a point to never use the word “Fetid”.
Fired fake fact-checker weighs in again, I'm guessing it's one of those truck scales.
Fired fake fact-checker weighs in again, I'm guessing it's one of those truck scales.
Nah. I think they just wanted ‘em dead.
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P.S.
My above was in reference to Kevin Williamson. I do not recall him writing that. I recall him saying they should die out. Am I wrong?
Poorly written piece by someone who knows nothing beyond the task of adding vitriol to the daily talking points. She’s an idiot... useless... a trained monkey can do what she does.
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