Posted on 01/02/2020 7:42:48 AM PST by Helicondelta
During a rally yesterday, Democratic presidential candidate Joe Biden spoke to a crowd in Derry, N.H., a town that many miners call home. He acknowledged the economic setbacks and job insecurity that coal miners face these days, and gave them some advice: learn to code.
According to Dave Weigel of the Washington Post, Biden said, “Anybody who can go down 3,000 feet in a mine can sure as hell learn to program as well... Anybody who can throw coal into a furnace can learn how to program, for God’s sake!”
According to Weigel, the comment was met with silence from the audience.
Biden's campaign has proposed moving the U.S. away from fossil fuels to reduce the country’s carbon footprint.
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Can you imagine Slow Senile Joe trying to learn to program. I’ll bet he can’t figure out how to turn on a computer.
1. He’s an idiot and believes it is as simple as typing. He doesn’t even know it is software programming.
2. I am sick of the term, “coding”; whoever invented this term and replaced, “software development” or “computer programming” or “software programming”, is an idiot and dummed down the perception of the profession.
Biden is a goofball... Pennsylvania will be Trump’s again...
If he thinks his family shoveled coal into a furnace all day, he doesn’t know much about mining!
Pssst ... he was lying.
“Learn to code” sounds like the 21st century version of “let ‘em eat cake.”
Does Joe know the head of the AFL/CIO is a former President of the National Union of Mineworkers?
For your info: POTUS, Donald J. Trump, political campaign rallies over the next couple of weeks:
- Miami, Florida, January 3rd, 2020, evening, 7000 people attending.
- Toledo, Ohio, January 9th, 2020, evening, 10,000 people attending.
- Milwaukee, Wisconsin, January 14th, 2020, evening. 14,000 people attending.
Attendees inside and out side expected to exceed 50,000 Trump supporters!! Be there...folks!!!
When I imagine men shoveling coal into a boiler it brings up a second image of the Titanic sailing blissfully toward the iceberg. The big fellas stoking under her stacks were the first to die that night. Maybe Slow Joe made an unconscious connection with that doomed ship and crew and his ridiculous campaign. Funny connections can be made when your brain consists of a network of stale feces.
Yeah, I was thinking of the Titanic boiler workers as well. That might sum up all that shirt-sleeves Joe actually “knows” about coal.
I am in IT, and this statement by Biden angers me in a variety of ways. I am sure some will think “Oh, rlmorel is angry because that makes it sound like anyone can code, which denigrates what he does” but that isn’t it at all. (I don’t code much, by the way, but you get the idea)
It is the exact opposite.
It denigrates completely what people like coal miners do. And I think being a coal miner is a heck of a lot harder in important ways than coding or IT work is.
What is it with the Left? I think part of it stems from a snobbish attitude overall towards what people do for work, and Leftists think everyone has to be like them to succeed.
Conservatives understand that it takes all types of people to make an economy hum, and to be successful, you need to work hard and participate and you can have the American Dream.
Ithout coal to generate vast quantities of electricity, how will libs power their vehicles?
Is there a popular delusion that anyone can learn to “code” and that racism/sexism/whateverism is the reason why so few “Minorities” have rushed into it?
That must be it. Truck drivers, miners, janitors, journalists and politicians can all become programmers because anyone can code.
Sure.
Exactly! Mine worker isn’t generally a advanced math occupation.
"A coder is someone who translates logics into an assembly language a machine will understand. Coding is more language oriented, whereas programming is different. It's the bigger picture and a programmer deals with much more than just writing codes which is just the beginning of what makes up the tasks of a programmer."My Dad was in on the ground floor of early computing and retired as a Sr. Computer Systems Analyst from GE in the mid 1970's. At a big seminar with all of his co-workers, they went around the room introducing themselves. One of the guys said, "Coder - Dylan." Everyone laughed, but really, he thought that was all anyone needed to know.
"Coder" Dylan's son is an egghead with a Doctorate at some University in the Carolinas.
Coding was a real thing in earlier days. In the 1950's and 1960's a Programmer would write the program in Cobol, Fortran or other programing languages and then that would be given to the Coders to translate that into assembly language to run in the computer processor, test and debug.
I cannot tell you how many times my Dad got called in to work at night when a program crashed and he had to go in and consult with the Coders to iron out the bug. And of course in the 1950's when Dad was a computer room supervisor, he was the one calling the programmer in the middle of the night. But he got to meet Ronald Reagan back then and have his picture taken with him in the computer room at the General Electric plant.
“Heads Down” Programmers are going the way of the Dodo Bird.
It’s expected now that a programmer is also a business analyst and project manager, all in one. If you don’t have those skills, your job will be outsourced.
I think he also visited in 1954.
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