Re: Whoops! The Atlantic Makes Trump Look EPIC In Cover Intended as a Smear

On 10/31/2024 4:39 AM, D wrote:

  On Wed, 30 Oct 2024, Lynn McGuire wrote:
 

On 10/30/2024 3:54 PM, Scott Lurndal wrote:

Lynn McGuire <lynnmcguire5@gmail.com> writes:

On 10/30/2024 4:39 AM, D wrote:

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This raises questions about the future job of programmers. Do you
believe that the field will be split into simple code-monkeys where
salaries with the help of AI, will decrease more and more over time, and
the "elite" who actually are the ones who develop new algorithms, tools
and AI that serve to reduce the salaries of the code-monkeys?

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I have no idea and I am in the business of writing and selling software.
  Programming is an odd profession, very few programmers actually have a
programming degree.  My degree is in Mechanical Engineering, one of my
programmers has a PhD in Chemical Engineering, and my other programmer
has a double degree in Chemistry and Physics.

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Pretty much every programmer I've worked with over the last forty five years
has had a degree in computer science or computer engineering.  There
have been some without degrees that learned on the job (e.g. started
in product support and moved to programming, but those are the exception,
not the rule).
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Many of the elite programmers never graduated from college.  Bill Gates,
Mark Zuckerberg, etc.

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Calling either of them 'elite' programmers is inaccurate.  Good businessmen,
perhaps.  Perhaps even good idea men.
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Windows is, however, a steaming pile.  Popular by default, not by design.

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And you just outed yourself as an elitist with that last comment.
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Lynn

 Maybe Scott is instead a man of highly refined and good taste? I agree with him that windows is steaming excrement. I do acknolwedge "the power of good enough" and the predatory practices of Microsoft which has propelled windows to its current position.
 Fortunately, on the server side, I do hope that windows ship of theseus experiment with WSL, will finally reached the end station, of becoming a linux. ;)

I suspect that ship sailed a long time.  It would have been nice if the Windows NT project was based on FreeBSD instead of the VAX VMS clone that Dave Cutler wrote.
I advocate the reading of "Showstopper", it will amaze you.
  https://www.amazon.com/Showstopper-Breakneck-Windows-Generation-Microsoft/dp/1497638836
"Showstopper is the dramatic, inside story of the creation of Windows NT, told by Wall Street Journal reporter G. Pascal Zachary. Driven by the legendary David Cutler, a picked band of software engineers sacrifices almost everything in their lives to build a new, stable, operating system aimed at giving Microsoft a platform for growth through the next decade of development in the computing business."
Lynn