Yet another refugee who washed up on the shore after the great Reddit disaster of 2023
What are you taking about, he didn’t bait anyone. You aren’t obligated to honor a quote from someone who isn’t in your company. If I said my son is a mechanic and he can put a new engine in your car for $50, you absolutely should not expect a $50 engine.
Yep, you get it. And it’s really hard to get people to understand the value in learning to do that stuff without the tools.
We do a lot of real-time control software, and just yesterday we were taking about how the newer folks are really good at using available tools and libraries, but they have less understanding of what’s happening underneath and they have problems when those tools don’t/can’t do what we need.
Apparently he wants everything written in COBOL
One of the things I look for in employees is the ability to distill complex topics into the important elements and explain it to someone unfamiliar. Some people are just naturally good at it, and it’s a really important skill for moving up a leadership chain.
Oh, could be. I got here sorting by new, and I’m not a Voyager user, but I thought I had some insight. Maybe I don’t - apologies for the detour.
I believe they’re taking about in your own profile, you can set your display name to be different from your username. For instance, my username is AFKBRBChocolate, but I have it set to display with spaces. If you click on the username in a post, it should show you what it really is.
Right, the sort algorithms are on the Lemmy side
Yep, intentionally so. When someone asks about “the hottest fashions,” they don’t care about what was hot then years ago, they mean what’s hot right now. So it’s recent posts that are getting a lot of positive attention.
Well good luck, it’s a great school
It’s a great school, we’ve hired a lot of folks from there. Which one are you at?
Even among universities where it’s in the same school, the way it’s taught varies. As a guy who hires a lot of CS folks, my impression is that when it’s in a college of engineering they tend to focus a little more on the process of developing code (requirements, design, and test, not just the coding part), and when it’s in a college of science, there’s a bit more theory. But the that’s not necessarily true at every university. I actually prefer it when folks have had more of the process part (it’s even sometimes a Software Engineering degree).
Title question first: yes, you absolutely can be too dumb to program.
But as others have mentioned, being bad at math isn’t necessarily a deal breaker, especially if you’re taking about the actual arithmetic part of math.
What turns out to be key to programming is breaking down a problem into steps and figuring out the logic to do what you want to do. The computer is going to do the actual arithmetic, but you’ll need to tell it what you want to do step by step.
I don’t think I can answer your exact question, but likely you’d want to learn Matlab and Python because of how frequently they’re used to analyze and process data in the research sciences. My daughter is in a geophysics PhD program and pretty much lives in those two.
I’m not sure there’s less incentive to post generally, but there’s less incentive to repost old stuff, misleading headlines, etc.
Intentionally, Lemmy itself doesn’t total your upvotes and downvotes. You can go to your profile and see them for a given comment or post, but not an overall total. Some apps do show it.
Most of us agree that Reddit karma caused people to post and say things just for the karma, which was an overall negative. People put too much value in the score. So while we have upvotes and downvotes, they’re deemphasized, and that’s on purpose.
Yeah, for this one I was meaning the alternate account part. But this one is just the latest in a string, most of which were vulnerabilities or flaws in the architecture. I could have been more clear though.
Hopefully this crap is contributing to Lemmy overall being stronger. If the developers can plug the holes in the overall architecture so systemic vulnerabilities are minimal, and people make accounts on multiple instances and just switch when one is down, it might take the “fun” out of taking an instance down.
It’s really not, at least for the text part. Text posts and comments take almost nothing and storage continues to get cheaper.
Mainstream platforms are selling out because they’ve always had others and shareholders who ultimately want to make money.
I had an assembly class in college. I didn’t love of at all. Got my first job after graduating and it was writing space shuttle engine control software, which was in assembly. I was kind of surprised at how fast it became natural after dealing with it full time. Still, it felt luxurious when we upgraded the controller and could do the software in C.