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 More options Oct 5 2012, 6:48 pm
Newsgroups: sci.military.naval, alt.war.vietnam, soc.veterans, rec.aviation.military, us.military.army
From: Bill <blackuse...@gmail.com>
Date: Fri, 05 Oct 2012 23:48:30 +0100
Local: Fri, Oct 5 2012 6:48 pm
Subject: Re: Pussy Riot update
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On Fri, 05 Oct 2012 15:37:29 -0400, Uncle Steve <stevet...@gmail.com>
wrote:

>On Fri, Oct 05, 2012 at 07:01:47PM +0100, Bill wrote:
>> On Fri, 05 Oct 2012 13:06:38 -0400, Uncle Steve <stevet...@gmail.com>
>> wrote:

>> >On Fri, Oct 05, 2012 at 05:42:39PM +0100, Bill wrote:
>> >> On Thu, 04 Oct 2012 20:45:43 -0400, Uncle Steve <stevet...@gmail.com>

>> >> >What point are you trying to make about contemporary journalism in
>> >> >supposedly civilized societies?

>> >> That it's a dangerous business.

>> >Perhaps you can tell me why Computer Programmer is a dangerous
>> >occupation, Bill.  I've got twenty+ years of experience that says it
>> >is.

>> If you're still programming computers over the age of about 30 you
>> really shouldn't be

>Not answering the question again, but I shouldn't be surprised.  It
>would be a signal for a national day of celebration if you ever
>stuck to the topic for once without evasions or circumlocutions.

It's the truth.

I was stillw riting programs at the age of 32,  but Iw as well past it
by then.

>> It's a young man's game.

>Nice myth, Bill, but nothing beats experience.  Programming shops on
>average may prefer youthful code-monkeys writing fractional
>application bits because they're cheaper and easier to herd, but
>complex applications involving, say, math and simulation work requires
>serious expertise.  And parallel programming is still a black art,
>even with modern message-passing APIs and parallelized languages.

Bollocks.

>Nobody would ever suggest that physics or chemistry or medicine is a
>young man's game,

Actually they invariably do.

Almost every physics and maths graduate I know says that they've done
no original work after the age of 30.

 I suspect you fear complexity that you do not

>understand, and while you probably know as much about physics as you
>do about computer science, physics is not as threatening as the
>magical machine you are sitting in front of right now, and which you use to
>compose your messages to Usenet on a daily basis.  I don't doubt you
>would prefer to make computer programmers easier to control and
>survey, which would imply middling non-experts producing software that
>is (relatively) easy to comprehend, analyze and subvert.  The fewer
>rock-star programmers, the better, eh?

Computer programmers are easy to control.

You just pay them.


 
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