4 Jun
2013
4 Jun
'13
8:29 a.m.
On 06/03/2013 10:04 PM, Liam Proven wrote:
I don't know what you could possibly be thinking to make you say something
like this. You write and blog about this stuff. I actually WORK in this
industry, for real, currently about 110hrs/wk. Until you're doing that,
don't make statements like this.
I'm not saying you're clueless, and I'm not saying that you're not
qualified to make forward-looking statements. I like hearing where YOU think
things will be going. But when you make assertions like "this, that, and the
other thing WILL BE GONE in X years...", some things just do not sound
practical, and I say this as a very forward-looking, new-technology-embracing
but still pragmatic person.
In essence, you're telling a career engine designer that threaded bolts
"will be a thing of the past soon". I say "uhh, no."
People do
use computers for things other than browsing the web and
sending/receiving email. You, as a journalist, have a responsibility to see
that and understand it. These are not niche applications, they are all
around you.
I know. I submit that actually I have more contact with this stuff than you do. I don't use the things, but I watch everyone
around me do it.
You know what? My lodger (house-mate) is a professional developer.
Mainly Perl, but C/C++, Scala, PHP, anything.
He works on a MacBook Pro.
But at home, he only watches movies on it. The computer he uses in the house?
iPad.
Does he write software on it? I doubt it.
-Dave
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Dave McGuire, AK4HZ
New Kensington, PA