automated society

[Diddy]

Knowing how to work with non-power tools allowed me to organize volunteers to do repairs and beautification on 20 homes in south county this summer with a $1200 supplies budget, half of which was spent on paint. Technology on the other hand (hello internet) allowed someone with my skill level to organize and give instructions on a wide variety of repair work, some of which I hadn't actually ever done.

Useful and affordable technology can be amazing, but technology for the sake of technology is, for me, an unnecessary expense.

Why the hell would you want to work with non power tools?

[jim]

I think he's saying he doesn't know how ... or I don't know what he is saying.

Other problem with this automated society know that I am on my rant: The dumbing down of "software developers". I am sick and tired of hearing people refer to a themselves or others, and paying them accordingly, because they can go clicky click and drag this and drop that and write a 3 line shell script. That is what is masquerading as software developers now, using these tools that dont' really require writing code per se (although they do, because the [expletive] never works completely right).

I have a chip on my shoulder, I admit. I run a group of 13 "developers" - some of them are and some of them aren't imo. There is another group in my dept (I'm a deputy dept head which means I do a bunch of [expletive] with the other group - Barney Fife) where they have 10 "developers, or if you count like I count, 0. Clicky clickly draggy droppy use alot of buzzwords and cutty pastey into Excel. And what is PISSING me off to no end is we are dishing out what little funds we have for salary and they are getting more than their fair share. In my opinion, they ought to be taking a 10% cut and giving to the real developers.

I just love these guys and gals. Some of these claim to know SQL yet because the tool builds the query for them with them clicky clicky pointy draggy droppy stuff they don't really know [expletive]. Their heads would explode if you showed them an actual SQL statement.

I [expletive] hate stupid unskilled people that get paid too much money because they learned to clicky click draggy drop.

[jim]

I think he's saying he doesn't know how ... or I don't know what he is saying.

Other problem with this automated society know that I am on my rant: The dumbing down of "software developers". I am sick and tired of hearing people refer to a themselves or others, and paying them accordingly, because they can go clicky click and drag this and drop that and write a 3 line shell script. That is what is masquerading as software developers now, using these tools that dont' really require writing code per se (although they do, because the [expletive] never works completely right).

I have a chip on my shoulder, I admit. I run a group of 13 "developers" - some of them are and some of them aren't imo. There is another group in my dept (I'm a deputy dept head which means I do a bunch of [expletive] with the other group - Barney Fife) where they have 10 "developers, or if you count like I count, 0. Clicky clickly draggy droppy use alot of buzzwords and cutty pastey into Excel. And what is PISSING me off to no end is we are dishing out what little funds we have for salary and they are getting more than their fair share. In my opinion, they ought to be taking a 10% cut and giving to the real developers.

I just love these guys and gals. Some of these claim to know SQL yet because the tool builds the query for them with them clicky clicky pointy draggy droppy stuff they don't really know [expletive]. Their heads would explode if you showed them an actual SQL statement.

I [expletive] hate stupid unskilled people that get paid too much money because they learned to clicky click draggy drop.

[lukethedrifter]

One of the things I find really irritating about the automated society is the repetitiveness of the message. Sure, making sure your message is loud and clear is important but c'mon.

[jim]

I got a new phone out of this thread. I was curious about my actual phone usage after one of these posts, and went to check . Last month I used 120MB of download, had 87 texts, and had 88 minutes of phone usage. The phone usage surprised me, but then I realized that I worked from home once last month and called in for an hour+ conference call.

And then I saw I was eligible for a new phone. And then I realized I could replace the i-thing that went through the wash a few months ago for "free", so that is what I did. I hate hate hate my Droid phone for music, and other than the fact that it was so small I kept losing it I did like my i-gadget for music. So I got an iphone. Version 4! So not even one of them really old ones. 8 geebees. You can put a ton of music on that. Like hundreds of songs.

So take that planet for calling me a luddite! Would a luddite own an i-telephone version 4? Doubt it.

Was going to just break the contract but the family thing we are on really wouldn't have saved much money. So new mp3 for me.

[JackofDiamonds]

I hope you like your new kajigger, one of them fancy internet telemaphones.

[Radbird]

iPhone 4 is so 2011.

[jim]

iphone: I have never hated a device so much in my life. Somehow the speech thing for blind people is turned and I can not turn it off. I can't scroll down in the config thing to change anything, even the 3 finger scroll isn't working.

I want to dig up Jobs and stab his cancer ridden pancreas with a fork.

[jim]

My son suggested I restore the entire phone from Itunes, which I did, and now it works. Now I am trying to install the one and only app I want, mlb. It's either really slow or it's not going very well.

God damn I wasted this entire night.

[jim]

Hey these gizmos are great for organizing your music until you want to move your music from one computer to another and then it basically sucks. My entire idea of going to the old iphone would be that it would be easier to keep track of music since I have a mac now, but I forgot that moving music from your iphone to your computer isn't easy.