Almost everyone can afford Tesla Model 3 for $50K+ (plus fees probably north of $60K). Somehow I think it's a luxury item. Feels like the richest's man on Earth perceptions and views are slightly skewed. But may be it's just me...
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Low-code and the democratization of programmingThe new is well forgotten old. It's used to be called 4th Generation Languages - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fourth-generation_programming_language. I remember back in the 80-ies and early 90-ies working with DBase, Clipper, Userbase, FoxBase, ... They all waned away because while it's creates and expectation of easy development, it's incredibly hard to push the limits that are provided for you out of the box. The only thing changed is a platform - instead of personal computer or network, now it's browser and cloud. At the place I work for, we have over 4,000 Access DBs that were developed by end-user and dumped on IT when user moves to a better pastures, creating a situation that is impossible to manage long term. And that's not to say about the fact that most of low-code companies will go out of business all together, leaving you high and dry, lucky if you can preserve your virtual environment but without the support. Thanks - I'll just follow Art of War - “If you wait by the river long enough, the bodies of your enemies will float by.”
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What the "No-code" movement means for software developersI've been doing it for over 30 years and all along there was "4G" languages promising to do just that no/low code apps - UserBase, DBase, Fox, Clipper, Paradox, Access, ... Somehow none of them is still around and regular LOB applications are still written in C#/Java/... (was C and COBOL when I started). The only noticeable change is that report generation is mostly gone to the drag&drop reporting apps (SSRS, Cognos, Crystal)... May be I can squeaze another 30 years out of it :-)
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‘Real’ programming is an elitist mythProgrammers gets worries not because they think that user creating small DBs will render them unemployed. They gets worries, because they know that after this small user creation outgrows original limitations of "no-code" tools or original creator moves on, it will end up on the programmer laps with unreasonable expectations - "if John Dow w/o any background did that much for virtually no time, you surely can do just a bit extra without much effort also...". And since everyone and their uncle seems to be able to do it, they surely do try. At our company the surveys found out that there are over 4,000 MS Access databases, that original owner is not available to support and now IT is responsible for.
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How to Choose the Right DatabaseIndexing, query optimizer, primary keys, foreign relationships, ... it's all so much 80-ies and 90-ies - when you had to deal with hundreds of millions of records and you were lucky if you had a server with a gig of RAM. One of the projects my company dealing with have a server pre-requisite for 256Gb!!! RAM (not a hard drive) - I guess it's because it was programmed by the guys that at some point lost their developer jobs and now writing articles like that one.
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iOS and Android developers: Microsoft's Blazor for building mobile apps gains tractionOn the other hand, you have to consider all the technologies MS walked away from leaving developers high and dry: COM/OLE, VB6, XAML, Windows Mobile, UWP, ...
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Nadella emphasizes Microsoft's developer commitmentThe words "I love developers". The actions "lets kill developer option to monetize their code" https://www.thurrott.com/windows/229120/microsoft-is-shutting-down-ad-monetization-for-uwp-apps[^]
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6 Tips for faster codingI just wanted to post exactly the same comment. I guess it's a case of those who can - do, and who can't - teach. Just wonder why would CP repost reference to this article.
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JetBrains 2019 developer surveyCommon sense? If you disagree I would suggest to start a survey on this site that primarily targets Microsoft developers re how many of them participated in JetBrains survey. :)
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JetBrains 2019 developer surveyThey are well known for IntelliJ and Android Studio. That to high degree defines their survey pool -- and skews the results toward Android and/or Java developers.
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Not all developers want to be managers, and that’s OKExcept try to find a developer job when you are in the mid 40 or more. Try to justify to the hiring manager that you are worth 1.5-2 times the salary of the 20 y/o fresh college graduate. Try to convince him that you MFC/VB6 skills from mid 90-ies are still relevant.
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Delivering mobile, web apps often takes more than 4 months, says survey by low-code vendor"said exec Steve Rotter" - that's how execs talk - lots of words, no actionable info.
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The rise of Microsoft Visual Studio CodeAm I the only one using NPP?
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Google wants Go to become the go-to language for writing cloud appsI would jump on it in a sec. Google just needs to make sure Android (Android Studio), iOS (XCode) and all major browsers support it out of the box.
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Your experience is probably worth a lot less than you thinkSomething to be said about jumping onto any new bandwagon that comes across - like React mentioned in the article, or LightSwitch, or XAML or ... Some things though never change - the guy down the hall writing bash scripts have been doing it for 20 years. The Oracle or SQL server DBA job didn't change much in the last 20 years either. The C/C++ I walked away from 15 years ago, I had to get back to with Mobile Games. So “Stay hungry, stay foolish.” - there is just not enough time in the day, need to use some discretion and prospective.
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5 reasons why the company you want to work for won’t hire telecommutersWhat makes Marissa Mayer an expert? Her accomplishments at Yahoo? :-)
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Swift 3.0 released!Anything is better then Objective-C. Even COBOL. Period.
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The bloated webThe freedom of financial independence....
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Junior vs senior developers: what's the difference, anyway?Some are born as a senior, most however as unfortunate as it is will never become one...
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Which is the most complex programming language?One would wonder with all those problems how did they duped millions of programmers to use it? How does it consistently makes it to the top of most popular and most in-demand languages?