Note, that NASA wants to return the astronauts back while these guys plan to stay there forever. This greatly simplifies the job. I think their goal is feasible and definitely there are enough money on the World to achieve this. Perhaps going to Mars is 10 times cheaper than the USA budget deficit.

Recently I noticed that when I close IE tabs it doesn't close the processes it associated with them! Separate IE processes close and release memory only after the whole IE is closed... If you open a tab to watch a YouTube video you immediately lose a significant amount of memory and you cannot get it back by simply closing the tab. Very unfortunate behavior.

Chris Losinger wrote:

Ahmedn1 wrote:

The point is "It will not help"

you don't know that.

I know that by experience - that kind of tools only cheat users that they can make things simple and empower them to solve complex problems. You need to have proper knowledge to solve a complex problem. That is why we are not going to sell groceries by the way.

Chris Losinger wrote:

if something helps people to get their work done, your opinion of how easy or hard it is compared to what you think programming must be is irrelevant.
 
do you also insist that all programmers use assembly because things like C# and SQL are too far removed from the hardware and give people the impression that programming is easy ?

You cannot compare those things - there is a tool for every purpose. Some things must be done in assembly, others in C# and SQL. If you want to write programs "visually" you can do it really only in a certain restricted domain because a lot of things will need to be guessed or implied behind the scenes by the tool author. If there is a really *simple* problem to be solved - there is the Excel for that and again you will need the *knowledge* to use it. You see - anytime you do even the simplest information processing you will need proper information processing skills and background. So, this will just not "help people get their work done".

Ravi Bhavnani wrote:

If nothing, it helps the next person who may end up maintaining your code.

And this next person may actually be you after 6 months.

You may not need that low level stuff in 99% of your working life but it is the most fundamental thing that our business is based on. So, just to be a good professional you need to know it and understand it well (besides it's not that complex). It is just a matter of being capable, well educated about your profession and reduce the (high) level of ignorance in our society today.

Did it work? C'mon, share experience ;-) LOL