Well, art is just embedded into society, akin to is JavaScript the best programming language. Art means the art market. A lot of art, like performance art, is really a hard sell. That's why painting is still thriving. But there is also the correlation of that if some artist gets famous in art circles because of the quality buyers will want to play cool and buy stuff. Another complication is that there are two types of artists, a very small percentage that sells well, and then there are the ones that just live from the next art residence, to the next Biennial. The latter are plenty and not really commercial in the first place, because committees are deciding. If this is then the same as your personal taste is questionable. Bonding with artists and supporting them is most likely the best way to go, as you implied.
When language is regarded as a symbolic system, then what this means, is that it is a structure of relations of symbols emerging from social interactions. This is very fundamental to linguistics, as language is something precisely not ruled by some magical rules, but emerges from the social, that's how you can explain embedded power structures, change, etc. The connection between subject-subject and subject-object, and object-object is an active field of study. It is part of my PhD thesis, too.
I just did a short search for the SLS test launches, but couldn't find anything. Is this SpaceX fail fast approach to test incrementally, and SLS was just launched the first time with payload, or did I just miss the test launches of that system?
One thing I noticed when consulting SAP or Salesforce implementations, where the tech stack is a given, the focus switches only to the business logic, people are forgetting how important tech is. Reporting starts to be included, millions of validations are running, bringing the system down. As the tech is a simple given, limitations are not to be overcome, but rather accepted. Which often turns out funny, because it has all real-world consequences of some obscure limitations.
This is very valid and well written. One point I like to stress is the external context I often observed for why it is deprecating. As a company grows initial architectural decisions become more of a burden. So even though some software is running just fine for the specific business case, your new stack can do 80% but also a lot more. This is my way of selling modular solutions, where you can easily take away things and put new things into place.
But isn't that something of the past? I am mostly working with systems that handle the bulk of the problem, providing process, data model, etc. And extensions are done via a specific programming language, ABAP for SAP, APAX for Salesforce, but in the end, it all ends up to be like any other software development projects, with compile time checks, etc.
I second this experience. In my undergrad I wrote so much by hand, and I really had to step back a lot of times, and do it by hand, again, like a kata. Also I learned so much with writing by hand the answers to The Little Lisper etc.
Social Scientist here. It is thriving under the name Qualitative comparative analysis for a quarter of a century. This is a good paper for more on the epistemological foundations: https://doi.org/10.1177/1098214016673902
I think it is crucial to learn how to code with pen and paper. All computerization adds a mental burden, that shouldn't be there. Also this is a nice way to connect computer science with mathematics.
can't they make minisd drives? this format was so perfect. also one thing even better than flash drives, with my player I could just plug in the mixer into the machine, and record our jam sessions, like 4 hours, or something. and then you had these stylish discs. There were also some movie experiences when data was exchanged, and it looked just so good. nowadays flash drives don't have that.
Yeah, incidentally recall campaigns for some companies are the same for software as for hardware, think medical device. But the software is constructed in the same Agile way as anywhere else in fortune500 world.
A lot of people already disagreeing, but my two cents. Reading assembly is crucial. From smart contracts in crypto, to a detailed analysis of the algorithm (Knuth), to analyzing exploits, all requires assembly. It is really one of my weak points, and I noticed several times that I should be better in this. Basically as software engineers we constantly work with weak abstractions, constantly leaking.
I love how small details, like rounding always up for 2.50 would be significantly skewing the numbers to the higher values, so there are functions like ROUND_HALF_EVEN that would round up on even numbers, and down on uneven ones.
As much as SAP has problems, this is a solved problem there. In my experiences sometimes this is implemented incorrectly, but discovered very soon, as it's about money. I encountered this when people made some simple calculations on the frontend-side then submitting to the ERP system, where it was discovered because of the emerging inconsistencies.
But how is it working for exams, they are not digital here in Germany. And I had the most problems in my life at university because of my bad handwriting. Especially when nervous I had to do so many exams involving a lot of writing, which was horrendous. But I am also left-handed, forced to write right-handed in elementary school. After my Bachelor's I started to write left-handed. What a relief. But really, exams are the only reason I think it is still important to have a good handwriting. Nowadays at work I need it for white-boarding. Where even a good skill in sketching is useful.
I totally agree with you, but unfortunately the lesson was not learned. Now in the back office you see "standard" software with their own scripting language, e.g., APAX in Salesforce, or ABAP in SAP. Which is seen as a step forward, which it is architecturally, but not the point that you rightfully mentioned. On the other hand, all code is cyclical, if someone were to make it in Python, that would have to be rewritten, too. At least if you go the Free Software way, you're free to choose when.
A positive effect for performers is that people still want to go to concerts, but less and less people know how to play an instrument. The market is really much better now than even 10 years ago.
People here complaining about Microsoft. I fully expected SAP. I think every API is reflecting the organization it was developed in. Everything is based on top of something older, bureaucratically refined.
I do my PhD in management as part of organization studies, I know some good folk doing education. So don't be too disappointed in the beginning, it might be just your profs, or your uni. Just search quickly with Google Scholar, and there is this Fischer et al. (2010) that looks like a good summary responding to your comment. If my impression from my colleagues is correct, UK seems to be a good place for grad school in education. Just from an epistemological standpoint there is Mahadevan (2020) and Romani et al. (2018) where you can see where the field is going.
Fischer, K. W., Goswami, U., Geake, J., & Task Force on the Future of Educational Neuroscience. (2010). The future of educational neuroscience. Mind, Brain, and Education, 4(2), 68-80.
Mahadevan, J. (2020). Ethnographic studies in international human resource management: Types and usefulness. German Journal of Human Resource Management, 34(2), 228-251.
Romani, L., Barmeyer, C., Primecz, H., & Pilhofer, K. (2018). Cross-cultural management studies: state of the field in the four research paradigms. International Studies of Management & Organization, 48(3), 247-263.
Meanwhile the ghost of the bridge lives on as a sample in contemporary songs. Future generations will watch these ruins in awe of what the masters in the past were able to construct. Will we ever be able to surpass the classics?