Internet down...

@zinimusprime

That’s how I’m feeling…

@DoctorOW

Ssshhhhh! Don’t tell anyone about Stackoverflow!

@DoctorOW I used to work as a programmer in an environment with limited-to-no internet access. I made more use of my reference books, but things were a lot slower.
I’m sure someone will chime in about how back in the day there was no internet, but local documentation was a lot more common. More people had books. Software came with documentation stored locally instead of just sending you to a website.
Internet access makes development a lot quicker and easier today, but, in my opinion, developing without internet access is a bigger hassle now than it used to be.

@DoctorOW @Limewater
I think he’s talking about being able to actually “do” programming without freeloading off others generosity under the pretense you’re wanting to learn something instead of just scamming to get someone else to do the work your boss assigned you to do and hope he doesnt catch you or figure out you don’t really know how to do the thing your were hired to do based on your claim of knowing how to do it.

Not that people would do such a thing.

@Limewater @mike808 I’m not gonna lie. You seem a little bitter there, bud.

@DoctorOW @Limewater
You seem like you wouldn’t mind at all if your doctor looked up your symptoms on youtube to see how to operate on you.

I guess I expect more from someone claiming competency in their chosen profession than you do. Call me a dreamer.

@DoctorOW @mike808 I think a lot of posts asking questions are also students wanting to just get the answers to their homework assignments.

I recall a few years ago I took a look at one of those freelancer websites, wondering if I could do something productive with the few weeks of excess leave I had over my wife.
Nearest I could tell the whole place was rich kids hiring Indians to do their programming assignments for them.

@DoctorOW @Limewater Or other Indians asking for help doing their jobs after landing a H1B visa assignment by faking/inflating actual experience/talent.

I’ve actually witnessed remote interviews where the applicant had someone else (a ringer) sit in for his remote video interview, and the person that showed up could barely spell “Cisco”, much less know his way around Checkpoint firewall for a major global enterprise.

@DoctorOW @Limewater @mike808 There are a ton of cheating homework sites that do just that. As far as I can tell many of them also write papers, thesis’s and dissertations, although how the heck you could write a decent thesis or dissertation outside of your area, especially if the student didn’t collect the data and you have to make it up, is beyond me.

They need to shut all those sites down except that will never happen as I’d imagine they are very profitable and are like reincarnated roaches. Quash one and it pops back up with a different name. Much is off shored. England English spelling is one give away the student didn’t write the paper (it was likely written in India), or the paper is far more polished and better than anything else they turn in otherwise is another hint that something might be rotten in Denmark (Shakespeare’s Hamlet).

To increase content behind firewalls many of them allow you to download other students’ assignments they uploaded as long as you upload papers, finished assignments, exams… or they charge a monthly fee to access them. In sites where I have found stuff from classes I teach I upload papers that sound good but are full of wrong information and also sent it through turnitin, so that if they download that to use somewhere else (although one student was stupid enough to use one paper I uploaded in a section of that class I taught) they will be caught for plagiarism and likely get a bad grade. I figure it serves them right.

I don’t know how to stop it though. Not sure it is even possible to stop it. In the end they are cheating themselves but many don’t care. They just want their piece of paper ASAP. And in some instances someone at work is topped out for promotions until they get that piece of paper, but for many that is not the issue. They actually need that knowledge. Every time the class shell changes for an online class I teach grades drop 1/2-1 letter grade and slowly creep back up because assignments don’t change often enough. Sad.

@jst1ofknd

Cox lied.

/giphy I’m shocked. Shocked!

@jst1ofknd Glad it is back up early.

@jst1ofknd

I’m so sad to know that, since it’s Monday, and since you are competent and forward-thinking and not filled with excuses,
and since you have a productive and admirable character:
therefore you have no choice but to align your time this day with your technical assets and your personal deep values, and do some useful work.

Wait … think I got that wrong. Perhaps I shouldn’t be sad. Perhaps you are to be admired and respected, or something.

(these many kinda Seinfeldian topics about jellybeans and haircuts and internet outages are wonderful. I hope you continue them.)

@jst1ofknd
/giphy hooray!

@PocketBrain And if you are really well-prepared, you can take your time off and not only will they not even notice, they will still think you’re indispensable.

If you need to be on call, then you’re not doing it right. You should only need to be called if it’s a BTE.

Mayday! @DrWorm did the thing.