Julianne Pepitone from IEEE Spectrum writes about the uncertain future of ham radio. An anonymous reader shares an excerpt: Will the amateur airwaves fall silent? Since the dawn of radio, amateur operators — hams — have transmitted on tenaciously guarded slices of spectrum. Electronic engineering has benefited tremendously from their activity, from the level of the individual engineer to the entire…
Tag: Baby Boomers
Are There Generational Differences In First Coding Languages and Learning Resources?
“Under the age of 39? Odds are that most of your peers learned to code in C. “Most Baby Boomers and Gen Xers — or, those between the ages of 40 and 74 in 2020 — learned to code in BASIC.” That’s just one of the interesting conclusions from HackerRank’s third annual “Developer Skills Report,” which this year compiled responses from…
Are Millennials Spending Too Much Money On Coffee?
An anonymous reader quotes the Atlantic:
Suze Orman wants young people to stop “peeing” away millions of dollars on coffee. Last month, the personal-finance celebrity ignited a controversy on social media when a video she starred in for CNBC targeted a familiar villain: kids these days and their silly $5 lattes. Because brewing coffee at home is less expensive, Orman argued, purchasing…
Apple CEO Tim Cook Tells Graduates To ‘Push Back’ Against Belief-Reinforcing Algorithms
CNBC reports:
Apple CEO Tim Cook challenged Gen Z to clean up the messes Baby Boomers have left behind. “In some important ways, my generation has failed you,” Cook said Saturday in his commencement speech at Tulane University in New Orleans, La., at the Mercedes-Benz Superdome. He emphasized climate change, according to the article — though he also shared a memory about…
How generational stereotypes hold us back at work | Leah Georges
The Silent Generation, baby boomers, Generation X, millennials, Gen Z — we’re all in the workforce together. How are our assumptions about each other holding us back from working and communicating better? Social psychologist Leah Georges shows how we’re more similar than different and offers helpful tactics for navigating the multigenerational workplace. Source: https://www.ted.com/talks/leah_georges_how_generational_stereotypes_hold_us_back_at_work?rss…
Dan Robbins, Who Made Painting as Easy as 1-2-3 (and 4-5-6), Dies at 93
But was it art? No, Mr. Robbins said, but paint-by-numbers kits — all the rage among young baby boomers — gave the inartistic the “experience” of art. Source: https://www.nytimes.com/2019/04/05/obituaries/dan-robbins-dead.html?partner=rss&emc=rss