NYC Mayor Bloomberg Vows To Learn To Code In 2012 120
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from the give-himself-a-fighting-chance dept.
from the give-himself-a-fighting-chance dept.
theodp writes "New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg has announced his intention to take a coding class in 2012 via Twitter ('My New Year's resolution is to learn to code with Codecademy in 2012! Join me.'). So, is this just a PR coup for Codeacademy, or could EE grad (Johns Hopkins, '64) Bloomberg — who parlayed the $10 million severance he received after being fired as head of systems development at Solomon Brothers into his $19.5 billion Bloomberg L.P. fortune — actually not know how to program? Seems unlikely, but if so, perhaps Bloomberg should just apply to be a Bloomberg Summer 2012 Software Development intern — smart money says he'd get the gig!"
Cobol (Score:5, Funny)
Maybe he wants to know how to code in something besides cobol and fortran.
Re:Cobol (Score:2, Funny)
Maybe he wants to know how to code in something besides cobol and fortran.
Or morse...
Bloomberg to Helpdesk: (Score:2, Funny)
Bloomberg: I need you to perform a privilege escalation on my compiler.
Helpdesk: Before we proceed, can you describe the symptoms?
Bloomberg: Yeah, it sometimes spits out some incomprehensible message, or the program says "Segmentation Fault." I don't care about its needs, I have work to do, now. So I'm calling in a privilege escalation. Now!
Helpdesk: Sir, I'm not sure that's going to help, do you know what a privilege escalation means?
Bloomberg: Yes, I think I do, or haven't you noticed that I'm the richest bleeping man in New York AND the mayor?
Helpdesk: I'm very aware of that sir, but the compiler isn't familiar with your exalted position.
Bloomberg: That's just the freaking point, you moron!! Do it now!
Helpdesk: (sigh) (click click click) OK, sir, your compiler is now ultraprivileged. Have a nice day.
Bloomberg: pathetic peons...he's probably not even one of my constitutents, so fuck him.
My first program (Score:5, Funny)
10 Print "I've got lots of money"
20 goto 10
30 end
Re:Cobol (Score:4, Funny)
He'll have to learn APL, or at least Perl. After all, he's going "to take a coding class in 2012 via Twitter." Anything else and the program won't fit in a single tweet!
[rimshot]
Perl! (Score:3, Funny)
Re:Much rather (Score:5, Funny)
I'd much rather he learn empathy, humility, and how to not be a giant fucking jackass.
Well then, learning to code is definitely NOT the way to go.
This is not good. (Score:1, Funny)
Bloomberg is a narcissist, he's going to write a Hello World program and think he's an expert in all things technology related.
LK