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Technology Sectors that are Hot or Heating Up Now?
unemployedCoder-in-retraining asks: "As a recently "leisured" programmer, I'm very interested in trying to turn misfortune into opportunity. This means using this career discontinuity to bone up on the latest-n-greatest in the hot sectors of the industry, to offer a better chance of a finding another great job. Of course, then one asks: 'What's Hot?' The Telco/Switching sector seems to have flatlined (Nortel and Lucent as examples). Cable and DSL access device and service development seems to be struggling. Wireless 3G networks seem to be having a hard time in North America. And yet, we here that a recovery is underway and that the technology sector as a whole is picking up again. So I ask you: 'Where?' In what sectors? What are the most important new technologies to learn to enhance employability? Somewhere, somebody is hiring or will be soon. What do I and other victims of the slowdown have to know to 'get back in the saddle' in the near future?"
Sounds more like a thermodynamics problem
I'm hearing good things about the Web-net Intersites.
And they are always the first ones to adopt new tech...
...especially if it vibrates.
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Look which /. subjects seem to get most attention. I consider these subjects "hot"
DON'T!!! before you know it, you'll be pouring hot grits into your widened asshole.
Oh he meant the articles... My bad.
Be wary of any facts that confirm your opinion.
Ratbert: "I'm going to interview successful people and write a book of their tips. I'll start with you, Dobert."
Dogbert: "Set your alarm clock to go off every hour. Keep a big vat of 'Jell-O' by the bed. When the alarm clock goes of, stick your head in the 'Jell-O' and yell, 'Boy, I'm tired!'"
Ratbert: "Thanks!"
Dogbert (thinking): "Beware the advice of successful people; they do not seek company."
Seven Years of Highly Defective People, p. 137.
Copy protection seems to be a growth industry at the moment.
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Plastics.
Considered harmful.
I heard the unemployment office was looking for bright talented software engineers to answer phones all day... seems they needed someone who spoke the same language as the guy at the other end of the phone.
Where I'm working (large financial institution) they're starting to look into AI as a means of predicting market movement and trends.
If your AI predicts that AI is the hot field for the next few years, do you trust it?
The shareholder is always right.
"No my friends, the money is in the back end"
No wonder they call it dirty money.
My grandfather once told me:
"Be an undertaker, kid. No matter how bad things get, you will always have customers."
Table-ized A.I.
But that episode didn't air until 1998. Clearly they stole it from here:
Step 1: Get market share
Step 2: ???
Step 3: Profit!!
Which was the business plan of 92% of VC-funded internet companies starting in 1996.