Tech Workers in Higher Demand

mjdroner writes "CNN has a story on an employment consulting firm report showing job cuts in the tech sector are down 40 percent." From the article: "Despite the inevitable job-cutting that typically follows mergers, the job market picture for the nation's tech workers is definitely improving. Many job seekers in high-demand fields such as storage systems administration and information security are probably finding themselves in the driver's seat when it comes to negotiating employment terms"

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you've revealed your problem

[circletimessquare]

you see a mysterious agenda manipulating reality via unseen forces

i've often found that people who believe in conspiracy theories have a number of cognitive handicaps, handicaps that might also mean you're not a very good it guy

dude, there is no illuminati

try to cope with reality without explaining the unknowns at work in your world to be an all-encompassing "them" out to get you

or, you can ignore my words

because clearly, i am part of the sinister dark hand keeping you down

(snicker)

Re:Wages Are Still Down, We Need MORE H1-Bs!!!!

[Glonoinha]

Programming languages have become much easier to write lame-ass code and then pretend to debug in.
There, fixed it for you.

Given that about 90% of all new code where I work is getting written in SQL (stored procedures) or Java, both languages which are over a decade old (plus or minus) - no, it isn't getting any easier to write corporate grade code. What is happening is that lame coder wanna-bes can slap together code using whatever they can learn in their six week jump-start (for the love of whatever Hindu God you guys pray to - please add switch / case statements to that six week course) and send us back broken code that takes forever to fix and costs 4x as much to maintain over the life of the app. You can write ugly code in any language, even the new 'easy to use' languagess (I know because I have seen it.)

The problem is that people THINK it is getting easier to code, so they accept all of the above as normal. There is going to be hell to pay once all this code hits critical mass, and those that can survive between now and then may come out pretty good. For now, not so fun.