I am 60+ and have been gainfully employed as a hardware and software dev since the 80's. Due to a recent merger in my company I am now "redundant". I am just starting to look for a new position but it is scary. I have lots of experience in many languages and OSs and am a perpetual learner. I am current doing node.js and react work. But I'm afraid once a prospective employer gets a look at my gray beard they will reject me out of hand. I don't want to be a PHB, I just love to code and do it everyday for pay or not.
I've worked from home for over 12 years. As far as my productivity goes I am much more productive than when I had get up early to get ready for work, fight an hour of traffic, chit chat with various people throughout the day and deal with BS meetings that had little to do with my actual job, then fight traffic for an hour to get home. WFH allows me to start work almost as soon as I get up and work until suppertime. Of course I can take little breaks to do various chores but my work time is solid work time, hardly any interruptions. In fact I have had to train myself to take breaks and walk around so I can focus my eyes on something not right in front of my face. Besides, most of my team is in India so why would I need to be in an office to work with them. We use slack and google hangouts to communicate and for meetings and for the most part that works fine. I don't think I could go back to working in an office, especially not the way the office is now (open plan).
Spoken like someone who wants to keep using the same old stuff they learned years ago and does not want to bother learning something new. Believe me Java and C#/.NET have plenty of failures as well and according to you these are tried and true languages and platforms. Just because you can't learn new techniques and tools does not necessarily mean it is bad.
Wish I could read the article but since Business Insider decided to prevent users of ad blockers from viewing their pages I guess I can't. Even whitelisting doesn't seem to work. So I guess BI can suck it, I will find my news elsewhere...
I don't think so because that still use the nerve hookup from the inner ear to the brain. My nerves in my left ear were completely severed so I would need a different approach. I wonder if some sort of haptic interface would produce aural cues that my brain could use to compensate. I can still hear in my ight ear so for now it is mono for me...
Make something that will somehow bypass the eardrum/nerve interface so that people like me that have had severe never damage in the inner ear canal can enjoy music again. Who knows where it could go from there but I know I would be eternally grateful!!! Oh yeah, no wires in my brain please!!!
A properly designed web app will cache most of the necessary resources so you won't need to download it more than once unless it changes. It can even operate offline in some cases. Web apps can use some of the host devices but not all unless you convert it to a native app using PhoneGap or something similar. They are not as fast on iOS but this is because Apple chooses to make it that way, they want you to have to go through the App Store and pay the Apple tax.
The word 'properly' is the key here. Most front-end devs can't do anything without heavy frameworks and other libs. Techniques such as Single Page Apps are not very performant, at least not in the early frameworks.
As the Javascript,HTML5,CSS3 world matures performance and capabilities will improve to the point where you probably won't be able to tell native from web in most cases. However there will always be some apps that can only be native.
I don't see anything saying how they plan to turn everyone into developers. It looks like they just plan to get as many people on the platform as possible. How does that make them into developers? Throwing out a bunch of code (that may or may not be any good) that anyone can use does not make them developers. In fact it makes the problem worse. We already have too many cut and paste coders. Or ones who are addicted to frameworks and other libraries and can't solve even a simple problem without them. You want people to be developers, teach them to think logically and write code!
Yes exactly this!!! Our country was built by immigrants who came here for a better life, became citizens and contributed to the growth of the country. We are their children and we still contribute to this country (most of us anyway). H1B is nothing but a drain except for the few company execs who get big bonuses for slashing cost, this quarter. The rest of us are screwed!!!
Why is this any different than counties that don't allow the sale of alcohol adjacent to counties that do? Do the dry counties sue the wet counties because they have to be on the lookout for drunk drivers on their borders? Looks like a way to get some attention or maybe some cash to me...
Try Mother Earth News (motherearthnews.com). They have lots of articles on that subject. You should be able to locate what you need online although their search engine sucks. You can even buy their archives on CD is you want.
In Raymond Khoury's book The Sign some evil doers did almost the exact thing using smart nano particles or something. They used it to scare the hell out of the bible thumpers so they could get them all convinced it was the second coming. Read the book if you want to know how it turns out...
I don't think that you can consider Canada, the UK, Japan etc. developing countries. I'm sure the ad men do quite well in those countries. It is locals like India, Africa, most of Asia where there is a mostly poor population utilizing bandwidth that is disproportionate to the ad dollars that audience supports.
My company is about the same. At one time they did have a program that was supposed to foster innovation but it seemed that most of the really good ideas got so bogged down in their "innovation" committee that nothing ever came of it. When will they ever learn that few really good ideas come out of a committee???
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I am 60+ and have been gainfully employed as a hardware and software dev since the 80's. Due to a recent merger in my company I am now "redundant". I am just starting to look for a new position but it is scary. I have lots of experience in many languages and OSs and am a perpetual learner. I am current doing node.js and react work. But I'm afraid once a prospective employer gets a look at my gray beard they will reject me out of hand. I don't want to be a PHB, I just love to code and do it everyday for pay or not.
I've worked from home for over 12 years. As far as my productivity goes I am much more productive than when I had get up early to get ready for work, fight an hour of traffic, chit chat with various people throughout the day and deal with BS meetings that had little to do with my actual job, then fight traffic for an hour to get home. WFH allows me to start work almost as soon as I get up and work until suppertime. Of course I can take little breaks to do various chores but my work time is solid work time, hardly any interruptions. In fact I have had to train myself to take breaks and walk around so I can focus my eyes on something not right in front of my face. Besides, most of my team is in India so why would I need to be in an office to work with them. We use slack and google hangouts to communicate and for meetings and for the most part that works fine. I don't think I could go back to working in an office, especially not the way the office is now (open plan).
Spoken like someone who wants to keep using the same old stuff they learned years ago and does not want to bother learning something new. Believe me Java and C#/.NET have plenty of failures as well and according to you these are tried and true languages and platforms. Just because you can't learn new techniques and tools does not necessarily mean it is bad.
Wish I could read the article but since Business Insider decided to prevent users of ad blockers from viewing their pages I guess I can't. Even whitelisting doesn't seem to work. So I guess BI can suck it, I will find my news elsewhere...
Tin foil hats?
So I guess we will have to call a timeout if it is too cloudy, rainy, foggy, smokey or dusty. We'll have a sunny day fighting force. Nice...
I don't think so because that still use the nerve hookup from the inner ear to the brain. My nerves in my left ear were completely severed so I would need a different approach. I wonder if some sort of haptic interface would produce aural cues that my brain could use to compensate. I can still hear in my ight ear so for now it is mono for me...
Make something that will somehow bypass the eardrum/nerve interface so that people like me that have had severe never damage in the inner ear canal can enjoy music again. Who knows where it could go from there but I know I would be eternally grateful!!! Oh yeah, no wires in my brain please!!!
A properly designed web app will cache most of the necessary resources so you won't need to download it more than once unless it changes. It can even operate offline in some cases. Web apps can use some of the host devices but not all unless you convert it to a native app using PhoneGap or something similar. They are not as fast on iOS but this is because Apple chooses to make it that way, they want you to have to go through the App Store and pay the Apple tax.
The word 'properly' is the key here. Most front-end devs can't do anything without heavy frameworks and other libs. Techniques such as Single Page Apps are not very performant, at least not in the early frameworks.
As the Javascript,HTML5,CSS3 world matures performance and capabilities will improve to the point where you probably won't be able to tell native from web in most cases. However there will always be some apps that can only be native.
I don't see anything saying how they plan to turn everyone into developers. It looks like they just plan to get as many people on the platform as possible. How does that make them into developers? Throwing out a bunch of code (that may or may not be any good) that anyone can use does not make them developers. In fact it makes the problem worse. We already have too many cut and paste coders. Or ones who are addicted to frameworks and other libraries and can't solve even a simple problem without them. You want people to be developers, teach them to think logically and write code!
Yes exactly this!!! Our country was built by immigrants who came here for a better life, became citizens and contributed to the growth of the country. We are their children and we still contribute to this country (most of us anyway). H1B is nothing but a drain except for the few company execs who get big bonuses for slashing cost, this quarter. The rest of us are screwed!!!
What major Google product uses Angular?
Why is this any different than counties that don't allow the sale of alcohol adjacent to counties that do? Do the dry counties sue the wet counties because they have to be on the lookout for drunk drivers on their borders? Looks like a way to get some attention or maybe some cash to me...
Me too only it was writing 8051 assembler code. Talk about a test of concentration...
Yes but will your fancy 'lectonix give you puppy kisses when you are feeling blue???
Try Mother Earth News (motherearthnews.com). They have lots of articles on that subject. You should be able to locate what you need online although their search engine sucks. You can even buy their archives on CD is you want.
If you jailbreak your iDevice you can get apps using Cydia. I think it is a Mac only application though.
"And many of the workers, because they are young women, are regularly sexually harassed, the NLC claimed."
I'm so glad nothing like this happens in America!!!
This appears to only help the Telcos... What a shock!!!
...is made from Energizer Bunny blood!!!
In Raymond Khoury's book The Sign some evil doers did almost the exact thing using smart nano particles or something. They used it to scare the hell out of the bible thumpers so they could get them all convinced it was the second coming. Read the book if you want to know how it turns out...
I don't think that you can consider Canada, the UK, Japan etc. developing countries. I'm sure the ad men do quite well in those countries. It is locals like India, Africa, most of Asia where there is a mostly poor population utilizing bandwidth that is disproportionate to the ad dollars that audience supports.
Alcohol is the only thing that keeps me sane enough to keep from coming up with evil ways to destroy this fu*cked up planet we live on!!!
My company is about the same. At one time they did have a program that was supposed to foster innovation but it seemed that most of the really good ideas got so bogged down in their "innovation" committee that nothing ever came of it. When will they ever learn that few really good ideas come out of a committee???
Employers don't discriminate, they diversify.