Those types of jobs are in fact coming back, for good reasons - Apple wants somewhere closer to home to make more things so they can contribute leaks.
Apple may be at the forefront but MOST manufacturing is going to go local in the next decade or so.
How can it come back? Greatly increased use of automation means you don't have to hire nearly so many expensive U.S. workers, so automation actually makes more locally sourced manufacture more desirable again.
There will not be as many jobs, sure, but they will be there and they will be better than what came before.
Production is coming back. The jobs, they aren't. A very important distinction that goes over the hoi polloi's collective heads.
Millennial college students have become far too casual when they talk with their professors
I remember in my college years almost 30 years ago of students being crass and too casual to professors, a never ending source of friction that always ended with students experiencing a rude awakening regarding Academic and professional etiquette.
This country has been churning HS graduates who can neither add fractions nor understand the difference between "you're" and "your" for decades. Yes, for decades. This has been noted since the late 70's, and is the reason why so many millions of people in their mid-40's and 50's are struggling (they are, in effect, illiterate.)
Don't pin this on Millennials. This shit has been going on for years.
On the other hand, the products have such a simple interface that fairly trivial to make an abstraction layer.
I was going to say that. Good abstraction layers are not that hard if the system in question is layered and compartmentalized accordingly and data is modeled appropriately. And with things like Spring Data (at least in Java land), it's almost trivial. It only gets icky in edge cases where things like throughput are paramount (or the data models are wrong for the type of abstraction in use, like trying to use a document database for time series data.)
Parkinson's has some connections to the gut. For instance, it is correlated with constipation. Also people who drink a lot of coffee or tea are less likely to be afflicted. But I don't think it is cause by bacteria, because there is no cure. If gut bacteria caused the disease, some people would be cured inadvertently when they take high doses of antibiotics for other reasons, and that doesn't happen.
Damage caused by bacteria could be irreversible. So even if you kill the germs, the damage remains, incurable.
It's just Elon doing what he does best. Creating novelty items for rich people.
And this is bad because...?
I mean, almost everything technology-wise was at some point a novelty for the rich (until the cost of production went down enough for the hoi polloi to get them.)
Best examples? Books. Trained horses. Full body armor. Water pumps. Cell phones and computers. And the list goes on and one.
I mean, if I could double my salary, I would indulge in these new solar panels. But I can't, so I won't. My salary is good, but not that good.
With that said, there are plenty of people that make double than what you or I make, who will be early adopters. And from that, better, cheaper versions will come till the day they are as ubiquitous as today's shingles.
It's just Elon doing what he does best. Creating novelty items for rich people.
And this is bad because...?
I mean, almost everything technology-wise was at some point a novelty for the rich (until the cost of production went down enough for the hoi polloi to get them.)
Best examples? Books. Trained horses. Full body armor. Water pumps. Cell phones and computers. And the list goes on and one.
be in a community that can spend that kind of money on concrete, elevators, and maintenance
be in a community with the extra land near intersections required for the additional infrastructure
This is just fine for situations where no pedestrians or cyclists are present -- access ramps to limited access highways, bridges, and tunnels, for example. But for places where people are legally allowed to walk or cycle, this is just a non-starter.
Because a model has to account for every fucking variance of the real thing it has to model. #rollseyes
For places where the model can't be applied, well, then it doesn't get applied. But there are quite a few places where this model is useful.
Moreover, a model is not final. This one certainly isn't, and can be used to create further models that account for most, if not all the variables you described.
Those were blue states for 50 years, dumbass. It took them that long to realize that poor people voting for democrats stayed poor. 10 years ago, you could put a dead dog on the ballot with a (D) next to it and it would have won the election. And in return, the democ acts kept us poor so we'd keep voting democrat. Fuck that.
A lot of the enlisted are enlisted because they couldn't go to college. Some are high school dropouts. Of course they're going to have trouble getting a regular job and living a regular life. They'd have the same problem whether they enlisted or not!
Citations with numbers to back your assertion please.
The we don't give a shit about unemployed miners attitude isn't really working out as a political strategy. What's the upside to piling on the already downtrodden coal miners? Where's the humanity in it?
A coal miner might have skills that would translate to the oil business, or to working on big infrastructure projects like dams or roads, or mineral mining. But the same people who want them to lose their coal mining jobs also want to make sure there's no opportunity for them in these other industries.
The most common remedy the left seems to offer them is for them to hurry up and die. I wonder why they listen to someone like Trump instead?
I used to care for their plight. But then I saw how they voted, consistently, for a party who was actually telling them it would do things against their best interests. And in doing so, they have dragged us all down. So my empathy tank is now empty. Metere quod seminas.
Chinese like most asian languages, is one of the most simplest languages in the world, only topped by Korean and Japanes which are even simpler.
You are probaly scared by writing with Kanji, but when you get used to it, it is not that complicated either.
How hard can it be to learn a language, where every word is just one or two sillabels, which has no gender and only one or two times, no singular, nor plural? Wich basically has nothing like complicated European languages?
You think a japanese or chinese speaks bad english because they are to dumb? English, probably the simplest european language, at least for 'germanic' nations, is ten times more difficult than Chinese or Thai, Korean or Japanese.
I speak Spanish (my mother language) and English (my second language for the last 28 years.) I speak some Japanese, which thank God for me is non-tonal.
I've been exposed to Chinese (Mandarin and Cantonese) as well as Vietnamese which are tonal. I can't for the life of me I cannot pick up the tones and stresses. I cannot distinguish most tones in Mandarin, let alone reproduce them. First tone? Rising tone? Falling tone? Falling/Raising tone? No way! Cantonese is more complicated, and Vietnamese even more.
Grammatically they might be simpler, but the tone system is quite a challenge. So there are a lot of reasons why learning a language is difficult.
For "Anglos" the difficulty of learning Spanish lies not on pronunciation, but on the irregularity of our verbs combined with the multitude of testes, each with their own set of modalities. For us native Spanish speakers, the challenge of learning English is in with phonics, the much richer sound system forced into an ambiguous alphabet.
For me, Japanese has been a bit of a challenge because of the vocabulary and some of the conjugation forms. I don't think any of these pose the same challenge Chinese tones pose for me.
Not when most of the population is of Latino descent and can speak both languages. It can happen, given enough time. Most of the population here speaks English, but the predominant language is French.
As a Latino, I tell you: no, it won't happen. 3rd, 4th generation will speak English only (just like anyone else.) And it's not like we have to wait to see it happen. Latinos have been in the continental US for centuries, and this is always the outcome. Seriously, find me a neighborhood, barrio, town or city were 3rd, 4th generation Latinos speak Spanish as their primary language (if they speak it at all.)
Internships are really extended multi-month job interviews. That is how my company sees them, and that is how interns should see them. We never offer an internship to someone that we would not want to hire as a permanent employee. After graduation, we offer jobs to about 60% of our former interns, and most of them accept. We make NO job offers to any other graduates.
So the competition for the best interns is really a competition for the best future employees. The competition is fierce, and the best students usually have multiple internship offers.
Students that don't intern, and expect to just magically find a job after they graduate, are idiots.
That is a stupid way of looking at things. Quite a large number of qualified students simply cannot take internships for a variety of reasons. Additionally, that does not preclude them from finding good jobs when they graduate. Evidence from real life says you are wrong on that account.
I have no doubt that in countries where abortion is legal, right-to-lifers will be lining up to crowd-fund this research, and to pay for women who would otherwise have an abortion to pop their fetuses into these artificial wombs and brought to term.
And then, of course, they will act boldly to ensure that the fetuses are adopted into loving families...perhaps even their own!
Yeah, right.
OTH, the same people will lose their shit when they realize gay and lesbian couples will be able to have their own babies in a buy-an-egg-or-sperm kind of a thing. This will fundamentally change the nature of reproduction (and thus marriage). And then the Anti-Christ will come or something. Oh, I can see the shows in the 700 Club.
There's also a magnitude of difference between a toxic work environment and "I go home exhausted, work frequently out of town. Work long hours for no extra money." as the original poster put it. I've done the latter and even enjoyed it but I've also stuck a toxic work environment for years past the point I should have left and ended up suffering from serious stress and depression (not sleeping, panic attacks if my phone rang out of hours, depressed on a Saturday night because I can sense Monday approaching). You can also feel that its your own fault, particularly if others seem to cope and especially if there's bullying involved.
I can't really judge this case from a short summary, but people poo-pooing the idea have just never experienced it.
^^^. I've been through both also, long hours for the money and/or toxic environments, only one, though. The later one was bad enough to make me depressed for a while. If you live long enough and aren't the type that stays at one job forever, you are bound to experience it all.
I get the feeling you are young and still are surrounded by your friends from school. Once everyone pairs up, moves to jobs farther away and can't get together all the time like they used to, where do your friends come from? At a point in my life, not so long ago, most of my friends came into my life through work. Same age, same interests, same general goals.
Nope, not even close.
In in the way above 40 yrs old set.
I have college friends in New Orleans that I reconnected with, but I also stay in regular touch with friends from the states I did live throughout my life and schooling.
I tend to meet people as neighbors and through them. And in NOLA, there is the concept of the neighborhood bar. I tend to meet many friends, neighbors and women there.
I don't do social media, but I have plenty of friends in meatspace locally as well as visitors or my travelling about to see them.
Once you "pair up", that doesn't mean you have to give up your friends of your youth. I'm still in regular touch with my oldest friend I met when I was 11 and he was 12yrs. A lot of my friends close are 15-20years friends and we still regularly hang out.
I am quite nice and cordial to co-workers, but I never get close to them. Unless they are in my immediate group I don't even really notice them as that I am busy at work.
I'd never stay with a woman that made me get rid of my friends...after all, I've known and respected them for MUCH LONGER than I've been fucking her....you know?
what did *SHE DO* exactly that was positive? because as you said, most of that 'growth' was directly due to alibaba.
She resisted calls to sell Alibaba, she resisted calls to strip Yahoo down to the bones. Shareholders were screaming to short-sell Yahoo down to a carcass. She did not and allowed the company to generate a very decent annual growth rate.
Maybe she could have done better. Maybe someone could have done better. Would have blah blah hand waving. In there here and now, she kept Yahoo from crumbling long enough to allow a sale. She retained capital and value.
What more can you possibly (and reasonably) as for a beached whale such as Yahoo? By all rights it should have ended like Boo.com or Webvan.
You should expect a turnover every 4-5 years and plan accordingly.
Before the Great Recession, I used to switch jobs every three years, sometimes at the same company or a different company. After the Great Recession, I worked whatever contracting job I could land. A contract can last anywhere from four hours, days, weeks, months or years. I'm currently halfway through a five-year contract in government IT.
To me, cycling through short-term contracts is not turnover. That's just being part of being a contractor (I've done more contract jobs than permanent ones.) And you adjust to it. But when we land a long-term contracting job or a permanent gig, the clock begins ticking. And once it goes past the 4-year mark, it is time to have backup plans before the churn hits again.
Not everyone in this industry is competent enough to get another job with the same pay grade/benefits as the one they currently hold.
Oh I know that type of experience. My salary has gone up then down (sometimes significantly) and then up again, with bouts unemployment in between. But in software, that's reality. If anyone wants to have a career in it, he/she has to grapple with that reality, accept it, roll with it and plan for it.
I don't think there is anything out there anymore than can provide a years-long guarantee of employment. But people hold on to that fallacy, expecting salaries to always go up or remain the same. And that's an absurdity that makes people commit absurd things (like hacking an employer or not having a plan A, B, C and D in hand when shit hits the fan at the current job... which it will.)
I see lambdas as the opposite end of the pendulum swing from the goto statement.
They have their place but they both lead to lots of confusion with poor coders who are trying to maintain very old code.
That's not a function of lambdas, or gotos for that matter. I've seen elegant, clear solutions using gotos that made code simpler to read. Same with lambdas. As a matter of fact, same with everything in a programming tool set.
It's not what you use to write code, but how you write code, how you compose it. That's what makes code maintainable, not the lack or usage of some feature.
Wall Street IT Engineer Hacks Employer To See If He'll Be Fired
What is it with people in this industry who fear getting laid off (or fired, which is distinct)? You should expect a turnover every 4-5 years and plan accordingly. Unless you live in the middle of nowhere where employers are scarce (NYC certainly does not fit that label), all you need to do is brush up your skills, be proactive and cultivate a professional network to survive turn-overs.
If you are passive and lackadaisical with your career, however, I can see why you'd shit bricks every so often enough to think hacking your employer this way is a good idea:/
My first language, followed by Turbo Pascal, both still close to my heart even though after 25 years I've moved to Java/C++/C#/Python. Matter of fact, I did some part-time work developing VB and Turbo Pascal/Delphi applications while in college. That certainly helped me through college (another reason why I don't jump on the BASIC or Pascal hate bandwagons.)
It's a shame more people don't realize this, as evidenced by the multiple posts on here suggesting that people need to relocate. I've lived all over the country, but I've spent the majority of my life here in Louisiana and I'd like to stay here.
The majority of the folks affected by this live in areas such as Plaquemines, Terrebone, and Lafourche parishes aren't rich by any means.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...
They were born here; to suggest that they just pack up and move is pretty short-sighted and somewhat insulting.
The notion that people must be immune to relocation just because they "were born there" is an insult to human nature. Conditions change, Things go south,.Shit happens. People relocate, never to return. It's what humans do. It's what humans are meant to do.
How is SQS, RDS, S3, etc from the AWS stack not a lock-in? They're proprietary API's that are specific to a single vendor. Choosing to not use them significantly dilutes the value proposition of moving to AWS in the first place. There's a lot of people that can do "servers in the cloud", what differentiates AWS is the software and services they provide on top of that.
I like the AWS stack, don't get me wrong, but the lock-in is pretty much there from day one.
SQS and RDS, do you really need to use them? What stops you from using your own RabbitMQ and MySQL instances (or the many other alternatives) on AWS? And if you use a robust abstraction layer (say, Spring Messaging, Spring Data, Hibernate, myBatis, Python SQLAlchemy or whatever that applies to your platform), the distinction becomes irrelevant.
This is unlike a lock-in with, say, Oracle IDM for identity management or TSD for time series data, or when you adopt a WebLogic extension to work around a JEE limitation (instead of writing your own workaround.) This is far more pervasive and hard to walk away from once you go down that path (I know, I see it around me.) These lock-ins are incredibly hard, if not impossible to insulate yourself with abstraction layers.
So SQS and RDS are not pervasive lock-ins built around a substantial need, but as conveniences you can walk away or wrap around with an abstraction layer.
S3, it is so damned ubiquitous and oh so incredibly useful and resilient that it doesn't make sense *not* to leverage it. Additionally, the lock in is the URI. The mechanism to access it is via REST, so what is there to stop you from accessing and posting your content on your own content repository (deployed on AWS or elsewhere)? Again, the lock-in is simply not comparable to Oracle's because the lock-in is not architectural in nature.
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Those types of jobs are in fact coming back, for good reasons - Apple wants somewhere closer to home to make more things so they can contribute leaks.
Apple may be at the forefront but MOST manufacturing is going to go local in the next decade or so.
How can it come back? Greatly increased use of automation means you don't have to hire nearly so many expensive U.S. workers, so automation actually makes more locally sourced manufacture more desirable again.
There will not be as many jobs, sure, but they will be there and they will be better than what came before.
Production is coming back. The jobs, they aren't. A very important distinction that goes over the hoi polloi's collective heads.
Millennial college students have become far too casual when they talk with their professors
I remember in my college years almost 30 years ago of students being crass and too casual to professors, a never ending source of friction that always ended with students experiencing a rude awakening regarding Academic and professional etiquette.
This country has been churning HS graduates who can neither add fractions nor understand the difference between "you're" and "your" for decades. Yes, for decades. This has been noted since the late 70's, and is the reason why so many millions of people in their mid-40's and 50's are struggling (they are, in effect, illiterate.)
Don't pin this on Millennials. This shit has been going on for years.
On the other hand, the products have such a simple interface that fairly trivial to make an abstraction layer.
I was going to say that. Good abstraction layers are not that hard if the system in question is layered and compartmentalized accordingly and data is modeled appropriately. And with things like Spring Data (at least in Java land), it's almost trivial. It only gets icky in edge cases where things like throughput are paramount (or the data models are wrong for the type of abstraction in use, like trying to use a document database for time series data.)
Parkinson's has some connections to the gut. For instance, it is correlated with constipation. Also people who drink a lot of coffee or tea are less likely to be afflicted. But I don't think it is cause by bacteria, because there is no cure. If gut bacteria caused the disease, some people would be cured inadvertently when they take high doses of antibiotics for other reasons, and that doesn't happen.
Damage caused by bacteria could be irreversible. So even if you kill the germs, the damage remains, incurable.
It's just Elon doing what he does best. Creating novelty items for rich people.
And this is bad because...?
I mean, almost everything technology-wise was at some point a novelty for the rich (until the cost of production went down enough for the hoi polloi to get them.)
Best examples? Books. Trained horses. Full body armor. Water pumps. Cell phones and computers. And the list goes on and one.
I mean, if I could double my salary, I would indulge in these new solar panels. But I can't, so I won't. My salary is good, but not that good.
With that said, there are plenty of people that make double than what you or I make, who will be early adopters. And from that, better, cheaper versions will come till the day they are as ubiquitous as today's shingles.
It's just Elon doing what he does best. Creating novelty items for rich people.
And this is bad because...?
I mean, almost everything technology-wise was at some point a novelty for the rich (until the cost of production went down enough for the hoi polloi to get them.)
Best examples? Books. Trained horses. Full body armor. Water pumps. Cell phones and computers. And the list goes on and one.
Written by someone who is fortunate to
This is just fine for situations where no pedestrians or cyclists are present -- access ramps to limited access highways, bridges, and tunnels, for example. But for places where people are legally allowed to walk or cycle, this is just a non-starter.
Because a model has to account for every fucking variance of the real thing it has to model. #rollseyes
For places where the model can't be applied, well, then it doesn't get applied. But there are quite a few places where this model is useful.
Moreover, a model is not final. This one certainly isn't, and can be used to create further models that account for most, if not all the variables you described.
Science works incrementally. News at 11.
That is very telling of the average person south of the border...
I'm pretty sure I can find some pretty daffy behavior in quite a few red counties north of the border, but I digress.
Those were blue states for 50 years, dumbass. It took them that long to realize that poor people voting for democrats stayed poor. 10 years ago, you could put a dead dog on the ballot with a (D) next to it and it would have won the election. And in return, the democ acts kept us poor so we'd keep voting democrat. Fuck that.
Hi, Kansas is waving at you.
A lot of the enlisted are enlisted because they couldn't go to college. Some are high school dropouts. Of course they're going to have trouble getting a regular job and living a regular life. They'd have the same problem whether they enlisted or not!
Citations with numbers to back your assertion please.
The we don't give a shit about unemployed miners attitude isn't really working out as a political strategy. What's the upside to piling on the already downtrodden coal miners? Where's the humanity in it?
A coal miner might have skills that would translate to the oil business, or to working on big infrastructure projects like dams or roads, or mineral mining. But the same people who want them to lose their coal mining jobs also want to make sure there's no opportunity for them in these other industries.
The most common remedy the left seems to offer them is for them to hurry up and die. I wonder why they listen to someone like Trump instead?
I used to care for their plight. But then I saw how they voted, consistently, for a party who was actually telling them it would do things against their best interests. And in doing so, they have dragged us all down. So my empathy tank is now empty. Metere quod seminas.
Chinese like most asian languages, is one of the most simplest languages in the world, only topped by Korean and Japanes which are even simpler.
You are probaly scared by writing with Kanji, but when you get used to it, it is not that complicated either.
How hard can it be to learn a language, where every word is just one or two sillabels, which has no gender and only one or two times, no singular, nor plural? Wich basically has nothing like complicated European languages?
You think a japanese or chinese speaks bad english because they are to dumb? English, probably the simplest european language, at least for 'germanic' nations, is ten times more difficult than Chinese or Thai, Korean or Japanese.
I speak Spanish (my mother language) and English (my second language for the last 28 years.) I speak some Japanese, which thank God for me is non-tonal.
I've been exposed to Chinese (Mandarin and Cantonese) as well as Vietnamese which are tonal. I can't for the life of me I cannot pick up the tones and stresses. I cannot distinguish most tones in Mandarin, let alone reproduce them. First tone? Rising tone? Falling tone? Falling/Raising tone? No way! Cantonese is more complicated, and Vietnamese even more.
Grammatically they might be simpler, but the tone system is quite a challenge. So there are a lot of reasons why learning a language is difficult.
For "Anglos" the difficulty of learning Spanish lies not on pronunciation, but on the irregularity of our verbs combined with the multitude of testes, each with their own set of modalities. For us native Spanish speakers, the challenge of learning English is in with phonics, the much richer sound system forced into an ambiguous alphabet.
For me, Japanese has been a bit of a challenge because of the vocabulary and some of the conjugation forms. I don't think any of these pose the same challenge Chinese tones pose for me.
Not when most of the population is of Latino descent and can speak both languages. It can happen, given enough time. Most of the population here speaks English, but the predominant language is French.
As a Latino, I tell you: no, it won't happen. 3rd, 4th generation will speak English only (just like anyone else.) And it's not like we have to wait to see it happen. Latinos have been in the continental US for centuries, and this is always the outcome. Seriously, find me a neighborhood, barrio, town or city were 3rd, 4th generation Latinos speak Spanish as their primary language (if they speak it at all.)
Internships are really extended multi-month job interviews. That is how my company sees them, and that is how interns should see them. We never offer an internship to someone that we would not want to hire as a permanent employee. After graduation, we offer jobs to about 60% of our former interns, and most of them accept. We make NO job offers to any other graduates.
So the competition for the best interns is really a competition for the best future employees. The competition is fierce, and the best students usually have multiple internship offers.
Students that don't intern, and expect to just magically find a job after they graduate, are idiots.
That is a stupid way of looking at things. Quite a large number of qualified students simply cannot take internships for a variety of reasons. Additionally, that does not preclude them from finding good jobs when they graduate. Evidence from real life says you are wrong on that account.
I have no doubt that in countries where abortion is legal, right-to-lifers will be lining up to crowd-fund this research, and to pay for women who would otherwise have an abortion to pop their fetuses into these artificial wombs and brought to term.
And then, of course, they will act boldly to ensure that the fetuses are adopted into loving families...perhaps even their own!
Yeah, right.
OTH, the same people will lose their shit when they realize gay and lesbian couples will be able to have their own babies in a buy-an-egg-or-sperm kind of a thing. This will fundamentally change the nature of reproduction (and thus marriage). And then the Anti-Christ will come or something. Oh, I can see the shows in the 700 Club.
There's also a magnitude of difference between a toxic work environment and "I go home exhausted, work frequently out of town. Work long hours for no extra money." as the original poster put it. I've done the latter and even enjoyed it but I've also stuck a toxic work environment for years past the point I should have left and ended up suffering from serious stress and depression (not sleeping, panic attacks if my phone rang out of hours, depressed on a Saturday night because I can sense Monday approaching). You can also feel that its your own fault, particularly if others seem to cope and especially if there's bullying involved.
I can't really judge this case from a short summary, but people poo-pooing the idea have just never experienced it.
^^^. I've been through both also, long hours for the money and/or toxic environments, only one, though. The later one was bad enough to make me depressed for a while. If you live long enough and aren't the type that stays at one job forever, you are bound to experience it all.
Nope, not even close.
In in the way above 40 yrs old set.
I have college friends in New Orleans that I reconnected with, but I also stay in regular touch with friends from the states I did live throughout my life and schooling.
I tend to meet people as neighbors and through them. And in NOLA, there is the concept of the neighborhood bar. I tend to meet many friends, neighbors and women there.
I don't do social media, but I have plenty of friends in meatspace locally as well as visitors or my travelling about to see them.
Once you "pair up", that doesn't mean you have to give up your friends of your youth. I'm still in regular touch with my oldest friend I met when I was 11 and he was 12yrs. A lot of my friends close are 15-20years friends and we still regularly hang out.
I am quite nice and cordial to co-workers, but I never get close to them. Unless they are in my immediate group I don't even really notice them as that I am busy at work.
I'd never stay with a woman that made me get rid of my friends...after all, I've known and respected them for MUCH LONGER than I've been fucking her....you know?
And you are above 40? Wow.
what did *SHE DO* exactly that was positive? because as you said, most of that 'growth' was directly due to alibaba.
She resisted calls to sell Alibaba, she resisted calls to strip Yahoo down to the bones. Shareholders were screaming to short-sell Yahoo down to a carcass. She did not and allowed the company to generate a very decent annual growth rate.
Maybe she could have done better. Maybe someone could have done better. Would have blah blah hand waving. In there here and now, she kept Yahoo from crumbling long enough to allow a sale. She retained capital and value.
What more can you possibly (and reasonably) as for a beached whale such as Yahoo? By all rights it should have ended like Boo.com or Webvan.
You should expect a turnover every 4-5 years and plan accordingly.
Before the Great Recession, I used to switch jobs every three years, sometimes at the same company or a different company. After the Great Recession, I worked whatever contracting job I could land. A contract can last anywhere from four hours, days, weeks, months or years. I'm currently halfway through a five-year contract in government IT.
To me, cycling through short-term contracts is not turnover. That's just being part of being a contractor (I've done more contract jobs than permanent ones.) And you adjust to it. But when we land a long-term contracting job or a permanent gig, the clock begins ticking. And once it goes past the 4-year mark, it is time to have backup plans before the churn hits again.
Not everyone in this industry is competent enough to get another job with the same pay grade/benefits as the one they currently hold.
Oh I know that type of experience. My salary has gone up then down (sometimes significantly) and then up again, with bouts unemployment in between. But in software, that's reality. If anyone wants to have a career in it, he/she has to grapple with that reality, accept it, roll with it and plan for it.
I don't think there is anything out there anymore than can provide a years-long guarantee of employment. But people hold on to that fallacy, expecting salaries to always go up or remain the same. And that's an absurdity that makes people commit absurd things (like hacking an employer or not having a plan A, B, C and D in hand when shit hits the fan at the current job... which it will.)
I see lambdas as the opposite end of the pendulum swing from the goto statement.
They have their place but they both lead to lots of confusion with poor coders who are trying to maintain very old code.
That's not a function of lambdas, or gotos for that matter. I've seen elegant, clear solutions using gotos that made code simpler to read. Same with lambdas. As a matter of fact, same with everything in a programming tool set.
It's not what you use to write code, but how you write code, how you compose it. That's what makes code maintainable, not the lack or usage of some feature.
Wall Street IT Engineer Hacks Employer To See If He'll Be Fired
What is it with people in this industry who fear getting laid off (or fired, which is distinct)? You should expect a turnover every 4-5 years and plan accordingly. Unless you live in the middle of nowhere where employers are scarce (NYC certainly does not fit that label), all you need to do is brush up your skills, be proactive and cultivate a professional network to survive turn-overs.
If you are passive and lackadaisical with your career, however, I can see why you'd shit bricks every so often enough to think hacking your employer this way is a good idea :/
My first language, followed by Turbo Pascal, both still close to my heart even though after 25 years I've moved to Java/C++/C#/Python. Matter of fact, I did some part-time work developing VB and Turbo Pascal/Delphi applications while in college. That certainly helped me through college (another reason why I don't jump on the BASIC or Pascal hate bandwagons.)
It's a shame more people don't realize this, as evidenced by the multiple posts on here suggesting that people need to relocate. I've lived all over the country, but I've spent the majority of my life here in Louisiana and I'd like to stay here.
The majority of the folks affected by this live in areas such as Plaquemines, Terrebone, and Lafourche parishes aren't rich by any means. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/... They were born here; to suggest that they just pack up and move is pretty short-sighted and somewhat insulting.
The notion that people must be immune to relocation just because they "were born there" is an insult to human nature. Conditions change, Things go south, .Shit happens. People relocate, never to return. It's what humans do. It's what humans are meant to do.
How is SQS, RDS, S3, etc from the AWS stack not a lock-in? They're proprietary API's that are specific to a single vendor. Choosing to not use them significantly dilutes the value proposition of moving to AWS in the first place. There's a lot of people that can do "servers in the cloud", what differentiates AWS is the software and services they provide on top of that.
I like the AWS stack, don't get me wrong, but the lock-in is pretty much there from day one.
SQS and RDS, do you really need to use them? What stops you from using your own RabbitMQ and MySQL instances (or the many other alternatives) on AWS? And if you use a robust abstraction layer (say, Spring Messaging, Spring Data, Hibernate, myBatis, Python SQLAlchemy or whatever that applies to your platform), the distinction becomes irrelevant.
This is unlike a lock-in with, say, Oracle IDM for identity management or TSD for time series data, or when you adopt a WebLogic extension to work around a JEE limitation (instead of writing your own workaround.) This is far more pervasive and hard to walk away from once you go down that path (I know, I see it around me.) These lock-ins are incredibly hard, if not impossible to insulate yourself with abstraction layers. So SQS and RDS are not pervasive lock-ins built around a substantial need, but as conveniences you can walk away or wrap around with an abstraction layer.
S3, it is so damned ubiquitous and oh so incredibly useful and resilient that it doesn't make sense *not* to leverage it. Additionally, the lock in is the URI. The mechanism to access it is via REST, so what is there to stop you from accessing and posting your content on your own content repository (deployed on AWS or elsewhere)? Again, the lock-in is simply not comparable to Oracle's because the lock-in is not architectural in nature.