Exactly... Snoop doggy-dog needs to get a new jobby-job. I've been in the industry since '96, in a variety of roles. You know what I see all the time? Wusses.
It is often healthy for both disgruntled employees as well as fubar companies for people to cut and run. The problem is they don't, they bitch all the time and never leave. They never stand up to their counterparts, and call them out. They just take it and whine. They don't fight requirements bloat or scope creep. It is just as bad for the employers who don't realize they are the problem, but after three people in a row run like hell... oddly the start to get it.
You might need to re-skil a bit, but trust me there are jobs out there.
Google only has one line of business, and that is advertising. Try as they might, they can't seem to find much revenue elsewhere. Eventually all one trick ponies meet the same fate.
Here is where I take some offense with the article and the comparisons to 2000/2001. I watched the bubble burst here in the states and then in Europe, and let me tell you during the peak of the dotcom bubble like 50% of folks had any real technical chops. The bandwagon jumping was ferocious, even at good companies.
I'd be surprised if scouts and/or agents weren't already doing a lot of this when marketing and evaluating players.
- arrests? #? - children by different mothers? - college GPA? School? Graduation? etc? - catches during a scoring drive, finger touch drops, yards after contact, block success, etc
As far as the in game stuff goes, my guess is you could create a supervised but automated system to review game film, and more easily radio feeds to get a ton of useful data. Eventually you can throw all the 32 teams, 256 games, 1696 players per year and start some Machine Learning training. You'd have to continually iterate, but my guess is you'd be a lot better of going this route than traditional intuition.
I have no idea what you'd find... but surely it would be interesting.
If you know mostly what you'd like to to, have a chosen path to get there, and time and $$$ to do it this model would probably work very well.
The problem is, I have NEVER seen that in my 15 years of developing. The technology landscape is constantly evolving, we need developers that know how to learn to do stuff... not know how to do stuff. Assumptions and business requirements change, often daily. Developers need to communicate with businesses, persuade them to make good decisions (why I like developers with Arts and Sciences backgrounds). My guess is we'd get a lot more meaningless (not well thought out) stuff done which would buy us squat.
I don't want an army of semi-functional programmers, I want a FEW real developers.
I am in the beginning stages of teaching a lifelong MS developer and fanboy our Big Data environment. The poor guy basically needs to learn Nix, bash, sed/awk, SSH, cron, Ruby, MYSQL, EC2/S3 and Rails BEFORE we start talking about HDFS, Hive and Mahout. The ONLY thing I have going for me is his background in CS.
Teachers are paid what they are largely because there are plenty of people who want to do it. If there weren't we'd have to pay them more. It is a fairly safe career choice choice (low unemployment rates, sackings unlikely, etc), and widely considered to be an easier route through undergrad than science, engineering, most ology's, etc.
Conversely, no one wants to be a geek so most of us here on slashdot make the big bucks. Even bigger if you understand business concepts and are personable.
I see a lot of grumbling here, but in reality many coders are awful at managing up.
Somehow I always seem to end up in nearly totally unsupervised positions. This happens for a number of reasons, but really because I know how to look productive and delivery. More technologists need to sell their ideas, and and their accomplishments. Make the boss look good and generally give them what they like, and success will enviably follow. Manage your manager.
Don't over engineer, and don't overwork. Do produce more than expected. Read lots, and have an opinion. Think LEAN. "Done is better than perfect, and perfect is the enemy of done."
One of the issues is we geeks have is there are so many titles, I rarely keep one for more than a year. I sometimes write a lot of code, sometimes very little. Sometimes I do strategy work, sometimes management, and sometimes I sell. But at the end of the day, I lean on my technology skills a ton. I was able to dive and and gain ownership of our Big Data efforts (my current gig) by noodling around with Hadoop at AWS.
The following titles were scribed from my resume... going back 15 years.
Sr. Architect
Team Lead
ICT Volunteer
Senior Software Engineer
Lead Technologist
Software Engineer / Senior Software Engineer
I have a ton of friends with other roles... Principal, CTO, VP, etc. The key is not to lose your head in the code, learn about business, people and process. I'd argue almost no one has the same job for 5 years, in technology or otherwise. Fortunately technology is a growing field, don't fight it... grow along with it.
This stuff is given to pretty much all Peace Corps Volunteers in malarial zones.
Speaking from long term experience, it sucks ass. I made it about a year before I nearly lost the ability to sleep. I was then placed on Doxycyclene which worked... never got malaria myself. The other option, Malerone, is like 10x as expensive. Neither Doxy or Mal is nearly as good ad malaria prevention, as have to be taken daily ISO weekly, so medical officers are hesitant to make a switch unless things have gotten pretty bad.
I would say 50% of my fellow PCVs made it two years on Larium, and many blamed their psychological evacuations (wacky-vacs in Peace Corps lingo) at least in part on it. There is no way in hell anyone with access to firearms should be allowed within ten feet of this stuff.
This response is total BS... getting vanilla Android apps to work across devices and operating systems is trivial enough, but once you do anything interesting (use the GPS, camera, address book, etc) some phones will surely wet the bed.
Write once, debug everywhere.
You really can't compare US and Euro/Brit mileage ratings because they allow for totally differing levels of pollutants.
It escapes me now, but there is on chemical in particular that makes a massive difference. Anyone?
I took a required 4 semesters of French, barely slipping through on the last one, as a CS major. Though it was interesting, I didn't learn much.
You need to learn how to live in a language.
Go volunteer somewhere with an immersion program (I was a Peace Corps volunteer), that way you'll have practical skills.
I was a Peace Corps volunteer in Benin (just W. of Nigeria for the geographically challenged) and actually saw a Nigerian scam email being written in a cybercafe.
It was fricking hilarious, I didn't know whether to laugh or cry (or start correcting the grammar). There were three guys huddled around a computer (par for the course), all debating how "best" to compose the email text.
I didn't know whether to laugh or cry.
The equivalent of about $5 a day:) plus money for traveling, staying in the capital, and vacation. It was more than enough to live on. Then they throw you about $6K for re-adjustment when you get back.
I was pretty lucky, rented my condo out for two years and if it wasn't for traveling would have broken even. Remember, it is literally difficult to spend money in many poor places. Without going to the capital, I wouldn't even have a chance to spend any serious amount of money. Cheap volunteers who stayed at home totally banked, saving enough to fund RTW trips and whatnot.
As quite possibly the only ICT (Information and Communications Technologies) RPCV (Returned Peace Corps Volunteer) on Slashdot I feel a sudden obligation to respond. The only place I've seen more acronyms than in geekdom was in PC:).
I returned from service in Benin last October, and it was 2+ years of one incredible experience after the other. Yeah your sick as a dog half the time and you might not see a lot of tangible results, but damn was it fun.
A little known fact is most Peace Corps posts (aka jobs) don't work out, so it helps if you are a self starter. After my job with a Micro Finance institution didn't work out so well, I walked away and started working on my own. I split time between working with a local orphanage and local "informaticiens" (Afro-French for geeks).
There are some huge added bonuses, like learning a new language and culture. Coming back some companies were very lame about my two-years away and others very cool, I ended up with a better job than what I left with.
Being accepted into another culture is a pretty powerful experience, absolutely nothing like the ex-pat life (which I have also dabbled in). Shit, what I wouldn't give to be chilling out in front of someone's house right now doing a shot of Bush moonshine:).
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Exactly ... Snoop doggy-dog needs to get a new jobby-job. I've been in the industry since '96, in a variety of roles. You know what I see all the time? Wusses.
It is often healthy for both disgruntled employees as well as fubar companies for people to cut and run. The problem is they don't, they bitch all the time and never leave. They never stand up to their counterparts, and call them out. They just take it and whine. They don't fight requirements bloat or scope creep. It is just as bad for the employers who don't realize they are the problem, but after three people in a row run like hell ... oddly the start to get it.
You might need to re-skil a bit, but trust me there are jobs out there.
Google only has one line of business, and that is advertising. Try as they might, they can't seem to find much revenue elsewhere. Eventually all one trick ponies meet the same fate.
http://techcrunch.com/2014/10/...
Here is where I take some offense with the article and the comparisons to 2000/2001. I watched the bubble burst here in the states and then in Europe, and let me tell you during the peak of the dotcom bubble like 50% of folks had any real technical chops. The bandwagon jumping was ferocious, even at good companies.
Just putting it out there ...
I'd be surprised if scouts and/or agents weren't already doing a lot of this when marketing and evaluating players.
- arrests? #?
- children by different mothers?
- college GPA? School? Graduation? etc?
- catches during a scoring drive, finger touch drops, yards after contact, block success, etc
As far as the in game stuff goes, my guess is you could create a supervised but automated system to review game film, and more easily radio feeds to get a ton of useful data. Eventually you can throw all the 32 teams, 256 games, 1696 players per year and start some Machine Learning training. You'd have to continually iterate, but my guess is you'd be a lot better of going this route than traditional intuition.
I have no idea what you'd find ... but surely it would be interesting.
If you know mostly what you'd like to to, have a chosen path to get there, and time and $$$ to do it this model would probably work very well.
... not know how to do stuff. Assumptions and business requirements change, often daily. Developers need to communicate with businesses, persuade them to make good decisions (why I like developers with Arts and Sciences backgrounds). My guess is we'd get a lot more meaningless (not well thought out) stuff done which would buy us squat.
The problem is, I have NEVER seen that in my 15 years of developing. The technology landscape is constantly evolving, we need developers that know how to learn to do stuff
I don't want an army of semi-functional programmers, I want a FEW real developers.
I am in the beginning stages of teaching a lifelong MS developer and fanboy our Big Data environment. The poor guy basically needs to learn Nix, bash, sed/awk, SSH, cron, Ruby, MYSQL, EC2/S3 and Rails BEFORE we start talking about HDFS, Hive and Mahout. The ONLY thing I have going for me is his background in CS.
Education majors enter college with the worst scores and leave with the highest grades. And we are listening to them? http://www.cbsnews.com/8301-505145_162-37245744/heres-the-nations-easiest-college-major/ From personal experience in the an undergrad Math department, the Math education crew were largely though of as do gooders along for the ride. They were conspicuously absent form upper level Math and CS courses, but the History of Math elective I took was filled with them. It is sad so few choose to get into teaching for the right reasons, but understandable. More links ...
http://www.campusexplorer.com/college-advice-tips/7DF05979/Easiest-College-Majors/
http://www.thebestcolleges.org/top-10-easiest-and-hardest-college-degree-majors/
http://www.nytimes.com/2011/11/06/education/edlife/why-science-majors-change-their-mind-its-just-so-darn-hard.html?pagewanted=all
I call BS here ... Families are way more geographically spread out than when you were a kid. People fly more, including people with kids. Get over it.
Teachers are paid what they are largely because there are plenty of people who want to do it. If there weren't we'd have to pay them more. It is a fairly safe career choice choice (low unemployment rates, sackings unlikely, etc), and widely considered to be an easier route through undergrad than science, engineering, most ology's, etc. Conversely, no one wants to be a geek so most of us here on slashdot make the big bucks. Even bigger if you understand business concepts and are personable.
Hell, yeah! Give me some of that thimble sized action ...
I see a lot of grumbling here, but in reality many coders are awful at managing up. Somehow I always seem to end up in nearly totally unsupervised positions. This happens for a number of reasons, but really because I know how to look productive and delivery. More technologists need to sell their ideas, and and their accomplishments. Make the boss look good and generally give them what they like, and success will enviably follow. Manage your manager. Don't over engineer, and don't overwork. Do produce more than expected. Read lots, and have an opinion. Think LEAN. "Done is better than perfect, and perfect is the enemy of done."
One of the issues is we geeks have is there are so many titles, I rarely keep one for more than a year. I sometimes write a lot of code, sometimes very little. Sometimes I do strategy work, sometimes management, and sometimes I sell. But at the end of the day, I lean on my technology skills a ton. I was able to dive and and gain ownership of our Big Data efforts (my current gig) by noodling around with Hadoop at AWS. The following titles were scribed from my resume ... going back 15 years.
Sr. Architect
Team Lead
ICT Volunteer
Senior Software Engineer
Lead Technologist
Software Engineer / Senior Software Engineer
I have a ton of friends with other roles ... Principal, CTO, VP, etc. The key is not to lose your head in the code, learn about business, people and process. I'd argue almost no one has the same job for 5 years, in technology or otherwise. Fortunately technology is a growing field, don't fight it ... grow along with it.
This stuff is given to pretty much all Peace Corps Volunteers in malarial zones. Speaking from long term experience, it sucks ass. I made it about a year before I nearly lost the ability to sleep. I was then placed on Doxycyclene which worked ... never got malaria myself. The other option, Malerone, is like 10x as expensive. Neither Doxy or Mal is nearly as good ad malaria prevention, as have to be taken daily ISO weekly, so medical officers are hesitant to make a switch unless things have gotten pretty bad.
I would say 50% of my fellow PCVs made it two years on Larium, and many blamed their psychological evacuations (wacky-vacs in Peace Corps lingo) at least in part on it. There is no way in hell anyone with access to firearms should be allowed within ten feet of this stuff.
This response is total BS ... getting vanilla Android apps to work across devices and operating systems is trivial enough, but once you do anything interesting (use the GPS, camera, address book, etc) some phones will surely wet the bed.
Write once, debug everywhere.
You really can't compare US and Euro/Brit mileage ratings because they allow for totally differing levels of pollutants. It escapes me now, but there is on chemical in particular that makes a massive difference. Anyone?
I took a required 4 semesters of French, barely slipping through on the last one, as a CS major. Though it was interesting, I didn't learn much. You need to learn how to live in a language. Go volunteer somewhere with an immersion program (I was a Peace Corps volunteer), that way you'll have practical skills.
I was a Peace Corps volunteer in Benin (just W. of Nigeria for the geographically challenged) and actually saw a Nigerian scam email being written in a cybercafe. It was fricking hilarious, I didn't know whether to laugh or cry (or start correcting the grammar). There were three guys huddled around a computer (par for the course), all debating how "best" to compose the email text. I didn't know whether to laugh or cry.
The equivalent of about $5 a day :) plus money for traveling, staying in the capital, and vacation. It was more than enough to live on. Then they throw you about $6K for re-adjustment when you get back.
I was pretty lucky, rented my condo out for two years and if it wasn't for traveling would have broken even. Remember, it is literally difficult to spend money in many poor places. Without going to the capital, I wouldn't even have a chance to spend any serious amount of money. Cheap volunteers who stayed at home totally banked, saving enough to fund RTW trips and whatnot.
As quite possibly the only ICT (Information and Communications Technologies) RPCV (Returned Peace Corps Volunteer) on Slashdot I feel a sudden obligation to respond. The only place I've seen more acronyms than in geekdom was in PC :).
:).
I returned from service in Benin last October, and it was 2+ years of one incredible experience after the other. Yeah your sick as a dog half the time and you might not see a lot of tangible results, but damn was it fun.
A little known fact is most Peace Corps posts (aka jobs) don't work out, so it helps if you are a self starter. After my job with a Micro Finance institution didn't work out so well, I walked away and started working on my own. I split time between working with a local orphanage and local "informaticiens" (Afro-French for geeks).
There are some huge added bonuses, like learning a new language and culture. Coming back some companies were very lame about my two-years away and others very cool, I ended up with a better job than what I left with.
Being accepted into another culture is a pretty powerful experience, absolutely nothing like the ex-pat life (which I have also dabbled in). Shit, what I wouldn't give to be chilling out in front of someone's house right now doing a shot of Bush moonshine