Fewer people have the opportunity to write code and share it. For all of the talk about the need to teach the next generation to program, there are fewer practical vectors for open code to be distributed.
Sure, modern machines don't boot up into BASIC (though I have two that start up in bash). But there's eclipse, Code::blocks, various QT things, and if you hold your nose even community editions of Visual Poodio that you can get with a few clicks for exactly zero of Her Germanic Majesty's finest pounds.
I want to know what this person is smoking, so I can go get some.
trying to sound more sophisticated or vaguely European. A bunch of idiots go around in Wikipedia changing conventional spelling to British spellings (artefact VS artifact), too.
What's that got to do with anything?
You seem to have a bit of an inferiority complex, and it might well be justified.
Yes you do. They aren't there to fill a specific need, they're there to plug a skills shortage.
Whether they're filling a gap at X corp or Y inc is neither here nor there, if you make the reasonable assumption that they're being hired for the rare skill they possess.
If I need to work out what fuse to use, I do all that sciency V and I shit. I don't consult Leviticus or consider the old fuse's motivation to explode.
I spent a month working there. There was a lady in the office who used to walk around collecting coffee mugs, taking them to the kitchen, and washing them.
To be fair it's not exactly a demanding task, but she was pretty diligent about it.
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Such an example
Of a terrible Haiku
Seven lines, no season
What difference would it make to you? You clearly can't read.
I think a prerequisite for that is making evolution run backward.
How many of them are relatives of the former tobacco & rum minister and need help to access some blocked funds?
Sure, modern machines don't boot up into BASIC (though I have two that start up in bash). But there's eclipse, Code::blocks, various QT things, and if you hold your nose even community editions of Visual Poodio that you can get with a few clicks for exactly zero of Her Germanic Majesty's finest pounds.
I want to know what this person is smoking, so I can go get some.
Does it use joins? And can it store data in /dev/null for better performance?
"Ah, so it's kind of like facebook?"
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The V.P. Of Marketing
No, Ruuuuuuuuuuuuuuuush!
I knew you'd say that.
Protip: if you're not sure whether you should use it's or its, the needful is it;s.
You couldn't make it up.
What's that got to do with anything?
You seem to have a bit of an inferiority complex, and it might well be justified.
Is there anything that can cure an outbreak of apostropheum excessiva?
That would make a great movie. Fucking Hollywood, they'd rather do a 19th remake of The Great Gatsby.
WTF is a piracy?
So only one company has an essential need?
Yes you do. They aren't there to fill a specific need, they're there to plug a skills shortage.
Whether they're filling a gap at X corp or Y inc is neither here nor there, if you make the reasonable assumption that they're being hired for the rare skill they possess.
You don't even need to make them citizens, just make it so they own their own visa. Then they can change jobs at will.
I will choose the path that's clear. I will choose freewill.
If I need to work out what fuse to use, I do all that sciency V and I shit. I don't consult Leviticus or consider the old fuse's motivation to explode.
I thought they fell under a different category? But if they don't, then the solution is pretty obvious.
If that was possible they'd already be doing it, because it would be vastly cheaper than even the lowest paid H1-B.
They don't, or not by much. Most of the benefits are creamed off as higher profits.
I spent a month working there. There was a lady in the office who used to walk around collecting coffee mugs, taking them to the kitchen, and washing them.
To be fair it's not exactly a demanding task, but she was pretty diligent about it.
He's storing them on the Kremlin's server?
They chose an appropriate colour. Probably by accident, though.