Management was also horribly PA. That wasn't an immediate concern, but it would have been a problem at the end of the year when I got my first real review in the place. I definitely felt set up to fail so the manager, ex-Army/ex-Cop triple dipping his career, could get his gold star for identifying "a problem".
When we lived in Vantucky (Vancouver, WA), the guy who worked the plumbing aisle at the local Home Depot was a journeyman plumber from CA. He was frozen out of the plumber job market in WA because the state is "closed shop" and he didn't want to start over at the apprentice level just to get a friggin' union card.
Yes, Fresh doesn't expect little things like documentation and won't balk about being placed at a customer site for three months living out of a suitcase.
(Read that title again carefully before responding.)
Lots of Indians have this amount of experience on their resumes. Why not Americans?:)
Seriously, anyone with a solid foundation in STL and C++03 could pick up Boost or the latest features in C++0x, but HR and managers don't want to hear it.
I just graduated with a CS Masters from a mid-tier state school. The program was 95% Indian, mostly from the Hyderabad region.
The vast majority of the grad students were "box of rocks" dumb, incapable of writing basic C/C++/Java code, but the school received a $5000/semester/student tuition bonus from the foreign students.
Seattle is attempting to engineer implementation of income tax through a court challenge of WA State's laws forbidding such, arguing that the ban only applies at the state level. If the city succeeds, every county and state government in WA State will at least look at the possibity of levying an income tax.
HQ2 will either be in Texas, where Bezos owns a large rance, or Florida, where Bezos grew up. Both are staunchly anti income tax, with Florida's ban being part of the state constitution.
Working for a semi-well known mesh networking company in Seattle, I was hired for DevOps because, despite 20+ years experience with C/C++, the gasseous CTO didn't believe I was qualified to do development. About a month into the job, I got called into a code review for one of the senior developers, and I quickly caught several buffer overruns on the "rookie mistake" level with strncpy overflowing the allocated space.
Gotta wonder how many of those Mr. Senior Developer committed to the code base.
"Cryptonomicon" and "The First $20 Million Is Always The Hardest".
Skip the movie version of "The First $20 Million" and read the friggin' book. Everyone in the know says that it is a thinly-disguised back story of Java.
"Cryptonomicon" is the art life has tried to imitate for the last 18 years. Sadly, there is not a real stash of Nazi gold with which to build a new currency.
Money in the pockets of the people who have nothing better to do all day than troll Best Buy and Game Stop stores.
I read that Game Stop is closing stores. They could have experienced a HUGE Christmas at their stores if Nintendo had supplied enough consoles to meet demand.
No one wants to spend any money on training so they prefer to hire either clueless H1Bs who lie about their skill sets or young Red Bull-swilling MIS grads who claim they can learn any technology out of a book over a weekend.
Plus female CEO. Contrary to the conventional wisdom, in 25 years, I've seen much more cruelty, open crassness, and questionably legal antics from women managers than I ever have from men, especially late Boomer and X-er women who all seem to want to be the "Lean In" twit these days.
I bought one at the school surplus sale for $50. Another $50 for memory an $100 for an SSD put the total at $200 for a machine that runs just about any Linux distribution as well as Windows 10.
A little heavier than a netbook, but the size is right. My only real complaint is that DDR2 is getting pricey.
Those calls were fun. I used to respond by being so insulting, abusive, and profane that the last "IRS" call ended with the "agent" shouting, "I'm coming to your house to shoot you in your face."
I've always seen Swift as a way of keeping application model logic off of competing mobile platforms/languages, specifically C++ (which Apple supports extremely well on iOS BTW). I view it as the new PowerBuilder --- remember those "LEARN POWERBUILDER OR LOSE YOUR JOB" ads?
How much money did Corporate America p*ss away on PowerBuilder?... but I digress...
The company open sourced Swift once it was clear Windows Phone was dead, but now that the app market is in decline, they need to squelch the experiments of the Swift 2.x compilers targeting Android for easy cross platform development.
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Mostly boredom. Money was a factor too.
Management was also horribly PA. That wasn't an immediate concern, but it would have been a problem at the end of the year when I got my first real review in the place. I definitely felt set up to fail so the manager, ex-Army/ex-Cop triple dipping his career, could get his gold star for identifying "a problem".
Apple didn't want business logic developed in C++11. That would have allowed sharing between Windows Phone and iOS.
When we lived in Vantucky (Vancouver, WA), the guy who worked the plumbing aisle at the local Home Depot was a journeyman plumber from CA. He was frozen out of the plumber job market in WA because the state is "closed shop" and he didn't want to start over at the apprentice level just to get a friggin' union card.
He gave great advice, though.
Adverts where the real goal is to hire H1B.
Sure, I can see that.
The younger Indians I've worked with lately talk about becoming a "full stack developer". I haven't encountered anyone else who uses the term.
Fresh from the street - is the new IT gold.
Yes, Fresh doesn't expect little things like documentation and won't balk about being placed at a customer site for three months living out of a suitcase.
(Read that title again carefully before responding.)
Lots of Indians have this amount of experience on their resumes. Why not Americans? :)
Seriously, anyone with a solid foundation in STL and C++03 could pick up Boost or the latest features in C++0x, but HR and managers don't want to hear it.
I just graduated with a CS Masters from a mid-tier state school. The program was 95% Indian, mostly from the Hyderabad region.
The vast majority of the grad students were "box of rocks" dumb, incapable of writing basic C/C++/Java code, but the school received a $5000/semester/student tuition bonus from the foreign students.
Seattle is attempting to engineer implementation of income tax through a court challenge of WA State's laws forbidding such, arguing that the ban only applies at the state level. If the city succeeds, every county and state government in WA State will at least look at the possibity of levying an income tax.
HQ2 will either be in Texas, where Bezos owns a large rance, or Florida, where Bezos grew up. Both are staunchly anti income tax, with Florida's ban being part of the state constitution.
Working for a semi-well known mesh networking company in Seattle, I was hired for DevOps because, despite 20+ years experience with C/C++, the gasseous CTO didn't believe I was qualified to do development. About a month into the job, I got called into a code review for one of the senior developers, and I quickly caught several buffer overruns on the "rookie mistake" level with strncpy overflowing the allocated space.
Gotta wonder how many of those Mr. Senior Developer committed to the code base.
Nothing else currently available on Windows comes close.
Useless ... except they have some cool PHP VM tech that will outlive them.
Yeah, "Microserfs" and "The J Pod". Plus the CBC JPod TV series if you can find a copy.
"The Circle" is typical Dave Eggers. I couldn't finish it.
"Cryptonomicon" and "The First $20 Million Is Always The Hardest".
Skip the movie version of "The First $20 Million" and read the friggin' book. Everyone in the know says that it is a thinly-disguised back story of Java.
"Cryptonomicon" is the art life has tried to imitate for the last 18 years. Sadly, there is not a real stash of Nazi gold with which to build a new currency.
From what I've seen in my grad program (mid-tier US university), I'd say the figure is closer to 99%.
They're expert liars, though.
Money in the pockets of the people who have nothing better to do all day than troll Best Buy and Game Stop stores.
I read that Game Stop is closing stores. They could have experienced a HUGE Christmas at their stores if Nintendo had supplied enough consoles to meet demand.
It epends. If you have a Masters degree in Computer Science, and you can't explain NP Complete, IMHO you have wasted a lot of time and money.
Undergraduate degree? Its a cr*p shoot. Some programs require learning about P vs. NP, and some don't.
My graduate program is chock full of unqualified "fresher" Indians looking to exploit the Masters degree loophole.
Best and the brightest? Don't make me laugh.
Apple's entire line of laptops is now disposable, and Consumer Reports is worried about the battery life.
Sounds like someone worked at Logitech in Vancouver, WA.
A "fresher" is someone who is cheap to hire because they don't know sh*t.
Most of the Indians in my US-based grad program self identify as "freshers". The professors all but beg them not to cheat.
No one wants to spend any money on training so they prefer to hire either clueless H1Bs who lie about their skill sets or young Red Bull-swilling MIS grads who claim they can learn any technology out of a book over a weekend.
Plus female CEO. Contrary to the conventional wisdom, in 25 years, I've seen much more cruelty, open crassness, and questionably legal antics from women managers than I ever have from men, especially late Boomer and X-er women who all seem to want to be the "Lean In" twit these days.
I bought one at the school surplus sale for $50. Another $50 for memory an $100 for an SSD put the total at $200 for a machine that runs just about any Linux distribution as well as Windows 10.
A little heavier than a netbook, but the size is right. My only real complaint is that DDR2 is getting pricey.
Those calls were fun. I used to respond by being so insulting, abusive, and profane that the last "IRS" call ended with the "agent" shouting, "I'm coming to your house to shoot you in your face."
I've always seen Swift as a way of keeping application model logic off of competing mobile platforms/languages, specifically C++ (which Apple supports extremely well on iOS BTW). I view it as the new PowerBuilder --- remember those "LEARN POWERBUILDER OR LOSE YOUR JOB" ads?
How much money did Corporate America p*ss away on PowerBuilder? ... but I digress ...
The company open sourced Swift once it was clear Windows Phone was dead, but now that the app market is in decline, they need to squelch the experiments of the Swift 2.x compilers targeting Android for easy cross platform development.