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Two years ago I received an MS keyboard, that by accident was produced without labels on the keys. I wanted to learn to type without looking at my fingers, so I started using it, but VERY QUICKLY realised how difficult it is to correctly type whose 10-12 letter root passwords:)
Here in Denmark we notice the same trend: To some extend, programmers will get out of job over some (5?) years. This is partly due to the fact that low-level or predefined systemdevelopment will be done in Easteurope, India etc. We see this happen already.
Instead, Denmark will become a place for project managers, systemarchitects, consultants and other people, who focus on the business and the client itself, not on the actual production.
This idea was performed as an aprilsfool joke by the big LUG, Skåne Sjælland Linux User Group, (www.sslug.dk) this year. The Party was named "The Linux Party" and over a period of few days 292 people signed up for it!
The SSLUG jokers said in a comment, that the party cannot be a reality due to the wide spread of political interest from the Tux-lovers. Although we all like the OpenSource idea, we cannot agree on economics, social plans etc.
On the positive side it showed that the Linux movement is coming from everywhere: Geographical, political, sexual etc. Beware of the paenguins! =D
Wouldn't it be nice if someone looked at these lists and created two or three book set compilations as they do over at Thinkgeek's? "C programming", "The Art of Developing", or perhaps "Design and Architecture" could be set titles. It seems to me like a lot of programmers could benefit from this - at least I could.
If someone actually has an important, legit reason for using a messenger service, please correct me.
Three reasons for using an IM:
1: I've been working with a near-deaf programmer for nearly two years now. Messenger or ICQ made things really easy for us to communicate in a fast, nonformal way.
2: Working in a large building on different floors makes it impossible to see weather your coworker is at his/her place. Just ping them using the IM, ask your Q's, get your A's.
3: It expans the company spirit beyond the working hours. If you have it installed at home, you are likely to talk to each other late at night, thereby strenthening the companionship.
I am in the same situation: I'm a SciComp'er (M.Sc. in applied mathematics) and I cannot find any fun jobs. The people/companies I have contacted range from universities and engineering comps to consultancy, but they all say: "Gee, that IS exiting, but, we do not have that kind of interest". My old professors never told me, that this could be a problem =/
I have now taken this initiative: I am founding Danish Scicomp Association, which is to be a portal for those who are interested in sharing scicomp ressources: Universities, employers and employees. Check out www.scicomp.dk in a few weeks =) There will be job ads, CVs/resumes and university contacts. I have a lot of potential contacts already, but if YOU can help me, don't hesitate to contact me!
My hope is to make this world a better place =) by creating a place for frustrated employers and employees to turn in order to meat each other. I have missed such a place for a long time...
A little offtopic but I really mean this, so think before you moderate me down...
When SimCity was popular I played it a lot. My strategy was to build the railroad in an early stage, even when I had no money. This prevented me from having to demolish houses at a later stage when the city traffic became to heavy. It meant an expencive start up, but payed off in the long run.
I work as a Software Architect in a Danish IT company. We have tried all of the known development methods: Waterfall, prototyping etc. They all failed and ended as a kind of iterative feature driven development case. We came up with the idea of implementing SimCity in our development: Make a base line platform, that all developers can build on.
The Sys. Arch. is respontible for all the OO planning.
The Senior Developer is responsible for creating/coding the platform, which will consist of fractures of the 1st, nth and last tier in order to "make the railroad work". This e.g. is a control class (1st tier), a logic class (2nd tier) and a database connection class (last tier). This MUST be functional code. Look at this as a horisontal platform.
Now its up to the developers. They can work vertically on each their part/module/object just by looking at the existing code and adding controls to is.
It worx! It pays off, since the developers can code more effectively and independantly - with fewer errors. Somebody calls it vertical iterative prototyping, but "The SimCity Model" is a more attractive name =)
If anything else is f*cked up in some way, the text console is my friend!
Also, what if the grafixlibs suddently are corrupt on boot, then what? The console is supported by the lowest lowlevel grafixmode, thus it is almost failsafe.
Lots'n'lots of times I've gzip-mount-cp'ed, jumped on my bike (or taken the bus), arriving and discovering that the floppy was corrupted.
Using some applied thermodynamics (being an engineer) I found that putting the floppy in a small sealed plasticbag solved the problem. Easy and cheap.
It prevents dust, sand etc. from destroying the surface.
Since the humidity in the bag is constant, entering the Big Blue Room and reentering the computerroom does not create dew(?) (whats the right word?) inside and on the floppy... thus leaving the disk uncorrupt.
I've been using the Xpdf converter psd2txt for a while now, and it's a blast. I use it as an add-on to a search engine, that makes searchable indexes for a website.
The only thing, that I think is træls (danish for "its a bugger") is, that I have to use different converters in dependence of the version of the original PDF document AND the lockmode of the file.
If the file is PDF version 1.3 and is copy protected, then pdf2txt version 0.90 is suitable.
Else, the pdf2txt version 0.80 is suitable.
This works for me - and it is implemented in a freetext search tool, that we sell.
Salaries in Denmark as a new student is app 25.000 DKK. Taxes are high (min. 47%) so this leaves you with app. 13000 DKK after taxes. A nice flat in Copenhagen costs from 3500 to 6000 DKK.
As an experienced programmer you can get as much as 45.000 DKK.
Free notebooks, cellphones and other benefits are not common in my area.
For information on almost everything regarding hacking, read The Jargon File by Eric Steven Raymond. Oh, by the way, also MSNBC has a Linus-bashing article. They're really after him this time...
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Two years ago I received an MS keyboard, that by accident was produced without labels on the keys. I wanted to learn to type without looking at my fingers, so I started using it, but VERY QUICKLY realised how difficult it is to correctly type whose 10-12 letter root passwords :)
Here in Denmark we notice the same trend: To some extend, programmers will get out of job over some (5?) years. This is partly due to the fact that low-level or predefined systemdevelopment will be done in Easteurope, India etc. We see this happen already.
Instead, Denmark will become a place for project managers, systemarchitects, consultants and other people, who focus on the business and the client itself, not on the actual production.
Slightly offtopic ...
Computational Science: The science of modelling/simulation of scienctific problems, also known as applied mathematics.
Scientific Computing: The science of programming techniques.
Am I right or wrong?
Yup.
It's the motto of Syldavia: "Here I am, here I stay."
For a full intro to Syldavian, see here
... as if the global recession isn't enough! Now all production will end as well! I can already picture several fridays ending in gaming and beers. =D
This idea was performed as an aprilsfool joke by the big LUG, Skåne Sjælland Linux User Group, (www.sslug.dk) this year. The Party was named "The Linux Party" and over a period of few days 292 people signed up for it!
The SSLUG jokers said in a comment, that the party cannot be a reality due to the wide spread of political interest from the Tux-lovers. Although we all like the OpenSource idea, we cannot agree on economics, social plans etc.
On the positive side it showed that the Linux movement is coming from everywhere: Geographical, political, sexual etc. Beware of the paenguins! =D
Dr. Ø
Wouldn't it be nice if someone looked at these lists and created two or three book set compilations as they do over at Thinkgeek's? "C programming", "The Art of Developing", or perhaps "Design and Architecture" could be set titles. It seems to me like a lot of programmers could benefit from this - at least I could.
Dr. Ø
If someone actually has an important, legit reason for using a messenger service, please correct me.
Three reasons for using an IM:
1: I've been working with a near-deaf programmer for nearly two years now. Messenger or ICQ made things really easy for us to communicate in a fast, nonformal way.
2: Working in a large building on different floors makes it impossible to see weather your coworker is at his/her place. Just ping them using the IM, ask your Q's, get your A's.
3: It expans the company spirit beyond the working hours. If you have it installed at home, you are likely to talk to each other late at night, thereby strenthening the companionship.
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I am in the same situation: I'm a SciComp'er (M.Sc. in applied mathematics) and I cannot find any fun jobs. The people/companies I have contacted range from universities and engineering comps to consultancy, but they all say: "Gee, that IS exiting, but, we do not have that kind of interest". My old professors never told me, that this could be a problem =/
...
I have now taken this initiative: I am founding Danish Scicomp Association, which is to be a portal for those who are interested in sharing scicomp ressources: Universities, employers and employees. Check out www.scicomp.dk in a few weeks =) There will be job ads, CVs/resumes and university contacts. I have a lot of potential contacts already, but if YOU can help me, don't hesitate to contact me!
My hope is to make this world a better place =) by creating a place for frustrated employers and employees to turn in order to meat each other. I have missed such a place for a long time
XP is our next step! =)
It's not a silver bullit, but it's interesting.
A little offtopic but I really mean this, so think before you moderate me down ...
When SimCity was popular I played it a lot. My strategy was to build the railroad in an early stage, even when I had no money. This prevented me from having to demolish houses at a later stage when the city traffic became to heavy. It meant an expencive start up, but payed off in the long run.
I work as a Software Architect in a Danish IT company. We have tried all of the known development methods: Waterfall, prototyping etc. They all failed and ended as a kind of iterative feature driven development case. We came up with the idea of implementing SimCity in our development: Make a base line platform, that all developers can build on.
The Sys. Arch. is respontible for all the OO planning.
The Senior Developer is responsible for creating/coding the platform, which will consist of fractures of the 1st, nth and last tier in order to "make the railroad work". This e.g. is a control class (1st tier), a logic class (2nd tier) and a database connection class (last tier). This MUST be functional code. Look at this as a horisontal platform.
Now its up to the developers. They can work vertically on each their part/module/object just by looking at the existing code and adding controls to is.
It worx! It pays off, since the developers can code more effectively and independantly - with fewer errors. Somebody calls it vertical iterative prototyping, but "The SimCity Model" is a more attractive name =)
I totally agree!
If anything else is f*cked up in some way, the text console is my friend!
Also, what if the grafixlibs suddently are corrupt on boot, then what? The console is supported by the lowest lowlevel grafixmode, thus it is almost failsafe.
The console as president!
Now, THAT would be interesting!
Dr. Ø
I once made a proof using infinity-math and integration that all numbers tends to approch 0 as the time evolves, i.e.:
forall c in R: c->0 for t->infty
This is certainly usefull since maths, baking, accounting, etc. is uniquely bound to end as a 0.
The 0 in the end of the PI confirms this theory.
Dr. Ø, degree in chaotic maths, spoiling it in the webbiz
Using some applied thermodynamics (being an engineer) I found that putting the floppy in a small sealed plasticbag solved the problem. Easy and cheap.
... Having matured, I now use FTP and CVS =)
I've been using the Xpdf converter psd2txt for a while now, and it's a blast. I use it as an add-on to a search engine, that makes searchable indexes for a website.
The only thing, that I think is træls (danish for "its a bugger") is, that I have to use different converters in dependence of the version of the original PDF document AND the lockmode of the file.
If the file is PDF version 1.3 and is copy protected, then pdf2txt version 0.90 is suitable.
Else, the pdf2txt version 0.80 is suitable.
This works for me - and it is implemented in a freetext search tool, that we sell.
Dr. Ø
Try the Encheferizer! It's a Fun Thing (tm)! Bork bork bork!
Salaries in Denmark as a new student is app 25.000 DKK. Taxes are high (min. 47%) so this leaves you with app. 13000 DKK after taxes. A nice flat in Copenhagen costs from 3500 to 6000 DKK.
As an experienced programmer you can get as much as 45.000 DKK.
Free notebooks, cellphones and other benefits are not common in my area.
For information on almost everything regarding hacking, read The Jargon File by Eric Steven Raymond. Oh, by the way, also MSNBC has a Linus-bashing article. They're really after him this time...
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