I saw an ad the other day, I'm sure you have seen similar, seeking 10 yrs of Java development experience.
Also, I agree about the degrees. Many companies don't recognize skills learned in the field, (which may be more valuable than skills learned in college). I went to college in 1983 and my University didn't offer C programming. We learned Pascal. Not too many Pascal openings out there these days. I write C code now but I didn't learn it in college. I had to teach myself.
If there is such a shortage, then by the laws of supply and demand, the salaries should be in the 6 figures. The IT companies say they can't afford that, but middle management in my company makes six figures and there is no shortage of those guys. It seems that for the price of one or two middle managers, we could have several good engineers. We have a developer position that the HR team hasn't filled in 9 months even though I have given them several good resumes of people who could do the job competently, but would need a small amount of training to have the exact skill they want, (i.e. streams driver development). These candidates, if hired a month or so ago, would already be up to speed, but HR waits for someone with less experience so they can pay them less, work them harder and chuck them to the side after a couple of years. There is no incentive to learn new skills and move up in the company because they want the engineers who have the skills to stay put.
If you want to support an OS you have to SUPPORT an OS. That means spend some dinero. I know many folks think that everything Linux related should be "free" as in beer, but if you want device drivers developed by the companies that make the hardware, you have to buy software to drive the market. The company I work for will not commit a single cent into development of a product or even a process unless there is strong evidence that it will lead to profits. I buy Linux titles frequently that I don't even need or use to support the Linux community and encourage companies do the same. The industry runs on greenbacks not technical superiority.
I can't believe anyone with any credibility in the industry would use the total number of bugs in the list as an indicator to the quality of an OS.
Every OS has bugs. I'm really not going into the explanation of why this number is not indicative of OS performance, security, reliablity, or scalability, which are quantifiers for OS quality.
Why don't you divide the cost of the OS by the number of bugs and see what the cost per bug comes out to. That would be just about as relevant.
I have two comments. Remember when we believed that processors that required external cooling were flawed designs?
Also, my peltier destroyed two processors. How you might ask? Well when the underside of the CPU was cooler than the air around it, condensation formed on it and ppfffffffffttttt***!
IMHO, the reason certifications are important in the business world is that they provide a least common denominator. If the guy has no degree but has certification, you know that he has at least seen the material in the cert program. I must admit that the CNE program has gone downhill since it started, (I believe it was a lot harder when I certified in '93), and I won't even mention the amount of technical skill required to get MCSE, (although my 15 year old son is happy that it isn't too deep and doesn't cover software other than MS). Of course experience is preferred, but most of the merit badges earned in the trenches don't show on the outside, (unless you are an engineer yourself and then you KNOW if someone is blowing smoke). the people that do the hiring in large corporations don't know jack about protocols or OSes.
I agree with Brad. The best thing Sun could do with it is not release anything new until they know they have a well polished, stable, efficient product. This is the way software was produced before M$ started getting the public to pay good money to test their betas. And I think it could be a positive marketing tactic in the post-Micro$oft economy.;-)
I had Radial Keratotomy and I can see better, (my eyes were too bad to correct to 20/20), but now I can 't look through a microscope or telescope without seeing the shadows of the incinsions. It's not worth it. Wish I could go back.
How can a group of lamers like congress make good decisions about complicated tech issues like cryptography when they spam each others mail box? My representatives can't even reply to email, they send out snail mail, (and usually a form letter).
Actually, I believe the first dissenter was confused by my language. I don't work on internal servers. I work in an engineering group. "Compaq does have customer support for Linux on x86" is what I should've said.
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I saw an ad the other day, I'm sure you have seen similar, seeking 10 yrs of Java development experience.
Also, I agree about the degrees. Many companies don't recognize skills learned in the field, (which may be more valuable than skills learned in college). I went to college in 1983 and my University didn't offer C programming. We learned Pascal. Not too many Pascal openings out there these days. I write C code now but I didn't learn it in college. I had to teach myself.
I am 35 and I am the oldest guy in my group, and almost in my division.
If there is such a shortage, then by the laws of supply and demand, the salaries should be in the 6 figures. The IT companies say they can't afford that, but middle management in my company makes six figures and there is no shortage of those guys. It seems that for the price of one or two middle managers, we could have several good engineers. We have a developer position that the HR team hasn't filled in 9 months even though I have given them several good resumes of people who could do the job competently, but would need a small amount of training to have the exact skill they want, (i.e. streams driver development). These candidates, if hired a month or so ago, would already be up to speed, but HR waits for someone with less experience so they can pay them less, work them harder and chuck them to the side after a couple of years. There is no incentive to learn new skills and move up in the company because they want the engineers who have the skills to stay put.
I see this in my company and others too. I am 35 and hope that I can stay put in the job I have now because I won't get two glances at my resume.
Bcrypt is the BOMB. I also have large containers with no problems.
If you want to support an OS you have to SUPPORT an OS. That means spend some dinero. I know many folks think that everything Linux related should be "free" as in beer, but if you want device drivers developed by the companies that make the hardware, you have to buy software to drive the market. The company I work for will not commit a single cent into development of a product or even a process unless there is strong evidence that it will lead to profits. I buy Linux titles frequently that I don't even need or use to support the Linux community and encourage companies do the same. The industry runs on greenbacks not technical superiority.
I can't believe anyone with any credibility in the industry would use the total number of bugs in the list as an indicator to the quality of an OS.
Every OS has bugs. I'm really not going into the explanation of why this number is not indicative of OS performance, security, reliablity, or scalability, which are quantifiers for OS quality.
Why don't you divide the cost of the OS by the number of bugs and see what the cost per bug comes out to. That would be just about as relevant.
What a lame article.
I have two comments. Remember when we believed that processors that required external cooling were flawed designs?
Also, my peltier destroyed two processors. How you might ask? Well when the underside of the CPU was cooler than the air around it, condensation formed on it and ppfffffffffttttt***!
IMHO, the reason certifications are important in the business world is that they provide a least common denominator. If the guy has no degree but has certification, you know that he has at least seen the material in the cert program. I must admit that the CNE program has gone downhill since it started, (I believe it was a lot harder when I certified in '93), and I won't even mention the amount of technical skill required to get MCSE, (although my 15 year old son is happy that it isn't too deep and doesn't cover software other than MS).
Of course experience is preferred, but most of the merit badges earned in the trenches don't show on the outside, (unless you are an engineer yourself and then you KNOW if someone is blowing smoke). the people that do the hiring in large corporations don't know jack about protocols or OSes.
I agree with Brad. The best thing Sun could do with it is not release anything new until they know they have a well polished, stable, efficient product. This is the way software was produced before M$ started getting the public to pay good money to test their betas. And I think it could be a positive marketing tactic in the post-Micro$oft economy. ;-)
I had Radial Keratotomy and I can see better, (my eyes were too bad to correct to 20/20), but now I can 't look through a microscope or telescope without seeing the shadows of the incinsions. It's not worth it. Wish I could go back.
How can a group of lamers like congress make good decisions about complicated tech issues like cryptography when they spam each others mail box? My representatives can't even reply to email, they send out snail mail, (and usually a form letter).
Actually, I believe the first dissenter was confused by my language. I don't work on internal servers. I work in an engineering group. "Compaq does have customer support for Linux on x86" is what I should've said.
Compaq DOES support Linux on x86. I work there and work on Linux problems on our servers.