They all still lack the "I want to have it mindlessly feed me crap." I'd like to see Pandora for TV, coupled with the ability to queue up a bunch of stuff I specifically pick and play the entire queue without user interaction.
There's not really great IDEs for javascript IMHO. If you're lucky and happen to code the way your IDE wants you *might* get autocomplete/intellisense. You won't get integrated unit testing and lots of other things we've come to expect out of IDEs over the years.
Then I hope your GPP was just sarcasm because people talk about ageism in IT but I've never experienced it seriously. People comment about "Oh, he graduated 30 years ago so he might be [stuff you mentioned]" but we interview them and if they don't suck they get the job.
I kind of hope for more stagnation in the graphics quality market. Let's just hang out where we are for a while and hopefully the game makers will start competing on interesting story lines, game mechanics, etc. rather than ripples in water in puddles.
Don't be ridiculous. When a company comes out with a new product they have a monopoly on it. It can sometimes take a while for competition to creep in. I didn't mean "sustained period" to mean "forever."
You sound like someone who thinks they have 20 years of experience but really has had about 4 years of experience and then stagnated for 16 years doing the same stuff. There's an AWFUL LOT of people out there that fit into this category. I say that because *if* you were good and *if* you had a modicum of social skills with the ability to sell yourself you wouldn't have any trouble finding companies willing to pay you $100k.
I find when I'm in a funk that it's time to learn a new language/tool. Currently I'm learning python. I'm having a good time learning a new language and even though I don't expect to ever make a living off my mad python scripting skills seeing the approaches to various problems in different arenas/languages makes me better at my core languages which I do get paid for writing. Of course, learning a new language might not be *it* for you. We're all unique snowflakes or something. You gotta find what it is that interests you. But yes, generally it's not "do more of the same repetitive crap that my employer pays me to do."
I can't believe that someone spends their time getting poorly formatted HTML to render properly in open source browsers. I sometimes feel my work is boring, but yowza that sounds crazy boring.
There's still a place for third party browser plugins. This is an issue for several large classes of software like point of sale systems which need to manipulate registers or receipt printers over serial/usb, anything requiring reliable printing, video chat, etc.
To my knowledge there's never been such a thing as a sustained natural monopoly in the history of any economy that could remotely be considered "capitalist", it pretty much always requires government intervention. Usually in the form of regulating startups out of business at the behest of big business lobbyists but can also come in the form of the government taking peoples' land to build railroads for you, etc.
At my office I get a bonus if we meet budget.. meaning projects don't go over what we project them to. It's a part of my pay that has little to do with the financial success of the company. This makes sense because *I* have very little control over the financial success of this company, but I do have quite a bit of control over keeping costs down on projects and helping make budget. I dunno what those bonuses look like or how they're dispersed but $13 Million for companies the size of Fannie/Freddie is really trivial money.
By "doing something" I assume you mean throwing junk at the wall knowing that it won't stick so that he can claim to be "doing something." I pretty much disagreed with everything Bush did but when he "did something" it actually became law.
I don't find anything two-faced about supporting states rights. Universal healthcare should be considered unconstitutional at the federal level since there's nothing in the Constitution allowing the government to create such a thing. (I personally would support a Constitutional Amendment to allow the gov't to do that, but it's a separate debate). Romney's state voted for and implemented diet universal health care and that's fine.
While I agree that Ron Paul is opposed to compromise I think that he regularly welcomes debate and logic. When he's allowed to participate he often destroys other Republicans in the televised debates. I would also argue that compromise is the antithesis to principles. You don't negotiate principles like whether the Constitution allows the government to do X,Y,Z. You negotiate on the details of things which are allowed within the framework of the Constitution but not about core values.
I hear an awful lot from conservatives about lowering taxes and reducing regulation. I live in a world where in order to fly my grandma has to get groped at the airport, there's government monitored cameras on every decent sized intersection, domestic assassination of US citizens carried out by our government, I need permission from government regarding who I might enter into a financial contract with (marriage), what chemicals I may or may not put into my body and in what quantities, the list goes on and on. Forget about taxes for a moment, which candidate is going to deregulate *me*?
My personal experience is quite the opposite. I'm still relatively young (late 20s) so the market hasn't evolved *that* much since I entered into it. I did like everyone else and took a low paying job to get my first 3 years of experience then jumped ship. In years 4-6 between switching jobs and getting promoted I doubled my income. Between this year and next I'm expecting another ~40% increase in income. If you're good you'll find high paying work regardless of your degree. The only real limitation I've faced is that I can't work for government or government contractors.
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They all still lack the "I want to have it mindlessly feed me crap." I'd like to see Pandora for TV, coupled with the ability to queue up a bunch of stuff I specifically pick and play the entire queue without user interaction.
There's not really great IDEs for javascript IMHO. If you're lucky and happen to code the way your IDE wants you *might* get autocomplete/intellisense. You won't get integrated unit testing and lots of other things we've come to expect out of IDEs over the years.
Big deal, I've had OSX lock up on me, Linux too when I was using it as a workstation.
Serious question.. In another age I used Evolution to connect to an Exchange server and was pretty happy with it. Is it not still a viable solution?
Then I hope your GPP was just sarcasm because people talk about ageism in IT but I've never experienced it seriously. People comment about "Oh, he graduated 30 years ago so he might be [stuff you mentioned]" but we interview them and if they don't suck they get the job.
I record all of your encrypted transactions. In 20 years I will gain access to your 20 year old bank statements. Muahahaha!
I kind of hope for more stagnation in the graphics quality market. Let's just hang out where we are for a while and hopefully the game makers will start competing on interesting story lines, game mechanics, etc. rather than ripples in water in puddles.
Don't be ridiculous. When a company comes out with a new product they have a monopoly on it. It can sometimes take a while for competition to creep in. I didn't mean "sustained period" to mean "forever."
You sound like someone who thinks they have 20 years of experience but really has had about 4 years of experience and then stagnated for 16 years doing the same stuff. There's an AWFUL LOT of people out there that fit into this category. I say that because *if* you were good and *if* you had a modicum of social skills with the ability to sell yourself you wouldn't have any trouble finding companies willing to pay you $100k.
I find when I'm in a funk that it's time to learn a new language/tool. Currently I'm learning python. I'm having a good time learning a new language and even though I don't expect to ever make a living off my mad python scripting skills seeing the approaches to various problems in different arenas/languages makes me better at my core languages which I do get paid for writing. Of course, learning a new language might not be *it* for you. We're all unique snowflakes or something. You gotta find what it is that interests you. But yes, generally it's not "do more of the same repetitive crap that my employer pays me to do."
I can't believe that someone spends their time getting poorly formatted HTML to render properly in open source browsers. I sometimes feel my work is boring, but yowza that sounds crazy boring.
Developer unemployment is less than 3%. It's a seller's market for coding skills.
No, it's not better to pass bad laws, but "looking like you're trying to do something" is not the same thing as "doing something."
There's still a place for third party browser plugins. This is an issue for several large classes of software like point of sale systems which need to manipulate registers or receipt printers over serial/usb, anything requiring reliable printing, video chat, etc.
To my knowledge there's never been such a thing as a sustained natural monopoly in the history of any economy that could remotely be considered "capitalist", it pretty much always requires government intervention. Usually in the form of regulating startups out of business at the behest of big business lobbyists but can also come in the form of the government taking peoples' land to build railroads for you, etc.
At my office I get a bonus if we meet budget.. meaning projects don't go over what we project them to. It's a part of my pay that has little to do with the financial success of the company. This makes sense because *I* have very little control over the financial success of this company, but I do have quite a bit of control over keeping costs down on projects and helping make budget. I dunno what those bonuses look like or how they're dispersed but $13 Million for companies the size of Fannie/Freddie is really trivial money.
Easy, you'll use the most recent version of the flash player on your Android device for the next 5 years or so while people migrate.
By "doing something" I assume you mean throwing junk at the wall knowing that it won't stick so that he can claim to be "doing something." I pretty much disagreed with everything Bush did but when he "did something" it actually became law.
Our biggest export is weapons, we're still really good at making those.
I don't find anything two-faced about supporting states rights. Universal healthcare should be considered unconstitutional at the federal level since there's nothing in the Constitution allowing the government to create such a thing. (I personally would support a Constitutional Amendment to allow the gov't to do that, but it's a separate debate). Romney's state voted for and implemented diet universal health care and that's fine.
Nah, Romney appears to be firmly in the "states rights" camp. His state, for example, wanted Romney-care, so they voted for it and implemented it.
While I agree that Ron Paul is opposed to compromise I think that he regularly welcomes debate and logic. When he's allowed to participate he often destroys other Republicans in the televised debates. I would also argue that compromise is the antithesis to principles. You don't negotiate principles like whether the Constitution allows the government to do X,Y,Z. You negotiate on the details of things which are allowed within the framework of the Constitution but not about core values.
I would ask this of any of the conservatives.
I hear an awful lot from conservatives about lowering taxes and reducing regulation. I live in a world where in order to fly my grandma has to get groped at the airport, there's government monitored cameras on every decent sized intersection, domestic assassination of US citizens carried out by our government, I need permission from government regarding who I might enter into a financial contract with (marriage), what chemicals I may or may not put into my body and in what quantities, the list goes on and on. Forget about taxes for a moment, which candidate is going to deregulate *me*?
What crisis? IT unemployment is like 2%. We have a bunch of open positions we can't fill.
My personal experience is quite the opposite. I'm still relatively young (late 20s) so the market hasn't evolved *that* much since I entered into it. I did like everyone else and took a low paying job to get my first 3 years of experience then jumped ship. In years 4-6 between switching jobs and getting promoted I doubled my income. Between this year and next I'm expecting another ~40% increase in income. If you're good you'll find high paying work regardless of your degree. The only real limitation I've faced is that I can't work for government or government contractors.