What a ridiculous thing to say. Just jump to a different domain. Being a newbie in a new field removes any "target" you might have.
I was an engineering manager in the DoD world, managing teams that built C4ISR systems. I jumped from there back into straight front-line software development in the EDA world. I later jumped again into the fintech/regtech world.
Want a long career? Always be a newbie.
... until the replacement is in...
lol, it's pretty typical that the replacement will arrive in approximately infinity years. OP is completely safe working on legacy code.
> You don't run an infrastructure on it any more than an infrastructure runs on VI. Emacs, Eclipse or Notepad++.
Ah, I see we have an inexperienced emacs user here.
> The world has changed.
People keep trotting out this dumb saying, but they never indicate whether it's changed for the better or for the worse.
In this case, in the context of this topic, the change has demonstrably been for the worse.
> I bet if Emacs was rewritten using Electron, javascript instead of elisp,
Provided that there would be an embedded elisp interpreter in the javascript source that provides the same execution environment that emacs currently provides, then I'd be all for this idea.
Itâ(TM)s because they erroneously assumed that you werenâ(TM)t an ignorant rube.
Oh and don't bother if you're not a regex guru too.
Look, I'm sorry, but if you don't know regexes, then you really don't have any business being a system administrator. I certainly wouldn't hire you.
If by "socialism" you mean "corporate socialism", then we agree.
I bet HF trading ends up being a prime market for this technology.
I still don't buy your premise that Macbook Pros with external boxes for these sorts of things are going to be common.
Maybe, maybe not. I know of several audio professionals that use a MBP as their main workstation -- and when necessary, they simply unhook it and take it with them for remote recording.
Typically, you'll be using 96kHz @ 24 bits for tracking and mixing (and these days, mastering, too). Add to that digital mixers, multiple sends and receives, multiple audio interfaces, STEM sends, etc., and the bandwidth consumption really starts to add up.
And this doesn't even touch on video.
What PCIe cards are you plugging in again?
http://www.uaudio.com/uad-plug...
http://www.uaudio.com/interfac... (with optional thunderbolt interface).
For pro video and pro audio use cases, outboard processing equipment is a necessity, especially if your workstation is a laptop. Which these days is often the case. I consider thunderbolt and external PCI chassis to be one of the best things since sliced bread.
And, for what it's worth, firewire is still very popular in the pro video and pro audio world.
Um, so how does one break into this dull field?
I would love to see the code running in handheld GPS units that first find a variable number of satellites and then calculate the latitude, longitude, and elevation of the unit.
No you don't. Trust me, you'll be very disappointed.
Never ask two questions in a business letter. The reply will discuss the one you are least interested, and say nothing about the other.
