This suggests that we have passed a point where gaming has become dominantly a women's hobby.
I disagree. As usual, they miss the measurement of "quality" and instead dumb it down to "quantity". Playing Candy Crush 5 minutes a day is not the same as playing the Xbox until 4am.
Green is a big fat liar. "The Best" account for less than 10k a year - across all disciplines. Cut all other visas then give these people green cards then citizenship.
75% of STEM workers leave the field due to substandard conditions. There isn't a recruiting problem, there is a retention problem.
The only differences I've seen the last 20 years are:
1. VMs
2. Average developer skill getting worse
I believe that a far more productive idea would be to apply strong electroshock therapy to managers that insist on unreasonable due dates since that is the single greatest cause of software bugs (cutting corners to meet an arbitrary date).
75% of STEM workers leave their field. There isn't a recruiting or training shortage, there's a retention issue.
Why?
2 simple reasons:
1. STEM workers are paid less than other disciplines that require similar intelligence, skills, and experience.
2. STEM workers are pushed to lower social levels. In some places I've seen them regarded lower than the janitorial staff.
Interfacing is typically 4x the complexity with less return.
Oracle ERP is the most flexible for custom configuration and programming. It took me only a week to get productive with a PLSQL book (many years ago).
The basis of the issue seems to be lack of standardized business processes. What you face isn't a technical issue, but a functional issue of business process re-engineering for the company. The other is a good change management process.
The other issue that I see is Atlanta because it's probably the most in demand of skilled ERP developers in the USA right now. Try other cities for your development teams. I can think of a couple dozen cities where I can find skilled software engineers with 10+ years experience in the $100k range - they are typically 4x to 10x more effective than new hires.
Not so much of a leap since Verizon and Comcast have admitted to such.
Wouldn't a simple tracert show the route (and any differences)?
highly qualified Microsoft experts.
Sounds like a double oxymoron to me.
Show me an area with a high minimum wage and I'll show you an area with a large illegal labor force making less.
I travel all around the country and that's a very constant result. If you want to increase wages then 1) invest in education, and 2) change Free Trade to Fair Trade.
More or less. What the environmental religion fails to understand is that regardless if you spend more for a "green" product, somewhere down the supply chain it's always going to end up fueling some truck that gets 4 MPG.
The bottom line is that outlawing drugs reduces their use, and correspondingly reduce their negative effects on society.
Should it be handled better? Of course. But do it factually rather than the misinfotainment spouted by both sides. Take pot for instance... the genetic and economic damage is huge. 150x the THC is not the harmless stuff the hippies from the 60's smoked. The political Right makes it a boogy man, but the political Left pushes "medical marijuana" which is a bigger lie than "Iraq WMD". Both drive from their marketing basis rather than act on fact.
No button. Standard Big Brother - corp and gov fail when they think they know best.
Traction Control in my car attempts to murder me at least twice each winter. Tech may be better than the average driver... but that means 50% of drivers are better than the tech.
Not really. Chinese culture is based on stealing rather than inventing. They regard the USA as a no-holds-barred competitor while we mistakenly regard them as a frenemy. Mismatch of dynamics in our interactions.
Blame the voters - they put those politicians into office.
Real Programs don't use shared text. Otherwise, how can they use functions for scratch space after they are finished calling them?
