Comment Ample job oportunities (Score 1) 233
Where manager's bonus is a function of head count.
That's an astonishing array of presumptions you display.
Programming professionally for about 30 years. Getting technology to making money by performing well is a nice challenge. Yada yada yada...
Being 30 years in the business I developed a sufficient amount of skills to understand business opportunities and to lead projects. All at a fraction of the cost/time it takes less experienced/driven people to do that.
I'd happily jump in to save the day and to coach novice project managers. As in having fun at doing stuff well.
Needles to say that I don't get informed about bad decisions other people take that affect business and organization. Apparently it's tough to go to the more experienced guy and ask for advice. And so bad decisions pile up and the one that can mitigate them is me. As in some ways I'm a good guy I lend a hand. Onwards and upwards.
Until the proverbial straw comes that breaks the camel's back. Yet another bad decision taken without consulting me and then expecting me to save the day again.
It was not the amount of work that did me in but the prospect of endless episodes of bad decisions by guys named Mike.
So, if you're in a position to do something about anything and you want to avoid burnout at your place then start firing the guys named Mike. Chances are that you'll never pass the mental state of this exercise.
(I'm fine BTW and I will not let that happen to me again. Burnout is not a frivolous matter. It's like your body and soul are wasted and nothing functions or feels properly. Took me several months to recover. Had a few episodes where burnout was nearly back again and tough myself to rest harder.)
Sorry, they are abandoning Java. Most companies are implementing different types of ML into their products, and Java's AI support is nothing like what Python's is. Very sorry you're a Java evangelist, but that is what is happening. I don't think Java is going to be nonexistent, though the writing is on the wall.
Yes ladies and gentlemen, the contribution of the pot calling the kettle black is in. And, again, it's a Python worshiper (aka pyworse by connoisseurs) that's finishing first and lonely with a commendable gusto at spoiling parties.
Technically, "semantic whitespace" exists in all modern programming languages
Like COBOL 2014.
Source: Me. NOT a great dancer. Not even a mediocre one. And don't even start me on rhythm.
Once I worked for an outfit pf respectable size that considered migrating to GNU/Linux using the Micro Focus library. Huge savings could have been made. Yada yada...
The rumor was that IBM convinced both the shop and Micro Focus to consider "the implications". The project never even passed the brainstorming phase.
Personally I don't care much for COBOL but I highly respect it for its business. The fact that it doesn't show in statistics is perhaps due to the fact that IBM and customers really don't care about them. It is safe to assume that the installed COBOL code base is huge.
Finance has more influence on languages that you'd think. COBOL and Java have been embraced by it and that's the sole reasons these languages will continue to offer employment in the years to come.
Oh the everlasting power of money!
Unfortunately, most methods / methodologies receive their fame through fads. Mostly by chieftains trying it out as a means to make their job all about saying "there there", without actually putting in the effort to get stuff going.
You almost see crappy managers thinking "Surely there must be a way for me to get all the attention, honors and gratifications by commoners willing to organize themselves and do the hard work. Let's see if Agile is a thing. If not, then we'll fire people and jump onto the next bandwagon."
Most Agile methodologies are highly commendable. However, they don't replace the need for people actually doing sensible work. No software writes itself. No problem solves itself.
There's a tipping point with organization size where it starts to be very hard to find a management tier that is actually interested in bringing the business forward.
On the plus side, when Agile looses management attention, you can actually adopt the methodologies for what they were meant to be and do a good job.
Businesses tend to adhere to contracts. Draw them up correctly and don't do business with shady shops. That's a no-brainer.
My company delivers SaaS. Clients submit workloads we process. Either because of incompetence or because of political reasons, our clients tend to reinvent the wheel every five years or so. We respect their rights of doing so and we never ever hold them hostage even when there's a dispute. The moment we'd cripple one of our clients, we'd start to see aggressive migrations away from our SaaS offering.
IANAL but I expect contracts for delivering physical goods and SaaS contracts have similarities when it comes to adhering to adhering to them by delivering good and services.
SaaS setup well allows for services to be outsourced like you'd do in any other type of business.
I once attended a speech by RMS where he vilified SaaS and my impression was that he had very little experience in how business run thier operations with partners. If we take the anti-SaaS POV to the extreme for physical processing then we should expect car makers to produce every single component of a car from raw materials. Pretty unrealistic for rather obvious reasons.
If there were a law recognizing excessive hassle -e.g. anything > 1h- to be compensated at professional tariffs, then SP's behavior would change in a heartbeat.
Perfectly reasonably IMHO. Such law is prone to lobbying during conception.
Many people write memos to tell you they have nothing to say.
