There is definitely a re-balancing of the employment market. I assume its because of capital drying up. Tech workers labor is more to build things that pay off in the long run (in theory) I think the lower minimum wage jobs tend to be more operating costs.With interest rates rising there is less capital to build stuff that will take years to pay off. More focus on just keep things going as is by throwing bodies at the problem. Im not sure. Honestly I would have thought that tech would have come in more demand as salaries rose to make the people you are paying for more efficient.
tiny hell (like tiny tower)
Instead of customers for different types of businesses (retail, restaurant, etc.) it will be souls to be tortured for different sins. Occasionally a well know politician or celebrity appears that you get to pick which torture you want to apply.
One thing that often gets ignored is the importance of getting new developers up to speed. You go to an existing C# ,node.js or Java app and its painful to twist your mind around the architecture. Ruby on Rails helps you with that. Oh db change well lets jump in to models. Oh the business logic change well jump into the controllers. Its easy to get up to speed when joining an existing project.
I would argue fixed rate debt is your best friend in a high inflation scenario. With the cash being reinvested in staples type stocks (food and basics)
IKR. Excel and the other spreadsheet variants are the gateway drug to software development. There is no other tool that has such a low entry to barrier and is so enticing to scale up into a ridiculously complex product. It eventually does get to a point that when the original user/developer is ready to change their job someone says 'OK can we turn this into a webapp or something... this is nuts. Lets hire someone from guru.com to do this.'
I struggle with this whole article. It implies keeping a sailing ship labor intensive just with a few electric winches. Wing Sails seem like a better approach and I assume they are much less labor intensive.
Worked for a SaaS that took in sales data and generated customer surveys. There were a few things I did
1. Create an easy way for support to login as a different user so that they could see what the customer sees.
2. Created a report that figured out how often each customer sends data and noticed when they were 2 standard deviations away from their average data send. We went from customers calling upset that their data is not up to date to us calling them and letting them know that they stopped sending us data.
How about this. The speed rating that you advertise for your cable modem (or dsl) service should be the slowest download rate on the last mile. In other words if the best I can get is 10mbps from the MSO headend and netflix should be able to prove this then that is what should be advertised. Consumers should get money back when customer service fails.
A yelp type app for long trips. When Im on the interstate for a 6 hour drive. I prefer a starbucks 10 miles away right off the the exit than a starbucks 3 miles away but 2.5 miles from the interstate.