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of course, there is no correlation between certs and actually being able to deliver anything, but that does not matter. no CIO will risk their career by not giving big stuff to a non-Big4 contract.
file under herd mentality, etc.
Main reason is downsizing, easiest way to thin the herd. At that size, HR is just a spreadsheet exercise, quality of the individual employees does not factor in.
Of course this will not affect their "remote" workforce in India, this is about the high-pay western markets.
did we have a bubble with no burst? just a fizzle?
I get the annotation idea, but how the hell do you make significant money off of it?
i like riding motorcycle, been riding for 10+ years. but i don't have the talent, the motor skills to really let if fly. but i know a guy who just has it, put him into/on any vehicle and he is fast.
talent is the best example of how unfair life is :)
Those roles carry various titles - Principals, Architects, etc., but basically it is the non-management track.
In my team it's architects, senior programmers in both age and skill. Use them for code reviews, query tuning, investigating infrastructure/code improvements, etc.
Invaluable help, true multipliers.
Right now we get the certificates from out customers, sign the individual binaries. Then distribute through our own infrastructure.
We have our own update mechanism (basically hot code push), cannot have the customer's own IT shop be a barrier to deploy the fix. User sync their apps, if there is an upgrade that gets done inbetween the normal data/content sync.
We've been meeting with Apple on this topic for years and continue to sideload our app as we need to meet SLAs with our customers. They sign the binaries with their dev certificates, which violates Apple's guidelines too.
But, alas, once you have critical mass in a vertical even mighty Apple gets cold feet about shutting your customers down.
Why Apple is not able to offer a separate way for certified and audited dev shops to hotfix their iOS apps is beyond me. SAP, MS, IBM - a shitload of big shops would love to pay for this privilege.
Peak autonomy already over?
but for desk PCs where Apple only has iMacs anymore?
the big ultrawidescreens need powerful GPUs and a displayport (not usb-c yet).
use an ultra for a day, high rez and high Hz, then try go back to a classic LCD. like going to retina on phones.
Win8 killed momentum, stagnation ensued.
But, then GPU kicked it up a notch. The new 1080 is insane, but in itself that is not that cool.
The new killer upgrade is the display. After a whole decade of nothing suddenly there was a huge bump.
I just upgraded to an Ultra-Widescreen Acer Predator. Mind. Blown. Combine it with a 1080 (or the new 1080Ti) and your PC makes a whole generational leap forward.
And right at this moment in time, Apple stops making display and chooses shitty LG as the maker of choice.
Yes, Apple is losing the desktop, 100%.
the headset would need to capture your expressions somehow and translate into your avatar doing the same. if not, you'll get Second Life level crap.
it will take a while.
become a hiring manager and you'll see.
you don't even get applications for those jobs by American CS grads or professionals - before any salary numbers are in play.
we run analysis in our HR pipeline trackers - remove Asians and Eastern Europeans and its crickets.
walk into Google, Facebook, Salesforce offices and see for yourself.
i know this is super unpopular on HN were everyone is a superstar coder, but facts are fact. 90% of software work is undesirable and unfulfilling - and Westerners feel entitled to life-changing work.
I just had a 26 year-old US coder quit because he does not want to come to work every day anymore, he now wants to travel Nepal and do something radical. Great for him - while a 1000 less-fortunate-by- birthplace people would give a leg for his job.
who wants to do outsourced QA for Oracle? menial, mind numbing clicky work.
who wants to maintain monster codebases built 20 years ago for some internal bullshit system at a Fortune 500?
most of Software work by now is akin to facilities management. hence you give it to motivated foreigners, just like in farming, etc.
You're mistaking him with GWB and McCain, who famously sang Bomb Bomb Bomb Iran on stage: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o-zoPgv_nYg
We're hiring massively (SF East Bay), have a really hard time finding suitable, qualified candidates (from Java backend to native apps on iOS, Android, Windows). And even our junior devs make more than your new floor in base pay, not even counting RSUs.
If I would start filtering out H1B transfers (and other visa types), my hiring pipeline would be empty.
Where are the former Pennsylvanian coal miners pouring into tech? Where are the great US coders willing to move to the CA Bay Area? I don't see them. Indians, Chinese, Russians, Ukranians, yes. 3rd generation mid-westerners? crickets. ( I did move my family, from Europe to the US. )
The US education system does not generate enough coders. It's too bad before college, too expensive in college. Decent to great public school systems in those other countries take up that slack.
You restrict foreigners joining tech and the sector grinds to a halt. The US population on a macro level right now is simply too uneducated to run it.
They started hiring veterans of the US forces, because those guys at least got trained on heavy, expensive machinery.
Most drugs never make it past phase 3 trials, so fail in R&D before marketing.
Gilead didn't need a lot of marketing for its HepC cure to become a blockbuster and propel them to be the 6th biggest pharma.
DTC is also illegal in all countries except the US and NZ, so it's not even possible to spend that much. Sunshine Act in various countries, China putting execs in jail, etc. The world has moved on.
Austria, for example, participated in missions in Africa, Afghanistan, the Balkans (KFOR, etc).
You really should learn about the subject you're trying to argue about.
Bezos is killing the streaming space with 'good enough' services all bundled into the same, basic Prime subscription.
The Prime Music app on iOS got updated last year and it even looks great.
Streaming music is a commodity, good luck fighting for scraps.
just seems very odd that no one from the big ones - Siemens, Bombardier, etc would go after that. Not even in Japan or China, both train heaven.
why are trains, especially freight, not being automated?
seems like a far simpler problem than autonomous cars, no?