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One size doesn't fit all - and that's exactly the issue with office work. After years in IT business I know exactly what are my "peak" hours/time and when it's better not to do anything work-wise and just focus on something else. Forcing me to work specific schedule in a specific office setup is no go for me. Plus other things like being able to exercise instead of my commute, eat healthy, use my equipment and tools I prefer, being able to refocus when I need and take advantage of my biological peak/down hours/time made me super efficient and productive.

The current generation of 50+ years old developers came from a way smaller pool of developers when they all started 30+ years ago and that's the reason that only a minuscule of them still codes. The percentage of current younger developers still coding in their 50% will be more closer to other engineering fields based on amount of developers entering the field every year last 20 years (even considering how many will simply abandon doing development once hitting 30 or 40) - not everybody will become managers or start their own businesses.

...and next step should a proper audit of the while train fiasco...

'SnapCrap' app invites San Francisco residents to report poop on city streets

https://www.sfgate.com/bayarea/article/SnapCrap-app-San-Fran...

San Francisco — where drug addicts outnumber high school students

https://www.sfchronicle.com/bayarea/philmatier/article/San-F...

...most innovations were coming from Europe...

Not too many people know about Operation Paperclip (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operation_Paperclip) and what it meant for NASA and space race (Wernher von Braun was chief architect of the Saturn V launch vehicle, the key instrument in getting man to the moon)

This. Like it!

They got awesome ideas but a really awful implementation of them - Tablet PC and Pocket PC devices/mobile phone (MDA anybody?) are two examples...

1. Nobody cares about handwriting all day long, quite a niche use (the same as for Tablet PC 8 years ago). 2. Nobody cares about MS Office anymore. There are alternatives (and free) for regular folks. 3. There is no new PC coming and MS learnt that today. 4. I have a feeling that this post is a well prepared marketing pitch...

Peace!

Everything is awesome until you stop doing general stuff. Once I started digging into more complex MDX queries in SSAS (calculated fields) the story started to be quite different. I have been doing Win dev since 1993 so I could tell you a lot of stories...

It's cool until you see the price tag for Visual Studio Profi/Prem/Ultimate (I assume you can't use Python tools with Express versions). In that case I will stick to my old copy of Visual J++...

Best Buy is just a test center for Amazon - a lot of people come in just to see and touch stuff before buying it from Amazon. I saw a guy checking a headphones in BB and immediately buying it from Amazon on the spot from his phone.

Insurance lobby - how to find any reason not to pay

How old are you?

1. Comfort zone - if you ever worked in corp world you know what I'm talking about (he mentioned that he enjoys family time after 8 hour work shift so I would like to know how he keeps up to date with skill set). 2. I've seen it myself at least two times - no warning, nothing. Thank you for your service, here is you severance package - 2 weeks of pay and application for COBRA coverage.

If you are sure that you will be able to market yourself after years of working on some no name corporate stuff, by all means. I've been there and seen guys working 10 - 12 years at the same company, enjoying their 8 hours shift just finding out one day that they are not needed anymore - and with obsolete skills set (you get into comfort zone pretty easily in corp world), some of them having really difficult time to find another job.

Yes. The same here ;-)

Oh those nights! Waiting 15 minutes for a program to load from a tape recorder just to find out that tape is damaged at the end ;-)

>> good idea, but I think this is an industry where you don't >> win with technology...but with connections in the >> industry...

Exactly. CRE is slightly a different kind of animal.

As a life expectancy is much longer than it was 100 years ago (~30 years difference - http://demog.berkeley.edu/~andrew/1918/figure2.html) we will see more and more "older" people doing stuff which was not imaginable just a half century back.

Me. It does nothing when I click on Enroll button.

let us be clear, yoga is for relaxing mind and body, not acrobatic displays as it has been marketed in america.

Exactly.

My friend, gravely injured in a nasty accident, told firefighters not to mention anything about the accident to his mother becuase she would be scared - just 5 minutes before he died. It seems that his brain worked the same way as yours after the accident.

Jobs biggest success came when he was over 45 and honestly, we are not talking here about stuff like break-thru cancer cure, new kind of alternative energy or similar. We still use the same network stack (TCP, 1974), the same web markup language (HTML, 1990) and the same programming languages as our fathers (C++, 1979, PHP, 1995, SQL 1987).

Exactly, once you settle for a specific amount during an interview, it's over.

Because he was mentioning real projects done in India.

Wikipedia: Smith came up with the idea for anonymous web-based email in 1995, and worked with his colleague at Apple, Bhatia, to found the company.

IT industry is very young but in next 20 years it will be pretty common to see a lot of 40+ folks in this business. It's obvious that we don't see many 50+ folks in IT today since when they started 30 years ago IT business was more or less a niche. Plus majority of them were unable to keep with dramatic changes and knowledge absorption thorough the years.

My experience in finance IT business is different (but it depends on finance business itself - the difference between writing systems for mortgage industry is different than what quants write and that's different from guys writing integration/real time market data/trading systems).

But what's the most important thing in finance IT business is to keep with business knowledge. Having only pure IT skills will get you nowhere. You need to understand a business side of your finance domain which means being able to easily communicate with your clients/customers in their language. It's pretty common to see IT guys in finance having Series 7/24/63 or CFA certificates on their resume (I'm one of them). Again if you want to be in finance IT business for a long haul, focusing on general IT knowledge only is not enough.

If you put money and effort to your R&D, you will try to protect yourself as well.