http://www.freerepublic.com/tag/programmers/ en-us Fri, 24 Oct 2008 21:18:30 GMT Focus Forum 15 http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/2114451/posts I'm reading (for the second time) Scott Rosenberg's Dreaming in Code, the saga of part of the development of Chandler, an open source cross platform PIM. In it, he refers several times to the general liberal orientation of the programmers there (Al Gore even puts in an appearance), and I've noticed this in other software teams and in other types of engineering as well. It's not monolithic, there are certainly numerous conservatives, but it's always been somewhat of a paradox to me. I always felt that you had to be fairly intelligent to be a good tech, because technical issues... Here http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/2114451/posts#comment Fri, 24 Oct 2008 21:18:30 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/2067729/posts The software development kit that Apple Inc. distributed to programmers bound them to not discuss the process of creating programs for the iPhone. Companies typically waive such legal restrictions once the product in question launches, but Apple didn't. And it won't say why. the lost angeles times http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/2067729/posts#comment Mon, 25 Aug 2008 17:51:21 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/1985774/posts SAN JOSE, CA (TDR) - Hundreds of angry programmers took to the streets burning Indian flags, and chanting anti-Indian slogans after Wednesday morning production meetings. The protesters - mostly young males - have reached a boiling point after years of technological imperialism and failed Indian programming policies. Busy midday traffic came to a halt as this once proud high-tech mecca was transformed into raging, socially-challenged powder keg of humanity... The Daily Redundancy http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/1985774/posts#comment Fri, 14 Mar 2008 18:46:02 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1941574/posts REDMOND, Wash. — When he was chief executive of Intel in the 1990s, Andrew S. Grove would often talk about the “software spiral” — the interplay between ever-faster microprocessor chips and software that required ever more computing power. The potential speed of chips is still climbing, but now the software they run is having trouble keeping up. Newer chips with multiple processors require dauntingly complex software that breaks up computing chores into chunks that can be processed at the same time. The challenges have not dented the enthusiasm for the potential of the new parallel chips at Microsoft, where executives... NYT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1941574/posts#comment Wed, 19 Dec 2007 05:53:23 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1244949/posts Say goodbye to the American software programmer. Once the symbols of hope as the nation shifted from manufacturing to service jobs, programmers today are an endangered species. They face a challenge similar to that which shrank the ranks of steelworkers and autoworkers a quarter century ago: competition from foreigners. Some experts think they'll become extinct within the next few years, forced into unemployment or new careers by a combination of offshoring of their work to India and other low-wage countries and the arrival of skilled immigrants taking their jobs. Not everybody agrees programmers will disappear completely. But even the optimists... Yahoo News http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1244949/posts#comment Thu, 14 Oct 2004 15:47:35 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/827400/posts IT staff terminated as outsourcing grows They reach "end of job" By €uromole: Tuesday 21 January 2003, 11:54  END OF JOB used to signify the end of processing for some batch job, but perhaps not any more. Now it would be better used to signify what has happened to many IT and telecommunications jobs in the current boom of outsourcing. Because far from being a short-term product of the heady days of Y2K fixes and the internet boom, outsourcing is well and truly here to stay. What started as outsourcing within the boundaries of a country has now increasingly... the inquirer http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/827400/posts#comment Wed, 22 Jan 2003 17:40:34 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/788229/posts Debunking the Myth of a Desperate Software Labor Shortage Due to an extensive public relations campaign orchestrated by an industry trade organization, the Information Technology Association of America (ITAA), a rash of newspaper articles have been appearing since early 1997, claiming desperate labor shortages in the information-technology field. Frantic employers complain that they cannot fill many open positions for computer programmers. Yet readers of the articles proclaiming a shortage would be perplexed if they also knew that Microsoft only hires 2% of its applicants for software positions, and that this rate is typical in the industry. Software employers, large or... U.S. House Judiciary Committee Testimony http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/788229/posts#comment Wed, 13 Nov 2002 18:28:24 GMT