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Google exec explains why tech firms aren't just looking for coders anymore
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| June 7, 2018
| Ryan Brown
Posted on 06/07/2018 11:50:40 AM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet
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To: 2ndDivisionVet
I started in IT as a COBOL programmer back in 1983. In the mid-90’s, I saw the writing on the wall regarding cheap Indian programmers and moved to Project Management and Business Analysis starting at around the turn of the century. I settled on the latter because it is a lot more fun, especially for an ex-programmer.
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posted on
06/07/2018 11:54:08 AM PDT
by
robroys woman
(So you're not confused, I'm using my wife's account.)
To: robroys woman
heh—my career is simiilar, except I went into Systems Administration.
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posted on
06/07/2018 12:01:36 PM PDT
by
ShadowAce
(Linux - The Ultimate Windows Service Pack)
To: robroys woman
I started in 1980 as a COBOL programmer also. Now doing MF support as we still deal with other entities that are still MF based. Also getting trained in working with Putty, SQLDeveloper, WINSCP, Job Scheduler etc. Guess I'll always be a programmer of sorts. I just need to keep myself viable for another 4 years:-)
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posted on
06/07/2018 12:04:02 PM PDT
by
Harpotoo
To: Harpotoo
For me it’s two years. :)
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posted on
06/07/2018 12:10:43 PM PDT
by
robroys woman
(So you're not confused, I'm using my wife's account.)
To: 2ndDivisionVet
And propagandists. Google is always looking for lib fanboy propagandists to help them shut conservatives out of the marketplace.
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posted on
06/07/2018 12:11:39 PM PDT
by
IronJack
(A)
To: 2ndDivisionVet
Coders? Hah! None to be found. All the Software Support Engineers hunted them down and killed them.
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posted on
06/07/2018 12:12:15 PM PDT
by
Bloody Sam Roberts
(Get in the Spirit! The Spirit of '76!)
To: robroys woman
“I started in IT as a COBOL programmer back in 1983.”
Assembler language, 1977. I’m so glad I don’t do that any longer.
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posted on
06/07/2018 12:14:02 PM PDT
by
dljordan
(WhoVoltaire: "To find out who rules over you, simply find out who you are not allowed to criticize.")
To: dljordan
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posted on
06/07/2018 12:24:24 PM PDT
by
publius911
( If we let it, California will lead us all over the cliff.)
To: 2ndDivisionVet
I started in the ‘90s in Networking and now I do penetration testing. Yep, I get paid to hack into banks.
It is a “cool” job. I know this because my teen age son tells his friends what I do and they come up to me and tell me that I have a cool job.
In HS I was the outcast geek. Now I am the cool uber geek. Strange world.
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posted on
06/07/2018 12:33:53 PM PDT
by
taxcontrol
(Stupid should hurt)
To: ShadowAce
I also went into Systems Administration, but made sure to get proficient in Perl and other scripting languages.
A System Administrator who can’t write programs is very limited.
To: 2ndDivisionVet
Is Mika afraid Trump will see her work??
I heard she’s a prostitute that slept her way into her job.
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posted on
06/07/2018 12:38:17 PM PDT
by
CodeToad
To: CodeToad
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posted on
06/07/2018 12:38:55 PM PDT
by
CodeToad
To: dljordan
Did cobal and assembler in the beginning too. Moved on to networking, x.25 framerelay and MpLs. Now I mostly work on my homestead as I am in between jobs.
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posted on
06/07/2018 12:40:16 PM PDT
by
CJ Wolf
(Chim chim er ree)
To: crusher2013
Well, yeah--to me, that is part of the job.
I manage Linux systems, so I have to know how to code. :)
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posted on
06/07/2018 12:46:27 PM PDT
by
ShadowAce
(Linux - The Ultimate Windows Service Pack)
To: dljordan
I did several years of assembler and FORTRAN programming back in that era; it was a decade after I stopped before I could look at a newspaper headline and not mentally convert it into a six-character-or-less acronym.
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posted on
06/07/2018 12:53:59 PM PDT
by
DuncanWaring
(The Lord uses the good ones; the bad ones use the Lord.)
To: dljordan
I enjoyed dabbling around with the first microprocessors that came on the market back in the early 1970’s. Had to program them in machine language.
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posted on
06/07/2018 12:54:28 PM PDT
by
Oldhunk
To: ShadowAce
I manage systems too. I manage to eff them up.
To: Oldhunk
” Had to program them in machine language.”
Altair? Remember BYTE magazine? Remember 300 baud?
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posted on
06/07/2018 4:14:15 PM PDT
by
dljordan
(WhoVoltaire: "To find out who rules over you, simply find out who you are not allowed to criticize.")
To: 2ndDivisionVet
Coders are just people who type the contents of coding forms on keypunch machines. Programmers (software engineers) originate software.
When they abused the term "coder", they got cut-and-paste software authors. Real programmers with Computer Science degrees don't refer to themselves as "coders".
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posted on
06/07/2018 6:05:00 PM PDT
by
GingisK
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