Re:Uber self-driving trucks are now moving cargo for Uber Fr...
by snoman on Tuesday March 06, 2018 @03:52PM
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It's not far from it. Software development is in small company with respect to the need for constant re-education and skill maintenance. The vast majority of developers with skills from just 10 years ago are wholly unemployable right now.
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Re:Uber self-driving trucks are now moving cargo for Uber Fr...
by smsm42 on Tuesday March 06, 2018 @04:28PM
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You mean somebody who knows how to develop in Java, PHP, Python, Perl, C, C++, Javascript, Ruby, LISP - all languages developed more than 10 years ago - is "wholly unemployable right now"? Doesn't seem to match my experience even a little bit. Programming practices also hasn't changed that much. In fact, there are still jobs for COBOL and Fortran programmers - not that many, but there aren't that many COBOL and Fortran programmers either nowdays.
Re:Uber self-driving trucks are now moving cargo for Uber Fr...
by RobLach on Wednesday March 07, 2018 @08:45PM
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There's a shortage of COBOL developers that are needed to maintain and update legacy financial mainframes that still don't make economic sense to replace since they operate at critical infrastructure points 24/7 and over the years have become pretty bulletproof.
Replacing these systems is extremely difficult since they're so relied on a replacement needs to be nearly flawless form the start. If you stumble upon on a bug in your international wire transfer code you could be messing up a $10 billion international aid wire that was meant for hundreds of factories.