HousePriceCrash.cuk - IT is doomed

[suityou01]

Anyone who is in the industry now that used punched cards has 20+ years experience of embracing new technologies. And what we learned in that time is that most of them are fads and fashions and not new either.

<cough> licence costs <cough> Anyway, MS Access is a toy. (I argued, "Why use Oracle when I could do the same in ISAM for free?" but nobody listened to me.)

I don't understand that. That has been the opposite of my experience: the longer someone has been in the industry, the greater their appreciation of doing the job slowly and doing it only once.

I don't have a degree. Damned inconvenient that is, too. Is that what you meant? Or are you referring to the academics that have never done a day's real work in their lives?

Ergo, if you don't, it can't.

I would. There are principles and practices, just as there are in the fine art world. But every piece of code is hand-crafted from inspiration and imagination and experience. There is very rarely a 'right way' to code something. There are elegant ways, efficient ways, amusing ways, (and then there's C).

If not, you just did a copy 'n' paste.

[suityou01]

http://www.netfunny.com/rhf/jokes/98...troustrup.html

Loved it Zeity, well done.

I actually agreed with some of the points raised.

I was doing quite a bit of C coding over Christmas on my plan B, and really settled back into it. Carving out chunks of memory using malloc, chucking pointers around, deallocating memory. All good stuff.

I always thought object oriented and framework languages were ahead of the curve in terms of hardware. Now that multicore CPUs are the norm it's not a problem. Sometimes it's just nice to produce something that runs, without all the baggage.

[Zippy]

Have you ever tried sticking the chad back into the holes in the card to correct an error?

Nah - I studied computer science not Engineering

[expat]

Post 378 on p26:

the other day an IT manager said to me my biggest threat was from people on working visas. He asked an agent how many CV's he had for a particular job and the agent said dozens then he asked how many of those were from people on working visa's and the agent said about 95%. I'm not sure how many were non EU. I think a lot (India). But who cares? Non Eu or Eu it's more competition for you and me.

To the agents on here: does that fit with your experience?