Reply to: Future of IT

[MrMark]

Tell your kids to learn Mandarin.

No matter how hard they study, they won't be as good as 700 million native speakers...

[dinker]

Tell your kids to learn Mandarin.

[tim123]

I don't think it is that bad.

Yes there will be less jobs for code moneys, however there will always be a need for advanced developers that can translate business requirements into a workable system.
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So where there was once jobs for 15 well paid people there will now be a job for one very well paid person and 14 people looking for minimum wage shelf stacking jobs.

Big improvement - not!

tim

[tim123]

Do you think the UK IT industry will be revived by the Tories, i.e. they will clamp down on unlimited immigration, fast track wheezers and outsourcing? Or are we working in a doomed industry that is destined to go East whichever party comes into power?

Q1)Nope

Q2)Yes

[OwlHoot]

Ignoring the obvious trolling element to the question. A Green Paper published by the toryscum this month explicitly states that they will close down a project that I'm working on when they come to power. No matter that this is a 6 year project that is to deliver in July 2010, some 2 months (?) after they come to power.

Yeah, they've got that one spot on, gives me fuill confidence in their abilities to oversee a)Large scale IT projects and b) the country.

Just my 2p.

NN

Has it occurred to you that the timing of a project cancellation is irrelevant if the project itself is contrary to their policies or a manifesto commitment?

As you didn't mention what this project is, one can't be much more specific. But if it is the ID card scheme (which the Tories have always said they will scrap), or some "joined up" mega database, then cancelling it is the right thing to do even if this happens on the day before it's due to go live.

[TimberWolf]

Hello threaded

Whoosh

[threaded]

Hello threaded

I also find it amusing that my fish'n'chip shops are more profitable and have a better credit rating than some of my clients.

[TykeMerc]

And to think they wanted to know my credit rating during the three-monthly (!) screenings. 'Better than yours' was the only answer could think of.

That is a very fair point

[AtW]

True. Last year I proudly made half a billion euros more profit than the bank where I was contracting.

Hello threaded

[Mich the Tester]

Better a fiver from SKA than minus fifty billion pounds from the capital of reckless gamblers who use other people's money - the City...

True. Last year I proudly made half a billion euros more profit than the bank where I was contracting.

And to think they wanted to know my credit rating during the three-monthly (!) screenings. 'Better than yours' was the only answer could think of.

[AtW]

Besides AtW, I don't think the government are very interested in the annual fiver that results from SKA economic activity.

Better a fiver from SKA than minus fifty billion pounds from the capital of reckless gamblers who use other people's money - the City...

[sasguru]

Surely this just marks you out as incapable of using the system rather than the system being at fault. I don't have a problem with it.

Besides AtW, I don't think the government are very interested in the annual fiver that results from SKA economic activity.

[lilelvis2000]

Surely this just marks you out as incapable of using the system rather than the system being at fault. I don't have a problem with it.

Usually these systems are well user tested before being put into production. I find it hard to believe that it is a piece of tulip.

[AtW]

Surely this just marks you out as incapable of using the system rather than the system being at fault.

If that was the attitude of a developer who wrote that system I'd fire him on the spot.

Anything related to payments should be as simple as possible and as easy as possible to minimise drop off ratio.

[TheRefactornator]

..Meanwhile the PCG will miss the boat (to loby for contractors' involvement in public IT) and will continue to be a wet blanket, "welcoming" tax clampdowns and the like.

Oooh controversial..hand bags at dawn. I completely agree.