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by lisbbb 1y ago
I complained a lot about OOP all throughout my 25 years a developer. I wrote a ton of C++ and then Java and nobody can refute my expertise with those languages. I saw so many people make mistakes using them, particularly with forcing taxo
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by lisbbb 1y ago
I wholeheartedly agree--the hype has become toxic, just like in 2001 when the bubble burst. I think the author overestimates what will be salvageable from this. What I witnessed back in 2001-2003 was beyond comprehension. Find someone wh
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by lisbbb 1y ago
We are in an absolute crisis at both ends of the wage scale--there's no entry level, and over-50s are being deleted from the workforce in huge numbers, never to see the same level of pay ever again.
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by lisbbb 1y ago
One major firm I worked at built a giant campus in Mumbai, I believe it was. The huge office building here in the US was sold off and was just recently torn down to make way for I don't know what--a whole lot of lower paying jobs, if a
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by lisbbb 1y ago
Demand a competitive salary. If you stay in the US, your pay is a logistic curve that tops out when you reach your late 30s. You will start to feel the pressure of not keeping up wage-wise in your 40s, and you will be completely excluded
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by lisbbb 1y ago
To hear Elon tell it, the only way forward is to keep raping the US citizen workforce by flooding the market with cheap talent from overseas. Hey, as long he is still on course for becoming the first USD Trillionaire, it's all good, ri
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by lisbbb 1y ago
This is the critical "inflection point" that I've been posting about--we've lost the pipeline of novice -> senior and it's going to blow up in our faces.
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by lisbbb 1y ago
Oddly, over a 25 year period, I worked with far fewer Asians than I did Indians. India has to be the #1 supplier of H1Bs to the US, hands down. I'm not sure I can assess how the average Asian software developer did compared to Indian
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by lisbbb 1y ago
I personally believe we hit some kind of inflection point recently with whatever secondary effects all the importation of cheap labor has caused. The chickens finally came home to roost right around 2023. It's now a full blown crisis
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by lisbbb 1y ago
All USAID showed was now the grift machine works--most of that aid money was getting kicked back to corrupt politicians to pay for campaigns. Other monies were being siphoned off in the corrupt nations that accepted the funds. Those NGOs
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by lisbbb 1y ago
I'm all for doing anything funding-wise that brings higher ed back to some kind of reality, even if we have to burn it all down to get there. The cost of education is outrageous and grads are not benefitting from their degrees the sam
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by lisbbb 1y ago
That's great, but we're not doing enough for our own citizens at this point in time.
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by lisbbb 1y ago
I feel for all human beings, but US education should be first and foremost directed towards helping US citizens. That's not racist, that's just common sense. We haven't even been doing that here! We're failing as a na
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by lisbbb 1y ago
I never asked about visa status during interviews as that was purely an HR issue or something the hiring manager needed to deal with. My job was to assess people purely on technical ability and to a lesser degree, ability to communicate ef
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by lisbbb 1y ago
A lot of virtual interviews are rigged in various ways. I did 100s of tech interviews for one company in particular and even had guys who were lip-syncing for someone else who actually spoke English who was looped in to the call off-screen
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by lisbbb 1y ago
Let me stop you right there: "Qualified Americans" is a highly subjective phrase. If a young person did well in physics and math in High School, are they "qualified?" Or is it really some esoteric and hard to define s
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by lisbbb 1y ago
They did nothing but push "STEM careers" as the way forward for 25 years! It's all been nothing but a lie the whole time!
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by lisbbb 1y ago
Clearly something has to be done here. It's going to all crash and burn pretty soon.
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by lisbbb 1y ago
US education is broken because so much of the $ gets soaked up to pay pensions.
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by lisbbb 1y ago
All true, but now the endgame is just about here. Those chickens be clucking!
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by lisbbb 1y ago
Seriously. All I needed to do to be filthy rich was move to Silicon Valley back in '97 when I got my MS, then eventually have bought a house or two out there. That's it. To recap: 1. Move to the Bay Area circa 1997 2. Buy houses
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by lisbbb 1y ago
I worked for a couple of very "household name" big companies as a tech lead. I trained probably dozens of H1Bs over the past 15 or so years. I've seen it all. I decided that I would help anyone who wanted to improve their
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by lisbbb 1y ago
For every one example of "you" I have seen 100 or even 1000 of the other kind of "warm body" type of example. 2012 is already a long time ago. What has happened since is that the US reached some kind of critical mass
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by lisbbb 1y ago
Yeah, nobody is supposed to mention it at all. It's just a race to the bottom, though. Good news: The bottom approaches.
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by lisbbb 1y ago
You know the answer! It's veritable slave labor is why. I've seen it a thousands times at major US companies and how it plays out. It is a horrible form of leverage they have over their "assets."
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by lisbbb 1y ago
Start? It's been going strongly for at least 20 years! We're now in the endgame of it.
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by lisbbb 1y ago
This is a touchy subject for sure, but yes, I have witnessed this firsthand at two different Fortune 10 companies. Reverse racism against caucasians was on full display and you damn well best not mention it at all. The managers saw it as
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by lisbbb 1y ago
So you're saying all a CS grad has to do is go back in time and get a degree from MIT and they're golden, right? Let me explain something: When I graduated from High School in Upstate NY in 1991, 3 of my fellow grads got accepted
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by lisbbb 1y ago
I agree with the above comment. During that time period was the height of my tech career. The remarkable number of open positions didn't lead to the kinds of wage increases one might expect, perhaps some, but what I mostly encountere
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by lisbbb 1y ago
If AI crap needs that much footprint I'm pretty sure it's just not worth it.

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