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  • S Stan Shannon

    Frankly, I continue to be amazed that so many bright young people continue to be drawn into the computer industry. Computer programming has been virtually a blue collar profession since the mid-90s and that is not going to change. If I were starting over again I would be developing skills in the bio-technology fields. We are on the verge of having technologies that allow us to create life forms that can revolutionize virtually every aspect of our lives and those are going to be far more significant going into the future than the high tech of the 20th century. Combining bio-technology with programming and fields such as architecture will be an unbeatable skill set going into the next several decades. The important thing is to not fall prey to socialist ideologies that blame our problems on the economic elites. We must maintain the most investment friendly economy in the world. Every penny I have earned since the mid-80's has come from rich folks trying to find some place to invest their wealth. That is a good thing and should be encouraged with low taxes and small government. We must also remain a friendly place for the best and the brightest of the world to migrate to. That strips competitive economies of their talent and brings them here. In such an environment, the most advanced and lucretive technologies of the future will remain here with us.

    The only conspiracies that concern me are the ones I am completely unaware of. By the time I find out about it, its probably a done deal. Nothing in the entire universe is more useless than morality without authority. A morality free of hypocrisy is no morality at all. Freedom is not something you express with your genitals, it is something you express with your mind.

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    Stan Shannon wrote:

    If I were starting over again I would be developing skills in the bio-technology fields.

    and would shift heart from left to right?

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      IMO, the current generation just view this industry as another type of work. Most doesn't even know or like programming. But because it is/was "hot", they just join the crowd. The problem arises that, because the system is still examination base, they are able to get good grade, despise that they got no idea and no passion in developing a software, PLUS the hiring manager, may be people who does know programming either. So base on the qualification, they are hired. And quite a lot of developers now doesn't even try to learn, they just go internet, find the solution, put it in their system, and go back home.... I can bet some of the "most of us" didn't even have a degree in computer science etc, but because we love this field, we did more than what the current grads do. I myself is from Electronic Engineering.

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      I didn't even finish high school....

      Christian Graus - Microsoft MVP - C++ "also I don't think "TranslateOneToTwoBillion OneHundredAndFortySevenMillion FourHundredAndEightyThreeThousand SixHundredAndFortySeven()" is a very good choice for a function name" - SpacixOne ( offering help to someone who really needed it ) ( spaces added for the benefit of people running at < 1280x1024 )

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