64 bit SEV?

[Baron Munchausen]

Actually, 'hard core' programing jobs in general are drying up. Apparently they've all been sent to India...

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20050621/...MwBHNlYwM3Mzg-

So the stuff to learn now is 'Visual Basic' and 'MS Access' (the Office database language) so you can hack for your office manager...

I was a reasonably good Turbo Pascal programmer once... before 'Delphi' even existed. I suppose I'd have to learn all over again, by now. Never was much good at C or x86 assembler.

[Gandalf Parker]

Ive known that was coming for a long time. Ive always telecommuted. Im surprised it took so long for them to realise that the guy they never saw anyway could be replaced with a guy farther away who would work for way less. Heck almost a decade ago we had our MUD game vastly improved by a russian programmer who only spoke to us in C. We sent him an old modem for free to speed him up and he was thrilled because it represented 6 months pay to him.

But hey, its all trade-off. our geeks get wives.
http://www.bride.ru/

[Thermodyne]

Baron Munchausen said:
Actually, 'hard core' programing jobs in general are drying up. Apparently they've all been sent to India...

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20050621/...MwBHNlYwM3Mzg-

So the stuff to learn now is 'Visual Basic' and 'MS Access' (the Office database language) so you can hack for your office manager...

I was a reasonably good Turbo Pascal programmer once... before 'Delphi' even existed. I suppose I'd have to learn all over again, by now. Never was much good at C or x86 assembler.

Access is not the "thing" anymore. If you can do SQL you are hired.

[Thermodyne]

Gandalf Parker said:
Ive known that was coming for a long time. Ive always telecommuted. Im surprised it took so long for them to realise that the guy they never saw anyway could be replaced with a guy farther away who would work for way less. Heck almost a decade ago we had our MUD game vastly improved by a russian programmer who only spoke to us in C. We sent him an old modem for free to speed him up and he was thrilled because it represented 6 months pay to him.

But hey, its all trade-off. our geeks get wives.
http://www.bride.ru/

At my day job, our two Unix programers are ex-Soviets. They know Unix and some ither old stuff, and I expect they will be very unhappy later this year when the last main frame gets moved downtown to the datacenter from hell.

[boran_blok]

Thermodyne said:
Access is not the "thing" anymore. If you can do SQL you are hired.

SQL is easy as hell, now cobol, there lies a challenge, or even worse CODASYL database systems. but the latter are really outdated.