To me VC = Viet Cong. Agreed. I have not done much software development lately. But, we do have some going on at our Toronto office.
On 01/09/2011 11:01 PM, Mark Woodward wrote: > I have been looking around for positions having had my last project > canceled. I'm so tired, it seems like "software development" is more > "software integration" these days. Maybe I'm old and washed up. I don't > know, but jeez, I LOVE writing software. I mean, I love it. Problems > wake me up in the middle of the night with rapturous solutions. I mean, > seriously, I don't care what kind of software I'm writing, just be > something that does something. > > In the past few years, I've kept in touch with various high profile > colleagues, hoping against hope that something interesting would show > up. Sadly, no. > > Venture Capitalists should no longer have the initials VC, it should be > more like "vC." I know times are tough, but the whole VC deal is > supposed to help you develop a product. The new deal is that you more or > less have to have it developed. Worse than that, it needs to be fully > buzzword compliant. While this is not an entirely new thing, it has > become much worse. > > Then, don't get me started on cloud computing. I mean, really, "cloud" > computing. Talk about a buzzword. OMG then there's SaaS! None of these > things are rocket science, and in many ways, they offer really powerful > solutions to previously difficult or expensive problems, but not > everything NEEDS to be cloud based. SaaS is a billing model, not an > architecture, just ask skype. > > Lastly, for various reasons, I'm a generalist. That means I have a > pretty wide exposure with some really deep experience in a few areas > like low level C/C++ and OS stuff (Windows, Linux, BSD). I could write a > book on the various programming issues: threads, processes, > synchronization, memory management, I/O, DMA, compilers, algorithms, > pseudo-AI expert systems, databases, SQL variations, optimizations, and > on and on. -- Jerry Feldman <[email protected]> Boston Linux and Unix PGP key id: 537C5846 PGP Key fingerprint: 3D1B 8377 A3C0 A5F2 ECBB CA3B 4607 4319 537C 5846
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