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Where I work, they have a program called ITA - Information Technology Associate.
Recent university graduates enter the program and spend 3 years at an associate; they spend a year at a time in a role, switching roles every year.
The idea is to give them a variety of experience in different areas, and, hopefully, switch them to permanent full time employees at the end.
For 3 years, they are paid a salary and have a chance to try different areas.
Not quite an apprenticeship, but an interesting concept.
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Collective fictions are things that don’t describe solid objects in the real world we can see and touch. Well, not 'mine', but 'his', but ... well, you get the idea
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Quote: My 20-year experience
Noob.
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TTFN - Kent
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I’ve noticed a trend in behaviour starting to appear — especially in the world of technology and software development. I didn’t know the name for it, so we’ll call it learners syndrome for now. But the next one will solve all my problems!
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The Reaper botnet is far more dangerous than Mirai, which took down Twitter, Netflix, and Reddit Other noted researchers tell us not to fear the Reaper
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Anything that takes down Twitter is a Good Thing, IMO.
If you have an important point to make, don't try to be subtle or clever. Use a pile driver. Hit the point once. Then come back and hit it again. Then hit it a third time - a tremendous whack.
--Winston Churchill
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Quote: 40,000 sites and ISPs everyday, Like Yahoo and AOL
40,000 sites and ISPs everyday, Redefine happiness
Another 40,000 coming everyday, We can be like they are
Did you ever see history portrayed as an old man with a wise brow and pulseless heart, weighing all things in the balance of reason?
Is not rather the genius of history like an eternal, imploring maiden, full of fire, with a burning heart and flaming soul, humanly warm and humanly beautiful?
--Zachris Topelius
Training a telescope on one’s own belly button will only reveal lint. You like that? You go right on staring at it. I prefer looking at galaxies.
-- Sarah Hoyt
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Mehrotra began to fixate on a question: what would documents and spreadsheets look if they were invented today? Does it run Excel macros?
If not, I doubt many companies will look at it.
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"We haven’t had an application creation tool like this since HyperCard."
Citing a long dead product that never went anywhere despite everyone saying how cool it was, is a very odd sales pitch.
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Canada's electronic spy agency says it is taking the "unprecedented step" of releasing one of its own cyber defence tools to the public, in a bid to help companies and organizations better defend their computers and networks against malicious threats. Kind of spoils the whole, "super-secret" bit, doesn't it?
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I wouldn't take it - it sounds like the story about the horse, the wold and the men...
Skipper: We'll fix it.
Alex: Fix it? How you gonna fix this?
Skipper: Grit, spit and a whole lotta duct tape.
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Canada, the country nobody spies on and many forget even exists, has released a defense against spies..., eh.
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Quote: ... such has been Magic Leap's success that it has already spawned an offshoot show called "Torch 3D", where Portland-based former Magic Leapers just pocketed $3.5m in a seed round ...
Torch 3D is going even bolder, telling the reporter: "We are establishing a new space of pre-production workflow for AR and VR applications that we haven't seen yet ... Based on several months of research, the most used alternative we see is still pencil and paper."
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«While I complain of being able to see only a shadow of the past, I may be insensitive to reality as it is now, since I'm not at a stage of development where I'm capable of seeing it. .» Claude Levi-Strauss (Tristes Tropiques, 1955)
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More than 40 percent of tech workers worry about losing their jobs because of age, a new survey shows. The other half are the people too young to care?
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Age is the least of my worries. Incompetence tops my list. Google + copy/paste has made me what I am today. The less management knows, the better.
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j snooze wrote: Google + copy/paste has made me what I am today.
I think I found an honest man; I'm hanging up my lantern.
cheers, Diogenes
«While I complain of being able to see only a shadow of the past, I may be insensitive to reality as it is now, since I'm not at a stage of development where I'm capable of seeing it. A few hundred years later another traveler despairing as myself, may mourn the disappearance of what I may have seen, but failed to see.» Claude Levi-Strauss (Tristes Tropiques, 1955)
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I worry about it everyday. It seems the older I get and the higher I get, the more people come after me. The politics in my current position are starting to look like the headlines on Yahoo  . But just as I would release software, I typically have a contingency plan in place to rollback to. It's a safeguard for the user and my career. One should have a contingency plan for their career should they find themselves north of 50 and looking for work. I do have a contingency plan and hope I don't need to implement it for awhile.
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jgakenhe wrote: I do have a contingency plan and hope I don't need to implement it for awhile.
Can I get a hint? I'm desperately in need of a contingency plan. 
TTFN - Kent
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I have two:
* My parents own a house with a bit of terrain and woods (nothing especially big), enough to start a small agricultural activity. Should it not sell enough, I could at least eat.
* I invest in my weapons knowledge, combined to my technical proficiency. Should things go hairy I could always try my way as a gunsmith.
I do not seek consultancy jobs because they have no legal protection and age is a huge disadvantage - I've found an untimed employee job, which have a good deal of protection in my country, with of course lower wages. I seek other similar solutions as I care little for an immediate gain while safety on the long run is paramout for me.
* CALL APOGEE, SAY AARDWOLF
* GCS d--- s-/++ a- C++++ U+++ P- L- E-- W++ N++ o+ K- w+++ O? M-- V? PS+ PE- Y+ PGP t++ 5? X R++ tv-- b+ DI+++ D++ G e++>+++ h--- ++>+++ y+++* Weapons extension: ma- k++ F+2 X
* Never pay more than 20 bucks for a computer game.
* I'm a puny punmaker.
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I'm looking at multiple streams of income instead of just one. Some examples are teaching, Internet marketing, programming side jobs, and investments. Some of these I'm beginning to move into now. I consider this time of my life as a time of making extra money, not money I deserve so I can compete with the Jones'.
Too many times I've seen companies layoff IT staff and people over 50 rarely got a job. They ended up working at the hardware store or as a security guard. I will say that if one really wants to work IT after losing a job in their 50's is to get a government job. Government HR departments look for people that might be overlooked because of age, appearance, or lifestyle. They do this so no one blinks an eye when they hire and promote their friends and relatives.
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Digital native(n) A youngster who clearly knows more about computers than you do because at the age of four he sent a text message with the messaging software that you wrote.
98.4% of statistics are made up on the spot.
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The other half are just worried about where to get their next supply of opiates ?
«While I complain of being able to see only a shadow of the past, I may be insensitive to reality as it is now, since I'm not at a stage of development where I'm capable of seeing it. A few hundred years later another traveler despairing as myself, may mourn the disappearance of what I may have seen, but failed to see.» Claude Levi-Strauss (Tristes Tropiques, 1955)
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While at 45 I'm still receiving job offers (4-5 times a year) it is obvious that major part of the recruiters are believe in their own lie about age...
So most of them look for a youngster with minimum 20 years of experience...
Skipper: We'll fix it.
Alex: Fix it? How you gonna fix this?
Skipper: Grit, spit and a whole lotta duct tape.
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The other half want to retire because they're "too old for this sh*t."
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