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It’s that time of year again, and today I am kicking off my annual FREE MICROSOFT EBOOK GIVEAWAY extravaganza! Just in time for your summer beach reading
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A survey of 600 IT and business professionals finds more new skills are needed to keep the business up to date and competitive. "What you got - I got the skills to pay the bills"
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It's the "new" skills that are the problem; we need more developers with experience and history.
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lack any formal strategy to address the gap
Agile? 
Organizations are jumping into big data capture, artificial intelligence and machine learning, the Internet of Things and robotics, and they are finding their IT staffs are struggling to make sense of the data generated.
Well duh. When management has no strategy, plan, or interest to give their employees paid time to keep abreast of new technologies, whether in direct training (classes, bootcamps cough, whatever) and no projects (whether immediately useful or not) for them to practice their skills, signing up for a salaried full time position in a company is like being a new car. The minute you drive it off the lot, it depreciates in value. Even if some new Javascript MVC framework is a flash in the pan, exposure to new things at a minimum promotes interest and discussion.
Where I work (as a contractor, 3 days a week) the lunchroom rule (ironically instigated by my "peers") is that we don't discuss work things, or technology even in general. There is no interest from management to promote retooling, so as a result, the company is using 30 year old technology (COBOL) on one side of the fence, and on the C#/Microsoft side of the fence, they're anywhere from 5 to 10 years behind the curve.
If business professionals (how ironic to use the word "professionals") want skilled employees, they need to invest in giving them those skills! 
I for one think that companies would do well to have their tech staff write an article for Code Project at least once every month or so!
Marc
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Marc Clifton wrote: Well duh. When management has no strategy, plan, or interest to give their employees paid time to keep abreast of new technologies, whether in direct training (classes, bootcamps cough, whatever) and no projects (whether immediately useful or not) for them to practice their skills, signing up for a salaried full time position in a company is like being a new car. The minute you drive it off the lot, it depreciates in value. Even if some new Javascript MVC framework is a flash in the pan, exposure to new things at a minimum promotes interest and discussion.
You are 100% correct, sir. I have done 1 small MVC app in the last 4 years, before that Windows and Webforms since 2003 and Classic ASP before that. Now I am doing SSRS, SSIS, and system administration, because that is what is important to management, right now. It has been like that for the last few years and I have become disinterested in new technologies, because I don't know when or if I will ever use them. I am not the only person in my organization that feels this way and them problem only seems to be getting worse.
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Tony Foo wrote: I have become disinterested in new technologies, because I don't know when or if I will ever use them. I am not the only person in my organization that feels this way and them problem only seems to be getting worse.
+1
M.D.V.
If something has a solution... Why do we have to worry about?. If it has no solution... For what reason do we have to worry about?
Help me to understand what I'm saying, and I'll explain it better to you
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On the flip side, I've worked with people who were intent on using the latest, greatest whiz-bang technology and that didn't end well either. (In one case, I came in AFTER the whiz kids had embraced the latest technology and then bailed. I was part of the effort to clean up the mess, except the company wasn't willing to let us do it right.)
At the same time, I get frustrated with developers who claim to use C++11/14/17 and then carve out almost the entire feature set as exceptions. (And, yes, even had the "we use .NET, but you can't use anything past 3.5".)
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We've noticed that.
We're 55 and 56 my wife an I, both fighter pilots from the days of Novell 3.11 it's abends and forward to today. My wife was arguing bitness and the inability of 64 bit windows to run DOS programs with a tech rep from a software company. He should have known better. He also claimed that he could plop an xp image onto a new dell and it would work, My wife said not without drivers and it's likely to not boot. He changed the subject. When she got off the phone we just stared at each other for a while. I said I dunno maybe we do something else (God knows what) because it's getting to be very trying coaching up people who work for other companies that we have to deal with (web guys, email outfits etc) even in their 30s who should, but don't know #$%^! - It's always a debate too. 
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In late 2016 and early 2017 we polled over 5,000 developers to identify the State of Developer Ecosystem. You are here (more or less, assuming you took the survey)
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For the first time, a primitive movie has been encoded in -- and then played back from -- DNA in living cells. DeoxyMoviecleic Acid?
Or:
Don't download that movie, it's a virus!
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I just wonder... why?
And I know... why not?
Only because we can it doesn't mean we should
M.D.V.
If something has a solution... Why do we have to worry about?. If it has no solution... For what reason do we have to worry about?
Help me to understand what I'm saying, and I'll explain it better to you
Rating helpful answers is nice, but saying thanks can be even nicer.
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W.P.O.R.: A strange game.The only winning move is not to play.
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Babylon.js is an open source framework that allows you to create stunning 3D experiences in your browser. "By the rivers of Babylon, there we sat down"
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Babylon, Oh, Babylon! 'Tis the end-of-days!
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Users now have the power to sync up anything, including photos and videos from cameras, SD cards, and USB devices, instead of their files remaining stuck in one place. Now you can save the NSA some time when they want to scan all your files
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An aspect of artificial intelligence that’s sometimes overlooked is just how good it is at creating fake audio and video that’s difficult to distinguish from reality. I'm sure it will never be used inappropriately
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Kent Sharkey wrote: I'm sure it will never be used inappropriately
Of course not... it is only academical knowledge.
M.D.V. 
If something has a solution... Why do we have to worry about?. If it has no solution... For what reason do we have to worry about?
Help me to understand what I'm saying, and I'll explain it better to you
Rating helpful answers is nice, but saying thanks can be even nicer.
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The lab will be located at Microsoft’s Redmond HQ, and will include a team of over 100 scientists working on AI, from areas including natural language processing, learning and perception systems. I thought they had one already?
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Online harassment is an all-too-common occurrence in the U.S., with 41 percent of adults saying they have experienced harassment online, and 66 percent of people saying they’ve seen it happen to others, according to a new Pew Research Center study. And your mama dresses you funny
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I was harassed by this company doing an on-line study of on-line harassment!
- I would love to change the world, but they won’t give me the source code.
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The breakdown of numbers is interesting. Offensive name calling is in the 23-27% range and stalking/threats/continued harassment, are all consistently in the 5-7% range. (Note that this counts recipients, but given the broadness of the sample, I suspect it reflects about the same percentage as perpetrators.)
There was a recent poll that found 25% of people believed that one-night-stands by people in relationships wasn't cheating.
I suspect if you make a Venn diagram of the name calling and the latter group, it's almost a complete overlap and would supports my theory that about 25% of people are genuine assholes. The smaller stalker group suggests that about 7% of people are sociopaths (and are likely almost entirely a subset of the a**hole group.)
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We programmers love to help each other… and we also like to rip each other to shreds. What gives? Present company not included, of course
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I sit confirmed 
TTFN - Kent
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