Have you done any Android development? Do you have any confidence that Android isn't held together with duct tape and baling wire under the hood? I sure don't.
This seems to be a trend - python, before it erlang-on-metal. Is there a stable higher-level language runtime that runs on bare metal (that I can boot in a VM)? Or, better yet, something that compiles arbitrary LLVM code into .ISOs for deployment?
Yes, and I see fresh faced engineers and programmers going unemployed for over a year out of school, all the time.
Seriously, pretty much the only field right now with a serious demand > supply condition is nursing, and MDs willing to do general family practice rather than higher-paying specialties.
What college kid has 'an entire life' to uproot? If you go into oceanography, hard to complain if the jobs are near the ocean; similar with other professions. You have to be willing to go where the jobs are.
The shortage of doctors is not due to market conditions. The government limits the supply of slots in medical schools and residencies, which then limits the number of new doctors.
Unless a software developer is tasked with deciding which version control system to use or for some odd reason has to do a deep dive into the philosophy/design of subversion, why on earth would they bother to know this? You might as well ask if they prefer Cherry MX Blue or Brown. I don't know SVN but if it's anything like Git, there are 100 ways to use it, exactly 5 of which are useful to 90% of developers on any given day.
For all of our talk of meritocracy, we're still just following multi-millennia-old social programming. Having "Harvard" next to your name in any way gives a force multiplier to anything you want to do in life.
Fun fact: Noscript loads and parses all javascript and then just stops it from running against the live DOM. Decreases page render time, sure. Prevents exploits? Don't think so.
NoScript won't actually execute any of the Javascript, though. I am not aware of any historical vulnerabilities from the mere act of loading and parsing Javascript, though they're certainly theoretically possible. It's much easier to secure a parser than a runtime.
I can't recall a single exploitable bug in these competitions that attacked the javascript parser. Running the js is a far larger surface area to attack.
It would be nice if they had thought to include natural gas drilling. The fact that they didn't leads me to believe that natural gas production hasn't also declined, and would have made their little timeline rather boring.
