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It's been a ride watching all this abstraction and design patterns make everything more complex

Is that interventionist policy any different to the Fed and ECB propping up of the US and European stock markets since the depths of the crash with QE? If not then when is the long…

I rarely post now on StackOverFlow and each time I do I wonder if it's my last time as I'm told I'm in danger of being barred because of my inability to post a question correctly. …

there are many excellent points made on this question but the standout one explaining the problem is >>When you're in a situation where mistakes can cost you millions, hiring an at…

I was commenting on the article's posts which had expanded into interviews for such firms as Apple, Google etc. Apologies if that is not allowed.

If software development was not a creative process then such algorithmic/IQ test interviews would be very relevant. Unfortunately for those wasting their time with such interviews …

SQL is not hard and certainly no harder then something like the entity framework

My pal has great tech experience and domain knowledge (major global gambling firm based in Dublin) built up over the years. He's contracting and on 800 euro a day at least - natura…

don't shoot the messenger. The US media over the last few months has been full of this kind of stuff http://www.businessinsider.com/software-developers-fear-age-...

300+ .NET jobs today on irishjobs.ie http://www.irishjobs.ie/ShowResults.aspx?Keywords=.Net+Devel...

Where is he located? If it's the USA, especially Silicon Valley, then it's too late as he's too old. From what I read and comments from likes of Mark Zuckerberg the illegal practic…

Colluding to keep down wages, which would attract more people into programming, and then always complaining that there are not enough software developers while, also illegally, dis…