Okay, Bloomberg is a big fat socialist RINO. What is Bloomberg Media?

Sept 22, 2014 | HiTech RedNeck

[HiTech RedNeck]

Well, the HiTech RedNeck is looking for a job... AGAIN. This job hopping is getting old, but the boss of the group, at a major freight railroad, for which I'm a contractor has an integrity problem, to put it delicately. For some reason, I don't get along very well with liars and phonies.

Well, I refreshed my resumes on Dice and Monster this past weekend and crossed my fingers. Well this morning what do I behold, but someone wants to know if I am interested in working for a company that turns out to be BLOOMBERG MEDIA.

They are quoting a super deluxe benefits package and money they are saying is in the mid to high six figures.

I've come across Bloomberg from time to time but there wasn't a match. Now they want a C++ guru, and I can say my experience with C++ goes back almost to when it was invented.

Well... okay we agree on who Bloomberg is. But what about his flagship media company. I haven't seen many particularized complaints about it here, which strikes me as odd since the alphabet agencies get excoriated regularly. I don't know what they are doing with all this C++ yet, unless it is to customize news feeds. Would working for them be to be in the belly of the beast? I don't see much news originated from Bloomberg, but they gather news stories (whether true or false) quite well.

[familyop]

What does it say? It’s pushed pretty hard for a low loonie, low yuan, low freight fuel, high dollar, dollar reserve, etc. But yes, it serves some investors for the time being. Such “news” is riding on a perilous mountain of debt, though (balance of payments deficits in trade, heavy foreign investments in American bonds and the like).

[HiTech RedNeck]

I wouldn’t really call that news, though. I’d call that editorializing and commentary.

[HiTech RedNeck]

I will find out more soon, I think.

Somehow I can’t believe that silly editorials garner that kind of wealth... but it’s not impossible. It would be part of the pat ourselves on the back society.

[HiTech RedNeck]

At any rate, I find it really interesting that they are even asking C# and Java gurus to take the plunge into C++.

For me as an engineer this says one thing. They want to do smart processing of breaking, real-time news and do it quickly. You can’t put the pedal to the metal with C# and Java. Somehow, this does not sound like a silly editorial business.

[familyop]

"The problem is going to be societies that interfere with them or don’t want them."

That's good attention to likely causes and effects with some obvious experience behind it. I said "rackets," you know, because of the particular groups that would try to oppose the effort (among many similar efforts). Well, those folks should prepare to find more useful work to do.

We can get that stamp for plans in each state, though, and inspectors can only stretch their excuses for denying on some of the gooshier code points. Designs including lower cost materials are being engineered for the various states (more efficient to engineer a design only once and improve from there). For foundations, there will be several alternatives for conditions in various jurisdictions.

Not only that, but there have already been many defectors. I know one state code official and ICC egghead, who moved to a free county (no building office). He likes feeling cleaner. ;-) Many others have already been laid off and are seeing the light. There are also gobs of engineers interested in helping with projects for various kinds of products. They're willing to work with their hands and help to bring in a new world.

Remember the SCO front against Linux and how that came out? That was nada compared to what's ahead.

[familyop]

"At any rate, I find it really interesting that they are even asking C# and Java gurus to take the plunge into C++."

I'm surprised! C# and java gurus on a C++ project? That's desperation!

"For me as an engineer this says one thing. They want to do smart processing of breaking, real-time news and do it quickly. You can’t put the pedal to the metal with C# and Java. Somehow, this does not sound like a silly editorial business."

Says the same to me. Maybe they're getting smart. Hopefully, the project managers will also be smarter than what we've seen in some of the C++ projects of the past (more concerned with gossip and social interactions than getting work done).