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To: SeekAndFind

Written by someone with no experience in the industry.
I write software for a living, and have been doing it for over 25 years- so I know a little about this.

If you want a young college grad designing your embedded systems controllers for your hardware inside an F-15 or a railroad signalling system or some battleship hardware then be prepared to watch a lot of expensive hardware crash and burn and melt

I used to worry all the time that younger and less expensive kids fresh out of school would replace me, but then I get hired all the time now to fix their mistakes, often having to re-write their stuff from scratch...

You don’t know what experience is until you get some.

I am working on some software right now that had a young kid wth 5 years experience as the ‘system architect’ (the lead designer) Once I figure out what they WANTED to do I will be able to fix it all. It is a mess, and it is what the government is paying $millions for, to sort out the foreclosure mess.

It all looks like it was written by a beginner.


10 posted on 04/28/2012 1:15:24 PM PDT by Mr. K (If Romney wins the primary, I am writing-in PALIN)
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To: Mr. K; ShadowAce

Maybe he wanted to be something else.


12 posted on 04/28/2012 1:22:14 PM PDT by Ernest_at_the_Beach (The Global Warming HOAX is about Global Governance)
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To: Mr. K
Roger all you say. Kids out of college can't do the basic stuff, much less write quality and reliability.

And as far as deployment? Hell, squirt, move over and let daddy do it for ya.

I now realize that the first two or three jobs I had out of college, were charity.

31 posted on 04/28/2012 6:20:42 PM PDT by Lazamataz (Admin Moderator refuses to let me hit it. -- http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/chat/2875871/posts)
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