Indeependent
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- Nov 19, 2013
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To whom are you referring?Anyone who can't or will not be bothered to use spell check to get his spelling correct never wrote code for a living. That I can guarantee.Are you also inept at doing math? I literally stepped through a sample problem showing that even if you assume ALL programmers kept their jobs, as long as we see CS grad increase from year to year (a reasonable assumption, and I used linear rather than probably a more realistic exponential progression, which would only make his point, and your MORE untenable), then low levels of higher age individuals (like 50+ year olds) is the EXPECTATION due to how SIMPLE MATHEMATICS work.Why are there so few programmers?You literally ignored the fact that I've pointed out, with math, that having a low amount of 50+ year olds in the tech field is not unreasonable if you actually take a look at it...something that this "programmer" has been so inept in doing himself that he is actually arguing against me. Whether or not people want foreign programmers doesn't matter when the guy we are talking about isn't even a programmer. Everybody could have built something in like 5-15 min to tell him the same thing I had to show, but this guy lacks the coding and mathematical knowledge to perform such a task. This pretty much proves he cannot be a software engineer and is lying to us.There are more computer programmers than ever; they're simply 99.9999% Indian Business Visas.I'm not, I'm suggesting he isn't a computer programmer because all programmers have basic math skills, which he seems to lack. For instance, if we take an example case of saying that in 1975 there were 100 computer science graduates, and that in each following year the number of CS grads increased by a linear factor of 1.2 (so 1976 would have 120 CS grads or 100*1.2, and so on). Then do you know how many grads from 1975-1989 we would have in 2016 (as a percentage of total graduates) if we continue this linear progression? The answer is 0.681%...and it would be really easy to argue that there should be an exponential progression rather than a linear one. This idiot that lacks the skills to write up a basic program performing a simple function like this using 7th grade math is in no way shape or form possibly in the computer science field. He's just finding articles that agrees with his world view and trying to cry on an online forum.
I live in a large, wealthy area...no one wants to pay a non-H1-B wage.
You should be arguing that low wage, low skill jobs, like the one this guy probably has (again, he cannot even perform basic math) are in danger in America due to the large numbers of low skill immigrants, likely rising minimal wages, and increasing automation. I'd agree wholeheartedly with you there (at least in the short run, like next 3-5 years).
Because most were canned between 2000-2004 and told their children the facts.
If the Automation factor were real we wouldn't have CEOs howling for at least 160,000 H1-Bs a year.
Once again, CEOs are using the no-skills argument to replace PHYSICIANS!
What a joke.
Why you keep bringing up doctors (which I don't have much knowledge on and doesn't matter as this guy is in a field I have worked in, tech, and is lying to our faces about it) is irrelevant when talking about tech and this guy trying to cry to us about supposed "age discrimination." Even if you do want to relate the fields, you haven't even brought up age which was this guy's counter point to me addressing that he probably simply lacks the skills to stay in the market...something he has repeatedly showed us to the point where I now believe he was never even in the tech industry.
This guy is a bullshit poser who with every post proves it.
I started writing Basic then moved to Fortran. That's how long ago I was briefly employed in the industry.