Bill Brockman landed a post-retirement job at a child development center in Kansas.
Just how much the Great Recession reshaped what many baby boomers thought retirement would look like is becoming clearer: More than ever, they now expect to retire later or work when they’re “retired.”
Continue reading… “Retirement age a moving target for baby boomers”
Moving development to the cloud and offering the IDE as a service to developers, a significant amount of their workload has been removed.
The sentiment that software is taking over the world has become widely accepted throughout the tech community. Last year it was examined in depth by Marc Andreessen. However, as software continues to infiltrate nearly every industry, there’s a serious consequence taking shape. The demand for development continues to grow exponentially, but the amount of qualified developers that are available to produce this commodity is not. Simply put, the world is running out of developers.
Continue reading… “Solving the software developer shortage”
Scrub jay
Scientists have discovered that when western scrub jays encounter a dead bird, they call out to one another and stop foraging. Then the jays often fly down to the dead body and gather around it.
Continue reading… “Some birds hold ‘funerals’ for their dead”
Where will qualified younger programmers come from when the older generation retires?
T’S a looming crisis not even dreamed of when computers were the new frontier, and all those working on them were young pioneers.
But fast-forward a few decades – and now experts warn that essential systems that control areas like defence and banking are about to be left without qualified people to run them, as the first generation of computer programmers retire and, sadly, die.
Seventy-two-year-old US digital forensic examiner, Robert E Johnston, said that the skills shortage in computer programming carried with it serious consequences…
Choose your career wisely or be swept aside by new innovations.
Karen Richards is unemployed, but it’s not for lack of trying. She estimates that she has sent out about 100 resumés in the past year.
The Arlington resident theorizes that a few factors have prevented her from landing a job: She’s overqualified for some positions, underqualified for others, and the fact that she’s currently out of work may be a turnoff to some employers.
But there’s another problem that she says could be holding her back. The legal sector is using new software for research and client management, and she isn’t familiar with it…
Continue reading… “Job seekers find it difficult to keep up with innovations in their field”
Next time you consider an ad like “Help wanted! Highly paid fashion models!” just remember
it’s harder work than you think, not very glamorous, and there’s always
some jerk in the background making you do things you don’t want to!
Quote of the Day: “You’ll always be a little disappointing in person because you can’t be the edited essence of yourself.” – Mel Brooks
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Young adults find ways to access the Internet even without a roof over their heads.
Social scientists found that 75 percent of the homeless youth they surveyed use social networks and that their usage patterns were remarkably similar to college students. in a new intriguing study..
Continue reading… “Study finds 75% of homeless youth use social networks”
Some Europeans will get access to the full complement of HBO content for a small fee.
According to Variety, in mid-October an HBO streaming service that does not require an associated cable subscription will be rolled out in Europe. It is confined to only a few European countries, but it’s an embrace from Time Warner to cord-cutters that non-HBO customers have long sought.
Continue reading… “HBO brings streaming-only service to Europe”
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DaVinci Institute, the futurist think tank based in Louisville, CO, celebrated its 15th Anniversary on Aug 9, 2012. As part of the celebration there was a ribbon cutting ceremony and an open house to show off its many accomplishments made over the years…
Continue reading… “DaVinci Institute’s 15th Anniversary Bash”
Big data
“Big data” – where does it come from? Why aren’t companies like Facebook and Google concerned about big data? The answer is that the web companies are the forerunners. Driven by social, mobile, and cloud technology, there is an important transition taking place, leading us all to the data-enabled world that those companies inhabit today.
Second Amendment advocates want to make acquiring arms as easy as downloading a file and hitting Print.
Technological advances are about to make the gun debate in the United States a whole lot more intense. Forbes highlighted a project last week called Wiki Weapon that wants to prototype the world’s first fully printable gun.
Continue reading… “Will 3D printing technology make gun control impossible?”
The average down payment for a house is 20%.
How long will it take you to save in order to afford a home? We calculated how many years it takes to save enough for a down payment in the 100 largest U.S. metro areas, factoring in both local average wages from the Bureau of Labor Statistics’s Quarterly Census of Employment and Wages and local housing prices based on the median asking price per square foot of homes listed on Trulia.
Continue reading… “How long will you need to save for a down payment on a home in your city?”
By delving into the futuring techniques of Futurist Thomas Frey, you’ll embark on an enlightening journey.
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