Originally posted to LinkedIn on March 25, 2015 Slim Pickings A recent Forbes posting blew up the age old question, “Why don’t more people work as programmers?” (http://www.forbes.com/sites/quora/2014/10/31/why-dont-more-people-work-as-programmers/) Forbes claims that we have plenty of programmers, just a shortage of qualified ones. Most hiring managers I know would agree. We see tons of good resumes,…
Month: July 2018
Big Data Is Not Enough
Originally posted to LinkedIn on Aug 25, 2014 You Don’t Want to Need Big Data Janitors When Big Data hit the scene, technologist told us to throw away our databases, our spreadsheets, and our models. This was a brave new world where simply having tons of data would answer everything. A 2008, Wired article prognosticated “The End…