At least from the inside, the dot-com stock market bubble ( ) of ~1995 - Mar'2020 seemed ( in hindsight ) like a remake of the South Seas Bubble ( ). Nor did ups and downs "imported" from the rest of the economy. Then OOPS! - some of our nice little terminals ( ) mutated, and evolved into those stupid little "PC's", and Things Changed.Ĭycles of change within the computer field didn't stop there. And minicomputers ( ) were for companies too small or weak to get a real computer (mainframe). I got into computer stuff back when mainframes were "obviously, forever". How did the market go from developer shortage to developer surplus overnight? Is there an end to that? Java is the new Cobol times 1000, there should be a demand for countless number of devs to maintain and rewrite this legacy code. I've been in the trenches for a long time, and most of it is endless vastness of legacy code. The world runs on software and most of that software isn't FAANG. Thing is, I've never worked for FAANG, I was always content working for random non-tech companies that were definitely not a target of the so-called "rock star engineers". What happened? I thought if the day came when a guy like me can't find work, we would have bigger problems, like WW3 or extinction level asteroid heading for Earth. Up to this year it never took me longer than a month to find a new gig. Long time ago I chose what I thought was the most popular tech stack, so that I would never have a problem finding a job. I'm a Java/Scala dev in London with over 12 years of experience and I've been unable to find a job for almost a year now.
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My answer was an emphatic “no” every time, but there was always somebody there, inviting me to have another drink. Robert: I was asked 13 times - I counted - if I wanted another beer. It’s a backward view of a modernizing country with the second-largest economy in the world and breathtakingly diverse foodways. Ryan: Leaning on the Great Wall feels like an anachronistic western trope that views China as an ancient place built around fortifications and keeping out invaders. The bananas were unripe and had no flavor. The banana spring rolls or egg rolls or whatever they called them were much worse. Robert: It’s a giant mediocre six-layer chocolate cake with little dabs of fruit compote around it. The “Great Wall of chocolate” is really ho-hum chocolate cake. There’s a series of gilded Shaanxi-style terracotta soldiers, and yet the menu is not particularly Chinese. On opening night, Eater critics Robert Sietsema and Ryan Sutton descended on the pan-Asian menu of appetizers, sushi, dim sum, soups and salads, mains, as well as noodles, rice, and desserts. With a goal of moving into cities, its presence could be seen by some as an affront to the many well-established regional Chinese restaurants and Chinatowns - especially at a time when Chinese restaurants and neighborhoods have been uniquely affected by COVID - and the restaurant chain got millions in PPP money. Chang’s has expanded beyond suburban strip malls where their restaurants formerly resided. With an increasing emphasis on to-go spots, (with two open and one more on the way in NYC) P.F. Chang’s was founded in the mid-’90s by Paul Fleming and Philip Chiang - the son of the late Cecilia Chiang, an ambassador of regional Chinese food to America, having opened the Mandarin in San Francisco in the early 1960s. The trademark horse is already a corporate eyesore on 13th Street.īased in Arizona, with over 300 locations around the world (including China), P.F. |
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