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Politics : Formerly About Advanced Micro Devices
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To: combjelly who wrote (257979)11/2/2005 1:12:28 AM
From: bentway  Read Replies (1) of 1575154
 
That's interesting. Did you get any sense whether the foreigners want to work in this country or return to their country of origin or some other country?

I worked far from the hardware for 15 years, but no COBOL! I developed application programs for microcomputers and then the internet using various languages. I knew people who worked close to the hardware, even one guy who hand optimized machine code output from compilers, but their shelf life seemed much shorter than mine, without continual re-education. Hardware changes pretty often. People always advised me NOT to get too close to the hardware.

It burnt me out, and I don't even WANT back in! Fortunately I came out of the '90's pretty financially well off. No thanks to three start-ups and three clutches of worthless stock options that were supposed to pay for all my overtime. But the house I bought in CA in '93 appreciated handsomely!
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