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Does anyone knows a job board for people interested to work with COBOL?

I have been interested in this language for quite some time, moved to a different country just to try to find a job where I could learn more about it and build up a career, unfortunately the city that I chose doesn't seems to be have many offers. Most of the jobs require several years of experience doing low level programming, and although I work with system programming languages (C++, Go) I don't have relevant experience working with COBOL which seems to be killing my opportunities.

It's like the chicken or the egg causality dilemma, I want a COBOL job but everyone requires someone with relevant experience, but how can I get experience if no one hires me to work with COBOL? LOL — I am willing to take a junior-intermediate position if necessary, if anyone has a suggestion (company names, job boards, etc).

Thank you in advance.

EDIT: I am in Vancouver, BC, Canada if anyone is interested.
Well, all prices are still determined by the intersection of supply and demand.

I'm not saying that the objective features are IRRELEVANT to a consumer's purchase decision, obviously they're not, but ultimately each person values what they're buying differently than the next person.

I'll run with your coffee example:

Let's say someone currently values a cup of Starbucks at $6 / cup and Starbucks is selling it for $4 / cup. If Starbucks raises their prices above $6 / cup (to $20 like you say), that person would no longer purchase Starbucks coffee unless their values change. But there's a good chance that SOME people (a small minority no doubt, but probably not zero people) currently value Starbucks at more than $20 / cup, those people would continue to buy coffee from Starbucks unless their values change.

As prices for Starbucks coffee increase and exceed the amount that individuals value it, those people will begin to explore alternatives on the market to determine if there is another comparable good that meets their needs at a price less than they value it.
Yup.

I came to the comments specifically to try to figure out what the heck this thing does.

The page itself never gets to the point of "Here's what it does".
There is. The iPhone 7 is the no headphone jack phone.

The iPhone 8 will be the 100% screen phone. It also won't have a headphone jack.

Big difference for how people think about that and how it gets talked about.
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Summer is hot for sure. But in a world of AC I find it doesn't bother me as much. I go for a bike ride at 7 am when its 73 outside, and work all day!

As for the sprawl, there is a huge building boom going on inside the city, 10's if not a 100 thousand new apartments going up. Bike lanes being added, its actually becoming civilized!
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Subversion used to let you check out a subdirectory of a repo, which generally helped with this problem. The chapter on SVN in Beautiful Code does a great job of explaining how this works and why it helps with concurrent access to the repo.

This is a giant blind spot in Git, and none of the proposed workarounds come anywhere close to the tiny cognitive load of svn's answer to this problem.

But nobody on the git design committee seems to give a shit about cognitive load, so I'm probably just shouting into the tempest.
The blog indicated that it was an evacuation flight. It may have been non-revenue.
For download: https://sourceforge.net/projects/open-cobol/files/gnu-cobol/... (2.2 is top latest release link)
Another user of MongoDB here. Thus far it has scaled well for us where we had a similar situation where uptake was faster then expected. The WiredTiger storage engine made most of the concerns of 2012-2013 for MongoDB, non-issues. However, if you try to put a relational model in to MongoDB, you still may see performance issues down the road, but then again it should be about the right tool for the right job. I'd reiterate Ken Walger's post to checkout his blog, it does a great job of comparing MongoDB 2012 vs. MongoDB today. Also, if administration/operations are a concern, then cloud provided MongoDB is the way to go, MongoDB Atlas seems to be at the forefront since it's run by MongoDB itself. Good luck with your apps!
Flying through a hurricane sounds dangerous, but it's actually not much different than flying normally and is perfectly safe. Planes are very resistant to horizontal wind, which is all a hurricane is.
Does ethics play a decision here too? As in "let's try our best to get these people out of here". Or is the risk actually the opposite, and it would be safer for them to stay in Puerto Rico?
You would be surprised. Deep learning usurped a ton of knowledge about SVMs and such, and then TensorFlow/Keras made it easy to write and deploy good models with little knowledge.

Clearly its more complex than that, but this is true for a good number of use cases.
I'm usually cynical in these situations, but I don't think it was about revenue. Quick decision making by even the most incompetent executive would have prompted the following response:

"Let's see... 50% chance of incremental $200*150=$30K (idk the price nor the capacity, so just entertain me) in revenue. Let's bump that with the expected loss/lawsuits if this fails = ... Who cares? It's in the millions. Just don't do it."

I think this is one of those cases where the airline took it upon themselves to really try to help as many people get out as they could.
> However I must object to the idea that "real hardware" cannot handle the petabyte scale.

By the time I'm talking about integers that don't fit in x86 address space, I'm not talking JSON ;).
It's a concern I have about deflationary currencies in general. It's not very common in the world right now so you could argue I'm speculating too, really.

You are talking about the singularity being the point that we switch to crypto currency. I suppose my argument is that the singularity may not come because of deflation counteracting and convincing people to continue holding.

All in all I'm glad it's been such a diplomatic discussion. I would engage people the same way if I were you and appreciate that you seek new information.
I would add that 4) Studies with a large p-value but that are not contradicted by others are much more valuable than studies that have a small p-value but all contradict each other.
> The choice of any particular threshold is arbitrary [...]

Sounds scientific, doesn't it?

> [...] we judge to be reasonable.

And tomorrow someone else judges it differently?

Maybe they should not try to redefine significance but simply introduce something called 'well-reproducible' or so.
To me the hurricane tailwind (blowing South) appeared to be against the direction of flight (heading North)... but the flight arrived early so I must not be parsing that right.
Yes, there are, and no, they may not be (1)

However, chances are they are the Bluetooth headphones Apple makes the most money on, and that early adopters of the new iPhone are the most likely to buy them.

Inducing (extra) demand for Bluetooth headphones and then leaving the market for such headphones to others in a period where your most 'able and willing to spend' customers enter your shop isn't the best of ideas.

(1) (nitpicking) it wouldn't completely surprise me if they were, though, because Apple has exactly one product, whereas its competition tends to create zillions of 'different' products.
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Chicago would be another good candidate.
> Most judges are doing to hear "child endangerment" and do exactly what they recommend, or what is called for.

Maybe that's true in the US, but it just isn't true for Canada (which uses forced adoption rarely).

It's not even true in England, which is criticised for using forced adoption quite heavily.

There's a suspicion that judges just rubber stamp these applications. It's bizarre to think that they do.

Here are a few cases from England.

In this one the local authority gets a kicking from the judge: http://www.bailii.org/ew/cases/EWFC/HCJ/2014/22.html

And another: http://www.bailii.org/cgi-bin/markup.cgi?doc=/ew/cases/EWFC/...

That last one is useful here. The parents were misusing alcohol; were violent; had neglected their child. Their child had gone into foster care. The local authority is applying to have the children adopted. The judge rejects that because the judge thinks the child should maintain contact with the parents. (And eventually go back to the father).

There's also talk about judges separating children from fathers, but that's not true either. This case, written so the children will understand, nicely illustrates that:

http://www.bailii.org/ew/cases/EWFC/HCJ/2016/9.html

The judge ordered that the children should continue to have contact with their father, even though he was a violent and aggressive man. After that order was made the father was arrested, charged, and convicted of firearms offences, and got a prison sentence.
Guess how we know you're not a pilot...
Can't make decisions without data. Sure, management and flight crew deserve the lion's share, but that real-time data is probably critical for those decisions.
Flying through a hurricane is not dangerous at all, especially for a massive plane like a 737. Airplanes are incredibly resistant to horizontal winds, which are all a hurricane is.

It's vertical winds that are dangerous to fly through, which is what thunderstorms create.
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An equally plausible interpretation is that universities have been transformed from teaching institutions into paper factories.
I mean, I think a case can be made for something like it, where possibly one adds to the problem statement "the bytes should be contiguous ASCII and should not cause the JSON standard to backslash-encode the characters." The biggest range which does this is 0x23 to 0x5B inclusive. But that only gives 57 workable characters.

If it helps, I am not the author of the original article.
I've noticed Jordan Peterson getting mentioned a lot around here lately. Do you have a link to his lecture on this topic?
See also Borges (http://www.filosofiaesoterica.com/pascals-sphere/).

"Maybe that's the joke."

I can never remember which is the joke and which isn't.
> In your example, the cause of the collapse would be that developer drove a tank onto the bridge and didn't bother to check the weight limits beforehand.

I don't see how, at all, and you haven't addressed how this somehow makes the C++ developer different from an engineer.

I think your analogy is absolutely imprecise.

And the people on the bridge aren't going to care.

> If you forgot to initialise the variable before using it - it's your problem, not the problem of the language.

Wrong! It's very clearly not the developer's problem, because they don't take responsibility. It's the end user's problem, because they're the ones who get hacked.

> It is well documented, it is expected

Oh, please. As if any C++ developer can spot every instance of UB.

> it is there for a good reason

Is it? This is an unfounded statement. Is there ever a good reason to read from an uninitialized variable? It's UB, so it seems like the language is telling you explicitly that it is not a good idea. But the language gives you not way of formally verifying that you don't.

> And if you are running into this issue all the time, perhaps C++ is not for you.

Alternatively, perhaps C++ is not for any human, as it's clearly far too complicated to reason about.
No... you were the one that was using "everybody agrees it works" as the support of your position. He's offering an analogy that, rightly so, makes your position completely unsupported. If you're willing to say that homeopathy is crap despite the volume of people that support it, then you have to admit the same about your own argument. Provide evidence or support, not appeals to the masses.
Do you know how much he is offering to pay entry-level employees?
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the Swedish kingdom power peak of 17th century when it conquered almost all of the land around Baltic and deep into Poland and modern Ukraine correlates nicely with the Little Ice Age. To the south, south/east of Baltic that was the time of "Deluge" when among other things rows of bad harvest years weakened the economy/society/state. Effects of climate changes :)
Thanks!

When you get a chance, check out the page you linked to. It definitely backs up my anecdotal observation with solid numbers. Looks like about 26% of developers (or at least Stack Overflow users) use macOS.

Given a rough estimate of ~18mil software developers in the world[1] this gives use a rough estimate of nearly ~5mil developers using Macs.

So that's why I found it interesting to hear a developer say, "I don't know any programmers that use Macs." There are... a lot of them.

But, as you said, you've sequestered yourself in a fairly narrow niche throughout your career so it's not surprising. I'm sure there are web developers out there who literally don't know anybody that uses Windows because they've stuck to their own niches as well. Although, I work in enterprise software and my whole team is on Macs, so it's not even like you need to look outside your niche.

LAMP wouldn't be a well know acronym and .NET wouldn't be
a robust and widely used dev environment if everyone was
using Macs.

LAMP is a bit of a nightmare on Windows. Been ages since I did it, but the PHP ecosystem made a lot of non-Windows assumptions and things like Imagemagick and file upload handling in general were always kind of a pain. For this reason Macs are popular with the LAMP crowd as well. If I was doing LAMP on Windows I'd use a Linux VM or perhaps the Ubuntu compatability layer that's been added to Win10.

"People who give talks at conferences" have almost zero
intersection with "people who program for a living" and
"laptop I use to give presentations"

Not the conferences I follow. All working engineers giving talks. Not TED-style vague pop-sci motivational stuff. Though I'm sure there are conferences like that. Get out of your niche, hit up a conference, meet other developers maybe? Or just check out some presentations online in your field of interest via ConFreaks etc?

People giving talks at conferences are trying to impress
an audience. Same with stock images. Flashy laptops, of
course, are impressive and noticeable and give the image
of "professional."

I think I'm being trolled.

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Coercion: The use of physical force or the threat of physical force in as a mean to get someone to comply with your wishes.

Continuing to run with this example -- if you are the owner of a pack of water that you typically sell for $10, and you decide to change the price you're offering it for sale to $100, no coercion (using the above definition) has taken place. Potential buyers are free to accept your offer of $100 for a pack of water, or they are free to reject it.
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I wonder if the pilots volunteer for the run? It'd be interesting to know the internal culture with regards to it.
Having grown up in ATL and moved to SEA I don't think there's a lot of tech talent in ATL, but there's tons of potential for that to change. GT's college of computing has ~4k undergrads and masters. There's also ga state and emory within a short drive.

Right now it seems like mailchimp is getting as much of the graduates as they can.
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Great move by Facebook to look beyond Caffe's legacy prototext file format which has become somewhat standard in computer vision, and unite Pytorch and Caffe2. Unfortunately there are limitations to the neural network logic that can be represented in configuration files, especially when dealing with dynamic networks. Most networks used in vision are static so that's where I expect this will add the most value. My only wish is that Caffe2 followed Pytorch's interface. After spending 5 minutes with Pytorch it's pretty clear that they got the interface design right.
What rubbed you wrong with ATL?
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But the way you imagine it makes it sound like a complete coincidence that they happened to time it so perfectly well so as to use the gap of calm air effectively... whereas that surely seems pretty well-calculated.
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Wired's write-up from yesterday has a few more details including some quotes from Delta personnel:
https://www.wired.com/story/delta-plane-hurricane-irma
I don't see the problem as long as you clearly separate significance and effect-size.
I fundamentally disagree with the use of all forms of coercion unless its in self-defense.
I think everyone's incentive is to work as little as possible (work is straining). But a culture of shame has everyone instead claiming that's not true (and lost for what is)
Non-standard UI, general slowness, energy consumption, glitches, missing standard keyboard shortcuts, etc. The list goes on and on. It's a lowest common denominator, doesn't use what Cocoa/Mac has to offer. TL;DR Poor usability.
People are saying "shouldn't tests/code coverage fix this" or throwing around "static analysis" like it solves this issue.

Yes, static analysis is useful for finding internally orphaned code (though a simple search and seeing if the references outside of tests are 1 is just as effective) but that's not all dead code. The article is just using that as a simple example.

If you have a feature that has non-orphaned methods your testing may cover it and your static analysis will say it's good but if it is never used then the code supporting it is effectively dead.

This code is dead weight to your code base. It's costing you time and effort to maintain or work around. Having the ability to track it down and remove it is important.

This is where other methods come in.
what webhooks/api would you like?
I could see why a city wouldn't want to pay real money and then have the company move, but what's the problem if they agreed not to tax Amazon and then Amazon relocates?
Hurricanes are relatively slow-moving, relatively predictable, and have relatively consistent wind speeds/directions.

Obviously it would be quite bad to fly into a hurricane's rain bands (the weather outside of the "corridor" that the DL431 flight moved through).

The real feat here is the real-time and reliable coordination between all interested parties -- as mentioned in the article, the meteorologists, dispatchers, pilots, cabin crew, and ground crew. Everybody involved had a distinct sense that the window of opportunity was narrow and it should be quite clear that they acted with a high degree of professionalism and skill.

As for the life-threatening danger: it's risky, that's for sure, and I would by no means calls this a small feat, but there is no intense wind shear like those found in tornadoes, thunder storms, microbursts, or other such things.
I think that the whole fake-news is just a cry from news outlets clearly supporting democrats. Not that fake-news don't exist, it's the exact opposite: they're the norm and fake-news are the norm because is what mainstream media outlets actually do.

So now that someone is beating them at their own game, they came out for blood and you see facebook effectively filtering out whatever is considered fake news, which is ridiculous on so many levels.
OK, what are the options? Here's the list of the top 50 North American metro areas over the desired 1,000,000 population.[1] This gets down to the Nashville, TN area, at 1.8 million, so it's not the full list. Haiti, the Dominican Republic, and Cuba are probably out, both for political reasons and being islands. Mexico is probably out given the current administration's positions. San Juan is on an island and too remote, although the tax deal in Puerto Rico might keep it in consideration.

Amazon seems to want a city where they would be a Big Deal, maybe the dominant employer. In New York or LA, they'd just be another big business.

Weather is an issue. They'll want some place that doesn't flood or get snowbound, since their HQ city will include some distribution centers. That knocks out Minneapolis - St. Paul, Houston, Miami, and Tampa.

They probably don't want a super high cost area, which knocks out SF-Oakland-San Jose.
Maybe Washington, DC, too.

Extreme high crime areas are out - that takes out Tijuana and Detroit.

Mass transit is a specified requirement. This takes out cities with weak transit systems.

Not too close to Seattle, since they want to be more geographically distributed. That probably takes out the West Coast cities.

So what's left?

Chicago
Dallas–Fort Worth
Toronto
Philadelphia
Atlanta
Boston
Phoenix
Montreal
Denver
St. Louis
Baltimore
Charlotte
Orlando
San Antonio
Pittsburgh
Cincinnati
Las Vegas
Kansas City
Cleveland
Columbus
Austin
Indianapolis
Nashville

I'm going to guess Austin or Nashville. Small enough that Amazon can be a big fish in a small pond, big enough to support the work force, liveable enough that people will come, good land availability.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_North_American_metropo...
The flights will come as soon as the demand is there.
I'd rather hear about small things that are true than large things that are false.
I guess that makes sense and speaks to a bigger problem here, which is that with a very large number one certainly wants to simply store it in a massive file on disk, and the encoding to do that probably shouldn't be based on the printable ASCII digits--because why.
ATL does have marta it's just that white people neglected it for most of it's history.

The last year I lived in ATL I took marta to work as my commute.
For the sake of discussion, I offer Ayn Rand's Apollo 11: https://campus.aynrand.org/works/1969/01/01/apollo-11/
Which part of the world do you live ? been working with Cobol for a decade . Not that sexy , but hey , it pays the bills.
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One difference at least is that at that point Google wasn't producing and selling phones of their own. There's the Pixel now.
In other words, this:

http://phdcomics.com/comics/archive.php?comicid=1174
Same here. I was sceptical about code generation and the whole protobuf as a base thing but i'm really liking it. Especially when you throw opentracing in the mix.
Portland suffers from the same cascade fault as Seattle and Oregon was much later to the party in terms of realizing they had a risk and addressing it.
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