Is there any such thing as a recession proof job? No.
Nevertheless, there is some interesting discussion about how some jobs are more recession-resistant than others.
20190606/DuckDuckGo is there any such thing as a recession proof job
20190606/https://money.howstuffworks.com/10-recession-proof-businesses.htm
20190606/https://www.techrepublic.com/blog/career-management/there-is-no-such-thing-as-a-recession-proof-job/
10 years ago, I was shortly involved in the Apple II scene, mainly in the interest of using an Apple IIc Plus as a bridge machine to affect a floppy-disk-based data transfer and backup of my Macintosh SE with a 40 MB internal SCSI hard disk drive. At the time, I did note that there were some interesting local Apple II user groups, but I never thought about attending them at the time. “Maybe later” was a passing thought.
Well, now it’s later, and I’ve got involved once again, out of the interest of actually building the much yearned-for null modem serial cable to connect my Macintosh SE directly to a PC RS-232 serial port. At the earlier time, I’ve read the Inside Macintosh book, learned about the trick, but never built the cable.
But, anyways, with all that cool demoscene underway that I have now, now I want to get more involved with the local Apple II and Macintosh Classic community. To show off what I have, see what more cool things I can learn, and maybe should I consider parting with the machines, some semblance that I will personally know who I sell the machine to and can come back for visits.
So I started looking into this article about “first jobs” being at risk because they are easily automated, but then I found it leads to Wall Street Journal. Okay, but it’s the blog, not an article, so it should be alright, right? Wrong. Even the Wall Street Journal blog posts are behind a paywall. “Well, then, what’s the point of calling it a blog?” I wonder.
20190605/https://www.linkedin.com/comm/feed/news/4404187
Wall Street Journal article about the decline of motor vehicles among the younger generations. Article about first jobs being easily automated. Surely, these articles are designed for an older reader base? How about an article about how the younger generations are not reading the Wall Street Journal? That is a subject reserved for third party websites to discuss, such as this one.
20190605/DuckDuckGo wall street journal declining news sales next generation
https://www.thedrive.com/news/27578/this-is-why-the-emwall-street-journalem-is-wrong-about-kids-and-driving
20190605/https://news.stanford.edu/2016/12/08/todays-children-face-tough-prospects-better-off-parents/
Wow, now this is interesting. Here I see an article that head-on headbutts some of what I said was previously covered by the Wall Street Journal. So they’re wrong, that is what this article writer thinks. It’s not a trend that started before the recession, it truly is the economic divide that is reducing car ownership, not a reduction in interest.
And yes, again, sadly we must reiterate how the great American middle class is fading away. Now, here’s the thing. Most of the financial hardships of the younger generations are due most directly to growing income inequality. The cleavage into the 20% comfortable Finance, Technology, Engineering, and Medical sector (FTEM) living a comfortable life with a bright outlook for the future (with limitations for the medical sector), and the 80% low-wage sector where the future is dim and finances are tight.
In the blogosphere, I’ve been in the middle of some epic blog writing. And I say this, and I know what you’re going to be thinking in response… too much information, right? But this is the thing: it’s about 1980s and 1990s computer innovations, and you lived through it, but boy, A LOT happened during that period of time, and it’s conceivably pretty difficult to explain it all to a modern 2019 youngster.
Inevitably, we have to admit that many of the innovations that did happen are still present today, but they are of a complexity that many people probably will never fully understand. Most importantly, most people don’t care to learn and understand them anyways.
So much innovation simply happened so quickly, a new world was quickly brought upon society before we could fully understand it.
But now, the time has passed where those who would have wanted to fully understand it now do, and for those that don’t, well, they are simply content living their lives without a complete understanding. And chances are, they never will.
Some useful buzzword software I happened to see mentioned on Twitter for Python data science, math, and statistics: numpy, pandas, numba.
So, yeah, I have the miniature libc implementation I wrote for my
example2 calculator program, but surely, someone else must have
written other miniature libc implementations. So, I go a-searching,
and this is what I find.
20190603/DuckDuckGo miniature libc
20190603/https://github.com/khamidou/minilibc
20190603/https://stackoverflow.com/questions/4921553/small-libc-for-embedded-systems
Honestly, I have to say that for what I found so far, I am not particularly impressed with. I think my idea of taking a well-established, full-featured but still lightweight standard C library, but adding in more modularization, and really fancying up the documentation about the internals, that’s the way to go.
This is interesting, a “hot” discussion on Photography StackExchange. Why would you carry a tripod and ND filters in 2019 when you can do the same in software? The answer: Well, you can’t really do the same in software, and much of the purpose of carrying a tripod is to capture as good of an original photo as possible, which will help your modern processing software give you even better results. For ND filters, well sometimes it is just easier, faster, or more enjoyable to just use those rather than doing it all in software. Some people don’t like the post-processing steps, they’d rather prefer a one and done at the photography site.
20190601/https://photo.stackexchange.com/questions/108630/what-is-the-advantage-of-carrying-a-tripod-and-nd-filters-when-you-could-use-ima
The name of this blog post says it all… in some sense, I’m surprised that Docker made this trivial security programming mistake, but perhaps I shouldn’t be, since Docker started out as a much smaller project than the project it grew to become.
20190601/https://duo.com/decipher/docker-bug-allows-root-access-to-host-file-system
So, in the middle of a web search for other things, I found some interesting things about StackOverflow. First of all, StackOverflow has a “meta” website where there are questions and answers about the StackOverflow service itself. Second, StackOverflow once tried to roll out a “StackOverflow Documentation” system, in an effort to improve the state of documentation available, but in the end they had to sunset it. Why? The main reasons were that one of the motivations for developing the system was that it would help bring in more revenue to StackOverflow, when more people would use it because of the greater service offerings. It didn’t. As it turns out, documentation is a tough place to make improvements in, and although there are improvements to be made, the fact is, with documentation, there is already a lot of good or at least passible stuff out there already. What really got StackOverflow started was the fact that before StackOverflow, there was basically nothing else out there on the Internet, at least nothing that was publicly available, so StackOverflow was really a “killer app” in its category.
Also, I found this other interesting and related article about how StackOverflow makes money. Basically, they concentrate on StackOverflow careers as their way to make money through advertising. From a community and logical standpoint, the concept is very legitimate.
20190531/https://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/354217/sunsetting-documentation
20190531/https://stackoverflow.blog/2016/11/15/how-we-make-money-at-stack-overflow-2016-edition
Serverspec and Testinfra are some ways to test your infrastructure configuration code. Molecule is somewhat of a newer system that could possibly be useful. And now we have another name in our game: Inspec. Inspec supports Serverspec-style testing, but it is better and provides other doodads and widgets that I am not entirely familiar with. Nevertheless, our team is using it.
20190531/https://www.inspec.io/