[NTLUG:Discuss] Job Market

[Stuart A Johnston]

The idea behind Parrot was to support many dynamic languages from the 
same VM. Sounds less revolutionary now but it was a pretty exciting idea 
at the time. Unfortunately, it never really worked out. Now the parrot 
is mostly just pining for the fjords.


On 06/14/2016 02:15 AM, Robert Pearson wrote:
> RE: "write fantastic scripts"
> What are people using for "fantastic scripts" these days?
> The assumption is that "fantastic" means something more durable and
> sophisticated than Bourne or Bash quick fixes.
>
> The last interesting thing I looked at was "HipHop for PHP" which was
> brilliant but is now defunct.
> Replaced by " HipHop Virtual Machine
> <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HipHop_Virtual_Machine> (HHVM), which is a
> just-in-time <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Just-in-time_compilation> (JIT)
> compilation-based execution engine for PHP".
> Hardware is so fast and so inexpensive this now works.
> I'm still trying to wrap my head around "Parrot virtual machine". Is it
> viable for scripting or not?
>
> On Sun, Jun 5, 2016 at 10:38 PM, Christopher Cox <cjcox at acm.org> wrote:
>
>> On 06/04/2016 11:07 PM, Stephen M wrote:
>>
>>> Hi all,
>>>
>>> This is a bit off topic but I wanted to know what the job market is
>>> like in Dallas around now.  I'm looking to move around the end of the
>>> year maybe early next year.  I wanted to see what options I would
>>> have?  How big is open source in general in the area?  Are managers
>>> hiring for Linux experienced workers?
>>>
>>>
>> I'm looking for a good experienced Linux sys admin right now... and having
>> some difficulty finding a good candidate.
>>
>> Very pro open source company using CentOS, Ovirt, postgres, mysql, jboss,
>> wso2...you don't need to understand all of that fully of course, but need
>> to understand the essential items of good sys admin, including the ability
>> to solve problems and write fantastic scripts.
>>
>> So... yes, I know for a fact that there is at least one manager hiring.
>>
>>
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