[NTLUG:Discuss] Job Market

[Rusty Haddock]

I thought parrot was pushing up the daisies. :-)
On Jun 14, 2016 11:32 PM, "Stuart A Johnston" <saj at thecommune.net> wrote:

> 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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