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I have been looking around for positions having had my last project canceled. I'm so tired, it seems like "software development" is more "software integration" these days. Maybe I'm old and washed up. I don't know, but jeez, I LOVE writing software. I mean, I love it. Problems wake me up in the middle of the night with rapturous solutions. I mean, seriously, I don't care what kind of software I'm writing, just be something that does something. In the past few years, I've kept in touch with various high profile colleagues, hoping against hope that something interesting would show up. Sadly, no. Venture Capitalists should no longer have the initials VC, it should be more like "vC." I know times are tough, but the whole VC deal is supposed to help you develop a product. The new deal is that you more or less have to have it developed. Worse than that, it needs to be fully buzzword compliant. While this is not an entirely new thing, it has become much worse. Then, don't get me started on cloud computing. I mean, really, "cloud" computing. Talk about a buzzword. OMG then there's SaaS! None of these things are rocket science, and in many ways, they offer really powerful solutions to previously difficult or expensive problems, but not everything NEEDS to be cloud based. SaaS is a billing model, not an architecture, just ask skype. Lastly, for various reasons, I'm a generalist. That means I have a pretty wide exposure with some really deep experience in a few areas like low level C/C++ and OS stuff (Windows, Linux, BSD). I could write a book on the various programming issues: threads, processes, synchronization, memory management, I/O, DMA, compilers, algorithms, pseudo-AI expert systems, databases, SQL variations, optimizations, and on and on. What's the point?
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