In SoylentNews' continuing coverage of the aftershocks of the US Presidential election, it appears that tech will factor large in a Trump administration:
Billionaire tech investor Peter Thiel is putting together a brain trust of Silicon Valley insiders to share ideas with the transition team for President-elect Donald Trump. But he's having trouble finding takers.
For the full story, consult the Washington Post article.
Some further tidbits:
Thiel, a libertarian who was shunned by his tech industry peers for being a Trump supporter, is pitching his personal network of entrepreneurs on the opportunity to influence an incoming administration that is somewhat of a blank slate when it comes to technology policy. Because Trump had so few ties to the world of tech, Thiel will have an unusually powerful influence on the new administration, the people familiar with his thinking said.
This much we already knew. Real estate development is ancient tech. Heck, Emperor Nero of Rome did it when he let Rome burn so he could build new condos! But there is resistance in the Valley of Silicon.
But in the liberal bastion of Silicon Valley — where Trump is despised and even admitting you're a Republican can hurt your candidacy for a job – that coveted opportunity has been fraught with challenges. And some people have turned him down altogether. Thiel declined to comment.
We may have reached the corporate defined limits of fair use, so I encourage one and all to read the complete WaPo article. I have not heard anything about an offer being made to The Mighty Buzzard yet, but it is in the range of possibility!
(Score: 3, Insightful) by VLM on Monday November 28 2016, @02:08PM
They have a smoke screen up of dumb DB idea of the month (remember the noSQL fad some years ago) and the javascript framework of the week. Big data, data warehouse, data whorehouse, data whatever. If you're old enough you remember object oriented programming was the silver bullet of software reuse and would fix everything and nobody would ever use anything else. See also design patterns, UML/ER diagrams and graphical programming, functional programming, typed languages.
The real world, of course, the one that makes actual money, runs on barely understood Perl scripts connected to mysql, and legacy COBOL code.
(Score: 1) by Arik on Monday November 28 2016, @02:16PM
What are things that work?
If laughter is the best medicine, who are the best doctors?
(Score: 2) by LoRdTAW on Monday November 28 2016, @04:03PM
C and anything else that stands the test of time.
(Score: 1) by Arik on Monday November 28 2016, @07:46PM
If laughter is the best medicine, who are the best doctors?
(Score: 3, Touché) by LoRdTAW on Monday November 28 2016, @10:02PM
I'll take "Doh!" for a thousand, Alex.
(Score: 2) by turgid on Monday November 28 2016, @08:22PM
Real Programmers(TM) know that shell scripting is the silver bullet of software reuse :-)
I refuse to engage in a battle of wits with an unarmed opponent [wikipedia.org].