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The job market for new grads: worse than in 2008, but better than 2002

The Pragmatic Engineer

In what might be helpful, Chris started his career as a software engineer in the middle of the big downturn back in 2002 – known as the Dotcom Bust – and worked through the financial crisis in 2008. Here’s his take: 'This 2023 downturn now is far worse than 2008 but not nearly as bad as 2002, which felt apocalyptic.

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Lyft in Trouble

The Pragmatic Engineer

David Risher, who was Amazon’s SVP for US Retail between 1997-2002, is assuming the role. For example, the market cap of Uber is roughly 4x the annual revenue (2022 revenue of $17B, market cap at $61B). In response, Lyft has taken drastic action, announcing a new CEO on Tuesday, 27 March.

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The Roots of Today's Modern Backend Engineering Practices

The Pragmatic Engineer

These were three out of the nine topics covered in The Past and Future of Modern Backend Practices.

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Domain Registrars which Developers Recommend

The Pragmatic Engineer

Founded in 2002. The controls are good, the knowledge base quite extensive, and the support quite helpful when I needed it.” ” Namesilo. A popular registrar, globally. A provider that’s been around since 2010. Around since 2003.

AWS 65
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How to Use Apache Iceberg in CDP’s Open Lakehouse

Cloudera

7 2002 5271359. Our imported flights table now contains the same data as the existing external hive table and we can quickly check the row counts by year to confirm: year _c1. 1 2008 7009728. 2 2007 7453215. 3 2006 7141922. 4 2005 7140596. 5 2004 7129270. 6 2003 6488540. 8 2001 5967780. 9 2000 5683047. …. In-place partition evolution .

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Java 11 Features: A Brief Overview

U-Next

The letters designated in the Unicode Standard as spaces, line breaks, and paragraph separators, such as U 2002, a space as wide as the letter “n,” are the opposite.The technique has two variations: stripLeading() only removes leading whitespaces, and stripTailing() only removes trailing ones.

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The Newest FIFA World Cup Referee: Human-in-the-Loop Machine Learning

Cloudera

The second notable fact about the 2022 World Cup is that this is only the second World Cup to be held entirely in Asia, the first being the 2002 tournament held in South Korea and Japan. C (Cloudera is headquartered in the US, but we also recognize the superiority of the metric system).