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I'm well aware of that, when I told people I was working on a PHD, often the answer was that once I finished they wouldn't consider talking to me.It seems to depend on each company's culture, some seem to cherish having Ph.D.'s on staff, others not.
CQ de W5ALT
Walt Fair, Jr., P. E.
Comport Computing
Specializing in Technical Engineering Software
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Congrats, well done. What's next? Update your CP signature, for a start, Doctor.
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Gratz Dr Walt 
Bastard Programmer from Hell 
If you can't read my code, try converting it here[^]
"If you just follow the bacon Eddy, wherever it leads you, then you won't have to think about politics." -- Some Bell.
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Congratulations, Dr.! In what, pray tell?
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Some years ago my tenacious fighter pilot tech wife and I were driving from our cabin in the woods to Anaheim California to visit the folks. We stopped for the night at a motel 6 (because we're bad a$$) in Beaver Utah. We checked in and went off to our room where there was supposed to be free WiFi for all.
There was a strongish SSID I could connect to that looked like it was the motel's but it was secured and we were not given the PW. So my wife went down to the desk to ask the international family running the place what the PW might be and was greeted with the equivalent of "Ri Do No" (Think scooby doo). My dear wife, gosh I love her, said I'm a tech, can I have a look at your router? Which they inexplicably let her (She is a traffic stopper even after 8 hours in a car) so she must have stunned Dad because she came back into the room where she left me and said matter of factually, " I reset the router, look for Linksys, it should work now". I said "You Whaaa...." but hey it connected and I had the internet! So thanks babe, you're the best. I think I fell asleep right after that.
So if you ever find the Wifi at the Beaver Utah motel 6 open and free (I doubt you will) you can thank Tenacious K.
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I never use hotel or restaurant WiFi. It's always dreadful.
One anecdote though... I was staying at a hotel (in Las Vegas, baby) and the WiFi kept dropping out. Each room had its own device, cleverly hidden behind the TV. So I unplugged mine, connected to the device in the next room, and called it good.
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So, if she can do all the techy stuff, what exactly is it that you contribute to the relationship?
I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!
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Weren't you listening? He drives the car.
- I would love to change the world, but they won’t give me the source code.
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Beep-beep, beep-beep, yeah!
I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!
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Beatles! You are showing your age there, mate! Damn, so am I!
- I would love to change the world, but they won’t give me the source code.
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I'm a tech too, but without the pleasantness and the the woman's intuition. I swear sometimes I just stand there dumbfounded because she fixed something on a hunch that's not documented anywhere.
We run a mom n' pop (and dog) computer and networking shop. She's out front where she babys the walk ins and I'm in the back where my bad attitude from 40 years in various technical disciplines as left me with little patience for "normals" running amok on the internet wondering "why this is happening to me and can't a law be passed, I did a defrag" can't be seen. 
modified 26-Mar-19 14:25pm.
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Ron Anders wrote: patients
"patience"
Auto-correct is sometimes auto-wrong. 
".45 ACP - because shooting twice is just silly" - JSOP, 2010
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You can never have too much ammo - unless you're swimming, or on fire. - JSOP, 2010
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When you pry the gun from my cold dead hands, be careful - the barrel will be very hot. - JSOP, 2013
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Yeah, that's it, Auto correct. Thanks.
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I was giving you the benefit of the doubt.
".45 ACP - because shooting twice is just silly" - JSOP, 2010
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You can never have too much ammo - unless you're swimming, or on fire. - JSOP, 2010
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When you pry the gun from my cold dead hands, be careful - the barrel will be very hot. - JSOP, 2013
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So she stays out front and smiles, while you stay out back and swear.
Teamwork. You can't beat it.
I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!
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Yeah that's about it.
The 75-80 year old men with that windows 10 come in and treat her like the "little lady" makes me mental more than anything. When she is trying to teach, each of their replys begin with the word "well" which we all know means "You may say that but this is what I think". Then they blame that Bill Gates for it.
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That explains a lot...
#SupportHeForShe
Government can give you nothing but what it takes from somebody else. A government big enough to give you everything you want is big enough to take everything you've got, including your freedom.-Ezra Taft Benson
You must accept 1 of 2 basic premises: Either we are alone in the universe or we are not alone. Either way, the implications are staggering!-Wernher von Braun
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YOu are lucky. Mine cant even open Microsoft word two days in a row... 
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Is it just me, or have the vendors/definers of programming languages fallen into the product mentality of 50% more crunchy than last month marketing? Does it really serve this community of developers to have these languages moving forward so fast and adding endless syntactic sugar and complexity? I see so many people who seem to completely turned inwards, and who seem to spend more time worrying about the language and keeping up with the language than about writing code for people to use. It's like it's become about itself as an end, instead of a means which all programming languages really should be.
Ultimately, if you want to create something significant, you have to stop and select some tools and techniques and stick with them. If that effort goes on for a few years or more, by the time you come back the whole landscape may have changed while the door was closed.
And there's always this pressure that you have to be up on the latest and greatest things, whether they really offer any demonstrable advantages or not, or whether hardly any companies out there doing real products have even caught up to two revisions back yet. But, if you aren't, then you aren't hip or even maybe even hirable, despite the fact that you were the one who was actually creating product for people to use (and the experience thereof) instead of studying to be a language lawyer, and that no customer gives a crap what version of the language the product was written in, just that it's good.
Does all this extra complexity and book length specifications lead to better code, to a better understanding of what is actually happening as opposed to waving a wand to manipulate machines you don't really understand? And I feel sorry for younger developers coming into the world of C++ or C# and others, which have gotten so much complicated to use as an entry point into programming.
Anyway, my caffeine pressure is up to operating levels now, so moving on...
Explorans limites defectum
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Right on
If it's not broken, fix it until it is.
Everything makes sense in someone's mind.
Ya can't fix stupid.
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You have a misunderstanding companies don't want better, They just want simpler, so they can hire some dipwad off the street for half of minimum wage to press a button and know that something will happen and sometimes it might be right.
CQ de W5ALT
Walt Fair, Jr., P. E.
Comport Computing
Specializing in Technical Engineering Software
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Your not far off the nail on the head.
This really is the main reason, or at least the main reasons revolve around this point.
We've spend so long now on this "Everyone must learn to code" thing, because the industry has convinced everyone that we have a severe shortage of coders, that most folks now think writing software as as simple as acquiring a simple life skill.
The premise that coding can "just be picked up" from exposure to it, in the same way we learn to read/write/walk etc is giving the average person on the street that "coding is easy", on top of that, they all see the thousands of £££££/$$$$$$ that us developers make and how rich we are (Yea right) and think... "I'll have me some of that"
This in turn actually turns things around so that we do actually have a lack of good developers, because now no one believes they need to study and learn to get a job in the industry, and thus companies really are now panicking, and looking genuinely for a way to make use of these many 1000's of low brow developers.
Case fact, let's take PHP.
Well known for having a million ways of doing the same thing, just a cursory glance of the basic's of the zend library and you can find multiple functions for achieving the same objective, look at the single most used platform by businesses large & small for rolling out a front end presence... wordpress... written in.... PHP.
Now look at the market where a large portion of commodity programmers can be found.... PHP....
Why?
Simply because PHP over the years added multiple things to accommodate and make things easier for it's audience, PHP started out as an easy to use web tempting language for "beginners", and that "keeping it easy" and "adding things believed to be needed, even if it was duplicate functionality" steam rolled the language into the state that it's in today.
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Same can be said for JavaScript.
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I've been out of the game professionally for about a decade, and took it up again recently as a hobby after the burnout passed.
And I feel your comment so hard. What the hell happened to C#?
I mean, I like some of it. "var" is cool, but you can keep linq.
i've already been doing functional query things for years without it.
on a related note, I wish the C# team would spend some time optimizing their bits first, in terms of changing the language.
For example, adding a yield <sub-iterator> statement to avoid extra object overhead in iterator routines - something at least some of the microsoft dev staff have been asking for too.
instead I get "pattern matching" - what's wrong with "as?"
meh.
Edited to add: Huge win on ref fields though (enabling things like Span) - a much needed feature. More like this plz
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