Throw enough shit at the wall and some of it will stick.

At least there will be no shortage of easy work for security analysts if people keep encouraging morons to think they should be developing web applications.

I'd be terrified if this guy had done work for me previously. How exactly is it that someone like this guy ends up being a "Professional Software Engineer"? Has the bar been dropped that low?

In Canada, the term "Engineer" is a professional designation. You are not legally allowed to call yourself an engineer unless you have gone through the degree and professional accreditation. It feels really strange now to live in the U.S. where anyone is allowed to refer to themselves as an Engineer :)

Not saying the Canadian way is better, it's just interesting.

Soon every child will be born with its own "startup".

I've come up with a formula...

<large font><made up word - typically something like boopnik, slurpio, cloppertrin, etc>Do <something that has been done 5,000 times>, <faster, better, more, gooder, bestester, more better, simply, less hard, more easier></large font> blah blah blah blah blah, here's a picture of us sailing and helping the homeless, because we're unique. Give us money. Thx.

...because in order to really protect your customers' data, you should share it with more clueless children who think javascript should be used for everything.

What does the creepy looking mannequin have to do with the article?

I don't think it's very fair to characterise her appearance that way.

That is, assuming you're speaking of the smiling person in the upper left corner of the article body, which is a photo of the current Chairwoman and CEO of IBM, Virginia M. Rometty.

I was hoping this would a discussion about an old line tech company hitting numbers at all costs so they can buy back shares versus new companies (like LinkedIn) that issue stock to grow. It's the natural order of things, not anything to be feared.