The New Jersey governor’s press conference today was really good. Clear, articulate, compassionate, firm, informational.
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I KID YOU NOT that Governor Phil Murphy put out a call for COBOL programmers. So if you were a whiz kid writing code for insurance company mainframes in the 1970’s....New Jersey needs you!
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Everyone is doing the best they can, but many states rely on legacy systems that are maintained by an army of “historian-coders.” https://www.nytimes.com/2020/04/04/nyregion/coronavirus-ny-unemployment-benefits.html …pic.twitter.com/Uuq6PqoAXk
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States are forming partnerships to convert to modern solutions. Idaho and Vermont went live in 2014 with a new system that saved 75-80% of the mainframe costs and “reduced manual work spent by staff by more than 2,000 hours.”https://www.govtech.com/policy/Collaboration-on-Unemployment-Systems-Creates-Efficiencies-Cost-Savings.html …
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Lest you be shocked inordinately by the states: in the finance industry, “an estimated $3 trillion in daily commerce flows through COBOL systems.” FASCINATING story of a 75-year-old coder who does emergency public & finance sector patches.https://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-banks-cobol/banks-scramble-to-fix-old-systems-as-it-cowboys-ride-into-sunset-idUSKBN17C0D8 …
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The core banking/deposits platform I work with is all written in Java and I thought *that* was old school lmao
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