I grew up in the middle of hackers, people that learned assembly before even speak, intelligent gentleman seeking the understandings of computers and systems, real computer lovers. Being in front of a computer 20 hours a day couldn’t be considered work, we grew, the first one of us started working, then another one, until one day everyone was well employed and starting a business life.

I always though that we were the beginning of many similar generations, that in ten years we would see ten times more hackers doing brilliant things for the world, but I was wrong, months ago I had a position for a senior C/UNIX programmer and the number of candidates was a shame, seems like people are much more interested in visual basic, delphi and java, and it’s not because there are not many positions available, ten years ago we had almost none.