God SOX is PITA, understandably so, but still a PITA.
My old job conformed to SOX, because they had to. publicly traded yada yada.
everything was about controllership. to promote something to Prod it took a weekly group meeting, and when I left they did monthly moves, weekly and emergencies. It was becoming bogged down by meetings and schedules. Still didn't stop them from having critical systems issues, or stop me from getting daily calls at 4am.. It really affects productivity. Users ask for prod changes, for something simple, but due to the timing of the request it maybe a month till the next move because that simple change touches a user-exit. Meanwhile the users are stuck doing a task daily for hours, that could be eliminated completely It really saps a developer/support person's motivation. "quick fix? sure... shit. That won't go in till next month at the earliest." And a whole week of Regression testing out of your schedule. Which while nice is some ways, was always questionable.
Now, I'm at a large private company. No SOX, but still audits and such. We have Emergencies, 4PM moves, nightly emergency, and weekly. Anything not process critical can go at 4, if it's process critical and needs to be in fast, it can go in at night during the 10 minute quiet window. (so it can't be a huge change), Anything larger and process critical goes over the weekend during maintenance.
The flexibility now is a god-send. Less emergencies, quicker response to issues. We still have oversight, Users still need to test and approve before it gets promoted, and I can't promote myself, which I'm fine with. But with quicker responses, my productivity is a lot higher. I'm allowed to do my job and not have to justify every little bit in the change. If I make a mistake, it's documented for next time, and we move forward. There's no end-to-end regression test, which can bite us, but so far hasn't been. It's almost like if you trust your employees, stuff works. Let them do their jobs and get out of the way.
SOX, I'm thinking was overkill, meant to reign in the bad-apples, and ended up hobbling publicly owned companies IT depts.
You are so right. In a previous job, we were considered "STRUCO" or Structured costs, like maintenance or utilities bills. We didn't add direct value to the bottom line. We were a productivity enhancer or cost reducer. But we never "made them money".
Kind of depressing to think about. When you are view like that, it makes you expendable.
Most initial implementations do suck. They're trying to fit the round peg in the square hole. How do you make a software package work for almost any business? make it complicated.
And elevator company, a book publisher, a construction tool manufacturer and a candy company all use the same ERP, just to use a few examples. To do that, it has to be complicated. And it ain't gonna be easy installing. Especially if the company wants to do it on the cheap.
But building a system from scratch, in house, that has the capability of an ERP isn't possible for most companies. Their core business is not software, so they just want something that works. Once the implementation is over, maintaining a vanilla system isn't too bad.
I was just talking to my paid investor who knows about this shit.
She said to avoid it like the plague. Sure you could have made some money at one point. But now it's just a bubble waiting to crash. There's no regulatory backbone to the thing.
4K in 24 hours... at least with tulips you could eat them.
Publishers don't really care who sells their books... as long as they get sold.
When Borders closed down, the Industry didn't get any smaller. B&N and Amazon just took up the slack.
Electronic or Physical, it doesn't matter.
And as far as distribution, it's quite a bit different than what it was even 10 years ago. Pubs used to send out thousands of copies of the latest and greatest. Only to get thousands returned. Now they are more picky about placement and quantity. And their turn around when from a week or 2 shipping, to 2 days.
I haven't seen any Nvidia driver install adds with mine as well. However I did just start seeing One-drive upgrade adds in my File Explorer... which I immediately disabled. Under the File/directory options checkboxes, there's one there for Sync service notifications.
But that was the only place I've seen them to date.
Streaming Services are by definition a Service. Other Services in the state are taxed at 6%. Streaming services can be considered a Luxury item, nobody needs netflix to live. You won't die without it.
the Vaping taxes are essentially the same thing. You don't need to vape. It has health issues just like regular smoking. Kids pick it up as being "cool". Tax it like cigarettes..boom done. I can think of about 5 Vape stores in my town, why on God's green earth do we need 5 in small town? Survival of the fittest, some will close.. I'm sorry. oh well.
Do I like taxes...no. But Wolf also got passed a decent Education budget, finally after years of crap from Rendell and Corbett. So if you are going to tax me 6% for netflix and Amazon Prime, oh well. Maybe my kids will get a better computer system in their school. Or maybe their teachers will get a better contract and be more engaged in the class room .
State taxes don't necessarily suck 100% of the time. there are real benefits that can happen. People need to get their heads out of their asses and realize we all need to work together as a community to keep things from going to total shit. Taxes are one of the ways we are able to do this./end rant.
That is slowwwwly changing. I can go into my local grocery store now and actually by beer. I still have to pay for it at a special register. But it's a step in the right direction.
Yep, I think its like $20 off your first paycheck only...
I think the idea, right or wrong, was to tax out of area people coming in for jobs then leaving and paying income taxes to other areas. never quite made sense to me .
Slashdot Mirror
now that's a callback.
God SOX is PITA, understandably so, but still a PITA.
My old job conformed to SOX, because they had to. publicly traded yada yada.
everything was about controllership. to promote something to Prod it took a weekly group meeting, and when I left they did monthly moves, weekly and emergencies. It was becoming bogged down by meetings and schedules. Still didn't stop them from having critical systems issues, or stop me from getting daily calls at 4am.. It really affects productivity. Users ask for prod changes, for something simple, but due to the timing of the request it maybe a month till the next move because that simple change touches a user-exit. Meanwhile the users are stuck doing a task daily for hours, that could be eliminated completely It really saps a developer/support person's motivation. "quick fix? sure... shit. That won't go in till next month at the earliest." And a whole week of Regression testing out of your schedule. Which while nice is some ways, was always questionable.
Now, I'm at a large private company. No SOX, but still audits and such. We have Emergencies, 4PM moves, nightly emergency, and weekly. Anything not process critical can go at 4, if it's process critical and needs to be in fast, it can go in at night during the 10 minute quiet window. (so it can't be a huge change), Anything larger and process critical goes over the weekend during maintenance.
The flexibility now is a god-send. Less emergencies, quicker response to issues. We still have oversight, Users still need to test and approve before it gets promoted, and I can't promote myself, which I'm fine with. But with quicker responses, my productivity is a lot higher. I'm allowed to do my job and not have to justify every little bit in the change. If I make a mistake, it's documented for next time, and we move forward. There's no end-to-end regression test, which can bite us, but so far hasn't been. It's almost like if you trust your employees, stuff works. Let them do their jobs and get out of the way.
SOX, I'm thinking was overkill, meant to reign in the bad-apples, and ended up hobbling publicly owned companies IT depts.
You are so right. In a previous job, we were considered "STRUCO" or Structured costs, like maintenance or utilities bills. We didn't add direct value to the bottom line. We were a productivity enhancer or cost reducer. But we never "made them money".
Kind of depressing to think about. When you are view like that, it makes you expendable.
Most initial implementations do suck. They're trying to fit the round peg in the square hole. How do you make a software package work for almost any business? make it complicated.
And elevator company, a book publisher, a construction tool manufacturer and a candy company all use the same ERP, just to use a few examples. To do that, it has to be complicated. And it ain't gonna be easy installing. Especially if the company wants to do it on the cheap.
But building a system from scratch, in house, that has the capability of an ERP isn't possible for most companies. Their core business is not software, so they just want something that works. Once the implementation is over, maintaining a vanilla system isn't too bad.
I guess Al will have to avoid China from now on...
You are so right.
People are thinking they can get in on $100, and end up with thousands or more.
Ain't going to happen. maybe if you bought 100 bitcoins when it was $100 a coin. But now, only the people with deep pockets can really do that.
I was just talking to my paid investor who knows about this shit.
She said to avoid it like the plague. Sure you could have made some money at one point. But now it's just a bubble waiting to crash. There's no regulatory backbone to the thing.
4K in 24 hours... at least with tulips you could eat them.
At least they have an idea now that there's a problem somewhere that needs fixing, and it's not hidden for an actual launch.
Good test. Try and break it.
Found the optimist!
meh, as it was explained to me.
Publishers don't really care who sells their books... as long as they get sold.
When Borders closed down, the Industry didn't get any smaller. B&N and Amazon just took up the slack.
Electronic or Physical, it doesn't matter.
And as far as distribution, it's quite a bit different than what it was even 10 years ago. Pubs used to send out thousands of copies of the latest and greatest. Only to get thousands returned. Now they are more picky about placement and quantity. And their turn around when from a week or 2 shipping, to 2 days.
That is encouraging to hear. I've had mixed results.
The Users will never do that.
My code doesn't need documentation
I haven't seen any Nvidia driver install adds with mine as well. However I did just start seeing One-drive upgrade adds in my File Explorer... which I immediately disabled. Under the File/directory options checkboxes, there's one there for Sync service notifications.
But that was the only place I've seen them to date.
I started at 36K in 1998.
Nowhere near 160K now, but a lot closer to it than 36K.
Also it helps to work in the Mid-Atlantic region and not bay area. The dollar goes quite a bit farther.
I often think about what working in the Bay area would be like. I may make more, but at what cost.
yep,
1. update makemkv
2. rip movie
3. handbrake to convert.
or
download already ripped/converted file.
I hate forced previews as well. I want my device to do what I say, not what some movie boss wants.
Seconded!
any external calls weren't coming in. sound like they're starting to get it moving again.
Streaming Services are by definition a Service. Other Services in the state are taxed at 6%. Streaming services can be considered a Luxury item, nobody needs netflix to live. You won't die without it.
the Vaping taxes are essentially the same thing. You don't need to vape. It has health issues just like regular smoking. Kids pick it up as being "cool". Tax it like cigarettes..boom done. I can think of about 5 Vape stores in my town, why on God's green earth do we need 5 in small town? Survival of the fittest, some will close.. I'm sorry. oh well.
Do I like taxes...no. But Wolf also got passed a decent Education budget, finally after years of crap from Rendell and Corbett. So if you are going to tax me 6% for netflix and Amazon Prime, oh well. Maybe my kids will get a better computer system in their school. Or maybe their teachers will get a better contract and be more engaged in the class room .
State taxes don't necessarily suck 100% of the time. there are real benefits that can happen. People need to get their heads out of their asses and realize we all need to work together as a community to keep things from going to total shit. Taxes are one of the ways we are able to do this. /end rant.
What's the real difference between buying a membership somewhere in state and paying 6%, and paying for 6% tax for your Netflix membership.
This is all just making a mountain out of a molehill.
Besides the taxes aren't hitting Netflix, they're hitting us the consumers.
in the end it's going to be just another line on the bill every month.
That is slowwwwly changing. I can go into my local grocery store now and actually by beer. I still have to pay for it at a special register. But it's a step in the right direction.
Yep, I think its like $20 off your first paycheck only...
I think the idea, right or wrong, was to tax out of area people coming in for jobs then leaving and paying income taxes to other areas. never quite made sense to me .
Oh I feel old....
They're going to take our jerbs! and replace us!
'merica!