I'm pretty nice. I stick my foot in my mouth on a regular basis, but I don't use my disability as an excuse for running roughshod over everyone I know. Over the decades, I've learned to understand feelings, whether I experience them directly or not.
If you're a full-time employee of a contract house, you probably *can* get health insurance, but it won't be anything like what a large company (like the client) would offer. Until my wife went back to work full-time for a company with great benefits, we had my contract house's insurance, which cost us enough that we qualified for a medical expense deduction on our taxes every year.
"know how to calculate your bill rate, so that you cover insurance, time off, retirement, taxes...etc."
Yeah, that's awesome when the client will let you work on a 1099 or if you can go corp-to-corp. Then just bill in dollars per hour what you'd want in an equivalent full-time salary in thousands per year, e.g., $150/hr == $150K/year.
The vast majority of contractors don't have those options. They have to go through one of the client's preferred contract houses, like the ones mentioned in TFA. Those companies' HR policies are a joke: Lousy yet expensive insurance, minimal vacation and sick time, no raises unless the client is willing to increase what they pay. Even if they'll let you work W-2 hourly (no benefits, and hour's pay for an hour's work, but taxes are withheld and there's still an employer-employee relationship), they still take more of your billing than they should. Plus all the noncompete BS.
...enough businesses realize they've been sold a bill of good by their ad agencies and that they're not getting their money's worth for everything they're spending on web ads?
IBM shot themselves in the foot with ClearCase. It (the entire product line) is so insanely expensive that it really is cheaper to replace it all with FOSS and pay extra people to glue it all together. Worse, you still have to deal with IBM when buying it--their sales "force" would make me want to die of cancer before buying the cure from them.
I usually sign "secure?". I've done it somewhere between 50 and 100 times, and only once has a cashier called me on it. He said, "Hey, it's gotta at least resemble a signature."
I've switched back and forth between Chrome and FF whenever Gates's Law caught up to one but not the other. Been on Chrome for a few years except at work where I have to use FF ESR[1]. I really don't have a huge preference either way. FF57 seems snappier, but I really miss NoScript (coming RSN) and Tab Mix Plus (maybe not so soon).
[1] At least we no longer have to keep IE6 around for old broken corporate web apps.
My main credit card is chip-and-sign. When I'm asked to sign on one of those tablet things, I always write "SECURE?" I've probably done this a hundred times, and only once did the cashier say anything--and all he said was, "Come on, it's got to at least *look* like a signature."
We started doing that after we hired someone based on a phone interview, and he turned out not to be able to do the job at all. An identical-sounding impostor had done the phone interview for him.
I did the same thing a few years ago. Mint was the best of both worlds: It had all the parts of Ubuntu that Just Worked, but it kept GNOME, and even let you choose between GNOME 2 (Mate) and GNOME 3 (Cinnamon). Gets the job done, and on my HTPC, the kids can't tell the difference.
Slashdot Mirror
YouTube.
Bandwidth is easy. Latency is hard.
...so the demise of Google+ doesn't directly affect me. What are Google employees going to use in its place?
It's a start.
I find that I can go less and less time before I have to set the floppy drive's timing and dwell...
And people wonder why tzdata gets updated so often...
Let's hope Sprint doesn't hitch their wagon to the wrong 5G horse, like they did with WiMAX for 4G.
In New York, that's JFK and LGA, but there are only so many markets big enough to handle separate airports.
Somebody above referred to fond memories of writing MIPS assembler in school. I have fond memories of writing a MIPS compiler in school. :)
I'm pretty nice. I stick my foot in my mouth on a regular basis, but I don't use my disability as an excuse for running roughshod over everyone I know. Over the decades, I've learned to understand feelings, whether I experience them directly or not.
If you're a full-time employee of a contract house, you probably *can* get health insurance, but it won't be anything like what a large company (like the client) would offer. Until my wife went back to work full-time for a company with great benefits, we had my contract house's insurance, which cost us enough that we qualified for a medical expense deduction on our taxes every year.
"know how to calculate your bill rate, so that you cover insurance, time off, retirement, taxes...etc."
Yeah, that's awesome when the client will let you work on a 1099 or if you can go corp-to-corp. Then just bill in dollars per hour what you'd want in an equivalent full-time salary in thousands per year, e.g., $150/hr == $150K/year.
The vast majority of contractors don't have those options. They have to go through one of the client's preferred contract houses, like the ones mentioned in TFA. Those companies' HR policies are a joke: Lousy yet expensive insurance, minimal vacation and sick time, no raises unless the client is willing to increase what they pay. Even if they'll let you work W-2 hourly (no benefits, and hour's pay for an hour's work, but taxes are withheld and there's still an employer-employee relationship), they still take more of your billing than they should. Plus all the noncompete BS.
...tells us all we need to know about how this will work out.
...enough businesses realize they've been sold a bill of good by their ad agencies and that they're not getting their money's worth for everything they're spending on web ads?
IBM shot themselves in the foot with ClearCase. It (the entire product line) is so insanely expensive that it really is cheaper to replace it all with FOSS and pay extra people to glue it all together. Worse, you still have to deal with IBM when buying it--their sales "force" would make me want to die of cancer before buying the cure from them.
I usually sign "secure?". I've done it somewhere between 50 and 100 times, and only once has a cashier called me on it. He said, "Hey, it's gotta at least resemble a signature."
Ann Livermore should have gotten the job instead of Carly.
I've switched back and forth between Chrome and FF whenever Gates's Law caught up to one but not the other. Been on Chrome for a few years except at work where I have to use FF ESR[1]. I really don't have a huge preference either way. FF57 seems snappier, but I really miss NoScript (coming RSN) and Tab Mix Plus (maybe not so soon).
[1] At least we no longer have to keep IE6 around for old broken corporate web apps.
My main credit card is chip-and-sign. When I'm asked to sign on one of those tablet things, I always write "SECURE?" I've probably done this a hundred times, and only once did the cashier say anything--and all he said was, "Come on, it's got to at least *look* like a signature."
Google for "your-name ( your-uid )". It found a comment of mine from late 2000.
I googled "ebh ( 116526 )" and found this.
We started doing that after we hired someone based on a phone interview, and he turned out not to be able to do the job at all. An identical-sounding impostor had done the phone interview for him.
s/liberal/neoliberal/
FTFY
So this is wrong? "So they decided to create their own desktop environment, one that retains the same look and feel of a GNOME 2 (or MATE) desktop, but built atop GNOME 3 technologies. That was how Cinnamon came to be."
I did the same thing a few years ago. Mint was the best of both worlds: It had all the parts of Ubuntu that Just Worked, but it kept GNOME, and even let you choose between GNOME 2 (Mate) and GNOME 3 (Cinnamon). Gets the job done, and on my HTPC, the kids can't tell the difference.