Not only that, but putting on your resume that you have approved and managed projects with $15,000 budgets is better than $5,000 budgets. Now that I'm in the executive management circles, I meet people who are proud of the budgets they oversee, more so than the effectiveness of those projects and the associated ROI.
On the other hand, I just submitted a proposal to do a large scale development project for $300,000 that initially was estimated to run $1.1 million (US). On top of that, I threw out the ASP/.NET, Websphere, BEA, yadda yadda proposals and selected the proposal to build everything in Open Source tools (JBoss, Jetty, postgreSQL, etc), while targeting J2EE compliance so that our development costs are for expertise and development only, not licenses. Once we need to move to Websphere (or, whatever) we'll have designed the system to require minimal reconfiguration for the "port". Fortunately, the team I've assembled is world-class and has much experience with the BEA, Websphere, BlueMartini-class tools, but also sees the value in Open Source. And, yes, I am expecting a largish bonus if I can pull off a 66% cost savings on this project. I'm also expecting to get more projects out of it, as well.
My biggest regret is moving this to Java in the first place. I'd much prefer to stick with well-modularized, object-oriented perl. But it's too hard to sell to the money people. Perl just doesn't advertise in the venture capital magazines as do Sun, IBM, BEA or Microsoft...sucks, I know, but them's the realities for me right now.
Regarding Tomcat's role as a reference implementation: for HTML, XHTML, XSLT, MathML, etc., the W3C commissions Amaya as the reference implementation, but I don't see people giving up IE or Mozilla for the lastest Amaya builds...nor have I heard, "Yeah, but how does it look in Amaya?," when reviewing a new site design. So, not knowing the world of Java Servers, I find the repeated cry of "reference implementation" a bit weak as a recommendation.
I'm running my 2 WiFi laptops, a central Linux desktop (for NAT'ing my setup behind my cable modem), access point, hub...all the time (24x7). But the cost of these are __nothing__ compared to the expense of keeping my two-story house at 72F.
I don't even think about the computer equipment...
The only thing this issue brings up is that Apple users are apparently rather cheap You lost credibility right here. Apple users may be a lot of things, but we are not 'cheap.'
Happened to me in March - May. Small company, big project, bad management. Thing was we weren't alerted to the fact that payroll would be "late" (sometimes 2 weeks) until the very end of day payday. The last straw was finding out my family's health insurance, for which I paid $500/mo after taxes, had been canceled April 1. I found this out May 5, or so.
What a miserable experience. But we came out of it very well. My co-worker is working at a stable company for more pay (personal connection got the interview) and I'm working for my former client for much more pay, benefits, and equity (not options; equity in a profitable company). While I was sweating out the collapse of the old company I had very little hope going forward. Looking back, it was a great opportunity.
I just want to say, "Thanks!" My life is so much easier now that I have half an idea how to use regexp (after buying and reading the first book).
My former boss, a techie who became CEO, told me the day I was hired that if I wanted to become a guru I needed to master regular expressions (and awk, but that's another, and pre-perl, story).
Philip and Alex's Guide to Web Publishing still ranks as my favorite "computer book" -- one that not only covered technical issues (granted, not at tremendous depth) but theoretical and inspirational ones as well. It's the book that turned me from an application developer to a... well, whatever I am now:)...
At the tail end of the article there is mention of a claim by MS' MacBU of assisting Apple with "70 fixes" to Max OS X 1.0, which became OS X 1.1. No link was provided to what these 70 fixes were or what MS' role in fixing them was.
I've been in a shouting match with an Earthlink broadband support maggot before. Such an idiot. What happened is after explaining my problem he responded in a way which showed me he had no grasp of what I had just said, so I repeated my problem using a different approach. Still no go. So, realizing I was getting nowhere I asked to speak with his supervisor/manager, politely but definitely. His response? "Why?" "Because I requested an escalation." "There is nothing my manager will say that I wouldn't." "That's fine, give me your manager." "No." And so I began the slow ascent into a shouting match.
I hung up called back and the queue, which was noexistent for the previous call was now "over an hour." I hung up and called using a different phone line and again got through immediately (coincidence or is there selective "queuing" for specified incoming calls?) and spoke with a very fine and reasonable support person who recognized my problem right away and went the 4th mile to remedy the situation.
my apache log files are still registering nimda and code red (I && II) attack attempts. 50 unique attempts since June 22. That is down from ~50 an hour last Fall.
this is exactly why Karma is now reported generally. This and the phenomenon of capped users complaining that they're dropped to 48 karma with a +5 post that is lowered 2 points afterward.
Karma was the goal. Now it's a general indicator. I like it.
It means that you no longer need to obsessively track your karma as if it were the price of your WorldCom stocks. Karma now simply gives a general indication of other's opinions regarding your posting, moderating, story submissions, ability to annoy editors...
It's a Good Thing(tm) and I bet it will deflate the karma issue just as changing story ids from initiating at 1 for each story deflated the first post madness (not that the fp'ers have gone away, it's just a lot less important to most people what sequence number their post "gets").
Although SureSource will use all reasonable efforts to safeguard the confidentiality of any visitor information collected, SureSource will have no liability for disclosure of any visitor information obtained due to errors in transmission or the unauthorized acts of third parties
Good for them, I mean....sheesh
I guess using unique keys to tie individual requests to query results is unreasonable.
Why am I not surprised to see that SureSource uses ASP?
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On the other hand, I just submitted a proposal to do a large scale development project for $300,000 that initially was estimated to run $1.1 million (US). On top of that, I threw out the ASP/.NET, Websphere, BEA, yadda yadda proposals and selected the proposal to build everything in Open Source tools (JBoss, Jetty, postgreSQL, etc), while targeting J2EE compliance so that our development costs are for expertise and development only, not licenses. Once we need to move to Websphere (or, whatever) we'll have designed the system to require minimal reconfiguration for the "port". Fortunately, the team I've assembled is world-class and has much experience with the BEA, Websphere, BlueMartini-class tools, but also sees the value in Open Source. And, yes, I am expecting a largish bonus if I can pull off a 66% cost savings on this project. I'm also expecting to get more projects out of it, as well.
My biggest regret is moving this to Java in the first place. I'd much prefer to stick with well-modularized, object-oriented perl. But it's too hard to sell to the money people. Perl just doesn't advertise in the venture capital magazines as do Sun, IBM, BEA or Microsoft...sucks, I know, but them's the realities for me right now.
(Originally part of an embarrassing personal page for my family).
Regarding Tomcat's role as a reference implementation: for HTML, XHTML, XSLT, MathML, etc., the W3C commissions Amaya as the reference implementation, but I don't see people giving up IE or Mozilla for the lastest Amaya builds...nor have I heard, "Yeah, but how does it look in Amaya?," when reviewing a new site design. So, not knowing the world of Java Servers, I find the repeated cry of "reference implementation" a bit weak as a recommendation.
I don't even think about the computer equipment...
The only thing this issue brings up is that Apple users are apparently rather cheap You lost credibility right here. Apple users may be a lot of things, but we are not 'cheap.'
excellent. you just earned 'friend' status :)
(has __anyone__ commented on your sig yet?)
If you deal in Blow, it'll be on HBO -- Johnny Cochran to Al Sharpton (overheard)
consider it a comment for people who like the idea you presented and yet didn't realize the full implications. :)
What a miserable experience. But we came out of it very well. My co-worker is working at a stable company for more pay (personal connection got the interview) and I'm working for my former client for much more pay, benefits, and equity (not options; equity in a profitable company). While I was sweating out the collapse of the old company I had very little hope going forward. Looking back, it was a great opportunity.
My former boss, a techie who became CEO, told me the day I was hired that if I wanted to become a guru I needed to master regular expressions (and awk, but that's another, and pre-perl, story).
Philip and Alex's Guide to Web Publishing still ranks as my favorite "computer book" -- one that not only covered technical issues (granted, not at tremendous depth) but theoretical and inspirational ones as well. It's the book that turned me from an application developer to a ... well, whatever I am now :) ...
It's a damn "Markov" bot: see this post
Because I'm looking at a 1 year investment term. You changed the plot, not the ending. You do understand the reasoning, don't you?
Congratulations, papa!
At the tail end of the article there is mention of a claim by MS' MacBU of assisting Apple with "70 fixes" to Max OS X 1.0, which became OS X 1.1. No link was provided to what these 70 fixes were or what MS' role in fixing them was.
I hung up called back and the queue, which was noexistent for the previous call was now "over an hour." I hung up and called using a different phone line and again got through immediately (coincidence or is there selective "queuing" for specified incoming calls?) and spoke with a very fine and reasonable support person who recognized my problem right away and went the 4th mile to remedy the situation.
No point, just telling the story...
my apache log files are still registering nimda and code red (I && II) attack attempts. 50 unique attempts since June 22. That is down from ~50 an hour last Fall.
I think you missed my point. Once my browser gets the file it caches it locally. I can retrieve the file from my cache. Can you stop that?
Karma was the goal. Now it's a general indicator. I like it.
It's a Good Thing(tm) and I bet it will deflate the karma issue just as changing story ids from initiating at 1 for each story deflated the first post madness (not that the fp'ers have gone away, it's just a lot less important to most people what sequence number their post "gets").
- Although SureSource will use all reasonable efforts to safeguard the confidentiality of any visitor information collected, SureSource will have no liability for disclosure of any visitor information obtained due to errors in transmission or the unauthorized acts of third parties
Good for them, I mean....sheeshI guess using unique keys to tie individual requests to query results is unreasonable.
Why am I not surprised to see that SureSource uses ASP?