If it really made sense to ban things because "you don't know there won't be any problems", why don't we ban shoes, food, umbrellas, eyeglasses, and pencils? Because you don't know with 100% certainty that any of those items won't cause problems. Better be safe than sorry!
As far as tech goes, the only company that seems to care about your educational credentials or grades is Google, and maybe the defense guys / government contractors. The rest will hire you if you can at least spell C++.
I attribute that quote to one of those Wall Street types or sales guys who measure their success entirely by the size of their paycheck. "That engineer only makes $80k and has a tough job that required a complex degree with lots of math in it! What a maroon!" The engineer looks at the Wall Street guy making 3/4 of a million per year and goes "That guy hates his job, is always stressed out, works 90 hours every week, has no hobbies because his job is his life, any family he has he barely sees, it's kind of sad. Why make so much money if you won't get to spend it until after you're all burnt out?"
The difference being:
The engineer will have to keep doing that $80K job until the day he dies, and he'll still be just barely above comfortable.
The banker only has to hold his nose and do that stressful burnout work for about 5 years or so, at which point he's saved millions, and due to his background can "retire" into a cushy CFO or director of accounting role. He now still makes much more than the engineer, but is working fewer hours and has millions in "cushion" should he want to go start a company or something.
An increase in productivity for most companies means an increase in profit, nothing more. For any employees that are directly responsible for that increase in ways above and beyond what is expected of them in their normal duties, the company might provide a bonus or a raise. Beyond that, there's no reason that an increase in productivity should mean an increase in wages across the board.
You've concisely summed up what's wrong with corporate America and why labor should be organizing against it.
Parent is correct. I also work in the Bay Area for a medium sized software company, and we're constantly starved for talent, and engineers who know what they are doing are in high demand. Hell, even engineers who do not know what they are doing are getting work. You could literally not know how to program, and still get a programming job for $75K if you can at least spell C++.
Unless I were to head to a management track, or team leadership, or software architect roles, I'm pretty much stuck at this point.
I realized that and went back to school for an MBA. Even though I love engineering, now I grin and bear the business track, which, I assure you is more lucrative than being stuck in engineering. Yea, MBAs get a bad rap here on Slashdot, and yea, the coursework doesn't REALLY teach you much, but it's a credential that gets a little more than a second glance by business folks, and that's often enough to get your career back on an upward track.
You're trading an extra 500 sq. feet or so for a maddening 1.5 to 2 hour commute. Your choice of living conditions in the Bay area is between super-expensive and super-commute. Unless you plan on taking your chances in East Palo Alto or some of the dodgier neighborhoods around eastside San Jose.
I cant think of a single employer I ever worked for that allowed me to do anything to any of the employment-related legal documents besides read and sign.
Either a moron or someone simply too lazy to read up on a platform's best practices before porting his software. All of the stuff you mentioned is documented by Microsoft.
If you're using C++ correctly, the move from 32 bit to 64 bit should be a re-compile. The trouble usually comes from programmers who do idiotic things like casting pointers to integers and who rely on unspecified or implementation-defined behavior.
Jeez, is Stormfront down today or something? Tell us all about how the glorious pure white race is being out-bred by those rapidly reproducing muslims...
A lot of own-culture-centric viewpoints here on Slashdot. Has it ever occurred to you guys that your very concept of 'merit' is colored by your own particular cultural group, economic upbringing, and outlook? A "pure meritocracy" in one person's mind looks like discrimination to another.
When white males decide that the selection process for some event must be purely "based on merit" is it any surprise that white males are selected?
When I was a software engineer (12+ years of experience), I had recruiters contacting me pretty much daily, with all sorts of wonderful breathless urgency, about how they were "so very interested" in my software skills and would love to chat about their crappy entry-level job or temp position. Annoying as hell, and the recruiters have only gotten more and more desperate as the software job market starts picking up.
Fortunately, I now get contacted about once a month (if that) by recruiters. How, you ask?
Simple. I did a little career move over to the technical marketing side, and changed my job title on LinkedIn to "Senior Product Manager". BAM! The recruiter contacts stopped pretty much overnight. Every once in a while, I get the occasional "I notice you were once an engineer, want to come back??" message which I politely decline, but no more annoying stream of desperation. I suppose if I ever become serious about changing companies, I could always put "Senior Software Engineer" back on LinkedIn and dive through the recruiter spam.
When you think about it, it's kind of revealing. It shows the mentality out there--people think the only thing software companies need is a steady supply of engineers. Apparently, software simply leaps from the engineers' fingertips, right into the customer's shopping cart, with no product definition, schedule, market requirements analysis, etc.
College Republicans: We're inviting Ann Coulter onto campus to do her hate-schtick show. University Officials: Go ahead, but you're making yourselves look like douchebags and this university look like a circus. College Republicans: Uhmm.. OK, she's dis-invited. College Republicans to the Wall Street Journal: WAAAAHHHHHHHHHHH! THE COMMUNIST LIBRUL UNIVERSITY IS CENSORING OUR FREE SPEECH!!!! WAAAAAAAHHHHHHH!
Turns out grandparent poster is right. From the article:
The latest was last week at Fordham University, where President Joseph McShane scolded College Republicans for the sin of inviting Ann Coulter to speak.
Conservatives and libertarians are especially vulnerable to such charges of harassment.
It's basically a bunch of crybaby Republicans whining about how unwelcome on campus their harassment of women, minorities, gays, muslims, any anyone else not like them is.
Normalizing test results based on race helps to remove the demographic bias from the measurement. We might find the idea unpleasant and racist, but it's one way to achieve the end result.
Wealthy people tend to place more emphasis on education quality... So, there is high demand for neighborhoods with highly-ranked schools... So, neighborhoods with highly-ranked schools tend to be expensive... So, Rich people move in and enroll their kids... So, Test scores improve. School gets better ranked... So, Neighborhood, now with a higher-ranked school, is more demanded... So, Neighborhood becomes more expensive...
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If it really made sense to ban things because "you don't know there won't be any problems", why don't we ban shoes, food, umbrellas, eyeglasses, and pencils? Because you don't know with 100% certainty that any of those items won't cause problems. Better be safe than sorry!
As far as tech goes, the only company that seems to care about your educational credentials or grades is Google, and maybe the defense guys / government contractors. The rest will hire you if you can at least spell C++.
The difference being:
The engineer will have to keep doing that $80K job until the day he dies, and he'll still be just barely above comfortable.
The banker only has to hold his nose and do that stressful burnout work for about 5 years or so, at which point he's saved millions, and due to his background can "retire" into a cushy CFO or director of accounting role. He now still makes much more than the engineer, but is working fewer hours and has millions in "cushion" should he want to go start a company or something.
You've concisely summed up what's wrong with corporate America and why labor should be organizing against it.
Parent is correct. I also work in the Bay Area for a medium sized software company, and we're constantly starved for talent, and engineers who know what they are doing are in high demand. Hell, even engineers who do not know what they are doing are getting work. You could literally not know how to program, and still get a programming job for $75K if you can at least spell C++.
Unless I were to head to a management track, or team leadership, or software architect roles, I'm pretty much stuck at this point.
I realized that and went back to school for an MBA. Even though I love engineering, now I grin and bear the business track, which, I assure you is more lucrative than being stuck in engineering. Yea, MBAs get a bad rap here on Slashdot, and yea, the coursework doesn't REALLY teach you much, but it's a credential that gets a little more than a second glance by business folks, and that's often enough to get your career back on an upward track.
Now, we lucked out in finding a single-family home that was only $141K in 1998.
There you go, that's the reason you could get by on $50K a year. Good luck doing that today with current home prices around DC or San Francisco.
You're trading an extra 500 sq. feet or so for a maddening 1.5 to 2 hour commute. Your choice of living conditions in the Bay area is between super-expensive and super-commute. Unless you plan on taking your chances in East Palo Alto or some of the dodgier neighborhoods around eastside San Jose.
I cant think of a single employer I ever worked for that allowed me to do anything to any of the employment-related legal documents besides read and sign.
I believe there's offset_t for offsets and size_t for sizes.
Either a moron or someone simply too lazy to read up on a platform's best practices before porting his software. All of the stuff you mentioned is documented by Microsoft.
If you're using C++ correctly, the move from 32 bit to 64 bit should be a re-compile. The trouble usually comes from programmers who do idiotic things like casting pointers to integers and who rely on unspecified or implementation-defined behavior.
It's easy to miss... When Israel engages in ethnic cleansing, the West calls it "self defense".
Jeez, is Stormfront down today or something? Tell us all about how the glorious pure white race is being out-bred by those rapidly reproducing muslims...
WTF is "4D" supposed to mean when applied to ultrasound technology? They're 2D images of 3D objects. Can we finally measure the hyperfetus?
A lot of own-culture-centric viewpoints here on Slashdot. Has it ever occurred to you guys that your very concept of 'merit' is colored by your own particular cultural group, economic upbringing, and outlook? A "pure meritocracy" in one person's mind looks like discrimination to another.
When white males decide that the selection process for some event must be purely "based on merit" is it any surprise that white males are selected?
If you believe that, I've got a company to sell you...
In the history of musicians giving a huge "fuck you" to their labels, it's tough to beat that album.
LOL, we do Agile. You still need product/market fit, and someone to describe to the engineers what to pivot to.
When I was a software engineer (12+ years of experience), I had recruiters contacting me pretty much daily, with all sorts of wonderful breathless urgency, about how they were "so very interested" in my software skills and would love to chat about their crappy entry-level job or temp position. Annoying as hell, and the recruiters have only gotten more and more desperate as the software job market starts picking up.
Fortunately, I now get contacted about once a month (if that) by recruiters. How, you ask?
Simple. I did a little career move over to the technical marketing side, and changed my job title on LinkedIn to "Senior Product Manager". BAM! The recruiter contacts stopped pretty much overnight. Every once in a while, I get the occasional "I notice you were once an engineer, want to come back??" message which I politely decline, but no more annoying stream of desperation. I suppose if I ever become serious about changing companies, I could always put "Senior Software Engineer" back on LinkedIn and dive through the recruiter spam.
When you think about it, it's kind of revealing. It shows the mentality out there--people think the only thing software companies need is a steady supply of engineers. Apparently, software simply leaps from the engineers' fingertips, right into the customer's shopping cart, with no product definition, schedule, market requirements analysis, etc.
So, basically, it went like this:
College Republicans: We're inviting Ann Coulter onto campus to do her hate-schtick show.
University Officials: Go ahead, but you're making yourselves look like douchebags and this university look like a circus.
College Republicans: Uhmm.. OK, she's dis-invited.
College Republicans to the Wall Street Journal: WAAAAHHHHHHHHHHH! THE COMMUNIST LIBRUL UNIVERSITY IS CENSORING OUR FREE SPEECH!!!! WAAAAAAAHHHHHHH!
They got their whining published in The Wall Street Journal. Clearly their free speech rights are being trampled.
Turns out grandparent poster is right. From the article:
It's basically a bunch of crybaby Republicans whining about how unwelcome on campus their harassment of women, minorities, gays, muslims, any anyone else not like them is.
Normalizing test results based on race helps to remove the demographic bias from the measurement. We might find the idea unpleasant and racist, but it's one way to achieve the end result.
It's a self-reinforcing cycle:
Wealthy people tend to place more emphasis on education quality...
So, there is high demand for neighborhoods with highly-ranked schools...
So, neighborhoods with highly-ranked schools tend to be expensive...
So, Rich people move in and enroll their kids...
So, Test scores improve. School gets better ranked...
So, Neighborhood, now with a higher-ranked school, is more demanded...
So, Neighborhood becomes more expensive...