As a hiring manager it is fairly typical move to disqualify candidates that previously earned too much out of fear that they will leave shortly.
Lie. There's just no downside for telling a prospective employer you make less than you actually do. No one is going to be pissed at that, even if it is somehow discovered.
Revealing your previous salary never, ever helps you.
It helps me a lot in weeding out recruiters for jobs not senior enough for me. In general, if you're making more than market, and want to stay that way, you need to talk about it. If you're making less than market, it will be used against you.
They're trying to distinguish between selling a game that happens to run on emulation (e.g., all the old games on GOG), and an app that is an emulator and can emulate a variety of games.
From the point of view of the big game companies, "emulator" is just a euphemism for "piracy". I hate it, but it's no surprise at all MS caved on this - it's not like the xbone is in the lead these days, and MS can afford to piss off the AAA game publishers.
Never so glad to put a place behind me as that one. Though I was glad to get it when it started, needed the move.
I sure know that feeling!
I think the fundamental lesson from the great Agile fad is: a good idea can't fix bad management. The places where scrum works well tend to be places where the upper management is sufficiently frustrated with lack of progress to tell the front line management to stand aside (usually as a last grasp before just firing the whole division).
As the consultants are fond of saying: scrum will highlight everything that is broken (or everyone). That usually results in accelerated finger-pointing, rather than anything getting fixed, of course.
If you're reporting status to the manager, it's not any form of agile. Managers are useless. Ban the manager from the stand-up and it goes far, far better.
Agile as implemented is usually scrum...which is a waste of time by design. Good teams can get results with any formal methodology, usually despite it.
Scrum as written is fine. A five-minute sync-up meeting each day, otherwise the only scheduled meetings are once every two-three weeks. No changing priorities during the sprint. No changing who's on the project during the sprint. Deadlines are fixed, but deliverables are estimated by the team, not by management.
Ever worked in a place that actually did that stuff? I haven't, but the one place that came close was actually pretty good.
MOst places have no one who has ever had any Scrum training at all. They've heard there should be daily meetings, and bi-weekly meeting, so they have those. But all those meetings are manager briefings, organized along team boundaries, not project boundaries. Not even wrong.
There have been optimizing assemblers - reasonably common in the ancient days. That pretty much stopped as C became accepted for some low-level work, and assembler became about explicit control of the object code.
But as a sibling post said: assembly labguage isn't just mnemonics for opcodes. It's a macro language as well, usually with the ability to use variable names, struct member names, and so on.
I'm paid more than basically any "real" engineer. Sure, there's a glass ceiling, but that's more about not being an MBA than anything else. And it's a high ceiling.
Giving money to that abomination of an adaptation shows that you aren't a fan of the franchise.
It was better than the second animated movie - at least this had a plot. The visuals were great. The only complaint seems to be waaaaah it wasn't like the booooooks.
Don't forget, I can delete that EULA and change it to "Everybody owes me pizza." Before I ever run the installer, and without ever reading the original contents. Then what happens when I click "I accept?"
You use of the product means you accepted the actual EULA. Doesn't matter if you changed it, got a minor to accept it, got your cat to accept it, hacked the installer to bypass it completely, doesn't matter. EULAs suck.
Trump is obviously not an establishment Republican. I've seen no evidence that his budget will go anywhere - the first response from the establishment was "we write the budget, Trump doesn't". Not a promising sign.
"IT" is a vanishing career, and most people assume "help desk" when you say it. Sucks, but it's true. Software development engineer is a rapidly growing highly paid field. Both have plenty of international competition, but you're way more likely to be outsourced as "IT" then as a "software development engineer".
It's along the lines that a garbage man might describe himself as a "sanitation engineer", but someone with an engineering degree working on something sanitation-related won't describe himself as a garbage man (or even a sanitation engineer), unless being humorously self-deprecating,
IMO, "DevOps" is our field's "sanitation engineer" - my "DevOps" teams are all software developers who are forced to also do operations, but there are a great many IT teams that also do "some coding" that are DevOps. (And more power to them, if they can transition to software devs on their resume!)
ull your head out of wherever and realize that this bill is being sponsored and actually has a shot at passing because the Republicans are now running the show. They want smaller, less intrusive government for as many people as possible.
A few Republicans do. But mostly they're seen as a bit nuts by the Republican establishment - heck, Rand Paul sponsored this. I'd be surprised if it passes.
I'm all for a Republican party that actually wants smaller government, but clearly the majority of the current crowd doesn't - they want to run on the issue, but not actually change anything ever.
I don't mean to be rude but working in IT I have found that dress in the office is very important.
People who self-describe as "working in IT" these days are not software developers. Also, I suspect you're on the East Coast.
Here in big software companies on the West Coast, the uniform of almost all senior devs and managers is button-down shirt and jeans. T-shirt and shorts is OK if you're young (but at some point you're expected to move to grown-up cloths). Heck, even at the VP level, button-down shirt and jeans is the norm, unless meeting with a customer.
Wearing slacks marks you as fresh off the boat from India or China. Wearing a tie means everyone you meet will ask you "Can I help you? Are you looking for someone?"
Have you seen a movie in a theater following the new trend of limited, reserved seating in recliners? I saw Ghost in the Shell this weekend (certainly worth seeing for fans of the franchise). Modern digital projection, very few people in the theater, none of whom were disruptive. No problem with cleanliness at all. Lots of space between the rows of seats, so you're not disrupted when someone needs to get out.
So, yeah, (some) movie theaters are fixing their shit, making the experience good again. Show up 20 minutes late to skip the ads. And if you're bother by garbage movies - have you tried finding an internet movie reviewer who will help you avoid those? There are lots these days, easy to find one who gives useful information given your personal tastes.
Really, your post reads like someone complaining about their girlfriend dragging them to chick flicks, except, well, this is Slashdot.
I prefer we keep the stereotype of software development as a socially unappealing career, not a job welcome in high society like doctors and lawyers (more like the better-paid-after-insurance vets and dentists). Two reasons.
The less appealing the field is presented as, the lower the supply of labor, and thus the more I'll be paid.
Also, the less appealing the field is presented as, the more it will be populated by people actually interested in problem solving, instead of people pressured by parents to pick this career as the best option, as is the norm in India (and the norm for doctors and lawyers here).
I'm quite content to be seen as socially awkward, but be well paid and work with the right crowd.
those 5 guys at 50k are using that money to buy a house.... The guy making 250k is tying most of that money up... putting it in a bank/stocks.
And just where so you think the bank gets the money to loan those 5 guys to buy those 5 houses?
If anything, Americans have a problem with saving too little. Loans make you your company's bitch. Savings aren't called "fuck you money" for nothing.
In any case, the point of the H1-B was supposed to be only to fill jobs that no one in the US was qualified for. The higher the pay, the more likely it is that's true, as the more likely it is to be that supply is low relative to demand.
Indeed. Every place I have worked, the same people do both
I've never worked at a company where the same people do both, which makes me wonder if we mean the same thing by "front end". I'm on a team responsible for a web service. We keep the service up, we own its API. A different team is responsible for the GUI and anything JS (but many of our customers just use the web service API directly from code). New features go live on the API for at least a little while before they appear in the GUI, if only a few days.
Maybe it's a size-of-team thing?
I will say the supply of front-end devs who can actually code is quite low - no surprise they make more. But there's a vast glut of "web devs" who write storefronts using some sort of framework for that, and have no clue what real coding is, so I'd bet it's hard to get noticed among all that noise.
You want help specifically from pedantic nerds, but you can't be bothered to speak their language? Further, you're upset about the very personality traits that make them able to help you?
Just go back to Facebook and Twitter. You fit in there. You don't fit in here.
What I'm talking about is different from that trope though. The trope is:
Arc begins... pointless filler... arc ends.
What I'm talking about is:
Introduction... arc begins . arc ends
Filler up front, if you will. But the shows I like are complete stories in that 1 season (in the rare case of a second season, like Ghost in the Shell, it's a disjoint story arc, not a continuation of anything but the characters).
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Did you even read my comment?
It doesn't matter whether the product uses emulation, as long at it doesn't expose that to the customer.
As a hiring manager it is fairly typical move to disqualify candidates that previously earned too much out of fear that they will leave shortly.
Lie. There's just no downside for telling a prospective employer you make less than you actually do. No one is going to be pissed at that, even if it is somehow discovered.
Revealing your previous salary never, ever helps you.
It helps me a lot in weeding out recruiters for jobs not senior enough for me. In general, if you're making more than market, and want to stay that way, you need to talk about it. If you're making less than market, it will be used against you.
They're trying to distinguish between selling a game that happens to run on emulation (e.g., all the old games on GOG), and an app that is an emulator and can emulate a variety of games.
From the point of view of the big game companies, "emulator" is just a euphemism for "piracy". I hate it, but it's no surprise at all MS caved on this - it's not like the xbone is in the lead these days, and MS can afford to piss off the AAA game publishers.
Never so glad to put a place behind me as that one. Though I was glad to get it when it started, needed the move.
I sure know that feeling!
I think the fundamental lesson from the great Agile fad is: a good idea can't fix bad management. The places where scrum works well tend to be places where the upper management is sufficiently frustrated with lack of progress to tell the front line management to stand aside (usually as a last grasp before just firing the whole division).
As the consultants are fond of saying: scrum will highlight everything that is broken (or everyone). That usually results in accelerated finger-pointing, rather than anything getting fixed, of course.
If you're reporting status to the manager, it's not any form of agile. Managers are useless. Ban the manager from the stand-up and it goes far, far better.
Agile as implemented is usually scrum...which is a waste of time by design. Good teams can get results with any formal methodology, usually despite it.
Scrum as written is fine. A five-minute sync-up meeting each day, otherwise the only scheduled meetings are once every two-three weeks. No changing priorities during the sprint. No changing who's on the project during the sprint. Deadlines are fixed, but deliverables are estimated by the team, not by management.
Ever worked in a place that actually did that stuff? I haven't, but the one place that came close was actually pretty good.
MOst places have no one who has ever had any Scrum training at all. They've heard there should be daily meetings, and bi-weekly meeting, so they have those. But all those meetings are manager briefings, organized along team boundaries, not project boundaries. Not even wrong.
Your sig is humorous in context.
There have been optimizing assemblers - reasonably common in the ancient days. That pretty much stopped as C became accepted for some low-level work, and assembler became about explicit control of the object code.
But as a sibling post said: assembly labguage isn't just mnemonics for opcodes. It's a macro language as well, usually with the ability to use variable names, struct member names, and so on.
I'm paid more than basically any "real" engineer. Sure, there's a glass ceiling, but that's more about not being an MBA than anything else. And it's a high ceiling.
Giving money to that abomination of an adaptation shows that you aren't a fan of the franchise.
It was better than the second animated movie - at least this had a plot. The visuals were great. The only complaint seems to be waaaaah it wasn't like the booooooks.
Don't forget, I can delete that EULA and change it to "Everybody owes me pizza."
Before I ever run the installer, and without ever reading the original contents.
Then what happens when I click "I accept?"
You use of the product means you accepted the actual EULA. Doesn't matter if you changed it, got a minor to accept it, got your cat to accept it, hacked the installer to bypass it completely, doesn't matter. EULAs suck.
Trump is obviously not an establishment Republican. I've seen no evidence that his budget will go anywhere - the first response from the establishment was "we write the budget, Trump doesn't". Not a promising sign.
"IT" is a vanishing career, and most people assume "help desk" when you say it. Sucks, but it's true. Software development engineer is a rapidly growing highly paid field. Both have plenty of international competition, but you're way more likely to be outsourced as "IT" then as a "software development engineer".
It's along the lines that a garbage man might describe himself as a "sanitation engineer", but someone with an engineering degree working on something sanitation-related won't describe himself as a garbage man (or even a sanitation engineer), unless being humorously self-deprecating,
IMO, "DevOps" is our field's "sanitation engineer" - my "DevOps" teams are all software developers who are forced to also do operations, but there are a great many IT teams that also do "some coding" that are DevOps. (And more power to them, if they can transition to software devs on their resume!)
ull your head out of wherever and realize that this bill is being sponsored and actually has a shot at passing because the Republicans are now running the show. They want smaller, less intrusive government for as many people as possible.
A few Republicans do. But mostly they're seen as a bit nuts by the Republican establishment - heck, Rand Paul sponsored this. I'd be surprised if it passes.
I'm all for a Republican party that actually wants smaller government, but clearly the majority of the current crowd doesn't - they want to run on the issue, but not actually change anything ever.
I don't mean to be rude but working in IT I have found that dress in the office is very important.
People who self-describe as "working in IT" these days are not software developers. Also, I suspect you're on the East Coast.
Here in big software companies on the West Coast, the uniform of almost all senior devs and managers is button-down shirt and jeans. T-shirt and shorts is OK if you're young (but at some point you're expected to move to grown-up cloths). Heck, even at the VP level, button-down shirt and jeans is the norm, unless meeting with a customer.
Wearing slacks marks you as fresh off the boat from India or China. Wearing a tie means everyone you meet will ask you "Can I help you? Are you looking for someone?"
Have you seen a movie in a theater following the new trend of limited, reserved seating in recliners? I saw Ghost in the Shell this weekend (certainly worth seeing for fans of the franchise). Modern digital projection, very few people in the theater, none of whom were disruptive. No problem with cleanliness at all. Lots of space between the rows of seats, so you're not disrupted when someone needs to get out.
So, yeah, (some) movie theaters are fixing their shit, making the experience good again. Show up 20 minutes late to skip the ads. And if you're bother by garbage movies - have you tried finding an internet movie reviewer who will help you avoid those? There are lots these days, easy to find one who gives useful information given your personal tastes.
Really, your post reads like someone complaining about their girlfriend dragging them to chick flicks, except, well, this is Slashdot.
I prefer we keep the stereotype of software development as a socially unappealing career, not a job welcome in high society like doctors and lawyers (more like the better-paid-after-insurance vets and dentists). Two reasons.
The less appealing the field is presented as, the lower the supply of labor, and thus the more I'll be paid.
Also, the less appealing the field is presented as, the more it will be populated by people actually interested in problem solving, instead of people pressured by parents to pick this career as the best option, as is the norm in India (and the norm for doctors and lawyers here).
I'm quite content to be seen as socially awkward, but be well paid and work with the right crowd.
those 5 guys at 50k are using that money to buy a house.... The guy making 250k is tying most of that money up ... putting it in a bank/stocks.
And just where so you think the bank gets the money to loan those 5 guys to buy those 5 houses?
If anything, Americans have a problem with saving too little. Loans make you your company's bitch. Savings aren't called "fuck you money" for nothing.
In any case, the point of the H1-B was supposed to be only to fill jobs that no one in the US was qualified for. The higher the pay, the more likely it is that's true, as the more likely it is to be that supply is low relative to demand.
Indeed. Every place I have worked, the same people do both
I've never worked at a company where the same people do both, which makes me wonder if we mean the same thing by "front end". I'm on a team responsible for a web service. We keep the service up, we own its API. A different team is responsible for the GUI and anything JS (but many of our customers just use the web service API directly from code). New features go live on the API for at least a little while before they appear in the GUI, if only a few days.
Maybe it's a size-of-team thing?
I will say the supply of front-end devs who can actually code is quite low - no surprise they make more. But there's a vast glut of "web devs" who write storefronts using some sort of framework for that, and have no clue what real coding is, so I'd bet it's hard to get noticed among all that noise.
Or, you know, the company could just fire all the strikers and start over with people who actually want the job.
People really need to check their twitch response when it comes to these signs. Consider the following:
Your "Lowest Cost" Groceries
Are those quotes inappropriate? Ask the grocer and he might say "no, I said that, it's a quote from me."
You want help specifically from pedantic nerds, but you can't be bothered to speak their language? Further, you're upset about the very personality traits that make them able to help you?
Just go back to Facebook and Twitter. You fit in there. You don't fit in here.
What I'm talking about is different from that trope though. The trope is:
Arc begins ... pointless filler ... arc ends.
What I'm talking about is:
Introduction ... arc begins . arc ends
Filler up front, if you will. But the shows I like are complete stories in that 1 season (in the rare case of a second season, like Ghost in the Shell, it's a disjoint story arc, not a continuation of anything but the characters).