I'm hearing people say to delete my valuable experience simply because it was more than 10 yrs ago.
I have a problem with that. some of my best lessons or experiences have been 'that long ago' and they are still relevant.
I worked hard to build a killer experience base. it seems wrong, to me, to remove experience that makes me valuable! just to show that I'm not an older guy, which I actually am?
are you going to suggest I dye my hair, too, to hide my age? I can only go so far to pull off this charade.
it bugs me that people say I should remove older experience. the whole point of wisdom (not intelligence, but wisdom) is that you learn things over time that you can't get otherwise. time is valuable and time spent in your field should never be 'trimmed' just for appearance sake.
if you are transitioning from one skill/job to, say, software, you'll probably be over 30, and maybe over 40.
just tell me this: who would hire an aging programmer, just starting out, when you can more easily abuse immigrants and h1b's who are young and will work overtime for free and deny the value of a personal life?
we have a major problem with companies not being socially responsible. they don't care that an aging population is being wholesale REJECTED by corporate america and worse than that, local US born and raised citizens are second class, now; with imported labor or outsourced labor being first class.
an idea: give tax incentives or other incentives for companies that go out of their way to hire locals/americans and even bigger bonuses to companies that go out of their way to hire older (over 35, cough) people. not saying you punish those companies who don't; but you give them extra benefits so as to motivate them.
companies only look out for their bottom line. they would sell their mother into slavery for a higher share price. the only way to keep a balance of social responsibility and prosperity is to give incentives, to guide better behavior.
(I'm over 50, have been looking for work for a while now, and I'm getting nothing; no interviews and certainly no offers. I have a lot of experience and a good work ethic, but it does no one any good if the companies routinely dismiss anyone with more than 2 pages of resume experience, since they are seen as 'too expensive' to hire).
for some, its about getting insurance AT ALL if you want it.
pre-existing bullshit was one thing that needed fixing and its fixed.
SOME discount if you are a single buyer (not group plan based) is also there. in fact, it can be lower than cobra payments.
so, there was some benefit.
I'm unlucky in that my cobra payment is about as bad as my pre-obamacare non-group policy. I was unemployed with single policy for a while, then went contract and had a better pkg, then went full time and had a pretty decent pkg, now I'm laid off, on cobra and its back to non-group level monthly premiums that I was doing before I had that last job.
the insurance companies are raping us again, and using this as an excuse. nothing I'm doing has anything to do with obamacare but my rates went up a lot over the last yr or two and the 'discounts' are not really discounts that I can see.
but still, they can't cancel you for having pre-existing stuff and they can't totally deny you, either. those were 2 major evils pre-obama.
win7 32bit works so-so on old hardware (based on drivers). win7-64 is shitty as many things will not (ever) work.
a bog-standard usb/spdif dongle that I own and use from time to time won't work on win7/64. no driver on earth for it. 32bit, yes. 64, no.
other hardware is the same story.
next time I do an install, I'll go out of my way to avoid 64bit windows. its just not worth the hassle and I don't NEED the full ram space. it would be nice, but I don't need it; whereas I do need all drivers to work! throwing away working hardware is a sin.
I believe products should be designed (over-designed) so that even if users are not operating fully as planned, you should still have a safety margin to protect them.
its typical german (old school; not sure about now) engineering design. don't just do the job barely; OVER do it. just in case.
having protection down there makes uber sense;) not having it is a weakness. this should have been there on day-0 and I'm very surprised that they didn't.
when making a brand new product, its best to over-plan for disaster and mitigate as much as you can, in advance, via over-design and better parts quality than you thought you might need. you get only a short window to prove yourself to the world, might as well do all you can to make that big splash work for you and not against you.
to contrast, the chinese way (sigh) is all about just barely having enough headroom to support use-cases. they will put lower voltage capacitors on a circuit thinking 'this is good enough for our foreign users; if the circuit blows up, who cares, we already got their money'. this is why so many people are going out of their way to avoid chinese junk electronics. their design mindset is ALL WRONG and actually dangerous.
I'd like to see more of a return to overdesign and thoughts about customer safety and product longevity. this throw-away culture really pisses me off.
I worked at SGI for a short whole, at the mtn view campus. before it was infested and taken over by google...
SGI was one of the coolest companies in the bay area, or even the world. I can't begin to describe the joy of working there and of just *being* there.
really sad when they closed down. also sad when Sun closed down (I also worked there, too).
why do we lose good companies and piece-of-shit things like facebook and twitter are the 'new computer economy'. we went backwards quite a bit, it seems. don't design hardware, just try to be a mega-marketing firm, which is all social networking is, at its core. don't build computer, send more ADVERTISING and do more SPYING on users. yeah, great going, silicon valley...;(
And if your union doesn't pull its weight, find another one that does. Failing that, resign and get a more fulfilling job!
yup, its just that easy. there are so many jobs out there, so many employers who will treat you well. yeah, uhuh. right. the job market is looking for people to hire since there are simply not enough workers, anywhere!
the term is called 'exempt' and if you think for a living (you have control over the process in how you solve your work day issues) then overtime 'is on you' and not the boss' problem.
otoh, if your job is a simple typist (say) and the boss gave you extra pages to type in that could not be done in the same day, you CAN charge for overtime in that kind of job.
but engineers are 'exempt' since 'its their fault' (???) that the job took longer than bossman thought it should.
yes, IBM AND THOSE GUYS FUCKED US ALL OVER.
they used us and made us into essentially slaves to do their bidding and without any extra pay!
fucking evil shit, man. read up on 'exempt'. I was contracting and also doing fulltime work so I got stung by both. even on contract, I could not charge 1.5x or 2x since I'm 'exempt' even as a contractor.
fuck, man! the bible disagrees WITH ITSELF. have you not read it? google 'bible errancy' and you'll find more inconsistencies than you'll ever want to see.
really a piece of shit for writing and 'ethics'. do this and you should be stoned to death. do that and you should be killed. god gets pissed off at his own creations and decided to go all murderous on them, then decided to forgive them for following his wishes!
such bullshit.
no thinking person can read that and keep a straight face.
no thinking person would even try to compare this book of fiction with scientific concepts.
bay area companies are now refusing to hire based on race.
I'm a white guy. I walk into a bay area company and everyone around me is indian or asian. I am given 'the look' and the interview process is mostly a formality. I'm given an excuse why I don't get the job and all along, I know what's going on. the hiring manager is indian, his workers are and he (and his group) do not want americans working there.
on my last job, I was the only american in the whole engineering dept. the only reason I was hired is that my specialty was needed at a critical time. that rarely happens and when it does not happen, I'm passed over.
I see TONS of discrimination going on. age and skin color, all are quite 'popular' right now in the silicon valley area.
its disgusting but it seems to be the new way around here;(
we disapprove of an aspect of his religion and that's perfectly fine.
an aspect is quite out of place in modern society and its ok to have contempt for bigotry.
framed by a 'respectable relgion' still does not give moral legitimacy to discrimination.
the fact is, his religion tells him to hate gays (in so many words) and to deny them the same rights as heteros. no matter how you slice it, he's guilty of hate crimes and he lost any moral ground to be a ceo of ANY open-source style organization. he is anti-freedom and does not represent a progressive viewpoint. he does not belong in our circle, plain and simple. let him go to the deep south where his kind flourishes and finds other like-minded folk.
how many times have you seen job applications that, eventually, came out and said 'you have to pee in a bottle to prove you're ok enough to work here'.
how is that not the same thing? its prying into the employee's personal life, mixing his recreational views with his 9-5 work day life and its not an indicator AT ALL of wrong-doing or incompetance for the employee. yet, its a filter mechanism that companies can CHOOSE to use to reject candidates or even working employees.
companies can even test for alcohol use and reject you based on that (not during work hours, but just having it in your system).
if a company can insist on all these unrelated things as a condition of employment, I don't see why we can't insist the c-levels also 'pass a test' (so to speak) before we grant them huge c-level powers and positions. and if you fail the bigot-test, you don't get the job!
Why is it OK to have a hate campaign against Eich and what he believed in?
because being a bigot does not get you moral relativism? and it does not give you a free pass to just 'believe what you want'. because the active suppression of others' rights is not OK in anyone's book?
you can already fire anyone if you dont want them around. there are so many ways, ALL the power is in the hands of the employer, these days.
layoffs are a perfect example. thru no fault of your own, you can be walked out on a moment's notice. 'we are not making our numbers, we have to get rid of people' is not all that different from 'we dont think you are a fit for the role'. that's just another way to say 'we dont like you'.
that protect ceo's and c-levels. the game is already stacked in their favor from the start. they can get away, almost literally, with murder in the US system. the world's tiniest violin is now playing for the poor little ceo's who didn't get everything they wanted.
its usually the other way around. you have to tip-toe around the c-levels so you don't offend them, lest you get handed your walking papers. they can hire and fire pretty much without challenge.
besides all that, though, he was not fired. he was asked to step down from the public and a percentage of the employees. no one in the company forced him to leave. there was no illegal act here.
God desires our love and obedience but it must be sincere.
if you act well, you still die and bad things still happen to you. and good things, too, sometimes.
if you act badly, you still die and bad things still happen to you. and good things, too, sometimes.
your god is a huge fucking NO-OP.
but of course, there is no good reason to assume or suppose that a god exists at all. we are not in the bronze age and we know why thunder comes, why nightfall comes, what the stars are, etc. we're not cavemen wandering in ignorance of the world. we simply have no need for various cultural myths, no matter which culture originates them.
I understand the desire to believe there is a reason for things; but there simply is no evidence of any 'controller' out there doing anything that we might call 'sentient'. to think that a bearded sky wizard is 'up there' is really a child like thought. you should abandon those thoughts as soon as you can. belief in fairytales is not something adults should be doing.
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I'm hearing people say to delete my valuable experience simply because it was more than 10 yrs ago.
I have a problem with that. some of my best lessons or experiences have been 'that long ago' and they are still relevant.
I worked hard to build a killer experience base. it seems wrong, to me, to remove experience that makes me valuable! just to show that I'm not an older guy, which I actually am?
are you going to suggest I dye my hair, too, to hide my age? I can only go so far to pull off this charade.
it bugs me that people say I should remove older experience. the whole point of wisdom (not intelligence, but wisdom) is that you learn things over time that you can't get otherwise. time is valuable and time spent in your field should never be 'trimmed' just for appearance sake.
if you are transitioning from one skill/job to, say, software, you'll probably be over 30, and maybe over 40.
just tell me this: who would hire an aging programmer, just starting out, when you can more easily abuse immigrants and h1b's who are young and will work overtime for free and deny the value of a personal life?
we have a major problem with companies not being socially responsible. they don't care that an aging population is being wholesale REJECTED by corporate america and worse than that, local US born and raised citizens are second class, now; with imported labor or outsourced labor being first class.
an idea: give tax incentives or other incentives for companies that go out of their way to hire locals/americans and even bigger bonuses to companies that go out of their way to hire older (over 35, cough) people. not saying you punish those companies who don't; but you give them extra benefits so as to motivate them.
companies only look out for their bottom line. they would sell their mother into slavery for a higher share price. the only way to keep a balance of social responsibility and prosperity is to give incentives, to guide better behavior.
(I'm over 50, have been looking for work for a while now, and I'm getting nothing; no interviews and certainly no offers. I have a lot of experience and a good work ethic, but it does no one any good if the companies routinely dismiss anyone with more than 2 pages of resume experience, since they are seen as 'too expensive' to hire).
my neighbor's dog is quite loud, so I'm not sure I would notice the difference.
after the initial explosion, though, at least it would be quieter around here and I would not have to be so careful where I walk.
if god is our programmer, then its just a real shame the whole job was outsourced to a low quality job-shop...
this life is quite shitty and yes, I could easily design a better and more just system if I was omni-powerful, as god is attributed.
I like woody allen's quote 'god was an under-achiever'.
we do it just to bug YOU, cold fnord.
we know it pisses you off to have your boys look bad.
DEAL WITH IT. or just leave. either is fine with most of us.
for some, its about getting insurance AT ALL if you want it.
pre-existing bullshit was one thing that needed fixing and its fixed.
SOME discount if you are a single buyer (not group plan based) is also there. in fact, it can be lower than cobra payments.
so, there was some benefit.
I'm unlucky in that my cobra payment is about as bad as my pre-obamacare non-group policy. I was unemployed with single policy for a while, then went contract and had a better pkg, then went full time and had a pretty decent pkg, now I'm laid off, on cobra and its back to non-group level monthly premiums that I was doing before I had that last job.
the insurance companies are raping us again, and using this as an excuse. nothing I'm doing has anything to do with obamacare but my rates went up a lot over the last yr or two and the 'discounts' are not really discounts that I can see.
but still, they can't cancel you for having pre-existing stuff and they can't totally deny you, either. those were 2 major evils pre-obama.
win7 32bit works so-so on old hardware (based on drivers). win7-64 is shitty as many things will not (ever) work.
a bog-standard usb/spdif dongle that I own and use from time to time won't work on win7/64. no driver on earth for it. 32bit, yes. 64, no.
other hardware is the same story.
next time I do an install, I'll go out of my way to avoid 64bit windows. its just not worth the hassle and I don't NEED the full ram space. it would be nice, but I don't need it; whereas I do need all drivers to work! throwing away working hardware is a sin.
disagree about carelessness.
I believe products should be designed (over-designed) so that even if users are not operating fully as planned, you should still have a safety margin to protect them.
its typical german (old school; not sure about now) engineering design. don't just do the job barely; OVER do it. just in case.
having protection down there makes uber sense ;) not having it is a weakness. this should have been there on day-0 and I'm very surprised that they didn't.
when making a brand new product, its best to over-plan for disaster and mitigate as much as you can, in advance, via over-design and better parts quality than you thought you might need. you get only a short window to prove yourself to the world, might as well do all you can to make that big splash work for you and not against you.
to contrast, the chinese way (sigh) is all about just barely having enough headroom to support use-cases. they will put lower voltage capacitors on a circuit thinking 'this is good enough for our foreign users; if the circuit blows up, who cares, we already got their money'. this is why so many people are going out of their way to avoid chinese junk electronics. their design mindset is ALL WRONG and actually dangerous.
I'd like to see more of a return to overdesign and thoughts about customer safety and product longevity. this throw-away culture really pisses me off.
I worked at SGI for a short whole, at the mtn view campus. before it was infested and taken over by google...
SGI was one of the coolest companies in the bay area, or even the world. I can't begin to describe the joy of working there and of just *being* there.
really sad when they closed down. also sad when Sun closed down (I also worked there, too).
why do we lose good companies and piece-of-shit things like facebook and twitter are the 'new computer economy'. we went backwards quite a bit, it seems. don't design hardware, just try to be a mega-marketing firm, which is all social networking is, at its core. don't build computer, send more ADVERTISING and do more SPYING on users. yeah, great going, silicon valley... ;(
And if your union doesn't pull its weight, find another one that does. Failing that, resign and get a more fulfilling job!
yup, its just that easy. there are so many jobs out there, so many employers who will treat you well. yeah, uhuh. right. the job market is looking for people to hire since there are simply not enough workers, anywhere!
(facepalm)
the term is called 'exempt' and if you think for a living (you have control over the process in how you solve your work day issues) then overtime 'is on you' and not the boss' problem.
otoh, if your job is a simple typist (say) and the boss gave you extra pages to type in that could not be done in the same day, you CAN charge for overtime in that kind of job.
but engineers are 'exempt' since 'its their fault' (???) that the job took longer than bossman thought it should.
yes, IBM AND THOSE GUYS FUCKED US ALL OVER.
they used us and made us into essentially slaves to do their bidding and without any extra pay!
fucking evil shit, man. read up on 'exempt'. I was contracting and also doing fulltime work so I got stung by both. even on contract, I could not charge 1.5x or 2x since I'm 'exempt' even as a contractor.
and that story was translated from a yet unwritten story, that was found embedded on an uncooked russian sock.
without the Pope renouncing God or the bible
nuns could run bald through Vatican halls, pregnant, pleading Immaculate Conception; and they'd still not renounce god or the bible.
never let them see you sweat. even if they don't believe their own BS, they won't ever admit it. bad for 'business'.
you mean you DON'T believe in talking snakes and the fact that eve was made out of adam's rib; hence, she was made from 'cheap cuts of meat' ?
what's not to believe about that? sounds pretty legit to me.
(rolls eyes)
fuck, man! the bible disagrees WITH ITSELF. have you not read it? google 'bible errancy' and you'll find more inconsistencies than you'll ever want to see.
really a piece of shit for writing and 'ethics'. do this and you should be stoned to death. do that and you should be killed. god gets pissed off at his own creations and decided to go all murderous on them, then decided to forgive them for following his wishes!
such bullshit.
no thinking person can read that and keep a straight face.
no thinking person would even try to compare this book of fiction with scientific concepts.
let me run that thru the jive translator:
"well, shit!" ==> "golly!"
how absurd.
the poor and 'non whites' are the ones who mow the lawns, clean the houses, cook their food, change their oil, etc.
they NEED a sub-class around to SERVE them. the sub-class dying out is a nightmare to the ultra rich.
bay area companies are now refusing to hire based on race.
I'm a white guy. I walk into a bay area company and everyone around me is indian or asian. I am given 'the look' and the interview process is mostly a formality. I'm given an excuse why I don't get the job and all along, I know what's going on. the hiring manager is indian, his workers are and he (and his group) do not want americans working there.
on my last job, I was the only american in the whole engineering dept. the only reason I was hired is that my specialty was needed at a critical time. that rarely happens and when it does not happen, I'm passed over.
I see TONS of discrimination going on. age and skin color, all are quite 'popular' right now in the silicon valley area.
its disgusting but it seems to be the new way around here ;(
just fyi.
we disapprove of an aspect of his religion and that's perfectly fine.
an aspect is quite out of place in modern society and its ok to have contempt for bigotry.
framed by a 'respectable relgion' still does not give moral legitimacy to discrimination.
the fact is, his religion tells him to hate gays (in so many words) and to deny them the same rights as heteros. no matter how you slice it, he's guilty of hate crimes and he lost any moral ground to be a ceo of ANY open-source style organization. he is anti-freedom and does not represent a progressive viewpoint. he does not belong in our circle, plain and simple. let him go to the deep south where his kind flourishes and finds other like-minded folk.
it works the other way and even more so!
how many times have you seen job applications that, eventually, came out and said 'you have to pee in a bottle to prove you're ok enough to work here'.
how is that not the same thing? its prying into the employee's personal life, mixing his recreational views with his 9-5 work day life and its not an indicator AT ALL of wrong-doing or incompetance for the employee. yet, its a filter mechanism that companies can CHOOSE to use to reject candidates or even working employees.
companies can even test for alcohol use and reject you based on that (not during work hours, but just having it in your system).
if a company can insist on all these unrelated things as a condition of employment, I don't see why we can't insist the c-levels also 'pass a test' (so to speak) before we grant them huge c-level powers and positions. and if you fail the bigot-test, you don't get the job!
Why is it OK to have a hate campaign against Eich and what he believed in?
because being a bigot does not get you moral relativism? and it does not give you a free pass to just 'believe what you want'. because the active suppression of others' rights is not OK in anyone's book?
does that answer your question?
you can already fire anyone if you dont want them around. there are so many ways, ALL the power is in the hands of the employer, these days.
layoffs are a perfect example. thru no fault of your own, you can be walked out on a moment's notice. 'we are not making our numbers, we have to get rid of people' is not all that different from 'we dont think you are a fit for the role'. that's just another way to say 'we dont like you'.
troll is trolling badly.
0/10 for you.
that protect ceo's and c-levels. the game is already stacked in their favor from the start. they can get away, almost literally, with murder in the US system. the world's tiniest violin is now playing for the poor little ceo's who didn't get everything they wanted.
its usually the other way around. you have to tip-toe around the c-levels so you don't offend them, lest you get handed your walking papers. they can hire and fire pretty much without challenge.
besides all that, though, he was not fired. he was asked to step down from the public and a percentage of the employees. no one in the company forced him to leave. there was no illegal act here.
God desires our love and obedience but it must be sincere.
if you act well, you still die and bad things still happen to you. and good things, too, sometimes.
if you act badly, you still die and bad things still happen to you. and good things, too, sometimes.
your god is a huge fucking NO-OP.
but of course, there is no good reason to assume or suppose that a god exists at all. we are not in the bronze age and we know why thunder comes, why nightfall comes, what the stars are, etc. we're not cavemen wandering in ignorance of the world. we simply have no need for various cultural myths, no matter which culture originates them.
I understand the desire to believe there is a reason for things; but there simply is no evidence of any 'controller' out there doing anything that we might call 'sentient'. to think that a bearded sky wizard is 'up there' is really a child like thought. you should abandon those thoughts as soon as you can. belief in fairytales is not something adults should be doing.