Yes, POTUSBO is still very popular — probably more so than when he won the election. Doesn't mean there can't be uproar. Lots of his decisions are unpopular in certain quarters.
Not all of it is from dittoheads. Christian conservatives are shocked to learn that "I'll listen to you" does not mean "You'll always be happy with my decisions." And all the folks who've been defending Gitmo, business-uber-alles policies, etc for 8 years aren't going to just shut up because they're out of power.
And last but not least, there's the Republican politicians who have to find every excuse to argue that he's the Spawn of Satan simply because, well, that's their job.
Actually, to be precise, an initialism is an acronym which is pronounced by sounding out the letters. And I guess it must be common in some quarters, but I never heard it used until Wikipedia came along. Really not that useful a word. Wikipedians love their obscure terminology.
No, insult POTUSBO all you want. It's not like everybody else isn't doing it. But please show a little creativity. All these right wing cliches get old.
You're quite correct to distinguish between "information technology" in the strictest sense and programming. (And other computer/network disciplines, for that matter.) But the looser sense is pretty common, and it's not going to go away.
It's sort of like another bit of loose terminology I've stopped objecting to (and even started using myself): "broadband" as in "lots of bandwidth". If you know about the broadband/baseband distinction, the now-common usage sounds kind of dumb. But there's no getting rid of it.
And at least with "broadband" you can actually point at a concept and explain why people are misusing the word. When it comes to "information technology" it's not at all obvious why programming, or any other discipline that's about manipulating information, isn't part of it.
We sort of agree. You're thinking in terms of dishonesty poisoning your relationships so that you can't move up the corporate ladder.
I'm one of those folks who could give a Foxtrot about the corporate ladder. To me, the downside of poisoning your relationships is that it makes life suck.
So, when backed into a corner, you have your choice of saying "I'm an idiot" or "I'm a troll". So you go for "I'm a troll" since that's slightly less humiliating, though somewhat less honest.
When you submit a resume in hopes of scoring an interview, the first person to see it is the "Gatekeeper" in HR. Oftentimes that HR drone doesn't know the first damned thing about the industry for which the company is hiring, so they'll often read a resume a little differently from the hiring manager (who would at least have a clue).
That definitely jibs with my experience. I don't think I've ever gotten a job through the usual send-us-a-resume process. (My resume sucks. Forgot to finish my BA, and there's some holes in my experience where I was fighting illness.) But I've had more luck when I've been able to connect with the hiring manager directly and convince them that I could do the work.
(LinkedIn is good for that. But be selective about who you network with, or else the signal-to-noise ratio in your contact list will drop to zero. In particular, refuse all the invitations to network that you'll get from professional recruiters.)
HR isn't the only problem here. Upper management also tends to frown on people with weak backgrounds, no matter how much the hiring manager wants them.
Helps to start as a contractor. You do a good job, convince enough people that you're valuable, and you end up with a lot of advocates that upper management and HR can't ignore.
And of course you want to beef up your resume any way you can. Contributing to open source project (as others have suggested) is good, as is any other kind of volunteer activity that shows you have relevant skills. You should also look at getting some of those certificates and credentials that abound in the tech industry. Yeah, I know, most of them are bogus. But many of them aren't. And even the ones that are bogus help you get past the bureaucrats.
I've seen plenty of incompetent people lie their way through HR, so it definitely works.
Ha! You don't know the half of it. I knew a guy who lied his way into a director-level job at the height of the dot-com bubble. At least I assume he was lying, since his resume misspelled the names of the schools that supposedly gave him an M.A. and PhD!
Probably wouldn't get away with it now, since you no longer have startups desperate to staff up quickly. But I emphasize the word "probably".
But even ignoring the ethical (obvious) and pragmatic (getting a reputation for being dishonest can really hurt you) reasons for not lying, it's probably just not the right thing for our anonymous career changer to do. The guy's looking to invent a new life for himself because he's not happy with what he's doing now. Starting out a lot of new professional relationships with people you've been lying to is not a good way to do that.
Some joke. It runs from the premise that all the politicians in a particular state are corrupt, and that the citizens of that state are too clueless to do anything about it. If I were from Illinois I'd call you a bigot.
I realize it's the trendy thing these days to target the data center as an area of concern monetarily, but this is a little ridiculous.
"Trendy" has nothing to do with it. Imagine a data center with 10,000 systems. (Nowadays, that's a small data center.) Each of those 10,000 systems puts as much heat as a high-intensity lamp. With that much heat in one room, every extra degree you can tolerate is going to save you big bucks.
And it's not just the cost of running the air conditioning. If you can tolerate extra heat, you don't have to leave as much space for the air to circulate. Data center space is expensive. Worse than that, it's in short supply. That's why people are buying those weird data-center-in-a-shipping-container boxes.
Keeping things safe and comfortable for your techs is a problem, but it's not as hard to surmount if you stop assuming that the tech has to go into the machine room for every little interaction. With lights-out management, anything that doesn't involve actually installing or replacing physical hardware can be done remotely. If your data center has you spending a lot of time in the machine room, stringing cables and plugging in KVMs, your management is wasting money. I'm not talking about the hypothetical savings of turning of the thermostat; I'm talking simple efficiency.
To the small degree your rant actually has anything to do with the thread, you seem to be saying that Obama's people are all incompetent nitwits whose sole qualification is their ability to help him rip people off. This might fit in with the meme that goes "Obama is a socialist islamist from the corrupt Chicago machine (and besides his birth certificate is phony)". But it's otherwise pretty at odds with the facts.
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Yes, POTUSBO is still very popular — probably more so than when he won the election. Doesn't mean there can't be uproar. Lots of his decisions are unpopular in certain quarters.
Not all of it is from dittoheads. Christian conservatives are shocked to learn that "I'll listen to you" does not mean "You'll always be happy with my decisions." And all the folks who've been defending Gitmo, business-uber-alles policies, etc for 8 years aren't going to just shut up because they're out of power.
And last but not least, there's the Republican politicians who have to find every excuse to argue that he's the Spawn of Satan simply because, well, that's their job.
Initialism: a Wikipediaism for "acronym".
Actually, to be precise, an initialism is an acronym which is pronounced by sounding out the letters. And I guess it must be common in some quarters, but I never heard it used until Wikipedia came along. Really not that useful a word. Wikipedians love their obscure terminology.
No, insult POTUSBO all you want. It's not like everybody else isn't doing it. But please show a little creativity. All these right wing cliches get old.
I always thought what you knew and what you could do counted more than who you knew but in my experience it's the exact opposite.
Our ideals tell us that people get what they deserve. As often happens, ideals and reality are at odds.
Which is not to run down ideals. Ideals are important. You just shouldn't assume that everything's structured to support them.
BTW, it was very smart of you to calculate actual savings. Upper management loves numbers.
You're quite correct to distinguish between "information technology" in the strictest sense and programming. (And other computer/network disciplines, for that matter.) But the looser sense is pretty common, and it's not going to go away.
It's sort of like another bit of loose terminology I've stopped objecting to (and even started using myself): "broadband" as in "lots of bandwidth". If you know about the broadband/baseband distinction, the now-common usage sounds kind of dumb. But there's no getting rid of it.
And at least with "broadband" you can actually point at a concept and explain why people are misusing the word. When it comes to "information technology" it's not at all obvious why programming, or any other discipline that's about manipulating information, isn't part of it.
...for leptons! Half-spin is beautiful!
We sort of agree. You're thinking in terms of dishonesty poisoning your relationships so that you can't move up the corporate ladder.
I'm one of those folks who could give a Foxtrot about the corporate ladder. To me, the downside of poisoning your relationships is that it makes life suck.
So, when backed into a corner, you have your choice of saying "I'm an idiot" or "I'm a troll". So you go for "I'm a troll" since that's slightly less humiliating, though somewhat less honest.
When you submit a resume in hopes of scoring an interview, the first person to see it is the "Gatekeeper" in HR. Oftentimes that HR drone doesn't know the first damned thing about the industry for which the company is hiring, so they'll often read a resume a little differently from the hiring manager (who would at least have a clue).
That definitely jibs with my experience. I don't think I've ever gotten a job through the usual send-us-a-resume process. (My resume sucks. Forgot to finish my BA, and there's some holes in my experience where I was fighting illness.) But I've had more luck when I've been able to connect with the hiring manager directly and convince them that I could do the work.
(LinkedIn is good for that. But be selective about who you network with, or else the signal-to-noise ratio in your contact list will drop to zero. In particular, refuse all the invitations to network that you'll get from professional recruiters.)
HR isn't the only problem here. Upper management also tends to frown on people with weak backgrounds, no matter how much the hiring manager wants them.
Helps to start as a contractor. You do a good job, convince enough people that you're valuable, and you end up with a lot of advocates that upper management and HR can't ignore.
And of course you want to beef up your resume any way you can. Contributing to open source project (as others have suggested) is good, as is any other kind of volunteer activity that shows you have relevant skills. You should also look at getting some of those certificates and credentials that abound in the tech industry. Yeah, I know, most of them are bogus. But many of them aren't. And even the ones that are bogus help you get past the bureaucrats.
I've seen plenty of incompetent people lie their way through HR, so it definitely works.
Ha! You don't know the half of it. I knew a guy who lied his way into a director-level job at the height of the dot-com bubble. At least I assume he was lying, since his resume misspelled the names of the schools that supposedly gave him an M.A. and PhD!
Probably wouldn't get away with it now, since you no longer have startups desperate to staff up quickly. But I emphasize the word "probably".
But even ignoring the ethical (obvious) and pragmatic (getting a reputation for being dishonest can really hurt you) reasons for not lying, it's probably just not the right thing for our anonymous career changer to do. The guy's looking to invent a new life for himself because he's not happy with what he's doing now. Starting out a lot of new professional relationships with people you've been lying to is not a good way to do that.
So is Obama corrupt because he's from Illinois or because he's American? Make up your mind!
You must be a lot of fun at parties.
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You don't care what I think, but you have to reply to everything I say.
Like I said, whatever.
Some joke. It runs from the premise that all the politicians in a particular state are corrupt, and that the citizens of that state are too clueless to do anything about it. If I were from Illinois I'd call you a bigot.
The problem with thinking in stereotypes is that it makes you stupid.
I realize it's the trendy thing these days to target the data center as an area of concern monetarily, but this is a little ridiculous.
"Trendy" has nothing to do with it. Imagine a data center with 10,000 systems. (Nowadays, that's a small data center.) Each of those 10,000 systems puts as much heat as a high-intensity lamp. With that much heat in one room, every extra degree you can tolerate is going to save you big bucks.
And it's not just the cost of running the air conditioning. If you can tolerate extra heat, you don't have to leave as much space for the air to circulate. Data center space is expensive. Worse than that, it's in short supply. That's why people are buying those weird data-center-in-a-shipping-container boxes.
Keeping things safe and comfortable for your techs is a problem, but it's not as hard to surmount if you stop assuming that the tech has to go into the machine room for every little interaction. With lights-out management, anything that doesn't involve actually installing or replacing physical hardware can be done remotely. If your data center has you spending a lot of time in the machine room, stringing cables and plugging in KVMs, your management is wasting money. I'm not talking about the hypothetical savings of turning of the thermostat; I'm talking simple efficiency.
... higher temperatures ... not likely to be welcomed by employees working in the data center.
Simple solution: COMPUTE NAKED!
Gee, I dunno. A total absence of any evidence? Guilt by association doesn't count.
Whoa! Going off on a tangent much?
To the small degree your rant actually has anything to do with the thread, you seem to be saying that Obama's people are all incompetent nitwits whose sole qualification is their ability to help him rip people off. This might fit in with the meme that goes "Obama is a socialist islamist from the corrupt Chicago machine (and besides his birth certificate is phony)". But it's otherwise pretty at odds with the facts.
Interesting place to start — SIATL is weirdly different from all his other work
Whatever.
That was my original point: your conversation is idle and pointless.
OK, you got me again. I guess that when it came to McNealy's marketplace cluelessness, my imagination simply failed!
Not his best, and it suffers badly from the divergence of his "future history" from real history. But still a moderately fun read.
Tell me you've read, "The Moon is a Harsh Mistress". If you haven't, we're going to have to take away your geek card!
Gee, I dunno, a half-dozen angry posts?