I don't know, I seem to have the opposite problem. I get contacted by recruiters from big silicon valley companies on a daily basis (Apple, Google Netflix, Okta, and just endless other companies in SF and Silicon Valley) and they just won't leave me the f*** alone.
I'm almost 36 years old, so above the average. Also where I work there's plenty of old people around, some in their 50s I'd say.
I think the problem isn't necessarily age discrimination, but the skills silicon valley companies and web companies need are simply different to the skills us older folks have. We cut our teeth on older tech (Physical Hardware, Main frames, SANs, building our own Datacenters and Networks, Compiling Kernels, etc) that's been replaced with new modern cloud stuff (do it all on AWS, used hosted services, etc.)
Pensions? Social Security? Really, at my age, I will never have a pension when I reach old age. It's what I can save away in my retirement funds and build into a nest egg.
I don't expect to receive any free govt. hand outs. Nor do I expect to need it.
Sounds like a total failure to document anything....
Everywhere I've worked in the past few jobs I've had, processes and procedures and anything important about business process has to be documented on a wiki (or more recently, everyone seems to have gone to confluence) and documenation is considered REALLY important.
Sounds like the places I've worked have learned the value of employee knowledge and suffered from employees leaving with vital knowledge not documented.
You either work for either a really tiny organisation, or a business that just hasn't suffered through an important person with a lot of important knowledge leaving.
Firefox is NOT an option. I tried going back to it a few times too, but NOPE. Ever since Firefox 3.6 it has been utter garbage.
As for NPAPI... its the ye olde Netscape Plugin API from the 90s. It HAS to go. Chrome actually dropped NPAPI a long time ago on other OS's (Linux, anyway, I think OSX too) but kept it around quite a bit longer on WIndows but it really is time for it to go.
I actually did have some pain when Chrome dropped NPAPI support on Linux (we use Linux as our desktops the last 3 employers I've had) but eh, managed to survive without it.
Good riddance to Chrome and Java browser plugins. Really.
Yeah, i'm not really happy with the Useragent situation. That clusterfuck needs to be sorted. I'm surprised it wasn't somehow forced as part of the HTML5 or HTTP2.0 spec.
I'm an Australian who has lived in a few countries and currently live in the US on a visa. I'd like to get my greencard, BUT NEVER CITIZENSHIP. The tax headache alone is NOT WORTH IT.
If the IRS ever changes its laws on citizens, then maybe, but that is not currently the case.
But the Snowden papers show that counter-terrorism is at most a minor part of the GCSB's operations. Most projects are assisting the US and allies to gather political and economic intelligence country-by-country around the world.
Is the general attitude of the public simply not giving a shit. This is currently front page news in the New Zealand Herald but it'll quickly be gone and forgotten, and nothing will change.
What is the deal with the general public's apathy when it comes to NSA/GCQH/GCSB/etc ?
Are we really at the point where it's too late to do anything about this and just admit defeat?
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I don't know, I seem to have the opposite problem. I get contacted by recruiters from big silicon valley companies on a daily basis (Apple, Google Netflix, Okta, and just endless other companies in SF and Silicon Valley) and they just won't leave me the f*** alone.
I'm almost 36 years old, so above the average. Also where I work there's plenty of old people around, some in their 50s I'd say.
I think the problem isn't necessarily age discrimination, but the skills silicon valley companies and web companies need are simply different to the skills us older folks have. We cut our teeth on older tech (Physical Hardware, Main frames, SANs, building our own Datacenters and Networks, Compiling Kernels, etc) that's been replaced with new modern cloud stuff (do it all on AWS, used hosted services, etc.)
I love keepass and used it for many years. But the biggest problem is its pretty much Windows only as its written in .Net.
it worked - terribly - under Linux and was almost useless. And I never managed to get it to run under OS X. :(
Pensions? Social Security? Really, at my age, I will never have a pension when I reach old age. It's what I can save away in my retirement funds and build into a nest egg.
I don't expect to receive any free govt. hand outs. Nor do I expect to need it.
I'm getting downvoted because I said she should get off her ass adn go back to work? After THREE YEARS of maternity leave!? What in the actual fuck.
Hence, don't get married. Ever.
But yes, she should get off her lazy ass and go back to work.
Sooo.... why don't the taxi drivers just quit their jobs and go work for Uber instead?
Like, seriously?
Wtf is the problem?
Sounds like a total failure to document anything....
Everywhere I've worked in the past few jobs I've had, processes and procedures and anything important about business process has to be documented on a wiki (or more recently, everyone seems to have gone to confluence) and documenation is considered REALLY important.
Sounds like the places I've worked have learned the value of employee knowledge and suffered from employees leaving with vital knowledge not documented.
You either work for either a really tiny organisation, or a business that just hasn't suffered through an important person with a lot of important knowledge leaving.
Oh well. Their problem.
Move on and forget your current employer.
Firefox is NOT an option. I tried going back to it a few times too, but NOPE. Ever since Firefox 3.6 it has been utter garbage.
As for NPAPI... its the ye olde Netscape Plugin API from the 90s. It HAS to go. Chrome actually dropped NPAPI a long time ago on other OS's (Linux, anyway, I think OSX too) but kept it around quite a bit longer on WIndows but it really is time for it to go.
I actually did have some pain when Chrome dropped NPAPI support on Linux (we use Linux as our desktops the last 3 employers I've had) but eh, managed to survive without it.
Good riddance to Chrome and Java browser plugins. Really.
Erm, would not work, they are super careful to double airtight bag shit.
And not just USPS, stuff gets sent in the mail international, passing through customs of numerous countries, still undetected.
Oh, I don't know, servers? Virtualisation hosts?
Why would anyone use a Xeon with that many cores in a desktop? o_O
Get the i7-4790k which runs up to 4.4ghz and is unlocked so you can overclock it to 4.8ghz or so.
It's probably hundreds of times faster than the shitty pentium 4 you mentioned to boot......
So.. ME instead of IE? ME.... reminds me of Windows ME. *shudder*.
If you don't like it, fucking leave California then. I don't want your retarded ass around me.
Not just New Zealand. Australia, the UK, many countries around the world.
Police just don't carry guns, because there is literally no need.
Disclaimer: I'm an Aussie who also lived in New Zealand for 5 years and now live in California.
Not true; the latest version of veracrypt CAN open old truecrypt containers and volumes. But yes, the older format is less secure.
As an Australian who grew up loving my country... I am fucking glad I left more than 5 years ago.
Australia is slowly turning to shit. :/
Yeah, i'm not really happy with the Useragent situation. That clusterfuck needs to be sorted. I'm surprised it wasn't somehow forced as part of the HTML5 or HTTP2.0 spec.
Or how about we stop this barbaric practice? It's 2015. We're not living in the fucking middle ages anymore.
What the fuck is wrong with Americans, I swear.
Are they a venture backed startup full of bronies?
So, wait. If everyone starts posting this all over facebook will the UK ISP's have no choice but to block facebook.com, too ?
No. Never.
I'm an Australian who has lived in a few countries and currently live in the US on a visa. I'd like to get my greencard, BUT NEVER CITIZENSHIP. The tax headache alone is NOT WORTH IT.
If the IRS ever changes its laws on citizens, then maybe, but that is not currently the case.
Btw, the NZ Herald Articles:
http://www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/n...
http://www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/n...
The key point also:
But the Snowden papers show that counter-terrorism is at most a minor part of the GCSB's operations. Most projects are assisting the US and allies to gather political and economic intelligence country-by-country around the world.
Is the general attitude of the public simply not giving a shit. This is currently front page news in the New Zealand Herald but it'll quickly be gone and forgotten, and nothing will change.
What is the deal with the general public's apathy when it comes to NSA/GCQH/GCSB/etc ?
Are we really at the point where it's too late to do anything about this and just admit defeat?
You're so wrong you're embarrassing yourself.
Thomas the Train? wth? I thought it was Thomas the Tank Engine. *checks* Yeah, according to wikipedia, Thomas the Tank Engine is the name.
Is this another one of those Where's Wally vs Where's Waldo things? o_O