Stallman opposes companies and anyone wanting to make a living writing software when he bashes tax payer funded code with forcing corps who also pay taxes from not using it.
You can mod me down or call me what you like but it is fact that if I want to buy a mac (I hate Apple but for the sake of argument) and there is a cool piece of software then I can not have it. Why? If Apple does one include statement in c++ that includes a header that is GNU then the whole thing has to be free as well which is why critics called GPL viral.
I am not a troll here. But corporations have a right to distribute software as well. Sure the code is yours and if you don't want the mean bad corp to use it then use GNU. While it is true that corporations can use GNU they can not distribute it.
So MacOSX can't use it hence why they use CLANG now.
Many programmers do not know when they make source GNU they prohibit any use that is non free. LGPL satisfies this but no one knows what that is and then the programmers wonder why no one is using their source besides other geeks.
BSD new style is not really that much different than the old other than I do not have to give credit to some college at Berkeley that I never went too. The GPL V2 vs V3 is very incompatible.
My point is I want to see more licenses because I fear this GNU thing is a religion. At the end of the day if someone wants to make money I have no problem using it.
Like to see alternatives to GNU. It has way too much popularity in the majority of software out there. Though the popular ones like X and Mozilla have their licenses. I like the BSD personally but would like to see more take off as well.
I am aware CC is more common with literal works than source code but it can be applied to both.
You may want to research the differences between.debs and RPMs?
I use RPM distros for these reasons as things break less and I can uninstall rpms cleanly with the right tools with YUM.
Also Oracle steals from Redhat and I wouldn't be surprised if they use different build settings too. CentOS is slower to release updates compared to Scientific Linux because it tries to be binary compatibility as possible with the exact build process and scripts for all the tools.
This shouldn't be an issue for FOSS software but crappy corporate stuff sometimes does not use any autoconf or automake files at all! Just some shell script that invokes gcc directly or a simplified make so any change will hit it . Debian will suffer an even worse problem.
So evil for a company to provide jobs, QA, have someone answer calls, assist corporate users, and do things like the above where volunteers can not.
There is a reason people use CentOS and Redhat. They work and are guaranteed to work where I would be fired if something went down. Redhat works with OEMs and hardware makers and creates a stable environment to test and optimize so my server I buy will work guaranteed. Sorry but the college frat boys working on this junior level class making a GNU driver for fun and credits wont count if my boss needs something to work.
I find it laughable that those who say corporations are evil work for one. Try not working for one and contributing back and see how far you get ahead in life?
Older, more mature, and runs everything guaranteed.
Kind of like XP is too some of the die hards who refuse to upgrade. I started to like Windows 7 again after Gnome 3/Unity and realized it really is not a bad OS anymore.
I also fell in love with CentOS again too and run it on a VM with FreeBSD if I want some hacking with things like smtp trace and ipf for my virtual networks.
RPM is not bad folks! Many of us in the 1990s had nightmares trying to get gnome 1 working with 1 million plus RPMs and therefore refuse to touch that POS AGAIN!! I was one of them, but my AMD hardware does not work well with debian distros. They work fine with redhat kernels. RPM > DEB. With Yum it is like apt-get and that was the last hurdle..Debs leave crap all over your system when you uninstall. RPMs remove cleanly and I like the admin tools better. With yum there is no rpm hell like before.
Typing this in a AND Phemom II black edition which is very fast and not that far off from an i7 back in 2010 when I purchased this. True the newer ones are slower per ghz sadly.
But what if AMD's next chip kicked ass! Remember the Athlon and the later AthlonXPs were the fastest x86 chip you could buy a decade ago?
Tomshardware would include Skyrim and other Intel compiled apps and whine how slow their inferior AMD chips are and intel fan boys would gleam... but regardless I have a problem with Intel.I do not want to pay more money for a CPU that provides less value.
Even if you do want to argue on this price/performance I get unlocked bios that can support virtualization. Not $900 computer to run VMware natively. Any AMD chipset can run it if you turn it on in the bios!
To answer the grandparent YES INTEL compilers DO CRIPPLE AMD if they do not include SSE3, registers, and other items and use non IEEE standard FPU x87 to make their cpus look better. It is like Nvidia crippling OpenCL to force developers to make CUDA apps who then go on how slow AMD's radeons are etc.
While if the war were only a "phony war", what you are saying might happen, I'm rather afraid you are being extremely optimistic. You are assuming that nuclear/biological/chemical weapons aren't used. (Well, chemical would actually probably not have large scale consequences.)
However you should look up Nuclear Winter/Autumn scenarios. I expect that global crop failures could be expected at a bare minimum. And by crop failures I mean that essentially NOTHING could be harvested, and that the fruit trees cracked by freezing, so they wouldn't be available later as anything other than firewood. I don't think a 90% die-off of all humans worldwide is an unreasonable expectation if there's a major nuclear exchange. It may be optimistic. And the deaths would mainly be due to starvation and hypothermia. The freezing cold might not get as far south as the equatorial regions, but it would likely get too cold for the plants native to those areas to live.
So my expectation is that your scenario wouldn't have time to develop before things sufficiently worse became commonplace that nobody would even notice it.
Nuclear war would be a last option and I doubt both sides would bother. People would kill themselves in the process. Now if only 1 side had a nuclear weapon than that would be case but only 1 or 2 be needed.
But I may sound like a nutcase but it is an economic fact that short sided CEOs, CFOs, and cost accountants mixed with the corruption on not caring about US interests means China has us by the balls. No Walmart for the southern US means 1/3 of all GPD gone. Walmart is part of the problem as they literally force suppliers to outsource or they will make their own Chinese knock off themselves so they can keep prices low. The only way to keep prices low is to use just one supplier to get the volume and economy of scales discounts. But war or a disaster like what happened in Thialand with hard drives?!... we remember last year. Every hard drive maker got impacted. STUPID.
You would go bankrupt while you wait for that to happen.
The banks would go under so you would have 0 lines of credit to use to open a factory.
Lets say you wanted to go all 100% American made. You think you can walk into an abandoned warehouse and turn it into a factor with full production in 24 hours? It would take months maybe years to fit a Ford plant or even something simple like carbonated Coke sugar water.
Walmart would be under in a matter of weeks as these companies live off their stock prices which would all fail as well as lines of credit which would vanish at the same time.
Apple might survive because they have a shit ton of cash. Most companies live on slim margins based on a single Chinese supplier for their existence to cut down on costs.
There would be no America anymore and this points to a very real problem. All this CFO and accountants running companies HATE redundancies and alternative suppliers. Instead it is all eggs in one basket to get a lower unit price in volume BS. All risk for short term stock price gains.
Most of the factory workers I read are from the rural areas. They send money back to their villages each paycheck.
I assume by your name you live in China so you probably know more than I do about this. But like Mexico the rural areas are being helped by Foxconn and aren't these factories moving farther and farther inland where land is much cheaper and workers more desperate?
Well I never met a successful person who not a workaholic. I read books by Larry Winget like "You are broke because you want to be" and other motivational speakers who are not all fancy with slogans.
People are poor because they lack quality and quantity. If you work 29 hours a week at a Walmart you get paid for what society thinks you are worth. Anymore and people would move on to Target. If you change the world with a wonderful idea and work 100 hours a week to make it happen you become very wealthy.
It is not luck at all. People who work hard for just 40 hours a week and watch TV when they get home and do average work and missdeadlines occasionally will stay lower middle class. Those who get MBAs on the weekend and work 60 hours and never ever miss a deadline get promoted.
Programmers who have experience, many references, and have a track record of working on successful products get paid 6 figures. If you do not make this then you need to focus on both the quantity and quality of your labor. Yes corps do demand accountability. Metrics is the rage now complete with ranking systems at most major employers. Meet them or get replaced.
But not the 1,000,000,000 man army. Hell the Chinese have more Army and reserves than every man, woman, and child in the USA! Who cares about your stupid planes when you get a sea of army ants.
So how does a localized dispute between Japan and China impact you?
Impact you?!
How they hell can we buy anything when 90% of all our produce is from China? What will happen to the largest employer Walmart? What about Ford, Coke, Bank of America, or 95% of all fortune 1,000 companies?
Boy you think 1929 and 2009 were bad??
Production and wealth would plummeting immediately as nothing is made here anymore! 50% of these businesses will go under
China's economy is exploding so the citizens wont do anything about it. People rebel in economic turmoil with great losses. The US civil war is a semi exception as no economic turmoil existed but the taking of all the land to slave free states depriving southern men of being successful by working (as in owning slaves and a plantation being a god given right and sign of success.) Caused it.
You have been watching too much Fox news. The stuff they come up with to do anything to make sure people vote republican is astounding.
Like it or not we are going to go to war with Iran if they are within weeks of having a nuclear bomb. Israel made it quite clear and Iran made it clear every us ship in the gulf will be attacked.
Iran said hey lift our sanctions and we promise we will stop. The US said no not until you stop making weapons grade uranium and plutonium. Iran said ok you have a deal if we stick to 5% which can't be used in bombs and you can have weapons inspectors to prove it. The US said ok.
That is not appeasement but a deal. Appeasement is if Obama said lets be nice to Iran and give them everything they want and maybe just maybe they will be nice guys and get rid of their weapons program if we ask nicely.
I am a little on the strange side. I dont expect anyone to like or appreciate this, but I try and stay below poverty for income if I can for a few reasons. The overall business plan is to build sites and such for low down and small monthlys, get enough of that and hosting to make a residual income and then just pick up checks and do whatever jobs roll along. Almost at the $1k residual mark, and with new and fixit jobs wandering in as well as my wife has an online shop it is slowly growing and working. Not that there isnt squeeky tight times, but for 5 years now we have kept the lights on and food on the plate and it is getting easier.
Not to sound judgmental here but I surely hope your wife does not have any kids!?
Watch your back as she just may leave you for another man who would be happy to work harder and make more money and give her what she needs in a nicer home with less financial stress etc?
It is selfish to not be working to your full potential. Even if your wife is hoping her business takes off as you have bills to pay and a family to support. Even if you do not have kids you need to provide for her and yourself and keep fighting to keep what you have when you get older. These things happen more than you think and you could be just one medical accident for total bankruptacy if you go to a hospital.
I got paid shit when I was married and did what I could to move out of it and lost my spouse in the process. Her lover was a doctor who made $130k a year and didn't give excuses of a bad economy or we will be rich later etc.
No Doctors and Lawyers who are successful do not rich for being guildmembers. They get rich by providing an excellent value and work their damn asses off.
Good developers work as hard as doctors and lawyers and are always at home working another skillset or late in the office to fulfill a deadline.
Plumbers make $100,000 a year too. Difference? They get shit done and work 60 hours a week like everyone else.
If you can't compete against someone in a 3rd world country then you are incompetent. Either work harder or do something else. Unionization is not the answer. Right now I am changing career paths with an interest in teaching. It pisses me off I can not get paid a lot of money because some teachers are so terrible that they can't fire that tax payers demand teachers to be paid low. I do not blame them. Now if America was leading in education again without guildmembers or unions then I can argue I work 60 hours a week like these Slashdot programmers and provide a great value. I would like to be paid more etc?
The difference is between 1999 and 2013 is that corporations demand accountability. Just like my example with teachers or plumbers you need to provide a client with more money than you take away. If not then you do not deserve to have it. Good programmers at Facebook are all millionaires and do not give me that craplola on how they were lucky. The product they made is worth billions so they deserve it.
if what you make is only bought by a local restaurant wanting a website for their menu then a kid using photoshop can do it and use a wizard with an ISP to create the site. Then you are worth shit.
"Recently I've been seeing hourly wages for contractors fall to a level I have not personally seen since the early to mid 1990s - twenty years ago."
"Recently I've been seeing hourly wages for contractors fall to a level I have not personally seen since the early to mid 1990s - twenty years ago.
apparently not. Value == money.
Not to say you are incompetent. Just that your employer doesn't value you or your contribution. Fuck them.
Time to update your resume and talk to your wife and move to Montana? If she were willing to start over or even retire you can get paid the same or even less and live like a fucking king based on the equity of your home if you bought it before the boom.
When your employer doesn't value you it means your relationship is in turmoil with yourself and the employer. Either the employer wants you out and doesn't give a shit about your needs or you do not give a damn your employers needs. Time to severe it.
Austin Texas, Boulder Colorado, and even Montana are having.coms start there due to the lower cost of living and people like yourself can live like human beings.
The problem is IE. That is old IE which can not do HTML 5, CSS 3 animations, JIT JS, or any of the other things.
Google Chrome experiments? All these are advanced. Also google IETest Drive ? Even IE 11 is ok finally again. Corps and grannies using XP and IE 8 is why you need plugins as ther ei sno way to make something pixel perfect in Chome as well as IE 6.
Technology is progressing. Just on phones now and if enough people upgrade more often it will put pressure on Grandma and the corps to modernize so we all can have a better experience.
If you know JS but not HTML 5, iOS app development, CSS 3, noSQL JSON, or any new web 3.0 stuff then I agree you aren't worth more than 2 an hour.
All I know is I see employers willing to pay $60,000+ or more a year to develop these apps. Craigslist and Monster is full of these jobs and they are going overseas because they can not find enough qualified workers. No not CHEAP qualified workers, I mean any qualified workers who know what a CANVAS tag is.
JS with HTML 5 pays a ton of money and you can download Virtualbox, turnkey Linux, Android SDK and use them all to have your own client/server app development at home. Microsoft is giving MS expressions both web and regular versions for free to at Microsoft.com which is close to Adobe Dreamweaver. Chome and even IE 11 have advanced tools too to troubleshoot and debug your JS.
This is where the market is going and even if you know IE 6 and IE 8 really well with MS SQL crappy intranet vendor companies are paying top dollars too if you want to specialize in this. Corporate customers do not care about staying modern and are more than happy to pay millions for it.
But DC is almost as expensive as silicon Valley. $120,000 a year might get you a 1200 square foot home in a crime infested neighborhood. Of course wherever there is a military base the price of homes always triples too due to these high prices job so it is a chicken and the egg scenario.
I feel sorry for those who must barista at Starbucks in either area. How do they survive? Seriously, some people just got down on their luck and become unemployable during the last recession and need such jobs. It doesn't matter when the landlord knows he can charge $5,000 a month and have renters all out bidding each other for that one bedroom in an attic.
Arstechnica.com just did an article on how easy it is to steal an identity complete with a credit number for $30 on the blackmarket!
Someone could have just taken your identity and bought a car, home, and maxed 5 credit cards and the debt collectors are going after you to pay for it. Always watch your back as that FICO score is your life and you can't buy anything or move into a new job without that reputation score high enough.
Well no one is going to hire you for 120k a year because you read a LEARN C++ in 24 hours book.
You need many years of experience and a computer science degree or mathematics to back you up with 5 managerial references minimum! Those who want to reply back or mod me how they didn't need that? Fine, how much are you making? I bet it aint 120k without all if not 2 out of the 3 of these.
For 120k a better have all as I can hire 2 developers for the same price or more if I want to have someone inexperienced in India.
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I have seen people who go from job to job in months are poor performers, come in late, or quit on you.
Those who have the same job for years and were not fired means they must have been competent enough to keep it right?
Lots of employers ==bad on a resume. Someone who knows he or she is about to get canned or hates work and getting up in the morning.
Stallman opposes companies and anyone wanting to make a living writing software when he bashes tax payer funded code with forcing corps who also pay taxes from not using it.
You can mod me down or call me what you like but it is fact that if I want to buy a mac (I hate Apple but for the sake of argument) and there is a cool piece of software then I can not have it. Why? If Apple does one include statement in c++ that includes a header that is GNU then the whole thing has to be free as well which is why critics called GPL viral.
I am not a troll here. But corporations have a right to distribute software as well. Sure the code is yours and if you don't want the mean bad corp to use it then use GNU. While it is true that corporations can use GNU they can not distribute it.
So MacOSX can't use it hence why they use CLANG now.
Many programmers do not know when they make source GNU they prohibit any use that is non free. LGPL satisfies this but no one knows what that is and then the programmers wonder why no one is using their source besides other geeks.
BSD new style is not really that much different than the old other than I do not have to give credit to some college at Berkeley that I never went too. The GPL V2 vs V3 is very incompatible.
My point is I want to see more licenses because I fear this GNU thing is a religion. At the end of the day if someone wants to make money I have no problem using it.
Difference is Oracle does not use the same build process like CentOS does and is competing agaisn't redhat.
Like to see alternatives to GNU. It has way too much popularity in the majority of software out there. Though the popular ones like X and Mozilla have their licenses. I like the BSD personally but would like to see more take off as well.
I am aware CC is more common with literal works than source code but it can be applied to both.
You may want to research the differences between .debs and RPMs?
I use RPM distros for these reasons as things break less and I can uninstall rpms cleanly with the right tools with YUM.
Also Oracle steals from Redhat and I wouldn't be surprised if they use different build settings too. CentOS is slower to release updates compared to Scientific Linux because it tries to be binary compatibility as possible with the exact build process and scripts for all the tools.
This shouldn't be an issue for FOSS software but crappy corporate stuff sometimes does not use any autoconf or automake files at all! Just some shell script that invokes gcc directly or a simplified make so any change will hit it . Debian will suffer an even worse problem.
Yeah so evil.
So evil for a company to provide jobs, QA, have someone answer calls, assist corporate users, and do things like the above where volunteers can not.
There is a reason people use CentOS and Redhat. They work and are guaranteed to work where I would be fired if something went down. Redhat works with OEMs and hardware makers and creates a stable environment to test and optimize so my server I buy will work guaranteed. Sorry but the college frat boys working on this junior level class making a GNU driver for fun and credits wont count if my boss needs something to work.
I find it laughable that those who say corporations are evil work for one. Try not working for one and contributing back and see how far you get ahead in life?
Older, more mature, and runs everything guaranteed.
Kind of like XP is too some of the die hards who refuse to upgrade. I started to like Windows 7 again after Gnome 3/Unity and realized it really is not a bad OS anymore.
I also fell in love with CentOS again too and run it on a VM with FreeBSD if I want some hacking with things like smtp trace and ipf for my virtual networks.
RPM is not bad folks! Many of us in the 1990s had nightmares trying to get gnome 1 working with 1 million plus RPMs and therefore refuse to touch that POS AGAIN!! I was one of them, but my AMD hardware does not work well with debian distros. They work fine with redhat kernels. RPM > DEB. With Yum it is like apt-get and that was the last hurdle. .Debs leave crap all over your system when you uninstall. RPMs remove cleanly and I like the admin tools better. With yum there is no rpm hell like before.
VS 2013 which just came out supports C++ 11. At least that is what MS is saying.
A lot.
Typing this in a AND Phemom II black edition which is very fast and not that far off from an i7 back in 2010 when I purchased this. True the newer ones are slower per ghz sadly.
But what if AMD's next chip kicked ass! Remember the Athlon and the later AthlonXPs were the fastest x86 chip you could buy a decade ago?
Tomshardware would include Skyrim and other Intel compiled apps and whine how slow their inferior AMD chips are and intel fan boys would gleam ... but regardless I have a problem with Intel.I do not want to pay more money for a CPU that provides less value.
Even if you do want to argue on this price/performance I get unlocked bios that can support virtualization. Not $900 computer to run VMware natively. Any AMD chipset can run it if you turn it on in the bios!
To answer the grandparent YES INTEL compilers DO CRIPPLE AMD if they do not include SSE3, registers, and other items and use non IEEE standard FPU x87 to make their cpus look better. It is like Nvidia crippling OpenCL to force developers to make CUDA apps who then go on how slow AMD's radeons are etc.
While if the war were only a "phony war", what you are saying might happen, I'm rather afraid you are being extremely optimistic. You are assuming that nuclear/biological/chemical weapons aren't used. (Well, chemical would actually probably not have large scale consequences.)
However you should look up Nuclear Winter/Autumn scenarios. I expect that global crop failures could be expected at a bare minimum. And by crop failures I mean that essentially NOTHING could be harvested, and that the fruit trees cracked by freezing, so they wouldn't be available later as anything other than firewood. I don't think a 90% die-off of all humans worldwide is an unreasonable expectation if there's a major nuclear exchange. It may be optimistic. And the deaths would mainly be due to starvation and hypothermia. The freezing cold might not get as far south as the equatorial regions, but it would likely get too cold for the plants native to those areas to live.
So my expectation is that your scenario wouldn't have time to develop before things sufficiently worse became commonplace that nobody would even notice it.
Nuclear war would be a last option and I doubt both sides would bother. People would kill themselves in the process. Now if only 1 side had a nuclear weapon than that would be case but only 1 or 2 be needed.
But I may sound like a nutcase but it is an economic fact that short sided CEOs, CFOs, and cost accountants mixed with the corruption on not caring about US interests means China has us by the balls. No Walmart for the southern US means 1/3 of all GPD gone. Walmart is part of the problem as they literally force suppliers to outsource or they will make their own Chinese knock off themselves so they can keep prices low. The only way to keep prices low is to use just one supplier to get the volume and economy of scales discounts. But war or a disaster like what happened in Thialand with hard drives?! ... we remember last year. Every hard drive maker got impacted. STUPID.
You would go bankrupt while you wait for that to happen.
The banks would go under so you would have 0 lines of credit to use to open a factory.
Lets say you wanted to go all 100% American made. You think you can walk into an abandoned warehouse and turn it into a factor with full production in 24 hours? It would take months maybe years to fit a Ford plant or even something simple like carbonated Coke sugar water.
Walmart would be under in a matter of weeks as these companies live off their stock prices which would all fail as well as lines of credit which would vanish at the same time.
Apple might survive because they have a shit ton of cash. Most companies live on slim margins based on a single Chinese supplier for their existence to cut down on costs.
There would be no America anymore and this points to a very real problem. All this CFO and accountants running companies HATE redundancies and alternative suppliers. Instead it is all eggs in one basket to get a lower unit price in volume BS. All risk for short term stock price gains.
Most of the factory workers I read are from the rural areas. They send money back to their villages each paycheck.
I assume by your name you live in China so you probably know more than I do about this. But like Mexico the rural areas are being helped by Foxconn and aren't these factories moving farther and farther inland where land is much cheaper and workers more desperate?
Well I never met a successful person who not a workaholic. I read books by Larry Winget like "You are broke because you want to be" and other motivational speakers who are not all fancy with slogans.
People are poor because they lack quality and quantity. If you work 29 hours a week at a Walmart you get paid for what society thinks you are worth. Anymore and people would move on to Target. If you change the world with a wonderful idea and work 100 hours a week to make it happen you become very wealthy.
It is not luck at all. People who work hard for just 40 hours a week and watch TV when they get home and do average work and missdeadlines occasionally will stay lower middle class. Those who get MBAs on the weekend and work 60 hours and never ever miss a deadline get promoted.
Programmers who have experience, many references, and have a track record of working on successful products get paid 6 figures. If you do not make this then you need to focus on both the quantity and quality of your labor. Yes corps do demand accountability. Metrics is the rage now complete with ranking systems at most major employers. Meet them or get replaced.
That's about 20 years out of date.
So is the vast majority of their military tech...
But not the 1,000,000,000 man army. Hell the Chinese have more Army and reserves than every man, woman, and child in the USA! Who cares about your stupid planes when you get a sea of army ants.
So how does a localized dispute between Japan and China impact you?
Impact you?!
How they hell can we buy anything when 90% of all our produce is from China? What will happen to the largest employer Walmart? What about Ford, Coke, Bank of America, or 95% of all fortune 1,000 companies?
Boy you think 1929 and 2009 were bad??
Production and wealth would plummeting immediately as nothing is made here anymore! 50% of these businesses will go under
Civil war by who?
China's economy is exploding so the citizens wont do anything about it. People rebel in economic turmoil with great losses. The US civil war is a semi exception as no economic turmoil existed but the taking of all the land to slave free states depriving southern men of being successful by working (as in owning slaves and a plantation being a god given right and sign of success.) Caused it.
You have been watching too much Fox news. The stuff they come up with to do anything to make sure people vote republican is astounding.
Like it or not we are going to go to war with Iran if they are within weeks of having a nuclear bomb. Israel made it quite clear and Iran made it clear every us ship in the gulf will be attacked.
Iran said hey lift our sanctions and we promise we will stop. The US said no not until you stop making weapons grade uranium and plutonium. Iran said ok you have a deal if we stick to 5% which can't be used in bombs and you can have weapons inspectors to prove it. The US said ok.
That is not appeasement but a deal. Appeasement is if Obama said lets be nice to Iran and give them everything they want and maybe just maybe they will be nice guys and get rid of their weapons program if we ask nicely.
I am a little on the strange side. I dont expect anyone to like or appreciate this, but I try and stay below poverty for income if I can for a few reasons. The overall business plan is to build sites and such for low down and small monthlys, get enough of that and hosting to make a residual income and then just pick up checks and do whatever jobs roll along. Almost at the $1k residual mark, and with new and fixit jobs wandering in as well as my wife has an online shop it is slowly growing and working. Not that there isnt squeeky tight times, but for 5 years now we have kept the lights on and food on the plate and it is getting easier.
Not to sound judgmental here but I surely hope your wife does not have any kids!?
Watch your back as she just may leave you for another man who would be happy to work harder and make more money and give her what she needs in a nicer home with less financial stress etc?
It is selfish to not be working to your full potential. Even if your wife is hoping her business takes off as you have bills to pay and a family to support. Even if you do not have kids you need to provide for her and yourself and keep fighting to keep what you have when you get older. These things happen more than you think and you could be just one medical accident for total bankruptacy if you go to a hospital.
I got paid shit when I was married and did what I could to move out of it and lost my spouse in the process. Her lover was a doctor who made $130k a year and didn't give excuses of a bad economy or we will be rich later etc.
Plenty of rich programmers making 6 figures!
No Doctors and Lawyers who are successful do not rich for being guildmembers. They get rich by providing an excellent value and work their damn asses off.
Good developers work as hard as doctors and lawyers and are always at home working another skillset or late in the office to fulfill a deadline.
Plumbers make $100,000 a year too. Difference? They get shit done and work 60 hours a week like everyone else.
If you can't compete against someone in a 3rd world country then you are incompetent. Either work harder or do something else. Unionization is not the answer. Right now I am changing career paths with an interest in teaching. It pisses me off I can not get paid a lot of money because some teachers are so terrible that they can't fire that tax payers demand teachers to be paid low. I do not blame them. Now if America was leading in education again without guildmembers or unions then I can argue I work 60 hours a week like these Slashdot programmers and provide a great value. I would like to be paid more etc?
The difference is between 1999 and 2013 is that corporations demand accountability. Just like my example with teachers or plumbers you need to provide a client with more money than you take away. If not then you do not deserve to have it. Good programmers at Facebook are all millionaires and do not give me that craplola on how they were lucky. The product they made is worth billions so they deserve it.
if what you make is only bought by a local restaurant wanting a website for their menu then a kid using photoshop can do it and use a wizard with an ISP to create the site. Then you are worth shit.
"Recently I've been seeing hourly wages for contractors fall to a level I have not personally seen since the early to mid 1990s - twenty years ago."
"Recently I've been seeing hourly wages for contractors fall to a level I have not personally seen since the early to mid 1990s - twenty years ago.
apparently not. Value == money.
Not to say you are incompetent. Just that your employer doesn't value you or your contribution. Fuck them.
Time to update your resume and talk to your wife and move to Montana? If she were willing to start over or even retire you can get paid the same or even less and live like a fucking king based on the equity of your home if you bought it before the boom.
When your employer doesn't value you it means your relationship is in turmoil with yourself and the employer. Either the employer wants you out and doesn't give a shit about your needs or you do not give a damn your employers needs. Time to severe it.
Austin Texas, Boulder Colorado, and even Montana are having .coms start there due to the lower cost of living and people like yourself can live like human beings.
I disagree.
The problem is IE. That is old IE which can not do HTML 5, CSS 3 animations, JIT JS, or any of the other things.
Google Chrome experiments? All these are advanced. Also google IETest Drive ? Even IE 11 is ok finally again. Corps and grannies using XP and IE 8 is why you need plugins as ther ei sno way to make something pixel perfect in Chome as well as IE 6.
Technology is progressing. Just on phones now and if enough people upgrade more often it will put pressure on Grandma and the corps to modernize so we all can have a better experience.
Nonsense.
If you know JS but not HTML 5, iOS app development, CSS 3, noSQL JSON, or any new web 3.0 stuff then I agree you aren't worth more than 2 an hour.
All I know is I see employers willing to pay $60,000+ or more a year to develop these apps. Craigslist and Monster is full of these jobs and they are going overseas because they can not find enough qualified workers. No not CHEAP qualified workers, I mean any qualified workers who know what a CANVAS tag is.
JS with HTML 5 pays a ton of money and you can download Virtualbox, turnkey Linux, Android SDK and use them all to have your own client/server app development at home. Microsoft is giving MS expressions both web and regular versions for free to at Microsoft.com which is close to Adobe Dreamweaver. Chome and even IE 11 have advanced tools too to troubleshoot and debug your JS.
This is where the market is going and even if you know IE 6 and IE 8 really well with MS SQL crappy intranet vendor companies are paying top dollars too if you want to specialize in this. Corporate customers do not care about staying modern and are more than happy to pay millions for it.
Some make 120k in Silcon Valley too.
It is over valued to the insane.
But DC is almost as expensive as silicon Valley. $120,000 a year might get you a 1200 square foot home in a crime infested neighborhood. Of course wherever there is a military base the price of homes always triples too due to these high prices job so it is a chicken and the egg scenario.
I feel sorry for those who must barista at Starbucks in either area. How do they survive? Seriously, some people just got down on their luck and become unemployable during the last recession and need such jobs. It doesn't matter when the landlord knows he can charge $5,000 a month and have renters all out bidding each other for that one bedroom in an attic.
Or do a credit check on yourself.
Arstechnica.com just did an article on how easy it is to steal an identity complete with a credit number for $30 on the blackmarket!
Someone could have just taken your identity and bought a car, home, and maxed 5 credit cards and the debt collectors are going after you to pay for it. Always watch your back as that FICO score is your life and you can't buy anything or move into a new job without that reputation score high enough.
Well no one is going to hire you for 120k a year because you read a LEARN C++ in 24 hours book.
You need many years of experience and a computer science degree or mathematics to back you up with 5 managerial references minimum! Those who want to reply back or mod me how they didn't need that? Fine, how much are you making? I bet it aint 120k without all if not 2 out of the 3 of these.
For 120k a better have all as I can hire 2 developers for the same price or more if I want to have someone inexperienced in India.