Add a zero to those numbers and you'll be hating life. I think 40 is about the sweet spot for a Mac network. Past that (into "enterprise territory" from "small business") things get bad.
I'm now replacing my Xserves with Linux boxes, replacing OD with OpenLDAP (with the OD schema so the Macs think it's OD, and an AD schema for the Windows boxes) and Kerberos, and doing roaming profiles, with a Windows and Mac profile for each user. And OD is NOT OpenLDAP. Sure, it's based on an old version of it but it's not got even close to the scalability. Everything is going on a SAN with a cluster file system (where's my ZFS Apple?). We're also moving to a document management system instead of AFP share because I have no versioning, no volume shadow copying, and really horrible lock handling (I see you went to Google for that...). Time machine? Uh, look at rsnapshot some time. Look familiar? I can't run time machine more than once a day on a 2TB file share.
Look, I'm impressed with what they were able to package BSD with out of the box and I like the direction they are going and the innovation they bring but it's just not there yet. And I haven't read much about people doing big things (100, 200, 1000 node networks) with it successfully and in my experience it involves a lot of trickery. I AM going to find out what's possible and take it as far as I can because we have all these Macs.
Unions are just one more tool for the wealthy to suck money from the working man's pocket. But I'm a senior developer, I don't consider myself a "working man". That's why we need to form a professional cabal like the doctors and the lawyers have. We need to set prices across the board higher. Until that happens, wages in this most important of fields will continue to erode. You aren't competing with the programmer in the next desk for money. You and him (or her) are both on the same side competing against the useless human labor pool that you're deperately trying to replace with software and robots. Of course, if you succeed, the CEO gets a bonus but it's your job so you don't get ANYTHING. No! We need to be getting a cut of the money saved by the jobs we eliminate! Stop working yourself out of a job if you want more money! Break something today and make sure something stays broken so I have a job waiting there after you leave! If we could all do this for each other, starting today, I can see a huge rise in IT salaries in the next 12 months.
Unions are for suckers who can't stand up for themselves. We control the business as far as office work is concerned. We need a professional cabal, like the AMA, or ABA or whatever the accountants have. We are professionals and need a professional lobby. And the ACM is bullshit, they pretty much contribute to our woes. Unless we all decide together that we're going to charge more (like doctors and lawyers and accountants do), they can find some other asshole who will sell you out for your job. There needs to be a code of honor and a professional brotherhood between programmers and system managers that will prevent this type of negative competition.
I have two comments. First, web development spans many facets of "development", from design and HCI to the actual programming to systems design and management (the web server). Then you have a wide variety of browsers that each support a slightly different interpretation and perform at different rates. You have the entire internet between you and the client, and you have DNS between your name and the actual IP address. If you're doing any type of dynamic site you're going to need to know about databases and be a database admin. If your site takes hits from the internet you'll need to know about and implement security. So my point is that "web developer" encompasses a lot of stuff. A specialized DSP programmer COULD be described as an "assembly line" worker, doing much of the same thing each day on a few devices.
Secondly, the thing I see that's holding rates down for all programmers is that it's largely something that's seen as "fun" to do by kids and not seen as a job. The shortage of quality workers means that employers pay less to hire poeple who find it fun and will work for less. This leaves the real professionals making less, because hey, they're all programmers right? Another thing is the code of honor of IT. And the pleasure of making things work right. Unfortunately this leads to an "always on" attitude in the customers and leads to them taking us for granted.
However, this is bound to change. Number one, the first thing people do when they get to work (the majority of office workers anyway) is turn on their computer. From that point forward they are sending emails, saving files on the network, using web applications, etc. If the computers aren't working, they can't work.
So break something today. And make sure something stays broken everywhere you work. That will drive up wages. Don't fix problems. Do what all the other workers in your company do: cause problems. Don't work yourself out of a job.
at that point i start to wonder how much of the macbook craze is about sitting at some "starbucks" with a macbook on the table, looking like a up and coming artist working on the next bestseller book or song...
Don't forget the thick square glasses and the turtleneck! Yeah, there's always going to be those people. And I work as a Systems Manager at an organization that has 50 of 60 desktops Macs and it's no picnic to admin them. Even with Apple's prescribed XServe and AFP, file share permissions are almost impossible to get working. They aren't a good solution for an enterprise environment and therefore can never be truely "professional". But they are pretty nice; I like FreeBSD, I like the fact that I can get Photoshop for it, etc. And they can do a lot in a small group. iPhone I see the same way. It's a toy. This is how Apple has always been, however. They push the envelope and it doesn't always work for business. But they are a good part of the technology industry. I'm just tired of all the media dick sucking, by journalists who don't know anything about the business of computers, telling me that the iPhone has changed everything when my Palm was doing that back in 2003....
Well, to make it fair, the punative damages should be assessed based on the annual income of the defendant. Punative damages are the punishment for wasting everyone's time. If it was the little guy wasting Sony's time, they would then feel the same level of sting as if Sony was wasting the little guy's time.
They do this with speeding tickets in Switzerland--the fine is assessed as a percentage of annual income.
Yeah. The feds should lead a charge to get standards set up for the states. Not demand but facilitate. A good example would be education data. There's no offical schema for that. Yet we're talking about a one trillion a year expense for the governments (Federal, State, Local) (according to this, anyway, which may not be correct).
It's genius on so many levels.. it comments on capitalism, the disposability of art in the 21st century, is completely dependent on it's surroundings (ebay, internet), and it's pretty cool looking.
That's why people don't use Ubuntu or even Debian for important servers. I've got a Fedora Core 4 box that hasn't been rebooted since 2006 with quite a heavy load of web sites. In production I'm using CentOS 5.4 which is just fine with kernel 2.6.18. EXT4, pft. Google has plenty of money, they should use ramfs and add more ram and more boxes. Why even mess with disks for a search index? It's like the definition of volatile data.
Only if you're a passive-voiced idiot. "Journalists", use the active voice! Please!
Correct: "EXT4 and XFS were equally impressive in benchmarking."
Note that there are 8 words versus 12 yet somehow the idea is communicated more fully. This is because the reader does not have to pause to try to remember what the subject was (benchmarking or EXT4 and XFS or impressions).
Mention that because of scarce resources, gold was not valuable then; Mention your neighbor stashed away a significant amount of it, and has since been taken away by the secret police; Mention that you just need to get the gold to the United States and you'll share it with the person who can secure $10,000 in cash or bearer's bonds to pay the duties on the gold shipment.
I hear that muthafucka! It's all this self esteem shit they teach them now. That everyone is equal, and everyone has a chance to become president. In a global society that is rapidly approaching the end of growth phase and after that entering the stratfication phase. Look at India today, that's the world 100 years from now. The rich stay rich, the poor stay poor, everyone knows there fucking place. In America, no one knows their place. No one thinks they have to do anything because teachers aren't allowed to discipline any more for fear of lawsuits. So the parent's individual right to sue has led to the disintegration of society as we know it. The expoential growth of code and law in this country has gotten us to a point where everyone is scared shitless. Today's kids do not have the tools to deal with the crumbing social and economic fabric. Hence the mania/depression cycles. Mania, because they are floating along with no one telling them anything's wrong and then if they ever get corrected even slightly they get depressed. Get your ass paddled for being a stupid fuck and yes, maybe you won't be as happy, but you won't be as sad either. Stability and balance are good. And the hallmark of stability and balance is a neutral attitude aobut everything. If you're too happy, there's something wrong..
And why does "Bell Labs" still command respect and support. In the 70's they had UNLIMITED FUNDING (Ma Bell) and so naturally they had most of the best minds in telecom and computers; nowadays they're just a little research shop. I don't understand why Microsoft Research gets such a bad rap either, since they are as close to the old Bell Labs that Unix came out of as anyone around. Unix was "for" switches. Arguably the real advances in Unix happened when it magically evolved at Berkeley (in academia). Google has a lot of brilliant staffers but they just don't seem that organized, do they? Anyway, there is no "Bell Labs" right now, and they don't command respect and support. There are a couple of dudes there that DO, but as an entity, Bell Labs is a bug. Prediction, Cisco purchases Acatel-Lucent in the next 5 years.
Fuck Unions. Unions are for assembly line workers. Dumbshits. We need a professional cabal, not unlike the Doctors, Lawyers and Accountants. Last I check, I do all three in a given day, without leaving my workstation. Let's see, diagnosing complex systems from presenting systems. Check. Reading, planning and implementing complex licensing schemes. Check. Auditing thousands of lines of code. Check. Lawyers have the ABA. Doctors have the AMA. Accountants have CPAs and the FASB.
Now, what sets these people apart from us? THEY HAVE TO HAVE A LICENSE. I know that many types of engineers need to be licensed in most states. I think this should be the trend in IT as well. You have to put up or shut up. You can't just be a PFY with an ITT. And you have to swear an oath to the code of honor so help me God. I think it'll work. Let's do it.
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There's also this one:
Yo momma's so fat she uses an iPad for an iPhone.
Add a zero to those numbers and you'll be hating life. I think 40 is about the sweet spot for a Mac network. Past that (into "enterprise territory" from "small business") things get bad.
I'm now replacing my Xserves with Linux boxes, replacing OD with OpenLDAP (with the OD schema so the Macs think it's OD, and an AD schema for the Windows boxes) and Kerberos, and doing roaming profiles, with a Windows and Mac profile for each user. And OD is NOT OpenLDAP. Sure, it's based on an old version of it but it's not got even close to the scalability. Everything is going on a SAN with a cluster file system (where's my ZFS Apple?). We're also moving to a document management system instead of AFP share because I have no versioning, no volume shadow copying, and really horrible lock handling (I see you went to Google for that...). Time machine? Uh, look at rsnapshot some time. Look familiar? I can't run time machine more than once a day on a 2TB file share.
Look, I'm impressed with what they were able to package BSD with out of the box and I like the direction they are going and the innovation they bring but it's just not there yet. And I haven't read much about people doing big things (100, 200, 1000 node networks) with it successfully and in my experience it involves a lot of trickery. I AM going to find out what's possible and take it as far as I can because we have all these Macs.
Unfortunately my tirade was fictional; I have a work ethic and code of honor. Therefore I'm doomed to being lower middle class forever.
Haven't you ever heard of signed code?
Unions are just one more tool for the wealthy to suck money from the working man's pocket. But I'm a senior developer, I don't consider myself a "working man". That's why we need to form a professional cabal like the doctors and the lawyers have. We need to set prices across the board higher. Until that happens, wages in this most important of fields will continue to erode. You aren't competing with the programmer in the next desk for money. You and him (or her) are both on the same side competing against the useless human labor pool that you're deperately trying to replace with software and robots. Of course, if you succeed, the CEO gets a bonus but it's your job so you don't get ANYTHING. No! We need to be getting a cut of the money saved by the jobs we eliminate! Stop working yourself out of a job if you want more money! Break something today and make sure something stays broken so I have a job waiting there after you leave! If we could all do this for each other, starting today, I can see a huge rise in IT salaries in the next 12 months.
Unions are for suckers who can't stand up for themselves. We control the business as far as office work is concerned. We need a professional cabal, like the AMA, or ABA or whatever the accountants have. We are professionals and need a professional lobby. And the ACM is bullshit, they pretty much contribute to our woes. Unless we all decide together that we're going to charge more (like doctors and lawyers and accountants do), they can find some other asshole who will sell you out for your job. There needs to be a code of honor and a professional brotherhood between programmers and system managers that will prevent this type of negative competition.
I have two comments. First, web development spans many facets of "development", from design and HCI to the actual programming to systems design and management (the web server). Then you have a wide variety of browsers that each support a slightly different interpretation and perform at different rates. You have the entire internet between you and the client, and you have DNS between your name and the actual IP address. If you're doing any type of dynamic site you're going to need to know about databases and be a database admin. If your site takes hits from the internet you'll need to know about and implement security. So my point is that "web developer" encompasses a lot of stuff. A specialized DSP programmer COULD be described as an "assembly line" worker, doing much of the same thing each day on a few devices.
Secondly, the thing I see that's holding rates down for all programmers is that it's largely something that's seen as "fun" to do by kids and not seen as a job. The shortage of quality workers means that employers pay less to hire poeple who find it fun and will work for less. This leaves the real professionals making less, because hey, they're all programmers right? Another thing is the code of honor of IT. And the pleasure of making things work right. Unfortunately this leads to an "always on" attitude in the customers and leads to them taking us for granted.
However, this is bound to change. Number one, the first thing people do when they get to work (the majority of office workers anyway) is turn on their computer. From that point forward they are sending emails, saving files on the network, using web applications, etc. If the computers aren't working, they can't work.
So break something today. And make sure something stays broken everywhere you work. That will drive up wages. Don't fix problems. Do what all the other workers in your company do: cause problems. Don't work yourself out of a job.
at that point i start to wonder how much of the macbook craze is about sitting at some "starbucks" with a macbook on the table, looking like a up and coming artist working on the next bestseller book or song...
Don't forget the thick square glasses and the turtleneck! Yeah, there's always going to be those people. And I work as a Systems Manager at an organization that has 50 of 60 desktops Macs and it's no picnic to admin them. Even with Apple's prescribed XServe and AFP, file share permissions are almost impossible to get working. They aren't a good solution for an enterprise environment and therefore can never be truely "professional". But they are pretty nice; I like FreeBSD, I like the fact that I can get Photoshop for it, etc. And they can do a lot in a small group. iPhone I see the same way. It's a toy. This is how Apple has always been, however. They push the envelope and it doesn't always work for business. But they are a good part of the technology industry. I'm just tired of all the media dick sucking, by journalists who don't know anything about the business of computers, telling me that the iPhone has changed everything when my Palm was doing that back in 2003....
Well, to make it fair, the punative damages should be assessed based on the annual income of the defendant. Punative damages are the punishment for wasting everyone's time. If it was the little guy wasting Sony's time, they would then feel the same level of sting as if Sony was wasting the little guy's time.
They do this with speeding tickets in Switzerland--the fine is assessed as a percentage of annual income.
In the U.S. you can write off gambling losses to the extent of your gambling winnings. See Topic 419. ;)
Only the largest party of the ruling government is for, five are against and one is undecided
Wait, you have more than two political parties?
It's true, they can declare a dividend, they may own some preferred shares, they can take draws, they can take loans, etc.
Yeah. The feds should lead a charge to get standards set up for the states. Not demand but facilitate. A good example would be education data. There's no offical schema for that. Yet we're talking about a one trillion a year expense for the governments (Federal, State, Local) (according to this, anyway, which may not be correct).
I was looking recently and realized that the war on drugs could have easily paid for universal health care. Who's the socialists now?
It's genius on so many levels.. it comments on capitalism, the disposability of art in the 21st century, is completely dependent on it's surroundings (ebay, internet), and it's pretty cool looking.
Wait, software is made of...people?
That could be their new motto:
"Have you considered working for NASA(tm)?"
That's why people don't use Ubuntu or even Debian for important servers. I've got a Fedora Core 4 box that hasn't been rebooted since 2006 with quite a heavy load of web sites. In production I'm using CentOS 5.4 which is just fine with kernel 2.6.18. EXT4, pft. Google has plenty of money, they should use ramfs and add more ram and more boxes. Why even mess with disks for a search index? It's like the definition of volatile data.
Only if you're a passive-voiced idiot. "Journalists", use the active voice! Please!
Correct: "EXT4 and XFS were equally impressive in benchmarking."
Note that there are 8 words versus 12 yet somehow the idea is communicated more fully. This is because the reader does not have to pause to try to remember what the subject was (benchmarking or EXT4 and XFS or impressions).
Either it is a joke, or it was ages ago.
Or maybe he just didn't remember to think IN RUSSIAN.
Isn't this the part where you:
Mention that because of scarce resources, gold was not valuable then;
Mention your neighbor stashed away a significant amount of it, and has since been taken away by the secret police;
Mention that you just need to get the gold to the United States and you'll share it with the person who can secure $10,000 in cash or bearer's bonds to pay the duties on the gold shipment.
Oh, HUNGarian, never mind.
I hear that muthafucka! It's all this self esteem shit they teach them now. That everyone is equal, and everyone has a chance to become president. In a global society that is rapidly approaching the end of growth phase and after that entering the stratfication phase. Look at India today, that's the world 100 years from now. The rich stay rich, the poor stay poor, everyone knows there fucking place. In America, no one knows their place. No one thinks they have to do anything because teachers aren't allowed to discipline any more for fear of lawsuits. So the parent's individual right to sue has led to the disintegration of society as we know it. The expoential growth of code and law in this country has gotten us to a point where everyone is scared shitless. Today's kids do not have the tools to deal with the crumbing social and economic fabric. Hence the mania/depression cycles. Mania, because they are floating along with no one telling them anything's wrong and then if they ever get corrected even slightly they get depressed. Get your ass paddled for being a stupid fuck and yes, maybe you won't be as happy, but you won't be as sad either. Stability and balance are good. And the hallmark of stability and balance is a neutral attitude aobut everything. If you're too happy, there's something wrong..
And why does "Bell Labs" still command respect and support. In the 70's they had UNLIMITED FUNDING (Ma Bell) and so naturally they had most of the best minds in telecom and computers; nowadays they're just a little research shop. I don't understand why Microsoft Research gets such a bad rap either, since they are as close to the old Bell Labs that Unix came out of as anyone around. Unix was "for" switches. Arguably the real advances in Unix happened when it magically evolved at Berkeley (in academia). Google has a lot of brilliant staffers but they just don't seem that organized, do they? Anyway, there is no "Bell Labs" right now, and they don't command respect and support. There are a couple of dudes there that DO, but as an entity, Bell Labs is a bug. Prediction, Cisco purchases Acatel-Lucent in the next 5 years.
Fuck Unions. Unions are for assembly line workers. Dumbshits. We need a professional cabal, not unlike the Doctors, Lawyers and Accountants. Last I check, I do all three in a given day, without leaving my workstation. Let's see, diagnosing complex systems from presenting systems. Check. Reading, planning and implementing complex licensing schemes. Check. Auditing thousands of lines of code. Check. Lawyers have the ABA. Doctors have the AMA. Accountants have CPAs and the FASB.
Now, what sets these people apart from us? THEY HAVE TO HAVE A LICENSE. I know that many types of engineers need to be licensed in most states. I think this should be the trend in IT as well. You have to put up or shut up. You can't just be a PFY with an ITT. And you have to swear an oath to the code of honor so help me God. I think it'll work. Let's do it.
You still need people on the ground, talking to the business users and solving problems. Sure, assembly line coders are outsourced all the time.