The income bracket thing on Match.com is interesting. Is it primarily used so that people can make sure they're dating the same financial class as them, or for girls or guys to make sure they'll be provided for?
I have always underestimated my income because I didn't want to attract the wrong type of girl. Plus if I say too high a number, my dates might expect fancy dinners when I'm just as content getting Indian food at a hole-in-the-wall.
Have any guys here overestimated? Did you get any extra attention?
I never actually met anyone from match.com in real life. I even subscribed for 3 months and emailed probably 20 different girls. Most didn't reply, and the closest I got to a date was a phone call with a girl who thought the world revolved around her. So if you're thinking about subscribing... don't expect miracles! I think only tall, dark and handsome guys do well online, but they don't really need dating sites anyway!
by lrwx (800141) * on Thursday February 10, @05:01PM (#11635451) You still have sex! I guess if you are going with the sex, drugs, and rock and roll theme.
Howdy partner! Let me be the first to welcome you to Slashdot! Have a nice day!
Maybe you're thinking of a fly-by-night.com, but Papa John's started doing that during the bubble. It was fantastic! While I was coding away I could order a pizza and not even be bothered to look away from the screen until the pizza man arrived.
Unfortunately it didn't last. They started calling me to confirm my address after I ordered online. This broke the dream that was "magically arriving pizza". I sent in a customer service complaint explaining the "magic" of being able to get a pizza by merely typing at a computer, but I received no response. Papa John's continued to call to confirm. I have since stopped ordering pizza online, though now I mostly order Thai instead.
It's October and right now the land in the west is pretty dry, and there have already been quite a few decent sized fires in California. What if the magma starts flowing and creates forest fires? Would the government try to put out the fires? How?
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Anyone who doesn't call # an octothorpe by now is behind the times.
I've been thinking along the same lines as what you said. It's true that I do work at a pretty big company, and that's mostly to blame for the meager salary growth. My problem is that I dreamed of working here since I was in high school. So it's hard for me to be attracted to other companies since I would instantly lose a lot of job satisfaction.
I am realizing that I do need to move around to grow myself professionally. But to move, I need to find some place that inspires me to create a product I'd be proud of. Then I would have recreated the job satisfaction I have now.
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Even if you got a tech job at the end of the bubble, you could still be doing a lot better if you went into the industry just a couple years earlier.
I joined the industry in June, 2001, right after I graduated college. I started with an okay salary, a little less than you mentioned, but still good. Since then all my company's yearly salary increases have been around 3%. Three percent barely makes a difference. But for years before 2001, the average increase was around 10%, and good people got 15%! Plus for equity compensation, people who joined in 1998 and were smart made hundreds of thousands on their stock options. But my options are still under water.
So from my perspective, getting a job "before the bubble burst" isn't that amazing. I'm definitely better off than I would be if I were 1 year younger, but the real lucky people are the ones who were in the industry before the bubble.
Would you think it was a link to download the product? I wouldn't. I'd think it was a link about how the product was free. Then I'd look elsewhere for a place to download it.
"Free Download" may not express the GPL as religiously as some would like, but it clearly expresses that the link points to where to DOWNLOAD the program for FREE.
A place like San Francisco isn't really for people who value a house solely in terms of how many bedrooms it has. I like Mexican food that isn't just poorly executed Tex Mex. I like having the sun shine more than 90% of the summer. I like being a 4 hour drive from awesome ski areas that I used to fly to when I lived back east. Plus I like living around the companies deciding the direction the Internet will go next.
So I don't mind spending more for housing, and apparently the rest of the market is willing to pay more for it also. The bay area is really an amazing place.
I live in San Francisco and commute to Silicon Valley every day. When people say the valley is expensive, most of the time they're exaggerating. You can get a condo for $300k if you look around. You can still get a house for $500k if you make some sacrifices. London is definitely far and away more expensive.
San Francisco starts to get comparable to New York in housing prices, but it's still cheaper than central London.
If you have a degree and know what you're doing, you should do fine here. But I'd recommend working on your green card as soon as you get here. If you stay with an H1B, your company knows that it's difficult for you to change jobs and often they take that into consideration when it comes to raises.
"A Silver Bullet"??? Hahaha, everyone knows that those are always a fantasy. What people really need to do is hire me, Panacea. I'll cure all the problems on the project.
You should take a class in marketing. I did, and I learned that the grandparent post is exactly correct. I realized that the company I work for, a Fortune-500 software company, is organized exactly the way he imagines. But we're not alone. P&G is organized the same way.
Unfortunately "Marketing" is a dirty word because so many people equate it with advertising. But any business person that still has that mental connection is living in the 1970s with a production mentality. Things have changed.
Right. Right when we've got all these plants around the world cranking out inexpensive TV's using LEDS and LCD, some whizzo comes along and says, "Hey, look, a great idea and all you have to do is retool everything, develop some newer technology and keep selling it all at the same pricing you're currently at!"
Welcome to the technology industry. Companies have and will continue to add new features to create products that cost the same amount as the old ones. Today you can buy a flat panel HDTV these days for less than the price of a black and white television in the 1950s (factoring in inflation). If RGBCMY technology takes off, I would likely follow the same pattern.
The barter/trading sections of Craig's List have always kind of confused me. I thought humanity invented the currency system so that people could sell things that they made or no longer needed and then buy other people's things. Craig's List doesn't have a commission cut and there's no spread between buying and selling prices, so what's the point in trading?
Why not just sell what you have and then buy what you want? Why limit yourself to only doing business with people who have the opposite needs of yourself?
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The income bracket thing on Match.com is interesting. Is it primarily used so that people can make sure they're dating the same financial class as them, or for girls or guys to make sure they'll be provided for?
I have always underestimated my income because I didn't want to attract the wrong type of girl. Plus if I say too high a number, my dates might expect fancy dinners when I'm just as content getting Indian food at a hole-in-the-wall.
Have any guys here overestimated? Did you get any extra attention?
I never actually met anyone from match.com in real life. I even subscribed for 3 months and emailed probably 20 different girls. Most didn't reply, and the closest I got to a date was a phone call with a girl who thought the world revolved around her. So if you're thinking about subscribing... don't expect miracles! I think only tall, dark and handsome guys do well online, but they don't really need dating sites anyway!
by lrwx (800141) * on Thursday February 10, @05:01PM (#11635451)
You still have sex! I guess if you are going with the sex, drugs, and rock and roll theme.
Howdy partner! Let me be the first to welcome you to Slashdot! Have a nice day!
Oh I just realized you were sarcastic.
:((((
But still... WTF is Papa John's thinking by breaking the magic!!!!
Maybe you're thinking of a fly-by-night .com, but Papa John's started doing that during the bubble. It was fantastic! While I was coding away I could order a pizza and not even be bothered to look away from the screen until the pizza man arrived.
Unfortunately it didn't last. They started calling me to confirm my address after I ordered online. This broke the dream that was "magically arriving pizza". I sent in a customer service complaint explaining the "magic" of being able to get a pizza by merely typing at a computer, but I received no response. Papa John's continued to call to confirm. I have since stopped ordering pizza online, though now I mostly order Thai instead.
My math was wrong. XP base 1305 is 31336. It's not even elite :(.
That's it, I'm switching to Linux.
No no, you have it all wrong. In 2003 they jumped to a base-1305 system. XP actually stands for 31338. Yes, that's right: it's beyond elite.
Here you go. Just click the Registration Change link.
It's October and right now the land in the west is pretty dry, and there have already been quite a few decent sized fires in California. What if the magma starts flowing and creates forest fires? Would the government try to put out the fires? How?
Anyone who doesn't call # an octothorpe by now is behind the times.
I've been thinking along the same lines as what you said. It's true that I do work at a pretty big company, and that's mostly to blame for the meager salary growth. My problem is that I dreamed of working here since I was in high school. So it's hard for me to be attracted to other companies since I would instantly lose a lot of job satisfaction.
I am realizing that I do need to move around to grow myself professionally. But to move, I need to find some place that inspires me to create a product I'd be proud of. Then I would have recreated the job satisfaction I have now.
Even if you got a tech job at the end of the bubble, you could still be doing a lot better if you went into the industry just a couple years earlier.
I joined the industry in June, 2001, right after I graduated college. I started with an okay salary, a little less than you mentioned, but still good. Since then all my company's yearly salary increases have been around 3%. Three percent barely makes a difference. But for years before 2001, the average increase was around 10%, and good people got 15%! Plus for equity compensation, people who joined in 1998 and were smart made hundreds of thousands on their stock options. But my options are still under water.
So from my perspective, getting a job "before the bubble burst" isn't that amazing. I'm definitely better off than I would be if I were 1 year younger, but the real lucky people are the ones who were in the industry before the bubble.
I thought that's why he was always posing for pictures with firemen???
I don't really know who Roxette, A Teans or Max Martin are. But I'm just 24, which explains at least why I don't know Roxette.
If you saw a link like this:
x is a FREE product. Free to own and use forever.
Would you think it was a link to download the product? I wouldn't. I'd think it was a link about how the product was free. Then I'd look elsewhere for a place to download it.
"Free Download" may not express the GPL as religiously as some would like, but it clearly expresses that the link points to where to DOWNLOAD the program for FREE.
It doesn't look like they need to. All the artists on the list are already signed to major labels.
What about Sweden??? Come on man, they brought us ABBA, The Cardigans AND Ace of Base!!!
A place like San Francisco isn't really for people who value a house solely in terms of how many bedrooms it has. I like Mexican food that isn't just poorly executed Tex Mex. I like having the sun shine more than 90% of the summer. I like being a 4 hour drive from awesome ski areas that I used to fly to when I lived back east. Plus I like living around the companies deciding the direction the Internet will go next.
So I don't mind spending more for housing, and apparently the rest of the market is willing to pay more for it also. The bay area is really an amazing place.
Where is there a local German pub in the Valley?
I live in San Francisco and commute to Silicon Valley every day. When people say the valley is expensive, most of the time they're exaggerating. You can get a condo for $300k if you look around. You can still get a house for $500k if you make some sacrifices. London is definitely far and away more expensive.
San Francisco starts to get comparable to New York in housing prices, but it's still cheaper than central London.
If you have a degree and know what you're doing, you should do fine here. But I'd recommend working on your green card as soon as you get here. If you stay with an H1B, your company knows that it's difficult for you to change jobs and often they take that into consideration when it comes to raises.
"A Silver Bullet"??? Hahaha, everyone knows that those are always a fantasy. What people really need to do is hire me, Panacea. I'll cure all the problems on the project.
So then, p2p must stand for 'pentabytes to pilfer'. Thanks, Ashcroft!
You should take a class in marketing. I did, and I learned that the grandparent post is exactly correct. I realized that the company I work for, a Fortune-500 software company, is organized exactly the way he imagines. But we're not alone. P&G is organized the same way.
Unfortunately "Marketing" is a dirty word because so many people equate it with advertising. But any business person that still has that mental connection is living in the 1970s with a production mentality. Things have changed.
Welcome to the technology industry. Companies have and will continue to add new features to create products that cost the same amount as the old ones. Today you can buy a flat panel HDTV these days for less than the price of a black and white television in the 1950s (factoring in inflation). If RGBCMY technology takes off, I would likely follow the same pattern.
The barter/trading sections of Craig's List have always kind of confused me. I thought humanity invented the currency system so that people could sell things that they made or no longer needed and then buy other people's things. Craig's List doesn't have a commission cut and there's no spread between buying and selling prices, so what's the point in trading?
Why not just sell what you have and then buy what you want? Why limit yourself to only doing business with people who have the opposite needs of yourself?