Myself, I'm finding it hard to put in even 40 days per week. I have a 9 months old son and he demands attention. Plus, my current job is so BORING, I want to hang myself on a shoestring. I'm working on getting a more interesting job tho.:0)
Anyone with a family can't work 80 hours a week. No freaking way. A young guy without a family can pull this off when doing something he loves to do, like working on his dream project, but not sustainably. Maybe a couple of weeks.
Anyone saying that people can slave like that for months for even 100K a year is a bullshit artist. At the best, 80+ hour folks will show up, read slashdot for most of their day and then _maybe_ put in a couple of hours of coding. Why?
They won't convert you from a contractor into an employee. Why would they? Contractors are less expensive and they can be fired on the spot (firing employees is not as easy for some reason, especially if an employee is hispanic or black or gay). Even if they like you _a_lot_, even then your probability of becoming an employee is pretty slim.
I think Nintendo lost it this time. When Sony PSP comes out it will crush the DS, it's obvious. Wide and _big_ screen, more horsepower, _no hinge_. Single brick, with perfect internals for what it does. The only hope for Nintendo here is their exclusive games, and I don't think they'll pull it off this time.
When can we expect 48 bit color support and color management? Is adding buttons and screwing up the UI even further the only two things GIMP developers care about?
I mean, I know the mantra, you get what you pay for, and if you don't like it - here's the code, roll your own, submit a patch. But come on. Who the fuck needs shortcut editor?
of clocks: "I see no progress in this industry. These clocks are no faster than the ones they made a hundred years ago."
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To improve the stuff some folks distill at home - "samogon". Why? I have no idea why, maybe someone has a degree in chemistry and can explain. Then they also add "activated carbon" to it to remove some of the smell, which is exactly the same as "brita filter", except they've been doing that back in the 80's, when Brita didn't exist.
And we may see CIA put a dictator in charge of Venezuela, and then suddenly realize he's evil and send troops there to overthrow the guy (and cash in on the oil, too). That's exactly what happened in Iraq. Why do you think this can't happen in Venezuela? On the other hand, the US would be pretty stupid to even attempt to pull off something like this against Russia. ICBMs only take about 9 minutes to get from there to the US, you know.
Russia has tons of oil, and the only thing preventing the US from going there in search of "WMD" is that Russia has WMD. If US designs a system to protect itself from these WMD, Russia will design a system to protect itself from the USA.
We don't require any certifications. What we want is excellent design and coding skills (C# and C++), solid experience with ASP.NET and COM and experience shipping at least one product. The latter is not required, but rather preferred.
I'm telling you, we're struggling to fill the open positions. You gotta understand that nationality of the worker doesn't make a difference for the employer. What does make difference is whether or not the guy/gal can do the job and do it well. If you want to force them to hire US workers, they'll just move their entire development teams overseas where the law climate is more friendly.
Now this will be a major win for US workers, wouldn't it?
There's another facet to the issue - offshore outsourcing. But there companies hire whoever they can for the lowest price. I think this bubble will eventually burst, because I've seen several projects done for our company in India (by employees, no less) that sucked major hairy balls and had to be redone. My experience with outsourcing is that quite often folks in India will do just enough to barely get by. If this means cut&paste all over the place - that's fine by their standards. You pretend you pay them well, they pretend they do a good job.
I've been interviewing candidates for our team lately, and let me tell you right now, GOOD candidates are RARE. I mean, there's a metric ton of people on the job market who shouldn't have entered it in the first place. The folks who, when asked to remove duplicates from a string, start putting together a giant if/else or switch statement, and who for the life of them can't count bits in a binary number. One out of ten people _barely_ knows what he/she is doing. If H1-B's are better, I'd rather hire an H1-B. The law prohibits to pay less to an H1-B than to an equally qualified US candidate, though. So folks screaming that H1-Bs are routinely underpaid don't know what the heck they're talking about. If you know instances of such abuse, blow the whistle to the Dept. of Labor.
First, you pay $50 for your cable. Then you pay $12 for your TiVo. And after all of this they STILL won't allow you to totally skip commercials. Good lord, sometimes I'm so glad I don't watch TV. AT ALL. Is this a criminal act yet to not watch TV at all?
This will be a bomb. Imagine - tiny cube like PCs which only turn their processor fans on when they need to. I have Pentium M processor in my laptop and I haven't run any benchmarks, but it _feels_ faster than my P4 desktop.
Now the only issue is, it's not 64 bit compatible. Intel, hook up 64 bit instruction set and memory controller to it, will ya?
Steve Jobs can wipe the floor with Gates if he wants to. It's not even funny to compare them. If Apple had half the money Microsoft has, they would kick MS out of the market easily.
But that's exactly the line of thinking that bring this world to the brink of nuclear conflict sooner or later. And once this shit hits the fan there will be no survivors, whether or not you have the anti-missile system (which you won't have, because it's 100 times easier to build a rocket defeating such a system than a system capable of shooting it down).
So my recomendation to the US would be to quit stepping onto other countries' toes and engage into a massive diplomacy effort which would either delay the proliferation of nuclear weapons (there's no stopping it), or reverse the buildup of nuclear arsenal in countries that already have NW, and at the same time put checks in place to reduce chances of extremist people becoming presidents in other countries, at least those potentially capable of producing nuclear weapons.
Need an example of when such an effort would be beneficial? Kim Jong Il is your man. Tiny, piss-poor nation which has nothing to lose. Push more nations into this state, and you'll have tens of millions of angry people wanting revenge. Continue your policy directed at disintegration of Russia, and you'll have no less than _eight_ piss poor nations on its territory and all of them will have nuclear weapons of such immense power and reach, you may never build a system to neutralize them.
When I said in five years they'll have "the shit", I meant multiple-warhead ICBMs, which can't be shot down. And they'll make them at 1/100th of the cost of the US anti-missile system.
Now, you can prevent them from making these ICBMs in the first place. But who's gonna do this in this nation of overconfident paranoids?
It won't be safe, no matter how much money you spend.
Check this out: http://www.fas.org/nuke/guide/russia/icbm/r-36m.ht m
First of all, in the event of a massive nuclear conflict, you won't be able to shoot down all launching missiles. Second of all, once this thing separates into 10 warheads, you're lucky if you shoot down two out of 10. And guess what, you need to shut down all 10. When Russians rolled out this thing, Reagan administration pooped their pants.
So let's consider this (very possible) situation. The US starts massive development of anti-ICBM system thereby threatening the balance of power. Russians will only need about three hundred million dollars (in rouble equivalent) to re-start production of Satan rockets. Right now, Russian government doesn't give a flying fuck about the opinion of the US, they could easily do so (heck, maybe the effort is already underway).
So what do we end up with. The US is testing its anti-missile system. Russians _already_have_ missiles that fly right through it unscathed. They only need to dust off their old nuclear attack plans, and here you go, they can boil fish right in Missisipi river.
And that's something they had _back_then_. They haven't exactly spent all this time twiddling their thumbs. So if shit hits the global fan, you can expect a swift and merciless response.
5-10 years from now the Chinese, Indians, Pakis and Koreans (and possibly Iran) will have the same shit.
My point is, the only true safety measure in an environment where nuclear weapons become commodity is _diplomacy_ and _diplomacy_only_.
An alien ship can land tomorrow and destroy the United States with its alien weapons of mass destruction. Now, quick, let's divert all the money there is in the economy to building an anti-alien-ship system. I bet if this was repeated on TV a hundred million times, the US populace would wholeheartedly approve gutting their own country for some paranoid's dream.
Get used to it folks, you ARE vulnerable. Some of the vulnerabilities can be fixed by careful diplomacy. Spending billions on the military will not help against ICBMs. If North Korea really decides to take out the US, they can build something more sophisticated than single-warhead ICBMs, and you won't have systems against multi-warhead ICBMs in the next 20 years at least. And by then someone will invent something else.
Americans are paranoid nuts, and this is incurable. Spending $10B on something that fixes the problem that does not exist while at the same time making airlines seem even less secure than we thought they were - this can only happen in the US. Something tells me the "Star Wars" shit is just around the corner. $200B in military spending that can be defeated by $1M (converted to Russian roubles) in research money.
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... has to be blue? I mean, I've grown allergic to blue because of this. Blue is the color beginner designers use when they don't know what color to use. Make it red, green, multicolored, polka-dotted, whatever, just don't make it blue.
This for me is enough to continue using Google. Let's face it, in its first incarnation this search engine has no advantages over Google.
Microsoft only has sales and a bit of support in Australia. So you're hearing the word of a sales guy. Of course he'll tell you that his shit is no worse than this other shit.
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Americans put their feet on it first, so there you go - Moon is now US property. That's the payoff of the Cold War.
Myself, I'm finding it hard to put in even 40 days per week. I have a 9 months old son and he demands attention. Plus, my current job is so BORING, I want to hang myself on a shoestring. I'm working on getting a more interesting job tho. :0)
Anyone with a family can't work 80 hours a week. No freaking way. A young guy without a family can pull this off when doing something he loves to do, like working on his dream project, but not sustainably. Maybe a couple of weeks.
Anyone saying that people can slave like that for months for even 100K a year is a bullshit artist. At the best, 80+ hour folks will show up, read slashdot for most of their day and then _maybe_ put in a couple of hours of coding. Why?
They won't convert you from a contractor into an employee. Why would they? Contractors are less expensive and they can be fired on the spot (firing employees is not as easy for some reason, especially if an employee is hispanic or black or gay). Even if they like you _a_lot_, even then your probability of becoming an employee is pretty slim.
If he knew that his own keyboard can be wiretapped by someone. I for one would love to find out what kind of pr0n sitest federal judges go to.
I think Nintendo lost it this time. When Sony PSP comes out it will crush the DS, it's obvious. Wide and _big_ screen, more horsepower, _no hinge_. Single brick, with perfect internals for what it does. The only hope for Nintendo here is their exclusive games, and I don't think they'll pull it off this time.
When can we expect 48 bit color support and color management? Is adding buttons and screwing up the UI even further the only two things GIMP developers care about?
I mean, I know the mantra, you get what you pay for, and if you don't like it - here's the code, roll your own, submit a patch. But come on. Who the fuck needs shortcut editor?
of clocks: "I see no progress in this industry. These clocks are no faster than the ones they made a hundred years ago."
To improve the stuff some folks distill at home - "samogon". Why? I have no idea why, maybe someone has a degree in chemistry and can explain. Then they also add "activated carbon" to it to remove some of the smell, which is exactly the same as "brita filter", except they've been doing that back in the 80's, when Brita didn't exist.
Pornography is exactly showing people having sexual intercourse. Pornography is LEGAL. Its distribution to minors is not.
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>> enterprise solutions.
Sheeeeit, that's a good one. My bullshitometer EXPLODED.
And we may see CIA put a dictator in charge of Venezuela, and then suddenly realize he's evil and send troops there to overthrow the guy (and cash in on the oil, too). That's exactly what happened in Iraq. Why do you think this can't happen in Venezuela? On the other hand, the US would be pretty stupid to even attempt to pull off something like this against Russia. ICBMs only take about 9 minutes to get from there to the US, you know.
Russia has tons of oil, and the only thing preventing the US from going there in search of "WMD" is that Russia has WMD. If US designs a system to protect itself from these WMD, Russia will design a system to protect itself from the USA.
We don't require any certifications. What we want is excellent design and coding skills (C# and C++), solid experience with ASP.NET and COM and experience shipping at least one product. The latter is not required, but rather preferred.
I'm telling you, we're struggling to fill the open positions. You gotta understand that nationality of the worker doesn't make a difference for the employer. What does make difference is whether or not the guy/gal can do the job and do it well. If you want to force them to hire US workers, they'll just move their entire development teams overseas where the law climate is more friendly.
Now this will be a major win for US workers, wouldn't it?
There's another facet to the issue - offshore outsourcing. But there companies hire whoever they can for the lowest price. I think this bubble will eventually burst, because I've seen several projects done for our company in India (by employees, no less) that sucked major hairy balls and had to be redone. My experience with outsourcing is that quite often folks in India will do just enough to barely get by. If this means cut&paste all over the place - that's fine by their standards. You pretend you pay them well, they pretend they do a good job.
I've been interviewing candidates for our team lately, and let me tell you right now, GOOD candidates are RARE. I mean, there's a metric ton of people on the job market who shouldn't have entered it in the first place. The folks who, when asked to remove duplicates from a string, start putting together a giant if/else or switch statement, and who for the life of them can't count bits in a binary number. One out of ten people _barely_ knows what he/she is doing. If H1-B's are better, I'd rather hire an H1-B. The law prohibits to pay less to an H1-B than to an equally qualified US candidate, though. So folks screaming that H1-Bs are routinely underpaid don't know what the heck they're talking about. If you know instances of such abuse, blow the whistle to the Dept. of Labor.
First, you pay $50 for your cable. Then you pay $12 for your TiVo. And after all of this they STILL won't allow you to totally skip commercials. Good lord, sometimes I'm so glad I don't watch TV. AT ALL. Is this a criminal act yet to not watch TV at all?
This will be a bomb. Imagine - tiny cube like PCs which only turn their processor fans on when they need to. I have Pentium M processor in my laptop and I haven't run any benchmarks, but it _feels_ faster than my P4 desktop.
Now the only issue is, it's not 64 bit compatible. Intel, hook up 64 bit instruction set and memory controller to it, will ya?
Steve Jobs can wipe the floor with Gates if he wants to. It's not even funny to compare them. If Apple had half the money Microsoft has, they would kick MS out of the market easily.
You guys don't have no spacecraft anymore. :0)
But that's exactly the line of thinking that bring this world to the brink of nuclear conflict sooner or later. And once this shit hits the fan there will be no survivors, whether or not you have the anti-missile system (which you won't have, because it's 100 times easier to build a rocket defeating such a system than a system capable of shooting it down).
So my recomendation to the US would be to quit stepping onto other countries' toes and engage into a massive diplomacy effort which would either delay the proliferation of nuclear weapons (there's no stopping it), or reverse the buildup of nuclear arsenal in countries that already have NW, and at the same time put checks in place to reduce chances of extremist people becoming presidents in other countries, at least those potentially capable of producing nuclear weapons.
Need an example of when such an effort would be beneficial? Kim Jong Il is your man. Tiny, piss-poor nation which has nothing to lose. Push more nations into this state, and you'll have tens of millions of angry people wanting revenge. Continue your policy directed at disintegration of Russia, and you'll have no less than _eight_ piss poor nations on its territory and all of them will have nuclear weapons of such immense power and reach, you may never build a system to neutralize them.
When I said in five years they'll have "the shit", I meant multiple-warhead ICBMs, which can't be shot down. And they'll make them at 1/100th of the cost of the US anti-missile system.
Now, you can prevent them from making these ICBMs in the first place. But who's gonna do this in this nation of overconfident paranoids?
It won't be safe, no matter how much money you spend.
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Check this out: http://www.fas.org/nuke/guide/russia/icbm/r-36m.h
First of all, in the event of a massive nuclear conflict, you won't be able to shoot down all launching missiles. Second of all, once this thing separates into 10 warheads, you're lucky if you shoot down two out of 10. And guess what, you need to shut down all 10. When Russians rolled out this thing, Reagan administration pooped their pants.
So let's consider this (very possible) situation. The US starts massive development of anti-ICBM system thereby threatening the balance of power. Russians will only need about three hundred million dollars (in rouble equivalent) to re-start production of Satan rockets. Right now, Russian government doesn't give a flying fuck about the opinion of the US, they could easily do so (heck, maybe the effort is already underway).
So what do we end up with. The US is testing its anti-missile system. Russians _already_have_ missiles that fly right through it unscathed. They only need to dust off their old nuclear attack plans, and here you go, they can boil fish right in Missisipi river.
And that's something they had _back_then_. They haven't exactly spent all this time twiddling their thumbs. So if shit hits the global fan, you can expect a swift and merciless response.
5-10 years from now the Chinese, Indians, Pakis and Koreans (and possibly Iran) will have the same shit.
My point is, the only true safety measure in an environment where nuclear weapons become commodity is _diplomacy_ and _diplomacy_only_.
An alien ship can land tomorrow and destroy the United States with its alien weapons of mass destruction. Now, quick, let's divert all the money there is in the economy to building an anti-alien-ship system. I bet if this was repeated on TV a hundred million times, the US populace would wholeheartedly approve gutting their own country for some paranoid's dream.
Get used to it folks, you ARE vulnerable. Some of the vulnerabilities can be fixed by careful diplomacy. Spending billions on the military will not help against ICBMs. If North Korea really decides to take out the US, they can build something more sophisticated than single-warhead ICBMs, and you won't have systems against multi-warhead ICBMs in the next 20 years at least. And by then someone will invent something else.
Americans are paranoid nuts, and this is incurable. Spending $10B on something that fixes the problem that does not exist while at the same time making airlines seem even less secure than we thought they were - this can only happen in the US. Something tells me the "Star Wars" shit is just around the corner. $200B in military spending that can be defeated by $1M (converted to Russian roubles) in research money.
... has to be blue? I mean, I've grown allergic to blue because of this. Blue is the color beginner designers use when they don't know what color to use. Make it red, green, multicolored, polka-dotted, whatever, just don't make it blue.
This for me is enough to continue using Google. Let's face it, in its first incarnation this search engine has no advantages over Google.
Microsoft only has sales and a bit of support in Australia. So you're hearing the word of a sales guy. Of course he'll tell you that his shit is no worse than this other shit.