I did it just fine and graduated in 2010. I went to a tech school for my first year (basically free with automatic grants). Worked as an RA for 2 years, which meant pay and free rent. In the last year I worked an internship which easily paid rent and tuition and I graduated early. I worked my ass off every summer teaching sailing. I ended up with $1500 in debt in the end, which I was able to pay off in a couple months after graduating. I really would have zero sympathy for many of the people floating 100k in debt from school if I did not also know that practically whatever I do now, I will always be ahead of nearly all of them because of choices we made when we were 18. I have loads of friends completing grad school now from Ivy League schools. I am doubtful that many of them will ever have a higher net worth than our HS classmates who decided to go into plumbing. Education is awesome, and can allow you to do amazing things, but debt can do the exact opposite.
Liberal Arts will not typically give you a set career path like EE, CS, or Medicine, however, it does give you a real leg up in wide array of business fields. An English major has better chance of getting that marketing rep position (you know, the one where you do nothing but go out to fancy lunches and get hammered with clients all the time), than the CS grad which most HR people assume (incorrectly) directly translates to "borderline autistic". BTW, I definitely do not mean to bash the engineering jobs. I dreaded the thought of a typical "humanities" career path after double majoring in Poli Sci and Philosophy, and ended up in software engineering. Clearly not every employer thought it was worthless...
Of course, corporations love to cram their faces in the blood pudding as well. **cough** Lockheed **cough** Blackwater **cough** etc. **cough**. Being on the east coast, I can see very clearly how much of a stranglehold MS has on the feds. Practically all gov contracts these days are.Net stack. This distorts the entire market. I believe it has severely damaged the Java market (I am personally impartial, since I am a python/node.js programmer anyway) for a couple hundred miles around DC.
They are not forced to do business in these countries. If the US is able to structure the tax code so that they pay closer to their expected tax rate, and Google does not like it, that is fine. We live in a libertarian world as far as multinationals are concerned. They are free to go do business in lands with a more favorable tax system, or even create one of their own. Creating the floating utopian Nation of Google seems a bit too expensive?... maybe that 20% corporate tax rate or whatever starts to look like a bargain.
This is my experience as well. I don't know if my company has EVER actually called me on my company paid cell in years. We all use skype at work. Besides, to call you at 9pm or whatever, the person would have to be a scumbag, and scumbags don't work those kinds of hours.
Yeah, don't pull them into your branch! It takes a bit to get used to, but your brain gets knocked straight eventually;)
Seriously though, ENORMOUS projects with thousands of submitters are using Git effectively. Most of the larger projects use a "lieutenant" based system where the head of the project has several trusted sources that he/she pulls from. The lieutenants are able to divide up the pull requests and each test/integrate a portion.
This. Although a single script would be great, just have a script for each machine, with a thought out name for each. Include a readme with the install package that runs through which script to run on each machine step by step. Problem solved. Manually setting up databases and configs on every machine/server is a huge PITA. This is a development failure more than anything though. I would not expect the help desk guy to be able to automate all of this. Automated install and versioning is a developer's responsibility for any production software, MAYBE with the exception of prototypes and custom one offs.
Yuck. I get shit like this all the time too. I make potential hires solve FizzBuzz in their language of choice before proceeding. Most can't. It has saved a whole lot of time. I am still amazed at how many people outright lie about their experience, or if they didn't lie, are so shamefully inept at their job. If you call yourself a programmer and cannot solve FizzBuzz...PLEASE....STOP! For reference, here is FizzBuzz:
"Write a program that prints the numbers from 1 to 100. But for multiples of three print “Fizz” instead of the number and for the multiples of five print “Buzz”. For numbers which are multiples of both three and five print “FizzBuzz”."
The average project manager is making nowhere near 330k. MBAs making more than Software Engineers is generally a myth. My has been the director of an MBA program at well known university for years, and I can say that developers start out at about twice what the average MBA does. Business guys and software devs rarely break the 150k salary unless either of them go into business themselves. Tech people tend to compare small-town programmers to wall street tycoons. We could just as easily compare IPO'ed startup founders to MBAs working as insurance salesman and come to the opposite conclusion. I am glad I am where I am. My roommate graduated from his MBA a couple years ago, around the same time I started working as a developer. I now make twice as much without any 50k grad school debt and the gap is continually widening. Its a bad time to be a humanities grad.
Which platforms/tech are we talking here? Maintream tech jobs seem to be booming in my area (not the valley or anything). Put rails, C#, or node.js on your resume around here and you have to beat them off with a stick. Even PHP seems to be doing well here. I really cannot imagine not finding something fairly quickly. If you have any of these on your resume, and have not gotten through the interviews, then you may need to ask yourself if you are sexually harassing the interviewer or something.
Read the position descriptions. You will not get what you are looking for for these. You want someone with a BS or higher in CS, with 5+ years experience, with scientific software experience, with C/C++/Python experience (3 languages used in totally different spaces, where it would be unlikely (read impossible, even though bullshitters will claim otherwise) for someone to be an expert in all three), experience with high performance clustered computing (when you are also asking for a low level C guy who is unlikely to have written many web applications period), experience with every front end web technology you could think of, SQL, noSQL, graphics tech...... oh yeah, and you will not pay that well. No offense, but who the hell are you expecting to find?? Anyone who would walk into the interview claiming this skill set is an obvious interview troll.
Good luck to you, but you are going to need to narrow your criteria down if you hope to find someone who it an expert in any of the areas you are looking for.
Slashdotters hate everything. Even a broken clock (of the analog variety) is right twice a day. And really, you think Windows is a flop?! It is only the most successful piece of software in history!
Your description of a Software Engineering curriculum sounds like what every single dev learns within 2 years in the real world if they are worth anything. Almost every CS program contains lots of the same thing too, especially testing and the general best practices for development. As someone who hires, I could care less about whatever bullsh*t degree you got. I prefer to see what you know from your github profile, and your ability to discuss the complexities of projects you have worked on in the past. I cannot count the times I have worked with Masters in CS who could not code their way out of a wet paper bag. If you think that school prepared you for the real world, then you are already falling way behind.
We have the same thing. I usually hit the straight ticket button, then modify a couple. IDK what could really speed it up on election day. My precinct had about 12 voting booths and was only one neighborhood of people. People moved along pretty quick, it is just a lot of people.
OP here. I was actually in Charleston as well. I had no idea that was the cause of the lack of diversity on the ballot. It really was striking looking down the ballot and seeing nothing but (R) and (Write in).
Annoyingly long line this morning but no big deal. It's only once every 4 years. Strangely noticed 5 to 1 male turn out, in a largely suburban precinct. Don't know what to make of that yet.
There is a shortage of experienced cream of the crop programmers... go figure. Personally, I love working in an industry where there is a shortage. I get to work wherever the hell I want for (almost) any company I want (or for myself), and for just about whatever pay I want (depending on my current tolerance for shit). People are more than welcome to go the H1B1 route or the shit-VB "programmer" route; either way they will get poor results. I work with programmers all over the world, and I can tell you that there are awesome quality devs outside the US and Western Europe... but they cost the same or more as their US equivalents, and are about as rare. Decent programmers are simply hard to come by. It is a mentally challenging job that 99% of people could never do and the remaining.9% cannot do any better than the bare minimum. Wait and get a good dev for 140k, and watch him mop the floor with the 5 man team at 40k each. It's just economics: pay more than your competitors, don't be a masochistic boss, and let people feel they are making a difference; you will have the best devs knocking down your door to work for you. See Fog Creek for a perfect example.
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I did it just fine and graduated in 2010. I went to a tech school for my first year (basically free with automatic grants). Worked as an RA for 2 years, which meant pay and free rent. In the last year I worked an internship which easily paid rent and tuition and I graduated early. I worked my ass off every summer teaching sailing. I ended up with $1500 in debt in the end, which I was able to pay off in a couple months after graduating. I really would have zero sympathy for many of the people floating 100k in debt from school if I did not also know that practically whatever I do now, I will always be ahead of nearly all of them because of choices we made when we were 18. I have loads of friends completing grad school now from Ivy League schools. I am doubtful that many of them will ever have a higher net worth than our HS classmates who decided to go into plumbing. Education is awesome, and can allow you to do amazing things, but debt can do the exact opposite.
Liberal Arts will not typically give you a set career path like EE, CS, or Medicine, however, it does give you a real leg up in wide array of business fields. An English major has better chance of getting that marketing rep position (you know, the one where you do nothing but go out to fancy lunches and get hammered with clients all the time), than the CS grad which most HR people assume (incorrectly) directly translates to "borderline autistic". BTW, I definitely do not mean to bash the engineering jobs. I dreaded the thought of a typical "humanities" career path after double majoring in Poli Sci and Philosophy, and ended up in software engineering. Clearly not every employer thought it was worthless...
Sorry kid, your "dollar" won't get you in the door.
Of course, corporations love to cram their faces in the blood pudding as well. **cough** Lockheed **cough** Blackwater **cough** etc. **cough**. Being on the east coast, I can see very clearly how much of a stranglehold MS has on the feds. Practically all gov contracts these days are .Net stack. This distorts the entire market. I believe it has severely damaged the Java market (I am personally impartial, since I am a python/node.js programmer anyway) for a couple hundred miles around DC.
They are not forced to do business in these countries. If the US is able to structure the tax code so that they pay closer to their expected tax rate, and Google does not like it, that is fine. We live in a libertarian world as far as multinationals are concerned. They are free to go do business in lands with a more favorable tax system, or even create one of their own. Creating the floating utopian Nation of Google seems a bit too expensive?... maybe that 20% corporate tax rate or whatever starts to look like a bargain.
This is my experience as well. I don't know if my company has EVER actually called me on my company paid cell in years. We all use skype at work. Besides, to call you at 9pm or whatever, the person would have to be a scumbag, and scumbags don't work those kinds of hours.
"Quantum Entanglement" will be a new ability for infestors in Heart of the Swarm. Now Zerg can be imba at faster than the speed of light.
Clearly you have never seen Back To The Future...
Seriously though, ENORMOUS projects with thousands of submitters are using Git effectively. Most of the larger projects use a "lieutenant" based system where the head of the project has several trusted sources that he/she pulls from. The lieutenants are able to divide up the pull requests and each test/integrate a portion.
This. Although a single script would be great, just have a script for each machine, with a thought out name for each. Include a readme with the install package that runs through which script to run on each machine step by step. Problem solved. Manually setting up databases and configs on every machine/server is a huge PITA. This is a development failure more than anything though. I would not expect the help desk guy to be able to automate all of this. Automated install and versioning is a developer's responsibility for any production software, MAYBE with the exception of prototypes and custom one offs.
Its a new twist on the Dunning-Kreuger effect.
"Write a program that prints the numbers from 1 to 100. But for multiples of three print “Fizz” instead of the number and for the multiples of five print “Buzz”. For numbers which are multiples of both three and five print “FizzBuzz”."
The average project manager is making nowhere near 330k. MBAs making more than Software Engineers is generally a myth. My has been the director of an MBA program at well known university for years, and I can say that developers start out at about twice what the average MBA does. Business guys and software devs rarely break the 150k salary unless either of them go into business themselves. Tech people tend to compare small-town programmers to wall street tycoons. We could just as easily compare IPO'ed startup founders to MBAs working as insurance salesman and come to the opposite conclusion. I am glad I am where I am. My roommate graduated from his MBA a couple years ago, around the same time I started working as a developer. I now make twice as much without any 50k grad school debt and the gap is continually widening. Its a bad time to be a humanities grad.
... Or Cowboy Coding. One Man. One Computer. One Brain Holding It All Together.
Which platforms/tech are we talking here? Maintream tech jobs seem to be booming in my area (not the valley or anything). Put rails, C#, or node.js on your resume around here and you have to beat them off with a stick. Even PHP seems to be doing well here. I really cannot imagine not finding something fairly quickly. If you have any of these on your resume, and have not gotten through the interviews, then you may need to ask yourself if you are sexually harassing the interviewer or something.
Good luck to you, but you are going to need to narrow your criteria down if you hope to find someone who it an expert in any of the areas you are looking for.
Slashdotters hate everything. Even a broken clock (of the analog variety) is right twice a day. And really, you think Windows is a flop?! It is only the most successful piece of software in history!
Your description of a Software Engineering curriculum sounds like what every single dev learns within 2 years in the real world if they are worth anything. Almost every CS program contains lots of the same thing too, especially testing and the general best practices for development. As someone who hires, I could care less about whatever bullsh*t degree you got. I prefer to see what you know from your github profile, and your ability to discuss the complexities of projects you have worked on in the past. I cannot count the times I have worked with Masters in CS who could not code their way out of a wet paper bag. If you think that school prepared you for the real world, then you are already falling way behind.
This. Mine is even more pretentious with "Software Architect". Like most people, I did not choose it, other than going out and getting the job.
or use noSQL like mongodb or couchdb
We have the same thing. I usually hit the straight ticket button, then modify a couple. IDK what could really speed it up on election day. My precinct had about 12 voting booths and was only one neighborhood of people. People moved along pretty quick, it is just a lot of people.
OP here. I was actually in Charleston as well. I had no idea that was the cause of the lack of diversity on the ballot. It really was striking looking down the ballot and seeing nothing but (R) and (Write in).
Annoyingly long line this morning but no big deal. It's only once every 4 years. Strangely noticed 5 to 1 male turn out, in a largely suburban precinct. Don't know what to make of that yet.
There is a shortage of experienced cream of the crop programmers... go figure. Personally, I love working in an industry where there is a shortage. I get to work wherever the hell I want for (almost) any company I want (or for myself), and for just about whatever pay I want (depending on my current tolerance for shit). People are more than welcome to go the H1B1 route or the shit-VB "programmer" route; either way they will get poor results. I work with programmers all over the world, and I can tell you that there are awesome quality devs outside the US and Western Europe... but they cost the same or more as their US equivalents, and are about as rare. Decent programmers are simply hard to come by. It is a mentally challenging job that 99% of people could never do and the remaining .9% cannot do any better than the bare minimum. Wait and get a good dev for 140k, and watch him mop the floor with the 5 man team at 40k each. It's just economics: pay more than your competitors, don't be a masochistic boss, and let people feel they are making a difference; you will have the best devs knocking down your door to work for you. See Fog Creek for a perfect example.
Why, are you my mummy?