such as the significant number of people who believe that men can't be raped by women unless they are protecting their kids or be victims of domestic violence.
What??!! Pretty much anyone who does web development is using HTML5. Is there even an alternative in the web world? "Nah, I think my new web application will only target HTML4 cuz all my customers use IE6". Sure, more consistent standards would be great, but with modern libraries, even that is not nearly as big of deal as it was in years past.
Wow, thanks moron. All I did was state a fact. The drone and ground attacks in those countries are obviously coordinated attacks as well. I happen to believe that nobody should be blowing up anybody as a matter of fact.
I code exclusively for fortune 500s (essentially because the products I write only apply to them). Lawyers are the bane of my existence and I know exactly how it feels.
All I am saying is that you could do some sort of filtering before actually sitting down and reading every one in full. ie: stop reading when you see 2 blatant typos, don't read extremely poorly formatted resumes, don't read resumes that do not meet the requirements that you requested. You probably will filter out some perfectly good applicants... but there will be a higher percentage of good applicants in the remaining pool of resumes. Interview the remaining and if nobody fits, then go back to the stack of reject resumes.
For an employee this is pretty much top bracket for a developer (not a manager of devs or a sales engineer) even in San Francisco. 100k would put you in the top percentiles in most other parts of the country. For a freelancer, this is still probably upper 30%, but the top 5% is significantly higher (I have known some people who stayed fully booked at $3-400/hr).
Except that a top flight programmer probably does not have to look very hard for work. I am not quite at that level yet, but I still can see no need for a headhunter. I know people at every tech company in my area, like most quality devs would. If I want to work for someone else, I just walk in the office and start negotiating.
Looks terrible to me. 4k/month to be the LEAD actor? For a show that runs maybe 4 months out of the year? Your average developer makes the same or more, and has way better job security (I can find another dev job in about a week. Good luck finding a new lead role on a tv drama).
not only in wages, but, perhaps more importantly, in not being treated as disposable and subject to whimsical brutalization by management.
I am not anti-union or anything, but come on, are conditions really that bad for devs right now? Most companies are falling over themselves at the moment to pick up developers. Many of the tech companies in my area even have separate office wings that are for devs only where they stock out open bars and keep games and ping pong tables. On top of that, the pay is well above average for the same level of education compared to most other sectors. Sure, some people work in Dilbert-land, but you don't have to. Leave and work for one of the fun companies that treats their devs well and has decent hours. Many of my friends have CPAs or MBAs... if you think we have it bad, then trust me, they have it much worse at much lower pay (an MBA typically starts you out as an unpaid intern these days, not the COO of huge multinational as most slashdotters would believe).
If Bollywood suddenly started churning out quality American-style movies at (say) 1/10th the price, do you really believe studios wouldn't tell unions to go fuck themselves and start hiring Indians?
Call me when that actually happens. In the software development world, you cannot get anything worth doing done for 1/10th the price. Most foreign consulting firms are borderline scams (never deliver the work, do not bring any system design or business knowledge to the table, often difficult to understand, etc.), and the ones that are not tend to charge the similar to devs in the US. Most quality Indian developers these days are charging $45/hr+. Yeah, its a bit cheaper, but nothing like the pennies on the dollar most people describe. The guys on oDesk that bid 50 dollars on a 6 month project will not deliver.
This. Managing expectations is everything. I replaced a developer for my current client who had much more experience than me and was a better dev in just about every way. Easy to get along with as well. And yet they were completely unsatisfied. 1 1/2 years in, they are extremely pleased with my work. The reason? Even though I am about half as productive as the old guy, my estimates are about twice as accurate. I avoid giving time estimates at all costs. Every week, I look at the backlog with them and ask, "what 3 things would you like me to work on this week?", in order of priority. I typically then say, ok 1 and 2 should be done by the end of the week and maybe 3, but do not count on 3. I do not give estimates 3 months out; in fact I do not even let 3 month long projects into the issue tracker. If they have a hard deadline on something, I will remind them in advance, but they determine what I am working on and if they miss their (note: not "my") deadline, then tough luck, they should have allocated more time. I am just about 100% insulated from stacked deadlines, which is the biggest reason deadlines get pushed back in the first place.
Agreed. I lean liberal, but I would still think that the left is probably a bit more sue-happy than the right. Conservatives typically support tort reform, after all.
Mine too. Go to a tech school for 2 years for practically nothing (I spent more on books than tuition during that period). Transfer to a 4 year and graduate a semester early (I did it without ever taking more than 5 classes at a time. They tend to put a buffer in there counting on people failing a few classes). At that point you have a degree and only paid any significant amount for 3 semesters, with 2 years to save for those semesters. Most states also give you a few k for keeping a 3.0, so it is even lower cost. The people with 150k in student loans for a BA in Communications are just paying the stupid tax (not that they are entirely to blame. Any system that lets a 17 year old sign away their livelihood for 2 decades is pretty fucked up). TLDR: It is entirely possible to work your way through school and get a good 4 year degree for less than 20k (which can be paid back in a couple years by anyone who is utilizing their degree). I did it and graduated in 2010 through the height of the recession. I did not even have to work all that hard to do it. I imagine someone really focused would have a few scholarships propping them up as well.
Not with 2 masters degrees in STEM fields. A double BA in those fields would be sufficient to pull in 50k (or more after a few years in the workforce), and I am talking rural US here.
The only thing I might count as cheating is if they asked a friend to email them the code, then they just submitted it without any understanding. I still do not really know if I would call it cheating... maybe just failing.
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such as the significant number of people who believe that men can't be raped by women unless they are protecting their kids or be victims of domestic violence.
FTFY
I think they were actually hoping that they were not muslim. Subtle but important distinction.
What??!! Pretty much anyone who does web development is using HTML5. Is there even an alternative in the web world? "Nah, I think my new web application will only target HTML4 cuz all my customers use IE6". Sure, more consistent standards would be great, but with modern libraries, even that is not nearly as big of deal as it was in years past.
Wow, thanks moron. All I did was state a fact. The drone and ground attacks in those countries are obviously coordinated attacks as well. I happen to believe that nobody should be blowing up anybody as a matter of fact.
3rd explosion now confirmed at the JFK library. I think it is safe to say this was most likely a coordinated attack at this point.
I code exclusively for fortune 500s (essentially because the products I write only apply to them). Lawyers are the bane of my existence and I know exactly how it feels.
All I am saying is that you could do some sort of filtering before actually sitting down and reading every one in full. ie: stop reading when you see 2 blatant typos, don't read extremely poorly formatted resumes, don't read resumes that do not meet the requirements that you requested. You probably will filter out some perfectly good applicants... but there will be a higher percentage of good applicants in the remaining pool of resumes. Interview the remaining and if nobody fits, then go back to the stack of reject resumes.
For an employee this is pretty much top bracket for a developer (not a manager of devs or a sales engineer) even in San Francisco. 100k would put you in the top percentiles in most other parts of the country. For a freelancer, this is still probably upper 30%, but the top 5% is significantly higher (I have known some people who stayed fully booked at $3-400/hr).
Except that a top flight programmer probably does not have to look very hard for work. I am not quite at that level yet, but I still can see no need for a headhunter. I know people at every tech company in my area, like most quality devs would. If I want to work for someone else, I just walk in the office and start negotiating.
Looks terrible to me. 4k/month to be the LEAD actor? For a show that runs maybe 4 months out of the year? Your average developer makes the same or more, and has way better job security (I can find another dev job in about a week. Good luck finding a new lead role on a tv drama).
not only in wages, but, perhaps more importantly, in not being treated as disposable and subject to whimsical brutalization by management.
I am not anti-union or anything, but come on, are conditions really that bad for devs right now? Most companies are falling over themselves at the moment to pick up developers. Many of the tech companies in my area even have separate office wings that are for devs only where they stock out open bars and keep games and ping pong tables. On top of that, the pay is well above average for the same level of education compared to most other sectors. Sure, some people work in Dilbert-land, but you don't have to. Leave and work for one of the fun companies that treats their devs well and has decent hours. Many of my friends have CPAs or MBAs... if you think we have it bad, then trust me, they have it much worse at much lower pay (an MBA typically starts you out as an unpaid intern these days, not the COO of huge multinational as most slashdotters would believe).
If Bollywood suddenly started churning out quality American-style movies at (say) 1/10th the price, do you really believe studios wouldn't tell unions to go fuck themselves and start hiring Indians?
Call me when that actually happens. In the software development world, you cannot get anything worth doing done for 1/10th the price. Most foreign consulting firms are borderline scams (never deliver the work, do not bring any system design or business knowledge to the table, often difficult to understand, etc.), and the ones that are not tend to charge the similar to devs in the US. Most quality Indian developers these days are charging $45/hr+. Yeah, its a bit cheaper, but nothing like the pennies on the dollar most people describe. The guys on oDesk that bid 50 dollars on a 6 month project will not deliver.
Is your average code base that good currently? That has NOT been my experience...
This. Managing expectations is everything. I replaced a developer for my current client who had much more experience than me and was a better dev in just about every way. Easy to get along with as well. And yet they were completely unsatisfied. 1 1/2 years in, they are extremely pleased with my work. The reason? Even though I am about half as productive as the old guy, my estimates are about twice as accurate. I avoid giving time estimates at all costs. Every week, I look at the backlog with them and ask, "what 3 things would you like me to work on this week?", in order of priority. I typically then say, ok 1 and 2 should be done by the end of the week and maybe 3, but do not count on 3. I do not give estimates 3 months out; in fact I do not even let 3 month long projects into the issue tracker. If they have a hard deadline on something, I will remind them in advance, but they determine what I am working on and if they miss their (note: not "my") deadline, then tough luck, they should have allocated more time. I am just about 100% insulated from stacked deadlines, which is the biggest reason deadlines get pushed back in the first place.
Their response would probably depend on whether or not you were pointing a pitchfork at them at the time.
Wow, I need to get "Lone Wolf" printed on my business cards...
Agreed. I lean liberal, but I would still think that the left is probably a bit more sue-happy than the right. Conservatives typically support tort reform, after all.
He really thought he'd win, and he was close enough to be scary.
Eh, not that close. #natesilver
Getting rid of religion would not get rid of all problems, but it would get rid of ONE problem and that's a start.
Mine too. Go to a tech school for 2 years for practically nothing (I spent more on books than tuition during that period). Transfer to a 4 year and graduate a semester early (I did it without ever taking more than 5 classes at a time. They tend to put a buffer in there counting on people failing a few classes). At that point you have a degree and only paid any significant amount for 3 semesters, with 2 years to save for those semesters. Most states also give you a few k for keeping a 3.0, so it is even lower cost. The people with 150k in student loans for a BA in Communications are just paying the stupid tax (not that they are entirely to blame. Any system that lets a 17 year old sign away their livelihood for 2 decades is pretty fucked up). TLDR: It is entirely possible to work your way through school and get a good 4 year degree for less than 20k (which can be paid back in a couple years by anyone who is utilizing their degree). I did it and graduated in 2010 through the height of the recession. I did not even have to work all that hard to do it. I imagine someone really focused would have a few scholarships propping them up as well.
Now imagine your boss tells you that he needs 15 more positions filled. Are you really going to read all 7500 resumes?
Average starting salary with a Masters degree is 53k. She has two Masters degrees and two years of experience.
Not with 2 masters degrees in STEM fields. A double BA in those fields would be sufficient to pull in 50k (or more after a few years in the workforce), and I am talking rural US here.
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The only thing I might count as cheating is if they asked a friend to email them the code, then they just submitted it without any understanding. I still do not really know if I would call it cheating... maybe just failing.