I think the SAS institute MIGHT have a problem with that name! For those of you who don't know, they are a big time vendor of Multi platform statistical Analysis software
Your right about the OT. Ever figure out your HOURLY rate (The "Exempt" employees, not the bill/hr guys). Say you have an 80k/year job, and your working 55hrs/week (Not uncommon) Folks, your working a 24.96/hr job (55 hrs/week = 62.5 PAY hours * 50 weeks, plus 2 weeks paid (80) vacation). Now consider they pay burger flippers around here $11. A 80k job at 55hrs/week = $51k job @ 40hrs/week with OT
Andrew, Your right. Onething I always wonder about/. and UF is, what AGE is the average reader? I'd guess low to mid 20s, and very very few people in their mid to late 30s and older.
I've done this for 17 years now, and still LOVE coding, but I want to go home and SEE my family. I've found an odd (for this industry anyway) way of doing this. I get to work about 7:15am, and leave 4:45, so I can see my family before they go to bed. Then I go into the home office, (about 9pm) and crank out more stuff (sometimes for work, sometimes for "fun" project) till around midnight.
And then you get married, and have a child or two, and guess what? You want to see them. Yeah, I love programming, and still do the occasional 30+Hr day, but not all the time! I had a job from the time my daughter was 6 months to 18 months, and I'd say that I didn't see her 3 to 4 days a week. You can NEVER get that time back.
I keep current on the tech, and I'm doing OK (Heck, we even got written up in InternetWorld). A little less money, but a lot less hours at the office
Isn't he the guy who shilled OS/2 and that it would beat out windows? Or has my memory gotten that bad?
Charlie
Re:Geeks don't use Word, HR better deal with it
on
Feature:Geek Jobs
·
· Score: 3
You CAN take the "I'm going to do it my way" attitude, and get jobs, BUT it's a lot harder. I was doing obscure programming for a while, and didn't want to learn the "Hot" languages. I'd see maybe 2 jobs a month I was qualified for. I had cut myself off from 99% of the market. Eventually, the market became HOT, and I was instantly in demand.
I'll give good odds that this happens with Linux, BUT, it is a gamble - high risk, higher potential reward, as you'll be the only person with with that skill set when things get hot.
Just remember though, you can get really hungry when your waiting around
Actually, They can say that there is no manitory censorship, you just won't get any money from them. The Feds do stuff like this all the time. Why do you think the drinking age is 21? The Feds can't mandate a drinking age, so how do they get around the 10th amendment. Simple, we won't give you highway funds if you don't have a 21 drinking age.
The FEDERAL income tax is the worst think that has happened to this country, because it allows the Federal Govt to bypass the 10th Amendment in this way. They can't make local laws, but they CAN take your money, and then NOT give it back. The extreme case is that they COULD take all your money, and only give back what they think you need
Well, Here in the US (I know it doesn't help you, sorry) 1st you try the court system 2nd you lobby 3rd (and it has never been successfully used, however it was tried once), we have a little thing called the 2nd amendment
You got it! I bought my first HP when (For the Nth and LAST time) a button failed on one of my Tis (A TI-55II - this is 1982 timeframe) during a Class C amp exam.
The Point? Simple - Picture it's 1969, and memory is expensive, and programming is HARD. Think of which is easier to make a program interpreter for, RPN or algebraic notation. Yep, RPN, no need for recursion etc.
Now, you get a bunch of loyal users, who really LIKE this notation, while your main competitor hard the algebraic market sown up (HP did try making one - it flopped)
RPN (Reverse Polish Notation) is nore technically known as Postfix notation. Prefix notation (adding 3 and 4 would be + 3 4 ) was invented by (Can't remember the name here), but here WAS a Polish Mathmatician. It picked up the name Polish Notation, so therefore Postfix is RPN. If I remember right, I learned this one in the Book "Starting Forth"
Then, of course, you can MEET your g/f while engaged in your obsession. I WAS an avid RPG player. I met this nice girl there (she was 14 at the time). I started dating her a year later. It's now more than 19 years later, we've been married for 10+ years. She wants to go see TPM more than I do (Getting a babysitter can be a drag )
Re:try and get a non tech to understand the darksi
on
The Dark Side of IT
·
· Score: 1
>>If you need to get hammered, don't pass out while driving, get a ride or spend the night!
That's one of the few good points of living in NYC. MOST companies here will hire you a cab after 9 pm. This isn't a problem since most of us take mass transit to work
Yes, Priorities DO matter, and for the last year, things have been good (Changed jobs to a lower stress position, like you did), however, sometimes crunch time comes. Last year, I was saving my vacation for the end of the year. Well, the first week in November, some of or union employees go on strike. Management says "No vacation till they come back". Then they let us go on vacation, but I had a roll out due. The roll out slipped, and I still haven't gone.
Except for that, and the pre roll out crunch for the last 3.5 weeks (weekends? what's a weekend?), I don't have it too bad. Mostly 40 hour weeks, and a boss who understands. The only people I've seen problems with are about 6 layers up, in our parent company
Re:try and get a non tech to understand the darksi
on
The Dark Side of IT
·
· Score: 1
Yep, Those 30 hour days will kill us, and just try it with a wife and kid at home, when your 36, like I am. The team I'm on JUST rolled out our latest on Monday (It was in internet week a few weeks back), so I'm finally getting some slack time, but I missed Mother's day with my Mom, my Mother-in-laws birthday, and haven't had a day off since Mid April. The article doesn't even talk about thinks like: I still haven't gotten to take LAST years vacation, we've already been told we're working between Dec 15 and Jan 15, and have to be in for the Y2K rollover. Yep, a once in a 1000 year party, and we can't go
Actualy, the big problem is NOT the DMA. The DMA (For those of you who don't know) is the Direct Marketing Association. Belive it or not, THEY _DO_ have rules, including VALID opt out. I know that the BIG players in the DMA ( Readers Digest, Time Inc (AKA American Family Publishers Aka Ed McMahon), and Publishers Clearing House) all DO listen to the central Opt out repositories that the DMA runs. They don't want to piss people off, and it costs big $$$ to send out one of their mailings (Something like $3 - $4 EACH piece of real mail). If you are willing to go through the effort to get on the list, they don't want to spend that kind of money mailing you.
How do I know? Friends in the business
Charlie (Now if we could get the fly by nights to listen)
Allowed? Of course they aren't ALLOWED to be used for anything else but military use, and you'll be in trouble if you turn up with missing ammo. Like you wouldn't be in trouble for shooting up the school with it first? No you REALLY think that a mass murderer would worry about what they are ALLOWED to do?
Dan, And banning all pistols in England saved that reporters life, Right? How come the murder rate in England and Australia have gone UP since the gun bans, and the murder rate in the US has gone DOWN since more states have been allowing conceled carry with a permit?
Here's a good question for you - what country has the highest percentage of households with firearms? Would you believe Switzerland? Most households have a FULLY automatic assault rifle in them. BTW Semi-automatic "assault rifle" is a misnomer. If it's a Semi, it may LOOK like an assault rifle, but its not.
Slashdot Mirror
I think the SAS institute MIGHT have a problem with that name! For those of you who don't know, they are a big time vendor of Multi platform statistical Analysis software
Your right about the OT. Ever figure out your HOURLY rate (The "Exempt" employees, not the bill/hr guys). Say you have an 80k/year job, and your working 55hrs/week (Not uncommon) Folks, your working a 24.96/hr job (55 hrs/week = 62.5 PAY hours * 50 weeks, plus 2 weeks paid (80) vacation). Now consider they pay burger flippers around here $11. A 80k job at 55hrs/week = $51k job @ 40hrs/week with OT
Andrew, /. and UF is, what AGE is the average reader? I'd guess low to mid 20s, and very very few people in their mid to late 30s and older.
Your right. Onething I always wonder about
I've done this for 17 years now, and still LOVE coding, but I want to go home and SEE my family. I've found an odd (for this industry anyway) way of doing this. I get to work about 7:15am, and leave 4:45, so I can see my family before they go to bed. Then I go into the home office, (about 9pm) and crank out more stuff (sometimes for work, sometimes for "fun" project) till around midnight.
Charlie
And then you get married, and have a child or two, and guess what? You want to see them. Yeah, I love programming, and still do the occasional 30+Hr day, but not all the time! I had a job from the time my daughter was 6 months to 18 months, and I'd say that I didn't see her 3 to 4 days a week. You can NEVER get that time back.
I keep current on the tech, and I'm doing OK (Heck, we even got written up in InternetWorld). A little less money, but a lot less hours at the office
Isn't he the guy who shilled OS/2 and that it would beat out windows? Or has my memory gotten that bad?
Charlie
You CAN take the "I'm going to do it my way" attitude, and get jobs, BUT it's a lot harder. I was doing obscure programming for a while, and didn't want to learn the "Hot" languages. I'd see maybe 2 jobs a month I was qualified for. I had cut myself off from 99% of the market. Eventually, the market became HOT, and I was instantly in demand.
I'll give good odds that this happens with Linux, BUT, it is a gamble - high risk, higher potential reward, as you'll be the only person with with that skill set when things get hot.
Just remember though, you can get really hungry when your waiting around
Internet backbones - If we want it, we should pay for it
, provide interstate highways - Use taxes
hand out free USGS - PAY FOR IT!!!
provide disaster relief to people who have just lost everything.
That's what insurance is for
prosecute serial killers - OK, That's what Local Gov't is for, almost al crime is local or state
The original idea is that the Fed Gov't would be funded by Excise and Use taxes. Notice I said no INCOME tax
Charlie
Your right, they aren't doing their jobs. So, what do we do about it?
Actually,
They can say that there is no manitory censorship, you just won't get any money from them. The Feds do stuff like this all the time. Why do you think the drinking age is 21? The Feds can't mandate a drinking age, so how do they get around the 10th amendment. Simple, we won't give you highway funds if you don't have a 21 drinking age.
The FEDERAL income tax is the worst think that has happened to this country, because it allows the Federal Govt to bypass the 10th Amendment in this way. They can't make local laws, but they CAN take your money, and then NOT give it back. The extreme case is that they COULD take all your money, and only give back what they think you need
Wadda you me "They"
I did that with 5 meg PC HDs - Just call me an OLD Geek
Well,
Here in the US (I know it doesn't help you, sorry)
1st you try the court system
2nd you lobby
3rd (and it has never been successfully used, however it was tried once), we have a little thing called the 2nd amendment
If the 2nd is first, the 1st is second
Never mind that, it's also a very good reference for non conventional warfare (aka terrorism) - how to poision wells, food, etc
Remember, the HP-48 (the original - I have one) didn't have the EQ Lib - it later became available as an add on
You got it! I bought my first HP when (For the Nth and LAST time) a button failed on one of my Tis (A TI-55II - this is 1982 timeframe) during a Class C amp exam.
The Point?
Simple - Picture it's 1969, and memory is expensive, and programming is HARD. Think of which is easier to make a program interpreter for, RPN or algebraic notation. Yep, RPN, no need for recursion etc.
Now, you get a bunch of loyal users, who really LIKE this notation, while your main competitor hard the algebraic market sown up (HP did try making one - it flopped)
What would YOU do?
RPN (Reverse Polish Notation) is nore technically known as Postfix notation. Prefix notation (adding 3 and 4 would be + 3 4 ) was invented by (Can't remember the name here), but here WAS a Polish Mathmatician. It picked up the name Polish Notation, so therefore Postfix is RPN.
If I remember right, I learned this one in the Book "Starting Forth"
Then, of course, you can MEET your g/f while engaged in your obsession. I WAS an avid RPG player. I met this nice girl there (she was 14 at the time). I started dating her a year later. It's now more than 19 years later, we've been married for 10+ years. She wants to go see TPM more than I do (Getting a babysitter can be a drag )
>>If you need to get hammered, don't pass out while driving, get a ride or spend the night!
That's one of the few good points of living in NYC. MOST companies here will hire you a cab after 9 pm. This isn't a problem since most of us take mass transit to work
Charlie
Yes,
Priorities DO matter, and for the last year, things have been good (Changed jobs to a lower stress position, like you did), however, sometimes crunch time comes. Last year, I was saving my vacation for the end of the year. Well, the first week in November, some of or union employees go on strike. Management says "No vacation till they come back". Then they let us go on vacation, but I had a roll out due. The roll out slipped, and I still haven't gone.
Except for that, and the pre roll out crunch for the last 3.5 weeks (weekends? what's a weekend?), I don't have it too bad. Mostly 40 hour weeks, and a boss who understands. The only people I've seen problems with are about 6 layers up, in our parent company
Yep,
Those 30 hour days will kill us, and just try it with a wife and kid at home, when your 36, like I am. The team I'm on JUST rolled out our latest on Monday (It was in internet week a few weeks back), so I'm finally getting some slack time, but I missed Mother's day with my Mom, my Mother-in-laws birthday, and haven't had a day off since Mid April. The article doesn't even talk about thinks like: I still haven't gotten to take LAST years vacation, we've already been told we're working between Dec 15 and Jan 15, and have to be in for the Y2K rollover. Yep, a once in a 1000 year party, and we can't go
Ugh
I agree with your position re the DMA and SPAM - the DMA is wrong about this. My friends in the industry agree
Charlie
Actualy, the big problem is NOT the DMA. The DMA (For those of you who don't know) is the Direct Marketing Association. Belive it or not, THEY _DO_ have rules, including VALID opt out. I know that the BIG players in the DMA ( Readers Digest, Time Inc (AKA American Family Publishers Aka Ed McMahon), and Publishers Clearing House) all DO listen to the central Opt out repositories that the DMA runs. They don't want to piss people off, and it costs big $$$ to send out one of their mailings (Something like $3 - $4 EACH piece of real mail). If you are willing to go through the effort to get on the list, they don't want to spend that kind of money mailing you.
How do I know? Friends in the business
Charlie
(Now if we could get the fly by nights to listen)
No,
But I do see metal detectors at movie theators
Allowed? Of course they aren't ALLOWED to be used for anything else but military use, and you'll be in trouble if you turn up with missing ammo. Like you wouldn't be in trouble for shooting up the school with it first? No you REALLY think that a mass murderer would worry about what they are ALLOWED to do?
Charlie
Dan,
And banning all pistols in England saved that reporters life, Right? How come the murder rate in England and Australia have gone UP since the gun bans, and the murder rate in the US has gone DOWN since more states have been allowing conceled carry with a permit?
Here's a good question for you - what country has the highest percentage of households with firearms? Would you believe Switzerland? Most households have a FULLY automatic assault rifle in them. BTW Semi-automatic "assault rifle" is a misnomer. If it's a Semi, it may LOOK like an assault rifle, but its not.