There is always a fix. I doubt people are going to be wardriving for Chromecasts. Does it suck from a security standpoint? Yes. But the guys at least have a sense of humour. Better than goatse, right?
I'm feeling this. I worked for Netscape back in the 90's. I'm considerig trimming that from my resume simply because it make me look too old-school. There is definite discrimination amongst up and coming companies. It's incredibly frustrating for me, a guy in his early 50's. I know a metric shit-ton of stuff, and especially the shortest path to get to the goal. Do I get hired, or even a reply on sending in a resume? No. My long work history stretching back to 1983 has me handcuffed.
I lived in the Sacramento region for over 10 years, Fair Oaks, Folsm, Grass Valley after a long and successful career in the peninsula of the Bay Area.
Fact: There are very few "traditional" tech companies around Sacramento.
Fact: The pones that are there, know that and they consistently offer ~50-60% of Bay Area wages. They only want to hire recent college grads, not experienced people.
Fact: I recently left and won't be heading back. Besides, there are lots more good looking women here in the Bay Area.:)
We had mites through the fall, and killed most of them by dosing the entire colony with.... powdered sugar. Yes, we lost a bunch of bees, but the mites are gone.
I'm 72 now, and still gainfully employed...just not by 35-year-old "managers" (or worse, "executives") who haven't got any substantive experience to evaluate competence. After a career consulting to IBM, Intel, HP, Amoco, DuPont (and lots more) at the CxO level on IT strategy, I semi-retired in 2001, to a small mountain town nestled in the Sierra Nevada mountains.
Interestingly enough, I too (and I'm the guy who Asked Slashdot this question) I located myself in the Sierra Nevada foothills. Howdy, neighbor.
But when I send out a perfectly good resume and use the more obvious resources there are still precious few bites for someone requiring to work remotely
How come nobody has commented on this part? No matter what age you are, requiring that you work remotely is going to make things difficult, no matter your age.
When you live in a rather remote part of the world (by choice and necessity) there aren't a lot of options. I get that I may not be paid as well for doing so, and am totally fine with that. But I'm simply not willing to move back to Silicon Valley just to make a living wage.
Have any of you RTFA, and looked at the website this is posted on? Pretty much a blog, a year and a half old with "stories", i.e. bloglinks so vacuous towards everyone. "Independent Journal Review" ?
Slashdot just got Onion'ed.
As a manager, you tend to get very little inside info into what your miscreants are up to because you're dealing with administrative bullshit. I'm managed. Not fun. I've actually demoted myself from management so I I could go back into the code base.
I just left a place that had over 100 M2075's used for R&D and test dualed up and all on the same network.... During the day, they were mostly real hot, all day. Some jobs ran overnight or the weekend. As they say, YMMV.
..they need to make something that imports the current format in a WYSIWYG fashion, renders and exports it properly. Dealing with the table structure there is a nightmare for low-intermediate experience editors.
Correct me if I'm wrong, but the bottleneck in broadcasting isn't necessarily network speeds, but dealing with the disparity in ingest formats. Loads of non-interoperable formats come in, and broadcast teams have to transcode them into something that works, and quick, especially in live mediums. 10Gbe is fine for that. It's the hardware that does the transcoding that is holding things up. Finally, there are some companies that are using GPGPU boxes to speed it up..
Many (if not most) medical devices (think MRI/CAT/US, whatever) run on a variant of Windows as the underlying OS, be it standard or embedded. Switching to use an NTP server on the local network would be trivial.
The BIGGER problem (IMHO) is that these devices aren't shipped with any sort of malware protection, for the most part. One bogus USB stick plugged in, and..... I've spent years in the medical device field. The reliance on hospitals securing their networks, and not securing quarter million dollar devices at the manufacturer end always freaked me out. But again, the problem was how do you get updates, without communicating with the outside world and make it easy? Hospital IT staff are notoriously overworked and underfunded.
In the early 80's, fresh from a move to Northern California I took a job ($7.50 an hour or so) working at a lab that did Neutron Radiography. The process and results themselves are actually really cool. We'd test things like turbine blades for jet aircraft for porosity or residual casting material, welding flaws in Space Shuttle engines. Neat stuff. Then, it was sort of off in an orchard area with a few houses around. Now? Subdivisions, crowd it. That being said, it really is a low-impact sort of deal. Fire up the reactor in the morning, work, power it down in the afternoon. Within 20 minutes of shutdown you could walk past the containment wall, peer down into the pool and watch the blue glow fade. Neat job, for someone just exploring their potential career field. Twenty years later, I was back in the radiography field from a medical devices software bent.
And yes, well after, my reproductive organs functioned just fine, thank you.;)
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An hour with him is worth it. He's been around since before /. ... well worth it.
Some people don't need embellished intros. How would you have done it?
But think of the children! Oh. Wait. Yeah. They'd be scarred for life either way.
There is always a fix. I doubt people are going to be wardriving for Chromecasts. Does it suck from a security standpoint? Yes. But the guys at least have a sense of humour. Better than goatse, right?
Kind of.
I'm feeling this. I worked for Netscape back in the 90's. I'm considerig trimming that from my resume simply because it make me look too old-school. There is definite discrimination amongst up and coming companies. It's incredibly frustrating for me, a guy in his early 50's. I know a metric shit-ton of stuff, and especially the shortest path to get to the goal. Do I get hired, or even a reply on sending in a resume? No. My long work history stretching back to 1983 has me handcuffed.
Fact: There are very few "traditional" tech companies around Sacramento.
Fact: The pones that are there, know that and they consistently offer ~50-60% of Bay Area wages. They only want to hire recent college grads, not experienced people.
Fact: I recently left and won't be heading back. Besides, there are lots more good looking women here in the Bay Area. :)
n/t
We had mites through the fall, and killed most of them by dosing the entire colony with .... powdered sugar. Yes, we lost a bunch of bees, but the mites are gone.
I'm 72 now, and still gainfully employed...just not by 35-year-old "managers" (or worse, "executives") who haven't got any substantive experience to evaluate competence. After a career consulting to IBM, Intel, HP, Amoco, DuPont (and lots more) at the CxO level on IT strategy, I semi-retired in 2001, to a small mountain town nestled in the Sierra Nevada mountains.
Interestingly enough, I too (and I'm the guy who Asked Slashdot this question) I located myself in the Sierra Nevada foothills. Howdy, neighbor.
But when I send out a perfectly good resume and use the more obvious resources there are still precious few bites for someone requiring to work remotely
How come nobody has commented on this part? No matter what age you are, requiring that you work remotely is going to make things difficult, no matter your age.
When you live in a rather remote part of the world (by choice and necessity) there aren't a lot of options. I get that I may not be paid as well for doing so, and am totally fine with that. But I'm simply not willing to move back to Silicon Valley just to make a living wage.
Have any of you RTFA, and looked at the website this is posted on? Pretty much a blog, a year and a half old with "stories", i.e. bloglinks so vacuous towards everyone. "Independent Journal Review" ? Slashdot just got Onion'ed.
And the website that those jerseys were taken from and linked to is still quite active, with contact info.
http://www.2013jerseymall.com/contact_us.html
-jim
As a manager, you tend to get very little inside info into what your miscreants are up to because you're dealing with administrative bullshit. I'm managed. Not fun. I've actually demoted myself from management so I I could go back into the code base.
I just left a place that had over 100 M2075's used for R&D and test dualed up and all on the same network.... During the day, they were mostly real hot, all day. Some jobs ran overnight or the weekend. As they say, YMMV.
With a whole bunch of payday loan text spam at the top. Wonder what plugin caused that?
Or 10 anons at Microsoft with $6500 a piece.
..they need to make something that imports the current format in a WYSIWYG fashion, renders and exports it properly. Dealing with the table structure there is a nightmare for low-intermediate experience editors.
Correct me if I'm wrong, but the bottleneck in broadcasting isn't necessarily network speeds, but dealing with the disparity in ingest formats. Loads of non-interoperable formats come in, and broadcast teams have to transcode them into something that works, and quick, especially in live mediums. 10Gbe is fine for that. It's the hardware that does the transcoding that is holding things up. Finally, there are some companies that are using GPGPU boxes to speed it up..
The BIGGER problem (IMHO) is that these devices aren't shipped with any sort of malware protection, for the most part. One bogus USB stick plugged in, and..... I've spent years in the medical device field. The reliance on hospitals securing their networks, and not securing quarter million dollar devices at the manufacturer end always freaked me out. But again, the problem was how do you get updates, without communicating with the outside world and make it easy? Hospital IT staff are notoriously overworked and underfunded.
Conundrum
-jim
And yes, well after, my reproductive organs functioned just fine, thank you. ;)
-jim
As far as they are concerned, you have no rights.
Actually, you have three. With eternal thanks to The Clash
nice reference. Old-school... -jim
http://29.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_lkjsa0vvlq1qzu2tdo1_400.gif
no, you.
... and my options still haven't vested. Feh. :)
-jim