This is the what happens when national defense is the problem of "some other kids" who you will never meet or work with. At least with a draft, everyone gets involved. Well, everyone except for the really rich jerks who have a mommy and daddy with connections, but they will be pro-defense no matter what they do.
Student cheats way through college CS courses. Then cheats way into getting first software development job. Soon after that, colleagues discover he can't code worth a damn, but but bullshits with the bosses, gets promoted into management. Company pays for evening/weekend MBA program. Repeat cheating exercise, complete MBA. Get promoted to CIO.
I always figured it was a good thing I hadn't invested in learning SAP and jump on the gravy train some of my software consulting neighbors have been riding... just seemed like a matter of time before word got out and the hours dried up for them.
Yep, this is a situation where attorneys pay off. When selling a company ($1M - $5M) I tell people to prepare to pay $15K to $50K for a transaction attorney, but an IP attorney will probably run more. Buyers will try last minute tricks to cut the price in half or more so an experienced lawyer is a must.
While I'm at it... Some other comments have said a broker wants 6%, that's only for a quite big deal (assuming some variant of a sliding Lehman scale is used). Even in the $1Million range 10% is common (even 15% in some states like Florida).
Another commenter said something about getting MBA students involved. No way. This stuff is way, way above a student class project.
The poster is going to have to find someone who has been through this and get referrals. Sorry, that means meeting people and using social skills. Emailing potential buyers probably won't help because if you don't know any people in the space, you also don't know how to communicate with them out of the blue; you'll probably put them off, if they read your message at all.
Get an attorney who has experience doing these types of deals, this has saved me from failed deals. The guy who did Daddy & Mommy's will or plays golf with Uncle Barney or whatever isn't the way to go.
Trying to sell your company through one of the hundreds of business for sale websites brings tire kickers and scam replies. Going to the local business brokerage franchise (basically a bunch of commission-only out-of-work real estate salesmen) is usually a dead end for this type of thing, they won't grasp what you are selling, but they will have free balloons for the kiddies.
What about all the cycles compiling and debugging C++ code? Or all the trees torn down for C++ books? Or the environmental impact of C++ developers? I mean, have you ever had to share a cube with one of them? Pheewww.
I have graduate degrees in both Computer Science and Economics and this commonality was so obvious to me over a decade ago that it wouldn't have seemed worth writing about. Hell, you even study Von Neumann in both of these fields at the undergraduate level.
They were all mainframe guys at insurance and automotive-related manufacturing companies, white short-sleeve shirts and pocket protectors. In 1978 I'm sure PCs and the Internet were way beyond their imagination.
At age 15 my college plan was to major in computer science. This was in 1978. My father had me meet with some people who worked in the field. They all told me to find another interest, that by the time I graduated from college there would be nothing to do... all the computer programs would be written, all maintenance would be automated, etc. Lucky for me I snicker at crusty old fuckers, ie. anybody 20 years older than my current age.
There are plenty of humans, the last thing we need is unproductive ones breeding. In the US we get a tax break for each kid which just encourages breeding in this country... and that's just the start once you throw in welfare benefits that pay you to have kids and not work.
Heat kills drives so avoiding it is a big plus. I've had friends buy neat looking cases that didn't have proper drive cooling and the hard disk died. At three separate employers we had weekend air conditioning failures and each time hard drives died not just over the weekend but the following weeks as well.
My machines are in 4U server cases with a dust filter on the front, a 120mm fan in front blowing on the drive cage, and two 80mm fans in back pulling air through. Temps in the case stay low.
The other key is quality power supplies. A poor p/s can kill your drives or the motherboard with that on-board "RAID" functionality.
Make backups and take steps to avoid hard drive abuse through heat or unstable power. That should be good enough
This looks like a cute toy that will auto-generate some bloated code. No way big iron financial systems are moving to Java, especially auto-generated Java that will perform like crap and be harder to maintain than the COBOL it replaced.
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This is the what happens when national defense is the problem of "some other kids" who you will never meet or work with. At least with a draft, everyone gets involved. Well, everyone except for the really rich jerks who have a mommy and daddy with connections, but they will be pro-defense no matter what they do.
Probably going to be waiting a while. Mainframes are still heavily & widely used in banks.
Student cheats way through college CS courses. Then cheats way into getting first software development job. Soon after that, colleagues discover he can't code worth a damn, but but bullshits with the bosses, gets promoted into management. Company pays for evening/weekend MBA program. Repeat cheating exercise, complete MBA. Get promoted to CIO.
This kind of sounds like the plane Johnny Depp's character was designing in The Astronaut's Wife.
How many legs does the dog have Winston?
Four
And if the Party says it's not four but five then how many?
It might have been the cops that gave you headaches, not the tower.
I always figured it was a good thing I hadn't invested in learning SAP and jump on the gravy train some of my software consulting neighbors have been riding... just seemed like a matter of time before word got out and the hours dried up for them.
The Internet is less disturbing than a face to face meeting.
Makes me wonder if the Spanish Inquisition would be less disturbing if it were conducted over the internet. Spanish Inquisition 2.0
Don't say it couldn't happen. Nobody expects the Spanish Inquisition.
My first reaction is WTH, but on the other hand don't embassy staffers have pretty much the same deal?
Yep, this is a situation where attorneys pay off. When selling a company ($1M - $5M) I tell people to prepare to pay $15K to $50K for a transaction attorney, but an IP attorney will probably run more. Buyers will try last minute tricks to cut the price in half or more so an experienced lawyer is a must.
While I'm at it... Some other comments have said a broker wants 6%, that's only for a quite big deal (assuming some variant of a sliding Lehman scale is used). Even in the $1Million range 10% is common (even 15% in some states like Florida).
Another commenter said something about getting MBA students involved. No way. This stuff is way, way above a student class project.
The poster is going to have to find someone who has been through this and get referrals. Sorry, that means meeting people and using social skills. Emailing potential buyers probably won't help because if you don't know any people in the space, you also don't know how to communicate with them out of the blue; you'll probably put them off, if they read your message at all.
Get an attorney who has experience doing these types of deals, this has saved me from failed deals. The guy who did Daddy & Mommy's will or plays golf with Uncle Barney or whatever isn't the way to go.
Trying to sell your company through one of the hundreds of business for sale websites brings tire kickers and scam replies. Going to the local business brokerage franchise (basically a bunch of commission-only out-of-work real estate salesmen) is usually a dead end for this type of thing, they won't grasp what you are selling, but they will have free balloons for the kiddies.
What about all the cycles compiling and debugging C++ code? Or all the trees torn down for C++ books? Or the environmental impact of C++ developers? I mean, have you ever had to share a cube with one of them? Pheewww.
...but I'd prefer to be able to buy something assembled
Slashdot, news for nerds. So sad, I remember when nerds built their own systems.
I have graduate degrees in both Computer Science and Economics and this commonality was so obvious to me over a decade ago that it wouldn't have seemed worth writing about. Hell, you even study Von Neumann in both of these fields at the undergraduate level.
Especially if stem cells get added into the mix.
Schools are putting out bids for cat 5e cable knit sweaters and kneesocks
They were all mainframe guys at insurance and automotive-related manufacturing companies, white short-sleeve shirts and pocket protectors. In 1978 I'm sure PCs and the Internet were way beyond their imagination.
At age 15 my college plan was to major in computer science. This was in 1978. My father had me meet with some people who worked in the field. They all told me to find another interest, that by the time I graduated from college there would be nothing to do... all the computer programs would be written, all maintenance would be automated, etc. Lucky for me I snicker at crusty old fuckers, ie. anybody 20 years older than my current age.
... then ask them to call it, heads or tails?
There are plenty of humans, the last thing we need is unproductive ones breeding. In the US we get a tax break for each kid which just encourages breeding in this country... and that's just the start once you throw in welfare benefits that pay you to have kids and not work.
Heat kills drives so avoiding it is a big plus. I've had friends buy neat looking cases that didn't have proper drive cooling and the hard disk died. At three separate employers we had weekend air conditioning failures and each time hard drives died not just over the weekend but the following weeks as well.
My machines are in 4U server cases with a dust filter on the front, a 120mm fan in front blowing on the drive cage, and two 80mm fans in back pulling air through. Temps in the case stay low.
The other key is quality power supplies. A poor p/s can kill your drives or the motherboard with that on-board "RAID" functionality.
Make backups and take steps to avoid hard drive abuse through heat or unstable power. That should be good enough
Imagine a blogger that submits its link to slashdot, but once it appears there, that blog can no longer serve pages.
Do you like fishsticks?
Do you like to put fishsticks in your mouth?
The 1990s called... they want their "automated convert Xxxx to Java" idea back.
This looks like a cute toy that will auto-generate some bloated code. No way big iron financial systems are moving to Java, especially auto-generated Java that will perform like crap and be harder to maintain than the COBOL it replaced.