How on earth is this (a) insightful or (2) "beating this game"? Insightful is challenging the charges that were not agreed upon to obtain the service at the price advertised.
I steal hotel pens whenever I travel, which these days seems too frequent. Most are either Bic or Paper Mate medium point and seem to work very well for note taking. If I wind up with one that blobs or has a sticky ball, it's no issue to toss away. I've got several that both write and doodle perfectly.
TFA doesn't have any definition of "success". Every shop I've worked in has various examples of staff with "what you know" and "who you know". But in the end it tends to work itself out in the "right" way.
"It's very hard for those outside the technology inner circle to determine who has mad skills and who's slacking, until it becomes obvious that certain IT ninjas are the ones who step in to solve the problems again and again."
Those ninjas are usually the ones that find themselves on the short list to stay on when the economy turns south. That sounds like success to me. As a Sr. PHB myself whose technical skills have dwindled now down to still being able to spell EssQueElle and vaguely understanding that data can Hibernate but in a slightly different way than polar bears, it can be very difficult at times to hire qualified technical staff. Personally, I utilize some of my ninjas to help with that process but every once in a while someone makes it in that truly can't cut it. And now that funding is tight, I don't seem to have any of them.
Most important step is to train your "customer" about the 4 levels and gain acceptance.
L1 is pre-initiation with virtually no project details. Estimating is done solely by managers using experience, actuals from prior similar work, and their gut feel. We call it the SWAG level, and customer is trained to expect +/- 100%. We also occasionally have to give ROM estimates for our customers to gain funding prior to a project being accepted as real. In this case we use three high-level estimates (worst case, most likely, and best case) and then show three levels of std. deviation to the customer.
L2 is during initiation, when a few more details are known but usually no hard specs. SDLC area leads do the estimates, but still at a high level. Customer is trained to expect +/- 50%
L3 is after business requirements are documented and accepted. SDLC area leads and key staff do the estimates, and chunk work into no more than 80 hour tasks. Customer is trained to expect +/- 25%.
L4 is after technical design is documented and accepted. SDLC area leads and key staff do the estimates, again chunked into >=80 hour tasks. Customer is trained to expect +/- 10%.
Managing requirements changes after L3 is crucial. You have to ensure the customer understands the impact of any changes to scope.
Works for us on $15M of project work every year for a happy customer. Side note: after about a year, it's scary how close L1 estimates can be. Managers aren't all bad.:)
Really. Focus on tuning your database knowledge a bit. Adding SQL and PL/SQL to your resume will certainly help. You likely won't find a job that doesn't expect some database proficiency.
I don't disagree that having C#/.Net may be helpful. Of course that depends on the market in your area. But you should be able to find a job with the languages you already know.
Finally, figure out a way to grow some experience. That's not easy, but doable with a little effort. Show that you are trying to utilize your newly learned skills. No employer is going to expect a new grad to be able to be fully productive. However we* do like to see grads that have tried to apply their skills in the real world, no matter how small an example.
*Since everyone adds a reason why you should listen to them, guess I will too. I'm the managing director over a software development group of about 120 people. Oh yeah, with about 15 years of industry experience.
...and you forgot about the little titanium clips they put on either side of the cut now as well.
Only thing that made up for the whole experience was the wash and shave job by the nurses aide before. If I could get her again would *almost* consider going through it a second time.
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First RIAA is bad because they release CD's with DRM to stop us from ripping MP3's. Now BNL does this, which is obviously a slap in RIAA's face, and most of the comments here are pissing and moaning about stupid media or lossy codec?
Damn, folks. Make up your minds.
If you like the music, $30 for better than two albums is a pretty fair price. If you would rather purchase a different format, maybe suggest it to them in a constructive manner. You might be suprised.
And for that matter look at some of the programming standards documents that CMS has recently published. If you're contracting for them, and I bet you are, you'll find that they are expecting a Java based solution.
Umm...not necessarily. Sounds like a small shop, and the feds have special programs to award them contracts. We're in the same business and often serve as the prime on the contracts. Often times they are agile enough to pull off the job and turn over a good product.
Yes, I've had the same experience on one of my home machines. More specifically, "leaving the pdf" in my case meant closing the window or tab. I had better luck opening pdf's in the current window/tab and then backing out. Setup was XP (so shoot me), Firebird 0.6, and Acrobat Reader 6.0.
For that box I'm now on XP, Firebird 0.7, and (though I can't remember exactly why), Acrobat Reader 5.0. I don't have any issues with this setup.
Likewise, I haven't had any issues with a somewhat current build of Lycoris, Firebird 0.7 and Acrobat Reader 6.0 on another box.
Not just AppleSoft Basic but graphical ASB. GR. HGR. Anyone else remember the animated rainbow triangle? My second programming class in highschool had a final project that was a HGR program. Mine was a stick figure washing a car then a bird came and dumped on it. Most of it was a side view, but I showed one 5-second clip of the car from the back displaying my teacher's license plate number. I got an A and he never got the joke.
I remember really wanting a IIe for Christmas one year. Had scavanged a bunch of supposedly broken add-on's from school. Damn salesman talked the 'rents into the just-released IIc. Nice machine at the time to work on, but a real PITA to take apart and put back together again. That's probably why dissecting a laptop has never really scared me.
Now that I think about it, that machine is probably still up in their attic. Along with a whole bunch of add-ons: extra floppy drive, joystick, printer, modem, and about 1000 double-sided discs with pirated games. Gotta love Copy ][+ 8.1 for bit by bit disk dupes.
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How on earth is this (a) insightful or (2) "beating this game"? Insightful is challenging the charges that were not agreed upon to obtain the service at the price advertised.
Correct.
If you've seriously got a viable business model where encrypting a single laptop can bring in $N00k, please let me know.
FIPS 140-2 to be more specific. There are plenty of free options.
I steal hotel pens whenever I travel, which these days seems too frequent. Most are either Bic or Paper Mate medium point and seem to work very well for note taking. If I wind up with one that blobs or has a sticky ball, it's no issue to toss away. I've got several that both write and doodle perfectly.
TFA doesn't have any definition of "success". Every shop I've worked in has various examples of staff with "what you know" and "who you know". But in the end it tends to work itself out in the "right" way.
"It's very hard for those outside the technology inner circle to determine who has mad skills and who's slacking, until it becomes obvious that certain IT ninjas are the ones who step in to solve the problems again and again."
Those ninjas are usually the ones that find themselves on the short list to stay on when the economy turns south. That sounds like success to me. As a Sr. PHB myself whose technical skills have dwindled now down to still being able to spell EssQueElle and vaguely understanding that data can Hibernate but in a slightly different way than polar bears, it can be very difficult at times to hire qualified technical staff. Personally, I utilize some of my ninjas to help with that process but every once in a while someone makes it in that truly can't cut it. And now that funding is tight, I don't seem to have any of them.
If someone can get this to actually work, it may save lives in the future! http://darwinawards.com/darwin/darwin1995-04.html Sorry...
These "Anonymous" folks are all over this thread!
p.s.... Just want to ensure Anonymous knows it was Taco, not us, that labeled you Cowards!
Anyone else see the irony in a bunch of geeks protesting a "more intimate" search procedure? Probably good fodder for "My First Time" submissions... :)
The fundamental problem appears to really be that there are just far too many cats.
I'm sure as customers we'll all benefit from this litigation. Mad props to the lawyers!
Most important step is to train your "customer" about the 4 levels and gain acceptance.
:)
L1 is pre-initiation with virtually no project details. Estimating is done solely by managers using experience, actuals from prior similar work, and their gut feel. We call it the SWAG level, and customer is trained to expect +/- 100%. We also occasionally have to give ROM estimates for our customers to gain funding prior to a project being accepted as real. In this case we use three high-level estimates (worst case, most likely, and best case) and then show three levels of std. deviation to the customer.
L2 is during initiation, when a few more details are known but usually no hard specs. SDLC area leads do the estimates, but still at a high level. Customer is trained to expect +/- 50%
L3 is after business requirements are documented and accepted. SDLC area leads and key staff do the estimates, and chunk work into no more than 80 hour tasks. Customer is trained to expect +/- 25%.
L4 is after technical design is documented and accepted. SDLC area leads and key staff do the estimates, again chunked into >=80 hour tasks. Customer is trained to expect +/- 10%.
Managing requirements changes after L3 is crucial. You have to ensure the customer understands the impact of any changes to scope. Works for us on $15M of project work every year for a happy customer. Side note: after about a year, it's scary how close L1 estimates can be. Managers aren't all bad.
Really. Focus on tuning your database knowledge a bit. Adding SQL and PL/SQL to your resume will certainly help. You likely won't find a job that doesn't expect some database proficiency. I don't disagree that having C#/.Net may be helpful. Of course that depends on the market in your area. But you should be able to find a job with the languages you already know. Finally, figure out a way to grow some experience. That's not easy, but doable with a little effort. Show that you are trying to utilize your newly learned skills. No employer is going to expect a new grad to be able to be fully productive. However we* do like to see grads that have tried to apply their skills in the real world, no matter how small an example.
*Since everyone adds a reason why you should listen to them, guess I will too. I'm the managing director over a software development group of about 120 people. Oh yeah, with about 15 years of industry experience.
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Must have been for 7i. Bet the response from Oracle will be something along the line of upgrade to 10g.
...and you forgot about the little titanium clips they put on either side of the cut now as well.
Only thing that made up for the whole experience was the wash and shave job by the nurses aide before. If I could get her again would *almost* consider going through it a second time.
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Hell, even *I* could code that "interface".
First RIAA is bad because they release CD's with DRM to stop us from ripping MP3's. Now BNL does this, which is obviously a slap in RIAA's face, and most of the comments here are pissing and moaning about stupid media or lossy codec?
Damn, folks. Make up your minds.
If you like the music, $30 for better than two albums is a pretty fair price. If you would rather purchase a different format, maybe suggest it to them in a constructive manner. You might be suprised.
I beg to differ. I think MY posts are the most informed in this thread.
:)
And for that matter look at some of the programming standards documents that CMS has recently published. If you're contracting for them, and I bet you are, you'll find that they are expecting a Java based solution.
Umm...not necessarily. Sounds like a small shop, and the feds have special programs to award them contracts. We're in the same business and often serve as the prime on the contracts. Often times they are agile enough to pull off the job and turn over a good product.
Damn.
And I wasted all my mod points on SCO.
Yes, I've had the same experience on one of my home machines. More specifically, "leaving the pdf" in my case meant closing the window or tab. I had better luck opening pdf's in the current window/tab and then backing out. Setup was XP (so shoot me), Firebird 0.6, and Acrobat Reader 6.0.
For that box I'm now on XP, Firebird 0.7, and (though I can't remember exactly why), Acrobat Reader 5.0. I don't have any issues with this setup.
Likewise, I haven't had any issues with a somewhat current build of Lycoris, Firebird 0.7 and Acrobat Reader 6.0 on another box.
Jesus! Did I oversleep till April 1st.? My boss is going to kill me.
Oh god.
Not just AppleSoft Basic but graphical ASB. GR. HGR. Anyone else remember the animated rainbow triangle? My second programming class in highschool had a final project that was a HGR program. Mine was a stick figure washing a car then a bird came and dumped on it. Most of it was a side view, but I showed one 5-second clip of the car from the back displaying my teacher's license plate number. I got an A and he never got the joke.
I remember really wanting a IIe for Christmas one year. Had scavanged a bunch of supposedly broken add-on's from school. Damn salesman talked the 'rents into the just-released IIc. Nice machine at the time to work on, but a real PITA to take apart and put back together again. That's probably why dissecting a laptop has never really scared me.
Now that I think about it, that machine is probably still up in their attic. Along with a whole bunch of add-ons: extra floppy drive, joystick, printer, modem, and about 1000 double-sided discs with pirated games. Gotta love Copy ][+ 8.1 for bit by bit disk dupes.
No, I suppose you can't. But you did just support my point.
Please understand, I mean no offence. A 120+ employee office. Not tiny, but certainly not a large corporate environment.