We've required 16 hour days for nearly two years since we hand-off to a team in India at night and have to attend scrum that's at the start of our day and the end of their day. Also, that means we're expected to be in the office on Sunday nights for their Monday mornings, but of course we can't leave early on Friday nights to compensate.
I'd quit and try finding another job, but most of my friends in my field here in Seattle are also working long hours so I'm not confident of finding a better job.
You're being too harsh. A college degree shows someone is dedicated, finish what they start, can meet deadlines, and can usually work on their own without micromanagement. High school doesn't teach you any of those things.
And we have the problem with updates not being forced for our developers. We recently did an SSAE 16 audit, and the first three Windows machines they looked at hadn't been updated since last summer. Ouch.
I don't understand why I can't seem to disable updates on my home Windows 10 machine. They're blocked for a while but every method I've tried has eventually stopped working. It's the worst of both worlds.
They're not just banning conservatives. Two friends had their accounts banned recently, and both joined in June of 2008 when our boss made everyone join Twitter in order to follow his account.
I don't think Epipen injectors are like my Albuterol inhaler that the generic doesn't work worth a damn, but the name brand one works every time. My doctor writes "no generic" on my prescription each time, but the pharmacist at my local Rite Aid every time still tries to push the generic.
Depends on the price to switch to a system that isn't so insecure.
Where I work, we tried switching about fifty servers to Linux, but it failed due to the fact we couldn't find people that knew what they were doing for minimum wage. The two high school drop-outs that work for minimum wage do an OK job with keeping those Windows servers running. Windows is acceptable since our customer SLA is 95% so I think we can have almost five hours of downtime a week. Of course we often exceed that amount of downtime because of Microsoft-created problems, but the lost customers cost less than a Linux expert would cost.
Not really now since under Trump there is for the first time more job openings than workers.
I know for programmers, there have been more openings most places than available workers. We've had more job openings for programmers than employees(!) for around five years despite the fact we pay over 20% more than average. There just aren't enough workers.
I disagree with the harder to cheat part. My vote here in Washington has only counted once since we switched to voting by mail. It's a terrible system. On the other hand, it is nice to be able to track that.
But as the SCOTUS has ruled before, the Constitution isn't a suicide-pact. They'll rule against this even though some could argue this is free speech. They've always ruled for safety over rights.
So if, like here in Seattle, there's been two record breaking highs the past decade after over a hundred years of measurements that that doesn't mean it proves global warming? But shouldn't two record highs in a hundred years prove we're in run-away/hockey stick global warming?
Most of the city has a government-granted monopoly given to Comcast and as far as I know, they haven't expanded service in years. I have a few friends that live in the Wave area, and I'm jealous of the prices they pay and the bandwidth they have.
Where I work, the product team uses Slack. Our build system uses HipChat since it has good integration with it. The company standard is Microsoft Teams, but it's just too slow unless you have a brand new desktop since we also have to run both Visual Studio and IntelliJ so most devs just use Skype. Support and sales use Salesforce chat which we can't deploy to everyone because of the high cost.
I have about for dozen friends between high school and college that work at Microsoft, and as far as I know, all of them receive worse benefits than a real Microsoft employee.
True, but we have to deal with a lot more government websites that use Flash than Silverlight. Adobe Flex was a great reporting platform for over a decade so I can understand why the government used it, but I don't get why they would ever use Silverlight except due to pressure from Microsoft.
a year have to seek medical attention after a dog bite so replacing those animals with things that won't attack us will really help with safety and medical costs.
Plus, the less dog poop on sidewalks and in parks would be nice. I live in Seattle, and the amount of dog poop here is just terrible.
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We've required 16 hour days for nearly two years since we hand-off to a team in India at night and have to attend scrum that's at the start of our day and the end of their day. Also, that means we're expected to be in the office on Sunday nights for their Monday mornings, but of course we can't leave early on Friday nights to compensate.
I'd quit and try finding another job, but most of my friends in my field here in Seattle are also working long hours so I'm not confident of finding a better job.
We barely have any 4k content yet.
You're being too harsh. A college degree shows someone is dedicated, finish what they start, can meet deadlines, and can usually work on their own without micromanagement. High school doesn't teach you any of those things.
> creatively solve problems.
Do you want to read code that is logical or "creative?" I know my opinion on that.
And 1984 shouldn't be an instruction manual.
And we have the problem with updates not being forced for our developers. We recently did an SSAE 16 audit, and the first three Windows machines they looked at hadn't been updated since last summer. Ouch.
I don't understand why I can't seem to disable updates on my home Windows 10 machine. They're blocked for a while but every method I've tried has eventually stopped working. It's the worst of both worlds.
Underrated post. Their current system has way too many false positives.
They're not just banning conservatives. Two friends had their accounts banned recently, and both joined in June of 2008 when our boss made everyone join Twitter in order to follow his account.
I don't think Epipen injectors are like my Albuterol inhaler that the generic doesn't work worth a damn, but the name brand one works every time. My doctor writes "no generic" on my prescription each time, but the pharmacist at my local Rite Aid every time still tries to push the generic.
> he just changed a policy and now he's going rogue
This is /. so we need a car analogy. So, by refusing to buy a new car, I'm obviously against the entire car industry.
Like DACA that was an Obama EO? A judge recently ruled Trump couldn't undo part of it with his own EO. What a ridiculous double-standard.
so is this the fault of PG in the liquid?
Depends on the price to switch to a system that isn't so insecure.
Where I work, we tried switching about fifty servers to Linux, but it failed due to the fact we couldn't find people that knew what they were doing for minimum wage. The two high school drop-outs that work for minimum wage do an OK job with keeping those Windows servers running. Windows is acceptable since our customer SLA is 95% so I think we can have almost five hours of downtime a week. Of course we often exceed that amount of downtime because of Microsoft-created problems, but the lost customers cost less than a Linux expert would cost.
Not really now since under Trump there is for the first time more job openings than workers.
I know for programmers, there have been more openings most places than available workers. We've had more job openings for programmers than employees(!) for around five years despite the fact we pay over 20% more than average. There just aren't enough workers.
I disagree with the harder to cheat part. My vote here in Washington has only counted once since we switched to voting by mail. It's a terrible system. On the other hand, it is nice to be able to track that.
But this guy was appointed to the FCC board by the previous administration. We shouldn't forget that fact.
I've never once had rolling back to a restore point help. It seems like a great idea, but the implementation is lacking.
But as the SCOTUS has ruled before, the Constitution isn't a suicide-pact. They'll rule against this even though some could argue this is free speech. They've always ruled for safety over rights.
So if, like here in Seattle, there's been two record breaking highs the past decade after over a hundred years of measurements that that doesn't mean it proves global warming? But shouldn't two record highs in a hundred years prove we're in run-away/hockey stick global warming?
Most of the city has a government-granted monopoly given to Comcast and as far as I know, they haven't expanded service in years. I have a few friends that live in the Wave area, and I'm jealous of the prices they pay and the bandwidth they have.
That would be great, but will never happen.
Where I work, the product team uses Slack. Our build system uses HipChat since it has good integration with it. The company standard is Microsoft Teams, but it's just too slow unless you have a brand new desktop since we also have to run both Visual Studio and IntelliJ so most devs just use Skype. Support and sales use Salesforce chat which we can't deploy to everyone because of the high cost.
I have about for dozen friends between high school and college that work at Microsoft, and as far as I know, all of them receive worse benefits than a real Microsoft employee.
True, but we have to deal with a lot more government websites that use Flash than Silverlight. Adobe Flex was a great reporting platform for over a decade so I can understand why the government used it, but I don't get why they would ever use Silverlight except due to pressure from Microsoft.
Instead of fixing the problem, the software update just let it overheat more before shutting off.
a year have to seek medical attention after a dog bite so replacing those animals with things that won't attack us will really help with safety and medical costs.
Plus, the less dog poop on sidewalks and in parks would be nice. I live in Seattle, and the amount of dog poop here is just terrible.