(posted it somewhere else but the formatting was awful)
Two and a half years ago I was switching jobs and an Ask Slashdot on the topic gave me a few hints on how to do it well and it's been great since then. Now I have a new offer and am in the middle of a very hard decision:
I'm a programmer. I think I'll be a programmer all my life. When I do tasks in the real world I envision solutions almost as code. I was born to write code, and have done so for over 10 years now. But being a university drop-out my future has always worried me: I know people don't hire older programmers, and being 27 this is something that's hainting me.
So my current employer made me an offer to manage a new office in a town where it would be fairly easy for me to continue my university studies where I left them; but, as fate has it, I was given another offer to stay in the city I'm in with a higher pay (more than double of what I make now, almost three times) and a really high rank (Executive Manager of a really big company). When we got to the point of my lack of university degree, they downplayed it and said they could help me continue my studies, but as I see it is not a priority. Now, in the middle of this dilemma is the whole relocation problem.
My question would be this: How would you play it? I'd love to make a lot of money, but if I take the Executive Manager position I'll most probably never write code again, and may still not have a diploma; but if I take the lower, manager position with my current employer I'll be really comfortable in an environment that I like, but may never have a chance to climb up that higher in the positions ladder.
I tend to think that once I've gotten to the higher positions the university diploma will not matter much, but I'm not certain on how true this really is.
Two and a half years ago I was switching jobs and an Ask Slashdot on the topic gave me a few hints on how to do it well and it's been great since then. Now I have a new offer and am in the middle of a very hard decision:
I'm a programmer. I think I'll be a programmer all my life. When I do tasks in the real world I envision solutions almost as code. I was born to write code, and have done so for over 10 years now. But being a university drop-out my future has always worried me: I know people don't hire older programmers, and being 27 this is something that's hainting me.
So my current employer made me an offer to manage a new office in a town where it would be fairly easy for me to continue my university studies where I
left them; but, as fate has it, I was given another offer to stay in the city I'm in with a higher pay (more than double of what I make now, almost three times) and a really high rank (Executive Manager of a really big company). When we got to the point of my lack of university degree, they downplayed it and said they could help me continue my studies, but as I see it is not a priority. Now, in the middle of this dilemma is the whole relocation problem.
My question would be this: How would you play it? I'd love to make a lot of money, but if I take the Executive Manager position I'll most probably never write code again, and may still not have a diploma; but if I take the lower, manager position with my current employer I'll be really comfortable in an environment that I like, but may never have a chance to climb up that higher in the positions ladder.
I tend to think that once I've gotten to the higher positions the university diploma will not matter much, but I'm not certain on how true this really is.
If as you say, he was sued for running the system he created that allowed people to search other's computers, the is google liable for creating _and_ running a web-site that allows people to search and share content across the net?
How is it different from google? He had not the infringing content in his machine, he created a system that allowed other people to search through other people's computers, and that's a crime because you can search for MP3?
Why no go against google, or even better, the JPG Group for allowing criminals to save child porn in the JPG format? Why not go after google? I can find illegal information using it, it is their fault?
As pointed often in these comparisions Lovecraft was an atheist and Tolkien was an avid catholic.
But they share a lot of simmilarities, way beyond their lifes and lifestyle:
They both created imaginary mythologies based on they deepest dreams and fears: Tokien created a mythology based on his catholic beliefs, where there was always a good vs evil fight, and in all chapters good prevailed. Lovecraft also created a mythology based in what he saw while asleep, but in his case they where nightmares; he created a colorful, vivid and even more complex mythology based on ancient cults where good and evil didn't exist independently but lived togheter.
You could say Tolkien was inspired a lot by Lovecraft's works, which in some extent is true, but the main reason for these comparisions to pop up is that they where a lot alike, the only main difference was the beliefs they had in life. When it comes to it, all their writing was about their dreams, glorious and epic in Tolkien's case, and darks, frightful and chaotics in Lovecraft's case.
Also, Lovecraft was a declared racist and a lot of Tolkien scholars say he was a racist too (actually there's a lot of controversy regarding the claims some people has made calling Tolkien a racists, but in any case he, as Lovecraft does, uses the color of the skin to represent the goodness or evilness of a vcharacter)
I'm not a computer scientist, just a unix admin. My question is: Since when has operating on pointers been considered unsafe?
That statement is a dangerous one for you reputation as a good admin. Almost every bug or security hole is related to bad pointer handling. Pointers are a very powerful tool, but as such, they are extremely dangerous, specially when used in a not type-safe environment.
As for your claim of 99.9% of the code to be considered as unsafe, i dont think the percentage is so big, but it comes quite near. How do you think the patchers and support staff live from?. It's an inevitable part of software.
Am I the only one who thinks that very few people sent there comments? My guess is that they're probably all from geeks
I understand from your post that you are assuming that geeks are not people?
Who are you?? Pamela Anderson???
Anyways... i have to get back to get back to this obfuscated tuxedo+ingres C code. It's so fascinating to mantain code wrote by someone as old as my grandfather!!!!
oops... must leave... it's time to see my panty-sox favorite series: StarTrek !!!!
I believe is very hard to try and mark the center of the internet as a global thing. But i'm pretty sure everyone -in his mind- sees a global center on the internet. That undoubtely will vary from person to person, but in my mind i still see Yahoo! as the center.
I dont know if anybody else here sees (or saw) Yahoo! as the "center" for "his" internet, for his representation of the internet, but i still ping for www.yahoo.com when i'm trying out a new internet connection.
Blender has one of the most un-intuitive interfaces i have ever seen. I use maya, lightwave and a lot of other p3d products and have tried at least 3 or 4 times toto tackle blender with no result.
Is frustrating when you try to use a program and they change the standars "just for fun". Also, when you use this kind of software you dont want to spend much time trying to decypher the workflow of the tools.
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(posted it somewhere else but the formatting was awful)
Two and a half years ago I was switching jobs and an Ask Slashdot on the topic gave me a few hints on how to do it well and it's been great since then. Now I have a new offer and am in the middle of a very hard decision:
I'm a programmer. I think I'll be a programmer all my life. When I do tasks in the real world I envision solutions almost as code. I was born to write code, and have done so for over 10 years now. But being a university drop-out my future has always worried me: I know people don't hire older programmers, and being 27 this is something that's hainting me.
So my current employer made me an offer to manage a new office in a town where it would be fairly easy for me to continue my university studies where I left them; but, as fate has it, I was given another offer to stay in the city I'm in with a higher pay (more than double of what I make now, almost three times) and a really high rank (Executive Manager of a really big company). When we got to the point of my lack of university degree, they downplayed it and said they could help me continue my studies, but as I see it is not a priority. Now, in the middle of this dilemma is the whole relocation problem.
My question would be this: How would you play it? I'd love to make a lot of money, but if I take the Executive Manager position I'll most probably never write code again, and may still not have a diploma; but if I take the lower, manager position with my current employer I'll be really comfortable in an environment that I like, but may never have a chance to climb up that higher in the positions ladder.
I tend to think that once I've gotten to the higher positions the university diploma will not matter much, but I'm not certain on how true this really is.
Two and a half years ago I was switching jobs and an Ask Slashdot on the topic gave me a few hints on how to do it well and it's been great since then. Now I have a new offer and am in the middle of a very hard decision: I'm a programmer. I think I'll be a programmer all my life. When I do tasks in the real world I envision solutions almost as code. I was born to write code, and have done so for over 10 years now. But being a university drop-out my future has always worried me: I know people don't hire older programmers, and being 27 this is something that's hainting me. So my current employer made me an offer to manage a new office in a town where it would be fairly easy for me to continue my university studies where I left them; but, as fate has it, I was given another offer to stay in the city I'm in with a higher pay (more than double of what I make now, almost three times) and a really high rank (Executive Manager of a really big company). When we got to the point of my lack of university degree, they downplayed it and said they could help me continue my studies, but as I see it is not a priority. Now, in the middle of this dilemma is the whole relocation problem. My question would be this: How would you play it? I'd love to make a lot of money, but if I take the Executive Manager position I'll most probably never write code again, and may still not have a diploma; but if I take the lower, manager position with my current employer I'll be really comfortable in an environment that I like, but may never have a chance to climb up that higher in the positions ladder. I tend to think that once I've gotten to the higher positions the university diploma will not matter much, but I'm not certain on how true this really is.
If as you say, he was sued for running the system he created that allowed people to search other's computers, the is google liable for creating _and_ running a web-site that allows people to search and share content across the net? How is it different from google? He had not the infringing content in his machine, he created a system that allowed other people to search through other people's computers, and that's a crime because you can search for MP3? Why no go against google, or even better, the JPG Group for allowing criminals to save child porn in the JPG format? Why not go after google? I can find illegal information using it, it is their fault?
FUNNY AS HELL !!!!!!!!
As pointed often in these comparisions Lovecraft was an atheist and Tolkien was an avid catholic.
But they share a lot of simmilarities, way beyond their lifes and lifestyle:
They both created imaginary mythologies based on they deepest dreams and fears: Tokien created a mythology based on his catholic beliefs, where there was always a good vs evil fight, and in all chapters good prevailed. Lovecraft also created a mythology based in what he saw while asleep, but in his case they where nightmares; he created a colorful, vivid and even more complex mythology based on ancient cults where good and evil didn't exist independently but lived togheter.
You could say Tolkien was inspired a lot by Lovecraft's works, which in some extent is true, but the main reason for these comparisions to pop up is that they where a lot alike, the only main difference was the beliefs they had in life. When it comes to it, all their writing was about their dreams, glorious and epic in Tolkien's case, and darks, frightful and chaotics in Lovecraft's case.
Also, Lovecraft was a declared racist and a lot of Tolkien scholars say he was a racist too (actually there's a lot of controversy regarding the claims some people has made calling Tolkien a racists, but in any case he, as Lovecraft does, uses the color of the skin to represent the goodness or evilness of a vcharacter)
Actually, Leia and Luke are brothers
Why dont you try GrafittiX?
I'm not a computer scientist, just a unix admin. My question is: Since when has operating on pointers been considered unsafe?
That statement is a dangerous one for you reputation as a good admin. Almost every bug or security hole is related to bad pointer handling. Pointers are a very powerful tool, but as such, they are extremely dangerous, specially when used in a not type-safe environment.
As for your claim of 99.9% of the code to be considered as unsafe, i dont think the percentage is so big, but it comes quite near. How do you think the patchers and support staff live from?. It's an inevitable part of software.
Just for the record, JAVA does NOT have pointers.
Am I the only one who thinks that very few people sent there comments? My guess is that they're probably all from geeks
... i have to get back to get back to this obfuscated tuxedo+ingres C code. It's so fascinating to mantain code wrote by someone as old as my grandfather!!!!
... must leave ... it's time to see my panty-sox favorite series: StarTrek !!!!
I understand from your post that you are assuming that geeks are not people?
Who are you?? Pamela Anderson???
Anyways
oops
Stomach = www.archive.org
I believe is very hard to try and mark the center of the internet as a global thing. But i'm pretty sure everyone -in his mind- sees a global center on the internet. That undoubtely will vary from person to person, but in my mind i still see Yahoo! as the center. I dont know if anybody else here sees (or saw) Yahoo! as the "center" for "his" internet, for his representation of the internet, but i still ping for www.yahoo.com when i'm trying out a new internet connection.
The issue with red-hat is that almost always they find the bugs first, or is done by a red-hat user. So red-hat has more security warnings.
Blender has one of the most un-intuitive interfaces i have ever seen. I use maya, lightwave and a lot of other p3d products and have tried at least 3 or 4 times toto tackle blender with no result. Is frustrating when you try to use a program and they change the standars "just for fun". Also, when you use this kind of software you dont want to spend much time trying to decypher the workflow of the tools.