I feel that once people starts racing for the bottom of the wage pile they will find it already occupied by people from India with advanced degrees but no practical knowledge.
At some point the HR manager decides that he/she can replace an "overpaid" engineers with a couple engineers in China or India who. combined, make way less and have lots more initials in their CVs. The HR manager pushes for doing the same thing with the entire department saving the company millions. He and management all collect hefty bonuses. The HR manager, knowing what he's done, gets outta Dodge before the schmidt hits the fan. A year later new product development has stalled, maintenance releases have introduced defects instead of fixes and management has to explain it to the board of directors by blaming the former HR director. The President and the Director of Engineering both get drilled. The company's stock tanks. The now retired HR manager lounging on the beach in Costa Rica smiles as his put options have now become very valuable.
Consulting companies send the people that they have, not the people that you need.
And they tell the client that the person being sent is "THESME in the configuration and use of system / program / language XYZ". Meanwhile the poor schmuck being sent has never even seen XYZ and is expected to memorize the cryptic XYZ manuals on the red-eye flight to the client.
Congrats. You are gifted with incredible foresight and analytical capabilities. You ought to consider investing some of your millions in the stock market. I'm sure you'll do even better.
The video didn't have any explanatory track. I saw a missle going up. I'm guessing this was the target ICBM, then a puff of smoke. For all I know the ICBM could have been told to self-destruct.
Yeah, I was hoping to read how they created the most delicious tomato possible. I guess that's harder than just increasing yields.
Efficient mass production, not flavor and nutritional content, are the goals of this research. The focus is more tomatoes per acre and higher yields on the grocer's shelf. Obviously the resulting tomato replica has to look like a tomato, act like a tomato, taste kinda like a tomato and be more-or-less non-toxic. If it fails the last 2 criteria we'll see if marketing spin it. The tomato, like the consumer, is a product to be manipulated for the profitability of the corporation.
It's supposed to be about the employees having problems, not Elon sound bites. The article is 50% Muskoil, 50% everyone else.
I know what it's like to have a CEO pushing too hard. I worked at Miniscribe in the QT Wiles days. It was a do-anything-to-hit-the-numbers environment. Don't know nothing 'bout no bricks though.
I suggest bigger cuts to the Office of Science budget. Why do we need to spend money developing better, faster supercomputers? We can let the Chinese do all the expensive R&D, then we can buy the finished product from them. No problem. It worked for drywall, why not quantum puters?
I did time for one of those Indian companies. The work was training the offshore team to do the work of the America workers who had been RIFFed. The Americans had to assist with the training or lose their termination compensation.
They (the Hyderabad-based IT company) wouldn't allow remote work so I had to move to NJ for a 6 mo contract. They wouldn't pay for travel or any relocation costs. Their people were flying to & from India pretty regularly. They wouldn't offer or cover cost of my Healthcare (COBRA at that time). Time spent filling out time cards and entering hours into their dogshit time tracking system were not billable. Pay rate was 1/3 lower than what HAD been my minimum. I was desperate for anything at the time. And they offered to hire me away from the company I was subbing for, which was forbidden by the contract.
your friend is lazy as fuck, i regurally do that shit, a house framing and foundation is 1 week(2 days for framing), coming from an architect
Don't be a dick. If you're really in the construction business you know that speed of construction is a function of design complexity, the amount of talent and resources thrown at the build, the ability to organize those resources, timing of material delivery and a random "luck" factor. Have 20 talented construction people working full time on a 500 square no-feature efficiency and yea, it's done quick. Put a couple software engineers with limited experience and a mom with 3 kids to work finishing a 2500 square house, part-time, and it will take longer.
People are occasionally presented with "honorary" doctorate degrees in this-or-that. For example, the architect Frank Gehry will be awarded a Doctor of Letters by Oxford on 21-June this year. Filmmaker Pedro Almodóvar was such an honorand last year. While such a courtesy is distinct from an earned academic or professional degree, would it enable one to join a professional society?
I'd prefer to call myself a software artiste. My employeer says I'm an SME. Hey! Lookee! After 44 years of writing code I finally get a TLA!
If Mr. Jarlstrom is a member of the IEEE or ACM then might want to contact them for help. The Oregon board of examiners should stick to examining lumberjack wardrobes. Anything other than that takes them way out of their league.
The only website I have this problem with is Slashdot, which wants to cover the top 3rd of my web browser with an ad.
It happens to me all the time on Ars when viewed with Chrome on an Android. The cause is not the initial load; it's the carousel advertisements "above" the current view. When they change size everything adjusts it's position. I get completely lost. Which, in my case, is like selling coal to Newcastle.
And don't get me started on the CPU cycles needed by all the advert videos playing somewhere "off screen". My S7 starts to feel more like an S zero point five. The does not help my browsing experience nor does it entice me to support the advertisers -- the opposite in fact.
Slashdot Mirror
Yes, one CAN ask for a lower salary.
I feel that once people starts racing for the bottom of the wage pile they will find it already occupied by people from India with advanced degrees but no practical knowledge.
At some point the HR manager decides that he/she can replace an "overpaid" engineers with a couple engineers in China or India who. combined, make way less and have lots more initials in their CVs. The HR manager pushes for doing the same thing with the entire department saving the company millions. He and management all collect hefty bonuses. The HR manager, knowing what he's done, gets outta Dodge before the schmidt hits the fan. A year later new product development has stalled, maintenance releases have introduced defects instead of fixes and management has to explain it to the board of directors by blaming the former HR director. The President and the Director of Engineering both get drilled. The company's stock tanks. The now retired HR manager lounging on the beach in Costa Rica smiles as his put options have now become very valuable.
Consulting companies send the people that they have, not the people that you need.
And they tell the client that the person being sent is "THE SME in the configuration and use of system / program / language XYZ". Meanwhile the poor schmuck being sent has never even seen XYZ and is expected to memorize the cryptic XYZ manuals on the red-eye flight to the client.
mod parent u....Jesus Christ!!!!
The dimensions are specified in millimeters, which is annoying. I would have used attoparsecs, personally.
And km/hr? What is that in furlongs per fortnight?
Key Features:
1. Worlds Smallest
I need an empirical measurement in trumphands.
2. Take off from public roads
Cool. How about landing, aka crashing?
3. Intuitive operation
I grew up with Japanese VCRs. I've never been tempted to use the word "intuitive" in relation to a Japanese product with a user interface.
.. One Rich Asshole Called Larry Ellison
Who has his own personal Hawaiian effing Island. This is 'Merica. Success in business is the only thing that matters and the ends justify the means.
I have got to get outta here. I'm getting too damn cynical.
Congrats. You are gifted with incredible foresight and analytical capabilities. You ought to consider investing some of your millions in the stock market. I'm sure you'll do even better.
The video didn't have any explanatory track. I saw a missle going up. I'm guessing this was the target ICBM, then a puff of smoke. For all I know the ICBM could have been told to self-destruct.
I've never had these sorts of problems. My phone is an iPhone 5s.
Sorry; dumb question: How do you know you've never had this problem? Maybe you have and just have not been aware of it.
Is Blowjob Judy : Gag Queen listed? Please NOOOOOOO....
a more damaging defeat that would hurt the national pride of a state which holds Go close to its heart.
Does anyone else see a societal pressure point ripe for needling with social media bots?
Yeah, I was hoping to read how they created the most delicious tomato possible. I guess that's harder than just increasing yields.
Efficient mass production, not flavor and nutritional content, are the goals of this research. The focus is more tomatoes per acre and higher yields on the grocer's shelf. Obviously the resulting tomato replica has to look like a tomato, act like a tomato, taste kinda like a tomato and be more-or-less non-toxic. If it fails the last 2 criteria we'll see if marketing spin it. The tomato, like the consumer, is a product to be manipulated for the profitability of the corporation.
Mr. Pai is essentially saying that DDOSing and astroturfing is OK. This may be the wrong message to send.
It's supposed to be about the employees having problems, not Elon sound bites. The article is 50% Muskoil, 50% everyone else.
I know what it's like to have a CEO pushing too hard. I worked at Miniscribe in the QT Wiles days. It was a do-anything-to-hit-the-numbers environment. Don't know nothing 'bout no bricks though.
Hey. Don't mess wif my musk hole you surface dweller. Took elon time to dig it. Great place for spay sex with pa-pal blessing from pope Gregory.
Casually drop a reference to this song by Joan Armitrading: When I Get It Right (the mtv version) / alternate with lyrics.
I suggest bigger cuts to the Office of Science budget. Why do we need to spend money developing better, faster supercomputers? We can let the Chinese do all the expensive R&D, then we can buy the finished product from them. No problem. It worked for drywall, why not quantum puters?
I went to the YesJulz instagram page. Now I feel like I was this close to viewing kiddie pr0n. Deleting browser cache.
I did time for one of those Indian companies. The work was training the offshore team to do the work of the America workers who had been RIFFed. The Americans had to assist with the training or lose their termination compensation. They (the Hyderabad-based IT company) wouldn't allow remote work so I had to move to NJ for a 6 mo contract. They wouldn't pay for travel or any relocation costs. Their people were flying to & from India pretty regularly. They wouldn't offer or cover cost of my Healthcare (COBRA at that time). Time spent filling out time cards and entering hours into their dogshit time tracking system were not billable. Pay rate was 1/3 lower than what HAD been my minimum. I was desperate for anything at the time. And they offered to hire me away from the company I was subbing for, which was forbidden by the contract.
It was not a good experience.
Dos bowlos. Bobbin malwarey? Bop in male wary? Bah. Been Mallory? Maybe "Bob and Mallory" is an anagram for "anal dorm lobby"?
your friend is lazy as fuck, i regurally do that shit, a house framing and foundation is 1 week(2 days for framing), coming from an architect
Don't be a dick. If you're really in the construction business you know that speed of construction is a function of design complexity, the amount of talent and resources thrown at the build, the ability to organize those resources, timing of material delivery and a random "luck" factor. Have 20 talented construction people working full time on a 500 square no-feature efficiency and yea, it's done quick. Put a couple software engineers with limited experience and a mom with 3 kids to work finishing a 2500 square house, part-time, and it will take longer.
People are occasionally presented with "honorary" doctorate degrees in this-or-that. For example, the architect Frank Gehry will be awarded a Doctor of Letters by Oxford on 21-June this year. Filmmaker Pedro Almodóvar was such an honorand last year. While such a courtesy is distinct from an earned academic or professional degree, would it enable one to join a professional society?
I'd prefer to call myself a software artiste. My employeer says I'm an SME. Hey! Lookee! After 44 years of writing code I finally get a TLA!
If Mr. Jarlstrom is a member of the IEEE or ACM then might want to contact them for help. The Oregon board of examiners should stick to examining lumberjack wardrobes. Anything other than that takes them way out of their league.
We're gonna need a bigger screen.
NSFW!
At least where I work.
Used to work until just recently.
The only website I have this problem with is Slashdot, which wants to cover the top 3rd of my web browser with an ad.
It happens to me all the time on Ars when viewed with Chrome on an Android. The cause is not the initial load; it's the carousel advertisements "above" the current view. When they change size everything adjusts it's position. I get completely lost. Which, in my case, is like selling coal to Newcastle.
And don't get me started on the CPU cycles needed by all the advert videos playing somewhere "off screen". My S7 starts to feel more like an S zero point five. The does not help my browsing experience nor does it entice me to support the advertisers -- the opposite in fact.