I have been principally been a Perl Programmer so that is the market I know, but the salaries I looked at have been all over the place with a good bit of it depending on location.
Recently I was looking at Sr Developer positions in LA, NYC, Nashville, and Austin.
The company in Austin, TX was willing to pay relocation and $90/K (top level). They went with someone local due to because they wanted to hire quick.
I looked at two jobs in LA seriously, neither was really willing to go over $90/K with a third company willing to go as high as $110/K but only for a elite guy.
I looked but not hard in NYC, and their salary ranges were from $80/K to $120/K. One company I wanted to interview wanted only to pay $90/K but could not even bother to pick me up from the airport. F*ck that!
I interviewed in Nashville, the highest they were willing to go was $80/K. We just did not click.
Now I technically have 10+ years of programming experience. If I stayed one place as a programmer (theoretically speaking) I might have gotten to an architect level position and earned 150K. Or you some Chinese super guru out of school, some companies will throw money at you, but that is a rarity.
I had also seen positions where companies wanted you telecommute for 10/hour because they thought that was what they could get from some guy in Russia or India.
Basically, if you become a programmer, you are going to be treated as skilled labor. Skilled but still labor and they will never be interested in paying you more because they will have no way of determining if you are good at your job. At that point, you will need to job boat to get a real raise. Then you need to know how large the market is for a particular technology in your area, otherwise you will end up moving all over the place.
I think the question should be, how invasive and how common the technology should determine whether it can be used. Should a telescoping microphone be legal simply because it be can bought for $20 or because everyone has one? If everyone has one, then no one should expect to have privacy from it. If not, they only a specialist would have them, and special equipment would require special permissions, AKA a warrant.
The fact that this question has to even be asked, tells you a lot about how applications are developed.
The US has dedicated itself to a race to the bottom in quality and price. Testing is just one of those things companies throw out because it is an expense with no obvious benefits, to those who are not vested in the long term for their products.
That is my point, compile instructions should not be copyrighted any more than machined parts. If I make a CAD drawing of a part, the CAD drawing can be copyrighted, the part itself cannot.
The compiled instructions are no longer in the realm of copyright, they are now a mechanical process and should fall out of the realm of copyright.
First Sale doctrine does not allow anyone to modify and redistribute someone else's copyrighted work without permission.
This is the part that annoys me, Did Apple include the source code to OS X? If not, how could they have committed copyright infringement? They did not copy ANYTHING, they modified a program(s)?
A program is compiled set instructions, it is a machine, a machine does not have copyrights they use patents. If we were talking about a car you don't see GM out there declaring custom parts as breaking their copyright on their engines!
Was Monty the only owner of the company? Could he continue running the company? While it is easier to impose your views when you are in charge, who knows how long he could have kept the project together?
While he owned MySQL the only real thing he could control MySQL, at least with money he could invest his time and efforts that may be more productive than just controlling MySQL. At the very least he can still have an opinion and let everyone know what he thinks of the current the situation.
Of course your opinion, at least to you, appears to be superior because the only thing you said was he should not have an opinion any more...
Perl has probably got one of the best coding analytic suites in Perl::Critic. It addresses numerous areas dealing with Best Practices and addresses certain types of bugs. It is also highly configurable and easy to write your own rules as well.
The hardest part was actually getting people to use it. The fact is, there are a lot of people who have a ego and rather inflexible about changing their habits. The other side of the business will not care unless it can be shown it is a common practice or directly impacts money. So it is a tough battle to fight and most people are just not willing to get involved with it.
New devices and software may have bugs which affect performance. Patches may be required for correct performance when exposed to unexpected conditions.
Companies (in general) would rather polish turds than expend the energy to make a good product.
Reading your post, I think you are making a logical error. Your ARM business model is producing something, a sale. They are licensing the technology they developed to other businesses and that is the way it should work.
A patent troll inherently produces nothing, they sit on knowledge waiting for someone else to (re)discover the idea and actually more forward with it. They remain uninvolved until someone else is actually producing something and then file a lawsuit.
And everyone knows that a hospital worker getting sick is so much more important than the patient, especially those people who may have a weaken immune system because they are already sick.
Give them access to a radio with Rush Limbaugh and they will be fuming about democrats and the government so much that they WANT to stay away from society...
Of course, with them wanting to carry guns on a spaceship, they would probably make a poor choice for astronauts.
Considering the United States has one of the highest, if not the highest, rates of incarceration in the world. I wonder if the USA really values liberty over persecuting people.
I have not purchased a new game in years, why? Because they are the same old shit, the mechanics and basic rules of the games are all the same, which makes all the units basically the same regardless of whether you call it an Archer, a Musketeer, or a Rifleman.
Not only that but the twitch reflex keeps showing up in this games as well the standard build. In other words, having to time your production clicking while issuing orders like a madman to your combat units. Hell, at what point am I actually enjoying the game? One game I sort of like was Company of Heroes, however, the only thing I could really enjoy much of was the replay, so I could see the battles play out. I cannot enjoy the battles while playing the game because I am so busy doing other things. It is too much like work.
Basically, you've substituted the list of skills on your resume with a single relevant skill: Honesty.
Consider how under valued this skill actually is. You want to dump this guy in 2 minutes for being honest for possibly being unable to explain another persons dishonesty. On the other hand you would probably have a full scale interview with someone who lied about their resume and can BS enough about their skill set to at least seem competent.
Any wonder people willing to lie about this stuff?
Is this really a case of it being unexpected? Banks, which handle lots of money and are generally unwilling to pay for honest talented staff see mishandled cash? What a surprise!
Next article, "Investment Bankers are overpaid for the returns they generate on their transactions!"
This issued has been explored before as Technical Debt but most managers and a large number of programmers like to think they are the experts of technical wizardry.
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I have been principally been a Perl Programmer so that is the market I know, but the salaries I looked at have been all over the place with a good bit of it depending on location.
Recently I was looking at Sr Developer positions in LA, NYC, Nashville, and Austin.
Now I technically have 10+ years of programming experience. If I stayed one place as a programmer (theoretically speaking) I might have gotten to an architect level position and earned 150K. Or you some Chinese super guru out of school, some companies will throw money at you, but that is a rarity.
I had also seen positions where companies wanted you telecommute for 10/hour because they thought that was what they could get from some guy in Russia or India.
Basically, if you become a programmer, you are going to be treated as skilled labor. Skilled but still labor and they will never be interested in paying you more because they will have no way of determining if you are good at your job. At that point, you will need to job boat to get a real raise. Then you need to know how large the market is for a particular technology in your area, otherwise you will end up moving all over the place.
Oh my god, it was KEVIN BACON!
I think the question should be, how invasive and how common the technology should determine whether it can be used. Should a telescoping microphone be legal simply because it be can bought for $20 or because everyone has one? If everyone has one, then no one should expect to have privacy from it. If not, they only a specialist would have them, and special equipment would require special permissions, AKA a warrant.
Call them red shirts, and remind them what happens to red shirts in Star Trek, because as the saying goes, image is everything!
I fail to see how an employment agreement can be copyrighted.
While intended as a joke, isn't this what Windows fan boys have been saying for years? "It does not act like Windows, it is not not ready."
Well now someone took a can of paint and slapped it all over Ubuntu, and it looks like Windows. I guess it is ready for prime time!
The fact that this question has to even be asked, tells you a lot about how applications are developed.
The US has dedicated itself to a race to the bottom in quality and price. Testing is just one of those things companies throw out because it is an expense with no obvious benefits, to those who are not vested in the long term for their products.
That is my point, compile instructions should not be copyrighted any more than machined parts. If I make a CAD drawing of a part, the CAD drawing can be copyrighted, the part itself cannot.
The compiled instructions are no longer in the realm of copyright, they are now a mechanical process and should fall out of the realm of copyright.
First Sale doctrine does not allow anyone to modify and redistribute someone else's copyrighted work without permission.
This is the part that annoys me, Did Apple include the source code to OS X? If not, how could they have committed copyright infringement? They did not copy ANYTHING, they modified a program(s)?
A program is compiled set instructions, it is a machine, a machine does not have copyrights they use patents. If we were talking about a car you don't see GM out there declaring custom parts as breaking their copyright on their engines!
Was Monty the only owner of the company? Could he continue running the company? While it is easier to impose your views when you are in charge, who knows how long he could have kept the project together?
While he owned MySQL the only real thing he could control MySQL, at least with money he could invest his time and efforts that may be more productive than just controlling MySQL. At the very least he can still have an opinion and let everyone know what he thinks of the current the situation.
Of course your opinion, at least to you, appears to be superior because the only thing you said was he should not have an opinion any more...
Office workers don't notice they are dying from the neck up...
Perl has probably got one of the best coding analytic suites in Perl::Critic. It addresses numerous areas dealing with Best Practices and addresses certain types of bugs. It is also highly configurable and easy to write your own rules as well.
The hardest part was actually getting people to use it. The fact is, there are a lot of people who have a ego and rather inflexible about changing their habits. The other side of the business will not care unless it can be shown it is a common practice or directly impacts money. So it is a tough battle to fight and most people are just not willing to get involved with it.
They don't even pretend they are not robbing their customers!
New devices and software may have bugs which affect performance. Patches may be required for correct performance when exposed to unexpected conditions.
Companies (in general) would rather polish turds than expend the energy to make a good product.
Your missing the part about putting on your wizard hat and robe...
Reading your post, I think you are making a logical error. Your ARM business model is producing something, a sale. They are licensing the technology they developed to other businesses and that is the way it should work.
A patent troll inherently produces nothing, they sit on knowledge waiting for someone else to (re)discover the idea and actually more forward with it. They remain uninvolved until someone else is actually producing something and then file a lawsuit.
Yeah, well what if they take away all your internet games, that would be something to be scared about.
Yeah, I mean what if a doctor gets busy? It is not like if a doctor does not washes their hands between patients that nothing bad will come of it.
And everyone knows that a hospital worker getting sick is so much more important than the patient, especially those people who may have a weaken immune system because they are already sick.
Like Republicans, specifically Teabaggers.
Give them access to a radio with Rush Limbaugh and they will be fuming about democrats and the government so much that they WANT to stay away from society...
Of course, with them wanting to carry guns on a spaceship, they would probably make a poor choice for astronauts.
Everyone should get a little Nookie!
Considering the United States has one of the highest, if not the highest, rates of incarceration in the world. I wonder if the USA really values liberty over persecuting people.
I have not purchased a new game in years, why? Because they are the same old shit, the mechanics and basic rules of the games are all the same, which makes all the units basically the same regardless of whether you call it an Archer, a Musketeer, or a Rifleman.
Not only that but the twitch reflex keeps showing up in this games as well the standard build. In other words, having to time your production clicking while issuing orders like a madman to your combat units. Hell, at what point am I actually enjoying the game? One game I sort of like was Company of Heroes, however, the only thing I could really enjoy much of was the replay, so I could see the battles play out. I cannot enjoy the battles while playing the game because I am so busy doing other things. It is too much like work.
Basically, you've substituted the list of skills on your resume with a single relevant skill: Honesty.
Consider how under valued this skill actually is. You want to dump this guy in 2 minutes for being honest for possibly being unable to explain another persons dishonesty. On the other hand you would probably have a full scale interview with someone who lied about their resume and can BS enough about their skill set to at least seem competent.
Any wonder people willing to lie about this stuff?
Is this really a case of it being unexpected? Banks, which handle lots of money and are generally unwilling to pay for honest talented staff see mishandled cash? What a surprise!
Next article, "Investment Bankers are overpaid for the returns they generate on their transactions!"
This issued has been explored before as Technical Debt but most managers and a large number of programmers like to think they are the experts of technical wizardry.