DONE! Self employed. No one to blame but myself if things go wrong, and most importantly when I have a good idea I implement it asap. Bad management is what sparked my fire of motivation to be self employed. Since then, I've never looked back.
There ARE good managers out there, but not many. The problem is the position lends itself to creating someone who becomes numb to the real world. "Make it so!" syndome I guess. Most managers are PC Magazine educated, yet make decisions that are huge! Every programmer out there who works for a manager that doen't know the difference between AWT and Swing expect for the fact that "Swing is newer" knows what I'm talking about.
...when all is said and done I'm sure that management will be the problem that broke apart columbia. It was management that said "We have a teacher on board and a world waiting, fuck the cold weather, we have to launch now" despite a handfull of engineers saying "The o-rings could be too cold and they could crack and leak."
As early as the day after Columbia was lost, we are starting to see reports of management decisions that affected safelty, design, and ignored problems what were spookily predicted when it came to the foam. Sure, lots of letters might cross managements desk in regards to shuttle problems. But it's the fucking shuttle, you check them ALL or you just don't DO the shuttle. Suddenly the pointy haired boss in Dilbert strips isn't so funny, knowing how accurate he is to real managers in the real world.
In the past four years as a computer programmer (doing other shit now, self employed, NO management to harrass or to blame) I've gotten to enjoy the view as in each and every company I worked at, managers were the cause of almost every problem that happened with the products. To all the managers reading this: goto www.dilbert.com and check to make sure you are not an idiot leading a team of people who know a lot more than you. THINK. LISTEN. THINK MORE. TRY TO DO SOME FUCKING GOOD since you do the "planing of the work" and not the actual "work". Make the best of your time in your leather chear and wall-side office, and LEAD. Watch Braveheart, get motivated!
...that people understand a User Interface is as much a science as it is an art. It is something that takes skill and talent.
A good place ot start understanding about design huristics is www.humanfactors.com/home/default.asp
With that said, after coding GUI's in Swing for 4 years (doing other non-code stuff now) focusing on productivity and usability for the end-user, I simply love Mas OSX's Aqua skin and the design of most Apple products. Very usable. A pleasure to look at. And a guide for any GUI developer to learn from. Search Apple's site for a design guide.
Do what you love.
Of all the faults that exist in this totalita^H^H^H^H^H^H^Hrepublic of America, one thing I enjoy is the ability for anyone to become an S Corporation. A few hundred dollars, a few letters to your state, and in about 4 weeks you get a black binder full of paper junk. Put it under your bad and congrats, you are now a President of a company. NOW you are trully free to do what you love and make an income at the same time. It IS that simple, it's exactly what I've done after 4 years of programming in NYC.
Sometimes doing what you love for income does not work. I love flying, and regulary use MS Flight Simulator 2002. And I also fly the real thing, a rented Cessna 172, and am slowly earning my private pilot licence. I love to fly, but my income is consulting and work I get through the S corp. So I so not earn through my passion, but I am free enough that when I want to fly on a Wednesday morning, I do so without having to "take off work" or "call in sick". I just don't book a selling appointment Wed. morning and I'm free as a bird.
And having an uncle in the U.K. and some family in Italy too I know many other contries allow people to incorperate. But in the USA the benefits you get for being a "partner" of the Governemnt are amazing (as someone who might create jobs and also spends a lot on inventory, supplies, etc). Anyway, good luck!
...will you use the power of Mod points for good, or for awesome?
I got hooked on Strongbad typing e-mails on his Compy 386 by first getting hooked on www.fark.com by seeing someone reference it in a post here on Slashdot.
Since I'm too lazy to use Google right now, and there are lots of good brains to pick on/. does anyone have news or info about when OSX will incorperate BSD 5.0?
Or does my question not make sence? Darwin, Mach 3, BSD 4.4? What's the breakdown of Max OSX in regards to its technologies?
NO! Putting DRM in open standards just to gain corporate acceptance is like letting a cancer grow so it is easier to see on an X-Ray. I beleive DRM should simply stay OUT of the open digital standards.
They (RIAA, MPAA, et. al.) all need to get a grip on reality and understand that once something is digital, it is going to be zapped accross the globe in seconds. That is the power of the internet.
Pot and Coke, unlike MP3's and movies, are tangable items that take up lots of space, and require airplanes and boats to smuggle into the USA(TM). Billions are spend on the "War on Drung(TM)" and what are the results? A 15 year old can more easily procure Pot than a beer. Slipping "Matrix 5 - Overloaded" accross the globe is a mouseclick or two, no problem at all. My point is that something that can be transported so easily can NOT be stopped. If you can't stop shipments of Pot, how the hell can you stop something that can me shipped instantly and anonomously?
... is big enough that I belive it WILL be accounted for. Insurance rates are a lot more calculated than you portrayed, I believe. I do tons of tech work exclusively for Financial Planners and companies (New York Life, Guardian, etc) so I know a thing or two about insurance. Keeping things simple, an example might better portray my thoughts:
All other things being equal, you pay less car insurance when you have airbags vs. none. Or when you have an alarm vs. none. It's a slight reduction on the comprehensive part of the insurance. I think running BSD instead of Windoze is a big enough difference that there, on whatever level large or small, should be a change in premiums paid. It should be interesting!
Incorperate. Get yourself an S Corp ($500 USD). Sell yourself as a consultant, and do whatever consulting you want. Enjoy tech? Consult on tech. Teach, help, code, whatever. You will need to learn how to sell, because selling yourself is what brings in the clients who want and need your service. It takes little capital, lots of balls and lots of long days and nights. But it's worth it. And as technology changes, your deliverable (products/services) can change with them.
And the legal tax breaks will make you drooooool.:)
Yeah, it *IS* that easy. I know. It's what I did after 4 years of Java programming for idiot managers on Wall St who didn't know Swing (the API) from Sting(the Singer). Trust me... with a Palm pilot, a cell phone, and a bit of SELLING, you can do ANYTHING. Lifetime career in IT? Easy, if you work for yourself.
When the insurance rates for Linux and BSD are less than Windows (surely this will become the case), even managers and bean counters will see which is better. This is good news.
SURELY I would pay less insurance if I'm using all FreeBSD 5.0 boxes vs. Windows NT 4.0 SP1 boxes! Let's see what the rates turn out to be. Again... very good news!
Thing is, the industry convinces you that you need a 3.06 HT enabled P4, 2 gigs of DDR 400 and a Radeon9700 or GeForceFX to get buy. And people believe it.
For the kind of pr0n I enjoy, that kind of "hard"ware "comes" in very "handy"!
Dear Attorney mentioned in this article,
Fuck you. Fuck you Mom. Fuck you sister. Fuck your kids. It's people like you that ruin this planet, one trial at a time.
Regards.
Grab a couple of Powerbooks with 17 inch screens and some high end software. 3500 + 3500 + 2000 + 2000 = $11,000 USD. Now think about the POWER that equipment will give you. Break down even a high budget track, and all you have are 7 to 10 sounds being faded in and out. Ok, maybe a bridge on a Brittney single will have complex ins and outs with dozens of samples used. But thats the HIGH end and with enough time you could do that EASILY on a Powerbook.
What's a good microphone? A few thousand? Looking at these numbers, throw $50,000 and you have the equipment & location to be so close to what the big boys have that there is no difference really. Talent is another thing. Then again, even the large labels are lacking in that most of the time.
These old congressmen think they can save the kids by keeping them away from Max Payne et. al? Little do they know most 15 year olds are too busy having sex, smoking weed, and fighting on the tennis courts after school to really care what games are on the shelf.
Good think all the fucking, drinking, smoking and fighting youth will be kept safely away from Vice City 3. Don't want them getting any bad ideas.
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There ARE good managers out there, but not many. The problem is the position lends itself to creating someone who becomes numb to the real world. "Make it so!" syndome I guess. Most managers are PC Magazine educated, yet make decisions that are huge! Every programmer out there who works for a manager that doen't know the difference between AWT and Swing expect for the fact that "Swing is newer" knows what I'm talking about.
As early as the day after Columbia was lost, we are starting to see reports of management decisions that affected safelty, design, and ignored problems what were spookily predicted when it came to the foam. Sure, lots of letters might cross managements desk in regards to shuttle problems. But it's the fucking shuttle, you check them ALL or you just don't DO the shuttle. Suddenly the pointy haired boss in Dilbert strips isn't so funny, knowing how accurate he is to real managers in the real world.
In the past four years as a computer programmer (doing other shit now, self employed, NO management to harrass or to blame) I've gotten to enjoy the view as in each and every company I worked at, managers were the cause of almost every problem that happened with the products. To all the managers reading this: goto www.dilbert.com and check to make sure you are not an idiot leading a team of people who know a lot more than you. THINK. LISTEN. THINK MORE. TRY TO DO SOME FUCKING GOOD since you do the "planing of the work" and not the actual "work". Make the best of your time in your leather chear and wall-side office, and LEAD. Watch Braveheart, get motivated!
A good place ot start understanding about design huristics is www.humanfactors.com/home/default.asp
With that said, after coding GUI's in Swing for 4 years (doing other non-code stuff now) focusing on productivity and usability for the end-user, I simply love Mas OSX's Aqua skin and the design of most Apple products. Very usable. A pleasure to look at. And a guide for any GUI developer to learn from. Search Apple's site for a design guide.
Sometimes doing what you love for income does not work. I love flying, and regulary use MS Flight Simulator 2002. And I also fly the real thing, a rented Cessna 172, and am slowly earning my private pilot licence. I love to fly, but my income is consulting and work I get through the S corp. So I so not earn through my passion, but I am free enough that when I want to fly on a Wednesday morning, I do so without having to "take off work" or "call in sick". I just don't book a selling appointment Wed. morning and I'm free as a bird. And having an uncle in the U.K. and some family in Italy too I know many other contries allow people to incorperate. But in the USA the benefits you get for being a "partner" of the Governemnt are amazing (as someone who might create jobs and also spends a lot on inventory, supplies, etc). Anyway, good luck!
You must work the the US governemnt.
Guy: Mrmff. Mrffmfsf. (lifts head) I know, but I thought I'd give it a try because I love you and stuff.
Girl: You're the best, I'm going to treat you to a steak dinner tonight. (moans, titls head back, closes eyes)
Guy: (Sprinkles more powder).
I got hooked on Strongbad typing e-mails on his Compy 386 by first getting hooked on www.fark.com by seeing someone reference it in a post here on Slashdot.
Or does my question not make sence? Darwin, Mach 3, BSD 4.4? What's the breakdown of Max OSX in regards to its technologies?
They (RIAA, MPAA, et. al.) all need to get a grip on reality and understand that once something is digital, it is going to be zapped accross the globe in seconds. That is the power of the internet.
Pot and Coke, unlike MP3's and movies, are tangable items that take up lots of space, and require airplanes and boats to smuggle into the USA(TM). Billions are spend on the "War on Drung(TM)" and what are the results? A 15 year old can more easily procure Pot than a beer. Slipping "Matrix 5 - Overloaded" accross the globe is a mouseclick or two, no problem at all. My point is that something that can be transported so easily can NOT be stopped. If you can't stop shipments of Pot, how the hell can you stop something that can me shipped instantly and anonomously?
Spilled my nightly "have-it-so-i-can-hack-a-few-more-hours" cup of coffee from laughing so hard. Funny shit. :)
All other things being equal, you pay less car insurance when you have airbags vs. none. Or when you have an alarm vs. none. It's a slight reduction on the comprehensive part of the insurance. I think running BSD instead of Windoze is a big enough difference that there, on whatever level large or small, should be a change in premiums paid. It should be interesting!
And the legal tax breaks will make you drooooool. :)
Yeah, it *IS* that easy. I know. It's what I did after 4 years of Java programming for idiot managers on Wall St who didn't know Swing (the API) from Sting(the Singer). Trust me... with a Palm pilot, a cell phone, and a bit of SELLING, you can do ANYTHING. Lifetime career in IT? Easy, if you work for yourself.
Good luck! :)
Then poof! No more MS SQL crap to deal with.
SURELY I would pay less insurance if I'm using all FreeBSD 5.0 boxes vs. Windows NT 4.0 SP1 boxes! Let's see what the rates turn out to be. Again... very good news!
2) H@x0r 127.0.0.1
3) Profit!
For the kind of pr0n I enjoy, that kind of "hard"ware "comes" in very "handy"!
Dear Attorney mentioned in this article, Fuck you. Fuck you Mom. Fuck you sister. Fuck your kids. It's people like you that ruin this planet, one trial at a time. Regards.
What's a good microphone? A few thousand? Looking at these numbers, throw $50,000 and you have the equipment & location to be so close to what the big boys have that there is no difference really. Talent is another thing. Then again, even the large labels are lacking in that most of the time.
Good think all the fucking, drinking, smoking and fighting youth will be kept safely away from Vice City 3. Don't want them getting any bad ideas.