The company down the street seems quite happy to shell out another $200-$300 to keep that $120,000/year developer happy. If your developer is any good, maybe he'll just go work for them.
Is this where we have come to!
Changing the job as a response to a short term resource crunch in my company that removes a convenience!
Are we missing the point here?
Is this India's way of imposing anti-dumping duty on illegally imported chinese handsets and making it difficult for people to buy them?
But if you outsource your IT work to India (or to someone who subcontracts it to India), you have no such recourse. What are you going to do if they steal it? Sue them? Have them jailed? Good luck with that.
You are missing the point here. Outsourcing != offshoring.
And wherever you send your work, withing the country or to India (as an example), you can have legal safeguards and protection.
I remember a fraud case 3/4 years ago, where a couple of Citibank customers were embezzled by a Citibank call center. The Indian Cyber Police (yes, they have a special unit dealing with cyber crime) nabbed the 2-3 Indians involved in the act and recovered the money.
Nothing happened in US, and the US call center presumably hushed it up.
However, the main point the author is making is different - he is questioning how he can trust a person/team which is working unsupervised.
We bought Mega blocks for my son about 18 months back. I don't remember the colour etc, but the build quality was poor.
I remember my son complaining about the quality - the structures build were not as stable as one expects them to be.
Last week, he wanted a Lego for Christmas and I offered him to look at Mega as alternative - the same amount can buy something bigger etc...
He flatly refused to consider on the ground of quality. Some lesson for Mega there...
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India has this regulation - perhaps prompted by the South Asian Crash 5 years back. A company needs to be profitable for 12 consecutive quarters before they go to an IPO.
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...to raise up to $250 million via an initial offering of stock...
...to cover their next year's marketing expense. What do they do next?
My initiation to VMS and DCL started the other way round. I was fresh from college and conversant with *NIX. DCL looked very intuitive to me, but also long to touch type. Though one could use first 4 chars to use a command, I chose to create my own *NIX aliases for most of the commonly used commands. Looking back, it must have been a psychological affinity to *NIX that prompted me to do so.
Then something funny happened... my first submission to QA failed, just because the command files I developed contained a lot of aliases which didn't work in QA environment:-). Silly me - but that was my FIRST submission of code in a structured development environment.
Over the years, I came to like the DCL like no other environ. I still feel that in terms of facility, structure, control and ease of use, VMS (and CMD) was better than what we have today.
That's a question we Indians ask ourselves often. If only we had a solution to this.
The Indian Railways(http://www.indianrailways.gov.in/), running more than 100,000 kilometers (yes, India is on Metric System) and 7,000 passenger trains a day is a HUGE public sector giant. They, of course, don't have the money to expand at the rates that would like to. We are yet to find a way to bring in private sector investment. The only feasible way to do so is to bring in primate capital in a phased manner. The government is wary of whether private sector will continue to fulfill the social commitments that that the Railways has. Hopefully, we shall find a solution soon!
"Do you really need to create your own datastructure?"
.
Rarely. However, it is important to have a good understanding of the Data Structure in order to use these efficiently. Or, even understanding that using a proper Data Structure leads one to a more elegant / simpler solution.
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The company down the street seems quite happy to shell out another $200-$300 to keep that $120,000/year developer happy. If your developer is any good, maybe he'll just go work for them.
Is this where we have come to! Changing the job as a response to a short term resource crunch in my company that removes a convenience!
Are we missing the point here? Is this India's way of imposing anti-dumping duty on illegally imported chinese handsets and making it difficult for people to buy them?
But if you outsource your IT work to India (or to someone who subcontracts it to India), you have no such recourse. What are you going to do if they steal it? Sue them? Have them jailed? Good luck with that.
You are missing the point here. Outsourcing != offshoring. And wherever you send your work, withing the country or to India (as an example), you can have legal safeguards and protection. I remember a fraud case 3/4 years ago, where a couple of Citibank customers were embezzled by a Citibank call center. The Indian Cyber Police (yes, they have a special unit dealing with cyber crime) nabbed the 2-3 Indians involved in the act and recovered the money. Nothing happened in US, and the US call center presumably hushed it up. However, the main point the author is making is different - he is questioning how he can trust a person/team which is working unsupervised.
Actually , Truecrypt can be used as a stand alone executable , which could be put on an external medium , like a usb stick .
And there are USB keys small enough to swallow. For best results, chew first.
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Oh! Sh*t!
I hear summer falls on a Saturday this year so the Alaskans should be happy!
They had a regular summer last year, when I was visiting the city. I missed it entirely - I was watching a movie.
now give me the story!
errr.... how many classes did you attend in total? did you walk out of the first class that you attended. in that case, may be.... hmm... never mind
Work like a tortoise and play like a rabbit - that sums it up!
I was expecting 7 versions to justify the names?? :-)
If that's how it works, Windows 2000 must have been a huge headache :-)
That naming was based on a completely different philosophy. MS planned to sell that version for 2000 years...
I was expecting 7 versions to justify the names?? :-)
We bought Mega blocks for my son about 18 months back. I don't remember the colour etc, but the build quality was poor. I remember my son complaining about the quality - the structures build were not as stable as one expects them to be. Last week, he wanted a Lego for Christmas and I offered him to look at Mega as alternative - the same amount can buy something bigger etc... He flatly refused to consider on the ground of quality. Some lesson for Mega there...
I had tabs on previous laptop in Opera that had been there for almost 2 years.
SO, your OS never crashed in 2 years' time???
err..., you must be using Windows...
Get an old 24 inch CRT monitor and wire the flyback into an anti-static mat and chair in your cubical.
Just remember to disconnect the wire befor you use the chair in the morning.
My suspicion is that the poster wants a lively discussion in /.
:-)
Going by the responses, he had already achieved what he was looking for.
The entire story of shifting from office to cubicle is bollocks
And, you also forgot "breasts"...
India has this regulation - perhaps prompted by the South Asian Crash 5 years back. A company needs to be profitable for 12 consecutive quarters before they go to an IPO.
...to raise up to $250 million via an initial offering of stock...
...to cover their next year's marketing expense. What do they do next?
Yeah. Like, you Start the ignition of a running car to START the Stopping process.
My initiation to VMS and DCL started the other way round. I was fresh from college and conversant with *NIX. DCL looked very intuitive to me, but also long to touch type. Though one could use first 4 chars to use a command, I chose to create my own *NIX aliases for most of the commonly used commands. Looking back, it must have been a psychological affinity to *NIX that prompted me to do so.
Then something funny happened... my first submission to QA failed, just because the command files I developed contained a lot of aliases which didn't work in QA environment :-). Silly me - but that was my FIRST submission of code in a structured development environment.
Over the years, I came to like the DCL like no other environ. I still feel that in terms of facility, structure, control and ease of use, VMS (and CMD) was better than what we have today.
I wish good luck to Glindra!
The Indian Railways(http://www.indianrailways.gov.in/), running more than 100,000 kilometers (yes, India is on Metric System) and 7,000 passenger trains a day is a HUGE public sector giant. They, of course, don't have the money to expand at the rates that would like to. We are yet to find a way to bring in private sector investment. The only feasible way to do so is to bring in primate capital in a phased manner. The government is wary of whether private sector will continue to fulfill the social commitments that that the Railways has. Hopefully, we shall find a solution soon!
"Do you really need to create your own datastructure?"
. Rarely. However, it is important to have a good understanding of the Data Structure in order to use these efficiently. Or, even understanding that using a proper Data Structure leads one to a more elegant / simpler solution.
Stirred, not shaken...
The average salary hike for IT workers was 12% in 2004. It is estimated to be 12-14% in 2005.
like you finding a $10 bill on the sidewalk - it might perk up your morning a bit, but it's not going to change your life.
You obviously aren't a grad student.
- or a Java Programmer in Valley
Show us a site that we can access from outside of US of A. You insentitive clod.