And sales makes the sales. They get their commission, whether the sale is successfully delivered or not, whether what they promised to get the sale closed is possible or not. I hate sales at times.
I don't understand why they don't take the money out of salespeoples pockets when they sell features that don't exist instead of the developers having to foot the bill with unpaid overtime. They should pay the developers for their extra time and deduct the cost from the salesperson's commission.
In most countries you can not fire one on the spot.
Especially if there is no reason. From the excerpt of that AC I see no reason to fire him. Except for not playing along as the boss wants... which is not a valid reason in my country.
In my country you can ONLY fire someone for no reason. If you give them a reason, then they have the grounds to sue you and prove that the reason was valid.
I decided to go looking on Dice to see what I could find in SV. Entry level positions seem to be very few and far between. Almost everything was a level 2, 3 or 4, Senior, Principal, Team Lead, Manager, Project Manager, Agile lead, etc. There were very few plain old Software Developer positions posted, and the ones that were required at least 3 years experience. Maybe 1 in 10 had a salary posted. I found two that had a salary posting, one was for $70-90k for three years experience. The other was for $120k and didn't specify years of experience, but did mention lots of requirements that you are not going to get in school. Plus it was Cybercoders, which means that they don't pay for your bench time or benefits and treat you as if you were an H1b. Wouldn't touch them with a million foot pole.
In my area of the country, companies hire direct from college for $30-$35k and expect the people coming out to have years of experience in programming. So they also complain that there is no one to hire. Of course, coming out of college with 3 to 5 years of experience is impossible, unless they worked through college, which I happened to do, but very few people do these days. However, there are thousands of unemployed, talented software engineers in the U.S. that could be had for $70-80k. The official number is only about 4,000, but that doesn't include ones who couldn't find work and dropped off the unemployment list. I know several who have gone into other higher paying industries, such as welding, auto mechanic or HVAC repair.
Yes, by all means, because management doesn't know how to do their job, software developers should spend ANOTHER $60,000 re-educating themselves to do a job that is not the one they fundamentally enjoy doing other than the red tape.
Then they can land a job in another industry where the management is similarly incapable of clue and start over on the bottom rung.
We have blackouts because cheapskates running the power industry don't want to spend for proper backup and capacity planning with our nuclear/coal/oil/gas infrastructure.
At least in my locality, we don't have blackouts or brownouts, but we are dangerously close to overcapapacity and the electric company would love to build more capacity, but NIMBYs and other energy companies on the Utility Board keep turning down their proposals.
It doesn't matter matter whether you build coal, gas, nuclear, wind or solar, somebody will be there to ensure that you can't build it.
Despite the hysteria, shark attacks are exceedingly rare. Enough so that entire years go by without a death. More people win the lottery than die from shark attacks. Lots more.
And also, the article is wrong. Nobody has ever died from taking a selfie. They died from a related or unrelated accident while taking or as a result from a selfie.
The lesson here is to use hardware to cheat the emissions testing. We have been doing that on most every car for about 40 years, injecting air into the exhaust to lower the ratio of emissions.
Unfortunately, congress never made a law that says the Social Security Number cannot be used as an ID. They did print that on the Social Security cards for the first couple of decades, and the government is required to issue you a privacy statement if they ask for your Social Security Number. It is good practice to not use the Social Security Number as an ID and we should encourage the practice by refusing to do business or be an employee of a company that uses the Social Security Number as a means of identification.
Yes and that one accident was a direct failure of the aircraft itself, and not terrorism, or being shot down, or really bad weather or pilot error
Yes, a direct failure of the aircraft to be impervious to debris that fell off another airplane and should have been cleaned off the runway as it was a hazard to other aircraft. If another plane had hit the debris, we wouldn't be having this conversation about the Concorde.
The airports had almost nothing to do with the anti-concorde rules. It was all government restrictions. They can still restrict the plane from supersonic speeds and such, and I am not sure of the status of the Concorde's type certificate, but airports would probably be fine with having it. People who live near an airport, who undoubtedly moved in after the airport was already there, may raise a cry about the increased noise. However, if I live near such an airport, I would just be happy to be able to see one in flight.
I didn't like Eset. We had it on our corporate systems and it was a resource hog. We had to take our laptops home so that we could work 24 hours a day for the company for no extra pay, and I left it on all night at home, but it would not run the full scan overnight. Instead, it would run it as soon as you got back in to work, and would churn on the hard drive for about an hour.I'm sure this was partly the corporate setup.
I'm neither with that company, nor Eset anymore.
This is similar to a company selling both radar detectors to the public and radar systems to the police.
I stopped using AVG in favor of Avast probably 5 or 6 years ago, maybe longer now, I can't remember. The thing with AV is that you have to keep changing companies every 4 or 5 years because the awesome one goes from being free and relatively resource unintensive to being not free, a resource hog, and sometimes, as in the case of AVG, even sells your information to the people who are the source of most of the viruses.
I have categorized bitcoins as flibbywhatxits, and my organization, the flibbywhatxits trade commission, is therefore in charge of all bitcoin trading and exchange and anyone trading or operating an exchange must do so by my rules.
I would bet that if the NFL had bought Surfaces intentionally with their own money they would remember what they are called. Maybe Microsoft shouldn't give people who have plenty of money free toys, and then teach them the value of a dollar instead.
I took the PMP test from a company that was not the official PMP outfit. I passed it with no problem. Anybody that studies for a week or two could pass it. However, the real PMP class and test costs hundreds to thousands of dollars and there is continuing education associated with it. I did not consider it worth my time to pursue the actual PMP certification and upkeep as it would not have brought in an extra dime for me. However, if a company would pay for it, then why not?
Why punish this kid? He did nothing wrong. Punish the hysterical school officials who lack the sense to tell a clock from a bomb for wasting police time.
That seems like a reasonable answer to me. The media carefully refrained from showing us the actual device so we can't tell if it is closed up such that someone would have to open it to tell what was in side. If it was just a board with a display on it, that is pretty obvious, but we don't know that. Since it was inside his backpack, that is probably not the case.
These days, all news is just about generating emotional responses and getting ad hits, so every article leaves out the bits that make us say "Oh, well then that makes sense. Why is this news?"
I don't know, was he supposed to be making a clock? Was he bringing it for show and tell? I'm sure these days that those sort of things have to be known about in advance.
There's a lot of islamophobic stupidity in this country at the moment and it runs deep in all government institutions especially involving police or defense.
Yes, it is not easy to overcome millions of years of evolution which selected for greater pattern recognition, allowing our species to survive over others with inferior pattern recognition skills.
Sad but true. If it were a white kid he would be congratulated on his creativity.
Or possibly escorted off of school grounds, threatened with expulsion and turned over to the police. We don't know because either it hasn't happened or it has happened and was not reported because the media wouldn't bother to report it if the kids was white.
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And sales makes the sales. They get their commission, whether the sale is successfully delivered or not, whether what they promised to get the sale closed is possible or not. I hate sales at times.
I don't understand why they don't take the money out of salespeoples pockets when they sell features that don't exist instead of the developers having to foot the bill with unpaid overtime. They should pay the developers for their extra time and deduct the cost from the salesperson's commission.
In most countries you can not fire one on the spot. Especially if there is no reason. From the excerpt of that AC I see no reason to fire him. Except for not playing along as the boss wants ... which is not a valid reason in my country.
In my country you can ONLY fire someone for no reason. If you give them a reason, then they have the grounds to sue you and prove that the reason was valid.
I decided to go looking on Dice to see what I could find in SV. Entry level positions seem to be very few and far between. Almost everything was a level 2, 3 or 4, Senior, Principal, Team Lead, Manager, Project Manager, Agile lead, etc. There were very few plain old Software Developer positions posted, and the ones that were required at least 3 years experience. Maybe 1 in 10 had a salary posted. I found two that had a salary posting, one was for $70-90k for three years experience. The other was for $120k and didn't specify years of experience, but did mention lots of requirements that you are not going to get in school. Plus it was Cybercoders, which means that they don't pay for your bench time or benefits and treat you as if you were an H1b. Wouldn't touch them with a million foot pole.
In my area of the country, companies hire direct from college for $30-$35k and expect the people coming out to have years of experience in programming. So they also complain that there is no one to hire. Of course, coming out of college with 3 to 5 years of experience is impossible, unless they worked through college, which I happened to do, but very few people do these days. However, there are thousands of unemployed, talented software engineers in the U.S. that could be had for $70-80k. The official number is only about 4,000, but that doesn't include ones who couldn't find work and dropped off the unemployment list. I know several who have gone into other higher paying industries, such as welding, auto mechanic or HVAC repair.
Yes, by all means, because management doesn't know how to do their job, software developers should spend ANOTHER $60,000 re-educating themselves to do a job that is not the one they fundamentally enjoy doing other than the red tape.
Then they can land a job in another industry where the management is similarly incapable of clue and start over on the bottom rung.
We have blackouts because cheapskates running the power industry don't want to spend for proper backup and capacity planning with our nuclear/coal/oil/gas infrastructure.
At least in my locality, we don't have blackouts or brownouts, but we are dangerously close to overcapapacity and the electric company would love to build more capacity, but NIMBYs and other energy companies on the Utility Board keep turning down their proposals.
It doesn't matter matter whether you build coal, gas, nuclear, wind or solar, somebody will be there to ensure that you can't build it.
Despite the hysteria, shark attacks are exceedingly rare. Enough so that entire years go by without a death. More people win the lottery than die from shark attacks. Lots more.
And also, the article is wrong. Nobody has ever died from taking a selfie. They died from a related or unrelated accident while taking or as a result from a selfie.
monopolies like taxis
Monopoly - a company or group having exclusive control over a commodity or service.
Which one of the 400+ cab companies in New York has the monopoly?
Moderators please refrain from modding things informative when they are false.
The lesson here is to use hardware to cheat the emissions testing. We have been doing that on most every car for about 40 years, injecting air into the exhaust to lower the ratio of emissions.
Oklahoma did that as well until also sometime in the 1990s.
Unfortunately, congress never made a law that says the Social Security Number cannot be used as an ID. They did print that on the Social Security cards for the first couple of decades, and the government is required to issue you a privacy statement if they ask for your Social Security Number. It is good practice to not use the Social Security Number as an ID and we should encourage the practice by refusing to do business or be an employee of a company that uses the Social Security Number as a means of identification.
NAME THE FORUM!!!! We can be of more help if we know who it is.
Yes. Out the outer. Then you will be even and can let it drop.
Yes and that one accident was a direct failure of the aircraft itself, and not terrorism, or being shot down, or really bad weather or pilot error
Yes, a direct failure of the aircraft to be impervious to debris that fell off another airplane and should have been cleaned off the runway as it was a hazard to other aircraft. If another plane had hit the debris, we wouldn't be having this conversation about the Concorde.
The airports had almost nothing to do with the anti-concorde rules. It was all government restrictions. They can still restrict the plane from supersonic speeds and such, and I am not sure of the status of the Concorde's type certificate, but airports would probably be fine with having it. People who live near an airport, who undoubtedly moved in after the airport was already there, may raise a cry about the increased noise. However, if I live near such an airport, I would just be happy to be able to see one in flight.
I didn't like Eset. We had it on our corporate systems and it was a resource hog. We had to take our laptops home so that we could work 24 hours a day for the company for no extra pay, and I left it on all night at home, but it would not run the full scan overnight. Instead, it would run it as soon as you got back in to work, and would churn on the hard drive for about an hour.I'm sure this was partly the corporate setup.
I'm neither with that company, nor Eset anymore.
This is similar to a company selling both radar detectors to the public and radar systems to the police.
I stopped using AVG in favor of Avast probably 5 or 6 years ago, maybe longer now, I can't remember. The thing with AV is that you have to keep changing companies every 4 or 5 years because the awesome one goes from being free and relatively resource unintensive to being not free, a resource hog, and sometimes, as in the case of AVG, even sells your information to the people who are the source of most of the viruses.
I have categorized bitcoins as flibbywhatxits, and my organization, the flibbywhatxits trade commission, is therefore in charge of all bitcoin trading and exchange and anyone trading or operating an exchange must do so by my rules.
I would bet that if the NFL had bought Surfaces intentionally with their own money they would remember what they are called. Maybe Microsoft shouldn't give people who have plenty of money free toys, and then teach them the value of a dollar instead.
I took the PMP test from a company that was not the official PMP outfit. I passed it with no problem. Anybody that studies for a week or two could pass it. However, the real PMP class and test costs hundreds to thousands of dollars and there is continuing education associated with it. I did not consider it worth my time to pursue the actual PMP certification and upkeep as it would not have brought in an extra dime for me. However, if a company would pay for it, then why not?
Google is your friend. Here is a similar one except it involves TSA.
http://blog.tsa.gov/2011/08/wierd-science-traveling-with-homemade.html
Why punish this kid? He did nothing wrong. Punish the hysterical school officials who lack the sense to tell a clock from a bomb for wasting police time.
That seems like a reasonable answer to me. The media carefully refrained from showing us the actual device so we can't tell if it is closed up such that someone would have to open it to tell what was in side. If it was just a board with a display on it, that is pretty obvious, but we don't know that. Since it was inside his backpack, that is probably not the case.
These days, all news is just about generating emotional responses and getting ad hits, so every article leaves out the bits that make us say "Oh, well then that makes sense. Why is this news?"
No. We are only LOSING our freedoms in America.
What are the chances he was just making a clock?
I don't know, was he supposed to be making a clock? Was he bringing it for show and tell? I'm sure these days that those sort of things have to be known about in advance.
There's a lot of islamophobic stupidity in this country at the moment and it runs deep in all government institutions especially involving police or defense.
Yes, it is not easy to overcome millions of years of evolution which selected for greater pattern recognition, allowing our species to survive over others with inferior pattern recognition skills.
Sad but true. If it were a white kid he would be congratulated on his creativity.
Or possibly escorted off of school grounds, threatened with expulsion and turned over to the police. We don't know because either it hasn't happened or it has happened and was not reported because the media wouldn't bother to report it if the kids was white.