There are plenty of sites like Subbmitt.com that do not require registration or login to post comments. That guy is crazy. People will just go else where.
...if I grab some of you fat bastards and throw you in a jail cell and give you a slice of bread
and water for a few months and make the whole floor one big ass moving treadmill so you have to walk
24/7 the pounds will drop right off.
Stop making excuses for lack of self control. Put down the chips and go for a walk, jog, ride a bike.
Close your cakehole. Get off your ass and stop reading crap on the internet you fat bastards. lol.
If companies consider you a liability,then you should consider it a liability to continue working for them. Some people will say that's unprofessional, but they are wrong and dumb, basically.
Walk out, send an email notice and that's it. They owe you nothing more and more importantly, you own them nothing either.
You have better things to do than train someone to do your old job. The company should have thought of that before giving you plenty of reasons to quit.
Remember, just walking out on your part is nothing personal either, it's just business.
What's unprofessional about you treating a business the same way they would treat you?
You need to toughen up.
53k is ok if you live at home with your parents. In California, 86% of the population cannot afford a home of any kind.
In Orange county, a 2 bedroom townhome of 1500 sq/ft cost 800+k brand new. Less than 500k will land you right in the middle of the hood.
53k will ensure your kids go to shitty schools, wear crappy clothes, and you'll be in an apt. for the rest of your life out here.
That might be fine in other countries or for people who don't care, but that's not what America is all about.
In Orange County, the price of a 2 bedroom new townhome of 1500 sq/ft cost 800k plus.
If you only make 73k you'll starve to death. On that measly salary, you'll have to live about 1 hour 30 minutes out in the desert and pay $500 gas and spend 15 hours a week commuting.
Or live in an apt where one beds are $1500 / month.
Microsoft gets sued by other companies and governments duped by companies claiming Microsoft is anti-competitive.
Notice that consumers themselves have never rose up en masse to sue Microsoft.
Microsoft has no monopoly and never did, otherwise I wouldn't have been using Macs and Linux for all of these years. Every company could have used Macs or Linux themselves, but chose not too.
Microsoft's problem is that they didn't do enough PR. When the sharks smell cash and weakness, they sue.
"Yes, for the same reason I want criminals to be able to vote. Every nation should be represented in a fair and democratic Internet administration, not just the people we like."
That is an idiotic statement. Criminals voting? You need to upgrade your brain software.
Why should every nation be represented in a fair and democratic internet administration? Bullshit. Only democratic nations should be represented. Countries that don't give their own citizens freedom should be denied everything.
People need to stop being politically correct and stop allowing dictators to exist in the first place.
By your logic, gangs should be allowed to live and hustle in your neighborhood, because you have no right to control them.
People want criminals in their neighborhood rounded up, but in the world neighborhood, we allow criminal and evil regimes to exist just fine.
As soon as you go to a website and seed the dreaded.jsp extension, you know you're in for a wait.
All the websites that use Java are just ridiculously slow. Name one that isn't.
Could you imagine Google running Java and some JVM?
I've worked for Fortune 500 companies as a full-time employee and as a consultant. I've consulted in USA, Canada, Japan and South America.
Here's my take:
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If your rate is not $100/hr for a travel gig, don't bother. To cover your expenses will cost you about $25/hr. $75 is good locally. Less
than than, I wouldn't bother.
The only way to make $100/hr. + is to ask for it. If you are a senior person, this should be no problem. Junior people, you're on your own.:-)
You end up making what you settle for. It's not all about technical skills, it's about negotiation. I know a guy who essentially does VB and makes $100/hr. plus because he can sell and knows business.
Network constantly. Once you are consulting at the client, always keep your eyes peeled for new opportunities within the same company.
Most Fortune 500 companies rarely contract directly to individuals and have a few preferred agencies/recruiters companies they use. Get in tight
with a good one.
If a you go through an agency/intermediate company, find out what their bill rate is. If they don't tell you, don't take the gig.
If an agency/recruiter cannot get $100/hr + for your services, they're either small time or maintaining their own margins at your expense.
Companies that want to pay less than $100/hr for senior people are cheap and strapped for cash. Don't work there. It's bad news all around.
The kind of place where you see one full-time guy doing about 3 full-time jobs.
Don't let intermediate companies make money from the sweat off your back - Client, Recruiter 1, Recruiter 2, Recruiter 3, You. I've seen guys
who were making only $30 an hour and the client was getting billed $120/hr.
You can get cheap health care insurance for $300/month from www.ehealthinsurance.com in most regions.
Many companies will try to use the consultant to prove their own points. A consultant can say the same as a full-timre person, but is
more believable because the client paid more for the same advice.
Not all employees at the client site will approve of your presence. Don't worry, work with the stakeholder.
The client is always right. Do what they ultimately want, not what you want. They're paying the bills.
Pros
You have more freedom. You can choose to pay quarterly taxes, use that money for investments or whatever.
You pay less taxes as you can write off most everything.
Travel - you can see the world and the clients expense.
Retirement - you can open a SEP IRA and contribute up to 40k and write that off. Nice.
Training - many times the client will still send you to free training
Career - no ridiculous annual reviews where you are told your communication skills need improving or your not cutout for management..hehe.
Mobility - a consultant who takes 2 gigs a year has a much better network than the average full timer. If you ever want to go fulltime, you'll
have more opportunities.
Cons
Make sure the payment terms are clear. No pay, no work. Net 30 max. I once watched another consultant rack up $40k in expenses and his agency
kept saying they would pay soon. Two months go by and they ultimately declare bankruptcy and his credit cards were maxed.
Gaps between gigs - you cannot relax that much as you have to find your next gig, so downtime isn't that fun unless you have a nice nestegg
You need generally liability insurance for many gigs. This runs about $3k per year.
Travel - many of the good gigs will not likely be in your hometown. Travel can be a disaster for many people since they don't like to do it.
Constantly looking for gigs - this can be a nightmare. If you don't like interviews, don't consult because you will inte
According to the article Java users will get the Google Toolbar included with Java? And Google might offer Star or OpenOffice? Wow, dumb and dumber.
A smart deal for Sun for the recognition, but what else does Sun have going for them? Nothing really. Their hardware business has been comoditized by cheap Intel boxes, Java's not bringing home the bacon and they don't seem to have any vision at all. Sun's selling Linux boxes with Intel hardware for cryin' out loud. You can't really get any lower.
I have no idea what Google is thinking. I guess we'll all be creating word documents using some AJAXed version of StarOffice and watching ads pop up as we type. Seems like a real good time.
Forget Microsoft, Stop Google.
...not as far as anyone knows at least. The real question is how the hell do you plan on decrypting it? Computers might be fried, the program you used my implement the encryption in a strange way, so you need that software too.
Not to mention if the shit really hit the fan, who cares about that kind of data anyway. Make up a new name for yourself and move on.
"If we had to ensure that everything worked all the time, software would actually work and there would only be high quality software."
"Oh, I hadn't thought of that", says the non-developin' ma'fukka.
Fix you're shit skippy.
I guess you failed the SAT then.
Publisher is to Author as Software Company is to Developer.
If you build and sell a shitty house you'll get sued. If you build and
sell shitty software that exposes my important info you should get sued too.
If the bug is because of some underlying software you use, then that company should be held responsible.
Get this KDE shit off of OS X now! You gotta be shittin' me. What moron would waste their time porting that crap to OS X? What bigger idiot would install and use it?
This is the equivalent of taking the interior of a Honda Civic and installing it in your Bentley.
...instead of strapping ourselves onto some hideous looking bottle rocket and blasting into space, how about just taking off ufo style and going to space and landing right back in the same spot?
Relying on a giant bottle rocket and some super-glued tiles? Flying back to base on the back of an airplane?
Is that the best we can do? Fuckin' aaa.
About 70% of users use system daily (if this is a webbased email like Hotmail, this is a high estimate)
Each user reads 30 emails and sends 10
A grand total of 19,600,000 emails per day (this is a high estimate)
Only 226 messages either read or sent per second per day
@ 100k avg. per message storage is 1.8 gb per day or 666 gb per year if you don't compress
An Apple xServe dual G5 w/16gb of RAM and xRAID 5 TB will work just fine
For uptime, two xServes w/ a load balancer both can send and receive, filter spam
For the webmail piece, you can cache the whole website or poor man's way - make a ramdisk and copy the website to the ramdisk, whole site is cached.
QMail or Sendmail take your pick, parse incoming mail via php/shell/perl script and round robin mail to diff mailbox dirs on the xRaid, cakewalk.
Add a separate web server for added scability
Replace filesystem storage w/ an additional 2 node Oracle RAC cluster w/ email data partitioned over the xRaid to take advantage of additional high availability & disaster recovery features.
Bottomline, if you have 20 admins for this and a room full of hardware, you need some more skills...hehe.
Basically he said don't patch anything and design things that are secure. Pretty ignorant of security if you ask me.
It's hard for the end user to design things that are secure when every layer of software/hardware they use is buggy. From the kernel, OS, network protocols, database, software language, drivers, routers, firewalls, and applications all contain bugs and design flaws.
[1] Until you create the perfect human being there will be bugs and design flaws.
[2] If a person can use a computer to do anything, then it can be hacked as someone can always get your password.
[3] Why is that? Because a great portion of break-ins are inside jobs done by the Sys Admins or DBAs or other pissed off employees with access.
Ultimately, you can never have 100% security unless a computer cannot be used by anyone.
You have to at least try and improve the system as you go. This is the only way to *limit* the break-in possibilities, you will never prevent them all 100% outright.
I would disagree with the filesystem approach as high availability and disaster recovery aren't as good. If you think the relational database approach won't work, you're not using Oracle 10g RAC.
Billion row tables are common. Deletes on these tables aren't an issue as you're deleting by primary key and you can store that in an index-organized table partitioned however you want. I manage TB size database daily, I know.
Using a real relational database (not lame ass mySql) you can take advantage of all of the high availability & disaster recovery features of Oracle too, like backups, RAC and standby databases.
Marketing is the most valuable skill in existence. Economics is just measuring.
Let me see you sell 10 millions of a product or sign up 10 million subscribers to a service and make a profit doing it.
No one makes a dime until something is sold.
Economics as a profession or major is way down the totem pole dude.
Yeah, that application written in Java using Weblogic and their crappy portal is really screaming, I tell you.
and all you have to do to port to Websphere is nothing. Right.
If you think java apps these days are fast, then you have no idea of what performance is. If it's not Google speed, then it's slow.
Also, it's not as easy to port to different platforms like Websphere, Tomcat, etc. as you think.
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...just like picking lettuce. Why do you think jobs are moving to India and China? Because they program better? Wrong answer skippy. It's because they work for McDonald's wages. If they program so good we'd be using Indian or Chinese branded operating systems, databases, word processors, etc. If they're so good they would have invented this shit in the first place.
The fact is that coding is becoming a minimum wage job. What real knowledge is required in most programming shops? None, everything is already designed and you just have to use some class or design pattern to do some really basic crap.
90% of apps are web based. Show form, get data, persist it to the database. Not exactly high wage worthly rocket science people.
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There are plenty of sites like Subbmitt.com that do not require registration or login to post comments. That guy is crazy. People will just go else where.
and iPods would be really, really ugly.
If companies consider you a liability,then you should consider it a liability to continue working for them. Some people will say that's unprofessional, but they are wrong and dumb, basically. Walk out, send an email notice and that's it. They owe you nothing more and more importantly, you own them nothing either. You have better things to do than train someone to do your old job. The company should have thought of that before giving you plenty of reasons to quit. Remember, just walking out on your part is nothing personal either, it's just business. What's unprofessional about you treating a business the same way they would treat you? You need to toughen up.
53k is ok if you live at home with your parents. In California, 86% of the population cannot afford a home of any kind. In Orange county, a 2 bedroom townhome of 1500 sq/ft cost 800+k brand new. Less than 500k will land you right in the middle of the hood. 53k will ensure your kids go to shitty schools, wear crappy clothes, and you'll be in an apt. for the rest of your life out here. That might be fine in other countries or for people who don't care, but that's not what America is all about.
In Orange County, the price of a 2 bedroom new townhome of 1500 sq/ft cost 800k plus. If you only make 73k you'll starve to death. On that measly salary, you'll have to live about 1 hour 30 minutes out in the desert and pay $500 gas and spend 15 hours a week commuting. Or live in an apt where one beds are $1500 / month.
Microsoft gets sued by other companies and governments duped by companies claiming Microsoft is anti-competitive.
Notice that consumers themselves have never rose up en masse to sue Microsoft.
Microsoft has no monopoly and never did, otherwise I wouldn't have been using Macs and Linux for all of these years.
Every company could have used Macs or Linux themselves, but chose not too.
Microsoft's problem is that they didn't do enough PR. When the sharks smell cash and weakness, they sue.
Google will be next on the hit list, trust me.
"Yes, for the same reason I want criminals to be able to vote. Every nation should be represented in a fair and democratic Internet administration, not just the people we like." That is an idiotic statement. Criminals voting? You need to upgrade your brain software. Why should every nation be represented in a fair and democratic internet administration? Bullshit. Only democratic nations should be represented. Countries that don't give their own citizens freedom should be denied everything. People need to stop being politically correct and stop allowing dictators to exist in the first place. By your logic, gangs should be allowed to live and hustle in your neighborhood, because you have no right to control them. People want criminals in their neighborhood rounded up, but in the world neighborhood, we allow criminal and evil regimes to exist just fine.
As soon as you go to a website and seed the dreaded .jsp extension, you know you're in for a wait.
All the websites that use Java are just ridiculously slow. Name one that isn't.
Could you imagine Google running Java and some JVM?
General Advice
Pros
Cons
According to the article Java users will get the Google Toolbar included with Java? And Google might offer Star or OpenOffice? Wow, dumb and dumber. A smart deal for Sun for the recognition, but what else does Sun have going for them? Nothing really. Their hardware business has been comoditized by cheap Intel boxes, Java's not bringing home the bacon and they don't seem to have any vision at all. Sun's selling Linux boxes with Intel hardware for cryin' out loud. You can't really get any lower. I have no idea what Google is thinking. I guess we'll all be creating word documents using some AJAXed version of StarOffice and watching ads pop up as we type. Seems like a real good time. Forget Microsoft, Stop Google.
...not as far as anyone knows at least. The real question is how the hell do you plan on decrypting it? Computers
might be fried, the program you used my implement the encryption in a strange way, so you need that software too.
Not to mention if the shit really hit the fan, who cares about that kind of data anyway. Make up a new name for yourself
and move on.
"If we had to ensure that everything worked all the time, software would actually work and there would only be high quality software." "Oh, I hadn't thought of that", says the non-developin' ma'fukka. Fix you're shit skippy.
I guess you failed the SAT then. Publisher is to Author as
Software Company is to Developer. If you build and sell a shitty house you'll get sued. If you build and sell shitty software that exposes my important info you should get sued too. If the bug is because of some underlying software you use, then that company should be held responsible.
Get this KDE shit off of OS X now! You gotta be shittin' me. What moron would waste their time porting that crap to OS X? What bigger idiot would install and use it? This is the equivalent of taking the interior of a Honda Civic and installing it in your Bentley.
1,000,000 email users
About 70% of users use system daily (if this is a webbased email like Hotmail, this is a high estimate)
Each user reads 30 emails and sends 10
A grand total of 19,600,000 emails per day (this is a high estimate)
Only 226 messages either read or sent per second per day
@ 100k avg. per message storage is 1.8 gb per day or 666 gb per year if you don't compress
An Apple xServe dual G5 w/16gb of RAM and xRAID 5 TB will work just fine
For uptime, two xServes w/ a load balancer both can send and receive, filter spam
For the webmail piece, you can cache the whole website or poor man's way - make a ramdisk and copy the website to the ramdisk, whole site is cached.
QMail or Sendmail take your pick, parse incoming mail via php/shell/perl script and round robin mail to diff mailbox dirs on the xRaid, cakewalk.
Add a separate web server for added scability
Replace filesystem storage w/ an additional 2 node Oracle RAC cluster w/ email data partitioned over the xRaid to take advantage of additional high availability & disaster recovery features.
Bottomline, if you have 20 admins for this and a room full of hardware, you need some more skills...hehe.
Basically he said don't patch anything and design things that are secure. Pretty ignorant of security if you ask me. It's hard for the end user to design things that are secure when every layer of software/hardware they use is buggy. From the kernel, OS, network protocols, database, software language, drivers, routers, firewalls, and applications all contain bugs and design flaws. [1] Until you create the perfect human being there will be bugs and design flaws. [2] If a person can use a computer to do anything, then it can be hacked as someone can always get your password. [3] Why is that? Because a great portion of break-ins are inside jobs done by the Sys Admins or DBAs or other pissed off employees with access. Ultimately, you can never have 100% security unless a computer cannot be used by anyone. You have to at least try and improve the system as you go. This is the only way to *limit* the break-in possibilities, you will never prevent them all 100% outright.
I would disagree with the filesystem approach as high availability and disaster recovery aren't as good. If you think the relational database approach won't work, you're not using Oracle 10g RAC.
Billion row tables are common. Deletes on these tables aren't an issue as you're deleting by primary key and you can store that in an index-organized table partitioned however you want. I manage TB size database daily, I know.
Using a real relational database (not lame ass mySql) you can take advantage of all of the high availability & disaster recovery features of Oracle too, like backups, RAC and standby databases.
...every kid in the country jacked into the same classes.
Marketing is the most valuable skill in existence. Economics is just measuring. Let me see you sell 10 millions of a product or sign up 10 million subscribers to a service and make a profit doing it. No one makes a dime until something is sold. Economics as a profession or major is way down the totem pole dude.
Yeah, that application written in Java using Weblogic and their crappy portal is really screaming, I tell you.
and all you have to do to port to Websphere is nothing. Right.
If you think java apps these days are fast, then you have no idea of what performance is. If it's not Google speed, then it's slow.
Also, it's not as easy to port to different platforms like Websphere, Tomcat, etc. as you think.
The fact is that coding is becoming a minimum wage job. What real knowledge is required in most programming shops? None, everything is already designed and you just have to use some class or design pattern to do some really basic crap. 90% of apps are web based. Show form, get data, persist it to the database. Not exactly high wage worthly rocket science people.