Well shit. Then this is a news for everyone on the planet. I expect everyone is nerdish about some things. How about an article on the proper methods of making moonshine.
I'm not sure that the FDA recalling a Homeopathic "remedy" that claims to hold no antibiotics which actually does due to the manufacturing process, and could kill people who are allergic to penicillin is really a technical article that "nerds" would be all that interested in.
Well other than the numerous chuckles at 'homeopathy':shrug:
Yea, I was going through Computer Learning Center back in the 80's. Couldn't even get a glance from IBM but the person with a 4 year degree in Animal Husbandry got an offer. Even though I did much better in the classes and even taught one session for extra credit.
The degree doesn't matter as long as it's a degree.
WTF. While I'm not a professional developer, I am a Unix Admin. Everyone says I should (at a few weeks from 58) be in a management or engineering position.
I've tried the management classes to see how things are done. My manager insisted I at least put in the effort. It was quite beneficial in helping me understand what my manager goes through, but I (and my manager) realized I was not cut out to be a manager. (And this was after being a team lead in other companies).
As to being an engineer, it really requires a different mindset I guess. The engineers I've dealt with are supremely arrogant and have either no idea or have forgotten what it's like in the trenches. I almost feel like it's my job to stay where I am in order to help make the disasters work (we almost have to reengineer the deployments in order to get it working in production).
Humorously, because of my skillset and interest in being a sysadmin, I've had our monitoring group come to me twice asking me to switch positions, engineering has asked me to move to their team twice, and networking has asked me to join them 6 times now. I suspect soon I'll be asked to move into a Tool Makers group to manage the script and documentation environment.
That opens the prospect of a new generation of bug zappers that kill only certain insects or just females rather than males.
Males are the throwaway gender. Need to get the egg bearing females to reduce the population. Then the males will fight over the remaining females until they're also reduced.
Perhaps. But the more folks who start out on 2 wheels, the more observant they are of the surrounding area and of motorcyclists. So bring it on. The more, the better.
I think he's stolen my idea. I have three of these motor-driven cycles. One working model (with 120,000 miles on the clock), one with some minor electrical problems that I'm ironing out (22,000 miles before the problems started), and one that has minimal electronics that I'm in the process of building.
The rationale given for the regulation change that requires auto companies to sell through dealers is that it ensures “consumer protection”. If you believe this, Gov. Christie has a bridge closure he wants to sell you! Unless they are referring to the mafia version of “protection”, this is obviously untrue. As anyone who has been through the conventional auto dealer purchase process knows, consumer protection is pretty much the furthest thing from the typical car dealer’s mind.
I tend to get Salmon more than anything else and farm raised Salmon tastes like plastic to me. I'll occasionally get trout or swordfish but generally it's Salmon.
Sure I don't expect my wife to do all that work. But I find that when I do it, I'm not meeting her expectations of clean/cooking. She goes behind me and cleans it to her satisfaction. So it ends up that she does all that work around the house. I'll pick up my stuff and put things in the sink or dishwasher but I won't go shopping (unless it's with her) and won't clean or cook unless she's away.
I do yardwork (cleanup; mow, gutters, roof, leaves, trim bushes but no design stuff), manage the garage, and keep the vehicles going and build things.
If it has to do with the inside though, it's off limits (unless I'm doing the work like painting or moving furniture).
With that said, that's in the past now. She bailed a couple of years back so I do _all_ the work now. Turns out I'm a lot pickier about keeping the house clean than she was. She just needed to be in control.:)
But all you need is one person who's willing to be exploited in order to get a better job/more pay to mess this up.
Personally I work extra hours because of stuff I do to make the job more enjoyable. I create scripts to retrieve information from servers in order to catch problems before they get worse. I'm certainly not doing it to try and get a better job.
Perhaps. But if you only have steak every so often, it's more of a treat. Daily for me is generally chicken with the occasional hamburger and one day a week of fish (non-farm raised thank you very much). Steak is very much a special occasion thing for me.
Stupid people on the internet again. Hey, why not just bring up google and type in "convert 1.5 quarts to quatloos" or whatever your preferred method of measure is? Mandarin is the most common language on Earth. Why aren't we typing in a sensible language like Mandarin?
Ain't that the truth. Our recent company wide all hands meeting offered congratulations to three of the four departments in the company for work they did. The department that was ignored? Operations. Talk about feeling unwelcome.
Heck, we have no problem with women joining our team. I know of two resumes we've received from women (or recruiters) for open Unix Admin positions at my job. The first was several years ago. She'd worked in a data center for 20 years but scripting wasn't something she had much experience with. Combined with other factors, she wasn't interviewed further. The second one was recently and apparently supplied by a recruiter who sprays resumes everywhere in the hopes it will stick on the wall somewhere. The candidate had extensive AIX experience but absolutely no experience with Linux or other Unix based operating systems. We considered her several times but finally the team decided to not interview.
Yea, we're hiring for a mid level Unix sysadmin (Redhat and Solaris with a bit of HP-UX) and are getting resumes from power users on up to very experienced senior level admins. It's humorous to find folks who are "experienced" but don't list any specific operating systems. And our phone interview process seems to weed them all out. We just want folks who are beyond the "point and click" stage of administration.
"How do you configure the network interface on a Redhat box?" "Bring up the Network Manager and click..."
Boulder itself is crazy WRT housing but really only in or close to Boulder. Living in the surrounding area (like Broomfield or Longmont) gives you reasonably priced housing and you're not that far from Boulder. The problem mostly is that you're farther away from the Tech Center (south Denver) so changing jobs without moving is tougher, the commute being difficult. Nothing like the DC Metro area of course but still not an easy commute (compared to commuting from Longmont to Boulder which is a piece of cake:) ).
Tough call. I work a bit north of Denver so I'm not in the south near the Tech Center. When looking for a job at the Tech Center 6 years ago (IBM sucks let me just say), where most of the technical jobs are, the offers were for around 75k. When I asked for a little wiggle room since I was making about 92k at the time plus a job at the Tech Center would mean having to drive through Denver to get to the job (or move of course), but the companies were pretty firm. I found a new job in my area for 95k am now making over 6 figures (haven't checked my W2 yet but around that). I'm pretty happy where I am even though I think I had 3 raises in the past 6 years, not even cost of living increases really.
And just so you know, I don't mind driving. I commuted from Stafford VA to Columbia MD for a year to work at Johns Hopkins APL and lived in the DC metro area for over 30 years:)
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You must have missed the automatic assumption by some airlines that men are molesters.
http://www.cnn.com/2012/08/14/...
[John]
Well shit. Then this is a news for everyone on the planet. I expect everyone is nerdish about some things. How about an article on the proper methods of making moonshine.
Dumbass.
[John]
I'm not sure that the FDA recalling a Homeopathic "remedy" that claims to hold no antibiotics which actually does due to the manufacturing process, and could kill people who are allergic to penicillin is really a technical article that "nerds" would be all that interested in.
Well other than the numerous chuckles at 'homeopathy' :shrug:
[John]
Yea, I was going through Computer Learning Center back in the 80's. Couldn't even get a glance from IBM but the person with a 4 year degree in Animal Husbandry got an offer. Even though I did much better in the classes and even taught one session for extra credit.
The degree doesn't matter as long as it's a degree.
[John]
WTF. While I'm not a professional developer, I am a Unix Admin. Everyone says I should (at a few weeks from 58) be in a management or engineering position.
I've tried the management classes to see how things are done. My manager insisted I at least put in the effort. It was quite beneficial in helping me understand what my manager goes through, but I (and my manager) realized I was not cut out to be a manager. (And this was after being a team lead in other companies).
As to being an engineer, it really requires a different mindset I guess. The engineers I've dealt with are supremely arrogant and have either no idea or have forgotten what it's like in the trenches. I almost feel like it's my job to stay where I am in order to help make the disasters work (we almost have to reengineer the deployments in order to get it working in production).
Humorously, because of my skillset and interest in being a sysadmin, I've had our monitoring group come to me twice asking me to switch positions, engineering has asked me to move to their team twice, and networking has asked me to join them 6 times now. I suspect soon I'll be asked to move into a Tool Makers group to manage the script and documentation environment.
[John]
Sysadmins can work in a big company and still be 'Small Time'. We're fairly small but automation and documentation lets 5 admins manage 1,200 systems.
[John]
Misspelled Cylon.
[John]
That opens the prospect of a new generation of bug zappers that kill only certain insects or just females rather than males.
Males are the throwaway gender. Need to get the egg bearing females to reduce the population. Then the males will fight over the remaining females until they're also reduced.
Win-Win!
[John ]
Perhaps. But the more folks who start out on 2 wheels, the more observant they are of the surrounding area and of motorcyclists. So bring it on. The more, the better.
[John]
I think he's stolen my idea. I have three of these motor-driven cycles. One working model (with 120,000 miles on the clock), one with some minor electrical problems that I'm ironing out (22,000 miles before the problems started), and one that has minimal electronics that I'm in the process of building.
The bastard!
[John]
The rationale given for the regulation change that requires auto companies to sell through dealers is that it ensures “consumer protection”. If you believe this, Gov. Christie has a bridge closure he wants to sell you! Unless they are referring to the mafia version of “protection”, this is obviously untrue. As anyone who has been through the conventional auto dealer purchase process knows, consumer protection is pretty much the furthest thing from the typical car dealer’s mind.
Ow, that's gotta hurt!
[John]
That's what the cloud is. Paper.
[John]
I tend to get Salmon more than anything else and farm raised Salmon tastes like plastic to me. I'll occasionally get trout or swordfish but generally it's Salmon.
[John]
Sure I don't expect my wife to do all that work. But I find that when I do it, I'm not meeting her expectations of clean/cooking. She goes behind me and cleans it to her satisfaction. So it ends up that she does all that work around the house. I'll pick up my stuff and put things in the sink or dishwasher but I won't go shopping (unless it's with her) and won't clean or cook unless she's away.
I do yardwork (cleanup; mow, gutters, roof, leaves, trim bushes but no design stuff), manage the garage, and keep the vehicles going and build things.
If it has to do with the inside though, it's off limits (unless I'm doing the work like painting or moving furniture).
With that said, that's in the past now. She bailed a couple of years back so I do _all_ the work now. Turns out I'm a lot pickier about keeping the house clean than she was. She just needed to be in control. :)
[John]
But all you need is one person who's willing to be exploited in order to get a better job/more pay to mess this up.
Personally I work extra hours because of stuff I do to make the job more enjoyable. I create scripts to retrieve information from servers in order to catch problems before they get worse. I'm certainly not doing it to try and get a better job.
[John]
Perhaps. But if you only have steak every so often, it's more of a treat. Daily for me is generally chicken with the occasional hamburger and one day a week of fish (non-farm raised thank you very much). Steak is very much a special occasion thing for me.
[John]
Stupid people on the internet again. Hey, why not just bring up google and type in "convert 1.5 quarts to quatloos" or whatever your preferred method of measure is? Mandarin is the most common language on Earth. Why aren't we typing in a sensible language like Mandarin?
Idiot.
[John]
Last time I watched a WNBA game? I think I saw part of one years ago.
Even more telling, the last time I watched an NBA game. I've seen bits here and there, mostly in the news I think.
The last time I watched any sports at all? Well, my girlfriend made me watch the last 3 or 4 football games including the Superbowl :)
The last time I watched any sports because I _wanted_ to was a couple of years back when I watched MotoGP racing.
[John]
Ain't that the truth. Our recent company wide all hands meeting offered congratulations to three of the four departments in the company for work they did. The department that was ignored? Operations. Talk about feeling unwelcome.
[John]
Heck, we have no problem with women joining our team. I know of two resumes we've received from women (or recruiters) for open Unix Admin positions at my job. The first was several years ago. She'd worked in a data center for 20 years but scripting wasn't something she had much experience with. Combined with other factors, she wasn't interviewed further. The second one was recently and apparently supplied by a recruiter who sprays resumes everywhere in the hopes it will stick on the wall somewhere. The candidate had extensive AIX experience but absolutely no experience with Linux or other Unix based operating systems. We considered her several times but finally the team decided to not interview.
[John]
We we are, by nature, expendable. We should be used as beasts of burden and discarded once our usefulness is over.
[John]
Yea, we're hiring for a mid level Unix sysadmin (Redhat and Solaris with a bit of HP-UX) and are getting resumes from power users on up to very experienced senior level admins. It's humorous to find folks who are "experienced" but don't list any specific operating systems. And our phone interview process seems to weed them all out. We just want folks who are beyond the "point and click" stage of administration.
"How do you configure the network interface on a Redhat box?"
"Bring up the Network Manager and click..."
[John]
Boulder itself is crazy WRT housing but really only in or close to Boulder. Living in the surrounding area (like Broomfield or Longmont) gives you reasonably priced housing and you're not that far from Boulder. The problem mostly is that you're farther away from the Tech Center (south Denver) so changing jobs without moving is tougher, the commute being difficult. Nothing like the DC Metro area of course but still not an easy commute (compared to commuting from Longmont to Boulder which is a piece of cake :) ).
[John]
Tough call. I work a bit north of Denver so I'm not in the south near the Tech Center. When looking for a job at the Tech Center 6 years ago (IBM sucks let me just say), where most of the technical jobs are, the offers were for around 75k. When I asked for a little wiggle room since I was making about 92k at the time plus a job at the Tech Center would mean having to drive through Denver to get to the job (or move of course), but the companies were pretty firm. I found a new job in my area for 95k am now making over 6 figures (haven't checked my W2 yet but around that). I'm pretty happy where I am even though I think I had 3 raises in the past 6 years, not even cost of living increases really.
And just so you know, I don't mind driving. I commuted from Stafford VA to Columbia MD for a year to work at Johns Hopkins APL and lived in the DC metro area for over 30 years :)
[John]
Lifetime: 0+, 1, 0, 0+, 0, 1, 0, 0+.
I have to say I felt more alone when married than otherwise.
[John]