Honestly, going through this now. Had four recruiters from the same company tell me I have a great resume, can they send it out, etc. I did get an interview out of it but it’s been silence after that. One of the four had my resume from a previous attempt, had supposedly gotten me an interview, I sat in my car waiting for the call and nothing, and then had stopped communicating until his colleague was working with me.
In thinking back, I don't think a recruiter has ever gotten me a job, and I think this is the first time they got me an interview.
Nope. Hi speed WiFi. 20/7 speeds. No Netflix, no Hulu, no YouTube Red or TV, no Amazon TV. I watch YouTube videos from time to time, music videos, Russian car crash videos, instructional videos. I have a few shows I enjoy like Walking Dead and Big Bang Thoery, and wait for the DVD release or pick up the old shows I liked from back in the day.
Yep. Devs and Systems Eng wanted the kubernetes clusters to have internet access in order to download containers. I refused and built containers and pushed them to our internal repo.
That's kind of a puzzle there, that the White House didn't have an email server. I worked at NASA HQ just down the street in the mid-90's and we had email servers (I ran them) and I knew people who worked at the White House who'd come from NASA. It's weird to me that they had a web site but no email server.
I don't know. Last time I checked, $20 wasn't a microtransaction:) Then again, boardgames are running $50 and up over $100 in some cases (Gloomhaven is $150 last time I checked) and RPG books are in a similar price range with the smaller thinner adventure books running around $20.
This is probably the better answer for my server use. In our environment, we have lots of closed source software like Oracle. In addition, the backup and monitoring software didn't work on non-Red Hat distos for many years. Since we're not a large team managing 1,200 servers now, consistency in the Unix environment is important too hence we have mostly (for current systems) Red Hat.
And since I'm working on similar stuff at home, my home environment is CentOS for the most part with a few Red Hat systems.
I’m seeing this more now. I started off programming (basic and derivatives then C) and migrated into systems management (with shell and perl mainly) but continue to program for fun (php, mysql, with jquery and css). My home environment is or is moving to rcs/git, jenkins, artifactory, phpunit, ansible and tower, and puppet. None of that shows up on a resume though. Until you can get past HR, you’re invisible.
I do work from one day a week as scheduled and have to throw an extra day or two in over the winter due to road conditions. Personally I find there's some comeraderie that's missing when you don't work directly with people. The day to day interactions that make the team a team vs 10 people who work together. When I worked at IBM, I worked on a contract for a year that was 100% work from home. And it was pretty bad, team wise. Conversations were very business oriented with no personal connection with the rest of the team. I'm pretty introverted but still enjoy being able to freely trade pokes at the team. And nothing like coming in and hearing, "oh, you weren't here when we discussed [some tech subject]" and then having to be spun up on what's going on.
From a business perspective, yes, if you can work from home, you can work from Mumbai or Saigon. And there are benefits in that germs aren't passed around either. Plus the "wasted time" of work related socializing.
Team Building exercises. Going out with the guys at lunch or after work. Eventually, like at IBM, you're just a cog in the machine, easily replaced by someone in Mumbai.
Sports: No idea. Don’t pay much attention to it. It’s the Broncos, I know that (hard to miss:) ).
Politics: Jarad Polis, Mike Coffman, Ken Buck. There’s a Diana and Ed Perlmutter I think. Cory Gardner is one of the Senators. Hickenlooper is the Governor.
The technology is out there but if the government doesn't want to buy it or can't due to funding, then it isn't going to be available. I work in the industry and there's quite a bit of new tech being created but it still costs money to implement (not to mention infrastructure upgrades by the towns, etc).
I'll stick to my motorcycles then. I tend to get older cars and trucks for general running around but with Amazon on the way to delivering everything, I may never have to leave the house (I'm kinda fine with that in general:) ).
If they only thinned themselves I'd be cool with that. The problem is there are others of us out there still and until work is (and I am) good with telecommuting, I have to deal with these idiots. Time to break out the Recoilless Cannon for the car I guess.
I agree. I have a couple of thousand books in my library and I’ve read at least half of them twice. A smaller percentage more than three times like LotR/The Hobbit.
It's not news actually. Back in 89 I was working for a computer company that made flip-up cases for PCs. The owner was looking for funding an a lawyer came along and said he'd line it up. The owner made purchases based on the agreement but the lawyer bailed on it leaving the owner holding the bag and the business going under. The owner was rumored to have bailed after finding out this is what the lawyer did; offer funding, bail on it, then swoop in and buy the assets after the business goes bust. We lost our last 6 weeks of pay trying to stick it out.
Over the past month or so, I've finished 8 sci-fi type books, all new ones vs picking up one I've read before. I also finished the latest hardback Walking Dead book (14) and read Watchmen again.
Most of the IT type books are references where I'm reading a chapter to work on something. A couple of the video courses are in process as well. I have Safari Online so my selections there are AWS Operations (video), Infrastructure as Code, JSON at Work, Ansible Up and Running, GIT Essentials (video), Jump Start GIT, Cloud Foundry the Definitive Guide, and Ansible Configuration Management.
But none of the books are finished or even anticipated to be finished as I'm figuring out something related to work or personal projects.
Yea, I bought a nice 4k computer monitor from Taiwan. It was a LG that failed QC (possibly not black enough, up to 15 dead pixels, etc; I use it for programming so black isn't an issue and if you can find 15 dead pixels on the 4k monitor, I'll give you $20:) ) so I got it for about a third of the price of an equivalent LG and got to watch it ship from Taiwan to the US and my door. It was well packaged so no damage the to monitor and it's almost 2 years now and it works so well that if it does fail, I'll immediately buy another. Reviews for the company showed about a 5 to 10% problem rate with the monitors and I was willing to take the chance.
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Honestly, going through this now. Had four recruiters from the same company tell me I have a great resume, can they send it out, etc. I did get an interview out of it but it’s been silence after that. One of the four had my resume from a previous attempt, had supposedly gotten me an interview, I sat in my car waiting for the call and nothing, and then had stopped communicating until his colleague was working with me.
In thinking back, I don't think a recruiter has ever gotten me a job, and I think this is the first time they got me an interview.
35 years in tech.
Nope. Hi speed WiFi. 20/7 speeds. No Netflix, no Hulu, no YouTube Red or TV, no Amazon TV. I watch YouTube videos from time to time, music videos, Russian car crash videos, instructional videos. I have a few shows I enjoy like Walking Dead and Big Bang Thoery, and wait for the DVD release or pick up the old shows I liked from back in the day.
[John]
Yep. Devs and Systems Eng wanted the kubernetes clusters to have internet access in order to download containers. I refused and built containers and pushed them to our internal repo.
[John]
That's kind of a puzzle there, that the White House didn't have an email server. I worked at NASA HQ just down the street in the mid-90's and we had email servers (I ran them) and I knew people who worked at the White House who'd come from NASA. It's weird to me that they had a web site but no email server.
[John]
Like last time.
[John]
I don't know. Last time I checked, $20 wasn't a microtransaction :) Then again, boardgames are running $50 and up over $100 in some cases (Gloomhaven is $150 last time I checked) and RPG books are in a similar price range with the smaller thinner adventure books running around $20.
[John]
Madness
Hey you business types who moan about not enough time to test updates and that it takes away from software projects that will generate income?
Pay attention.
[John]
Yea, should not be allowed, WTF?
[John]
I rolled mine back to 7 after the 10 upgrade borked my system. Full delete and reinstall.
[John]
This is probably the better answer for my server use. In our environment, we have lots of closed source software like Oracle. In addition, the backup and monitoring software didn't work on non-Red Hat distos for many years. Since we're not a large team managing 1,200 servers now, consistency in the Unix environment is important too hence we have mostly (for current systems) Red Hat.
And since I'm working on similar stuff at home, my home environment is CentOS for the most part with a few Red Hat systems.
[John]
I’m seeing this more now. I started off programming (basic and derivatives then C) and migrated into systems management (with shell and perl mainly) but continue to program for fun (php, mysql, with jquery and css). My home environment is or is moving to rcs/git, jenkins, artifactory, phpunit, ansible and tower, and puppet. None of that shows up on a resume though. Until you can get past HR, you’re invisible.
[John]
I do work from one day a week as scheduled and have to throw an extra day or two in over the winter due to road conditions. Personally I find there's some comeraderie that's missing when you don't work directly with people. The day to day interactions that make the team a team vs 10 people who work together. When I worked at IBM, I worked on a contract for a year that was 100% work from home. And it was pretty bad, team wise. Conversations were very business oriented with no personal connection with the rest of the team. I'm pretty introverted but still enjoy being able to freely trade pokes at the team. And nothing like coming in and hearing, "oh, you weren't here when we discussed [some tech subject]" and then having to be spun up on what's going on.
From a business perspective, yes, if you can work from home, you can work from Mumbai or Saigon. And there are benefits in that germs aren't passed around either. Plus the "wasted time" of work related socializing.
Team Building exercises. Going out with the guys at lunch or after work. Eventually, like at IBM, you're just a cog in the machine, easily replaced by someone in Mumbai.
[John]
Sports: No idea. Don’t pay much attention to it. It’s the Broncos, I know that (hard to miss :) ).
Politics: Jarad Polis, Mike Coffman, Ken Buck. There’s a Diana and Ed Perlmutter I think. Cory Gardner is one of the Senators. Hickenlooper is the Governor.
[John]
Sure but it reduces the number of people living close and commuting. Just because it doesn’t work for everyone, doesn’t mean it’s not a good idea.
[John]
The technology is out there but if the government doesn't want to buy it or can't due to funding, then it isn't going to be available. I work in the industry and there's quite a bit of new tech being created but it still costs money to implement (not to mention infrastructure upgrades by the towns, etc).
[John]
I'll stick to my motorcycles then. I tend to get older cars and trucks for general running around but with Amazon on the way to delivering everything, I may never have to leave the house (I'm kinda fine with that in general :) ).
[John]
If they only thinned themselves I'd be cool with that. The problem is there are others of us out there still and until work is (and I am) good with telecommuting, I have to deal with these idiots. Time to break out the Recoilless Cannon for the car I guess.
[John]
I agree. I have a couple of thousand books in my library and I’ve read at least half of them twice. A smaller percentage more than three times like LotR/The Hobbit.
I do read a lot more than 12 books a year.
[John]
No degree and I have a Tech job (Systems Engineer).
[John]
On the plus side, pedophiles now have a career path.
[John]
It's not news actually. Back in 89 I was working for a computer company that made flip-up cases for PCs. The owner was looking for funding an a lawyer came along and said he'd line it up. The owner made purchases based on the agreement but the lawyer bailed on it leaving the owner holding the bag and the business going under. The owner was rumored to have bailed after finding out this is what the lawyer did; offer funding, bail on it, then swoop in and buy the assets after the business goes bust. We lost our last 6 weeks of pay trying to stick it out.
[John]
Over the past month or so, I've finished 8 sci-fi type books, all new ones vs picking up one I've read before. I also finished the latest hardback Walking Dead book (14) and read Watchmen again.
Most of the IT type books are references where I'm reading a chapter to work on something. A couple of the video courses are in process as well. I have Safari Online so my selections there are AWS Operations (video), Infrastructure as Code, JSON at Work, Ansible Up and Running, GIT Essentials (video), Jump Start GIT, Cloud Foundry the Definitive Guide, and Ansible Configuration Management.
But none of the books are finished or even anticipated to be finished as I'm figuring out something related to work or personal projects.
[John]
Yea, I bought a nice 4k computer monitor from Taiwan. It was a LG that failed QC (possibly not black enough, up to 15 dead pixels, etc; I use it for programming so black isn't an issue and if you can find 15 dead pixels on the 4k monitor, I'll give you $20 :) ) so I got it for about a third of the price of an equivalent LG and got to watch it ship from Taiwan to the US and my door. It was well packaged so no damage the to monitor and it's almost 2 years now and it works so well that if it does fail, I'll immediately buy another. Reviews for the company showed about a 5 to 10% problem rate with the monitors and I was willing to take the chance.
[John]
Yea, I have a guy at work that I have check things. He always finds something. It’s annoying :)
[John]