And then they'll negotiate with the credit card theif for years with constant interference from the US, give them the neighborhood they happen to live in at the time, and get nothing in return.
Yeah, sounds like Israel to me.
And you obviously don't know or understand anything about the way Israel handles things. Please don't say things like this unless you've had the some education on the subject, please.
The reason it's a big deal out there is because they don't have the kind of laws for consumer protection that we do. Someone steals your credit card, and runs up a $30,000 tab, you pay it... or you go to jail. Period. So think about it this way. If someone effectively bombs your life, by taking your credit card, and shoots you with a debt you cannot pay and the ire of a state that takes debt VERY seriously... how is it not an act of terrorism? That's literally destroying someone's life.
What I'm wondering though, is if this means Israel will start negotiating with credit card thieves, and giving them what they want while getting nothing in return. We'll have to see.
Not to mention practical inflation.
If you take the cost of living into account, rather than using flat dollar numbers which don't change, you're still at a loss.
Why not? It's as much a platform as Drupal is. It's flexible, easy to extend, with a full service api (which is actually more evolved than other frameworks) and the admin control panel is built for you. Wordpress does things out of the box that even Drupal 7 is lacking in terms of standard functionality, and it's not prone to the same kind of bloat the Drupal is (in my experience). Granted, there are things all wordpress developers seem to do that are totally unnecessary, and facilitate poor programming practices. I think the templating system in Wordpress as most people implement it is terrible. That said, it's pretty powerful, and mostly secure if you do it right. I think it qualifies as a platform for those reasons.
They complain a lot when something forces them into a real ide, which they resent instinctively. After all, as any of them will tell you... visual studio is the best ide ever developed.
The best way to get in for the interview is to limit your resume to your most recent ten to twelve years of recent experience. If you can get into the interview, you're set. Sell yourself as a "seasoned" veteran of the industry. Sell your "years of hands on experience" in the field. Age is only a problem if you let it be. If you live outside California, you'll be fine.
If you're trying to sell this to executives, it's not going to make sense, unless you can show that such a change will increase the efficiency of your engineering department, and save the company money because IT people are usually cheaper than engineers. Which, they usually are. Any kid out of junior college can man an IT department, for example. Sure, it's done that way everywhere else, but that alone is not a good enough reason. More efficient engineers that are happier, and not as overworked seems like the logical angle to me.
Release it under GPL before even telling them it exists. If you need to, us a pseudonym. Create a credible looking website, and a sourceforge download page. Then, let them know about this great free product you found. This doesn't get you anywhere on the compensation front, but what it does get you is an office full of dedicated guinea pigs for testing, which most oss projects don't get.
It's very important. People so often forget to include that in office designs, and I think it's absolutely essential when working on computers, and people that use them. So think sky lights, and nice tall windows. Also, low glare flat screens, nice big low glare matted flat screens. Those would be good too. Also, don't forget to spend some actual money on these machines. Go to geeks.com and ebay to get the most computer for the money, but come up with a good spec that'll be relevant for awhile. I'm spending a lot of time on these sites today, as I'm looking to build a Hackintosh (yes, totally giving up on desktop Linux, thanks Ubuntu) in 2012. I'm finding that it's gotten a lot easier to build a really nice system, if you're conscious about how far your budget can go.
Email is ridiculous. It's highly prone to error. Overzealous blacklists and whitelists deny service to tens of thousands of email addresses that have done nothing wrong on a daily basis. Then you've got domain configuration requirements that vary considerably based on who's actually receiving the email, and an ambiguous chain of ownersip on most domains for the SOA that almost never ends up where you would think it should. Then, there's encryption. Some providers require it, others don't. Different kinds of encryption have different requirements, and there is now shortage of encryption standards you can use for email. Then in addition to the logistics nightmare noted above, you have firewall providers like Barracuda to contend with, that might ban you because the sky is blue, and there are birds in the trees. And after everything, as if none of this were bad enough, there has to be the end user, who still doesn't know how to use the fucking service to begin with. You know, the one that gets upset because they don't have an email that they think should be coming in. You know, the one that doesn't understand that their email client (and everyone else's) has junk mail settings.
I hate email. I really hate email. I've hated email since the first day anyone ever asked me to manage it. It's a drain on resources, for something that is (in practical terms) not much more useful than a file locker. I think VW is taking a step in the right direction, but that it needs to be more drastic. Employees are wasting a lot of time on email, and it's disrupting their standard of life, and ability to operate. It's clear what they need to do. They need to abolish it outright, and move on to collaboration tools that make sense in the workplace. Any and all of which would be easier to manage, and far more reliable.
They are facing the very real reality that Windows 8 will flop. Tens of thousands of PC's are being replaced with ipads both at home, and in the enterprise. This trend is likely to explode in 2012, when a large enough portion of the non developer population will be using them to matter. Sure, they're doing extremely well in video games, but their own mobile efforts haven't panned out, and probably won't. If Microsoft loses the Enterprise to Apple, they will be effectively marginalized in their core business. So what do you expect them to do? Those that can't make an honest living litigate. If the entertainment industry has taught us nothing, it's that.
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Yes. It is. And I think the international community needs to do more about this kind of thing than they do.
Did you even bother to read the guy's post? No of course not. Why would anyone ever pay attention to someone who's pro-israel on the internet?
And then they'll negotiate with the credit card theif for years with constant interference from the US, give them the neighborhood they happen to live in at the time, and get nothing in return. Yeah, sounds like Israel to me.
Credit card fraud hurts and maims people in Israel, and any country where debters prisons exist.
So by that are you implying that credit card fraud should not be a crime?
And you obviously don't know or understand anything about the way Israel handles things. Please don't say things like this unless you've had the some education on the subject, please.
The reason it's a big deal out there is because they don't have the kind of laws for consumer protection that we do. Someone steals your credit card, and runs up a $30,000 tab, you pay it... or you go to jail. Period. So think about it this way. If someone effectively bombs your life, by taking your credit card, and shoots you with a debt you cannot pay and the ire of a state that takes debt VERY seriously... how is it not an act of terrorism? That's literally destroying someone's life.
What I'm wondering though, is if this means Israel will start negotiating with credit card thieves, and giving them what they want while getting nothing in return. We'll have to see.
Not to mention practical inflation. If you take the cost of living into account, rather than using flat dollar numbers which don't change, you're still at a loss.
If there were aliens, why on earth would they use as slow , dirty and brutally inefficient a medium as radio waves?
I'm taking apart the level of difficulty calculator now. This is USEFUL!
I propose we lock them in a bunker, feed them worms, and wait for them to rebel.
So when do I get my genetically engineered mouse man slaves? I'm sure it'll be cheaper than hiring indians.
It's a non binding vote. A straw poll. It's already totally and completely meaningless.
Oh, Judaism, clearly.
Why not? It's as much a platform as Drupal is. It's flexible, easy to extend, with a full service api (which is actually more evolved than other frameworks) and the admin control panel is built for you. Wordpress does things out of the box that even Drupal 7 is lacking in terms of standard functionality, and it's not prone to the same kind of bloat the Drupal is (in my experience). Granted, there are things all wordpress developers seem to do that are totally unnecessary, and facilitate poor programming practices. I think the templating system in Wordpress as most people implement it is terrible. That said, it's pretty powerful, and mostly secure if you do it right. I think it qualifies as a platform for those reasons.
5.2 doesn't. But 5.4 certainly will.
And it's amazing... until you start getting real traffic. Then it bombs.
or develop your own, if you have the skill.
They complain a lot when something forces them into a real ide, which they resent instinctively. After all, as any of them will tell you... visual studio is the best ide ever developed.
I wish I had mod points for this one.
The best way to get in for the interview is to limit your resume to your most recent ten to twelve years of recent experience. If you can get into the interview, you're set. Sell yourself as a "seasoned" veteran of the industry. Sell your "years of hands on experience" in the field. Age is only a problem if you let it be. If you live outside California, you'll be fine.
If you're trying to sell this to executives, it's not going to make sense, unless you can show that such a change will increase the efficiency of your engineering department, and save the company money because IT people are usually cheaper than engineers. Which, they usually are. Any kid out of junior college can man an IT department, for example. Sure, it's done that way everywhere else, but that alone is not a good enough reason. More efficient engineers that are happier, and not as overworked seems like the logical angle to me.
Release it under GPL before even telling them it exists. If you need to, us a pseudonym. Create a credible looking website, and a sourceforge download page. Then, let them know about this great free product you found. This doesn't get you anywhere on the compensation front, but what it does get you is an office full of dedicated guinea pigs for testing, which most oss projects don't get.
It's very important. People so often forget to include that in office designs, and I think it's absolutely essential when working on computers, and people that use them. So think sky lights, and nice tall windows. Also, low glare flat screens, nice big low glare matted flat screens. Those would be good too. Also, don't forget to spend some actual money on these machines. Go to geeks.com and ebay to get the most computer for the money, but come up with a good spec that'll be relevant for awhile. I'm spending a lot of time on these sites today, as I'm looking to build a Hackintosh (yes, totally giving up on desktop Linux, thanks Ubuntu) in 2012. I'm finding that it's gotten a lot easier to build a really nice system, if you're conscious about how far your budget can go.
What world do you live in?
Email is ridiculous. It's highly prone to error. Overzealous blacklists and whitelists deny service to tens of thousands of email addresses that have done nothing wrong on a daily basis. Then you've got domain configuration requirements that vary considerably based on who's actually receiving the email, and an ambiguous chain of ownersip on most domains for the SOA that almost never ends up where you would think it should. Then, there's encryption. Some providers require it, others don't. Different kinds of encryption have different requirements, and there is now shortage of encryption standards you can use for email. Then in addition to the logistics nightmare noted above, you have firewall providers like Barracuda to contend with, that might ban you because the sky is blue, and there are birds in the trees. And after everything, as if none of this were bad enough, there has to be the end user, who still doesn't know how to use the fucking service to begin with. You know, the one that gets upset because they don't have an email that they think should be coming in. You know, the one that doesn't understand that their email client (and everyone else's) has junk mail settings.
I hate email. I really hate email. I've hated email since the first day anyone ever asked me to manage it. It's a drain on resources, for something that is (in practical terms) not much more useful than a file locker. I think VW is taking a step in the right direction, but that it needs to be more drastic. Employees are wasting a lot of time on email, and it's disrupting their standard of life, and ability to operate. It's clear what they need to do. They need to abolish it outright, and move on to collaboration tools that make sense in the workplace. Any and all of which would be easier to manage, and far more reliable.
They are facing the very real reality that Windows 8 will flop. Tens of thousands of PC's are being replaced with ipads both at home, and in the enterprise. This trend is likely to explode in 2012, when a large enough portion of the non developer population will be using them to matter. Sure, they're doing extremely well in video games, but their own mobile efforts haven't panned out, and probably won't. If Microsoft loses the Enterprise to Apple, they will be effectively marginalized in their core business. So what do you expect them to do? Those that can't make an honest living litigate. If the entertainment industry has taught us nothing, it's that.