I disagree with the author that the XKCD method isn't a good one. The XKCD comic presented the idea of using 4 completely unrelated words, but the author used a four word example using a sentence. His main issue seems to be that people are too stupid to remember multiple username/password combinations for multiple sites.
It's easy to come in at a much smaller amount when you're not dealing with the rampant corruption in US government contracts. If the Indian government was willing to spend $900 on toilet seats and hammers then the Indian contractors would be screwing their government like our contractors screw us and our tax payers.
This has been going on since the 90's with the huge influx of H1B visas for tech positions when we had enough American tech workers to fill the need. In 1997 I worked for a very large payroll company (although not in their payroll division), and my VP told me he was instructed to fill future computer programmer/analyst positions with Indian workers that needed their green cards sponsored. This allowed them to lock in someone to two years minimum at a low wage. It was bad for the person being hired because they didn't know any better, then they were trapped (unless they wanted to start process all over again at another company willing to sponsor them). It was a way of screwing over citizens and current green card holders, by bringing indentured servants on the promise of a green card two years down the road.
Agreed. I started when I was 25 and this August will be my 20th year in the business. I've been steadily employed in various industries in WV, MD(DC Metro area) and Northern VA (DC Metro area) since 1992. I've never been layed off, although luck plays into that since I was at WorldCom through about 6 or 7 rounds of layoffs.I started out in C/C++ which was mostly us using C++ compilers to compile C code. Eventually I got into Visual Basic, then VB.Net and finally settled into C# about 5 years ago. I know quite a few people my age or older that are still SE's.
Contrary to what was written in the article I've seen a lot more people flame out after going into management versus staying a programmer. It's been my experience if you're good at what you do there will be a place for you in your company as an SE but if you go into management you're a lot more likely to get fired as a scapegoat as much as anything else.
As to what the writers are smoking, they're writers. A friend of mine that has an MBA in Finance (but works as an SE) pointed out to me years ago that financial columnists for most news organizations are making a lot less than us. They aren't necessarily more in the know just because they're writing an article published by Bloomsberg, CNN, etc. Every time I see a moronic article with glaringly obvious interview tips, etc I think about his comments. Should you really be taking interview advice from a jr. writer? Even if for what ever reason my job goes away or I'm replaced by someone younger, I won't be answering to an English major unless I take a temp job at McDonalds.
I've been in hundreds of meetings (literally) where someone has logged into an account in front of us using the projector. Whether this was a windows account or a website (as the author is talking about) password masking was in play. Password masking is a good thing. Someone shouldn't have to reset their password every time they demonstrate something at a meeting because everyone watches them type in their clear text password. If someone is incapable of typing in their password without seeing it on the screen in front of them then perhaps they shouldn't be using computers.
I'm sure the buggy makers fought to keep their market share once the automobile industry started to dominate the market and we all know how well that worked out. CNN makes a metric buttload of money from ads online as probably do a lot of other news and pseudo news organizations. Newspapers can wall up their content instead of going to an online ad based revenue stream and kill themselves off altogether. The bottom line is news happens and there will be free sources to view it such as CNN. I'm not ever going to pay for online content.
This next bubble burst won't be nearly as bad as the first one. The venture capitalists pouring billions into anything with ".com" in the name are long gone. People are investing in real products and/or services now. Google is the bubble I expect to burst. Google is not worth $500+ a share. It's probably not worth $100 a share. Google's stock will eventually fall hard and I hope it doesn't cause a lot of ripples across the market when it does.
I'll keep the OS that lets me play games on my computer. When Linux can offer up drivers for every piece of hardware that attaches to my computer and when companies start making decent NEW games that run under Linux, I'll seek my refund.
If you live in the 21st century. If you're living in a tent in the woods subsisting on rocks and twigs, it probably doesn't matter to you. For the rest of us the economy is powered by people using computers (the vast majority of which are running a Windows operating system).
Last week Mark Cuban made comments along the line that anyone that buys YouTube is insane. His reasoning was that YouTube is going to get hammered with copyright lawsuits once someone that can pay out buys the company. I really think he's correct. I don't know how many copyrighted news stories, etc, I've watched on YouTube but it's a lot.
I had temp seasonal job with Radio Shaft back in 1991. The weasels waited until the very last minute to give us our checks on X-mas eve so we wouldn't have time to cash them. The seasonal help was told before X-mas we'd be working through New Years Eve that year. My manager knew I had a 300 mile drive each way to go home for the holidays. I decided I'd rather spend time with my family and girlfriend so I called in sick on the day after Christmas. My manager said "Oh, we weren't allowed to tell the seasonal people but this was going to be your last day anyway." So the assholes would have let me drive 300 miles Christmas evening so I could work the next day and then they'd have let me go. They're truly a heinous company that shits on their employees. I haven't bought one thing from them since 1991 and I've urged friends and family over the years to not give them any business. I don't know if I've actually cost them very much in the long run, but every little bit helps squeeze them closer to bankruptcy.
I don't have a landline and my cell phone is a private number. I don't want every moron with a computer having access to my phone number. The admin e-mail is a perfectly valid way to verify a site. There is no reason for you to know the name, address and phone number of who registered a site, EVER, Unless you're suing the domain owner for copyright infringement or something similar. I do use network solutions privacy options for my sites but I'd still rather not have personal information linked to my sites even through their privacy options.
If it wasn't for my family and friends, I'd move to Canada in a heartbeat. I hate the corrupt U.S. politicians and what they're doing to our country. My father being buried in Arlington also gives me pause. He fought for this country and believed in it. I'd hate to let evil people like Bush and Cheney run me out of a great country. I also prefer the snow and cooler climate. I know most people hate those things but I love the snow.
I've yet to see a post showing the $4 billion in cash reserves Apple had. Oh that's right, they didn't have $4 billion in cash reserves. The Slashdot anti-microsoft assholes strike again though with their moderation. Kudos on making this site worse.
Why don't you post an article from 1997 that shows Apple had $4 billion in cash reserves. Everything I remember and can find from that time period shows a company in financial trouble. Because someone on a blog or slashdot says they had the cash reserves doesn't make it so.
I'm not surprised to see someone rating me as a troll for saying Microsoft helped Apple out when Apple was hurting financially. They are ignorant and don't know what the hell they are talking about and doing, but hey, that's nothign new for Slashdot. Lash out supporting your favorite brand without looking up facts, that's what Slashdot is all about. The truth is Apple was hurting and they could use the $150 million as well as the hundreds of millions that Office products brought them.
If they hadn't gotten a $150 million cash infusion from Microsoft in 1997? That kept the company afloat when it was about to go down for the third time.
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I disagree with the author that the XKCD method isn't a good one. The XKCD comic presented the idea of using 4 completely unrelated words, but the author used a four word example using a sentence. His main issue seems to be that people are too stupid to remember multiple username/password combinations for multiple sites.
It's easy to come in at a much smaller amount when you're not dealing with the rampant corruption in US government contracts. If the Indian government was willing to spend $900 on toilet seats and hammers then the Indian contractors would be screwing their government like our contractors screw us and our tax payers.
This has been going on since the 90's with the huge influx of H1B visas for tech positions when we had enough American tech workers to fill the need. In 1997 I worked for a very large payroll company (although not in their payroll division), and my VP told me he was instructed to fill future computer programmer/analyst positions with Indian workers that needed their green cards sponsored. This allowed them to lock in someone to two years minimum at a low wage. It was bad for the person being hired because they didn't know any better, then they were trapped (unless they wanted to start process all over again at another company willing to sponsor them). It was a way of screwing over citizens and current green card holders, by bringing indentured servants on the promise of a green card two years down the road.
Agreed. I started when I was 25 and this August will be my 20th year in the business. I've been steadily employed in various industries in WV, MD(DC Metro area) and Northern VA (DC Metro area) since 1992. I've never been layed off, although luck plays into that since I was at WorldCom through about 6 or 7 rounds of layoffs.I started out in C/C++ which was mostly us using C++ compilers to compile C code. Eventually I got into Visual Basic, then VB.Net and finally settled into C# about 5 years ago. I know quite a few people my age or older that are still SE's. Contrary to what was written in the article I've seen a lot more people flame out after going into management versus staying a programmer. It's been my experience if you're good at what you do there will be a place for you in your company as an SE but if you go into management you're a lot more likely to get fired as a scapegoat as much as anything else. As to what the writers are smoking, they're writers. A friend of mine that has an MBA in Finance (but works as an SE) pointed out to me years ago that financial columnists for most news organizations are making a lot less than us. They aren't necessarily more in the know just because they're writing an article published by Bloomsberg, CNN, etc. Every time I see a moronic article with glaringly obvious interview tips, etc I think about his comments. Should you really be taking interview advice from a jr. writer? Even if for what ever reason my job goes away or I'm replaced by someone younger, I won't be answering to an English major unless I take a temp job at McDonalds.
I've been in hundreds of meetings (literally) where someone has logged into an account in front of us using the projector. Whether this was a windows account or a website (as the author is talking about) password masking was in play. Password masking is a good thing. Someone shouldn't have to reset their password every time they demonstrate something at a meeting because everyone watches them type in their clear text password. If someone is incapable of typing in their password without seeing it on the screen in front of them then perhaps they shouldn't be using computers.
I'm sure the buggy makers fought to keep their market share once the automobile industry started to dominate the market and we all know how well that worked out. CNN makes a metric buttload of money from ads online as probably do a lot of other news and pseudo news organizations. Newspapers can wall up their content instead of going to an online ad based revenue stream and kill themselves off altogether. The bottom line is news happens and there will be free sources to view it such as CNN. I'm not ever going to pay for online content.
I'm sure this is utter BS.
20% of the moderation on this post was rated as "Informative". Now THAT is funny :).
Good riddance to bad rubbish. I honestly think the little weasel thought he wasn't going to be forced to resign.
This next bubble burst won't be nearly as bad as the first one. The venture capitalists pouring billions into anything with ".com" in the name are long gone. People are investing in real products and/or services now. Google is the bubble I expect to burst. Google is not worth $500+ a share. It's probably not worth $100 a share. Google's stock will eventually fall hard and I hope it doesn't cause a lot of ripples across the market when it does.
I lose more respect for the users of Slashdot every time I visit the site.
WTF? Some retard classified my initial on topic comments as flamebait.
I'll keep the OS that lets me play games on my computer. When Linux can offer up drivers for every piece of hardware that attaches to my computer and when companies start making decent NEW games that run under Linux, I'll seek my refund.
But if I was a music pirate, I'd stop an MP3 from playing the second I heard something that wasn't supposed to be in the song I downloaded.
If you live in the 21st century. If you're living in a tent in the woods subsisting on rocks and twigs, it probably doesn't matter to you. For the rest of us the economy is powered by people using computers (the vast majority of which are running a Windows operating system).
Last week Mark Cuban made comments along the line that anyone that buys YouTube is insane. His reasoning was that YouTube is going to get hammered with copyright lawsuits once someone that can pay out buys the company. I really think he's correct. I don't know how many copyrighted news stories, etc, I've watched on YouTube but it's a lot.
I had temp seasonal job with Radio Shaft back in 1991. The weasels waited until the very last minute to give us our checks on X-mas eve so we wouldn't have time to cash them. The seasonal help was told before X-mas we'd be working through New Years Eve that year. My manager knew I had a 300 mile drive each way to go home for the holidays. I decided I'd rather spend time with my family and girlfriend so I called in sick on the day after Christmas. My manager said "Oh, we weren't allowed to tell the seasonal people but this was going to be your last day anyway." So the assholes would have let me drive 300 miles Christmas evening so I could work the next day and then they'd have let me go. They're truly a heinous company that shits on their employees. I haven't bought one thing from them since 1991 and I've urged friends and family over the years to not give them any business. I don't know if I've actually cost them very much in the long run, but every little bit helps squeeze them closer to bankruptcy.
I don't think I'm alone in thinking that spammers should be hung by the neck until dead.
They've foiled Stephen Colbert's future nefarious plots by banning his account. If only there was something he could do like create a new account.
I don't have a landline and my cell phone is a private number. I don't want every moron with a computer having access to my phone number. The admin e-mail is a perfectly valid way to verify a site. There is no reason for you to know the name, address and phone number of who registered a site, EVER, Unless you're suing the domain owner for copyright infringement or something similar. I do use network solutions privacy options for my sites but I'd still rather not have personal information linked to my sites even through their privacy options.
If it wasn't for my family and friends, I'd move to Canada in a heartbeat. I hate the corrupt U.S. politicians and what they're doing to our country. My father being buried in Arlington also gives me pause. He fought for this country and believed in it. I'd hate to let evil people like Bush and Cheney run me out of a great country. I also prefer the snow and cooler climate. I know most people hate those things but I love the snow.
I've yet to see a post showing the $4 billion in cash reserves Apple had. Oh that's right, they didn't have $4 billion in cash reserves. The Slashdot anti-microsoft assholes strike again though with their moderation. Kudos on making this site worse.
Why don't you post an article from 1997 that shows Apple had $4 billion in cash reserves. Everything I remember and can find from that time period shows a company in financial trouble. Because someone on a blog or slashdot says they had the cash reserves doesn't make it so.
I'm not surprised to see someone rating me as a troll for saying Microsoft helped Apple out when Apple was hurting financially. They are ignorant and don't know what the hell they are talking about and doing, but hey, that's nothign new for Slashdot. Lash out supporting your favorite brand without looking up facts, that's what Slashdot is all about. The truth is Apple was hurting and they could use the $150 million as well as the hundreds of millions that Office products brought them.
+ Apple/2100-1001_3-202143.html
s tories/04biz.htm
http://news.com.com/MS+to+invest+150+million+in
http://www.mailtribune.com/archive/2005/0930/biz/
If they hadn't gotten a $150 million cash infusion from Microsoft in 1997? That kept the company afloat when it was about to go down for the third time.