But then the car is like I want it. Helps to keep a backup, but 'nice cars' * are incredibly cheap these days. As long as you don't live in rust country.
Think what cars are about 20 years old today. Badly in need of refresh, but that's pretty much known, OBD2 right at 20. So: Suspension (stiff), brakes (bigger, e.g. factory cobra/crown vic for Mustang, not $5000 yuppy 'brake kit'), motor (make thump, 'big stick', 'medium stick' anyhow, not 'fart can'), motor/trans mounts, seats, belts, convertible top, wheels/tires, roll bar, broken stuff.
For 6-10 k$ (Gotta be smart, popular models, downside of tuning market, parts get cheap), you're as fast as dealer tuners costing 100k$, tire limited. No pussy traction control except your throttle foot. Yeah, it needs paint. Whenever I'm about to paint it, I think of something else that will make it go faster.
You get to make something 'real', no silly pointless databases etc. Does have a computer. Besides, old habit.
* definitions vary. True if your definition involves power/weight ratio in any form and you are thinking in terms of 'a few thousand $' as 'incredibly cheap'. Not afraid of wrenches.
Which generation is that? It's been going on longer than I've been alive, and I'm old. Drive by any apartment complex and count the brand new cars.
If they ever got any 'free money', they would immediately commit themselves to 150% of UBI in payments for new disposable junk. If they were just going to be paying it back at the end of the year in taxes, than 200%.
Never met any white bread, average Americans have you?
The first time they are $200 in the green, they buy a boat. A Bayliner that will last about 2 years before starting to fall apart, on a six year payment plan, without a vehicle that can tow it, while living in an apartment complex that doesn't allow boat storage.
Just not the books that Google borrowed from a library. Librarians are the people who can tell the difference, but I'm sure Google could come up with something to do 99% of the sorting (mostly, already scanned...)
What they really need are portable scanning solutions. LIbrarians are just the kind of people that would love to help, so long as their books don't go too far out of their control. Even absent that, most libraries produce a steady stream of 'discards' that should be checked against the 'books database' first.
Anybody should be able to take a picture of a title page and have Google tell them if they want the book for scanning. 'Book people' would do it.
I have a friend who is weird even by my social groups standards.
One of his 'interests' is preserving old DEC documentation. They just use a binding guillotine and a high speed sheet feeder scanner. Along with countless tricks to restore tape for one last read pass etc.
Investment income taxes have to compete globally, including the double taxation applied.
((1 - Corporate tax rate) * (1 - Capital gains tax rate) * Average national investment return) has to be globally competitive or your nation will get _no_ investment.
In first world nations with growing economies corporate taxes + capital gains taxes on investments are about 45%. Those who claim capital gains taxes are too low all forget to count the corporate taxes already paid on the same income (in the case of stocks).
I've _never_ had an employer not be willing to blow off the 'raise budget' when I've had another offer 'in hand'.
Don't do it. Never take counteroffers, take the new job. At the old job you just _extorted_ a huge raise, at the new job you just got a new basis for all future raises.
They will complain endlessly, but they had their chance to adjust pay when they had to pony up for the new guy and didn't, decisions have consequences.
You should look at the % of women that actually return to their jobs after the 12 weeks. Last I looked it was about 50%. The rest just take the bene then bail for more time at home with their snot monkey..
Chickens are pretty simple creatures. It crossed the road because there was something it wanted on the other side or something it was scared of on the initial side.
I can see the 'thought' in my dog's mind change. They only have room for one at a time...food, food, food...cat, cat, cat...leash, leash, leash...mailman, mailman, mailman...
Parents can, more or less, do the same with young kids.
I was discussing claims of 'Agile', as commonly seen in job descriptions. As I said Agile is a manifesto...but now it's a one word description which means whatever the fuck the terms user is thinking at the time he wrote it. Though the manifesto is as you describe, 'Agile' in practical use means nothing. Perhaps in means 'not waterfall', but I wouldn't count on it.
How would you evaluate claims of agility? My suggestion above is look at the team and check for signs of 'competence and enthusiasm'. Not finding those, I suggest any claims of agility will be found to be 'off handed fapping' at best.
The point is you recognize the bad place before you cross the bridge and 'burn it'. You're not going there, never.
You should learn to smell despair in the office during the interviews. Spot the Lumberg. Run the Monty Python management training interview in reverse on the PHB. Get in touch with your inner BOFH.
You've wasted your time interviewing at a place you would never work, have some fun with it.
One place I worked I personally took 130% of the 'department raise budget' my first year there.
Useless weasel told the rest of the department at their reviews that they weren't getting anything because I had taken 100% of the 'raise budget'...
Since he had started the conversation, I simply told them that I had taken 180% of the 'budget' and that they should all jump up and down until their balls dropped (including the lesbian, only one to take my advice to heart.)
Never expected employers to train me. Never been disappointed. You train as you learn/break new systems. Things not directly useful to current employer, on your own time. Who's going to teach the brand new stuff anyhow? Before the internet it was a bitch...swapping bootleg knowledgebase CDs.
Besides it's 90% the same shit as the last version, just rearranged, further obfuscated and renamed.
Not quite retired...but already financially capable. Just a question of where at this point. Besides I would get bored...bad things...
Agile doesn't say that. The manifesto is short. Perhaps Scrum does.
Years ago, like I said it was when 'dailies' were fashionable, before 'stand ups' (though they had that feature). Yes he was useless, but you couldn't get rid of him. Marketer promoted outside his range, best treated 'like a mushroom'.
Call the other one a tech leed if you prefer. Someone had to pay attention to critical path and run the project, though he was particularly bad at it, about like his coding. He was running 'knowledge is power' on the useless ex marketer, fucking us all in the process. I think the place was bouncing between -3 and -4 on the process immaturity model. Project sabotage was only sporadic.
Never so glad to put a place behind me as that one. Though I was glad to get it when it started, needed the move.
I did the 'daily stand up', before it was called Scrum. It turned into a _huge_ waste of time. 5 minutes per dev. Team of 5. That's a half hour easy. Without considering the 'game the meeting to avoid work' potential. Push the managers buttons, watch the usual BS. Avoid work, lower everybody's productivity to your normal (zero).
But honestly, that whole place sucked. Recently heard, one of the poor bastards is _still_ with them, decades on.
I forget where I read it. But their was a rant about meetings. Categorizing them by type and the type of online communication that best replaced them. Email, group email, forum etc. The only exception is the true 'rah rah' meeting. If you think those are useful, there is no substitute for a live one.
Daily's can be replaced by end of workday project manager status emails, done right along with and part of code checkin/bug tracker/testing schedule etc. Project manager reads those, summarizes for everyone and starts communication when needed. Code repository logs are available for review, so no bullshitting, daily check in your unstable appropriately. No whole team time waste.
Sprints are fine, for sprint durations. Two year death marches are 'sprints' by some definitions. Weasel words abound. 'Continuous sprint' is nonsense.
Talk to the big boss about his business' 'truck number'. If they won't pay for any redundancy, _extort_ them for more pay. They will pay, one way or another.
Besides: If you don't have someone learning your tasks, how will your boss promote you to his job when he moves up?
On consideration, I'll take back 'Most', put in 'Many'. There are a buttload of net negative workers that _never_ take vacation. Been my observation over the years. They guard their little bit of hell.
As far as cancelled vacations. Going to be a long talk about scheduling issues and costs before I cancel anything involved.
Remember your most important kindergarten lesson. If you didn't get caught, you didn't do it.
Let them have their fig leaf. But recognize it and skip. Then you have a choice: bar or office? Guess it depends on how much work you have to do and who you are skipping with.
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Bring a french press and a stash of good coffee to work. On some things, there can be no compromise. Let the PHB drink that stuff.
Usually spend as much on parts as on the car.
But then the car is like I want it. Helps to keep a backup, but 'nice cars' * are incredibly cheap these days. As long as you don't live in rust country.
Think what cars are about 20 years old today. Badly in need of refresh, but that's pretty much known, OBD2 right at 20. So: Suspension (stiff), brakes (bigger, e.g. factory cobra/crown vic for Mustang, not $5000 yuppy 'brake kit'), motor (make thump, 'big stick', 'medium stick' anyhow, not 'fart can'), motor/trans mounts, seats, belts, convertible top, wheels/tires, roll bar, broken stuff.
For 6-10 k$ (Gotta be smart, popular models, downside of tuning market, parts get cheap), you're as fast as dealer tuners costing 100k$, tire limited. No pussy traction control except your throttle foot. Yeah, it needs paint. Whenever I'm about to paint it, I think of something else that will make it go faster.
You get to make something 'real', no silly pointless databases etc. Does have a computer. Besides, old habit.
* definitions vary. True if your definition involves power/weight ratio in any form and you are thinking in terms of 'a few thousand $' as 'incredibly cheap'. Not afraid of wrenches.
Snooty waiter: So tell me, how much per month can you afford to pay for this dinner?
Which generation is that? It's been going on longer than I've been alive, and I'm old. Drive by any apartment complex and count the brand new cars.
If they ever got any 'free money', they would immediately commit themselves to 150% of UBI in payments for new disposable junk. If they were just going to be paying it back at the end of the year in taxes, than 200%.
Investors never see the corporate income unless it's taxed first.
Just because WalMart doesn't hold property in its retail stores name doesn't mean their isn't a WalMart real estate that does and pays property taxes.
The US tax system makes it insane to have a business (of any size) own it's own real estate. You can't blame business for responding to incentives.
Never met any white bread, average Americans have you?
The first time they are $200 in the green, they buy a boat. A Bayliner that will last about 2 years before starting to fall apart, on a six year payment plan, without a vehicle that can tow it, while living in an apartment complex that doesn't allow boat storage.
Ego driven children.
90% of books that need scanning should be cut up.
Just not the books that Google borrowed from a library. Librarians are the people who can tell the difference, but I'm sure Google could come up with something to do 99% of the sorting (mostly, already scanned...)
What they really need are portable scanning solutions. LIbrarians are just the kind of people that would love to help, so long as their books don't go too far out of their control. Even absent that, most libraries produce a steady stream of 'discards' that should be checked against the 'books database' first.
Anybody should be able to take a picture of a title page and have Google tell them if they want the book for scanning. 'Book people' would do it.
I have a friend who is weird even by my social groups standards.
One of his 'interests' is preserving old DEC documentation. They just use a binding guillotine and a high speed sheet feeder scanner. Along with countless tricks to restore tape for one last read pass etc.
Tesla isn't self driving, it has more or less standard freeway assists. Lane following and smart distance maintaining cruise control.
Every Uber self driving car I can find with Google has LIDAR. The lawsuit between Google and Uber is largely about the LIDAR system.
A little nitrous oxide in the printing press engines and we're good...
Investment income taxes have to compete globally, including the double taxation applied.
((1 - Corporate tax rate) * (1 - Capital gains tax rate) * Average national investment return) has to be globally competitive or your nation will get _no_ investment.
In first world nations with growing economies corporate taxes + capital gains taxes on investments are about 45%. Those who claim capital gains taxes are too low all forget to count the corporate taxes already paid on the same income (in the case of stocks).
I've _never_ had an employer not be willing to blow off the 'raise budget' when I've had another offer 'in hand'.
Don't do it. Never take counteroffers, take the new job. At the old job you just _extorted_ a huge raise, at the new job you just got a new basis for all future raises.
They will complain endlessly, but they had their chance to adjust pay when they had to pony up for the new guy and didn't, decisions have consequences.
It's completely equal. Everybody gets paid what they negotiate for.
What you suggest will quickly devolve into seniority pay. Which means you can't hire/afford the best workers.
You should look at the % of women that actually return to their jobs after the 12 weeks. Last I looked it was about 50%. The rest just take the bene then bail for more time at home with their snot monkey..
Chickens are pretty simple creatures. It crossed the road because there was something it wanted on the other side or something it was scared of on the initial side.
I can see the 'thought' in my dog's mind change. They only have room for one at a time...food, food, food...cat, cat, cat...leash, leash, leash...mailman, mailman, mailman...
Parents can, more or less, do the same with young kids.
There are no current 'self driving cars' that don't have LIDAR. 50k$ LIDAR.
Male robots have 'bolt shame'. Why they spend so much effort finding places to hide them.
Your point being?
I was discussing claims of 'Agile', as commonly seen in job descriptions. As I said Agile is a manifesto...but now it's a one word description which means whatever the fuck the terms user is thinking at the time he wrote it. Though the manifesto is as you describe, 'Agile' in practical use means nothing. Perhaps in means 'not waterfall', but I wouldn't count on it.
How would you evaluate claims of agility? My suggestion above is look at the team and check for signs of 'competence and enthusiasm'. Not finding those, I suggest any claims of agility will be found to be 'off handed fapping' at best.
The point is you recognize the bad place before you cross the bridge and 'burn it'. You're not going there, never.
You should learn to smell despair in the office during the interviews. Spot the Lumberg. Run the Monty Python management training interview in reverse on the PHB. Get in touch with your inner BOFH.
You've wasted your time interviewing at a place you would never work, have some fun with it.
One place I worked I personally took 130% of the 'department raise budget' my first year there.
Useless weasel told the rest of the department at their reviews that they weren't getting anything because I had taken 100% of the 'raise budget'...
Since he had started the conversation, I simply told them that I had taken 180% of the 'budget' and that they should all jump up and down until their balls dropped (including the lesbian, only one to take my advice to heart.)
Never expected employers to train me. Never been disappointed. You train as you learn/break new systems. Things not directly useful to current employer, on your own time. Who's going to teach the brand new stuff anyhow? Before the internet it was a bitch...swapping bootleg knowledgebase CDs.
Besides it's 90% the same shit as the last version, just rearranged, further obfuscated and renamed.
Not quite retired...but already financially capable. Just a question of where at this point. Besides I would get bored...bad things...
Agile doesn't say that. The manifesto is short. Perhaps Scrum does.
Years ago, like I said it was when 'dailies' were fashionable, before 'stand ups' (though they had that feature). Yes he was useless, but you couldn't get rid of him. Marketer promoted outside his range, best treated 'like a mushroom'.
Call the other one a tech leed if you prefer. Someone had to pay attention to critical path and run the project, though he was particularly bad at it, about like his coding. He was running 'knowledge is power' on the useless ex marketer, fucking us all in the process. I think the place was bouncing between -3 and -4 on the process immaturity model. Project sabotage was only sporadic.
Never so glad to put a place behind me as that one. Though I was glad to get it when it started, needed the move.
I did the 'daily stand up', before it was called Scrum. It turned into a _huge_ waste of time. 5 minutes per dev. Team of 5. That's a half hour easy. Without considering the 'game the meeting to avoid work' potential. Push the managers buttons, watch the usual BS. Avoid work, lower everybody's productivity to your normal (zero).
But honestly, that whole place sucked. Recently heard, one of the poor bastards is _still_ with them, decades on.
I forget where I read it. But their was a rant about meetings. Categorizing them by type and the type of online communication that best replaced them. Email, group email, forum etc. The only exception is the true 'rah rah' meeting. If you think those are useful, there is no substitute for a live one.
Daily's can be replaced by end of workday project manager status emails, done right along with and part of code checkin/bug tracker/testing schedule etc. Project manager reads those, summarizes for everyone and starts communication when needed. Code repository logs are available for review, so no bullshitting, daily check in your unstable appropriately. No whole team time waste.
Sprints are fine, for sprint durations. Two year death marches are 'sprints' by some definitions. Weasel words abound. 'Continuous sprint' is nonsense.
Talk to the big boss about his business' 'truck number'. If they won't pay for any redundancy, _extort_ them for more pay. They will pay, one way or another.
Besides: If you don't have someone learning your tasks, how will your boss promote you to his job when he moves up?
On consideration, I'll take back 'Most', put in 'Many'. There are a buttload of net negative workers that _never_ take vacation. Been my observation over the years. They guard their little bit of hell.
As far as cancelled vacations. Going to be a long talk about scheduling issues and costs before I cancel anything involved.
Remember your most important kindergarten lesson. If you didn't get caught, you didn't do it.
Let them have their fig leaf. But recognize it and skip. Then you have a choice: bar or office? Guess it depends on how much work you have to do and who you are skipping with.