Second, there is a good argument to be made that foundations like the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation are harmful and are mainly entertainment vehicles and tax shelters for the rich.
When I read how charities are a 'tax shelter', I realize how stupid the writer is. And in this case, how dumb the moderators are.
Give away a dollar to save 40 cents. Brilliant strategy. Especially when you consider the wealthy can probably reduce their tax liability to 20 cents or less per dollar.
Tell you what... give me $10,000 and I will give you back $4,000. Then you to can do the same brilliant 'tax shelter' strategy.
1) I had a reputation for being a computer nerd before college. I actually built my own systems in the FidoNet days (ahhhh. the memories.... $500 56.6K modems.... $30/meg of RAM) 2) I worked in the computer labs. 3) I actually helped out folks, not hiding behind a monitor surfing the web. 4) I wore a tie. Got some funny looks, but it also said I cared about the job.
From word of mouth I got jobs. My most interesting job was to tutor a "slow" older student. The Indian professor referred me to him. When I got to meet him, he had a thick German accent. Turned out he was the retired CEO of a mid-sized company. Not slow in the least. He had no computer skills because he grew up when secretaries handled those base functions and he never learned.
I would tutor him in his mansion. The only reason he had a hard time in the class was because his native language was German, and the Indian prof was hard for ME to understand. I could kick myself for not continuing the relationship after the tutoring was complete, but I was a typical nerd with not enough social sense...
The bottom line: care about what you do, go the extra mile and you will stand out from the crowd. This ain't an IT thing. This is a life thing.
If he is fresh out of school, it would be good to go full time into a tech environment before starting his own business. There are some really important pieces to running a business besides the tech part. I paid for part of my college education by building PCs. If I tried to translate that into running a business at that point in my life, I would have flopped.
The bottom line is the question asker did not provide enough information to adequately answer his post.
Seriously. I read that book 15 years ago and it still stands out in my mind how sad the degradation is. It is one of my worst nightmare to eventually lose my reasoning capacities.
.... says that the majority of posts will be about which side is screwing who despite no one on Slashdot having any clue about what happened at the meetings between the two companies.
Check back later for the results of the prediction.
If you've gotten this far in your career without realizing this little fact, I'd be a bit concerned about your intellectual vitality if I were your employer
And if you think Google is the answer to staying current, I seriously question yours.
Google is wonderful for finding out details of something that you already have a background in. As a developer, I relied on it. I still use it for finding out answers to specific questions. Try to find information about industry trends, and the signal to corporate sponsored noise is very low.
And something else your post makes me realize -- you plain do not understand the importance of the human network. Learning who is a subject matter expert, and building a relationship is many orders of magnitude more important that Google or any automated information source. As a developer I excelled. I was always toward the top of the "code monkey" group... these who could take a set of specs and build. Where I excelled was being able to work with the end users, stake holders and other individuals and getting them what they truly wanted, not just what they said they wanted. These skills are what got me into management.
I'd have thought anyone in IT would've figured this shit out by their freshman year of high school, or at least, by the end of the freshman university year.
And I'd have figured out you would have known the first part of what I said by your third or fourth year in the workplace. Apparently not.
Actually, it is PHB:). I submitted this article as an anonymous coward the day before signing it "The New PHB". It was rejected (or at least never made it to AskSlashdot). Kinda funny... same article wording and all:)
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Second, there is a good argument to be made that foundations like the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation are harmful and are mainly entertainment vehicles and tax shelters for the rich.
When I read how charities are a 'tax shelter', I realize how stupid the writer is. And in this case, how dumb the moderators are.
Give away a dollar to save 40 cents. Brilliant strategy. Especially when you consider the wealthy can probably reduce their tax liability to 20 cents or less per dollar.
Tell you what... give me $10,000 and I will give you back $4,000. Then you to can do the same brilliant 'tax shelter' strategy.
so we don't know what readers are actually interested in
Porn. Anime. Sometimes computers.
Hope that alleviates your concerns.
With all the readers of Slashdot, I think it would be safe to bet we will see a DDOS of AVG servers.
If you say so. Not sure how it ties in to the zombo.com post, but maybe I am missing something :)
I have to admit I am not sure how this relates to the original post.
ZOMBOcom. Clearly they are winning the talent war.
Well a couple things:
1) I had a reputation for being a computer nerd before college. I actually built my own systems in the FidoNet days (ahhhh. the memories.... $500 56.6K modems.... $30/meg of RAM)
2) I worked in the computer labs.
3) I actually helped out folks, not hiding behind a monitor surfing the web.
4) I wore a tie. Got some funny looks, but it also said I cared about the job.
From word of mouth I got jobs. My most interesting job was to tutor a "slow" older student. The Indian professor referred me to him. When I got to meet him, he had a thick German accent. Turned out he was the retired CEO of a mid-sized company. Not slow in the least. He had no computer skills because he grew up when secretaries handled those base functions and he never learned.
I would tutor him in his mansion. The only reason he had a hard time in the class was because his native language was German, and the Indian prof was hard for ME to understand. I could kick myself for not continuing the relationship after the tutoring was complete, but I was a typical nerd with not enough social sense...
The bottom line: care about what you do, go the extra mile and you will stand out from the crowd. This ain't an IT thing. This is a life thing.
If he is fresh out of school, it would be good to go full time into a tech environment before starting his own business. There are some really important pieces to running a business besides the tech part. I paid for part of my college education by building PCs. If I tried to translate that into running a business at that point in my life, I would have flopped.
The bottom line is the question asker did not provide enough information to adequately answer his post.
Nope. They meant triple. Exactly what 200% more means. I know this is misued most times, but in this case the figure is correct.
To whoever modded "informative", at least check the facts first.
How in the world is this a troll? You may not LIKE what is posted, but can tell you for a fact that this does occur. Troll != I think that is stupid.
Damn are you stupid.
You should be more pissed at the EU than the US. I mean your own folks are selling you out.
I was the judge: I told him that I don't have free will either, and was predetermined to sentence him to 5-10. Underage donkey porn is just sick.
As funny as this?
Seriously. I read that book 15 years ago and it still stands out in my mind how sad the degradation is. It is one of my worst nightmare to eventually lose my reasoning capacities.
LOL! ME 2!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Two words, only smucks sue for billions when their product is worth thousands.
Two questions:
What were the "two words".
And is a "smuck" one who makes Smuckers jelly?
.... says that the majority of posts will be about which side is screwing who despite no one on Slashdot having any clue about what happened at the meetings between the two companies.
Check back later for the results of the prediction.
I figured if I were intelligent and different, early on in life, that it was best not to advertise how smart I was.
LOL! ME 2!!!!!!!!!
If you've gotten this far in your career without realizing this little fact, I'd be a bit concerned about your intellectual vitality if I were your employer
And if you think Google is the answer to staying current, I seriously question yours.
Google is wonderful for finding out details of something that you already have a background in. As a developer, I relied on it. I still use it for finding out answers to specific questions. Try to find information about industry trends, and the signal to corporate sponsored noise is very low.
And something else your post makes me realize -- you plain do not understand the importance of the human network. Learning who is a subject matter expert, and building a relationship is many orders of magnitude more important that Google or any automated information source. As a developer I excelled. I was always toward the top of the "code monkey" group... these who could take a set of specs and build. Where I excelled was being able to work with the end users, stake holders and other individuals and getting them what they truly wanted, not just what they said they wanted. These skills are what got me into management.
I'd have thought anyone in IT would've figured this shit out by their freshman year of high school, or at least, by the end of the freshman university year.
And I'd have figured out you would have known the first part of what I said by your third or fourth year in the workplace. Apparently not.
Actually, it is PHB :). I submitted this article as an anonymous coward the day before signing it "The New PHB". It was rejected (or at least never made it to AskSlashdot). Kinda funny... same article wording and all :)
If only they made a browser where you could somehow increase the font size.... I think I am going to patent that idea.
Please tag "linuxkillsdogs". The dog died. If this were a Microsoft product, the dog would have lived. You open source freaks are just evil.
Yeah, because it is Nintendo's responsibility to keep me thin.
Keep clamoring for corporations to take responsibility for my behavior, and watch our individual rights continue to erode.
Be honest... are you stoned right now?
Stealing people's belly buttons is just wrong.