After the book was written, but before it hit bookstores, Gates recognized that the Internet was gaining critical mass, and on December 7, 1995 — just weeks after the release of the book — he redirected Microsoft to become an Internet-focused company; in retrospect he had "vastly underestimated how important and how quickly the internet would come to prominence". Then he and coauthor Rinearson spent several months revising the book, making it 20,000 words longer and focused on the Internet. The revised edition was published in October 1996 as a trade paperback, with the subtitle "Completely revised and up-to-date
"Big" wife and "big" kids? Well I guess when you weigh 350 lbs you don't have many options.
When I mean "big," I'm mean bigger than me. I used to be the proverbial fat kid in school. But now there are fat people everywhere who are much bigger than me.
Also you wouldn't need such a big car if you could fit into a regular-sized one.
My last two cars was a 1999 Pontiac Grand Prix and 1999 Ford Taurus. I had no problems sitting behind the steering wheel.
There will be a random chance that a car in the middle lane will do an illegal left-hand turn in front of the fast lane and turn lane when the light turned green. One of the reasons why I don't like to drive in San Francisco.
Can you live in Silicon Valley with a salary of $100k or less?
Yes, if you live a modest lifestyle. If you want the American Dream of having it all (big house, big cars, big wife and big kides), it gets expensive in a hurry.
I was a video game tester in my 30's for six years. I got the old guys assigned to my team, as none of the high school punks knew what to do with a grandfather who Midway arcade machines in the 1980's and an former Army armorer who tested pen-and-paper games in the 1970's.
Everyone assumes, rightfully, that you are too dumb to get more than you are getting.
The last time I heard that was before I made the transition from video game tester to help desk technician. Before that when I made the transition from kitchen cook to software tester. Before even that was probably when I skipped high school to go to community college. I'm always surrounded by doubters.
[...] but it hasn't been done before, and would be a very unusual step.
Bill Clinton fired an Attorney General William Sessions but that guy was under investigation for ethical issues that made his firing a foregone conclusion. The attorney general that came after him was the one who appointed the Whitewater special prosecutor that caused Clinton all kinds of trouble.
Microsoft is the same company that almost missed the Internet for Windows. When The Road Ahead by Bill Gates came out, it had no mentioned of the Internet. Gates and the publisher revised the book. You can't have a visionary missing one of the biggest technological developments of his time.
As usual, if Microsoft appears to have done something right, they bought the software from someone else. It's never developed in-house.
Good point. I just got finish reading "Chaos Monkeys: Obscene Fortune and Random Failure in Silicon Valley" by Antonio Garcia Martinez, about Facebook advertising. Microsoft bought this company for $6.1B, wrote down $6B in goodwill, and sold the advertising group for $0.1B to Facebook.
A 100K salary in Silicon Valley doesn't go very far, so the net worth wouldn't be particularly high.
I wouldn't be so sure about that. Everyone thought Ronald Read was a poor man because he lived frugally and worked all his life as gas station attendant and later as a janitor. When he died at the age of 92, he left $8M to the local hospital and library.
I truly wonder about you if you think $50k is enough to get by with in Silicon Valley, even if you live a minimal lifestyle.
As an IT Support contractor, my income can vary considerably from year to year. The lowest I ever made was $30K and the highest was $54K. I spent the last 12 years living in a rent-controlled studio apartment. No wild increases in rent as the real estate market cycles from boom to bust and back again.
What about your savings? Your retirement?
20%
I just think you're selling yourself short and should be getting while the getting is good.
A lot of people here on Slashdot make the assumption that I can simply just get $100K job. Recruiters look at my work history — software tester, help desk/desktop, project lead, etc. — to put a $50K per year price tag on my head. Since I'm halfway through a five-year contract, got the job title "senior system administrator," and studying for InfoSec certifications, I can make the transition into the higher paying job.
Slashdot Mirror
That is simply false.
Try reading your own link.
After the book was written, but before it hit bookstores, Gates recognized that the Internet was gaining critical mass, and on December 7, 1995 — just weeks after the release of the book — he redirected Microsoft to become an Internet-focused company; in retrospect he had "vastly underestimated how important and how quickly the internet would come to prominence". Then he and coauthor Rinearson spent several months revising the book, making it 20,000 words longer and focused on the Internet. The revised edition was published in October 1996 as a trade paperback, with the subtitle "Completely revised and up-to-date
They already all got to the other side during my childhood.
Those were Chickens: The Original Series. I'm talking about Chickens: The Next Generation.
Maybe you should try walking you fat tub of shit.
https://twitter.com/cdreimer/status/858405712317210624
"Big" wife and "big" kids? Well I guess when you weigh 350 lbs you don't have many options.
When I mean "big," I'm mean bigger than me. I used to be the proverbial fat kid in school. But now there are fat people everywhere who are much bigger than me.
Also you wouldn't need such a big car if you could fit into a regular-sized one.
My last two cars was a 1999 Pontiac Grand Prix and 1999 Ford Taurus. I had no problems sitting behind the steering wheel.
You will get a bill if your car was traveling one millisecond slower than prevailing traffic.
Think of the chickens!
There will be a random chance that a car in the middle lane will do an illegal left-hand turn in front of the fast lane and turn lane when the light turned green. One of the reasons why I don't like to drive in San Francisco.
The FBI director isn't supposed to play kingmaker in DC.
Seems like Trump is firing the FBI director not for playing kingmaker but not for backing up Trump's false accusation that Obama wiretapping him.
Go away loser.
No.
Can you live in Silicon Valley with a salary of $100k or less?
Yes, if you live a modest lifestyle. If you want the American Dream of having it all (big house, big cars, big wife and big kides), it gets expensive in a hurry.
Go the fuck away and stop bothering everyone here.
No.
Over 30 is as good as dead.
I was a video game tester in my 30's for six years. I got the old guys assigned to my team, as none of the high school punks knew what to do with a grandfather who Midway arcade machines in the 1980's and an former Army armorer who tested pen-and-paper games in the 1970's.
You seriously think you are qualified to give anybody any advice on anything on this site?
Yes.
"A good living" is defined not by you but by us.
If I listened to doubters like you, I've would never gotten as far I have gotten in life.
Everyone assumes, rightfully, that you are too dumb to get more than you are getting.
The last time I heard that was before I made the transition from video game tester to help desk technician. Before that when I made the transition from kitchen cook to software tester. Before even that was probably when I skipped high school to go to community college. I'm always surrounded by doubters.
When I recently enabled two-factor authentication on my iCloud email, it broke Thunderbird.
I just turned off two-factor authentication for my iCloud account and everything works now.
[...] but it hasn't been done before, and would be a very unusual step.
Bill Clinton fired an Attorney General William Sessions but that guy was under investigation for ethical issues that made his firing a foregone conclusion. The attorney general that came after him was the one who appointed the Whitewater special prosecutor that caused Clinton all kinds of trouble.
Microsoft is the same company that almost missed the Internet for Windows. When The Road Ahead by Bill Gates came out, it had no mentioned of the Internet. Gates and the publisher revised the book. You can't have a visionary missing one of the biggest technological developments of his time.
Type a code sample with your big fat dick.
You want that in big endian?
As usual, if Microsoft appears to have done something right, they bought the software from someone else. It's never developed in-house.
Good point. I just got finish reading "Chaos Monkeys: Obscene Fortune and Random Failure in Silicon Valley" by Antonio Garcia Martinez, about Facebook advertising. Microsoft bought this company for $6.1B, wrote down $6B in goodwill, and sold the advertising group for $0.1B to Facebook.
A 100K salary in Silicon Valley doesn't go very far, so the net worth wouldn't be particularly high.
I wouldn't be so sure about that. Everyone thought Ronald Read was a poor man because he lived frugally and worked all his life as gas station attendant and later as a janitor. When he died at the age of 92, he left $8M to the local hospital and library.
http://www.joshuakennon.com/janitor-ronald-read-leaves-behind-8000000-secret-fortune/
I truly wonder about you if you think $50k is enough to get by with in Silicon Valley, even if you live a minimal lifestyle.
As an IT Support contractor, my income can vary considerably from year to year. The lowest I ever made was $30K and the highest was $54K. I spent the last 12 years living in a rent-controlled studio apartment. No wild increases in rent as the real estate market cycles from boom to bust and back again.
What about your savings? Your retirement?
20%
I just think you're selling yourself short and should be getting while the getting is good.
A lot of people here on Slashdot make the assumption that I can simply just get $100K job. Recruiters look at my work history — software tester, help desk/desktop, project lead, etc. — to put a $50K per year price tag on my head. Since I'm halfway through a five-year contract, got the job title "senior system administrator," and studying for InfoSec certifications, I can make the transition into the higher paying job.
I could probably write better code — I don't even work professionally as a programmer.
Next you'll ask, "WTF is nmap?"
I'm wondering why you're using nonexistent word instead of writing in clear English. Millennial?
Well, I don't really know but a wild hunch tells me just one. And he sits in the Oval office. Just sayin'.
Bo is still in the White House? What a naughty dog!