"Didn't have enough money" is no excuse for slavery.
Slavery, what slavery? I was tasked to regress 600+ bugs in six months, got it done in two months. Wrote a 300-page technical manual. Found a crash bug on the test server that my supervisor ignored, approved for the production server, and the company lost $250K in revenues as the engineers took the production server off line for three days to fix the problem. Of course, I didn't get hired on permanently and one-third of the department got laid off a month after I left to make up for the lost revenues. That started the death spiral for division.
Middle-aged, living by yourself and spending half your income to rent a studio apartment is not "a modest lifestyle".
Compared to a lot of other folks in Silicon Valley, this is a modest lifestyle. I know of few people in similar circumstances who still have money left over at the end of each month to save.
It's pretty much rock-bottom.
Rock-bottom is paying half your income on rent for a room in a house and living with roommates. For an extra $200 per month, I could get an extra wall to have a one-bedroom apartment.
Same with San Jose -- you can just -feel- how much money is floating around.
I lived in San Jose all my life and never experience that. The one-time I did experience that was when my brother's in-laws bought a five-bedroom, $1M home in Gilroy (30 miles south of San Jose). The kitchen was larger than my 475-sqft studio apartment. The wet bar was bigger than my kitchen. What made it even more obscene is that the in-laws had five bedrooms of furniture that been in the family for decades.
I highly doubt a fast food worker would endure, say, a 2 hour commute from Stockton or similar.
That's because most fast food workers live locally.
You can't have big kids without a big wife. There are always exceptions to the rule. My parents were skinny as can be when they had me as a ten-pound bowling ball and brought me home in a bowling bag.
It tells us that at least half of all people in Silicon Valley don't work as software engineers or management.:-D
That's a popular misconception about Silicon Valley. Not everyone here is a newly minted millionaire, billionaire or zillionaire. You got minimum wage people taking out the trash, virtual ditch diggers like myself cleaning up the messes, and everyone else who isn't management or engineering.
When I did my six month software testing internship at Fujitsu, I got paid $10 per hour on a six-contract because they didn't have enough money in the budget for a full-time staffer.
I make $50K+ per year doing IT Support in Silicon Valley by living a modest lifestyle. If you want to live the American Dream of having it all (big house, big cars, big wife and big kids), living here gets expensive in a hurry.
What part of self-contained database do you not understand? Save the sqlite database to a file, copy the file to a USB key, and you have access to it anywhere you've got a computer.
Why would I use this for my own project then? My script scrapes my Slashdot comment history to a CSV file. From there I can import CSV into Excel and search for comments. Or if I want to get fancy, import it into Filemaker Pro and design forms for it.
Asset tracking in a spreadsheet that gets mailed around and manually edited is monumentally dumb, even if Google does it.
A CSV file is an intermediate format. It can be imported into a database or manipulated with Python for data massaging. Just because it isn't your preferred solution doesn't make it stupid.
My friend works at a Sprint store. They have a Microsoft Windows phone that sits in the storage room and no one ever asks to see it. Unless Microsoft is willing to put money behind their promotions like Samsung, HTC and LG, my friend has no incentives to sell a Microsoft Windows phone.
Or you could, oh, I don't know, GIVE THEM A $20 bill...
That would have been a bad idea when I was a kid. I could easily blow $20 at the arcade — or the bookstore. The funny thing was my non-reading parents were more concern about the bookstore than the arcade. But they were happy I wasn't spending my allowance on drugs like my older brother.
Most of the time my mother packed my a lunch. If the school had a cafeteria and the lines were short, I'll get money to buy lunch at school. Not only was I the proverbial fat kid in school, I was the only one ate tuna sandwiches. No one wanted to trade anything for a soggy tuna sandwich.
So one bored or unthinking lunch lady, in an isolated incident, defines for you the school lunch experience that is typical of America?
I've been turned away from getting a school lunch because my mother forgot to give me five dollars at the beginning of the week. I guess you have never gone to school without lunch,
have your milk money stolen by older kids, or a teacher toss your lunch into the trash because she was having a bad day. If none of these have happened to you, you probably didn't go to a public school in America.
Shoot, if you know how to shop you can send your kid to school with a buck or two worth of produce and they've got a filling, nutritious meal. That's certainly how I lived when I was going to college.
So your parents sent you to college with a few bucks of veggies for lunch each day? Wow! I had to buy ramen as I worked my way through college.:P
On the first day of seventh grade last fall, Caitlin Dolan lined up for lunch at her school in Canonsburg, Pa. But when the cashier discovered she had an unpaid food bill from last year, the tray of pizza, cucumber slices, an apple and chocolate milk was thrown in the trash.
When I started my tech career 20+ years ago, $10 per hour was twice the rate of minimum wage. Now $10 per hour is minimum wage. Many entry-level tech jobs in Silicon Valley still start at $10 per hour. Virtual ditch diggers are cheap here.
The csv module implements classes to read and write tabular data in CSV format. It allows programmers to say, "write this data in the format preferred by Excel," or "read data from this file which was generated by Excel," without knowing the precise details of the CSV format used by Excel. Programmers can also describe the CSV formats understood by other applications or define their own special-purpose CSV formats.
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"Didn't have enough money" is no excuse for slavery.
Slavery, what slavery? I was tasked to regress 600+ bugs in six months, got it done in two months. Wrote a 300-page technical manual. Found a crash bug on the test server that my supervisor ignored, approved for the production server, and the company lost $250K in revenues as the engineers took the production server off line for three days to fix the problem. Of course, I didn't get hired on permanently and one-third of the department got laid off a month after I left to make up for the lost revenues. That started the death spiral for division.
Middle-aged, living by yourself and spending half your income to rent a studio apartment is not "a modest lifestyle".
Compared to a lot of other folks in Silicon Valley, this is a modest lifestyle. I know of few people in similar circumstances who still have money left over at the end of each month to save.
It's pretty much rock-bottom.
Rock-bottom is paying half your income on rent for a room in a house and living with roommates. For an extra $200 per month, I could get an extra wall to have a one-bedroom apartment.
you're friend is a fuckwit.
In what way?
Same with San Jose -- you can just -feel- how much money is floating around.
I lived in San Jose all my life and never experience that. The one-time I did experience that was when my brother's in-laws bought a five-bedroom, $1M home in Gilroy (30 miles south of San Jose). The kitchen was larger than my 475-sqft studio apartment. The wet bar was bigger than my kitchen. What made it even more obscene is that the in-laws had five bedrooms of furniture that been in the family for decades.
I highly doubt a fast food worker would endure, say, a 2 hour commute from Stockton or similar.
That's because most fast food workers live locally.
Not sure how many people want a big wife
You can't have big kids without a big wife. There are always exceptions to the rule. My parents were skinny as can be when they had me as a ten-pound bowling ball and brought me home in a bowling bag.
It tells us that at least half of all people in Silicon Valley don't work as software engineers or management. :-D
That's a popular misconception about Silicon Valley. Not everyone here is a newly minted millionaire, billionaire or zillionaire. You got minimum wage people taking out the trash, virtual ditch diggers like myself cleaning up the messes, and everyone else who isn't management or engineering.
When I did my six month software testing internship at Fujitsu, I got paid $10 per hour on a six-contract because they didn't have enough money in the budget for a full-time staffer.
I make $50K+ per year doing IT Support in Silicon Valley by living a modest lifestyle. If you want to live the American Dream of having it all (big house, big cars, big wife and big kids), living here gets expensive in a hurry.
What part of self-contained database do you not understand? Save the sqlite database to a file, copy the file to a USB key, and you have access to it anywhere you've got a computer.
Why would I use this for my own project then? My script scrapes my Slashdot comment history to a CSV file. From there I can import CSV into Excel and search for comments. Or if I want to get fancy, import it into Filemaker Pro and design forms for it.
Asset tracking in a spreadsheet that gets mailed around and manually edited is monumentally dumb, even if Google does it.
A CSV file is an intermediate format. It can be imported into a database or manipulated with Python for data massaging. Just because it isn't your preferred solution doesn't make it stupid.
If carriers could ignore the momentum of the brand, they'd keep iOS phones in the storage room hidden from view also.
iOS phones sell themselves. It's the other phone manufacturers that have to fund marketing campaigns to get noticed.
What's next, turning off the power to my house just because I didn't pay the electric company?!
Depending on where you live and the season, it may take up to three months for power to get turned off for non-payment.
Another coherent and on-point reply from creimer.
Thank you!
My friend works at a Sprint store. They have a Microsoft Windows phone that sits in the storage room and no one ever asks to see it. Unless Microsoft is willing to put money behind their promotions like Samsung, HTC and LG, my friend has no incentives to sell a Microsoft Windows phone.
If they don't and dial number, they will get an explicit education.
If you need help, call 1-800-IBM-HELP.
Note: You must be 21 years old or older to use phone number.
Or you could, oh, I don't know, GIVE THEM A $20 bill...
That would have been a bad idea when I was a kid. I could easily blow $20 at the arcade — or the bookstore. The funny thing was my non-reading parents were more concern about the bookstore than the arcade. But they were happy I wasn't spending my allowance on drugs like my older brother.
So the module must conform to these requirements then?
Yes, by default.
I don't think mixing HTML with Excel's arbitrary CSV rules makes for a very portable or useful file format.
I've yet to have a problem saving my 8,000+ comment history to CSV. Don't worry. HTML, JSON, Markdown and XML are coming soon.
Anyway, this thread has gone on long enough over such a trifling thing, good luck keeping control over your file.
A thread doesn't end until it has 256 comments. The system won't let you comment after that.
Meat was a delicacy back then.
So was Taco Bell when I went to college.
Most of the time my mother packed my a lunch. If the school had a cafeteria and the lines were short, I'll get money to buy lunch at school. Not only was I the proverbial fat kid in school, I was the only one ate tuna sandwiches. No one wanted to trade anything for a soggy tuna sandwich.
So one bored or unthinking lunch lady, in an isolated incident, defines for you the school lunch experience that is typical of America?
I've been turned away from getting a school lunch because my mother forgot to give me five dollars at the beginning of the week. I guess you have never gone to school without lunch, have your milk money stolen by older kids, or a teacher toss your lunch into the trash because she was having a bad day. If none of these have happened to you, you probably didn't go to a public school in America.
Shoot, if you know how to shop you can send your kid to school with a buck or two worth of produce and they've got a filling, nutritious meal. That's certainly how I lived when I was going to college.
So your parents sent you to college with a few bucks of veggies for lunch each day? Wow! I had to buy ramen as I worked my way through college. :P
If the parents forgot to pay off a previous balance for school lunches, the kid's lunch gets thrown into the garbage to shame them. Only in America...
https://www.nytimes.com/2017/04/30/well/family/lunch-shaming-children-parents-school-bills.html
On the first day of seventh grade last fall, Caitlin Dolan lined up for lunch at her school in Canonsburg, Pa. But when the cashier discovered she had an unpaid food bill from last year, the tray of pizza, cucumber slices, an apple and chocolate milk was thrown in the trash.
Wow, in SJ? That's a really bad low pay! :(
When I started my tech career 20+ years ago, $10 per hour was twice the rate of minimum wage. Now $10 per hour is minimum wage. Many entry-level tech jobs in Silicon Valley still start at $10 per hour. Virtual ditch diggers are cheap here.
Which company was this so we can avoid it? :P
I don't remember. It was a turnkey system integrator located off of Zanker Road in San Jose.
How do you escape the comma?
I don't. The csv module handles the details.
The csv module implements classes to read and write tabular data in CSV format. It allows programmers to say, "write this data in the format preferred by Excel," or "read data from this file which was generated by Excel," without knowing the precise details of the CSV format used by Excel. Programmers can also describe the CSV formats understood by other applications or define their own special-purpose CSV formats.