I had a 2006 black MacBook (yes, I paid an $200 for the black version) that ran flawlessly for many years. The CPU fan and battery died in 2012. I took my vintage laptop into the Apple Store, got replacement parts, and, because the tech wasn't careful putting the keyboard top back in, got a new keyboard top. The CPU fan died in 2014 and I let it be, as too many software packages I used were dropping 32-bit support after Apple did the same. I bought an inexpensive Dell laptop to replace it, as my data was in vendor-neutral formats. Still looking for a worthy successor to my MacBook from Apple.
Sadly that sounds likely, although I'm having trouble imagining how they attempted to apply that much pressure in browbeating.
I went into the first interview expecting to be interviewed by the hiring supervisor and his manager at a small tech company. The hiring supervisor got called away, the manager didn't feel comfortable interviewing me by himself, and, BTW, the position pays $20 per hour. The interview got rescheduled. Second interview had the manager called away, the hiring supervisor didn't feel comfortable interviewing me by himself, and, BTW, the position pays $15 per hour. I walked out. The HR person spent a month calling me to see if I would be interested in the job at $10 per hour, as it wasn't likely that anyone else would hire me. Shortly thereafter I had three job offers to pick a new job from.
Simply put, disruption is lessening the need for lawyers, which means law schools are producing too many lawyers for positions that increasingly do not exist. At Whittier, only 30 of the 141 graduates in 2015 had gained full-time employment that required passing the bar. According to the New York Times, Whittierâ(TM)s graduates last year had an average of $179,000 pre-interest debt. This will not reverse.
And you specifically were talking about YOUR OWN use - why can't YOU run that in a windows shop?
You misunderstood my comments. I'm using CVS files at home AND at work. My Python script at home requires four lines of code to save data to a CVS file. I don't have direct access to the database at work, but I can export a small slice of the data set into a CSV file to use in Excel.
The fact that thousands of your coworkers do it daily doesn't make it smart.
When I worked at Google to build out a data center, I asked the project manager why the serial numbers for the port mappings were scanned into an Excel spreadsheet and not into a text file. Two reasons: spreadsheets can be open in Excel and Python can read/write data from spreadsheets (either Excel or CSV formats).
The "92 million unemployed Americans" was a number that right-wing echo chamber tossed about during the Obama Administration to argue that unemployment figures were wrong and Obama was doing absolutely nothing for one-third of America being unemployed. That number is true but misleading. The majority of those 92 million Americans are children, college students and senior citizens. Only ~6 million are unemployed adults looking for work. Trump is also doing absolutely nothing for those 92 million Americans.
As for coal mine jobs, Trump promised to bring them back. Those jobs are never coming back. Coal miners make nice props for ceremony signings of executive orders at the White House.
Note, I'm not painting all older workers with the same brush -- there is a HUGE difference between someone who keeps their skills sharp and someone who hasn't learned anything new since they started in the job.
I had a former college roommate who graduated as an Electrical Engineer in the mid-1990's, got a MBA after the dot com bust, and currently does IT Support that pays significantly less than being EE. He's mad at me because I make more money than him and he can't pay off his student loans. As I told him before, I never went into debt for my education, I deliberately went into IT Support as a career and I didn't wash out as an EE.
Haven't they heard there's an IT skills shortage? That's why we have all these H1Bs, right?
There are two trends defining the IT shortage in 2030: the baby boomers are retired and foreign workers will be going home. Fewer students are studying computers to replace workers who are retiring. With Trump in the White House, foreigners are getting the heck out of the country. For those of us who positioned are careers for 2030, lots of money to be made.
Start with people who barely have a high-school education, then educate/train them in IT.
I don't have a high school diploma. But I do have two associate degrees and a handful of certifications. I'm 20+ years into my technical career.
That's all you have to do - as long as they can punch a few keys in a keyboard, that's all you need.
That's fine for level-entry help desk positions. As people gain more experience, they can move into other areas like desktop support, PC deployments and data center operations.
I'm currently doing InfoSec remediation.
That's about the quality of the people you get from these companies anyways.
From my experience with interviewing at a few Indian contracting agencies, they're looking for Americans to "diversify" their ranks and still do the job. Like American employers, they're just as picky about whom they hire.
For $10 per hour in Silicon Valley? Absolutely. A few years ago a small company lured me in to interview for a $25 per hour position and tried to browbeat me into accepting at $10 per hour. I told them to bugger off.
If he had been elected in 1976, he would have been eligible for a second term in 1980.
Not according to Wikipedia: "Had Ford won the election, he would have been disqualified by the 22nd amendment from running in 1980 because he served more than two years of Nixon's term."
But you were talking about people who have BSs who aren't you. If it's "so what," why bring it up in the first place?
I'm not going to worship the ground you walk on because you went to the university and I went to community college. Guess what? I transferred to the university — and got kicked out in my junior. The snobbery doesn't impress me. I've known people with no degrees who were smarter than me. I've known people with higher degrees who are stupider than me.
Incumbents always have the advantage. Since WWII, only two Presidents ran for a second term and lost.
A low bar that I'm sure the North Koreans will respect.
Biden has repeatedly said he won't run.
We shall see. News articles yesterday were so certain, today they're not so certain. Par for the course.
Finally, consider that a Washington Post/ABC News poll last week concluded that in a rematch right now against Hillary Clinton, Trump would win the popular vote 43 percent to 40 percent.
Didn't you get the memo? Hillary's not running in 2020.
Not sure if that's a valid comparison. We have people with a high school diploma and 20 years in the military. A mixed bag of AS/BS degrees. A team lead who is studying for her masters in computer engineering 20 years after she got her high school diploma.
Obviously there is a relationship between intelligence and college degrees, [...]
I never gave a shit about IQs. I spent eight years in Special Ed classes being told that I'm stupid, skipped high school, and got two associate degrees without any student loans. If you're smarter than me because you have BS degree, so what?
Whenever someone brags about having a university education, it means that they want you to sniff their underwear because you're a lowly-educated peon in comparison, or they're insecure about the very expensive education that took out loans for but have nothing to show for. Some of the stupidest people I know have graduated from universities.
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I had a 2006 black MacBook (yes, I paid an $200 for the black version) that ran flawlessly for many years. The CPU fan and battery died in 2012. I took my vintage laptop into the Apple Store, got replacement parts, and, because the tech wasn't careful putting the keyboard top back in, got a new keyboard top. The CPU fan died in 2014 and I let it be, as too many software packages I used were dropping 32-bit support after Apple did the same. I bought an inexpensive Dell laptop to replace it, as my data was in vendor-neutral formats. Still looking for a worthy successor to my MacBook from Apple.
Sadly that sounds likely, although I'm having trouble imagining how they attempted to apply that much pressure in browbeating.
I went into the first interview expecting to be interviewed by the hiring supervisor and his manager at a small tech company. The hiring supervisor got called away, the manager didn't feel comfortable interviewing me by himself, and, BTW, the position pays $20 per hour. The interview got rescheduled. Second interview had the manager called away, the hiring supervisor didn't feel comfortable interviewing me by himself, and, BTW, the position pays $15 per hour. I walked out. The HR person spent a month calling me to see if I would be interested in the job at $10 per hour, as it wasn't likely that anyone else would hire me. Shortly thereafter I had three job offers to pick a new job from.
Companies seem to pay lawyers a lot and I never hear of a shortage there.
The US has a glut of lawyers who can't find work to pay back their student loans.
https://www.edsurge.com/news/2017-04-25-the-canary-in-the-law-school-coal-mine
Simply put, disruption is lessening the need for lawyers, which means law schools are producing too many lawyers for positions that increasingly do not exist. At Whittier, only 30 of the 141 graduates in 2015 had gained full-time employment that required passing the bar. According to the New York Times, Whittierâ(TM)s graduates last year had an average of $179,000 pre-interest debt. This will not reverse.
And you specifically were talking about YOUR OWN use - why can't YOU run that in a windows shop?
You misunderstood my comments. I'm using CVS files at home AND at work. My Python script at home requires four lines of code to save data to a CVS file. I don't have direct access to the database at work, but I can export a small slice of the data set into a CSV file to use in Excel.
The fact that thousands of your coworkers do it daily doesn't make it smart.
When I worked at Google to build out a data center, I asked the project manager why the serial numbers for the port mappings were scanned into an Excel spreadsheet and not into a text file. Two reasons: spreadsheets can be open in Excel and Python can read/write data from spreadsheets (either Excel or CSV formats).
I was never a fan of the infinite content scroll. It works well for Pinterest. But not so much for other content websites.
The "92 million unemployed Americans" was a number that right-wing echo chamber tossed about during the Obama Administration to argue that unemployment figures were wrong and Obama was doing absolutely nothing for one-third of America being unemployed. That number is true but misleading. The majority of those 92 million Americans are children, college students and senior citizens. Only ~6 million are unemployed adults looking for work. Trump is also doing absolutely nothing for those 92 million Americans.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/fact-checker/wp/2016/09/16/trumps-absurb-claim-that-92-million-americans-represent-a-nation-of-jobless-americans/
As for coal mine jobs, Trump promised to bring them back. Those jobs are never coming back. Coal miners make nice props for ceremony signings of executive orders at the White House.
https://www.nytimes.com/2017/05/02/climate/coal-jobs-prove-lucrative-but-not-for-those-in-the-mines.htm
Note, I'm not painting all older workers with the same brush -- there is a HUGE difference between someone who keeps their skills sharp and someone who hasn't learned anything new since they started in the job.
I had a former college roommate who graduated as an Electrical Engineer in the mid-1990's, got a MBA after the dot com bust, and currently does IT Support that pays significantly less than being EE. He's mad at me because I make more money than him and he can't pay off his student loans. As I told him before, I never went into debt for my education, I deliberately went into IT Support as a career and I didn't wash out as an EE.
Haven't they heard there's an IT skills shortage? That's why we have all these H1Bs, right?
There are two trends defining the IT shortage in 2030: the baby boomers are retired and foreign workers will be going home. Fewer students are studying computers to replace workers who are retiring. With Trump in the White House, foreigners are getting the heck out of the country. For those of us who positioned are careers for 2030, lots of money to be made.
Start with people who barely have a high-school education, then educate/train them in IT.
I don't have a high school diploma. But I do have two associate degrees and a handful of certifications. I'm 20+ years into my technical career.
That's all you have to do - as long as they can punch a few keys in a keyboard, that's all you need.
That's fine for level-entry help desk positions. As people gain more experience, they can move into other areas like desktop support, PC deployments and data center operations. I'm currently doing InfoSec remediation.
That's about the quality of the people you get from these companies anyways.
From my experience with interviewing at a few Indian contracting agencies, they're looking for Americans to "diversify" their ranks and still do the job. Like American employers, they're just as picky about whom they hire.
For $10 per hour in Silicon Valley? Absolutely. A few years ago a small company lured me in to interview for a $25 per hour position and tried to browbeat me into accepting at $10 per hour. I told them to bugger off.
Meanwhile, 92 million unemployed Americans are waiting for new coal mining jobs.
Is this why email notifications from "The Hill" are sponsored by InfoSys this morning?
Sqlite. It's self-contained, no configuration required, fast, and efficient.
Not sure if they run that in a Windows shop.
Loading gigs of data into a CSV so you can muck about with it in an excel spreadsheet is just fucking dumb.
Yet thousands of my coworkers do that to work on a small slice of the data set daily.
That Apple uses a Nevada corporation to avoid state corporatation taxes in US.
http://www.nytimes.com/2012/04/29/business/apples-tax-strategy-aims-at-low-tax-states-and-nations.html
If you don't think the topic is substantial, then why did you bring it up?
I was referring to your topic that you made two factual errors regarding Gerald Ford.
Again, you're just arguing minutia to avoid substance.
Sorry that your alternative facts didn't hold up to minutia. Maybe next time you should pick a more substantial topic.
If he had been elected in 1976, he would have been eligible for a second term in 1980.
Not according to Wikipedia: "Had Ford won the election, he would have been disqualified by the 22nd amendment from running in 1980 because he served more than two years of Nixon's term."
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gerald_Ford#1976_presidential_election
You're just pretending to be stupid, so you don't have to face reality as it is.
So far you made two factual errors. Who is stupid again?
Which is a popular Democratic strategy these days.
I'm a moderate conservative and a Never Trumper. ;)
I don't think it's appropriate to even imply that Hillary will be running in 2020.
Didn't you get the memo? Hillary's not running in 2020.
No dude. It's over.
Why are you implying that I'm implying that Hillary is running in 2020?
But you were talking about people who have BSs who aren't you. If it's "so what," why bring it up in the first place?
I'm not going to worship the ground you walk on because you went to the university and I went to community college. Guess what? I transferred to the university — and got kicked out in my junior. The snobbery doesn't impress me. I've known people with no degrees who were smarter than me. I've known people with higher degrees who are stupider than me.
Incumbents always have the advantage. Since WWII, only two Presidents ran for a second term and lost.
Actually, three presidents who lost reelection since WWII: Ford, Carter and Bush Sr.
http://www.washingtonexaminer.com/the-five-incumbent-presidents-who-lost/article/143176
Incumbents always have the advantage. Since WWII, only two Presidents ran for a second term and lost.
A low bar that I'm sure the North Koreans will respect.
Biden has repeatedly said he won't run.
We shall see. News articles yesterday were so certain, today they're not so certain. Par for the course.
Finally, consider that a Washington Post/ABC News poll last week concluded that in a rematch right now against Hillary Clinton, Trump would win the popular vote 43 percent to 40 percent.
Didn't you get the memo? Hillary's not running in 2020.
You're wrong.
I got the 2016 election wrong. So what?
Golly he should be impeached by now right?
It's not a question of if, it's when Trump will get impeached. Nixon resigned after he lost support of 75% of the Republicans in Congress.
Well you've got to consider where you work.
Not sure if that's a valid comparison. We have people with a high school diploma and 20 years in the military. A mixed bag of AS/BS degrees. A team lead who is studying for her masters in computer engineering 20 years after she got her high school diploma.
Obviously there is a relationship between intelligence and college degrees, [...]
I never gave a shit about IQs. I spent eight years in Special Ed classes being told that I'm stupid, skipped high school, and got two associate degrees without any student loans. If you're smarter than me because you have BS degree, so what?
I am not sure why you would say that???
Whenever someone brags about having a university education, it means that they want you to sniff their underwear because you're a lowly-educated peon in comparison, or they're insecure about the very expensive education that took out loans for but have nothing to show for. Some of the stupidest people I know have graduated from universities.
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