Do you actually write out that last bit about GWB and his tax credit every day or do you keep it saved in a text file somewhere along with the bit about how little you are paid in Silicon Valley and your rent-controlled apartment?
From memory. I'm still refining my Python script to scrap my 8,000+ comment history into a CSV file. From there I'll write an AI script to post on my behalf.
Mommy or daddy will have to watch over you to make sure you don't run out into the street.. Also so that no one can accused them of being bad parents for letting you play unsupervised. This isn't the 1970's.
As a white male, I never encountered that problem. Of course, I do IT support. The most important question recruiters ask is not my ethnicity but whether or not I'm available.
I had a college roommate who graduated with an EE in the mid-1990's. Made some great money until the Great Recession and took out student loans to get a MBA while out of work. The only work he could find was IT support, flying back and forth between San Francisco and Los Angeles. He's bitter at me because I make more money than him for doing the same kind of work. I'm not the one who mismanaged my career and then took out student loans.
In addition to your irony, TFA ignores some pretty important facts. In the 1970s we had Math, Engineering, and Physics. There was no such thing as a CS degree.
That's because you didn't have a computer on every desk. Things change when a scarce resource becomes a commodity item.
As a CS, I wouldn't apply for a position expecting me to write Excel Macros all day.
You would write a front end to access the data to create pretty pie chart. Someone without an CS degree could export the data to a CSV file and write an Excel macro to create a pretty pie chart.
After I graduated from community college with a A.A. degree in General Education, got kicked out of the university for playing too many games of Magic: The Gathering into the wee hours, and worked three years as a restaurant cook, I still didn't know what to do with my life. A roommate suggested that I applied for an "internship" (translation: "not enough money in budget to hire fulltime staff") at his company as a software tester. That six-month internship was the beginning of my technical career. Next job lasted six years as a video game tester and lead video game tester. When I became a lead tester, I went back to community college to get an A.S. degree in computer programming on a $3,000 tax credit that George W. signed into law after 9/11. I couldn't find a job in white box testing and got into IT support as a contractor.
That proverb is actually just "stakes that stick out get hit." (deru kui ga utareru). Nail (kugi) sounds like post/stake (kui) in Japanese, but the original is stake.
This is the fifth variation I've been told about on Slashdot.
As lead video game tester at Accolade/infogrames/Atari (same company, different owners, multiple personality disorder), I was responsible for getting ten titles through QA. The schedule set by the producer, developer and marketing teams were always based on milestone bonuses. Everyone got a little something extra in their paycheck if the schedule estimate was accurate. As a lead tester I got no bonuses and cared less about anyone else's bonuses. I typically added six weeks (+/- two weeks) to the schedule estimate. Nine out of ten times, my schedule estimate was the most accurate and everyone else didn't get their bonuses. The exception to the rule was a developer who submitted a detailed, 256-page design doc (most design docs are ideas on napkins to get money).
Trump Recession? Implying that the Great Recession isn't over.
The Great Recession was over in 2009. We had eight years of an expanding economy and we're overdue for a recession. Since Trump won the election, it won't be called the Hillary Recession.
The average person will see major recessions and a depression in their lifetime. My late father, who was born in the middle of the Great Depression and seen more than a few recessions, regarded the Great Recession as the Second Great Depression. I've been through the Dot Com Bust and the Great Recession, and I'm preparing for the Trump Recession that will happen in the next few years. This is not as bad as the 19th century where a depression took place every 25 years.
The Wall Street Journal had a recent article about people who are least concerned about outliving their retirement savings are most likely to be a financial risk. The days of retiring at 65 and dropping dead at 70, which was the reality when Social Security got set up in the 1930's, are long gone..
So you have a friend, but you're not sure if he was laid off in the last round of layoffs?
If you re-read my comment, I wrote "I knew a Cisco engineer". I didn't say he was my friend. I'm a contractor. I don't have friends at work because I'm here today and gone tomorrow.
Pretty solid friendship, man. I bet you even remember his name, MOST of the time.
This guy was one of a handful of Indians who debated car specs outside my cube. No, I don't remember his name. But he did teach me how to use Wireshark to survey wireless access points on a floor.
All that Cisco certification, and still only 50k a year fixing windows laptops. Aim high, bro. Aim high.
I read the Cisco certification book. I spent $1,500 on Cisco rack (four routers, three switches and related equipment). I haven't done Cisco certification. My goal for this year is the Security+ and ITIL Foundation certifications to match my peers. I'll probably take the Cisco Security certification next year.
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Microsoft = Job Security*
* If you work for Microsoft, you're screwed. But for everyone else using Microsoft, you're golden.
Wait, you stopped watching TV 20 years ago, and replaced it with watching TV?
Yes and yes. But instead of the TV dictating my schedule, I watch TV on my own schedule.
That's like government administrators on strike. Question for 100: How do you notice it?
Show up at a national park and see if they barricaded the entrance.
I stopped watching TV 20+ years ago. Don't miss it. If I'm interested in a TV series, I got iTunes, Netflix or Hulu.
Do you actually write out that last bit about GWB and his tax credit every day or do you keep it saved in a text file somewhere along with the bit about how little you are paid in Silicon Valley and your rent-controlled apartment?
From memory. I'm still refining my Python script to scrap my 8,000+ comment history into a CSV file. From there I'll write an AI script to post on my behalf.
Mommy or daddy will have to watch over you to make sure you don't run out into the street.. Also so that no one can accused them of being bad parents for letting you play unsupervised. This isn't the 1970's.
You should get into government IT. I'm the youngest at 47-years-old in my current job. Many of my coworkers are in their 60's and 70's.
As a white male, I never encountered that problem. Of course, I do IT support. The most important question recruiters ask is not my ethnicity but whether or not I'm available.
I had a college roommate who graduated with an EE in the mid-1990's. Made some great money until the Great Recession and took out student loans to get a MBA while out of work. The only work he could find was IT support, flying back and forth between San Francisco and Los Angeles. He's bitter at me because I make more money than him for doing the same kind of work. I'm not the one who mismanaged my career and then took out student loans.
In addition to your irony, TFA ignores some pretty important facts. In the 1970s we had Math, Engineering, and Physics. There was no such thing as a CS degree.
That's because you didn't have a computer on every desk. Things change when a scarce resource becomes a commodity item.
As a CS, I wouldn't apply for a position expecting me to write Excel Macros all day.
You would write a front end to access the data to create pretty pie chart. Someone without an CS degree could export the data to a CSV file and write an Excel macro to create a pretty pie chart.
No one is going to die if a LinkedIn programmer is bad.
Unless they work on medical devices. Failure to subtract by one for an array can be fatal.
After I graduated from community college with a A.A. degree in General Education, got kicked out of the university for playing too many games of Magic: The Gathering into the wee hours, and worked three years as a restaurant cook, I still didn't know what to do with my life. A roommate suggested that I applied for an "internship" (translation: "not enough money in budget to hire fulltime staff") at his company as a software tester. That six-month internship was the beginning of my technical career. Next job lasted six years as a video game tester and lead video game tester. When I became a lead tester, I went back to community college to get an A.S. degree in computer programming on a $3,000 tax credit that George W. signed into law after 9/11. I couldn't find a job in white box testing and got into IT support as a contractor.
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Crash the system when your color of politician is not in power so you can prove that they were as evil and wrong as we said!
Orange is the new black?!
Why work for a better world when you can have the righteous indignation of setting it on fire and blaming your enemies?
As they say on the far right, "Burn, baby, burn!"
That proverb is actually just "stakes that stick out get hit." (deru kui ga utareru). Nail (kugi) sounds like post/stake (kui) in Japanese, but the original is stake.
This is the fifth variation I've been told about on Slashdot.
As lead video game tester at Accolade/infogrames/Atari (same company, different owners, multiple personality disorder), I was responsible for getting ten titles through QA. The schedule set by the producer, developer and marketing teams were always based on milestone bonuses. Everyone got a little something extra in their paycheck if the schedule estimate was accurate. As a lead tester I got no bonuses and cared less about anyone else's bonuses. I typically added six weeks (+/- two weeks) to the schedule estimate. Nine out of ten times, my schedule estimate was the most accurate and everyone else didn't get their bonuses. The exception to the rule was a developer who submitted a detailed, 256-page design doc (most design docs are ideas on napkins to get money).
More bullshit from people who read fake news, I suppose.
I'll take fake news over imaginary news any time of the day.
thanks captain obvious.
To make it even more obvious... most Americans only have $1,000 in retirement savings.
http://www.marketwatch.com/story/most-americans-have-less-than-1000-in-savings-2015-10-06
Trump Recession? Implying that the Great Recession isn't over.
The Great Recession was over in 2009. We had eight years of an expanding economy and we're overdue for a recession. Since Trump won the election, it won't be called the Hillary Recession.
Is that what you call people in their 30's these days?
The average person will see major recessions and a depression in their lifetime. My late father, who was born in the middle of the Great Depression and seen more than a few recessions, regarded the Great Recession as the Second Great Depression. I've been through the Dot Com Bust and the Great Recession, and I'm preparing for the Trump Recession that will happen in the next few years. This is not as bad as the 19th century where a depression took place every 25 years.
The Wall Street Journal had a recent article about people who are least concerned about outliving their retirement savings are most likely to be a financial risk. The days of retiring at 65 and dropping dead at 70, which was the reality when Social Security got set up in the 1930's, are long gone..
https://blogs.wsj.com/experts/2017/02/17/the-people-least-concerned-about-outliving-their-savings-may-be-most-at-risk-financially/
So you have a friend, but you're not sure if he was laid off in the last round of layoffs?
If you re-read my comment, I wrote "I knew a Cisco engineer". I didn't say he was my friend. I'm a contractor. I don't have friends at work because I'm here today and gone tomorrow.
Pretty solid friendship, man. I bet you even remember his name, MOST of the time.
This guy was one of a handful of Indians who debated car specs outside my cube. No, I don't remember his name. But he did teach me how to use Wireshark to survey wireless access points on a floor.
All that Cisco certification, and still only 50k a year fixing windows laptops. Aim high, bro. Aim high.
I read the Cisco certification book. I spent $1,500 on Cisco rack (four routers, three switches and related equipment). I haven't done Cisco certification. My goal for this year is the Security+ and ITIL Foundation certifications to match my peers. I'll probably take the Cisco Security certification next year.