I read a recent article that claimed the bubble will burst any moment with the massive layoffs of... 3K people... in Silicon Valley. LinkedIn advertised that there were 133K job openings the week before. That number dropped to 130K job openings the following week.
For historical comparison, 1M people moved out of Silicon Valley after the dot com bust.
Don't you work for peanuts? Something ridiculously low for where and what you do?
I make $50K+ per year in Silicon Valley. That makes me the highest wage earner in my blue collar familiy. For the people who drop $3K per night on wine, I make peanuts.
I'm reading "Chaos Monkeys: Obscene Fortune and Random Failure in Silicon Valley" by Antonio Garcia Martinez. The author and his two engineers leave the startup they worked at to create a startup at Y Combinator to create a better version of the Digg toolbar (remember toolbars?) for Google advertisers in 2010. I'm at the part where the author sends his engineers to Twitter while he goes to Facebook in a three-way deal. Fun times.
No, you based decisions on the data that fit your filter.
My filter is... I'm not a purist. If an alternative solution presents itself because my preferred solution wasn't available at the time, I would go with that and evaluate alternatives later.
Because those of us who are good at what we do stay at companies long term.
As an IT support contractor, I take whatever work comes my way. Sometimes the assignment is for four hours on short notice, days, weeks, months or years. I'm currently half-way through a five-year contract. My LinkedIn profile has connections to 800+ recruiters from a 20+ year career. Tech workers who stay at one company often make less money than those who moved around. It's easy to say that I'm no good. But I do the jobs that other people won't do, especially if they need a miracle worker.
So are you lying now or on the post where you said you worked at Microsoft for 3 or 6 months whatever it was.
I believe you were referring to this post when I was at Fujitsu for six months.
When I worked at Fujitsu in 1997, our virtual world division got a temporary vice president from Japan for three monhts. This VP was in charged of mainframes. He always asked the same question in broken English, "Are you a mainframe programmer?" He was disappointed that no one in our division was a mainframe programmer. For years since then I've always heard that mainframe programmers were in high demand. The catch, of course, is having previously worked on mainframes. Seems like no one wants to hire an inexperienced person as a mainframe programmer.
After that test I swore that I won't ever buy Cyrix crap again.
That's not a fair comparison. The Cyrix was a contemporary of the K5. I had both. Cyrix had better Linux support (IIRC, you had to compile the kernel with the feature enabled) and the K5 ran DOS/Windows just fine. The K6-2 400MHz (overclocked to 500MHz) was my favorite processor from the Socket 7 days.
So are you lying now or on the post where you said you worked at Microsoft for 3 or 6 months whatever it was.
Nope. Never worked for Microsoft. Five recruiters led me around the nose for Microsoft positions in 2005. I interviewed on the Silicon Valley Microsoft Campus for a technology spinoff in 2014.
Feel free to post the URL to where I said I worked for Microsoft.
If anything you were probably rubbernecking and holding up traffic while you assuaged your sense of self-smugness that you weren't drunk or using your cellphone.
I was riding on the express bus. The driver had to cross three lanes of traffic after driving past the accident to get on the off ramp. The driver of the wrecked car couldn't walk a straight line in the slow lane. Stick your "self-smugness" where the sun doesn't shine.
That's also a glorified netbook chip that has jack-all real performance. Compare it to the newest 35w i3
I built the AM1 system when the processor and motherboard were $25 each. The ECS KAM1-I motherboard had two built-in serial ports and a header for two additional serial ports. This is nice little system for running Red Hat Linux and connecting to four console ports on my Cisco certification rack.
(Re: FX-8300)
> I updated my components last year because Ryzen didn't come out soon enough
My Vista-compatible motherboard was nine-years-old. Ryzen was originally slated for Q3/Q4 2016. When I updated the motherboard and memory, I got the FX-8300 to replace the seven-year-old quad core processor.
(Re: Hillary)
> Hillary started off 268 electoral votes
Based on available polling data.
(Re: Trump)
> Trump had to perform better than McCain in 2008 and Romney in 2012 to have a chance at winning. Like everything else in this election, he blew that off too and will lose in a landslide.
Based on available polling data, Hillary had a 95% chance and Trump had 5%. Now obviously something was wrong with the polling data. Hillary won the popular vote, Trump won the electoral college.
Good grief your 2016 was a trainwreck of terrible calls. Here's to 2017, hopefully you can at least swing a good processor later in the year- I have less faith in your political prescience improving any.
I based my decisions on available data, as all good decisions should be based on. If I was perfect, I would be Jewish. If I was God, you would be in trouble.
They consume like twice the power that zen does for like half the performance.
Only if all eight cores are maxed out. I got a 25W quad-core AM1 system that draws 27W when its not doing anything and 35W when the cores are maxed out..
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Why would anyone spend $350 on a pair of headphones? I typically spend $10 to $20 for headphones.
I read a recent article that claimed the bubble will burst any moment with the massive layoffs of... 3K people... in Silicon Valley. LinkedIn advertised that there were 133K job openings the week before. That number dropped to 130K job openings the following week.
For historical comparison, 1M people moved out of Silicon Valley after the dot com bust.
He's an East Coast banker who wanted to make Silicon Valley look like a it's all hookers and blow like back East.
It's a very interesting interpretation on the Silicon Valley mythos.
i know her name is bennett but did you know the one is chinese
I've met Chloe Bennet last year at the Heroes & Villains Fan Fest last. She's very cool young woman.
https://blog.cdreimer.com/2016/09/04/attending-the-heroes-villains-fan-fest-2016/
It is a fair comparison because Cyrix 6x86MX was released two months after K6.
That was probably the Mark II. The Mark I came out in 1996, a year after the K5 and year before the K6. Mine was a Mark I.
I use Instagram to keep up with the hotties on Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. and other TV series I watch on Hulu.
Don't you work for peanuts? Something ridiculously low for where and what you do?
I make $50K+ per year in Silicon Valley. That makes me the highest wage earner in my blue collar familiy. For the people who drop $3K per night on wine, I make peanuts.
I'm reading "Chaos Monkeys: Obscene Fortune and Random Failure in Silicon Valley" by Antonio Garcia Martinez. The author and his two engineers leave the startup they worked at to create a startup at Y Combinator to create a better version of the Digg toolbar (remember toolbars?) for Google advertisers in 2010. I'm at the part where the author sends his engineers to Twitter while he goes to Facebook in a three-way deal. Fun times.
I doubt this book will replace Startup: A Silicon Valley Adventure by Jerry Kaplan as my favorite Silicon Valley startup book.
No, you based decisions on the data that fit your filter.
My filter is... I'm not a purist. If an alternative solution presents itself because my preferred solution wasn't available at the time, I would go with that and evaluate alternatives later.
Because those of us who are good at what we do stay at companies long term.
As an IT support contractor, I take whatever work comes my way. Sometimes the assignment is for four hours on short notice, days, weeks, months or years. I'm currently half-way through a five-year contract. My LinkedIn profile has connections to 800+ recruiters from a 20+ year career. Tech workers who stay at one company often make less money than those who moved around. It's easy to say that I'm no good. But I do the jobs that other people won't do, especially if they need a miracle worker.
Read my latest blog post and thanks for the ad revenue!
My "Complicated" Work History At Google
https://www.kickingthebitbucket.com/2017/04/18/my-complicated-work-history-at-google/
You need to stop. You need to get help. Your drinking and irresponsible spending is ruining your life.
So are you lying now or on the post where you said you worked at Microsoft for 3 or 6 months whatever it was.
I believe you were referring to this post when I was at Fujitsu for six months.
When I worked at Fujitsu in 1997, our virtual world division got a temporary vice president from Japan for three monhts. This VP was in charged of mainframes. He always asked the same question in broken English, "Are you a mainframe programmer?" He was disappointed that no one in our division was a mainframe programmer. For years since then I've always heard that mainframe programmers were in high demand. The catch, of course, is having previously worked on mainframes. Seems like no one wants to hire an inexperienced person as a mainframe programmer.
http://slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=10471307&cid=54207521
get it through your face moron.
I'm not the one who has a drinking problem and mismanages personal finances. I live a clean, sober and modest life.
I ran out of salt a month ago. I guess I can scratch that off my shopping list.
After that test I swore that I won't ever buy Cyrix crap again.
That's not a fair comparison. The Cyrix was a contemporary of the K5. I had both. Cyrix had better Linux support (IIRC, you had to compile the kernel with the feature enabled) and the K5 ran DOS /Windows just fine. The K6-2 400MHz (overclocked to 500MHz) was my favorite processor from the Socket 7 days.
So are you lying now or on the post where you said you worked at Microsoft for 3 or 6 months whatever it was.
Nope. Never worked for Microsoft. Five recruiters led me around the nose for Microsoft positions in 2005. I interviewed on the Silicon Valley Microsoft Campus for a technology spinoff in 2014.
Feel free to post the URL to where I said I worked for Microsoft.
Anybody who could read the numbers knew she would lose a good year before the election. When she announced her candidacy her approval rating? 15%.
Her approval rating was...14%
I've never seen polls with those numbers. Got a link?
If anything you were probably rubbernecking and holding up traffic while you assuaged your sense of self-smugness that you weren't drunk or using your cellphone.
I was riding on the express bus. The driver had to cross three lanes of traffic after driving past the accident to get on the off ramp. The driver of the wrecked car couldn't walk a straight line in the slow lane. Stick your "self-smugness" where the sun doesn't shine.
That's also a glorified netbook chip that has jack-all real performance. Compare it to the newest 35w i3
I built the AM1 system when the processor and motherboard were $25 each. The ECS KAM1-I motherboard had two built-in serial ports and a header for two additional serial ports. This is nice little system for running Red Hat Linux and connecting to four console ports on my Cisco certification rack.
I am speaking about the middle class subsidies. Here's a novel idea. Pay your doctor.
I don't qualify for subsidies because I make too much ($50K+ per year). So, yes, I have to pay my doctor in cash.
(Re: FX-8300)
> I updated my components last year because Ryzen didn't come out soon enough
My Vista-compatible motherboard was nine-years-old. Ryzen was originally slated for Q3/Q4 2016. When I updated the motherboard and memory, I got the FX-8300 to replace the seven-year-old quad core processor.
(Re: Hillary)
> Hillary started off 268 electoral votes
Based on available polling data.
(Re: Trump)
> Trump had to perform better than McCain in 2008 and Romney in 2012 to have a chance at winning. Like everything else in this election, he blew that off too and will lose in a landslide.
Based on available polling data, Hillary had a 95% chance and Trump had 5%. Now obviously something was wrong with the polling data. Hillary won the popular vote, Trump won the electoral college.
Good grief your 2016 was a trainwreck of terrible calls. Here's to 2017, hopefully you can at least swing a good processor later in the year- I have less faith in your political prescience improving any.
I based my decisions on available data, as all good decisions should be based on. If I was perfect, I would be Jewish. If I was God, you would be in trouble.
Cyrix CPU's.
I loved my Cyrix 6x86 CPU back in the late 1990's. It ran Linux flawlessly for my file server.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cyrix_6x86
This. You ask a question as bait to try to get your chance to be a prick. This is why everybody thinks you're a worthless moron.
Hello, troll. Can't find anyone us to play with?
Go ahead tell us how they would never use AMD [...]
Why?
[...] at Microsoft or any of the other tech giants you claim to have worked at intermittently.
I only interviewed at Microsoft.
They consume like twice the power that zen does for like half the performance.
Only if all eight cores are maxed out. I got a 25W quad-core AM1 system that draws 27W when its not doing anything and 35W when the cores are maxed out..