I had a Big Trak as a kid in 1979. This was technically my first computer as it was programmable. I didn't make the connection to computer programming until I took a Logo programming class in the seventh grade in 1983. It was exactly the same thing.
I like my current job. My domain includes 80,000+ workstations and NO USERS. Except for the power users who can figure out who scheduled an after hours reboot on their system and complain to their management that I was on their workstation. It does them no good to complain as policy backs me up. I sometimes wished I could replace their workstation with a box of crayons.
SOX was a big thing when I did help desk support at Intuit in 2005-07. All approvals for VPN accounts went from being informal (checking supervisor's approval email attached to ticket) to formal (checking approval chain in Oracle). After I left Intuit, it became less of a big deal. The last time SOX got mentioned to me was during a job interview at pre-IPO bio tech company in 2014.
Wow, this one thing happened once 9 years ago, to a guy who was brand new at his job, cool story bro.
You missed my point, probably on purpose. Let me give you another example. When I was a lead video game tester,
a new employee got assigned to my team. I showed him how to check out the console equipment from inventory, walked him over to his desk, and told him to connect the console to the TV. He told me he didn't know how. Like turning on a workstation, this was basic stuff that any person should know how to do. So I showed him how to connect everything together. When I complained to management, I discovered that he was a supervisor's nephew. He didn't last long as a tester.
You'll be glad to know that Stanford largely got rid of its Solaris and IRIX computer clusters a long time ago.
When I was on the Google IT help desk in 2008, I had to walk a newly hired Stanford CS graduate through the process of turning on his own workstation because no one was standing around to turn it on for him. I had to explain to him that a cubicle farm wasn't a computer lab at the university. I've been reassured by various Slashdotters that CS students are not required to learn about hardware much less how to turn them on.
1) yeah man. that's what smart people with marketable skills want to do. write 30k bug reports. you're a fucking video game tester. you have no skills. testing video games is one step up for data entry. you are literally below helpdesk monkeys.
I was a help desk technician for nearly six years. I closed 300 to 700 tickets per month with a 98.8% SLA rate. I was always number three the department because the phone guys got all the five-minute tickets.
2) so... you got kicked out of college and got an a non-degree from the shithole where secretaries learn msoffice. gotcha.
Spreadsheet manipulation wasn't something I learned at college but on the job. One of my coworkers recently found a neat DOS trick for merging CSV files into one CSV file:
copy *.cvs single.cvs
Instead of working off of multiple spreadsheets, we can merge them together into one spreadsheet with a minimal amount of clean up.
3) morons never think they're morons. it's not my job to change their mind, and I like my morons to stay dumb, like you. they're more entertaining that way.
Says the moronic troll.
dipshit, you literally said Zero to counter any of the claims made.
Why would I? I'm posting facts that dispute your moronic ASSumptions.
50k is a joke for fresh out of highschool help desk in Idaho.
That's because Idaho has 2M people and one area code covering the entire state. Silicon Valley has 2M people and multiple area codes covering a small region in a very large state. Hence, Silicon Valley have more high school students who are willing to take entry-level help desk jobs at $10 per hour (minimum wage). Plus Idaho needs to pay more for talent. A coworker in Idaho told me about having a second-story door that he uses to get out of the house when the snow is eight to ten feet deep during the winter.
How bad do you have to be at tech to only get that in SV?
Sometimes tech skills have nothing to do with pay. A small company lured me in to interview for a $25 per hour job and then tried to negotiate it down to $10 per hour. I told them to bugger off. Since hipsters are unwiling to commute more than 30 minutes from San Francisco, some companies in southern Silicon Valley (45 to 90 minutes away from San Francisco) are offering $30 to $40 per hour for the virtual ditch digging that I do.
Oh I know, you are here shitposting all day instead of doing what you are paid to do.
Google is the only company that kept me busy for a full eight-hour shift. Most companies keep me busy for an hour and then I'm waiting for shit to roll down from above.
So in the end, you are getting paid what you are worth: less than a 19 year old with no experience.
My current job requires 20+ years of IT experience. At 47-years-old, I'm one of the youngest on my team (most of my coworkers are in their 60's and 70's). Any 19-year-old who shows up at my job will be escorted out by security.
Same with HDD prices. I'm thinking about buying used 2TB drives for my own storage array.
If I was to rebuild my file server, I would get the Seagate 2TB BarraCuda Compute hard drive for $67 each. These are not NAS drives but should work all the same. That's slightly more in price than what I paid for Western Digital 1TB Red NAS hard drive, and an extra 1TB of storage space is hard to ignore. Alas, I won't be replacing my hard drives until they hit the five year mark./p.
1) video game tester: ridiculous joke of a job for stupid people
As a video game tester for six years, I wrote 30,000+ bug reports. As a lead video game tester, I was responsible for leading 10 titles through QA, trained three assistants to become lead video game testers, and worked extensively with developers all over the world. Stupid people don't last in this job if they don't figure out the difference between playing and testing video games.
2) associates degree in computer programming: you went to Devry because you couldn't get into college.
I transferred to university and got kicked out in my junior year for playing too many games of Magic: The Gathering. When I went back to community college a decade later to learn computer programming, it was paid for with a $3,000 tax credit signed into law by George W. after 9/11.
3) Sunday school. you're religious = moron
I got kicked out of a church that I went to for 13 years because I accused the local leadership of being morally corrupt—and they proved my point by making it personal ("you made me look bad") instead of spiritual ("God forgive for we are sinners").. I'm no longer a fan of organized religion. The only time religion makes you a moron is when you stop thinking.
Buy your second pair of DIMMs later so they may have come from a different batch:)
One time I bought two pairs of G.Skill DDR2 memory five years apart. Same part number and specs. Heat sink on the newer pair had a slightly lighter shade of blue than the original pair.
My maximum weight as a teenager was 400 pounds. My lowest adult weight was 325 pounds when I rode my bicycle 20 miles per day to a restaurant job for three years and my highest adult weight was 375 pounds when I lifted weights for a year. My current weight is 350 pounds (think football player).
I keep seeing these posts by this "creimer" person who claims to be swamped with emails from recruiters.
Since I'm not actively looking for a job, I can pretty much ignore the 20+ emails and phone calls I get each day. If I was doing an active job search, I would be tracking up to 32 positions and talking to recruiters all day long. Now that's being swamped.
Then again, this "creimer" person also claims to earn $50k which is highly implausible if such demand exists for his services.
I'm a virtual ditch digger and $50K+ per year is the high end for this kind of work. Not everyone who works in Silicon Valley is a newly minted millionaire.
The only possible conclusion I can reach is this "creimer" person is a troll.
You're trolling me. Go play with someone else, troll.
It's a transitional year between being children and teenagers. When I turned 13-years-old, my 26-year-old brother called to wish me a happy birthday and informed me that I was a teenager. He no longer felt obligated to attend my birthday parties because I was no longer a child and he was too busy being married to be my "big brother" again. Prick.
They tried to do that to me in middle school. Until they found out that I was meditating in the corner. Punishment wasn't punishment if you're not suffering from it.
I keep hearing other people talk about how they're swamped with emails from recruiters.
I typically get 20+ emails and phone calls per day from recruiters even though I'm not circulating my resume. Then again, I have 800+ connections on LinkedIn to recruiters that I know over a 20+ year career.
If my father felt I was spending too much time on my Commodore 64, he would take it from me. But he didn't take away my programming books and notebooks. When I got my Commodore 64 back, I already had a debug program ready to type in and save to cassette.
I'm waiting for the prices on DDR3 memory modules to drop. On a related note, prices on DDR2 memory modules have dropped since the introduction of DDR4 memory modules. Hmm...
While I don't wish to lessen your earlier achievements, you place a great deal of emphasis on looking for some sort of approval that you believe you're due for early life achievement, but you don't follow up with "and since then I have accomplished...".
That's because I'm not here looking for approval.
Don't look for approval from people on Slashdot, you have to post something truly exceptional to be greater with anything but flames.
The purpose of Slashdot is to keep me amuse while I'm waiting for a script to finish at work.
Don't cheapen it to the point that people actually begin to remember you as "The guy who posts his high school resume on every thread"
This is Slashdot, not LinkedIn. No one gives a shit about what I do on Slashdot. On LinkedIn, I have connections to 800+ recruiters. So you won't see me post anything on LinkedIn.
Call it the "Bataan death march," not "jumping through hoops."
Google's hiring practices may have change since the last time I looked at it. Probably because Google and other tech companies are looking away from the universities to hire people without degrees.
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I had a Big Trak as a kid in 1979. This was technically my first computer as it was programmable. I didn't make the connection to computer programming until I took a Logo programming class in the seventh grade in 1983. It was exactly the same thing.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Big_Trak
Is that data-driven programming isn't a thing at Snapchat.
I like my current job. My domain includes 80,000+ workstations and NO USERS. Except for the power users who can figure out who scheduled an after hours reboot on their system and complain to their management that I was on their workstation. It does them no good to complain as policy backs me up. I sometimes wished I could replace their workstation with a box of crayons.
SOX was a big thing when I did help desk support at Intuit in 2005-07. All approvals for VPN accounts went from being informal (checking supervisor's approval email attached to ticket) to formal (checking approval chain in Oracle). After I left Intuit, it became less of a big deal. The last time SOX got mentioned to me was during a job interview at pre-IPO bio tech company in 2014.
Wow, this one thing happened once 9 years ago, to a guy who was brand new at his job, cool story bro.
You missed my point, probably on purpose. Let me give you another example. When I was a lead video game tester, a new employee got assigned to my team. I showed him how to check out the console equipment from inventory, walked him over to his desk, and told him to connect the console to the TV. He told me he didn't know how. Like turning on a workstation, this was basic stuff that any person should know how to do. So I showed him how to connect everything together. When I complained to management, I discovered that he was a supervisor's nephew. He didn't last long as a tester.
You'll be glad to know that Stanford largely got rid of its Solaris and IRIX computer clusters a long time ago.
So what?
You misrepresent yourself. 350 # on 1500 calories a day, while "powerlifting"? For what was it, three years and no weight loss? Sure, sure you were.
Stop misrepresenting my positions.
Sure, you look like a football player, one that injured his back a two hundred and fifty pounds ago in pee wee league maybe.
Top 5 Heaviest Players in the NFL
https://www.sportingcharts.com/articles/nfl/top-5-heaviest-players-in-the-nfl.aspx
Keep telling yourself that as you go home alone to eat that "1500" calories in hopes the rope will hang you instead of decapitating your fat ass.
You're sick in the head. Get professional help.
Python is the Java of the scripting world, verbose and full of inconsistencies.
That sounds like Python 2. Python 3 is much better.
When I was on the Google IT help desk in 2008, I had to walk a newly hired Stanford CS graduate through the process of turning on his own workstation because no one was standing around to turn it on for him. I had to explain to him that a cubicle farm wasn't a computer lab at the university. I've been reassured by various Slashdotters that CS students are not required to learn about hardware much less how to turn them on.
1) yeah man. that's what smart people with marketable skills want to do. write 30k bug reports. you're a fucking video game tester. you have no skills. testing video games is one step up for data entry. you are literally below helpdesk monkeys.
I was a help desk technician for nearly six years. I closed 300 to 700 tickets per month with a 98.8% SLA rate. I was always number three the department because the phone guys got all the five-minute tickets.
2) so... you got kicked out of college and got an a non-degree from the shithole where secretaries learn msoffice. gotcha.
Spreadsheet manipulation wasn't something I learned at college but on the job. One of my coworkers recently found a neat DOS trick for merging CSV files into one CSV file:
copy *.cvs single.cvs
Instead of working off of multiple spreadsheets, we can merge them together into one spreadsheet with a minimal amount of clean up.
3) morons never think they're morons. it's not my job to change their mind, and I like my morons to stay dumb, like you. they're more entertaining that way.
Says the moronic troll.
dipshit, you literally said Zero to counter any of the claims made.
Why would I? I'm posting facts that dispute your moronic ASSumptions.
50k is a joke for fresh out of highschool help desk in Idaho.
That's because Idaho has 2M people and one area code covering the entire state. Silicon Valley has 2M people and multiple area codes covering a small region in a very large state. Hence, Silicon Valley have more high school students who are willing to take entry-level help desk jobs at $10 per hour (minimum wage). Plus Idaho needs to pay more for talent. A coworker in Idaho told me about having a second-story door that he uses to get out of the house when the snow is eight to ten feet deep during the winter.
How bad do you have to be at tech to only get that in SV?
Sometimes tech skills have nothing to do with pay. A small company lured me in to interview for a $25 per hour job and then tried to negotiate it down to $10 per hour. I told them to bugger off. Since hipsters are unwiling to commute more than 30 minutes from San Francisco, some companies in southern Silicon Valley (45 to 90 minutes away from San Francisco) are offering $30 to $40 per hour for the virtual ditch digging that I do.
Oh I know, you are here shitposting all day instead of doing what you are paid to do.
Google is the only company that kept me busy for a full eight-hour shift. Most companies keep me busy for an hour and then I'm waiting for shit to roll down from above.
So in the end, you are getting paid what you are worth: less than a 19 year old with no experience.
My current job requires 20+ years of IT experience. At 47-years-old, I'm one of the youngest on my team (most of my coworkers are in their 60's and 70's). Any 19-year-old who shows up at my job will be escorted out by security.
Same with HDD prices. I'm thinking about buying used 2TB drives for my own storage array.
If I was to rebuild my file server, I would get the Seagate 2TB BarraCuda Compute hard drive for $67 each. These are not NAS drives but should work all the same. That's slightly more in price than what I paid for Western Digital 1TB Red NAS hard drive, and an extra 1TB of storage space is hard to ignore. Alas, I won't be replacing my hard drives until they hit the five year mark./p.
1) video game tester: ridiculous joke of a job for stupid people
As a video game tester for six years, I wrote 30,000+ bug reports. As a lead video game tester, I was responsible for leading 10 titles through QA, trained three assistants to become lead video game testers, and worked extensively with developers all over the world. Stupid people don't last in this job if they don't figure out the difference between playing and testing video games.
2) associates degree in computer programming: you went to Devry because you couldn't get into college.
I transferred to university and got kicked out in my junior year for playing too many games of Magic: The Gathering. When I went back to community college a decade later to learn computer programming, it was paid for with a $3,000 tax credit signed into law by George W. after 9/11.
3) Sunday school. you're religious = moron
I got kicked out of a church that I went to for 13 years because I accused the local leadership of being morally corrupt—and they proved my point by making it personal ("you made me look bad") instead of spiritual ("God forgive for we are sinners").. I'm no longer a fan of organized religion. The only time religion makes you a moron is when you stop thinking.
Now go find someone else to play with, troll.
If you werent so full of yourself, you would know that DDR3 has been declining in price for the last 6 months.
I check Amazon daily. Prices for the G.Skill Ares 16GB (2 x 8GB) DDR3 1866 memory modules is still $110. That price haven't changed for several years.
but I guess its hard to pay attention with all the stupid in your head.
Go find someone else to play with, troll.
Buy your second pair of DIMMs later so they may have come from a different batch :)
One time I bought two pairs of G.Skill DDR2 memory five years apart. Same part number and specs. Heat sink on the newer pair had a slightly lighter shade of blue than the original pair.
[...] you grew up to weigh 499 pounds [...]
My maximum weight as a teenager was 400 pounds. My lowest adult weight was 325 pounds when I rode my bicycle 20 miles per day to a restaurant job for three years and my highest adult weight was 375 pounds when I lifted weights for a year. My current weight is 350 pounds (think football player).
Now go find someone else to play with, troll.
I keep seeing these posts by this "creimer" person who claims to be swamped with emails from recruiters.
Since I'm not actively looking for a job, I can pretty much ignore the 20+ emails and phone calls I get each day. If I was doing an active job search, I would be tracking up to 32 positions and talking to recruiters all day long. Now that's being swamped.
Then again, this "creimer" person also claims to earn $50k which is highly implausible if such demand exists for his services.
I'm a virtual ditch digger and $50K+ per year is the high end for this kind of work. Not everyone who works in Silicon Valley is a newly minted millionaire.
The only possible conclusion I can reach is this "creimer" person is a troll.
You're trolling me. Go play with someone else, troll.
It's a transitional year between being children and teenagers. When I turned 13-years-old, my 26-year-old brother called to wish me a happy birthday and informed me that I was a teenager. He no longer felt obligated to attend my birthday parties because I was no longer a child and he was too busy being married to be my "big brother" again. Prick.
They tried to do that to me in middle school. Until they found out that I was meditating in the corner. Punishment wasn't punishment if you're not suffering from it.
I keep hearing other people talk about how they're swamped with emails from recruiters.
I typically get 20+ emails and phone calls per day from recruiters even though I'm not circulating my resume. Then again, I have 800+ connections on LinkedIn to recruiters that I know over a 20+ year career.
If my father felt I was spending too much time on my Commodore 64, he would take it from me. But he didn't take away my programming books and notebooks. When I got my Commodore 64 back, I already had a debug program ready to type in and save to cassette.
I'm waiting for the prices on DDR3 memory modules to drop. On a related note, prices on DDR2 memory modules have dropped since the introduction of DDR4 memory modules. Hmm...
I've been using G.Skill memory modules in my builds for the last 10+ years. Never had a problem with them.
While I don't wish to lessen your earlier achievements, you place a great deal of emphasis on looking for some sort of approval that you believe you're due for early life achievement, but you don't follow up with "and since then I have accomplished...".
That's because I'm not here looking for approval.
Don't look for approval from people on Slashdot, you have to post something truly exceptional to be greater with anything but flames.
The purpose of Slashdot is to keep me amuse while I'm waiting for a script to finish at work.
Don't cheapen it to the point that people actually begin to remember you as "The guy who posts his high school resume on every thread"
This is Slashdot, not LinkedIn. No one gives a shit about what I do on Slashdot. On LinkedIn, I have connections to 800+ recruiters. So you won't see me post anything on LinkedIn.
Call it the "Bataan death march," not "jumping through hoops."
Google's hiring practices may have change since the last time I looked at it. Probably because Google and other tech companies are looking away from the universities to hire people without degrees.
https://www.fastcompany.com/3069259/why-more-tech-companies-are-hiring-people-without-degrees
dude your being trolled. Tell him to fuck off and move on.
But I love playing with the trolls! ;)