That is not the last mile, that's the last 50 feet.
The last mile is from the junction box to inside the residence. I couldn't get DSL at one place because the phone line ran longer than the last mile by an extra foot or two.
They hit a water line and were up until 11pm fixing that one night.
I remembered when underground cables became more common in Silicon Valley. A backhoe crew ripped up an underground fiber optic bundle — twice. Each time the phone company had two techs splicing 50,000 lines in the bundle overnight. After two consecutive incidents, the phone company had someone supervise the backhoe crew to prevent a third incident.
I had a coworker who went to Canada on business. Because he looked like a goddamn hippie with blond hair in a pony tail, he expected trouble at the border. When the border guard gave him the evil eye over his passport, he handed over his honorable discharge papers from the U.S. Army. The border guard let him through without further incident.
The first programming book I checked out from the library before I owned a computer in 1983 was COBOL programming. Payroll was the killer app in the 1960's.
My solution was to get several bigger sticks that will make their life more difficult than anything I could do on my own.
I had a couple of debt collectors that I complai to the state attorney general about. I got a letter from one out of state attorney general informing me that the consumer affairs division no longer had authority to investigate debt collectors due to a recent change in state law My bankruptcy attorney had to send a cease and desist letter to the debt collector.
When I was out of work for two years (2009-2010) and before I filed for a Chapter Seven bankruptcy, my credit card debt got sold to three consecutive debt collection agencies. The first two responded well when I pointed out to the notes that indicated I was filing for bankruptcy and ceased taking action against me. The third one did not. So I played hardball by calling their phone line every minute. After 15 minutes of repeated calls that tied up their phone line (and deprived them of earning money), they took a look at the notes about filing bankruptcy and ceased taking action against me. Bullies don't like being on the receiving end.
Wait, in 2004 you only had a game tester job? Are you a little kid or do you just not have any skills?
I had a six-month software testing internship in 1997. Next job after that was video game tester (1997-2001) and lead video game tester (2001-2004). I've been doing IT support contract work since 2005.
So he's accurately portraying contemporary coding processes at game development companies.
Not sure about unit tests. I was a video game tester for six years at Accolade/Infogrames/Atari (same company, different owners, multiple personality disorders). Everything got tested.
Trying to run a government or even a moderately complex business with Linux machines would be the mother of all clusterfucks.
You're obviously not familiar with the patching process for Microsoft Windows. I give my thanks to Microsoft everyday for the job security it provides me.
Everyone in the world has a right to live the American Dream.
Except that the American Dream gets very expensive in Silicon Valley. Big houses, big cars, big women, big kids. You need $200K or more. I gave up the American Dream years ago. I live in Silicon Valley on $50K by living a modest lifestyle.
uh, what personal time do you have if you're putting in 60-80 hours a week? idiot
My employment contracts for IT support work prohibits me from working more than 40 hour per week. I haven't worked overtime in 10+ years. I have plenty of personal time.
Out of interest, what usually happens if you work just prescribed hours in this crazy silicon valley world?
My employment contracts for IT support work prohibits me from working more than 40 hours per week. I haven't worked overtime in 10+ years. Fortune 500 companies don't want to pay OT for IT.
Laziness. Overweight high blood pressure diabetes enlarged heart. Short-term memory lethargic easily confused and short tempered. Early symptoms of dementia, marked by personality changes impaired reasoning and a need to get away from the confusion by getting away from people who are causing the confusion. Becoming antisocial and worried and Inactive. Needing background noise to ease your worrying. begin sleeping in the armchair and buying rubbish products from television shopping channels. End up not able to climb over the rubbish you have purchased from the shopping channels. Getting hungry finding it hard to stand.
What does Trump supporters have to do with this topic?
It was an act of laziness-- I didn't want to keep fixing the problem over and over again, so instead I spent extra time to fix it properly the first time.
The laziness came from not fixing the problem in the first place. Some IT managers love to throw people at a problem rather than assign someone to fix problem.
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That is not the last mile, that's the last 50 feet.
The last mile is from the junction box to inside the residence. I couldn't get DSL at one place because the phone line ran longer than the last mile by an extra foot or two.
They hit a water line and were up until 11pm fixing that one night.
I remembered when underground cables became more common in Silicon Valley. A backhoe crew ripped up an underground fiber optic bundle — twice. Each time the phone company had two techs splicing 50,000 lines in the bundle overnight. After two consecutive incidents, the phone company had someone supervise the backhoe crew to prevent a third incident.
It's easy to run fiber up and down the streets. It's a real bitch to run fiber from the street into the house.
I had a coworker who went to Canada on business. Because he looked like a goddamn hippie with blond hair in a pony tail, he expected trouble at the border. When the border guard gave him the evil eye over his passport, he handed over his honorable discharge papers from the U.S. Army. The border guard let him through without further incident.
The first programming book I checked out from the library before I owned a computer in 1983 was COBOL programming. Payroll was the killer app in the 1960's.
Don't be surprised if the airline industry lobbyists are hounding President Clinton for a government bailout in 2017.
That's why you buy $30 worth to have spares on hand.
Paying $29 for another dongle.
My solution was to get several bigger sticks that will make their life more difficult than anything I could do on my own.
I had a couple of debt collectors that I complai to the state attorney general about. I got a letter from one out of state attorney general informing me that the consumer affairs division no longer had authority to investigate debt collectors due to a recent change in state law My bankruptcy attorney had to send a cease and desist letter to the debt collector.
When I was out of work for two years (2009-2010) and before I filed for a Chapter Seven bankruptcy, my credit card debt got sold to three consecutive debt collection agencies. The first two responded well when I pointed out to the notes that indicated I was filing for bankruptcy and ceased taking action against me. The third one did not. So I played hardball by calling their phone line every minute. After 15 minutes of repeated calls that tied up their phone line (and deprived them of earning money), they took a look at the notes about filing bankruptcy and ceased taking action against me. Bullies don't like being on the receiving end.
Wait, in 2004 you only had a game tester job? Are you a little kid or do you just not have any skills?
I had a six-month software testing internship in 1997. Next job after that was video game tester (1997-2001) and lead video game tester (2001-2004). I've been doing IT support contract work since 2005.
Pfft. Atari. How long ago was that.
I left in 2004.
Not missing. Unit tests and QA are costs, and in today's lean environment, we need to keep costs down.
That's fine as long as you deliver a flawless product. Fixing mistakes after the product is in the hands of consumers can get very expensive.
So he's accurately portraying contemporary coding processes at game development companies.
Not sure about unit tests. I was a video game tester for six years at Accolade/Infogrames/Atari (same company, different owners, multiple personality disorders). Everything got tested.
Our studio uses a contemporary coding process thats actually quite simple.
Your process is missing a few things. Your programmers don't write unit tests and you don't have dedicated QA team to look for bugs.
I've never heard of any games being developed inside a shed. A garage I can understand as that is part of the Silicon Valley mythos. But a shed?!
You know that, I know that, but Joe Average doesn't.
And Joe Average doesn't understand why the "fastest wifi" isn't so fast inside a coffee shop.
My friend has Comcast cable. He pays for 150mb and gets 240mb instead.
[...] but fixing the problem could be seen as just being a smarter form of laziness.
That's how I find time to comment on Slashdot at work. ;)
Trying to run a government or even a moderately complex business with Linux machines would be the mother of all clusterfucks.
You're obviously not familiar with the patching process for Microsoft Windows. I give my thanks to Microsoft everyday for the job security it provides me.
Everyone in the world has a right to live the American Dream.
Except that the American Dream gets very expensive in Silicon Valley. Big houses, big cars, big women, big kids. You need $200K or more. I gave up the American Dream years ago. I live in Silicon Valley on $50K by living a modest lifestyle.
uh, what personal time do you have if you're putting in 60-80 hours a week? idiot
My employment contracts for IT support work prohibits me from working more than 40 hour per week. I haven't worked overtime in 10+ years. I have plenty of personal time.
Out of interest, what usually happens if you work just prescribed hours in this crazy silicon valley world?
My employment contracts for IT support work prohibits me from working more than 40 hours per week. I haven't worked overtime in 10+ years. Fortune 500 companies don't want to pay OT for IT.
Laziness. Overweight high blood pressure diabetes enlarged heart. Short-term memory lethargic easily confused and short tempered. Early symptoms of dementia, marked by personality changes impaired reasoning and a need to get away from the confusion by getting away from people who are causing the confusion. Becoming antisocial and worried and Inactive. Needing background noise to ease your worrying. begin sleeping in the armchair and buying rubbish products from television shopping channels. End up not able to climb over the rubbish you have purchased from the shopping channels. Getting hungry finding it hard to stand.
What does Trump supporters have to do with this topic?
It was an act of laziness-- I didn't want to keep fixing the problem over and over again, so instead I spent extra time to fix it properly the first time.
The laziness came from not fixing the problem in the first place. Some IT managers love to throw people at a problem rather than assign someone to fix problem.