I've been hearing that for the last several years. God knows that The Wall Street Journal has ran enough scare articles to sell papers (i.e., if it doesn't bleed to lead, make it bleed and bleed some more). No evidence yet of an imminent recession. If anything, we overdue for a serious stock market correction.
Maybe it's because I grew up always having my own bedroom and commuted to college rather than living in a dorm.
I shared a five-bedroom Victorian (a former frat house) near San Jose State University with 12 other guys in the mid-1990's. Rent was $200 per person. We were forced to move out after the city implemented a three trash can limit per household (we were putting out seven trash cans) and residential dumpster service was expensive as hell. Last guy to move in had the job of calling up the landlord to explain that the guys who rented the place a decade ago were long gone. If you can live in those conditions, you can live in any conditions.
[...] had insane traffic that would never get better [...]
The only time traffic ever got better in Silicon Valley was when a million people moved out of Silicon Valley after the Dot Com Bust in 2001. That lasted a few years. Saw a similar dip in traffic after the Great Recession in 2009 and 2010, where half my apartment complex stood empty and the leasing office forego its annual rent increases. These days I take the express bus into work to avoid the traffic hassle by paying someone else to drive.
I just bought a used book from Amazon, "Writing Compilers and Interpreters: An Applied Approach," by Ronald Mak (1991 edition), to write an interpreter and compiler in an ancient dialect of C written for DOS-based C compilers, and the target language is probably an equally ancient dialect of Pascal. The 1991 edition supposedly has working C code, whereas later editions has C++ code that doesn't translate into a modern dialect. After this, I'm going to write a BASIC interpreter and compiler.
I had a black neighbor who faced down seven white police officers in five police cars who pulled him over for driving while black in the parking lot outside the apartment building. He spent 45 minutes yelling and waving his wallet at them in front of his car for why they were racist. The police didn't anything, probably because the neighbors and I were watching from our balconies. I guess they didn't have anything better to do during that time.
[...] and smuggling cigarettes from low tax states (mostly in the South) is big business for organized crime.
My father and uncles smuggled cigarettes from Oregon (no cigarette tax) to California (cigarette tax) to sell to construction workers out of the trunk of their cars in the 1950's. Some of my uncles went to smuggle moonshine and heroin in Idaho. A distant cousin made a living hauling coke between Cuba and Florida until he got caught by the Coast Guard. I always chuckled when my aunts in Idaho blame about drug dealers from California for drive-by shooting and rising real estate prices. Smuggling is an American tradition.
I live in Silicon Valley. Most people say you have to go to San Francisco to see an interesting night life. Not true. We got bats, possums and skunks that come out to play at night. Nothing like leaving work and finding a family of skunks crossing your path.
I wanted to take assembly language in college. The dean wanted to teach the course. But I was the only student who showed up for the class. One student doesn't prevent a class from being cancelled. Since this wasn't a required course for graduation, I couldn't take it as a special studies project.
The project I'm working on for government IT does a lot of training: data security, customer service, dealing with Congress, dashboard training, and, coming soon, Microsoft SCCM 2012 training that will make it possible for the 65YO+ IT folks to retire from working (alas, without a gold watch and/or gold-plated pension).
Based on my job hunting experience, "urgent requirements" means that the hiring manager went on vacation. I shocked more than a few recruiters when they check with the company to find out that the hiring manager went on a one-week, two-week or month-long vacation. And I always follow up our conversation with, "Please explain how urgent this position is when the hiring manager is on vacation?"
A supposed highly qualified software tester who thinks that identification of the omission of an element that completely changes the meaning and context is "nitpicking".
If you think that being a video game tester is equivalent to being a "highly qualified software tester," you don't know shit about software testing.
You're great at your job buddy.
I was a video game tester for six years. I spent the last 14+ years in IT support.
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There is a recession coming at us full steam.
I've been hearing that for the last several years. God knows that The Wall Street Journal has ran enough scare articles to sell papers (i.e., if it doesn't bleed to lead, make it bleed and bleed some more). No evidence yet of an imminent recession. If anything, we overdue for a serious stock market correction.
Maybe it's because I grew up always having my own bedroom and commuted to college rather than living in a dorm.
I shared a five-bedroom Victorian (a former frat house) near San Jose State University with 12 other guys in the mid-1990's. Rent was $200 per person. We were forced to move out after the city implemented a three trash can limit per household (we were putting out seven trash cans) and residential dumpster service was expensive as hell. Last guy to move in had the job of calling up the landlord to explain that the guys who rented the place a decade ago were long gone. If you can live in those conditions, you can live in any conditions.
[...] had insane traffic that would never get better [...]
The only time traffic ever got better in Silicon Valley was when a million people moved out of Silicon Valley after the Dot Com Bust in 2001. That lasted a few years. Saw a similar dip in traffic after the Great Recession in 2009 and 2010, where half my apartment complex stood empty and the leasing office forego its annual rent increases. These days I take the express bus into work to avoid the traffic hassle by paying someone else to drive.
Sometimes, it's not about race.
Tell that to the black guys who got gunned down by the police in front of their family last week.
I just bought a used book from Amazon, "Writing Compilers and Interpreters: An Applied Approach," by Ronald Mak (1991 edition), to write an interpreter and compiler in an ancient dialect of C written for DOS-based C compilers, and the target language is probably an equally ancient dialect of Pascal. The 1991 edition supposedly has working C code, whereas later editions has C++ code that doesn't translate into a modern dialect. After this, I'm going to write a BASIC interpreter and compiler.
Details are certainly not important in IT support!
Details, no. Problem solving, yes.
No, your family is just trash.
We're rednecks. Trailer trash is a different breed altogether.
Wow, a whole minute. They must really have been broken up about all that murder and killing and stuff.
Server hamsters took a smoke break.
Rule #5 - Don't be black.
I had a black neighbor who faced down seven white police officers in five police cars who pulled him over for driving while black in the parking lot outside the apartment building. He spent 45 minutes yelling and waving his wallet at them in front of his car for why they were racist. The police didn't anything, probably because the neighbors and I were watching from our balconies. I guess they didn't have anything better to do during that time.
[...] and smuggling cigarettes from low tax states (mostly in the South) is big business for organized crime.
My father and uncles smuggled cigarettes from Oregon (no cigarette tax) to California (cigarette tax) to sell to construction workers out of the trunk of their cars in the 1950's. Some of my uncles went to smuggle moonshine and heroin in Idaho. A distant cousin made a living hauling coke between Cuba and Florida until he got caught by the Coast Guard. I always chuckled when my aunts in Idaho blame about drug dealers from California for drive-by shooting and rising real estate prices. Smuggling is an American tradition.
What 'skills' do you think a factory worker needs to keep up to date precisely?
Starting a business on the side that can eventually become a full-time business.
Leathery. Hardly any meat on them. Get bits stuck between your teeth. Honestly don't think I've ever met anyone who likes them who's tried them.
If a black chicken flies into your apartment when you're poor and unable feed your family, you're going to pass up a free meal?
I live in Silicon Valley. Most people say you have to go to San Francisco to see an interesting night life. Not true. We got bats, possums and skunks that come out to play at night. Nothing like leaving work and finding a family of skunks crossing your path.
Websites are people too.
I wanted to take assembly language in college. The dean wanted to teach the course. But I was the only student who showed up for the class. One student doesn't prevent a class from being cancelled. Since this wasn't a required course for graduation, I couldn't take it as a special studies project.
The project I'm working on for government IT does a lot of training: data security, customer service, dealing with Congress, dashboard training, and, coming soon, Microsoft SCCM 2012 training that will make it possible for the 65YO+ IT folks to retire from working (alas, without a gold watch and/or gold-plated pension).
Based on my job hunting experience, "urgent requirements" means that the hiring manager went on vacation. I shocked more than a few recruiters when they check with the company to find out that the hiring manager went on a one-week, two-week or month-long vacation. And I always follow up our conversation with, "Please explain how urgent this position is when the hiring manager is on vacation?"
"Free beer and more manga than you could shake a stick at".
Where do I sign up?
A supposed highly qualified software tester who thinks that identification of the omission of an element that completely changes the meaning and context is "nitpicking".
If you think that being a video game tester is equivalent to being a "highly qualified software tester," you don't know shit about software testing.
You're great at your job buddy.
I was a video game tester for six years. I spent the last 14+ years in IT support.
I don't remember any blow jobs, but it's sure fucked me plenty of times.
No, no, no. That's Javascript.
The fembot code might be running from a jail on the server.
In all my years of using PHP in web development, I never suspected it could give me a blow job.
Most of the phones I've owned died from being dropped in a sink or my getting caught in a downpour.
You're very careless with your phones. No wonder manufacturers have to idiot-proof their products.
Does it run on 3Dfx Voodoo 2 cards?
I wouldnt hire you to be anywhere near a computer
I'm currently a system admin with responsibility for 80,000 workstations in government IT. Rest assured. As a public servant, I'm here to help you.