Every now and then I grab the latest Quake port and enable the frame rate counter while playing the game. Nothing like getting 500+ FPS while blowing up ass-throwing zombies.
I haven't bought a door stopper (technical book) in over ten years. Mostly because up-to-date information can be found on the internet. If I buy a technical book these days, it's a used copy of an older book that is out of print, unavailable as an ebook, or cheaper than the current edition.
I recently picked up "Writing Compilers and Interpreters: An Applied Approach" by Ronald Mak (1991 edition), which uses an ancient dialect of C and Pascal as the target language. I know a smattering of C and nothing about Pascal. Should be fun learning experience.
Changing the time on the VCR, that was easy! It was the "flashing 1:00" that was hard.
I don't think I ever ran into that situation. My brother gave our parents a VCR for Christmas, which they had no interest in recording or renting videos. My father used the VCR as a remote control for the analog TV. After they got a new TV with remote control, the VCR ended up in my room where I recorded PBS TV series during my teen years.
And who among us does not fondly remember scouring the instructions for how to get the VCR to flash "1:00" after the daylight savings time changeover?
I feel sorry that you didn't have a young child in your household who could figure out to change the time on the VCR without ever looking at the instructions. IIRC, the instructions were crap — if you find the English version among the half-dozen languages.
Ok, I take it back, "sometimes" I post as AC to make my self look better, but it's something generalized and dumb like "best comment ever", so everyone still knows it's me.
My job got hit by an email-delivered virus that spread across the network and encrypted 200+ hard drives before being stopped. Fortunately, user profiles are stored on the network. Didn't take much time to deploy loaner laptops and re-image the desktops to get the users up and running again.
Good senior sys admins can make $100k a year in both the public and private sector.
This is the first job that ever gave me the title of senior system admin. Which is why I'm learning everything I can for my next position in three years that will pay $100K+ per year.
You guys are just the dregs left over that will work for peanuts because it is the best you can do.
That's funny. We were hired as desktop techs. When the contract started, we found out we were all senior system admins responsible for 80,000+ systems. Obviously, the prime contractor low-balled us. After two years of job security, I don't mind using this position as a stepping step to my next job.
Certifications are meaningless and don't cover your lack of formal education.
Certifications are worthless without the experience to back it up. Everyone I worked with has higher-level certifications than I do.
At least you are proud of your retardation.
I don't let negative people put me down. I know where I came from, I know where I'm going. Most people don't know either.
$50,000+ per year IS minimum wage for technical jobs in Silicon Valley. It could be worse. A Dell technician only makes $17 per hour plus mileage in Silicon Valley. Some tech sweat shops only pay $10 per hour.
You retardation is proof of that.
Funny you should mentioned that. I spent the first eight years in Special Ed because of an undiagnosed hearing lost. Skipped high school, spent four years at community college, and got an associate degree in General Education. A decade later I went back to school, got a associate degree in Computer Programming, and made the president's list for maintaining a 4.0GPA in my major.
You claim that you live in SV and only make $50k in a government IT job? That is what GS-5?
Beats me. I'm a contractor and $50K is the national average for a senior system administrator position. I've been trying to get my contracting agency to pay me a Silicon Valley cost-of-living adjustment to bring my pay rate up to $100K+ per year.
That is a job that requires zero education as educated people can start with the feds at GS-7 or even 9.
All the people hired for the project that I'm working on has 20+ years of IT experience. All accepted $50K per year. That pay rate goes far in the Pacific Northwest and Southwest, but not in Silicon Valley.
Of course you can save money, you are sharing your 1 room apartment with 5 people.
I live by myself in a studio apartment for the last 11 years. In Silicon Valley. I'm three years from being priced out of the market. A few more certifications underneath my belt, my next job will pay $120K+ per year.
take the $199 and set up a Roth IRA by buying an index fund. then go out and get a job.
You can only contribute to a Roth IRA from earned income of a job. No job, no contribution. Spending $199 on a new suit for job interviews is better advice.
The CIA classified my grocery list. Never mind that the information on the grocery list came from the weekly flyer that came in the mail. Never mind that the neighbors up and down the street may have a similar grocery list. Never mind that the CIA has no business classifying my grocery list in the first place.
There still might be the impression, amongst the people this training is targeting, that you can still strike it rich building apps... that Google is banking on.
True. Google doesn't have the rich ecosystem that Apple has, where Stanford MBA graduates are writing business plans for that killer app that will turn them into instant venture capitalists.
Because your post reminded me of all the "Make $5k/week" ads I see.
There are jobs where you can make obscene amounts of money IF YOU ARE WILLING to work 80 hours. My former coworker currently makes $10K per week for 80 hours per week. Prior to going full time as a roofer, he did roofing as a 40-hour job while working 40 hours remotely in government IT at night for six months after getting his contractor license. Construction is red hot now because there is an acute shortage of skilled workers.
Ignorant fuckstains like you, who have zero financial sense, are a blight on the world.
I make $50K per year at government IT job, save 20% of my income and live in Silicon Valley. If you live a modest lifestyle, this is entirely possible. Unfortunately, most people who live in Silicon Valley want big cars, big houses, big wife and big kids. That gets expensive in a hurry.
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Every now and then I grab the latest Quake port and enable the frame rate counter while playing the game. Nothing like getting 500+ FPS while blowing up ass-throwing zombies.
I haven't bought a door stopper (technical book) in over ten years. Mostly because up-to-date information can be found on the internet. If I buy a technical book these days, it's a used copy of an older book that is out of print, unavailable as an ebook, or cheaper than the current edition.
I recently picked up "Writing Compilers and Interpreters: An Applied Approach" by Ronald Mak (1991 edition), which uses an ancient dialect of C and Pascal as the target language. I know a smattering of C and nothing about Pascal. Should be fun learning experience.
Changing the time on the VCR, that was easy! It was the "flashing 1:00" that was hard.
I don't think I ever ran into that situation. My brother gave our parents a VCR for Christmas, which they had no interest in recording or renting videos. My father used the VCR as a remote control for the analog TV. After they got a new TV with remote control, the VCR ended up in my room where I recorded PBS TV series during my teen years.
And who among us does not fondly remember scouring the instructions for how to get the VCR to flash "1:00" after the daylight savings time changeover?
I feel sorry that you didn't have a young child in your household who could figure out to change the time on the VCR without ever looking at the instructions. IIRC, the instructions were crap — if you find the English version among the half-dozen languages.
VCRs became popular in the 1980's. So changing the flashing 12:00 on the digital display was a big deal.
Stop talking to yourself, OP!
I'm not the AC masturbating in public.
Another satisfied Microsoft customer?
I give thanks to Microsoft for my job security every day.
*except when I'm forced to because my comments are the best. ;)
Yawn...
Ok, I take it back, "sometimes" I post as AC to make my self look better, but it's something generalized and dumb like "best comment ever", so everyone still knows it's me.
Nope. I don't work that way.
My job got hit by an email-delivered virus that spread across the network and encrypted 200+ hard drives before being stopped. Fortunately, user profiles are stored on the network. Didn't take much time to deploy loaner laptops and re-image the desktops to get the users up and running again.
Nice try OP, your comment was straight garbage.
I never post as AC. I don't have problem standing behind my opinions. Unlike some people.
The railroads are still here. Shouldn't be surprising that telegrams are still around almost two centuries later.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Telegraph
Good senior sys admins can make $100k a year in both the public and private sector.
This is the first job that ever gave me the title of senior system admin. Which is why I'm learning everything I can for my next position in three years that will pay $100K+ per year.
You guys are just the dregs left over that will work for peanuts because it is the best you can do.
That's funny. We were hired as desktop techs. When the contract started, we found out we were all senior system admins responsible for 80,000+ systems. Obviously, the prime contractor low-balled us. After two years of job security, I don't mind using this position as a stepping step to my next job.
Certifications are meaningless and don't cover your lack of formal education.
Certifications are worthless without the experience to back it up. Everyone I worked with has higher-level certifications than I do.
At least you are proud of your retardation.
I don't let negative people put me down. I know where I came from, I know where I'm going. Most people don't know either.
No you make minimum wage at your McJob.
$50,000+ per year IS minimum wage for technical jobs in Silicon Valley. It could be worse. A Dell technician only makes $17 per hour plus mileage in Silicon Valley. Some tech sweat shops only pay $10 per hour.
You retardation is proof of that.
Funny you should mentioned that. I spent the first eight years in Special Ed because of an undiagnosed hearing lost. Skipped high school, spent four years at community college, and got an associate degree in General Education. A decade later I went back to school, got a associate degree in Computer Programming, and made the president's list for maintaining a 4.0GPA in my major.
You claim that you live in SV and only make $50k in a government IT job? That is what GS-5?
Beats me. I'm a contractor and $50K is the national average for a senior system administrator position. I've been trying to get my contracting agency to pay me a Silicon Valley cost-of-living adjustment to bring my pay rate up to $100K+ per year.
That is a job that requires zero education as educated people can start with the feds at GS-7 or even 9.
All the people hired for the project that I'm working on has 20+ years of IT experience. All accepted $50K per year. That pay rate goes far in the Pacific Northwest and Southwest, but not in Silicon Valley.
Of course you can save money, you are sharing your 1 room apartment with 5 people.
I live by myself in a studio apartment for the last 11 years. In Silicon Valley. I'm three years from being priced out of the market. A few more certifications underneath my belt, my next job will pay $120K+ per year.
Always scary when citizens from a different country try to behave like American citizens.
take the $199 and set up a Roth IRA by buying an index fund. then go out and get a job.
You can only contribute to a Roth IRA from earned income of a job. No job, no contribution. Spending $199 on a new suit for job interviews is better advice.
Not my fault that the postal service left classified information in everyone's mailbox.
The CIA classified my grocery list. Never mind that the information on the grocery list came from the weekly flyer that came in the mail. Never mind that the neighbors up and down the street may have a similar grocery list. Never mind that the CIA has no business classifying my grocery list in the first place.
Is that what kids are charging for two tin cans and a string these days?
There still might be the impression, amongst the people this training is targeting, that you can still strike it rich building apps... that Google is banking on.
True. Google doesn't have the rich ecosystem that Apple has, where Stanford MBA graduates are writing business plans for that killer app that will turn them into instant venture capitalists.
Because your post reminded me of all the "Make $5k/week" ads I see.
There are jobs where you can make obscene amounts of money IF YOU ARE WILLING to work 80 hours. My former coworker currently makes $10K per week for 80 hours per week. Prior to going full time as a roofer, he did roofing as a 40-hour job while working 40 hours remotely in government IT at night for six months after getting his contractor license. Construction is red hot now because there is an acute shortage of skilled workers.
Ignorant fuckstains like you, who have zero financial sense, are a blight on the world.
I make $50K per year at government IT job, save 20% of my income and live in Silicon Valley. If you live a modest lifestyle, this is entirely possible. Unfortunately, most people who live in Silicon Valley want big cars, big houses, big wife and big kids. That gets expensive in a hurry.
Oh, God! Not Java again!
Do not pass Go. Do not collect $200. Got straight to the app jail.
My cousin works from home and earns $4500 a week.
Investing in a "get rich quick" scheme is not the same as investing yourself.