Yes x86 is assumed to mean the 64bit version (x86_64) nowadays, which is a superset of the 32bit version and the 16bit versions of x86, all thanks to mode switching.
Don't forget the 8-bit processors. Some of us old timers cut our teeth on those 8-bit processors. Now get off my lawn!
The same place you learned Silicon Valley IT contractors make $50k.
If you're astonished that someone can make $50K and still live in Silicon Valley, it's a common misconception that everyone who lives here has to be a multimillionaire. That only applies to the hipsters in San Francisco.
Oh, and doesn't have a sweet gov't job (either directly or because they served in the Military & work for a defense contractor now).
I do IT contract work for the government as civilian worker for a civilian contractor at a civilian agency. I'm not ex-military but I work with ex-military coworkers. This is probably most professional IT group I have ever worked with in the 20 years that I've worked in Silicon Valley. Although I could make 40% more money in the private sector, the benefit package is sweet and I have job security for the next four years as the primary contract is fully funded.
What I'm wondering is if we're gonna do anything about it?
You adapt to changing circumstances and never give up. I started off with software testing a virtual online world for six months and video games for six years. A half-dozen years in help desk. Two years being unemployed, six months underemployed (working 20 hours per month), and filing for chapter seven bankruptcy. Three years on contract from replacing PCs to building out data centers. I've done computer security for the last several years. Who knows what I'll be doing after that.
Or are we gonna roll over and play dead like the blues did.
Stop changing, you're dead. For some people, change is scary. For many people in the 1980's, they didn't want to change.
Vote Sanders so they can keep their jobs and pay 60+% of their paychecks in taxes to fund government giveaways for non-workers?
According to H&R Block, I made $50,000+ as an IT contract work in Silicon Valley, my federal marginal tax rate is 25% and my effective tax rate is 11%. Don't have a breakdown for California taxes but it's significantly less than federal. I don't know where you get this 60% figure.
Not to mention, their kids don't want to be caught dead at their dad's former homeland.
Or the wife and kids don't want the guy to return home from the US because they're too busy living off the money he sends back home. I knew a guy from the Philippines who got caught in that situation. After working 20 years in the US, he went back home unannounced and told his family that he retired from working. His family hated him and the village vilified him for being a lazy bastard for cutting off the cash flow. Last I heard he got divorced and bought a fishing boat to live on.
I've heard stories of American men in Silicon Valley who saved up their money after working 20 years to retire in Mexico or Central America, buying a lot to build a mansion by local standards and marrying sweet little nothing from a nearby village. The locals don't mind because the "rich man" will keel over from having too much sex with the sweet little nothing and everything he owns will stay in the village.
If they are "no longer qualified" then how do you explain them having to train their replacements in most cases?
A company I worked at gave the help desk contract to an Indian contractor, which didn't have enough H1-B workers to fill out the headcount. So American employees from the old contract were kept on. Everything stayed the same for the first month with business as usual. The contractor then implemented a three shift schedule that started at 8AM, 10AM and 12PM, and the shift assignment for each worker rotated every week. All the American workers were eventually let go and replaced by H1-B workers who have no trouble jumping through the scheduling hoops.
How would the police have probable cause to even know how much money I have in my wallet?
When it comes to asset forfeitures, probable cause is optional. All the police have to do is accuse you of being a drug dealer. The law allows them to keep the cash even if they don't charge you for a crime. If you insist on getting your cash back, the district attorney will tell you to take a walk or face a criminal complaint. For some local jurisdictions, asset seizures is the quickest way to juice up the budget. Far more easier than asking voters for a new property tax.
That's not what I've been told when I worked at eBay/PayPal (years before the recent corporate split). Although not a bank per se, PayPal does fall under banking regulations. What that meant for the IT department was that we had to keep eBay assets and PayPal assets separate from each other. (Assets being anything with an asset tag such as laptops and monitors; cables, keyboards and mice were interchangeable.) Also, if you worked for PayPal directly and not eBay/PayPal, your credit record has to be much cleaner than average, no bankruptcies in the last ten years, and any adverse downward changes in credit score can result in immediate termination when your credit report gets periodically reviewed.
I was living in small apartment building that got sold to a corporation. A month after the manager moved out of his apartment and returned to Mexico, a corporate representative asked if I paid cash and had receipts for the last two months. I did and showed him the receipts. Turned out everyone paid in cash and had receipts. The former manager drove off with $10,000+ in rents that he supposed to deposit into the corporate account. After that we had to pay by check or money order.
If you too much cash in your wallet, the police might accuse you of being a drug dealer, confiscate your cash, and let you go without giving your cash back.
Sole prop.... That's not a very smart thing to have done. That's like a business 101 mistake.
His grandfather and father ran the business as a sole proprietorship for 50 years. He converted it to a corporation because his CPA showed him how it would his overall tax bill by two-thirds as an individual taxpayer.
Oh and by the way, that $53,000 in profits - he has to pay at least 15% tax on that.
My understanding with his qualified retirement plan is that his paycheck contributions are pre-tax dollars and the corporate contributions are expense deductions.
He didn't just get that money tax free. Sooner or later they will get their cut.
He took salary and paid taxes on that, which was significantly less than being taxed as a sole proprietorship. The corporation paid whatever taxes it had to pay on what little profit was left over after expenses at year end.
He didn't just get that money tax free. Sooner or later they will get their cut.
He'll pay taxes when he starts drawing on his retirement account.
Run a corporation for a while, then tell me about them having to pay their fair share.
A former boss converted his masonry company from a sole proprietorship to a corporation. He paid significantly less in taxes as an individual for drawing a salary, Since he set up a qualified retirement, he stashed away about $53,000 in corporate profits each year. The only significant tax burden that the corporation had was salaries and worker comp.
When do I get my money back? How can I screw over the founders to make more money?
"Startup: A Silicon Valley Adventure" by Jerry Kaplan is great book on how his pen-based computer company got screwed over by the VC's, Microsoft, Apple and IBM.
If you google node.js web tutorial, all the top results involve express
If you google node.js tutorial, the first entry for ExpressNode.js dates September 2015, which is several years after I looked at a node.js tutorial. Subsequent pages mentions express.js in passing.
BTW, If you're using google to search the web, why are you using the word web in your search query? Seems redundant.
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Yes x86 is assumed to mean the 64bit version (x86_64) nowadays, which is a superset of the 32bit version and the 16bit versions of x86, all thanks to mode switching.
Don't forget the 8-bit processors. Some of us old timers cut our teeth on those 8-bit processors. Now get off my lawn!
Someone? Yes. IT contractors? No.
I live and work in Silicon Valley. I make $50,000+ per year. I do IT contract work. Why is that so hard to believe?
You paid at least 15% of your salary in FICA taxes alone.
If I did the math right (knock on wood), FICA taxes was 7.79% of my salary.
The same place you learned Silicon Valley IT contractors make $50k.
If you're astonished that someone can make $50K and still live in Silicon Valley, it's a common misconception that everyone who lives here has to be a multimillionaire. That only applies to the hipsters in San Francisco.
Oh, and doesn't have a sweet gov't job (either directly or because they served in the Military & work for a defense contractor now).
I do IT contract work for the government as civilian worker for a civilian contractor at a civilian agency. I'm not ex-military but I work with ex-military coworkers. This is probably most professional IT group I have ever worked with in the 20 years that I've worked in Silicon Valley. Although I could make 40% more money in the private sector, the benefit package is sweet and I have job security for the next four years as the primary contract is fully funded.
What I'm wondering is if we're gonna do anything about it?
You adapt to changing circumstances and never give up. I started off with software testing a virtual online world for six months and video games for six years. A half-dozen years in help desk. Two years being unemployed, six months underemployed (working 20 hours per month), and filing for chapter seven bankruptcy. Three years on contract from replacing PCs to building out data centers. I've done computer security for the last several years. Who knows what I'll be doing after that.
Or are we gonna roll over and play dead like the blues did.
Stop changing, you're dead. For some people, change is scary. For many people in the 1980's, they didn't want to change.
Every American worker should boycott Disney in solidarity — after Star Wars leave the theaters and becomes available online.
Vote Sanders so they can keep their jobs and pay 60+% of their paychecks in taxes to fund government giveaways for non-workers?
According to H&R Block, I made $50,000+ as an IT contract work in Silicon Valley, my federal marginal tax rate is 25% and my effective tax rate is 11%. Don't have a breakdown for California taxes but it's significantly less than federal. I don't know where you get this 60% figure.
Or maybe the fact the governor, lieutenant governor, both senators and most of the house reps are all democrats?
The Republican Party in California has more in common with the endangered spotted owl than 1/10th of the U.S. population.
Not to mention, their kids don't want to be caught dead at their dad's former homeland.
Or the wife and kids don't want the guy to return home from the US because they're too busy living off the money he sends back home. I knew a guy from the Philippines who got caught in that situation. After working 20 years in the US, he went back home unannounced and told his family that he retired from working. His family hated him and the village vilified him for being a lazy bastard for cutting off the cash flow. Last I heard he got divorced and bought a fishing boat to live on.
Many have no intention of staying in the US.
I've heard stories of American men in Silicon Valley who saved up their money after working 20 years to retire in Mexico or Central America, buying a lot to build a mansion by local standards and marrying sweet little nothing from a nearby village. The locals don't mind because the "rich man" will keel over from having too much sex with the sweet little nothing and everything he owns will stay in the village.
If they are "no longer qualified" then how do you explain them having to train their replacements in most cases?
A company I worked at gave the help desk contract to an Indian contractor, which didn't have enough H1-B workers to fill out the headcount. So American employees from the old contract were kept on. Everything stayed the same for the first month with business as usual. The contractor then implemented a three shift schedule that started at 8AM, 10AM and 12PM, and the shift assignment for each worker rotated every week. All the American workers were eventually let go and replaced by H1-B workers who have no trouble jumping through the scheduling hoops.
...it's a framework for adding server functionality to Node.js...
Why didn't you say so in the first place?
How would the police have probable cause to even know how much money I have in my wallet?
When it comes to asset forfeitures, probable cause is optional. All the police have to do is accuse you of being a drug dealer. The law allows them to keep the cash even if they don't charge you for a crime. If you insist on getting your cash back, the district attorney will tell you to take a walk or face a criminal complaint. For some local jurisdictions, asset seizures is the quickest way to juice up the budget. Far more easier than asking voters for a new property tax.
F and U shouldn't be that perplexing than?
paypal is not a bank
That's not what I've been told when I worked at eBay/PayPal (years before the recent corporate split). Although not a bank per se, PayPal does fall under banking regulations. What that meant for the IT department was that we had to keep eBay assets and PayPal assets separate from each other. (Assets being anything with an asset tag such as laptops and monitors; cables, keyboards and mice were interchangeable.) Also, if you worked for PayPal directly and not eBay/PayPal, your credit record has to be much cleaner than average, no bankruptcies in the last ten years, and any adverse downward changes in credit score can result in immediate termination when your credit report gets periodically reviewed.
I was living in small apartment building that got sold to a corporation. A month after the manager moved out of his apartment and returned to Mexico, a corporate representative asked if I paid cash and had receipts for the last two months. I did and showed him the receipts. Turned out everyone paid in cash and had receipts. The former manager drove off with $10,000+ in rents that he supposed to deposit into the corporate account. After that we had to pay by check or money order.
What is so hard about this to understand?
If you too much cash in your wallet, the police might accuse you of being a drug dealer, confiscate your cash, and let you go without giving your cash back.
Sole prop.... That's not a very smart thing to have done. That's like a business 101 mistake.
His grandfather and father ran the business as a sole proprietorship for 50 years. He converted it to a corporation because his CPA showed him how it would his overall tax bill by two-thirds as an individual taxpayer.
Oh and by the way, that $53,000 in profits - he has to pay at least 15% tax on that.
My understanding with his qualified retirement plan is that his paycheck contributions are pre-tax dollars and the corporate contributions are expense deductions.
He didn't just get that money tax free. Sooner or later they will get their cut.
He took salary and paid taxes on that, which was significantly less than being taxed as a sole proprietorship. The corporation paid whatever taxes it had to pay on what little profit was left over after expenses at year end.
He didn't just get that money tax free. Sooner or later they will get their cut.
He'll pay taxes when he starts drawing on his retirement account.
Run a corporation for a while, then tell me about them having to pay their fair share.
A former boss converted his masonry company from a sole proprietorship to a corporation. He paid significantly less in taxes as an individual for drawing a salary, Since he set up a qualified retirement, he stashed away about $53,000 in corporate profits each year. The only significant tax burden that the corporation had was salaries and worker comp.
Sex is old hat. What's your point?
A point about your inexperience, that is :)
If I know jQuery and Node, but not all the frameworks the sprung up around them, that makes me inexperience?
When do I get my money back? How can I screw over the founders to make more money?
"Startup: A Silicon Valley Adventure" by Jerry Kaplan is great book on how his pen-based computer company got screwed over by the VC's, Microsoft, Apple and IBM.
http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B00L0M749M
You must be a millennial with such as attitude.
I'm a Gen Xer who hates baby boomers and millennial with equal passion.
Drop dead and take the "new management style" with you.
What "new management style" would that be?
Besides, whatever your objection to JS frameworks, Node frameworks and client side frameworks are completely different.
Seems like a day doesn't go by without another JavaScript framework popping into existence.
If you google node.js web tutorial, all the top results involve express
If you google node.js tutorial, the first entry for ExpressNode.js dates September 2015, which is several years after I looked at a node.js tutorial. Subsequent pages mentions express.js in passing.
BTW, If you're using google to search the web, why are you using the word web in your search query? Seems redundant.