[...] you'll freely and happily make commentary here that trashes your own credibility and reputation in the field where you actually make (some) money.
That you think Slashdot is still relevant to a professional reputation is cute.
For someone who's concerned enough about his "personal brand" to submit bogus DMCA takedowns to dozens of websites, you seem curiously unconcerned about giving advice & making comments that reflect poorly on your abilities in the ONLY activity you engage in that nets you a living wage.
I see where your confusion comes from. My personal brand as an author is completely separate from my professional reputation as a remediation tech. The two don't mingle in the real world.
You don't need to be a professional infosec guy to go grocery shopping, but if you're going to claim (as creimer does) that you're studying for infosec certifications and that you works in "IT security," then you should probably refrain from making public pronouncements like, "Public, unsecured wifi is sometimes just so darned convenient," if you want to retain a shred of credibility.
I'm sure hackers would love to know what I'm reading on The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal and Slashdot. The last time I checked on Slashdot about my credibility... I have no credibility. But, hey, don't let that stop you from complaining about me. It's not like you have anything better to do with your life.
How does a good Christian virgin boy like you know about lady boys?
I work with a lot of ex-military folks. Most of the Vietnam vets have gone through Bankok at one time or another during the war. I've heard quite a few stories about the prostitutes.
As opposed to what? I am pretty sure that describes all of Silicon Valley.
I've read a lot of Silicon Valley books over the years. All of them don't describe going to a MILF party in the Palo Alto hills where older women look for younger men, boinking the marketing girl in the utility closet at a company event, or cruising the hipster bars for pickups as "Chaos Monkeys" does. The only book that comes closest is "What the Dormouse Said: How the Sixties Counter Culture Shaped the Personal Computer Industry" by John Markoff, which goes into the SF Bay Area drug and nudist subcultures.
If you're interested in the sausage making of online advertising with user data, check out "Chaos Monkeys: Obscene Fortune and Random Failure in Silicon Valley" by Antonio Garcia Martinez, an engineer who sold his engineers and company to Twitter while going to work at Facebook. Be forewarned that the author takes you through the sleazy side of Silicon Valley. Not for the faint of heart.
When someone mentioned this in a comment on a different story, I thought this was a joke. OTOH, I don't shop at Whole Foods. I just bend over and get screwed at Safeway instead.
Not everyone has an unlimited data plan for their cellphones. Sometimes wifi is just more convenient. I'm using wifi on the express bus since it's faster and doesn't drop out while going through the Palo Alto hills on 280.
Consumers are on the receiving end of capitalism. They're not capitalists. What more perfect information can you get than a capative audience on your in-store wifi network?
And think about how your autism impacts your ability to forge connections with your co-workers.
Too bad I don't have a disability.
Devoting some time & effort to building those connections will mean that your SLA adherence will get higher.
I haven't worked in help desk in nearly ten years. The SLA metric isn't required for my current job. BTW, I'm still in the top three of my department. That's probably why I got an extra month of pay as a Christmas bonus last year.
Any language that puts requirements on white space (like python) are bad ideas... That stuff when out of style a LONG time before even I started this software engineering thing 25+ years ago and there are good reasons for this.
I guess someone didn't get the memo when Python came out in 1991 (26 years ago).
Computer techs and programmers are NOT interchangeable...
The bottom half of IT is techs, the top half of IT is programmers. You can't have one without the other.
I would imagine their salary requirements are not the same either.
Bottom half, bottom rates. Top half, top rates. I'm always amused when someone tells me that I should be making $120K+ per year after 20+ years. The problem is I don't work in the top half of IT. I'm a tech, not a programmer.
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...which is why you have a website where you constantly mix the two together?
What does my author website have to do with my professional reputation as a remediation tech?
[...] you'll freely and happily make commentary here that trashes your own credibility and reputation in the field where you actually make (some) money.
That you think Slashdot is still relevant to a professional reputation is cute.
For someone who's concerned enough about his "personal brand" to submit bogus DMCA takedowns to dozens of websites, you seem curiously unconcerned about giving advice & making comments that reflect poorly on your abilities in the ONLY activity you engage in that nets you a living wage.
I see where your confusion comes from. My personal brand as an author is completely separate from my professional reputation as a remediation tech. The two don't mingle in the real world.
You don't need to be a professional infosec guy to go grocery shopping, but if you're going to claim (as creimer does) that you're studying for infosec certifications and that you works in "IT security," then you should probably refrain from making public pronouncements like, "Public, unsecured wifi is sometimes just so darned convenient," if you want to retain a shred of credibility.
I'm sure hackers would love to know what I'm reading on The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal and Slashdot. The last time I checked on Slashdot about my credibility... I have no credibility. But, hey, don't let that stop you from complaining about me. It's not like you have anything better to do with your life.
That could explain why my iPad 2 is getting sluggish over time.
As a good Christian virgin boy, you must have told them they're going to hell, right?
These men have already gone to hell for their country. I thanked them for their service.
How does a good Christian virgin boy like you know about lady boys?
I work with a lot of ex-military folks. Most of the Vietnam vets have gone through Bankok at one time or another during the war. I've heard quite a few stories about the prostitutes.
As opposed to what? I am pretty sure that describes all of Silicon Valley.
I've read a lot of Silicon Valley books over the years. All of them don't describe going to a MILF party in the Palo Alto hills where older women look for younger men, boinking the marketing girl in the utility closet at a company event, or cruising the hipster bars for pickups as "Chaos Monkeys" does. The only book that comes closest is "What the Dormouse Said: How the Sixties Counter Culture Shaped the Personal Computer Industry" by John Markoff, which goes into the SF Bay Area drug and nudist subcultures.
In an economic downturn Whole Foods would be a boat anchor.
Grocery stores are practically recession proof. Everyone has to eat even when times are hard.
In a retail store? When?
When you're five days away from having your maxed out 2GB data cap reset to zero and you don't want to pay an extra $15 for a gig of data.
[...] which is by definition an upscale service [...]
Safeway has home deliveries. No one would call Safeway upscale.
If you need to be a professional infosec guy to go grocery shopping, the world's already a lost cause.
AC is pissed off that I'm no longer trolling the trolls and I'm spending my time karma whoring.
Point is Whole Foods is a bunch of dicks, run by a bunch of dicks.
All the cute lesbian clerks are lady boys?!
If you're interested in the sausage making of online advertising with user data, check out "Chaos Monkeys: Obscene Fortune and Random Failure in Silicon Valley" by Antonio Garcia Martinez, an engineer who sold his engineers and company to Twitter while going to work at Facebook. Be forewarned that the author takes you through the sleazy side of Silicon Valley. Not for the faint of heart.
When someone mentioned this in a comment on a different story, I thought this was a joke. OTOH, I don't shop at Whole Foods. I just bend over and get screwed at Safeway instead.
This is the Gen X department. The Millennial department is in your mother's basement.
Not everyone has an unlimited data plan for their cellphones. Sometimes wifi is just more convenient. I'm using wifi on the express bus since it's faster and doesn't drop out while going through the Palo Alto hills on 280.
Consumers are on the receiving end of capitalism. They're not capitalists. What more perfect information can you get than a capative audience on your in-store wifi network?
Obviously, I'm not a programmer.
I would nominate Kik. Those bastards broke the Internet.
https://qz.com/646467/how-one-programmer-broke-the-internet-by-deleting-a-tiny-piece-of-code/
They should have called it Git... oh, wait...
And think about how your autism impacts your ability to forge connections with your co-workers.
Too bad I don't have a disability.
Devoting some time & effort to building those connections will mean that your SLA adherence will get higher.
I haven't worked in help desk in nearly ten years. The SLA metric isn't required for my current job. BTW, I'm still in the top three of my department. That's probably why I got an extra month of pay as a Christmas bonus last year.
Looks like I was right.
About time you got to the only point that matters to you.
Any language that puts requirements on white space (like python) are bad ideas... That stuff when out of style a LONG time before even I started this software engineering thing 25+ years ago and there are good reasons for this.
I guess someone didn't get the memo when Python came out in 1991 (26 years ago).
Computer techs and programmers are NOT interchangeable...
The bottom half of IT is techs, the top half of IT is programmers. You can't have one without the other.
I would imagine their salary requirements are not the same either.
Bottom half, bottom rates. Top half, top rates. I'm always amused when someone tells me that I should be making $120K+ per year after 20+ years. The problem is I don't work in the top half of IT. I'm a tech, not a programmer.