Dude, you are old and in IT. YOU will be screwed. It doesn't matter how good you are or your experience.
If the IT industry has a 1.5M+ shortage of skilled IT workers (as expected in recent studies), they're not going to care about how old I am. The construction trades are already experiencing a shortage in skilled trade workers because kids are going to college, American workers are aging out of the workforce and foreign workers are going home. If Trump ever signs a $1T infrastructure bill, most of those "shovel ready"
jobs won't start due to a lack of construction workers.
In Silicon Valley, the kids pushing fries at Burger World make more.
Your math is wrong. Minimum wage is $10/hour in Silicon Valley. I make three times more than that (thanks to an extra month of pay as a Christmas bonus). The CEO of Burger World is fighting tooth-and-nail to prevent minimum wage from rising to $15 per hour by 2019.
The issue could be moot, however, if San Jose adopts the Cities Association of Santa Clara County recommended $15 minimum wage by 2019, which the city's representative to the association endorsed back in June in a non-binding vote. That schedule calls for an $11 an hour wage on Jan. 1, 2017, $13.50 in 2018 and $15 in 2019.
(though I can't find in which specific field he has a MSc)
Looks like a he has a M.S. degree in Science, maybe similar to having Fine Arts degree in Arts. It may have been a catchall degree for science. His bachelor degree was in mathematics and physics.
Under a normal administration, most policies don't become reality until the following year after transferring power from the previous administration. Nothing is normal about Trump or his administration. It's a bit early to assign blame. Wait a few months.
No, bad IT people get paid 50000$ a year at age 47 while their peers are married with children, make 6-10 times that wage, and don't feel the need to fabricate a life on Slashdot.
That's too funny. My sysadmin peers on a nation-wide government IT project make $50K+ per year (engineers get $80K+ per year), most are ex-military and married with children,
and none of have ever heard of Slashdot. And everyone has 20+
years of IT experience.
Sounds like my job in a way. There are high-end tools available that the contractors could use to get their jobs done faster, but they're not available because a full-time employee accidentally installed the wrong patch on 10K+ workstations. The logic of this restriction is, "Can you imagine what would happen if a contractor used the same tool?" Never mind that the colossal screw ups were caused by full-time employees and the contractors had to clean up the mess.
Like the Republicans blaming Obama for the government bail out even through George W. signed the legislation into law prior to Obama being sworn into office.
A study after the dot com bust predicated that the IT industry will have a shortage of 1M skilled workers in 2030 from baby boomers retiring and foreign workers going home. Nature is taking care of the baby boomers. Trump is getting rid of foreign workers. Now is a good time to be in IT.
Being bought up by a larger company was the reason d'etre of many dot com startups. Today it's just another exit strategy on the VC's checklist when you come begging for money. Something that Antonio Martinez explained in his book,
"Chaos Monkeys: Obscene Fortune and Random Failure in Silicon Valley".
American companies can write off data breaches as an expense when filing taxes. If Congress pass a law to forbid that practice and stick the bill to shareholders, CEOs would make InfoSec a priority in a heartbeat. After all, their compensation would be on the line.
Maybe it wasn't a single supply, but rather a series of failures over the last 6 months which never got fixed.... and then the last one failed as well.
Or some forgot to plug in the monitoring cables for the redundant power supplies? I worked at a company where a hallway suddenly smelled like an open sewer for several weeks. What made it mysterious was that no sewer line went through that part of the building, leaving the building owner and plumber puzzled about the source. The smell came from leaking batteries inside a redundant UPS in the network closet on the other side of the wall. Since the monitoring cable wasn't plugged in, the one-man IT department didn't know that the UPS stopped working a long time ago.
Bad IT people tend to get promoted into management and then worm they way into middle management. The only cure then is to get rid of middle management. When I worked at Cisco and a layoff got announced in October 2013, the Indian engineers were shocked that their middle management got targeted for layoffs. Three layers of middle management got eliminated, all paper pushers and no decision makers.
I finished reading "Chaos Monkeys: Obscene Fortune and Random Failure in Silicon Valley" by Antonio Garcia Martinez. The author and his two engineers leave the startup they worked at to create a startup at Y Combinator to create a better version of the Digg toolbar (remember toolbars?) for Google advertisers in 2010. He sold his company and engineers to Twitter and jumped ship to Facebook in a three-way deal. The funny thing is that his engineers made out better than him in the end. As for Y Combinator, I've heard mixed things about their success rate.
For your hobbies you want to hang out with your friends, not some people that constantly tell you your idea is full of shit and your code base is unscaleable and unmaintainable.
Too often your friends won't provide feedback. If you're screwing up, they will sit back and watch the inevitable train wreck. If you ask them why they didn't say anything, they will claim that someone else should have told you.
A lot of what we've traditionally thought of as "the natural effects of age" were really the natural effects of lots of booze.
Nothing is more fun than coming into work on a Monday morning, finding out that your coworkers are being bailed out of jail for fighting at the strip joint down the street, and HR issuing a memo in the afternoon that getting busted at the strip joint is grounds for termination.
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Purchase Cyrix processors only.
I loved my Cyrix 6x86 CPU back in the late 1990's. It ran Linux flawlessly for my file server.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cyrix_6x86
Dude, you are old and in IT. YOU will be screwed. It doesn't matter how good you are or your experience.
If the IT industry has a 1.5M+ shortage of skilled IT workers (as expected in recent studies), they're not going to care about how old I am. The construction trades are already experiencing a shortage in skilled trade workers because kids are going to college, American workers are aging out of the workforce and foreign workers are going home. If Trump ever signs a $1T infrastructure bill, most of those "shovel ready" jobs won't start due to a lack of construction workers.
I've been hearing about AI since reading Byte Magazine in the early 1980's.
In Silicon Valley, the kids pushing fries at Burger World make more.
Your math is wrong. Minimum wage is $10/hour in Silicon Valley. I make three times more than that (thanks to an extra month of pay as a Christmas bonus). The CEO of Burger World is fighting tooth-and-nail to prevent minimum wage from rising to $15 per hour by 2019.
The issue could be moot, however, if San Jose adopts the Cities Association of Santa Clara County recommended $15 minimum wage by 2019, which the city's representative to the association endorsed back in June in a non-binding vote. That schedule calls for an $11 an hour wage on Jan. 1, 2017, $13.50 in 2018 and $15 in 2019.
http://www.bizjournals.com/sanjose/news/2016/09/30/san-jose-raises-minimum-wage-but-fine-print-once.html
(though I can't find in which specific field he has a MSc)
Looks like a he has a M.S. degree in Science, maybe similar to having Fine Arts degree in Arts. It may have been a catchall degree for science. His bachelor degree was in mathematics and physics.
Are you agreeing that Trump isn't to blame?
Under a normal administration, most policies don't become reality until the following year after transferring power from the previous administration. Nothing is normal about Trump or his administration. It's a bit early to assign blame. Wait a few months.
And so I assume that Obama wished it was never signed into law? That he spoke out against it?
Your assumption is wrong.
Are you just that stupid or is it deliberate?
This assumption is also wrong.
No, bad IT people get paid 50000$ a year at age 47 while their peers are married with children, make 6-10 times that wage, and don't feel the need to fabricate a life on Slashdot.
That's too funny. My sysadmin peers on a nation-wide government IT project make $50K+ per year (engineers get $80K+ per year), most are ex-military and married with children, and none of have ever heard of Slashdot. And everyone has 20+ years of IT experience.
Sounds like my job in a way. There are high-end tools available that the contractors could use to get their jobs done faster, but they're not available because a full-time employee accidentally installed the wrong patch on 10K+ workstations. The logic of this restriction is, "Can you imagine what would happen if a contractor used the same tool?" Never mind that the colossal screw ups were caused by full-time employees and the contractors had to clean up the mess.
Like the Republicans blaming Obama for the government bail out even through George W. signed the legislation into law prior to Obama being sworn into office.
A study after the dot com bust predicated that the IT industry will have a shortage of 1M skilled workers in 2030 from baby boomers retiring and foreign workers going home. Nature is taking care of the baby boomers. Trump is getting rid of foreign workers. Now is a good time to be in IT.
You could always buy a refurbished MacBook Pro from OWC that cost less and has a warranty.
Being bought up by a larger company was the reason d'etre of many dot com startups. Today it's just another exit strategy on the VC's checklist when you come begging for money. Something that Antonio Martinez explained in his book, "Chaos Monkeys: Obscene Fortune and Random Failure in Silicon Valley".
Maybe it's time for Apple to reduce their product lines to four product categories and focus on those for a while.
Like what did Woz ever do? He isn't even there for any of Apple's most successful era.
Without Woz and the Apple computer, Jobs would be selling sugar water .
American companies can write off data breaches as an expense when filing taxes. If Congress pass a law to forbid that practice and stick the bill to shareholders, CEOs would make InfoSec a priority in a heartbeat. After all, their compensation would be on the line.
Yet Slashdot didn't feature one story about Dr. Who. So much for news for nerds.
http://io9.gizmodo.com/doctor-who-just-pulled-off-a-barnstorming-cliffhanger-1795631931
Maybe it wasn't a single supply, but rather a series of failures over the last 6 months which never got fixed.... and then the last one failed as well.
Or some forgot to plug in the monitoring cables for the redundant power supplies? I worked at a company where a hallway suddenly smelled like an open sewer for several weeks. What made it mysterious was that no sewer line went through that part of the building, leaving the building owner and plumber puzzled about the source. The smell came from leaking batteries inside a redundant UPS in the network closet on the other side of the wall. Since the monitoring cable wasn't plugged in, the one-man IT department didn't know that the UPS stopped working a long time ago.
Bad IT people tend to get promoted into management and then worm they way into middle management. The only cure then is to get rid of middle management. When I worked at Cisco and a layoff got announced in October 2013, the Indian engineers were shocked that their middle management got targeted for layoffs. Three layers of middle management got eliminated, all paper pushers and no decision makers.
Sometimes you need virtual ditch diggers to clean up the mess when the latest version goes kaput.
I finished reading "Chaos Monkeys: Obscene Fortune and Random Failure in Silicon Valley" by Antonio Garcia Martinez. The author and his two engineers leave the startup they worked at to create a startup at Y Combinator to create a better version of the Digg toolbar (remember toolbars?) for Google advertisers in 2010. He sold his company and engineers to Twitter and jumped ship to Facebook in a three-way deal. The funny thing is that his engineers made out better than him in the end. As for Y Combinator, I've heard mixed things about their success rate.
For your hobbies you want to hang out with your friends, not some people that constantly tell you your idea is full of shit and your code base is unscaleable and unmaintainable.
Too often your friends won't provide feedback. If you're screwing up, they will sit back and watch the inevitable train wreck. If you ask them why they didn't say anything, they will claim that someone else should have told you.
I read somewhere that ancient Egyptian women used crocodile dung as a contraceptive sponge.
A lot of what we've traditionally thought of as "the natural effects of age" were really the natural effects of lots of booze.
Nothing is more fun than coming into work on a Monday morning, finding out that your coworkers are being bailed out of jail for fighting at the strip joint down the street, and HR issuing a memo in the afternoon that getting busted at the strip joint is grounds for termination.
Please provide a link or citation or source for your usage.
As I pointed out in my previous comment, this isn't my usage.