My brother got into landscaping design after he couldn't find a doctor to certified that he was disabled in the knees after 30 years as an auto body specialist. He used two years of unemployment benefits to start his business. Works side-by-side with the laborers he picked up at Home Depot. Still complains about his knees.
I did that for two years (2009-10). The experience of being unemployed for that long was quite stressful, especially with hiring managers saying you were "overqualified" for minimum wage jobs and recruiters saying you're "unemployable" for everything else.
My internship after getting a two-year degree was with a Fortune 500 company. That was 20 years ago. I've been pigeon-holed by recruiters and hiring managers as an enterprise-level tech from the beginning that I'm only considered for Fortune 500 or government IT positions. If I try to interview at a small- or medium-sized company, I'm told that I'm "too big" for them. I'm sure that's in reference to my experience and not my weight.
My employment contracts for the past 10+ years have prohibited me from working more than 40 hours per week. Fortune 500 companies or the government just don't want to pay overtime anymore.
Nope. I made an extra $80 for the last six weeks by doing what I've always done on Slashdot. That's "free" money for no extra effort on my part. I hope that number continues to grow and my Slashdot visitors become repeat customers for my side business.
But, since you have made no contributions of note to the industry, it's not worth my time.
That's because the IT industry pays my bills. It's not where I'm making my mark. That's like telling Harrison Ford that he made no contributions to the construction trades as a carpenter in between movies.
In 7 years, you managed to go from $10 an hour to $16 an hour - wow... did they raise minimum wage or something?
Minimum wage was $5 per hour back in 1997. It's $10 per hour today.
In 6 years, you managed to get a $2/hr raise. Whoa!
Great Recession.
For "several years" your pay stayed flat.
You have heard of the Great Recession?
And you're proud of that.
Yes, I am.
That's right, because you'd have to be much smarter than you are to believe me - being "dumb enough to believe my negativity" would be a fucking UPGRADE for you.
Take your negativity and stick it up your ass.
If you're the same asshat commenting on a programming thread, a double dumb ass on you.
What bothers me is that you refuse to just shut the fuck up and listen when somebody who knows more than you do about a subject - obviously, and by your own admission as someone 'learning python' - offers you some useful advice on how you should approach your problem.
All you did was belittle my ability to code without actually looking my code. That's not helpful. So stop patting yourself on the back.
I can tell you where your bottleneck is: it's the part of your "brain" that refuses to close your ignorant fucking mouth for a second and absorb honest critical feedback without getting defensive and whining about how hard you've had it, and how successful you are in spite of all your problems;
You didn't offer any "honest critical feedback" to my code, as you have obviously never seen my code. All you did was talk shit.
The part that expects us to congratulate you for being a scarcely-competent helpdesk monkey with pretensions to programming competence.
BINGO! Here's the real problem. This is the whole point of all your comments. Take your negativity and stick it up your ass.
I'm just on the sidelines for this, but I don't get it. Isn't "I will shut you up by exercising my second amendment rights" just another way of saying "I will shoot you"? If not, what did you mean?
What possible basis would you have to sue him for?
I just want a cease and desist. Every time I comment on a political topic, this asshat pops his head out just long enough to falsely accuse me of threatening to shoot him and then pops his head back in. Thanks to him, I figured out how to make money from Slashdot with the increased traffic to my websites.
You're overlooking the possibility that the people who were embarrassed were embarrassed FOR you, not BY you.
No, I embarrassed them. A tech had a ticket in his queue that sat neglected for nine months because he didn't like the user. Manager gave me the ticket. I went over with a cart to pick up old equipment. User was super pissed off. I had to explain that I was a contractor on temporary assignment and asked what I could do for her. I ended up picking up three carts of old equipment. When I went back with paper towels and a spray bottle to wipe down the counters, the manager and the tech came with me. The user praised me for the work I did and cussed out the tech for the work that he didn't do. This story confirmed by the manager during reference checks got me my current job.
How much money did you make as a software tester?
$10 to $16 per hour.
How much in helpdesk?
$20 to $22 per hour.
How much as a team lead?
$24 per hour.
[...] but you're still making 50k per year doing it, which is a laughably, absurdly low pay rate for any senior person.
Since I got an extra month of pay as a Christmas bonus last year, I'm making closer to $30 per hour.
Seriously, even you can't be dumb enough to believe your own press.
Furthermore, why is your function not checking its inputs, and failing with a useful exception if the user specifies a string when an int (or other Numeric) is expected?
Input checking is the Java approach. Python uses duck typing (if it walks like a duck, quacks like a duck, looks like a duck, it must be a duck). If I check 0 as int and '0' as str, what about [0] as list or (0) as tuple? I would have to check for all four valid expressions. Or just let Python throw a ValueException error (quack, quack).
That's not "solving the problem" - that's simply shoveling more hardware at the performance bottleneck that you're too dumb to design around.
The program runs fine AS IS. I have yet to determine that there is a performance bottleneck. The requestor object is the most likely candidate as latency is an external variable. Testing the program on different hardware will determine if there's a performance bottle in writing to CSV or Sqlite on the laptop (dual-core), Redhat box (quad-core) or gaming box (eight-core). All three have the same SSD and memory specs.
Threading the page requests is certainly an option to speed up the processing, but given your answers above, I'm pretty sure it's well beyond your capabilities [...]
This is an area that I will need to additional research.
[...] will cause your turdy code to turn into an even more turdy pile of deadlocks and race conditions.
Does it really bother you that much that I have A.S. in computer programming and not a B.S. in computer science?
The trick is to find the job that no one else wants to do. For example, the IT department at a local hospital had a 600-sqft storage room that no one had seen the floor in eight years. I asked to move my desk into the storage room, spent six weeks between tickets and assignments clearing out that storage room, and embarrassed the full-time staff that made the mess.
If you get such glowing recommendations, how is it that you're making 50k per year in Silicon Valley with 20 years of glowing recommendations for miracle work under your belt?
Because my technical career isn't one continuous line upward. I spent seven years as a software tester. Six years in help desk/desktop support. I was a team lead for PC refresh projects for several years. Built out a data center and tested 11AC wireless for several years. Now I do InfoSec remediation.
LOL - 3 seconds per page! With speeds like that, you're bound to get an offer as a top architect at Google soon, creimer.
I picked up Python when I was working at Google ten years ago. If I ever worked at Google again, I'll probably have to pick up Go.
Because performance isn't built in from the start?
Performance isn't an issue at this stage.
You should be writing unit tests throughout your coding - it's not something you do "at the end."
I'm refactoring one large class with 30 methods into a handful of smaller classes. The new classes require new unit tests. Since the program works, I'm writing documentation for the program and the unit tests.
And that refactoring doesn't include performance improvements?
That's not the focus at this stage.
Because it's more important to write documentation that'll never be read than it is to get your software working.
Program does work (see output from my previous comment). Since type-checking isn't Pythonic, I'll need good documentation to explain why zero as a numeral is acceptable but zero as a literal is not for a function. When the program throws a ValueError exception, you can see what types are documented and correct your mistake.
And you'll solve that, how?
Performance testing on my Red Hat Linux box (quad-core) and gaming PC (eight-core).Threading each page request is something I might try and maybe add to the next version.
So you're saying that a miracle worker is actually someone who lies about how long a task will take, then exceeds that deliberate low-ball estimate, and then takes credit for exceeding schedule commitments?
It's called managing expectations. When I was a lead video game tester, I added two months to the schedule estimate that everyone used to calculate their milestone bonuses. Nine out of ten projects my schedule estimate was the most accurate. The tenth project had an actual design doc and stayed on schedule.
For someone who spouts off about ethics & honesty here, you sure do seem pretty comfortable with lying to make yourself look good, creimer.
The alternative is to have other people defined who I am. So I deliberately play into everyone's low expectation, find the one job that no wants to do, perform a miracle and walk away with glowing recommendations for my next contract job.
[...] then threaten to shoot people when its pointed out.
I'm using a named account. You still haven't filed a compliant with the authorities after three months of repeating this false accusation on Slashdot. My attorney is waiting to hear from you.
I doubt that the special counsel will be reinvestigating every manufactured scandal that the right-wing echo chamber failed to stick to Obama and Hillary.
Slashdot Mirror
My brother got into landscaping design after he couldn't find a doctor to certified that he was disabled in the knees after 30 years as an auto body specialist. He used two years of unemployment benefits to start his business. Works side-by-side with the laborers he picked up at Home Depot. Still complains about his knees.
I did that for two years (2009-10). The experience of being unemployed for that long was quite stressful, especially with hiring managers saying you were "overqualified" for minimum wage jobs and recruiters saying you're "unemployable" for everything else.
There's money to be made in cleaning my up other people's tech messes. I've cleaned up quite a few over the years.
My internship after getting a two-year degree was with a Fortune 500 company. That was 20 years ago. I've been pigeon-holed by recruiters and hiring managers as an enterprise-level tech from the beginning that I'm only considered for Fortune 500 or government IT positions. If I try to interview at a small- or medium-sized company, I'm told that I'm "too big" for them. I'm sure that's in reference to my experience and not my weight.
My employment contracts for the past 10+ years have prohibited me from working more than 40 hours per week. Fortune 500 companies or the government just don't want to pay overtime anymore.
Stop posting on Slashdot about it.
I'm going to do better than that. I'm planning to publish my code on GitHub and submit the project as an article on Slashdot.
Do toy boats even fit in the bathtub with your fat ass?
Plenty of room for the HMS Titanic .
Don't you mean $80K+ or $80M+ ?
Nope. I made an extra $80 for the last six weeks by doing what I've always done on Slashdot. That's "free" money for no extra effort on my part. I hope that number continues to grow and my Slashdot visitors become repeat customers for my side business.
But, since you have made no contributions of note to the industry, it's not worth my time.
That's because the IT industry pays my bills. It's not where I'm making my mark. That's like telling Harrison Ford that he made no contributions to the construction trades as a carpenter in between movies.
Just because "referrer = slashdot.org" shows up doesn't mean that you're getting a lot of ad impressions.
I'm not making money from ad impressions. I'm making money from sales. I made an extra $80+ over the last six weeks.
The CEO needs a new yacht to keep up with the other CEO's who bought bigger yachts? I've heard that back in 2013.
In 7 years, you managed to go from $10 an hour to $16 an hour - wow... did they raise minimum wage or something?
Minimum wage was $5 per hour back in 1997. It's $10 per hour today.
In 6 years, you managed to get a $2/hr raise. Whoa!
Great Recession.
For "several years" your pay stayed flat.
You have heard of the Great Recession?
And you're proud of that.
Yes, I am.
That's right, because you'd have to be much smarter than you are to believe me - being "dumb enough to believe my negativity" would be a fucking UPGRADE for you.
Take your negativity and stick it up your ass.
If you're the same asshat commenting on a programming thread, a double dumb ass on you.
What bothers me is that you refuse to just shut the fuck up and listen when somebody who knows more than you do about a subject - obviously, and by your own admission as someone 'learning python' - offers you some useful advice on how you should approach your problem.
All you did was belittle my ability to code without actually looking my code. That's not helpful. So stop patting yourself on the back.
I can tell you where your bottleneck is: it's the part of your "brain" that refuses to close your ignorant fucking mouth for a second and absorb honest critical feedback without getting defensive and whining about how hard you've had it, and how successful you are in spite of all your problems;
You didn't offer any "honest critical feedback" to my code, as you have obviously never seen my code. All you did was talk shit.
The part that expects us to congratulate you for being a scarcely-competent helpdesk monkey with pretensions to programming competence.
BINGO! Here's the real problem. This is the whole point of all your comments. Take your negativity and stick it up your ass.
I'm just on the sidelines for this, but I don't get it. Isn't "I will shut you up by exercising my second amendment rights" just another way of saying "I will shoot you"? If not, what did you mean?
Read my blog post: https://www.kickingthebitbucket.com/2017/03/21/have-i-threatened-to-shoot-you-today/
What possible basis would you have to sue him for?
I just want a cease and desist. Every time I comment on a political topic, this asshat pops his head out just long enough to falsely accuse me of threatening to shoot him and then pops his head back in. Thanks to him, I figured out how to make money from Slashdot with the increased traffic to my websites.
You're overlooking the possibility that the people who were embarrassed were embarrassed FOR you, not BY you.
No, I embarrassed them. A tech had a ticket in his queue that sat neglected for nine months because he didn't like the user. Manager gave me the ticket. I went over with a cart to pick up old equipment. User was super pissed off. I had to explain that I was a contractor on temporary assignment and asked what I could do for her. I ended up picking up three carts of old equipment. When I went back with paper towels and a spray bottle to wipe down the counters, the manager and the tech came with me. The user praised me for the work I did and cussed out the tech for the work that he didn't do. This story confirmed by the manager during reference checks got me my current job.
How much money did you make as a software tester?
$10 to $16 per hour.
How much in helpdesk?
$20 to $22 per hour.
How much as a team lead?
$24 per hour.
[...] but you're still making 50k per year doing it, which is a laughably, absurdly low pay rate for any senior person.
Since I got an extra month of pay as a Christmas bonus last year, I'm making closer to $30 per hour.
Seriously, even you can't be dumb enough to believe your own press.
I'm not dumb enough to believe your negativity.
Furthermore, why is your function not checking its inputs, and failing with a useful exception if the user specifies a string when an int (or other Numeric) is expected?
Input checking is the Java approach. Python uses duck typing (if it walks like a duck, quacks like a duck, looks like a duck, it must be a duck). If I check 0 as int and '0' as str, what about [0] as list or (0) as tuple? I would have to check for all four valid expressions. Or just let Python throw a ValueException error (quack, quack).
That's not "solving the problem" - that's simply shoveling more hardware at the performance bottleneck that you're too dumb to design around.
The program runs fine AS IS. I have yet to determine that there is a performance bottleneck. The requestor object is the most likely candidate as latency is an external variable. Testing the program on different hardware will determine if there's a performance bottle in writing to CSV or Sqlite on the laptop (dual-core), Redhat box (quad-core) or gaming box (eight-core). All three have the same SSD and memory specs.
Threading the page requests is certainly an option to speed up the processing, but given your answers above, I'm pretty sure it's well beyond your capabilities [...]
This is an area that I will need to additional research.
[...] will cause your turdy code to turn into an even more turdy pile of deadlocks and race conditions.
Does it really bother you that much that I have A.S. in computer programming and not a B.S. in computer science?
Telling someone you are going to shut them up by going out and exercising your second amendment rights IS assault with a deadly weapon.
Call the police.
Doing it with a named account and posting links to your blog just makes it stupid.
Then filing a police report should make it easy.
You are just the only one threatening to shoot me.
Which is a false accusation that you have repeatedly made for three months. If I ever find out who you are, you will hear from my attorney.
Meeting low expectations is not miracle work.
The trick is to find the job that no one else wants to do. For example, the IT department at a local hospital had a 600-sqft storage room that no one had seen the floor in eight years. I asked to move my desk into the storage room, spent six weeks between tickets and assignments clearing out that storage room, and embarrassed the full-time staff that made the mess.
If you get such glowing recommendations, how is it that you're making 50k per year in Silicon Valley with 20 years of glowing recommendations for miracle work under your belt?
Because my technical career isn't one continuous line upward. I spent seven years as a software tester. Six years in help desk/desktop support. I was a team lead for PC refresh projects for several years. Built out a data center and tested 11AC wireless for several years. Now I do InfoSec remediation.
LOL - 3 seconds per page! With speeds like that, you're bound to get an offer as a top architect at Google soon, creimer.
I picked up Python when I was working at Google ten years ago. If I ever worked at Google again, I'll probably have to pick up Go.
Because performance isn't built in from the start?
Performance isn't an issue at this stage.
You should be writing unit tests throughout your coding - it's not something you do "at the end."
I'm refactoring one large class with 30 methods into a handful of smaller classes. The new classes require new unit tests. Since the program works, I'm writing documentation for the program and the unit tests.
And that refactoring doesn't include performance improvements?
That's not the focus at this stage.
Because it's more important to write documentation that'll never be read than it is to get your software working.
Program does work (see output from my previous comment). Since type-checking isn't Pythonic, I'll need good documentation to explain why zero as a numeral is acceptable but zero as a literal is not for a function. When the program throws a ValueError exception, you can see what types are documented and correct your mistake.
And you'll solve that, how?
Performance testing on my Red Hat Linux box (quad-core) and gaming PC (eight-core).Threading each page request is something I might try and maybe add to the next version.
https://docs.python.org/3/library/threading.html
So you're saying that a miracle worker is actually someone who lies about how long a task will take, then exceeds that deliberate low-ball estimate, and then takes credit for exceeding schedule commitments?
It's called managing expectations. When I was a lead video game tester, I added two months to the schedule estimate that everyone used to calculate their milestone bonuses. Nine out of ten projects my schedule estimate was the most accurate. The tenth project had an actual design doc and stayed on schedule.
For someone who spouts off about ethics & honesty here, you sure do seem pretty comfortable with lying to make yourself look good, creimer.
The alternative is to have other people defined who I am. So I deliberately play into everyone's low expectation, find the one job that no wants to do, perform a miracle and walk away with glowing recommendations for my next contract job.
Came across this nugget last night about project management according to Montgomery Scott.
http://projectmanagementhacks.com/project-management-skills/
[...] then threaten to shoot people when its pointed out.
I'm using a named account. You still haven't filed a compliant with the authorities after three months of repeating this false accusation on Slashdot. My attorney is waiting to hear from you.
I earn $55k doing IT support in Silicon Valley and I don't see the difference.
Only a douchebag would brag about making proverty wages in Silicon Valley. :p
[...] be careful what you asked for...
I doubt that the special counsel will be reinvestigating every manufactured scandal that the right-wing echo chamber failed to stick to Obama and Hillary.
Mar-a-lago is a resort.
So is Camp David. Which one is more secure for national security?