Definitely. I've worked a couple of jobs where the money offered hit a ceiling for the role, but was able to negotiate an extra week of vacation instead of more cash.
I read that as "whether they can ask multiple times AT the same volume"... they can ask multiple times, just in a more shouty way. *mental image of some lost python sketch*.
It depends where you are. Here in Sweden, I can get a mobile broadband stick for free from a provider and get 20GB of bandwidth a month for 199sek.
In fact this is what I use for my home internet, as there is no landline connection to my house. Telia wants 10000sek to install one, so I told them where to stick it:)
of course even though I've only been a politician for a couple of days you might not trust me
Actually the fact that you're not a career politician is *more* likely to make me trust you. You haven't been infected by all the nasty political diseases yet.:)
I had a similar problem here in Sweden (I'm from the UK). Trying to speak Swedish was met with (generally pretty good) English. I was lucky to find an English speaking job that also paid for me to have private Swedish lessons. Now I get much further into the conversations before they switch to English...
Not ALL EU legislation is "unwanted". For example, the laws that allow me (as a British citizen) the RIGHT to live and work wherever I please within the EU (right now I happen to be in Sweden) are pretty sweet.
Exactly. I live and work in Sweden - my Swedish is rudimentary at best.
Many IT jobs are conducted entirely in English. Most Swedes under the age of 70 or so have reasonable English skills and don't mind practicing them.
Life in Sweden is pretty good - salaries are lower, but the expectation of having all the latest stuff to keep up with the neighbors is almost non-existent, so you often have more money left over at the end of the month anyway:)
The country is relatively unspoiled (lots of green) - you can fairly easily and cheaply live somewhere out in the forest where you can't see your neighbor's house if that is your wish. It will cost you an arm and a leg to do a long commute by car though (petrol prices have just hit $8.50/us gallon and cars are expensive to buy)
Of course it's a bit of a nanny state with quite a bit of bureaucracy, so that might be a turn-off for some.
Oh, and Swedes dress funny. And they mostly dress alike.
Disclaimer: I'm a UK citizen who lived in the US for 15 years, and I haven't been in Sweden that long.
Talking about notaries... We just sold our house in the USA but happened to be in Sweden at the time the paperwork needed to be signed.
Most of the paperwork could be just signed by my gf and I, but the deed transfer had to be "notarized". Nothing else was acceptable.
Unfortunately, notaries are not as thick on the ground in Sweden as they are in the USA - there's no yellow pages section etc - in fact there is one notary per Kommun (city), who is a government employee - the notary for our Kommun (approx 120000 people) could not see us for three weeks! We ended up having to drive to another Kommun about 30 miles away to get the document witnessed.
Don't even get me started about trying to Fedex the documents back to the USA - the nearest Fedex dropoff point to us was 40 miles away!
My Cable Modem (Motorola Sb5101) has an "Internet Standby" button on it - apparently, when you press it, it prevents any data transfer in or out but keeps the modem itself connected to the provider etc.
At least I think that's what it does - I've never actually used it, as the cable modem is outside my hardware firewall anyway.
What I see a lot is this - jobs that require a certain level of experience in very specific things - and then refuse to interview people who don't meet *all* the checkmarks on the advertisement. I know you have to filter somehow, but it seems this is the *only* filtering that is done, rather than looking at "how did this person grow in their last job" or other factors.
IMO, hiring in that way is short-sighted at best. I've done a lot of hiring of developers in the past and almost without exception, the best candidates ended up being people who *didn't* have all the checkmarks. If you have someone with the right attitude and aptitude, you can train them in a new language or tool in a short period of time. Much better to have someone like that than someone with all the checkmarks who is lazy/incompetent/has a god complex.
I spend part of the year in Arizona and part in Sweden. One of the things I love about Sweden in the summer - it's easy to play a full 18 holes of golf after work (7pm tee time, anyone?). In Arizona, there's barely enough light to play 9 (and you don't want to, because it's 40C+). Of course it helps that Swedes play golf far faster then Americans - I've never understood this American fascination with crawling round the golf course taking 4:30 plus to play golf.
What can a "superstar" programmer expect to be doing in 10 years at your company? Hopefully not still programming. In my experience, that's exactly what the really, really good programmers want to be doing - to people that good at what they do, management and responsibility are something of an anathema - they'd rather leave that to the empty suits with MBAs.
FWIW, I'm no superstar, I just want to do my 8 hours, do a good job and go home - the really interesting stuff for me happens outside the workplace.
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Definitely. I've worked a couple of jobs where the money offered hit a ceiling for the role, but was able to negotiate an extra week of vacation instead of more cash.
They did improve the Ektachrome process. Older Ektachrome slides used the E-4 process and switched to the E-6 process sometimes in the 70s, IIRC.
10.10 uses the 2.6.35 kernel by default instead of the 2.6.32 kernel and it has better driver support than 10.04 (more stuff just works).
And some stuff that 'just worked' in 10.04 no longer works in 10.10.
I read that as "whether they can ask multiple times AT the same volume"... they can ask multiple times, just in a more shouty way. *mental image of some lost python sketch*.
'By 2020, nobody shall be seriously injured or killed in a new Volvo.'
By 2020, nobody may be able to afford a new Volvo, so we'll keep driving the 20 year old deathtrap ones.
It depends where you are. Here in Sweden, I can get a mobile broadband stick for free from a provider and get 20GB of bandwidth a month for 199sek.
In fact this is what I use for my home internet, as there is no landline connection to my house. Telia wants 10000sek to install one, so I told them where to stick it :)
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"Royale with Cheese"
Lighten up, dude. 'Hatred' is such a strong word; one which I reserve for a small subset of politicians.
of course even though I've only been a politician for a couple of days you might not trust me
Actually the fact that you're not a career politician is *more* likely to make me trust you. You haven't been infected by all the nasty political diseases yet. :)
I had a similar problem here in Sweden (I'm from the UK). Trying to speak Swedish was met with (generally pretty good) English. I was lucky to find an English speaking job that also paid for me to have private Swedish lessons. Now I get much further into the conversations before they switch to English...
Except... you can't - IKEA is privately owned, not listed on any stock market.
Anyway, I think IKEA chairs break too easily for SB's liking.
"We had a good run team." One of them says as they walk off into the sunset.
I totally read that as "walk off into the usenet". Heh.
Not ALL EU legislation is "unwanted". For example, the laws that allow me (as a British citizen) the RIGHT to live and work wherever I please within the EU (right now I happen to be in Sweden) are pretty sweet.
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Could someone hack into *our* coffee machine and make the coffee taste better?
Many IT jobs are conducted entirely in English. Most Swedes under the age of 70 or so have reasonable English skills and don't mind practicing them.
Life in Sweden is pretty good - salaries are lower, but the expectation of having all the latest stuff to keep up with the neighbors is almost non-existent, so you often have more money left over at the end of the month anyway :)
The country is relatively unspoiled (lots of green) - you can fairly easily and cheaply live somewhere out in the forest where you can't see your neighbor's house if that is your wish. It will cost you an arm and a leg to do a long commute by car though (petrol prices have just hit $8.50/us gallon and cars are expensive to buy)
Of course it's a bit of a nanny state with quite a bit of bureaucracy, so that might be a turn-off for some.
Oh, and Swedes dress funny. And they mostly dress alike.
Disclaimer: I'm a UK citizen who lived in the US for 15 years, and I haven't been in Sweden that long.
Most of the paperwork could be just signed by my gf and I, but the deed transfer had to be "notarized". Nothing else was acceptable.
Unfortunately, notaries are not as thick on the ground in Sweden as they are in the USA - there's no yellow pages section etc - in fact there is one notary per Kommun (city), who is a government employee - the notary for our Kommun (approx 120000 people) could not see us for three weeks! We ended up having to drive to another Kommun about 30 miles away to get the document witnessed.
Don't even get me started about trying to Fedex the documents back to the USA - the nearest Fedex dropoff point to us was 40 miles away!
Of course the Normans were largely descended from Vikings themselves... http://www.hyw.com/Books/History/Vikings_.htm
Yes. I've dated women from both places (in fact still live with a Viking) and it is, in the relatively small samples I have tested, true.
:)
It may have more to do with herring consumption than moose, though
At least I think that's what it does - I've never actually used it, as the cable modem is outside my hardware firewall anyway.
And how do you know that? Geolocated all the IPs, have you?
IMO, hiring in that way is short-sighted at best. I've done a lot of hiring of developers in the past and almost without exception, the best candidates ended up being people who *didn't* have all the checkmarks. If you have someone with the right attitude and aptitude, you can train them in a new language or tool in a short period of time. Much better to have someone like that than someone with all the checkmarks who is lazy/incompetent/has a god complex.
I've always wanted to go play there, just because of that.
I spend part of the year in Arizona and part in Sweden. One of the things I love about Sweden in the summer - it's easy to play a full 18 holes of golf after work (7pm tee time, anyone?). In Arizona, there's barely enough light to play 9 (and you don't want to, because it's 40C+). Of course it helps that Swedes play golf far faster then Americans - I've never understood this American fascination with crawling round the golf course taking 4:30 plus to play golf.
FWIW, I'm no superstar, I just want to do my 8 hours, do a good job and go home - the really interesting stuff for me happens outside the workplace.