The ROI for any salaried employee means that there's an upper limit for any individual contributor role. The difference in ROI between someone with 10+ years and 1-3 years experience is large, and their respective salaries reflect that. However, someone with 20 years experience doesn't necessarily generate 2x ROI over someone with ~10 years experience. From what I've seen in my industry, salaries for experienced engineers is about 2x what a junior engineer with 3-5 years experience make. Total compensation on the other hand can differ by more depending on stock performance though...
Please mod this up. I work as a CPU design verification engineer and the parent post describes most accurately what designing and verifying a part with millions (and billions) of transistors is all about. Hundreds of people are involved in the design and verification of these things; defects are bound to slip through.
Selection is key for me as well. I often find myself buying tools and gadgets online because my local Home Depot or Best Buy only carry a limited selection of what I'm looking for. I've often wasted an hour looking for something at Home Depot only to go home empty handed and ordering on Amazon anyways. I don't mind paying 5-10% more on Amazon if I can get exactly what I want; not to mention saving myself the hour that it would take to drive to the store, find what I want, pay at the cash, then drive back home.
In many cases the employees get a share of the wealth through stock options, RUS, stock purchase plans etc. If you want the whole pie then you should start your own company and work for yourself.
What would you use as an alternative to Solr? One of the things I use it for is to index several internal wikis so that we can have a centralized search engine (also the default search engines suck). In this case, I need to index the content as well. The thing that gave me the most difficulty was tweaking the config so to get page rankings "just right".
I had never heard of it either until I needed to create an internal search engine where I work. After a few days of research, I found that Apache Solr/Lucene is often used for intranet search engines and for e-commerce sites.
I use KeePassX and MiniKeePass on my iPhone. I sync the password db using dropbox. This works well for me because I can generate strong passwords for ALL sites and I have access to them when I'm on the go.
Yes, I guess the fact that encryption was never properly integrated into Outlook/Exchange has prevented its widespread adoption. However, I believe that the added hassle of encrypting attachments is justified when sending sensitive/confidential information via email. I worked for a large tech company that had very strict rules for dealing with confidential information, including using encryption for emails. I'm amazed that more companies don't require it because the repercussions of a breach can be severe.
I've got a Lenovo T530 with Linux Mint 15 installed and it works great. It even works well with my docking station and dual-monitor setup... very happy with it.
Interesting data. However, I don't think that salary entirely explains the trend. I know 3 elementary teachers who refuse to teach anything higher than grade 3 because the prefer teaching younger kids. One teacher said her reason was because she felt she had a greater impact on the development of the child at that age.
I didn't say it was a good thing, just that men don't tend to go into teaching just as women don't tend to go into programming. It's true that there's sexism and hostility to women in IT (and many other fields). However, even if we could wave a magic want and made all that bad stuff go away we're never going to see a 50/50 split in the technology field.
You will find that "drawn to" is being dominated by "pushed away from".
I don't agree with that. Off all the women I know from childhood, only a small fraction have gone into technology. The rest have gone into fields like accounting, law, finance, sales, marketing, teaching and medicine (doctors, pharmacists and nurses). They didn't choose these fields because they were "pushed away" from programming.
Wish I had mod points. I have a female friend who works as an elementary school teacher and she told me that 100% of the teaching staff at her school are *women*. So what? Who cares? I think women are drawn to other fields, simple as that.
I'm sure it differs per industry, but in my area most employers want 40+ hours a week from contractors. Therefore, somebody only wanting to work 10-20 hours a week wouldn't even be considered for the job.
Why is this such a hard concept to grasp? I just don't get how some people think that healthcare coverage should be a choice. Do they think that cancer is a "choice"?
Sometimes companies won't touch the code at all unless it's a BSD style license because of various legal reasons. Personally, I'd rather see companies using BSD code with the possibility of some of them releasing there changes than having companies not use the code at all because it's GPL'ed.
Your post resonates with my own thoughts on the subject of software interviewing. I've talked about this subject at length with a few colleagues several times over the last few months. I know a senior guy who holds several patents that didn't get an offer because he "failed" an interview because he couldn't answer some obscure question about embedded programming. When I got out of school with a graduate degree and a strong background in software, I still had to answer bullshit questions like "what will the output of this function be" etc. I basically didn't get an offer because I couldn't figure out what a format string in a printf statement would do. Normally, I would figure it out via "man printf".
These days, I'm the one doing the interviewing and I'd much rather ask conceptual questions and talk about what a candidate has done in the past than to ask questions that are easily solvable using Google. I use Google, Wikipedia and StackOverflow all the time to find answers to questions about C++, Perl and Python. Is it fair to expect a candidate to have all that information at their fingertips?
Reminds me of the quote "In Chaos Lies Opportunity"... Sounds like a perfect opportunity to become a "value added" employee by "leveraging" your past experience and introducing "proven best practices" to your current company.
-- Selectable fields (columns) in the playlist, you can select "last played time", which is great for weeding out stuff you've just heard in the last couple of days. iTunes has this, Amarok 1.4 had this, now Amarok 2 doesn't, and I personally miss it.
It's still there, just not shown be default. Right click on a heading in the playlist; click on "Show Column->Last Played".
I've read many times here on/. that artists should make money from concerts instead of record sales. So even if Radiohead and NIN get the same amount of money from this proposed "music tax", the better artists would draw more crowds. Therefore, the "better" artists would still make more money than the crappy ones.
Plone is a content management framework that works hand-in-hand and sits on top of Zope, a widely-used Open Source web application server and development system.
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Zope itself is written in Python, an easy-to-learn, widely-used and supported Open Source programming language. Python can be used to add new features to Plone, and used to understand or make changes to the way that Zope and Plone work.
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The ROI for any salaried employee means that there's an upper limit for any individual contributor role. The difference in ROI between someone with 10+ years and 1-3 years experience is large, and their respective salaries reflect that. However, someone with 20 years experience doesn't necessarily generate 2x ROI over someone with ~10 years experience. From what I've seen in my industry, salaries for experienced engineers is about 2x what a junior engineer with 3-5 years experience make. Total compensation on the other hand can differ by more depending on stock performance though...
Please mod this up. I work as a CPU design verification engineer and the parent post describes most accurately what designing and verifying a part with millions (and billions) of transistors is all about. Hundreds of people are involved in the design and verification of these things; defects are bound to slip through.
Selection is key for me as well. I often find myself buying tools and gadgets online because my local Home Depot or Best Buy only carry a limited selection of what I'm looking for. I've often wasted an hour looking for something at Home Depot only to go home empty handed and ordering on Amazon anyways. I don't mind paying 5-10% more on Amazon if I can get exactly what I want; not to mention saving myself the hour that it would take to drive to the store, find what I want, pay at the cash, then drive back home.
In many cases the employees get a share of the wealth through stock options, RUS, stock purchase plans etc. If you want the whole pie then you should start your own company and work for yourself.
What would you use as an alternative to Solr? One of the things I use it for is to index several internal wikis so that we can have a centralized search engine (also the default search engines suck). In this case, I need to index the content as well. The thing that gave me the most difficulty was tweaking the config so to get page rankings "just right".
I had never heard of it either until I needed to create an internal search engine where I work. After a few days of research, I found that Apache Solr/Lucene is often used for intranet search engines and for e-commerce sites.
I use KeePassX and MiniKeePass on my iPhone. I sync the password db using dropbox. This works well for me because I can generate strong passwords for ALL sites and I have access to them when I'm on the go.
Yes, I guess the fact that encryption was never properly integrated into Outlook/Exchange has prevented its widespread adoption. However, I believe that the added hassle of encrypting attachments is justified when sending sensitive/confidential information via email. I worked for a large tech company that had very strict rules for dealing with confidential information, including using encryption for emails. I'm amazed that more companies don't require it because the repercussions of a breach can be severe.
What if they had used encryption? Seems to me that had they send an encrypted attachment they wouldn't have had to go through all this trouble.
Your comment made me chuckle. I tried modding funny but somehow "Troll". Replying to this to undo moderation.
I've got a Lenovo T530 with Linux Mint 15 installed and it works great. It even works well with my docking station and dual-monitor setup... very happy with it.
Interesting data. However, I don't think that salary entirely explains the trend. I know 3 elementary teachers who refuse to teach anything higher than grade 3 because the prefer teaching younger kids. One teacher said her reason was because she felt she had a greater impact on the development of the child at that age.
You will find that "drawn to" is being dominated by "pushed away from".
I don't agree with that. Off all the women I know from childhood, only a small fraction have gone into technology. The rest have gone into fields like accounting, law, finance, sales, marketing, teaching and medicine (doctors, pharmacists and nurses). They didn't choose these fields because they were "pushed away" from programming.
Wish I had mod points. I have a female friend who works as an elementary school teacher and she told me that 100% of the teaching staff at her school are *women*. So what? Who cares? I think women are drawn to other fields, simple as that.
I'm sure it differs per industry, but in my area most employers want 40+ hours a week from contractors. Therefore, somebody only wanting to work 10-20 hours a week wouldn't even be considered for the job.
Why is this such a hard concept to grasp? I just don't get how some people think that healthcare coverage should be a choice. Do they think that cancer is a "choice"?
Sometimes companies won't touch the code at all unless it's a BSD style license because of various legal reasons. Personally, I'd rather see companies using BSD code with the possibility of some of them releasing there changes than having companies not use the code at all because it's GPL'ed.
UPnP; I use it mainly to connect to my mediatomb server. It works really well.
Your post resonates with my own thoughts on the subject of software interviewing. I've talked about this subject at length with a few colleagues several times over the last few months. I know a senior guy who holds several patents that didn't get an offer because he "failed" an interview because he couldn't answer some obscure question about embedded programming. When I got out of school with a graduate degree and a strong background in software, I still had to answer bullshit questions like "what will the output of this function be" etc. I basically didn't get an offer because I couldn't figure out what a format string in a printf statement would do. Normally, I would figure it out via "man printf". These days, I'm the one doing the interviewing and I'd much rather ask conceptual questions and talk about what a candidate has done in the past than to ask questions that are easily solvable using Google. I use Google, Wikipedia and StackOverflow all the time to find answers to questions about C++, Perl and Python. Is it fair to expect a candidate to have all that information at their fingertips?
That's why I put them in quotes; but buzzwords help when speaking to manager types... ;)
Reminds me of the quote "In Chaos Lies Opportunity"... Sounds like a perfect opportunity to become a "value added" employee by "leveraging" your past experience and introducing "proven best practices" to your current company.
Sorry; meant to mod +1 funny, but selected "redundant" by accident.
-- Selectable fields (columns) in the playlist, you can select "last played time", which is great for weeding out stuff you've just heard in the last couple of days. iTunes has this, Amarok 1.4 had this, now Amarok 2 doesn't, and I personally miss it.
It's still there, just not shown be default. Right click on a heading in the playlist; click on "Show Column->Last Played".
I've read many times here on /. that artists should make money from concerts instead of record sales. So even if Radiohead and NIN get the same amount of money from this proposed "music tax", the better artists would draw more crowds. Therefore, the "better" artists would still make more money than the crappy ones.
Plone maybe?
Plone is a content management framework that works hand-in-hand and sits on top of Zope, a widely-used Open Source web application server and development system.
[snip]
Zope itself is written in Python, an easy-to-learn, widely-used and supported Open Source programming language. Python can be used to add new features to Plone, and used to understand or make changes to the way that Zope and Plone work.