Unless God himself gave the schedule for those glaciers to melt, the notion of having them melting "earlier than expected" is a joke.
You can replace "earlier than expected" with "faster than previously projected" if that helps. Most people don't need the help to understand it.
The next time I make yearly projections about storage usage for a client and they get pissed because they run out of space in the middle of the year, I'll remember to spin this as a growth that is "faster than previously projected".
Unfortunately (for me), when I suck at making projections I lose contracts because my salary is not subsidized.
One thing that wasn't normal this past year was a three foot snowfall on a high desert in Peru that hadn't had any significant precipitation in over 150 years
How can you know what kind of weather occurred in Peru over the last 150 years? Did someone find Mayan engravings? Or there is this very old guy that can swear that this never happened since he was born? Or maybe it was a Union soldier that got lost and decided to start a weather journal?
So basically the projections were wrong, but the culprit is the evil consumer who does not recycle his soup can, not the guy who made the projections in the first place.
Unless God himself gave the schedule for those glaciers to melt, the notion of having them melting "earlier than expected" is a joke.
There was a guy just like you at my job a few years ago. He created a lousy wiki-ish software to maintain ISO-9000 procedures, on his own time, and he offered to sell it to the employer, who declined. Then he "licensed" it for free (which was a huge PITA for everybody) and left a few months later to peddle his masterpiece. Last time I checked he was fixing beepers and unlocking playstations in a shitty electronics shop.
On the other hand I know another guy who created a "suboptimal" Access horrorware to deal with complex inventory management. He not only gave it for free to the employer, but happily supported end users for a while. This was basically a POC and later a budget was allocated to create a more robust software; the guy did not have the skill set to write that one but he was identified as a SME to define requirements and provide guidance, and a year down the road he had his own team to manage the inventory project.
Your software is worth nothing, it's your experience that is valuable. My advice: give your code for free to the employer, call it a pilot, and even if this leads nowhere, it will be a good bullet point on your resume.
Agreed. Without the employment and privileged access as a sysadmin he would never have designed the same product.
This being said, I would gamble a lot of money on the fact that the said product is awful and that if it is ever deployed it will cause pain and suffering.
Two facts that are obvious to anybody (with experience):
1. The cost of maintaining the one off custom software will far exceed the cost of buying the canned software. Even assuming competent development. Risk is high.
2. The boss doesn't have budget to pay for the canned software. He won't have budget to maintain the 'solution' hacked up by the new kid.
He won't pay the kid for the software. That's a given.
The question is: Should the kid find a new job if the boss if fool enough to accept the software under any terms? I say yes, such a boss will teach the kid only bad habits.
I've seen that kind of behavior before. I call it "entitlement". If I was his boss, I would immediately initiate a very careful and prudent plan to get rid of him because he looks like the kind of individual that will ssh in and change root passwords, FC zoning, etc. when he gets fired because he will feel cheated.
The only cure I know for entitlement is a stint in the military or having your wife leaving you for a girl.
So the only way to pay full cost for the phone upfront so as to avoid that 30+% effective interest rate (that results from spreading its costs over two years on your cell phone bill) is to use as pay-as-you-go plan?
I always knew that freedom has a price tag, I just don't understand how the telcos managed to be on the receiving hand of that.
People that know you - family, friends, work colleagues - need you to have and use toilet paper.
He does not need toilet paper. He needs access to toilet paper, which is totally different. I know a guy who "trained" himself to have a bathroom schedule that matches his work schedule, so he never buys toilet paper since he needs it only at the office (well mostly).
There are also alternative lifestyles where some people will do without toilet paper, provided that they have access to a shower...
> determining if we are performing above or below what is considered optimal
Scenario 1: you are below optimal -> you are inefficient so they replace you Scenario 2: you are above optimal -> you are overkill so they replace you
Bottom line, I would rent The Wire and learn how to "juke the stats" because that's the only way you won't get to jump on that grenade.
Been there, done that - my advice: be just under optimal so you have room to grow and show improvement, but don't be too low so they don't feel the need to consider a business case for outsourcing.
I'm not sure what sort of "clarification" can be added to a story that has so many (to be kind, 'embellishments') to it.
I must be an awesome writer to have so many "embellishments" in a 3-line story. Unless the "embellishments" you refer to as those things that occurred in your mind as a result of your obsession with proving the story to be untrue.
This being said, I am totally fine with you not believing the true story. Somehow I have this feeling that this is not unusual for you to label things as being untrue before asking for clarifications.
On an unrelated matter: I have to admit: you are very impressive at the "between quote" approach, especially with that mix of single and double quotes. Some could call this chaos, but to me, this is 'art'. (see, I'm a fast learner).
Right, so where does that state that the only way to get radiation poisoning is being exposed to core material?
That suggests a possible explanation for the very unlikely story (using hyperbole as a device - it's a common tool, often used in examples). It says nothing about what I think causes radiation poisoning definitively.
What is even more unlikely than the story is that at some point this discussion will lead somewhere, because you are not even remotely open to the idea that it did happen and that all that was needed was a bit of clarification - you are on a mission to prove someone wrong. This is a behavior to which I usually refer as "being tedious", and my reference to Bill O'Reilly and the ACLU acronym in that context could qualify as what you call an "hyperbole".
Even if we assume the part about the "unknown room" is true, the physics behind the way radiation works (that we know a lot about) are strongly against this being a true story, unless there's an exposed piece of the core sitting on a table in that room which I find unlikely.
If you have a hard time remembering your own posts, maybe *you* have radiation poisoning. You should see a chemist about that.
To put this in context for you, I'm a chemist. So I'd hope that I was "above average level" in science, since it's what I do professionally.
It's a good thing then that your profession does not involve designing protective gear for people working in nuclear plants, since you think that one needs to be in the same room as "an exposed piece of the core" to get radiation poisoning...
You are right about Singapore, this is one of the good spots in Asia for western IT specialists.
And in direct contrast to working in a war zone, you'll get bored to death there.
Clearly you never worked in a war zone. It's nothing like Call of Duty, you know; IT contractors are no mercs, they have to live in compounds where there is nothing to do and where there is a very limited amount of social opportunities. One might hit the jackpot and work near/with an NGO that has a few female employees, but there is plenty of guys competing for their attention and usually they are not that attractive to start with.
In Singapore there is the typical asian entertainment: karaoke, video games, malls, cute expats from the Netherlands...
Really? Maybe in Silicon Valley, not however, "anywhere in the USA." Most IT jobs in the USA don't pay anything close to $75/hour. Usually its closer to $30/hour. If you are making $75/hour then don't ever leave that job. You wont find another like it in the imediate future.
30$ is a rate for a salary job (employee), not for an independent contractor. And it's not a rate for the Silicon Valley, where someone getting 75$ won't find housing they can afford.
It is my experience that frequently, people with an above-average level in science tend to be as tedious as religious nuts when a discussion involves something that is even remotely related to a topic they feel they understand. They focus on keywords and lose sight of the context, just like Bill O'Reilly when someone includes the acronym "ACLU" in a sentence (you know, those terrorists).
If you think that "an exposed piece of the core sitting on a table in that room" was really the only way to get radiation poisoning for my friend, I would have to challenge your understanding of how radiation poisoning occur. If you have some free time, I suggest you read about the French aircraft carrier (the R91), it is a very interesting piece of history regarding how people deal with this issue.
There is a saying: "at the door of the obvious, no one should have to put up a sign".
It's like those rookie mechanics that stand in front of a semi tire while removing the nuts, and they are pissed when they lose a kneecap. Common sense is the best defense.
Not sure, but it happened in the 90s, and my understanding is that the project was to upgrade the command & control stuff, heavily subsidized by some consortium. My friend is an electrical engineer, not a nuclear stuff expert.
Of course. Yesterday I saw a squad of Martians landing on the Red Square in New York (what? Red Square is in Moscow? Never mind).
Actual event may be anything from "stumbled and got burned by a hot pipe" to "smoked a few pipes of weed with friends". However, some things are just impossible.
What you describe is unlikely, not impossible. Maybe you need to understand the difference, and stop trying to pass your opinions as facts.
I'm no sissy, I could sleep in a haunted houses or dig out bones from indian sacred land, but there is just no way I'll ever set foot in a Russian nuclear plant or a Chinese chemical plant.
No, you're not a sissy. Just badly misinformed and prone to EWW RAD1AT10N !1!11! syndrome.
Well, thinking of that, haunted houses are not that scary either. I'm still on the fence for the indian sacred land thing.
As for my friend, he did not lose his hair or got leukemia, but still, eww.
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Unless God himself gave the schedule for those glaciers to melt, the notion of having them melting "earlier than expected" is a joke.
You can replace "earlier than expected" with "faster than previously projected" if that helps. Most people don't need the help to understand it.
The next time I make yearly projections about storage usage for a client and they get pissed because they run out of space in the middle of the year, I'll remember to spin this as a growth that is "faster than previously projected".
Unfortunately (for me), when I suck at making projections I lose contracts because my salary is not subsidized.
One thing that wasn't normal this past year was a three foot snowfall on a high desert in Peru that hadn't had any significant precipitation in over 150 years
How can you know what kind of weather occurred in Peru over the last 150 years? Did someone find Mayan engravings? Or there is this very old guy that can swear that this never happened since he was born? Or maybe it was a Union soldier that got lost and decided to start a weather journal?
"Unless God himself gave the schedule for those glaciers to melt, the notion of having them melting "earlier than expected" is a joke."
God trumps science?
and +5?
Bigotry trumps metaphor?
So basically the projections were wrong, but the culprit is the evil consumer who does not recycle his soup can, not the guy who made the projections in the first place.
Unless God himself gave the schedule for those glaciers to melt, the notion of having them melting "earlier than expected" is a joke.
There was a guy just like you at my job a few years ago. He created a lousy wiki-ish software to maintain ISO-9000 procedures, on his own time, and he offered to sell it to the employer, who declined. Then he "licensed" it for free (which was a huge PITA for everybody) and left a few months later to peddle his masterpiece. Last time I checked he was fixing beepers and unlocking playstations in a shitty electronics shop.
On the other hand I know another guy who created a "suboptimal" Access horrorware to deal with complex inventory management. He not only gave it for free to the employer, but happily supported end users for a while. This was basically a POC and later a budget was allocated to create a more robust software; the guy did not have the skill set to write that one but he was identified as a SME to define requirements and provide guidance, and a year down the road he had his own team to manage the inventory project.
Your software is worth nothing, it's your experience that is valuable. My advice: give your code for free to the employer, call it a pilot, and even if this leads nowhere, it will be a good bullet point on your resume.
Agreed. Without the employment and privileged access as a sysadmin he would never have designed the same product.
This being said, I would gamble a lot of money on the fact that the said product is awful and that if it is ever deployed it will cause pain and suffering.
Two facts that are obvious to anybody (with experience):
1. The cost of maintaining the one off custom software will far exceed the cost of buying the canned software. Even assuming competent development. Risk is high.
2. The boss doesn't have budget to pay for the canned software. He won't have budget to maintain the 'solution' hacked up by the new kid.
He won't pay the kid for the software. That's a given.
The question is: Should the kid find a new job if the boss if fool enough to accept the software under any terms? I say yes, such a boss will teach the kid only bad habits.
I've seen that kind of behavior before. I call it "entitlement". If I was his boss, I would immediately initiate a very careful and prudent plan to get rid of him because he looks like the kind of individual that will ssh in and change root passwords, FC zoning, etc. when he gets fired because he will feel cheated.
The only cure I know for entitlement is a stint in the military or having your wife leaving you for a girl.
So the only way to pay full cost for the phone upfront so as to avoid that 30+% effective interest rate (that results from spreading its costs over two years on your cell phone bill) is to use as pay-as-you-go plan?
I always knew that freedom has a price tag, I just don't understand how the telcos managed to be on the receiving hand of that.
My first smartphone experience left me wondering why the device was so bad at being a phone.
The look and design is flawless, not being able to make phone calls is an acceptable collateral damage.
Or as they say: it's because you are holding it wrong!
People that know you - family, friends, work colleagues - need you to have and use toilet paper.
He does not need toilet paper. He needs access to toilet paper, which is totally different. I know a guy who "trained" himself to have a bathroom schedule that matches his work schedule, so he never buys toilet paper since he needs it only at the office (well mostly).
There are also alternative lifestyles where some people will do without toilet paper, provided that they have access to a shower...
Which is why we should all ditch our PCs and go back to green screens on the mainframe?
I think I'll start working on AAJAX
(Amber Ajax)
I heard that there is an app for that
> determining if we are performing above or below what is considered optimal
Scenario 1: you are below optimal -> you are inefficient so they replace you
Scenario 2: you are above optimal -> you are overkill so they replace you
Bottom line, I would rent The Wire and learn how to "juke the stats" because that's the only way you won't get to jump on that grenade.
Been there, done that - my advice: be just under optimal so you have room to grow and show improvement, but don't be too low so they don't feel the need to consider a business case for outsourcing.
I'm not sure what sort of "clarification" can be added to a story that has so many (to be kind, 'embellishments') to it.
I must be an awesome writer to have so many "embellishments" in a 3-line story. Unless the "embellishments" you refer to as those things that occurred in your mind as a result of your obsession with proving the story to be untrue.
This being said, I am totally fine with you not believing the true story. Somehow I have this feeling that this is not unusual for you to label things as being untrue before asking for clarifications.
On an unrelated matter: I have to admit: you are very impressive at the "between quote" approach, especially with that mix of single and double quotes. Some could call this chaos, but to me, this is 'art'. (see, I'm a fast learner).
Right, so where does that state that the only way to get radiation poisoning is being exposed to core material?
That suggests a possible explanation for the very unlikely story (using hyperbole as a device - it's a common tool, often used in examples). It says nothing about what I think causes radiation poisoning definitively.
What is even more unlikely than the story is that at some point this discussion will lead somewhere, because you are not even remotely open to the idea that it did happen and that all that was needed was a bit of clarification - you are on a mission to prove someone wrong. This is a behavior to which I usually refer as "being tedious", and my reference to Bill O'Reilly and the ACLU acronym in that context could qualify as what you call an "hyperbole".
Where did I say that?
Verbatim from your post:
Even if we assume the part about the "unknown room" is true, the physics behind the way radiation works (that we know a lot about) are strongly against this being a true story, unless there's an exposed piece of the core sitting on a table in that room which I find unlikely.
If you have a hard time remembering your own posts, maybe *you* have radiation poisoning. You should see a chemist about that.
To put this in context for you, I'm a chemist. So I'd hope that I was "above average level" in science, since it's what I do professionally.
It's a good thing then that your profession does not involve designing protective gear for people working in nuclear plants, since you think that one needs to be in the same room as "an exposed piece of the core" to get radiation poisoning...
You are right about Singapore, this is one of the good spots in Asia for western IT specialists.
And in direct contrast to working in a war zone, you'll get bored to death there.
Clearly you never worked in a war zone. It's nothing like Call of Duty, you know; IT contractors are no mercs, they have to live in compounds where there is nothing to do and where there is a very limited amount of social opportunities. One might hit the jackpot and work near/with an NGO that has a few female employees, but there is plenty of guys competing for their attention and usually they are not that attractive to start with.
In Singapore there is the typical asian entertainment: karaoke, video games, malls, cute expats from the Netherlands...
Really? Maybe in Silicon Valley, not however, "anywhere in the USA." Most IT jobs in the USA don't pay anything close to $75/hour. Usually its closer to $30/hour. If you are making $75/hour then don't ever leave that job. You wont find another like it in the imediate future.
30$ is a rate for a salary job (employee), not for an independent contractor. And it's not a rate for the Silicon Valley, where someone getting 75$ won't find housing they can afford.
But what about Cindy Walsh? Don't tell me she was crazy!
(yeah, I know way too much about the Walsh family)
It is my experience that frequently, people with an above-average level in science tend to be as tedious as religious nuts when a discussion involves something that is even remotely related to a topic they feel they understand. They focus on keywords and lose sight of the context, just like Bill O'Reilly when someone includes the acronym "ACLU" in a sentence (you know, those terrorists).
If you think that "an exposed piece of the core sitting on a table in that room" was really the only way to get radiation poisoning for my friend, I would have to challenge your understanding of how radiation poisoning occur. If you have some free time, I suggest you read about the French aircraft carrier (the R91), it is a very interesting piece of history regarding how people deal with this issue.
There is a saying: "at the door of the obvious, no one should have to put up a sign".
It's like those rookie mechanics that stand in front of a semi tire while removing the nuts, and they are pissed when they lose a kneecap. Common sense is the best defense.
Not sure, but it happened in the 90s, and my understanding is that the project was to upgrade the command & control stuff, heavily subsidized by some consortium. My friend is an electrical engineer, not a nuclear stuff expert.
Of course. Yesterday I saw a squad of Martians landing on the Red Square in New York (what? Red Square is in Moscow? Never mind).
Actual event may be anything from "stumbled and got burned by a hot pipe" to "smoked a few pipes of weed with friends". However, some things are just impossible.
What you describe is unlikely, not impossible. Maybe you need to understand the difference, and stop trying to pass your opinions as facts.
No, you're not a sissy. Just badly misinformed and prone to EWW RAD1AT10N !1!11! syndrome.
Well, thinking of that, haunted houses are not that scary either. I'm still on the fence for the indian sacred land thing.
As for my friend, he did not lose his hair or got leukemia, but still, eww.