I have tried to weld and am useless; I agree that the term "limited skill" would be better stated as "limited education." My meaning of "skill" was "intellectual."
However, I do know very well what I am talking about.
Completely agree. Obsolete infrastructure has rapidly diminishing value.
More coax cables in your home increase the fire load, for what it is worth.
Best solution is always conduits or chases that can be used for a properly managed cabling plant. Plaster/drywall work is reasonably inexpensive for short hops in a home.
Just make sure that when you remove a coax cable you replace it with at least two Cat6 or better cables with plenty of slack. Ideally plan out an infrastructure, but if you are talking about a run between an entertainment cubby and wall mount tv, give a good amount of slack and you have some flexibility.
This comes down to negotiating tactics. I am guilty of doing it to new hires, but my primary reason to ask about salary history is to filter out the top end. I might feel like I have more negotiating power with someone who is underpaid at their current position, but I also think I am offering something in terms of training that a higher salary would not include.
Yup, no drugs, no criminal record and there are a lot of jobs out there at limited skill levels like a welder at a Navy shipyard. If you have to go unpaid, you really need to re-think your field.
There are alternatives... maybe 10-20 of them, all paid, and all $10+. Finding the one that works for you is non-trivial and can quickly become very expensive for a reasonably trivial application you paid for already.
The guy making $2MM per year is using the mortgage interest deduction on his $10MM home and leveraging his cash in other investments. That is how you get (really) rich.
This is why the system is broken; people see their own $1k deduction and protect it illogically when it is being used by others for a $1MM deduction.
The easy solution is to eliminate the mortgage interest deduction or phase it out on homes over the median price for a county. Couple that with some kind of measures to block investment interest deductions on specific types of property (much trickier), and the speculation incentive starts to erode.
It is a great system, and works great for distributed work forces... but it is an extra layer of management and requires a certain critical mass to work. WeWork has established the critical mass in many "hip" areas, but lacks much presence in the fringe zones (bedroom communities) that provides the opportunity to really scale up.
JLL in contrast has access to buildings essentially in every major country at different levels and could easily roll out a coworking "studio" in appropriate buildings.
What do you consider a commercial app? I have a few more expensive apps ($20 range) that are no longer maintained. I also have several from very large corporations in the same boat.
The bottom line is a number of apps were built and sat for the past five years in a perfectly functional state with no ongoing development. These will no longer function.
I have four apps that are impacted on my devices. Each solves a particular problem quite well, but hasn't been updated for years. I did try to track down two of the developers, but the app was just a side project and they have no interest in it anymore; their online presence is zero. The other two might have been sold to another company and simply atrophying.
I have looked for replacement solutions, but they all have serious compromises and paying $10-20 each to try out 6-7 alternatives is stupid. As it stands today, I won't be able to upgrade my iPad, and I will be stuck living with it when I have to get a new phone.
Just another thing that makes me think "maybe I should switch to Android."
Before looking at TF Pictures I thought you were just trolling. I assumed it was just an issue of adjusting to elimination of a number of stupid automobile conventions and aesthetics would adjust.
Only heard of WeWork a few months ago, but it is a reasonably interesting business that I wanted to get into 4-5 years ago. However, I find it pretty hard to understand them being worth 4x JLL.
Just wait until you get a tax bill for all your bitcoin sales assuming a zero cost basis and let us know how that goes. You don't have to make much, they just need the data on when you exchange for currency.
My wife teaches spinning, and needs to keep all her music with her. The phone doesn't work because she can't tolerate a lock screen while teaching, and also doesn't want the "bing" of a text message or phone call coming in to be a distraction.
The nano would have been perfect if it had more storage. She ended up just getting the touch and leaving it in airplane mode. Compromise, overpriced for her need, but it works ok.
My bottom of pile is less than two years, middle pile might be 4 jobs in 8-10 years. The chances of a positive return on investment diminish as you go down.
We have very high retention though-- about 10% turnover is high for us. Recruiting a person is on average 35% of salary, training in the first year is 30-120%, and overhead on all of that is 60%. With gross margins around 60%, we see break-even around 16-38 months. If someone at 16 months break-even sticks around for 24 months, we just barely cover the enterprise costs.
Financial planning and employment are really different topics though. In an ideal world, there would be a better baseline than just salary to figure out how long it will take you to find a new job.
As for the financial side, fully agree-- people/households should hopefully have at least three different sources of income and preferably 4-5. Main job, hobby income, rental income, investment income are good starters... with a plan for what you do when one source disappears.
I have known at least 8 people in my industry (engineering) to put in 20+ years with a company and still have the skills to restart and be effective or innovative. Maybe a little too much energy goes into the politics, especially the last few years-- but on average most do well for it and live happy lives. Personally, I have a 4-5 year cycle, and it is hard for me to re-invent my job to make being in my 12th year in my own business interesting.
It takes two years total to be "found out" as a fraud and terminated. It also takes about those same two years for good employees to excel. Exceptional people in either extreme are faster.
For me, when I see people that jump jobs every 18-24 months, I see people I don't want to waste my energy on; people spending 4+ years on a job are more interesting. Industries vary, but constant job hopping is a turn off.
If you are really good, after ~10 years you should likely be self-employed.
The damage is mainly in the visa system; the security screening and customs is a minor issue: keep sensitive data on micro-SD cards on your person, hidden within luggage, or in the cloud and downloaded on arrival. All encrypted of course.
The Visa system though makes it very hard to have an international conference in the US now, or in a place where attendees will need to connect on a US flight. It started with the electronic authorization for "visa waiver" countries, but Trump has made it exponentially worse.
Global entry and nexus are separate programs (unfortunately). Nexus intake stations are just in cities close to the Canadian border as well, so even fewer locations to Global Entry.
I used to think the same way; the threshold of $100k was just there to protect the best returns for the rich. I have reviewed a few second stage funding proposals though (along with running my own business), and have also "lost everything" in the stock market a couple times.
From this experience, I have become reasonably good at cutting through the crap. Sure, an investment in the next GoPro might yield a 5x return over 5 years-- but it is equally possible that it will only have a 5-10% annual return, or that you lose everything. (So, is it worth the risk?)
Quite frankly most people can't make critical decisions with this kind of thing, and the safest bet is to limit investment to the $100k "play money" threshold.
It can be easier than that; you can just keep one vlan and SSID for each group, and share APs. Drop AP power, especially on 2.5GHz, and locate the APs to simply provide coverage. You can use QoS to manage each group's usage.
For all but the most basic setups, a separate router that is fully configurable and access points that extend that functionality to wireless clients is a better strategy. While there are things you can tweak in the radio realm, the benefits are minimal (beyond power and channels) to the point that the FCC issues seem logical.
Personally, I find that going with a dedicated router and dedicated access point(s) makes for a more flexible solution anyway. Better placement options, easier to upgrade the wireless, etc. I use Ubiquiti gear, which gives me Vyatta on the routing/firewall and a solid (locked down) access point.
Curious to try out the little pfsense appliances, but they are a bit more pricey.
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I have tried to weld and am useless; I agree that the term "limited skill" would be better stated as "limited education." My meaning of "skill" was "intellectual."
However, I do know very well what I am talking about.
Completely agree. Obsolete infrastructure has rapidly diminishing value.
More coax cables in your home increase the fire load, for what it is worth.
Best solution is always conduits or chases that can be used for a properly managed cabling plant. Plaster/drywall work is reasonably inexpensive for short hops in a home.
Just make sure that when you remove a coax cable you replace it with at least two Cat6 or better cables with plenty of slack. Ideally plan out an infrastructure, but if you are talking about a run between an entertainment cubby and wall mount tv, give a good amount of slack and you have some flexibility.
This comes down to negotiating tactics. I am guilty of doing it to new hires, but my primary reason to ask about salary history is to filter out the top end. I might feel like I have more negotiating power with someone who is underpaid at their current position, but I also think I am offering something in terms of training that a higher salary would not include.
Yup, no drugs, no criminal record and there are a lot of jobs out there at limited skill levels like a welder at a Navy shipyard. If you have to go unpaid, you really need to re-think your field.
There are alternatives... maybe 10-20 of them, all paid, and all $10+. Finding the one that works for you is non-trivial and can quickly become very expensive for a reasonably trivial application you paid for already.
The guy making $2MM per year is using the mortgage interest deduction on his $10MM home and leveraging his cash in other investments. That is how you get (really) rich.
This is why the system is broken; people see their own $1k deduction and protect it illogically when it is being used by others for a $1MM deduction.
The easy solution is to eliminate the mortgage interest deduction or phase it out on homes over the median price for a county. Couple that with some kind of measures to block investment interest deductions on specific types of property (much trickier), and the speculation incentive starts to erode.
It is a great system, and works great for distributed work forces... but it is an extra layer of management and requires a certain critical mass to work. WeWork has established the critical mass in many "hip" areas, but lacks much presence in the fringe zones (bedroom communities) that provides the opportunity to really scale up.
JLL in contrast has access to buildings essentially in every major country at different levels and could easily roll out a coworking "studio" in appropriate buildings.
What do you consider a commercial app? I have a few more expensive apps ($20 range) that are no longer maintained. I also have several from very large corporations in the same boat.
The bottom line is a number of apps were built and sat for the past five years in a perfectly functional state with no ongoing development. These will no longer function.
I have four apps that are impacted on my devices. Each solves a particular problem quite well, but hasn't been updated for years. I did try to track down two of the developers, but the app was just a side project and they have no interest in it anymore; their online presence is zero. The other two might have been sold to another company and simply atrophying.
I have looked for replacement solutions, but they all have serious compromises and paying $10-20 each to try out 6-7 alternatives is stupid. As it stands today, I won't be able to upgrade my iPad, and I will be stuck living with it when I have to get a new phone.
Just another thing that makes me think "maybe I should switch to Android."
Before looking at TF Pictures I thought you were just trolling. I assumed it was just an issue of adjusting to elimination of a number of stupid automobile conventions and aesthetics would adjust.
Now I don't.
Only heard of WeWork a few months ago, but it is a reasonably interesting business that I wanted to get into 4-5 years ago. However, I find it pretty hard to understand them being worth 4x JLL.
Just wait until you get a tax bill for all your bitcoin sales assuming a zero cost basis and let us know how that goes. You don't have to make much, they just need the data on when you exchange for currency.
My wife teaches spinning, and needs to keep all her music with her. The phone doesn't work because she can't tolerate a lock screen while teaching, and also doesn't want the "bing" of a text message or phone call coming in to be a distraction.
The nano would have been perfect if it had more storage. She ended up just getting the touch and leaving it in airplane mode. Compromise, overpriced for her need, but it works ok.
My bottom of pile is less than two years, middle pile might be 4 jobs in 8-10 years. The chances of a positive return on investment diminish as you go down.
We have very high retention though-- about 10% turnover is high for us. Recruiting a person is on average 35% of salary, training in the first year is 30-120%, and overhead on all of that is 60%. With gross margins around 60%, we see break-even around 16-38 months. If someone at 16 months break-even sticks around for 24 months, we just barely cover the enterprise costs.
Financial planning and employment are really different topics though. In an ideal world, there would be a better baseline than just salary to figure out how long it will take you to find a new job.
As for the financial side, fully agree-- people/households should hopefully have at least three different sources of income and preferably 4-5. Main job, hobby income, rental income, investment income are good starters... with a plan for what you do when one source disappears.
I have known at least 8 people in my industry (engineering) to put in 20+ years with a company and still have the skills to restart and be effective or innovative. Maybe a little too much energy goes into the politics, especially the last few years-- but on average most do well for it and live happy lives. Personally, I have a 4-5 year cycle, and it is hard for me to re-invent my job to make being in my 12th year in my own business interesting.
It takes two years total to be "found out" as a fraud and terminated. It also takes about those same two years for good employees to excel. Exceptional people in either extreme are faster.
For me, when I see people that jump jobs every 18-24 months, I see people I don't want to waste my energy on; people spending 4+ years on a job are more interesting. Industries vary, but constant job hopping is a turn off.
If you are really good, after ~10 years you should likely be self-employed.
The damage is mainly in the visa system; the security screening and customs is a minor issue: keep sensitive data on micro-SD cards on your person, hidden within luggage, or in the cloud and downloaded on arrival. All encrypted of course.
The Visa system though makes it very hard to have an international conference in the US now, or in a place where attendees will need to connect on a US flight. It started with the electronic authorization for "visa waiver" countries, but Trump has made it exponentially worse.
Global entry and nexus are separate programs (unfortunately). Nexus intake stations are just in cities close to the Canadian border as well, so even fewer locations to Global Entry.
Heath row last week, iPads out, shoes off in my line. They stage the metal detectors and mm wave scanners so you might have to go through both.
I used to think the same way; the threshold of $100k was just there to protect the best returns for the rich. I have reviewed a few second stage funding proposals though (along with running my own business), and have also "lost everything" in the stock market a couple times.
From this experience, I have become reasonably good at cutting through the crap. Sure, an investment in the next GoPro might yield a 5x return over 5 years-- but it is equally possible that it will only have a 5-10% annual return, or that you lose everything. (So, is it worth the risk?)
Quite frankly most people can't make critical decisions with this kind of thing, and the safest bet is to limit investment to the $100k "play money" threshold.
It can be easier than that; you can just keep one vlan and SSID for each group, and share APs. Drop AP power, especially on 2.5GHz, and locate the APs to simply provide coverage. You can use QoS to manage each group's usage.
For all but the most basic setups, a separate router that is fully configurable and access points that extend that functionality to wireless clients is a better strategy. While there are things you can tweak in the radio realm, the benefits are minimal (beyond power and channels) to the point that the FCC issues seem logical.
Personally, I find that going with a dedicated router and dedicated access point(s) makes for a more flexible solution anyway. Better placement options, easier to upgrade the wireless, etc. I use Ubiquiti gear, which gives me Vyatta on the routing/firewall and a solid (locked down) access point.
Curious to try out the little pfsense appliances, but they are a bit more pricey.
That missing . is the key to easy filtering. In my case, forwarding on to the family. j/k