Just hook yourself up with several placement companies and be willing to work for peanuts. Let the body shop sell you and go where ever they tell you to go.
It might also help if you change your name to Krishnan Ragdamanaman...
I'm not about to try to explain an opensource ERP system to our S-Ox auditors. If we were a private company, I would be interested, but not for a public company.
The ERP vendors know it, the consulting companies know it, and they are both going to make us pay for it.
Take all the computers out of the schools. As far as I can tell, at any given time half of them won't boot or are frozen anyway. The teachers and the schools "IT Staff" (ie, the teacher who was so bad at teaching 3rd graders he now runs the "technology lab") are completely clueless and have no business trying to teach our children about technology. My 11 year-old daughter is *light-years* ahead of ALL of her teachers when it comes to the web, email, word processing, spreadsheets, presentations, graphics, video and html/css development. I suggest the schools stick to teaching readin', ritin' & 'rithmetic - and perhaps we'll have kids that know more than how to load a Glock 17...
How about this for irony:
"Bell Labs used this initial "text processing system", made up of Unix, roff, and the editor, for text processing of patent applications."
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unix
The A330 is a fly-by-wire aircraft with extremely modern avionics systems. Those systems are tested for *years* before getting FAA certification. There's a huge amount of microwave and other bands of energy surrounding any major airport. I think some Qantas PR dweeb is talking out of his ass (again).
...and you certainly learned all you will ever need to know about working in a team, making the move from coder to architect or, God forbid, becoming a manager. Look around your office and find that surly 50-something "programmer" sitting in the cubicle in the far corner. You know, the one who maintains that old COBOL interface that nobody else wants to touch. He doesn't have a degree either. He's bitter as hell because "those damn college kids" keep getting promoted past him.
He's you in 25 years...
Do you need a degree to be successful? Of course not. But having a degree might get you in the door a whole lot easier. Why give the recruiter another reason to put your resume in the "No Thanks" pile?
...but also know where your code came from. There are tons of code snippets, modules, libraries, etc available for reuse. Reusing code is good - as long as you know what you're getting. No, you probably don't need to code your own sort routines - but you should know how the sort routine you're using works, its limitations and its advantages.
Don't status everything at "80% Complete" - your manager knows better, and you are going to end up right back on the support desk (or out on your ass) if the team can't trust you. Raising your hand and saying you need help is better than missing your milestone and leaving the rest of the team high & dry.
Always remember that your beautiful code is NOT why the company is in business. The application is being built to *do* something - to help execute a business process, or control a machine or simply entertain someone - but it has some purpose. Even if you work for a commercial software vendor and your code is the product being sold - it is still being built to do something for the customers. Don't lose sight of that purpose - having working code that is reliable & maintainable really is more important than using the latest nightly build of the ubergeek framework.
Finally, communicate with your teammates. Don't barricade yourself inside your cubicle for months writing your code masterpiece only to find out that the requirements changed 3 weeks ago, or that the guy in the cubicle next to you already has a function that does exactly what you need in the project he finished last month. The team CAN accomplish more than the sum of the individuals - if the team really acts as a team.
The President can only approve/veto bills that are sent to him by congress. If congress kills a bill in committee, or it fails to get the required votes in either the senate or the house, the President's position is irrelevant. Put the pressure on ALL politicians - not just the Pres & VP.
The dial-up users are obviously the only ones going to heaven because they must never visit porn sites
and must never download music, video or software.
...she has Comcast, which limited her upload speed to 28.8K...
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Who is going to help the clueless sales dweebs get connected?
Just hook yourself up with several placement companies and be willing to work for peanuts. Let the body shop sell you and go where ever they tell you to go. It might also help if you change your name to Krishnan Ragdamanaman...
Run Away! Run Away! Run Away!
...and you expect him to answer a question about a development environment? Riiiiiight...
...you can bet Accounting will blame IT.
I'm not about to try to explain an opensource ERP system to our S-Ox auditors. If we were a private company, I would be interested, but not for a public company. The ERP vendors know it, the consulting companies know it, and they are both going to make us pay for it.
Can't we just send all the middle managers, hairdressers & telephone sanitizers out to find the ETs?
Patent lawyers for Microsoft, Intel and Apple are studying the axe to determine if prior art was infringed in the creation of the Malaysian tool...
Take all the computers out of the schools. As far as I can tell, at any given time half of them won't boot or are frozen anyway. The teachers and the schools "IT Staff" (ie, the teacher who was so bad at teaching 3rd graders he now runs the "technology lab") are completely clueless and have no business trying to teach our children about technology. My 11 year-old daughter is *light-years* ahead of ALL of her teachers when it comes to the web, email, word processing, spreadsheets, presentations, graphics, video and html/css development. I suggest the schools stick to teaching readin', ritin' & 'rithmetic - and perhaps we'll have kids that know more than how to load a Glock 17...
How about this for irony: "Bell Labs used this initial "text processing system", made up of Unix, roff, and the editor, for text processing of patent applications." http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unix
...is that now I know it's a lowercase 'g'...
...is how long it takes for the first security hole to be found...
The A330 is a fly-by-wire aircraft with extremely modern avionics systems. Those systems are tested for *years* before getting FAA certification. There's a huge amount of microwave and other bands of energy surrounding any major airport. I think some Qantas PR dweeb is talking out of his ass (again).
I refuse to cater to the lowest common denominator. Get savvy or get out of my way.
...can find their Windows/386 boot disk...
...and you certainly learned all you will ever need to know about working in a team, making the move from coder to architect or, God forbid, becoming a manager. Look around your office and find that surly 50-something "programmer" sitting in the cubicle in the far corner. You know, the one who maintains that old COBOL interface that nobody else wants to touch. He doesn't have a degree either. He's bitter as hell because "those damn college kids" keep getting promoted past him.
He's you in 25 years...
Do you need a degree to be successful? Of course not. But having a degree might get you in the door a whole lot easier. Why give the recruiter another reason to put your resume in the "No Thanks" pile?
...but also know where your code came from. There are tons of code snippets, modules, libraries, etc available for reuse. Reusing code is good - as long as you know what you're getting. No, you probably don't need to code your own sort routines - but you should know how the sort routine you're using works, its limitations and its advantages.
Don't status everything at "80% Complete" - your manager knows better, and you are going to end up right back on the support desk (or out on your ass) if the team can't trust you. Raising your hand and saying you need help is better than missing your milestone and leaving the rest of the team high & dry.
Always remember that your beautiful code is NOT why the company is in business. The application is being built to *do* something - to help execute a business process, or control a machine or simply entertain someone - but it has some purpose. Even if you work for a commercial software vendor and your code is the product being sold - it is still being built to do something for the customers. Don't lose sight of that purpose - having working code that is reliable & maintainable really is more important than using the latest nightly build of the ubergeek framework.
Finally, communicate with your teammates. Don't barricade yourself inside your cubicle for months writing your code masterpiece only to find out that the requirements changed 3 weeks ago, or that the guy in the cubicle next to you already has a function that does exactly what you need in the project he finished last month. The team CAN accomplish more than the sum of the individuals - if the team really acts as a team.
It's not just Bush - they all use EOs for good & bad purposes... http://www.archives.gov/federal-register/executive-orders/disposition.html
The President can only approve/veto bills that are sent to him by congress. If congress kills a bill in committee, or it fails to get the required votes in either the senate or the house, the President's position is irrelevant. Put the pressure on ALL politicians - not just the Pres & VP.
...why after 30 years are you still a COBOL programmer instead of the CIO? Or at least a pointy-haired boss?
...IBM also announced a performance upgrade kit for the Power7 to enable it to meet the minimum HW requirements for Vista.
The dial-up users are obviously the only ones going to heaven because they must never visit porn sites and must never download music, video or software.
...she has Comcast, which limited her upload speed to 28.8K...
Sarbanes-Oxley replaced ethics (and common sense) with mindless process and auditor drones whose sole purpose in life is to stop all work from getting done.
Why is a large conspiracy so much easier to believe than simple incompetence?