Not even close to being true.
Having been a manager and having had access to salary information for all of my directs, the swings in salary were WILD.
To a point that one guy I promoted to SW3 had to get a 30% raise just to get to the bottom end of the range.
Live in Cedar Park, commute to Round Rock right off of La Frontera. We may not have beer fridays, but my commute is 15 minutes door to door, or longer when I want to take a joyride on my bike home.
How much blame is Samsung placing on their:
- Engineering dept which should have reviewed the specs for battery.
- Vendor management group (which is probably Engineering) which should have overseen the battery and made sure the vendor built it to specs and tested it to specs.
- QA Dept which should have verified those specs and tested the hell out of the product?
There's plenty of blame to go around.
Great, you watched that show on Netflix about Stalin and how his stupidity almost lost the war. Nobody is disputing that, even in Russia.
But to claim that D-day somehow magically won the war for UK/US is bogus.
Nazis surrended in Stalingrad in February of 1943.
Battle of Kursk took place in August 1943.
By the time Allies landed in Normandy the Soviets were pushing west through Ukraine, Belarus and Poland.
Living in Austin: It takes my gf 20 minutes to get to work in no traffic, and up to 30-40 in rush hour.
When I'm a passenger in a car I can't read books or look at cellphone map/screen for more than 5s, it makes me carsick. I'm definitely not expecting to be working as soon as my car leaves the garage.
It allows your boss to have a scapegoat. YOU are giving him the estimate, he's not having to come up with one.
"They told me X, it wasn't ready in X, we made plans, I even added 10% padding and they still did not deliver".
Can't help myself. "If loud pipes save lives, imagine what learning to ride that thing could do!"
I ride a sportbike. My solution: Never ride side by side with anyone. If I need to get around people I wait for car infront of me to get past them then speed up, minimizing the time I spend next to them. Sure, this doesn't work very well in heavy traffic...but thats the risk we take.
These apps pop up every once in a while. Unless your phone GPS is really accurate, you run into:
- Accuracy problems on your raceline using inaccucate GPS. These require an external GPS unit
- I don't give a damn about my "lean angle"
- I do care about accurate tracking of throttle and brake sensors which this app lacks
The last point is really what the expensive units like GPX Pro deliver: you can overlay your brake/throttle zones on the GPS data of the track, and replay your laps, looking for places to improve (brake later/deeper)
Not to mention that crashing with a phone on your bike makes for a more expensive crash.
Having lived through the fall of Communism and the ensuing implementation of market economy and democracy, also known as "selling off the country", I completely understand mistrust Russians have for government, but we're at least fairly open about the "elect the lesser of the two evils". Who else would you like to see in power? We joke about electing the same people for 2nd term because they spend the 1st one stealing as much as possible so they can build themselves a castle, and so maybe during the 2nd term they'll have enough and try to do something for the people as well.
Granted, I've never worked in the true dot-com environment...ok, we did have a foosball table but it kept getting moved because people who were working through lunch kept complaining, but why is this still important to people? Maybe I'm just a cynical old fart (sheesh...at 28?), but I'd much rather have: 1. Better salary. 2. Better defined work hours. 3. No perks like pizza fridays, wearing jeans to work (which I still do) and free soda.
rather than: 1. Lower salary. 2. Work all day. 3. But we got great perks! It's free pizza friday, so you can stay and work until 8pm!
Seriously, why does anyone who has ever worked in on at least 1 corporate job still fall for this?
How many times has Atlantis been rebuilt by hand? 27 times, after each landing. If you keep rebuilding the engine on a Chevy every evening, of course it will run for 10e6 miles.
Pfft, so what if things got carried away a little in the 50s. Russian scientists were on par or even better than pretty much all other scientists, so what if communistic doctrine got in a way a little. An anti-aircraft missile doesn't fly using Marxist philosophy, so KB had to get it right regardless of their party standing.
So what's the problem with DOSAAF? We also used to have some very basic weapons training in school. When I was in 3rd grade, I learned to take apart and clean an AK-47 as well as shoot a.22 rifle. This was happening in every school, and at that age it was one of the coolest things you'd do in school. I fail to see the problem.
So what if DOSAAF prepared kids for military service? Everyone had to go through it. The military was always on a lookout for talented kids. Basically they didn't wait until you were done with boot camp to find out if you had any special talents army could have used, they "recruited" you before you even went in. If you had some kind of Junior's rank in hand to hand combat like sambo, you were likely going into special forces. If you were good at hockey, you were likely to go into "sportivnaya rota" (sports platoon) and from there you basically went on to play for USSR National hockey team (yes, they were all officers of the red army, but hockey for them was their job, not marching with Ak47 or jumping out of airplanes).
Nu zdras'te.... As far as average salary is concerned: I'm somewhat torn on this one. 11K rubles may be average salary country-wide, but it's certainly not average in the city. However, I have nothing but anecdotal evidence to support that, where average families are able to buy cars, real estate and go on vacations. I think the main item missing from all of this is the side income. My grandfather works in a garage complex, and on top of nightly "tips", there's stuff like welding work. He quoted one guy 5000 rubles to weld him a set of shelves for his garage....how does that figure into the average salary statistic?
If you don't think that "construction is booming", take a trip to SPb. Go out to somewhere like Leninski Prospekt (basically, end of the metro line, there's still space there), get out of the subway and look around. You will see several either newly constructed highrises or cranes putting up highrises. People are buying real estate.
Or take a trip to Petergof. You'll see a lot of private houses (much like US) replacing the old dachas.
Don't like SPb? Yes, I agree that outside the big cities (which aren't just Moscow and SPb) it's pretty bad (actually not that bad. Even smaller cities are ok. I was in Kursk just this winter, and it does not look like a dying town. Life is....normal.... for the lack of a better word. You want to go to a night club? Sure, there are a few. Pool hall? Go knock yourself out (and it costs 50 rubles per hour)). Yes, regional centers (raioncentr) are pretty bad off, majority fo power is concentrated in the urban environment....how else would you have it? People go where work is, where money is.
You think people can't afford mortgages? Last year my gf worked in a credit dept. in a bank, a standard rate is 8-10% to buy home appliances. How's that hard to afford?
That game simply keeps on astonishing me. There is also a number of mods available that completely change the storyline and quests (Urban Chaos can't be even considered a mod, it's a whole different game that uses JA2 engine, that's how good UC guys are).
I think you'll find you're pretty dead wrong. Russian technical education is for the most part superior to US higher education. We beat you guys hands down whether you look at private schools or state universities....the only place where education qualities match is at top universities. How do I know? I went to both US and Russian universities. I can tell you right now US state universities suck. Work load, selection of classes....with everything being left to the student, no wonder so many freshmen in the US drop out after 1st semester. Yes, I learned programming on old PCs. Heck, in 95 when I was at a uni back home, we learned Pascal working on a terminal. As a last note, here's my schedule as I remember it from my first semester at the university (at the time, I was CE): Adv Calculus (higher mathematics, or, as it is ironically called in Russia, "the gallows"), CS, chemistry, history. These are all lecture + lab. Then there was some new stuff like ecology, and then phys ed. Now......all classes are 2 hours, with a 10 minute break in between the hours. All but last 2 also had 2-4 hour labs. We had math 4 times a week, chem 4 times a week, CS 2-3 times a week, etc. And a 6 day week too. This was a freshman semester, specifically designed to weed out the stupid and lazy.
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Reality check: Grow a pair.
Not even close to being true. Having been a manager and having had access to salary information for all of my directs, the swings in salary were WILD. To a point that one guy I promoted to SW3 had to get a 30% raise just to get to the bottom end of the range.
Live in Cedar Park, commute to Round Rock right off of La Frontera. We may not have beer fridays, but my commute is 15 minutes door to door, or longer when I want to take a joyride on my bike home.
How much blame is Samsung placing on their: - Engineering dept which should have reviewed the specs for battery. - Vendor management group (which is probably Engineering) which should have overseen the battery and made sure the vendor built it to specs and tested it to specs. - QA Dept which should have verified those specs and tested the hell out of the product? There's plenty of blame to go around.
Great, you watched that show on Netflix about Stalin and how his stupidity almost lost the war. Nobody is disputing that, even in Russia. But to claim that D-day somehow magically won the war for UK/US is bogus. Nazis surrended in Stalingrad in February of 1943. Battle of Kursk took place in August 1943. By the time Allies landed in Normandy the Soviets were pushing west through Ukraine, Belarus and Poland.
Austin is full.
Living in Austin: It takes my gf 20 minutes to get to work in no traffic, and up to 30-40 in rush hour. When I'm a passenger in a car I can't read books or look at cellphone map/screen for more than 5s, it makes me carsick. I'm definitely not expecting to be working as soon as my car leaves the garage.
It allows your boss to have a scapegoat. YOU are giving him the estimate, he's not having to come up with one. "They told me X, it wasn't ready in X, we made plans, I even added 10% padding and they still did not deliver".
If you want robots that waste not second...good luck. Engineering is a creative process.
The only one in service was built in 1988. So...Soviet, not Ukrainian.
Can't help myself. "If loud pipes save lives, imagine what learning to ride that thing could do!" I ride a sportbike. My solution: Never ride side by side with anyone. If I need to get around people I wait for car infront of me to get past them then speed up, minimizing the time I spend next to them. Sure, this doesn't work very well in heavy traffic...but thats the risk we take.
These apps pop up every once in a while. Unless your phone GPS is really accurate, you run into: - Accuracy problems on your raceline using inaccucate GPS. These require an external GPS unit - I don't give a damn about my "lean angle" - I do care about accurate tracking of throttle and brake sensors which this app lacks The last point is really what the expensive units like GPX Pro deliver: you can overlay your brake/throttle zones on the GPS data of the track, and replay your laps, looking for places to improve (brake later/deeper) Not to mention that crashing with a phone on your bike makes for a more expensive crash.
Having lived through the fall of Communism and the ensuing implementation of market economy and democracy, also known as "selling off the country", I completely understand mistrust Russians have for government, but we're at least fairly open about the "elect the lesser of the two evils". Who else would you like to see in power? We joke about electing the same people for 2nd term because they spend the 1st one stealing as much as possible so they can build themselves a castle, and so maybe during the 2nd term they'll have enough and try to do something for the people as well.
I guess /. lost the Russian word. But as another Russian I can't figure out how you translit it into "sgniet"
How do you figure that? I definitely can't figure out how Stuxnet translits into "".
The F-ray!
Granted, I've never worked in the true dot-com environment...ok, we did have a foosball table but it kept getting moved because people who were working through lunch kept complaining, but why is this still important to people? Maybe I'm just a cynical old fart (sheesh...at 28?), but I'd much rather have:
1. Better salary.
2. Better defined work hours.
3. No perks like pizza fridays, wearing jeans to work (which I still do) and free soda.
rather than:
1. Lower salary.
2. Work all day.
3. But we got great perks! It's free pizza friday, so you can stay and work until 8pm!
Seriously, why does anyone who has ever worked in on at least 1 corporate job still fall for this?
So what am I supposed to do if even mowing my lawn every week results in 2-3 bags of grass alone?
How many times has Atlantis been rebuilt by hand? 27 times, after each landing.
If you keep rebuilding the engine on a Chevy every evening, of course it will run for 10e6 miles.
Pfft, so what if things got carried away a little in the 50s. Russian scientists were on par or even better than pretty much all other scientists, so what if communistic doctrine got in a way a little. An anti-aircraft missile doesn't fly using Marxist philosophy, so KB had to get it right regardless of their party standing.
.22 rifle. This was happening in every school, and at that age it was one of the coolest things you'd do in school. I fail to see the problem.
So what's the problem with DOSAAF?
We also used to have some very basic weapons training in school. When I was in 3rd grade, I learned to take apart and clean an AK-47 as well as shoot a
So what if DOSAAF prepared kids for military service? Everyone had to go through it. The military was always on a lookout for talented kids. Basically they didn't wait until you were done with boot camp to find out if you had any special talents army could have used, they "recruited" you before you even went in. If you had some kind of Junior's rank in hand to hand combat like sambo, you were likely going into special forces. If you were good at hockey, you were likely to go into "sportivnaya rota" (sports platoon) and from there you basically went on to play for USSR National hockey team (yes, they were all officers of the red army, but hockey for them was their job, not marching with Ak47 or jumping out of airplanes).
Nu zdras'te....
As far as average salary is concerned:
I'm somewhat torn on this one. 11K rubles may be average salary country-wide, but it's certainly not average in the city. However, I have nothing but anecdotal evidence to support that, where average families are able to buy cars, real estate and go on vacations. I think the main item missing from all of this is the side income. My grandfather works in a garage complex, and on top of nightly "tips", there's stuff like welding work. He quoted one guy 5000 rubles to weld him a set of shelves for his garage....how does that figure into the average salary statistic?
Regarding construction:
....normal.... for the lack of a better word. You want to go to a night club? Sure, there are a few. Pool hall? Go knock yourself out (and it costs 50 rubles per hour)). Yes, regional centers (raioncentr) are pretty bad off, majority fo power is concentrated in the urban environment....how else would you have it? People go where work is, where money is.
If you don't think that "construction is booming", take a trip to SPb. Go out to somewhere like Leninski Prospekt (basically, end of the metro line, there's still space there), get out of the subway and look around. You will see several either newly constructed highrises or cranes putting up highrises. People are buying real estate.
Or take a trip to Petergof. You'll see a lot of private houses (much like US) replacing the old dachas.
Don't like SPb? Yes, I agree that outside the big cities (which aren't just Moscow and SPb) it's pretty bad (actually not that bad. Even smaller cities are ok. I was in Kursk just this winter, and it does not look like a dying town. Life is
You think people can't afford mortgages? Last year my gf worked in a credit dept. in a bank, a standard rate is 8-10% to buy home appliances. How's that hard to afford?
That game simply keeps on astonishing me. There is also a number of mods available that completely change the storyline and quests (Urban Chaos can't be even considered a mod, it's a whole different game that uses JA2 engine, that's how good UC guys are).
I think you'll find you're pretty dead wrong.
Russian technical education is for the most part superior to US higher education. We beat you guys hands down whether you look at private schools or state universities....the only place where education qualities match is at top universities. How do I know? I went to both US and Russian universities. I can tell you right now US state universities suck. Work load, selection of classes....with everything being left to the student, no wonder so many freshmen in the US drop out after 1st semester.
Yes, I learned programming on old PCs. Heck, in 95 when I was at a uni back home, we learned Pascal working on a terminal.
As a last note, here's my schedule as I remember it from my first semester at the university (at the time, I was CE):
Adv Calculus (higher mathematics, or, as it is ironically called in Russia, "the gallows"), CS, chemistry, history. These are all lecture + lab. Then there was some new stuff like ecology, and then phys ed.
Now......all classes are 2 hours, with a 10 minute break in between the hours. All but last 2 also had 2-4 hour labs. We had math 4 times a week, chem 4 times a week, CS 2-3 times a week, etc. And a 6 day week too.
This was a freshman semester, specifically designed to weed out the stupid and lazy.
Been there done that