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by caw 13y ago
If you assume your market rate, you can figure out how much money you would have drawn as a salary (since it's unpaid), and consider that as an investment. Compare that to the 80k he's put in, and maybe that will help settle the n
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by caw 13y ago
Heh, if I sound like that it's because I'm disillusioned with my experiences. You can totally fix internal communications, but the employees have to own it. If the employees don't feel the desire to share the knowledge, it wi
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by caw 13y ago
Yes you've correctly identified a problem. It's sad that I have to "know a guy" to sometimes get stuff done. Unfortunately, no one with purchasing power cares. You can try promoting "social" and "collabora
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by caw 13y ago
I'd go for it if the team is good. With 20 senior people, that's a lot of possible mentors and people to learn stuff from. The money is obviously good, and it's the thing you want to be working on. You can evangelize once you
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by caw 13y ago
Not sure of a library that would let you do it, but maybe a mail server with rules that would get triggered on mail receive. Pretty sure you can run custom scripts on a postfix server based on email content.
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by caw 13y ago
Some places like Newegg put the promo code on the item page itself, so it's basically like giving it to everyone who buys the item. In this case, there's no loss on the sale.
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by caw 13y ago
I agree. Last minute 3 day vacations is actually OK around my workplace, and we have a limited number of vacation days. First you ask yourself if you have critical work to do those days. If not, you're good. Otherwise, you may have to
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by caw 13y ago
Tuesday does solve the 3 day weekend problem. What do you do if Monday is a holiday? Trade on Monday morning and meet up outside of work, or just hold it till Tuesday. Most of the time we just hold it. The reason for this discussion is beca
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by caw 13y ago
Megacorp sysadmin here - we do on-call for weekly rotations, though technically anyone can get woken up for the service they own. Weekly is easy to schedule, and it lets our boss know who the contact is for the week (since the schedule is o
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by caw 13y ago
I'd go with NoSQL (any of them, overview of all of them?) or AWS/cloud stuff, because I'm already familiar with Linux administration and RoR. In the enterprise you don't get to work with that sort of technology, so that&
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by caw 13y ago
Unrelated may not get you anywhere if the company is sufficiently large enough, which is probably true in any company large enough to actually have an M&A department. I happen to know someone in M&A at my company, but only because I
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by caw 13y ago
I switched majors 2 times (3 if you count a Bursar mistake). I signed up for CS, changed my major before I started, then changed back to CS 1 year in. It's really not a big deal. I thought I wanted to do engineering, and after my first
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by caw 13y ago
Having never been in this situation, what stops a developer from signing and doing almost no work for Y! while they ride out their contract? I feel like if they get fired they could just claim that Y! didn't want to pay them, so they f
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by caw 13y ago
I think the point of billing by day (or week) is because the project is unclear. They can change the spec as much as they want, but they're paying you for all your time changing it. The time estimation is for fixed bid contracts, so yo
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by caw 13y ago
I agree with the opportunities, though in this case it sounds like the OP wants to do both. In this case, maybe it makes sense to take the job, so long as the OP really intends to go through college. There's a lot of companies who will
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by caw 13y ago
I think that's the point. It doesn't matter what you fill them with--fun, work, standing on your head--just that you feel accomplished by having done what you've done. If you don't, then maybe it's time for some cha
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by caw 13y ago
The pager is quite an interesting thing for sysadmins. Your value is because you can fix what breaks when it breaks, or when you're so senior that people only bring you in for solutions architecture and setup. In the corporate world, y
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by caw 13y ago
I found some Perl code of my coworker's in a recent internal product. It had his name at the top of the file, and the year 1997. I mentioned it to him, so he pulled out the original in his ~/bin, and we diffed them. The core progr
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by caw 13y ago
I'm split between a horribly botched posting and "this is totally bunk, but she's supposed to realize it's talking about her, and he's going to jump out and propose"
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by caw 13y ago
In my time at GT (06-11), I didn't really hear about startups until senior/super senior year. A few friends got either internships or post-graduation jobs in Tech square, mostly due to their recruitment via the Co-op/Internsh
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by caw 13y ago
Blinds definitely help. I've heard that if you have horizontal mini blinds you want to turn them up so it reflects the sun back and not down where the sunlight streams in. Keep fans running even if you're not in the room. It'
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by caw 13y ago
I think there's actually analytics available where their pitch is "use us on your website, and we can help identify users." They'll track you around multiple sites until you finally drop an email address in or fill out a
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by caw 13y ago
Mostly sysadmin stuff, because that's what I do. 1 177 19.2601% ls 2 113 12.296% vim 3 101 10.9902% cd 4 95 10.3373% ssh 7 25 2.72035% rm 8 18 1.95865% grep 10 13 1.414
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by caw 13y ago
Raise or promotion implies you do it on a regular basis, and once you get that raise or promotion you're expected to do this level of work all the time.
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by caw 13y ago
I have a sit/stand desk in my cube. I've been gradually working up how much I stand all day, but I still sit for a large portion of the day. You need to stand correctly. If you lock out your knees and other things, it won't n
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by caw 13y ago
My experience with PGI is that the engineers liked them because they had a FORTRAN to CUDA compiler, so they didn't have to rewrite their code. They were pretty good about answering bug reports, with the number of times I had to instal
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by caw 13y ago
That's why I brought up the car analogy with the user. Most people aren't car experts either. I haven't found the perfect answer, other than refusing to work on the ticket until more detail is provided (of course, sending the
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by caw 13y ago
Corporate IT guy here, and I think the general idea of the post is right, but maybe not the way of going about it. He's right that IT consists of people too, and not automatons. It's not through sheer malice that we don't ans
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by caw 13y ago
Thanks for the response! I didn't mean for the comment to seem skeptical of what either has done. With regards to Ramit, I know he's fantastic at sales -- I've actually bought one of his products and found it worth the cost.
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by caw 13y ago
I think it's because you're looking at it like this: 1) BCC (And the AB testing, SEO, etc) 2) Appointment Reminder 3) ??? 4) Mentoring / coaching / training The part 3 was consulting, where people paid him money for 4, b

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