mech422

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by mech422 4y ago
Having lived/worked thru the off shore craze, I've never heard a good outcome from it for a large company... I know several startups/small companies in the 0-50 range that have had awesome outcomes - but nothing larger then t
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by mech422 4y ago
I heard the same thing when off-shoring was the rage, and salaries are higher then ever for tech workers. I also suspect that with declining birth rates in 'industrial' countries, the market for tech workers could get even more c
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by mech422 4y ago
With 'Angel food' cake covers to keep the platters clean... I remember when I saw my fist DEC disk pack how slim they looked in comparison :-)
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by mech422 4y ago
Those were the 'I/O operators' where I worked... the 'system operators' (computer operators) were the guys that got the big bucks to alter jcl and drink coffee :-P I also worked at places with dedicated 'print
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by mech422 4y ago
yeah - we were accquired as part of their 'cloud services' shopping spree... so far, it seems like they're TRYING to drive off the very people they acqui-hired. Contracts seem more like a Tata level staff aug. then a 'p
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by mech422 4y ago
It's up to you...I'm 55, and still going strong... Haven't had any trouble keeping up or finding jobs. Have Fun!
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by mech422 5y ago
yes - and you assume everyone is lying about it, instead of just telling their manager? and many do not shorten their time..and others work for companies that don't care as long as the work is done. I stand by my point - there's n
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by mech422 5y ago
sorry - I put this "have different (full time) employment contracts" in my comment to try and make that point clear.. Its full-time employment, salaried. Also, salaried generally means you get paid the same amount regardless of h
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by mech422 5y ago
My F500 gig specifically allows outside work as long as its not for a competitor...Why would you assume everyone is lying? Wouldn't it make more sense that some of us just have different (full time) employment contracts ?
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by mech422 5y ago
Ditto - mines the same. Basically, no working for competitors.
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by mech422 5y ago
yes, but only if they can grow fast enough to make an IPO operation feasible...
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by mech422 5y ago
Infusion of B-round, specially targeting the larger flora in the gut..
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by mech422 5y ago
LOL - I snorted ... Maybe they can 'pivot' in a new direction :-)
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by mech422 5y ago
you mean... a mech uprising! :-P I think it was mech warrior or something in my case...
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by mech422 5y ago
Huh - I would have thought for higher speed stuff (say 40G+ ?) performance would still be an issue if you wanted to maintain wire speed - Especially driving multiple interfaces ? I agree home/consumer stuff is just basicly coasting on
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by mech422 5y ago
oh - I agree it would be nice... but very few places seem to do that. I've seen a lot of 'senior' people leading 3+ teams of junior/average developers. edit: point being, if you can muddle thru - mgmt generally doesn&#x
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by mech422 5y ago
>>Either you have a use for that - enough of a use that you're willing to pay for it - or you don't. I think this is the crux of a lot of it. You only need one lead/rockstar/ninja/10x* for every 10-20 'd
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by mech422 5y ago
aka 'wageism' if you don't need a rocket scientist, you don't pay for one... grunt work is grunt work.
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by mech422 5y ago
wow man - thats sucks... As an older engineer, I hope you hang in! There ARE good companies out there!
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by mech422 5y ago
I'm 50+, and perhaps I've just been lucky...but its not been an issue for me. I got my last job 18 months ago and I'm looking now. I think a lot of what people think is ageism, is wageism.. but that's just a hunch. In
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by mech422 5y ago
what isn't ? to steal an example from fullshark... 'skibum' definitely wasn't compliment where I grew up.
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by mech422 5y ago
>>Where it was always clear who the good guys and who the bad guys were As I get older, and the world gets more chaotic, I find I like this more and more.. When you have to vet the weatherman saying it's raining, its nice to have
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by mech422 5y ago
oh - Thanks!
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by mech422 5y ago
Yeah - I have to admit, I was impressed with your list of credits... I live under a rock and haven't seen many of them, but I really enjoyed 'The Accountant' and I'm a sucker for anything Spiderman/Marvel
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by mech422 5y ago
Oh cool - I never knew this was the reason why... Thanks!
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by mech422 5y ago
>>Network has no natural order "When the bytes which make up such multi-byte numbers are ordered from most significant byte to least significant byte, that is called "network byte order" or "big endian." (1) S
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by mech422 5y ago
That sounds like a fun project! :-) If you're doing it again next year, maybe you could do some measured shots with lookup table and compare to the existing system? Might help find the error ?
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by mech422 5y ago
In AZ, both uber/lyft are short of drivers. The gas price meant a lot of drivers couldn't make any money. Also, god help you if you want a ride more then 10-15 miles...Phoenix is huge, but for some reason, drivers don't seem
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by mech422 5y ago
I can remember the original HERO having more power then the machine I would have used to program it :-). They were really expensive for the time though - $2k, IIRC ?
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by mech422 5y ago
You may have been interested in meta-glasses back in the day(1) I had high hopes for them - especially the hand tracking and being able to manipulate virtual objects. Alas, it wasn't to be... 1) https://www.youtube.com&#x2

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