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by sloaken 7y ago
Class size is a biggie on the repair list. I believe if you have class size of 10, your first 2 issues go away. For the 'college of bust' mentality, there are multiple issues here. I believe it is a failure to rate schools/
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by sloaken 7y ago
1) if they cannot kill cobol, what chance does any other language have of dying. Saying that I believe cobol programing pays extremely well. 2) look at the bio of the author, do you really think they know anything about tech? 3) Can you na
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by sloaken 7y ago
Typical shortages are really: We cannot find anyone who will do it for minimum wage ... cry cry cry. This is usually followed by comments: <country of choice> people are just unwilling to do this job ... cry cry cry Both cases are &#x
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by sloaken 7y ago
Why not just use VB?
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by sloaken 7y ago
I worked for one company where if you worked less than 5 hours over, it was considered casual and not paid. If you worked 5 or more then it was all the extra hours were paid. But it was always straight time.
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by sloaken 7y ago
Documentation is bad when it is missing.
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by sloaken 7y ago
So you found yourself as a big fish in a little pond? You prefer to be the small fish in a big pond (lake / ocean)? You can learn a lot by teaching others. You can learn by leading. On the other hand, if you run into a situation I ra
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by sloaken 7y ago
I made some prediction about Databases not being much of a career field ... This all reminds me of the classic: "I think there is a world market for maybe five computers." --Thomas Watson, president of IBM, 1943
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by sloaken 7y ago
continue hands on development until they pry your cold, dead hands from the keyboard
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by sloaken 7y ago
Oh wow, you must know my mother in law ....
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by sloaken 7y ago
It sounds like you do not believe you can stop it. Given that, try to limit the damage. Allow them to do 1 day a week on shiny but must do the rest on mainline.
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by sloaken 7y ago
I believe a basic understanding of statistics is a good life skill which everyone should know.
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by sloaken 7y ago
You have to be the expert in you. You should be the one that cares the most about your health. Yeah your wife cares, your mother cares, and even your doctor cares. But you must care the most. <My story> When you are told what to do
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by sloaken 7y ago
Alt 3, then if need be alt 2. That is unless you HATE the company as a whole. When looking at Alt 2, consider talking with HR the often know of opportunities within a company.
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by sloaken 7y ago
Which sites do you deem to be worth paying for?
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by sloaken 7y ago
Do you want to become a consultant or a team leader?
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by sloaken 7y ago
No. I regret not having kids earlier so I could have more. I started late and stopped at 2, as I could see it was hard for me to keep up. As for missed opportunities, I have had a lot of them, but not so much because of the kids. They do
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by sloaken 7y ago
I would assume this varies based on which government you are talking about.
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by sloaken 7y ago
Although I agree large companies would not need to, and probably have very strong rules against it. I can also see various unscrupulous lead engineers / middle managers doing exactly this. I had a similar experience back a number of y
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by sloaken 7y ago
Is this the book you are recommending? http://www.stat.columbia.edu/~gelman/book/
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by sloaken 7y ago
So the questions you can expect are: what processes do you use / like, how do you address conflict, how do you get the most from your people.
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by sloaken 7y ago
Oh you worked for Pacific Telesis? With the whole AT&T breakup and then re-merge that must be a good story on its own.
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by sloaken 7y ago
I would buy a raspberry PI and start with that, or an Arduino. There is a Arduino simulator (I have not used it, others told me about it) on Tickercad.
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by sloaken 7y ago
I would model your contract after the way houses are sold in your area. Real estate agents face the same problem. Or you could look at how headhunters do it.
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by sloaken 8y ago
That is one of the prime reasons people move from the North East to Florida. Classic retirement, my money goes further. It is also why people move out of the US, cheaper to retire in other countries.
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by sloaken 8y ago
Can I adopt you?
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by sloaken 8y ago
1) for those of you blaming the Poster (happppy), there are 2 things that indicate it is not him, but rather the other person: A) 'his previous team laid him off' <- obviously some issue B) 'he's a friend of my manage
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by sloaken 8y ago
In the US market, I am in the paranoid camp ... I have 80% cash right now. Waiting for a major drop, which is long over due.
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by sloaken 8y ago
IMHO the micro degrees, and MOOC courses in general, can help if you already have the needed requirements and use it to support extras listed as 'wants'. Of course if the list of NEEDED skills is more than 5, then they usually do
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by sloaken 8y ago
There appears to be an assumption that this is a linear rating list. Have you asked how the ratings were derived? Second, it appeared if your rating was based purely on your perception of the first week your score would be higher. As usual

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