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"Computer games don't affect kids; I mean if Pac-Man affected us as kids, we'd all be running around in darkened rooms, munching magic pills and listening to repetitive electronic music." -- Marcus Brigstocke, British Comedian
As someone with an MBA, I agree. Some of the classes were total fluff and what I refer to as "refund classes". Some of us in my cohort still joke about them! The best classes by far were those taught from active professionals in the industry, where we worked on real exercises, and not those cooked-up case studies from Ivey, Harvard and Darden. Thankfully there were enough of them to make it worthwhile. It was a nice journey and I learned a lot, but yeah I wouldn't spend $250K at some overrated business school.
"Computer games don't affect kids; I mean if Pac-Man affected us as kids, we'd all be running around in darkened rooms, munching magic pills and listening to repetitive electronic music." -- Marcus Brigstocke, British Comedian
I would talk with a CPA about this. I did 1099 and although it's not hard sending in your estimated taxes every quarter, it's a bit tricky. You need to make sure that you're sending in the right amount or you will face a penalty. If things change from the previous year then you will need to make some adjustments. I got screwed pretty bad because my wife made more bonuses so we ended up being a little short. Not terrible but instead of a potential refund we owed a small amount. Also consider the cost of health insurance. That's a real killer, and now that I have a FT job with benefits I'm saving over $9K USD a year on that alone.
"Computer games don't affect kids; I mean if Pac-Man affected us as kids, we'd all be running around in darkened rooms, munching magic pills and listening to repetitive electronic music." -- Marcus Brigstocke, British Comedian
Thanks. I was wondering.
"Computer games don't affect kids; I mean if Pac-Man affected us as kids, we'd all be running around in darkened rooms, munching magic pills and listening to repetitive electronic music." -- Marcus Brigstocke, British Comedian
Thanks for the warning. One recent update killed my Intel compiler so it wouldn't run. I ended up uninstalling it. So much for updates. I guess they fired their QA department and we're the testers instead. Nice going!
"Computer games don't affect kids; I mean if Pac-Man affected us as kids, we'd all be running around in darkened rooms, munching magic pills and listening to repetitive electronic music." -- Marcus Brigstocke, British Comedian
They screwed up GotDotNet back in the day, which was another coding site. I really hope they don't screw up GitHub but I'm holding my breath.
"Computer games don't affect kids; I mean if Pac-Man affected us as kids, we'd all be running around in darkened rooms, munching magic pills and listening to repetitive electronic music." -- Marcus Brigstocke, British Comedian
You're right - you have to write the code the way they want it written. Codility and other online coding testing sites are proof that they're lazy and don't know how to hire engineers. I've seen many gross mistakes in problems and fail to see what value it really provides outside of stealing money from HR. Seriously though - I just find a topic or two on their resume and drill down into it. I ask to provide a diagram of the system, go into design issues, problems they ran into, how they were resolved, etc. It's more effective and much harder to fake.
"Computer games don't affect kids; I mean if Pac-Man affected us as kids, we'd all be running around in darkened rooms, munching magic pills and listening to repetitive electronic music." -- Marcus Brigstocke, British Comedian
I was thinking the same thing - given how smug this guy is. Even *I* can do this and I suck at web development.
"Computer games don't affect kids; I mean if Pac-Man affected us as kids, we'd all be running around in darkened rooms, munching magic pills and listening to repetitive electronic music." -- Marcus Brigstocke, British Comedian
I've gone through this before, although not after 6 interviews. The most I've had is 3, including phone screen. In any case it's a bad reflection on the company. I just add them to my shitlist of employers and never apply there again.
"Computer games don't affect kids; I mean if Pac-Man affected us as kids, we'd all be running around in darkened rooms, munching magic pills and listening to repetitive electronic music." -- Marcus Brigstocke, British Comedian
I used to use multiple identical hard drives and did a complete image of the drive to a couple of them. Worked well too - no need to spend hours uploading files and everything was local.
"Computer games don't affect kids; I mean if Pac-Man affected us as kids, we'd all be running around in darkened rooms, munching magic pills and listening to repetitive electronic music." -- Marcus Brigstocke, British Comedian
I've been there - all too often it's "get this thing out the door" instead of taking the time to architect it. Then they wonder why it takes so long to implement changes. :doh:
"Computer games don't affect kids; I mean if Pac-Man affected us as kids, we'd all be running around in darkened rooms, munching magic pills and listening to repetitive electronic music." -- Marcus Brigstocke, British Comedian
I've worked in medical devices for the past 10 years. The longest code review we ever did was a day, and that included checking out the code and performing a full regression test with the physical devices. Small checkins are good, large checkins are bad. Merging can be challenging enough with a small checkin, depending on what's being changed. Then add a two week time frame and that's a huge disaster waiting to happen. Two weeks? Time to bring this up with the manager or whoever is in charge. That's ridiculous. :doh:
"Computer games don't affect kids; I mean if Pac-Man affected us as kids, we'd all be running around in darkened rooms, munching magic pills and listening to repetitive electronic music." -- Marcus Brigstocke, British Comedian
Macrium Reflect - never had a problem with it, used for many years. It just works.
"Computer games don't affect kids; I mean if Pac-Man affected us as kids, we'd all be running around in darkened rooms, munching magic pills and listening to repetitive electronic music." -- Marcus Brigstocke, British Comedian
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Or some guy comes along and says, "I know Python and Django. I could do the whole thing in a week."
2 years later.... Laugh | :laugh:
" Yup - been there, suffered through that. X| Perfectly describes a couple of projects I worked on where some noob engineer comes by with the latest toy language/framework/whatever and promises the world to management, who naturally buy into it. :doh: I'll stick with what works, then add new stuff if it helps.
"Computer games don't affect kids; I mean if Pac-Man affected us as kids, we'd all be running around in darkened rooms, munching magic pills and listening to repetitive electronic music." -- Marcus Brigstocke, British Comedian
There's no such thing as a "junior" anymore. All of the NCGs are working on Python, Javascript and other stuff. C# and .NET in general doesn't exist to them.
"Computer games don't affect kids; I mean if Pac-Man affected us as kids, we'd all be running around in darkened rooms, munching magic pills and listening to repetitive electronic music." -- Marcus Brigstocke, British Comedian
This is why I ran away from web development years ago and never looked back. Mind you that was back in the Web 1.0 era, but it really sucked back then because the development tools were all half-baked, no APIs wanted to talk to each other without rolling your own "translators", and of course the Browser Wars. My sympathy goes out to web developers.
"Computer games don't affect kids; I mean if Pac-Man affected us as kids, we'd all be running around in darkened rooms, munching magic pills and listening to repetitive electronic music." -- Marcus Brigstocke, British Comedian
I work in medical devices and we're required to keep a list of software that we use. We spell out which libraries, version number and download link in case of an audit.
"Computer games don't affect kids; I mean if Pac-Man affected us as kids, we'd all be running around in darkened rooms, munching magic pills and listening to repetitive electronic music." -- Marcus Brigstocke, British Comedian
I'm with you - if I needed the cash ($25/hour is a pittance for any engineering work) then yes, I would go for it. I could see a small weekend-long project but 3-8 weeks? That's crazy. I could easily see potential conflicts with your existing job, let along IP issues. I would rather spend that time working on a side project and use that to get interviews. Although that would be "free" I would at least have a portfolio to show off as opposed to something that would be effectively owned by them and probably under some sort of NDA.
"Computer games don't affect kids; I mean if Pac-Man affected us as kids, we'd all be running around in darkened rooms, munching magic pills and listening to repetitive electronic music." -- Marcus Brigstocke, British Comedian
The funny thing about agile certifications is that although my CSM certification expired in 2013 (and is CLEARLY listed on my resume), I get phone calls from recruiters asking for a certified CSM. Certifications are pretty much useless with exceptions in security and some IT shops. Otherwise they're pretty much only useful as low grade toilet paper.
"Computer games don't affect kids; I mean if Pac-Man affected us as kids, we'd all be running around in darkened rooms, munching magic pills and listening to repetitive electronic music." -- Marcus Brigstocke, British Comedian
In my experience, I've found that the wrong tech stack occurs more frequently than it should. The main problem points to non-technical managers (or washed-up engineers) who insist on using some outdated piece of s*** framework, stack or tool that cripples future functionality.
"Computer games don't affect kids; I mean if Pac-Man affected us as kids, we'd all be running around in darkened rooms, munching magic pills and listening to repetitive electronic music." -- Marcus Brigstocke, British Comedian