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Seems dickish toward the company you work at for 4 months though.

Were your offices by that famous Gaol? I thought it was interesting seeing a mix of the old and new so close together.

It's like having a discussion with a wall. Have a nice day :-)

Maybe, we tend to put up with less nonsense though. However, that's typically beneficial to business as well. The only software engineers I've ever worked with that actually consider the costs are those that have either owned their own companies (startups/etc) or are older (and know the trade offs from decades of dealing with them).

Well now you and my wife can agree on that. So I've got two people in my corner!

I'm actually a mediocre software engineer. Making an accounting system do XYZ for the 4000th time isn't interesting anymore. Doing it in Angular with all the new whizbang whistles and shit is more annoying than fun.

I'm looking at a career switch or something different. I can't keep creating the same nonsense over and over and watch IT run by people that largely wouldn't be good as managers of a McDonald's much less an entire organization's IT department.

The first way to see if a company actually understands the importance of IT is to see whether they have a CIO or a Director of IT / VP Engineering / Other less than CIO role. If they can't even commit a C role, what do you think their thoughts are on IT?

</rant former IT Director> :-)

I was going to say you're late to ICQ if you found it in the late 90s, but then I realized I'm still using my yahoo mail account and have no room talk ;-)

When I first used ICQ in 1996 (a buddy introduced it to me) I couldn't figure out who'd be in front of their computer that often. Plus the 90s was still largely on dial-up as well.

How is this a dickish thing to say about white men. I am a white man. Having worked with 1 woman in 15 years in Oklahoma & Texas in development I worked with roughly 60/40 (men to women) developer teams in the Bay Area. Also the broad array of cultures and experiences brings different opinions to the table as well.

It wasn't intended as a slant against white men, it was more a happy dividend that I didn't realize I was missing (diversity). SF is rather diverse, but in IT competency still matters far more than gender, race, etc.

So charge for it. I don't see what the big deal is.

I've built a good amount of software. I never did any of it for free, although it's why I've never came up with anything like Facebook, etc. I could never figure out how the 'magic' of making money off ads worked. Google's makes sense, pr0n websites to an extent. Everything else is largely not worth it or fighting in a world where everyone else gives it away for free (news, etc.).

Never heard of FOSS & GNU I take it? What a bunch of chumps, right? Linux, what a scam.

I'd say JavaScript instead of a strongly typed client-side interpreter. Or maybe the ability to execute binary blobs that's cross browser compatible (similar to Flash, yeah I know, ActiveScript is essentially JS, or ActiveX) but sand-boxed fully and is open source to be integrated across browsers vs independent development.

I ask them to give me a full design document with their coding style guide. Since it's an 'easy test', this is my 'easy test' to check their procedures.

They should already have a coding document in place and they can use their boilerplate document to quickly whip up a design doc. Right??!!?

I'm a C, I hire A++ and steal all the credit!

Any interview I've ever had where HR is involved is somewhere I would never work.

Last time this happened I was informed that Russian and Indian are races. Talking about my coworkers by their country of origin (I was saying how refreshing it was to work with a broad array of people in SF vs what I normally work with [white male] in Oklahoma.)

Russian is a race. Seriously.

HR employees are worthless in my experience (~35 years in the labor force).

I've had this happen multiple times. Why would you hire your own replacement? (This is how they think.)

When they have someone hiring not based on what's best for the company but what's best for their own career goals, you know you're going to have issues.

Welcome to the world of tailoring yourself for the job. I'm in my 40s, so it gets worse. Can't wait until I'm over 50!

I gave up caffeine for 2 years. Got tired of drinking just water, beer or milk. Sodas and coffee w/milk sugar are too tasty.

All I did to quit was pop advil for a few days. Quitting caffeine wasn't remotely difficult physically. I used to drink 3-4 liters of soda a day, so not some small amount. I quit because I was worried about diabetes even though I was a healthy weight (as per my doctor's instructions).

Depends on how much capital you have and how paranoid you are about failure. So, yes.

Mame is fantastic for this reason. Although, I'm not sure how I played a lot of those games, they're much more difficult than I remember. I guess when you had only $5 in quarters you had to make them last. Getting a $20 for games at the big arcade or Chuck E Cheese/Crystals as a kid was like winning the lottery.

I just threw up a little in my mouth at the thought. Probably still tastes better than the bill brew you're suggesting :-)

It's graded vesting, I've always seen it at 5 years (20%/year). It seems they do 20% after the first year then 1/48th afterward monthly (which is nice).

Legally they can do up to 6 years.

I assume you live paycheck to paycheck on an income that's probably 2-3x the median income for your location?

Lol, I've seen this once in a lifetime fluke 5 times now and I was only born in 1973.

In financial planning it's called vulture money.

I've seen so many small business owners ripped off by their business managers or partners due to simple ignorance of accounting that it really should be a required course.

My father is an architect and home builder. After building his first two homes after college he made almost nothing. He went back to night school and took financial accounting, real estate/broker courses and sales courses. He's more a business man than an architect.

179 is the best thing in the history of tax law IMO. :-)

Nolo books are really good in my opinion.

I got a degree in Finance so I'd know what to do if I ever made money :-)

Looking back it seemed overkill, but maybe it wasn't. S-Corp has it's disadvantages as well (essentially requiring a salary, etc) and can't do things a C-Corp can (plus you have to wait for it to get accepted, which depending on when you start and file, can screw a year's returns up). I've had all 3. LLC is by far the easiest and probably the right choice 95% of the time IMO.

All the musician's online sites do this. It's price anchoring, just like at JCPenney, etc.

They key is to save madly and prepare for the downturns. One of my friends in SF bought his house in 2011 for 500k. The comps in the area 5 years later are 1.2-1.4m

He was prepared (waited 10 years).

You can do it, you just have to look at the past as a guide and when opportunities arise, strike. Also don't be afraid of leverage. Good luck :-)

Or you can just message them with your email and ask for their contact info.

I did this a few years ago. Have a nice list. Never email any of them :-/

Wonder how this works in relation to the earthquakes we're getting here in Oklahoma due to injection wells.

I have copies of Adobe CS for Mac and PC. I always install the cracked versions so I don't have to mess with uninstalling (deregistering) when I wipe my systems.

Making Oxycontin harder to get is why. Also people trying to get clean, then going back to doing their "old" dose.

Lots of money in law enforcement, prisons, etc.

Just like getting simple tax code, lots of accountants/lawyers, etc.