Yes, telling any employer about any health condition is a very bad idea. Don't listen to the inevitable managers who will post here and on other boards telling you otherwise.
I think every non-manager employee these days should be "independent." Some may not have noticed, but tech company managers have gone insane and turned their ego up to 11 echoing the current political climate. Anyone who is a famous dev or even a grunt that shows they have basic competency is going to be an immediate management target.
Dependency fixing is nothing compared to dealing with all the people you typically find in a software shop, IT, managers, pseudo-developers like SRE, infosec, or devops. Those people are actively blocking app developers in order to extract a paycheck, and sometimes it feels like the app developer and product manager are the only people actually interested in making money.
Management is very corrupt at Amazon. Lets just say the teams tasked with catching theft are strongly pointed to the lowest level employees like dock workers, pickers, and stowers. Lets also just say the managers are the ones shoving product over the fence.
I started doing similar changes because software became a shitshow. Corporate software shops are just a bunch of IT people trying to get their friend's products in use in the company for kickbacks. So what you have are multiple IT teams with more power than developers trying to tell everyone which tools they MUST use. Developers at the last place I worked had no access to production, could not deploy code at all, could not test their own code, could not even push code, could not see other team's code, etc, etc. But, the company had a devops team, a team called "app ops", a "SRE" team, an IT team, an "infra" team, and a security team that strangely was dictating which tools were used to deploy code. NONE of these teams did anything remotely close to what their team name did. They would do visibility projects which, oddly, sometimes involved developing software but not the kind that generates revenue. "dev ops" would deploy software to production, if they had time between their projects. "app ops" was supposed to handle support incidents, if they had time between their projects, etc...
It is useless to try to build software in this environment. It is far easier to build a hunk of wood and say, "here you fucking go, take it or leave it" than to deal with dozens and dozens of people trying to extract money from the development process while suffocating the company.
Actually that's not true. Experience does matter. In one particular class I took we implemented a simple marching cubes implementation, or rather I did because the rest of the class could not complete it. I had about 8 years of experience in graphics type programming at that point.
People stupidly think programming is applying the most common patterns to the most popular frameworks. That is one type of programming inexperienced young people do. More typically it requires some strong domain knowledge. For instance one particular system I worked on was mostly written by one person who obviously had a lot of experience in the field. I think the younger programmers complained for many many years about the implementation, but none of them could have written it. This person had to ignore everyone else, who he knew were complaining without any experience to back it up, to get it done.
Call your states bar association for a referral. Probably no one will want to help you unless it is criminal defense, in which case you have no choice except pay what they want. In civil stuff no one will help you unless it is open and shut payout for six figures. Probably better and cheaper to just get a law degree if you frequently need a lawyer.
Not an insider but isn't it obvious? Too expensive and it can only crash once. Regular wind turbines are probably cheaper and failsafe. Should have pivoted but it is a make it work at all costs kind of vanity project. Once you go big pivoting is not an option. Investors don't want to hear that. They just want a delivery date.
I was on one of these multi-billion boondoggle projects. Basically people keep it going even though it is not viable. Telltale sign is the project is spun off or 'cut loose' to die.
The product can be totally amazing though and parts of it could be a viable company on its own. Maybe these projects should be structured in a way that each component is a business entity.
I've had a cop try to boost charges from non-injury careless driving to injury careless driving. The ticket had a check-box for "injury" on it. The cop underlined it instead of checking the box when the other driver was unharmed. If confronted she would just say she meant to strike through. If I did nothing and pleaded no-contest I would be getting myself into a massive injury lawsuit. Sometimes incompetence is not incompetence.
Because capital is free right now just not to people and companies who don't already have a lot of it. Fed is spraying cash all over the country clubs and gated communities. Where are they going to put it? Highly visible stocks of large companies.
Companies do not willing hire managers, especially executive level. There is always a reason. For instance, they were hired from a competitor and had information, could bring over employees, etc. Other times it is personal relationships. Notice I say relationship not friendship. Many companies are doing unethical or illegal things and are not going to hire someone they think is a boy scout narc into their ranks. Many are doing criminal businesses on the side. You think I am joking or exaggerating, but this is sadly the reality. It's nice to pretend stuff doesn't go on but it does. The good thing is that you can start your own business, be the boss, and run an ethical ship.
Exactly. If I were to ask my F&F for money they would ask me if I'm in trouble, what's wrong, and if I can pay this month's rent. All in who you know whether your business launches or not.
I don't live rural yet, but I would just drive to the grocery. I would say most people living rural live close to a highway. If it is interstate you will be going 85 MPH, so even if the nearest grocery is 50 miles away it is 30 minutes away. I would probably buy $200-300 of groceries at a time. Rural places are usually going to have a large freezer, backup generator, fuel supply. Rural areas are probably not going to have many restaurants, but if you are in a resort/vacation area such as around a national park like Yellowstone there are going to be more restaurants. People I have known had no problem with online deliveries if they are within a certain range of a town, say 10 miles. I will probably deliver to an Amazon locker or UPS store and pick whatever it is up there.
I moved to suburbs in a mountain state. In a few years may move to a rural area if gigabit is available.
Most people have ZERO idea what this country is, how vast and unpopulated it is. You can have a mountain to yourself in many areas. The west is essentially empty. You can have 360 mountain views in a beautiful agricultural valley. You can live on a uninhabited part of a lake or river. You can live in an area that looks like a national park. Just need stable power, water, and internet which is/will be easy with solar and sat internet.
This is very common and just because it doesn't match your use case doesn't mean some businesses don't need a hot fix "right now." If you work in 24/7 ecommerce and your site is producing $60k per hour and there is a network failure that breaks something you need a hot fix right now, otherwise your 3 hour code review, build, q/a, deploy pipeline will cost the company $180,000.
Amazon's products are identified by a key made of marketplace and ASIN, so that's strange. Amazons "focus on the customer" principle turned out to be sham as they are acutely focused on their competitors, whether Quidsi, Walmart, or Amazon sellers.
I read something about naval engagements with soviet ships. The US ships were trying to find something underwater before the soviets did while at the same time not alerting the soviet ships as to the location of what they were trying to find. It became clear they were both looking for one of these film canisters that maybe they weren't able to retrieve in mid-air. People today can't imagine the stakes during the cold war.
Tech human resources, legal, and recruiting are overwhelmingly white women, to wit no one cares. Truck drivers are 94% men, no one complains about that. The business and political community is hyperfocused on software engineering jobs for two reasons. Corporations want political support for H1-B. And, in some cases, STEM workers have high importance in influencing the political world as we saw with Facebook in the 2016 elections. Therefore, the political world is hyper-focused on those specific jobs to hire people that they think are sympathetic to their political parties, usually along race and gender lines.
I don't have access to classified military secrets, but you don't think they would build a vehicle that could return 15 tons of payload to earth to retrieve US satellites? US could just build and launch a new satellite easier and cheaper than bring one down to fix only to launch it again.
Obviously there is the movie about Salyut 7 that depicts the shuttle trying to capture the station. Salyut 3 had a machine gun attached to it.