screwturner68

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by screwturner68 2y ago
I don't want to live anywhere where I can see my neighbor. These people are choosing this lifestyle. These same people are a massive tax on society because we have to subsidize this lifestyle because it's very expensive to provi
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by screwturner68 3y ago
I know people with English degrees in IT and Music degrees teaching school, why would anyone consider this wrong or a waste?
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by screwturner68 3y ago
My parents were college professors, English teachers, and two things they kept pounding into my head all my life was to one, learn to write a sentence and two, college is not there to teach you a trade it's there to expand your mind.
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by screwturner68 3y ago
Yep, I moved from Dev to ops many years ago simply because I wanted to talk to someone..anyone. I've been in consulting for the last 20 years and I talk to customers good or bad almost every day and I do get a kick out of it when they
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by screwturner68 3y ago
you get what you pay for, these companies have been racing to the bottom for years, trying to save that extra penny because IT is considered a cost center and always has been. In addition moving to the cloud is just a way to shrug off resp
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by screwturner68 3y ago
I have pretty much the same story, started with a Vic20 (without storage), got the 4K expansion cartridge when my programs stated to exceed the builtin 3.5k, moved on to the Apple 2 and the Commodore 64 and then on to PCs. Mostly learning
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by screwturner68 3y ago
One of the best classes I took in college was a "learn how to study class", I never had to study before college so I was woefully unprepared for engineering school. Probably the best thing I learned in the class was the Cornell N
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by screwturner68 3y ago
I use them in my home lab. The company is too cheap to provide me with a real lab but $1000, ebay and some creativity I can pretty much do whatever I need to do on my own.
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by screwturner68 3y ago
They used to give whoever was on call for the week $200, we had a guy saving up for his wedding so he offered to be on-call for anyone who didn't want to be on call. It was a good deal for him and everybody was happy. It's amazi
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by screwturner68 3y ago
before my promotion it was 0-3% and now it's 0-10%, after a decade of 2% (or less) bonuses I almost choked last year when I got 10%. This year I'd be thrilled with 5%.
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by screwturner68 3y ago
I actually used to use that line with I'd talk to some of our vendors support people. They'd start dragging that feet, wanting to get rid of me and I'd say, "you do know what project this is right...." and then I&#
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by screwturner68 3y ago
Why? It shouldn't take two months and multiple interviews to hire a quality employee. I've been hired multiple times by large companies tech and otherwise during my first interview. They liked my resume, they liked my experienc
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by screwturner68 3y ago
It sounds like you really don't need to fill the position, is that true? I know when I hire it's because I need someone yesterday not in the next year. The multiple interviews and hoops that applicants have to jump through are a
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by screwturner68 3y ago
I worked in the "rescue team" for a couple of years and the politics was one of the reasons I left, you never knew when the supreme court would stick their nose in and you'd be out of a job. I used to describe that job as ha
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by screwturner68 3y ago
I was on the market place rescue team, keep throwing money at a problem and it will go away.
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by screwturner68 3y ago
Most recruiters don't know the difference between C-shell and a seashell, why would you expect them to understand a topic most IT people can't fully grasp?
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by screwturner68 3y ago
I have no issue with my Indian coworkers but my company has all but said they are trying to replace me with off shore workers. I do a lot of quotes for services and while the off shore guys are much cheaper they pad the crap out of their b
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by screwturner68 3y ago
That's where a flat rate comes in, it's $1000 if it takes an hour or a week. They are buying your knowledge as much as they are buying your time. I used to stand up equipment that my company charged ~$6000 for and I could do the
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by screwturner68 3y ago
I'm not Faang but I am OG SV and the problem with a lot of these large, very flat companies is that once you reach a certain level you are stuck and it really takes an ask of god to get a promotion. That said we're paid well and
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by screwturner68 3y ago
There are benefits to charging hourly, if the customer doesn't want to listen, drags their feel or are simply indecisive who cares you just bill another hour, it doesn't matter if the project takes 6 weeks or 6 years as long as th
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by screwturner68 3y ago
yep.sticky e key...and my typing leaves something to be desired.
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by screwturner68 3y ago
Don't date that cute blond from the bar, she's crazy. Let people help you.
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by screwturner68 3y ago
I had the same title for 20 year Technical Consultant 3 and then I made the massive jump to TC4, every idiot that can log into Azure is now a Senior Sysadmin and if they can fumble their way through a Linux install they are the IT director
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by screwturner68 3y ago
I think you are on to something. When I started coding in 1980 you really had to figure things out and what you coded was your code, you wrote every bit of it. Why, because we didn't have Stackoverflow, Github or Google to help us ou
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by screwturner68 3y ago
Sailboats use sea water in their toilets all the time but using it would require two systems, one fresh and another brackish. Very doable but more expensive. I believe they've also use grey water for toilets and plants but again it r
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by screwturner68 3y ago
They were the "cool kid" on the block but every kid grows up, becomes an adult and is no longer cool. Th same can be said about Tesla, their roadster was without a doubt a cool looking car and the fact that it was electric made i
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by screwturner68 3y ago
Really? I don't think due process and law enforcement have anything to do with one another. Law enforcement arrests people on made up laws all the time just because they are doing something the law enforcement officer doesn't l
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by screwturner68 3y ago
Nothing new here. I remember when the Cubs stopped selling tickets via a line wrapped around Wrigley to a wristband "to cut down on scalpers". I lucked out and ended up 57th in line. You could only buy 4 tickets per game so in
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by screwturner68 3y ago
who knows maybe in Bloombergs old age he's trying to grow a soul. He's realizing that he can't take it with him and he's been a shit steward while he's been on earth, maybe he's trying o to correct the error o
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by screwturner68 3y ago
I live in a large city, I drive a small car and I only drive about 3000 miles per year. Right now gas is ~$5.35/g at the station down the street and it's ~0.18/KW. It takes 114KW to "fill" a Tesla S, so ~$20.50.

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