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I have a gym in the office that comes as a perk. So 3 times a week I am doing weights with 2 mornings of cardio (usually a cross trainer and bike) then at the weekend just walking when I can. It gets you going in the morning that that last hour can be a killer some days.
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You are all wrong! It is a fact! Fact! that H1 visa holders are suppressing wages and steal jobs from Americans  Yours a L1 visa holder
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evol262 posted:I hear healthcare IT is even worse than finance, though. Maybe a Finance and Healthcare are bogged down in huge amounts of regulation so are a pain. Having done 3 acquisitions in the last 4 years it always seems that the name of the game is running both companies sets of systems together for as long as possible creating yet another layer of crap and once it looks like it is working get rid of all the staff from the company that was acquired. At least the last one was also on Salesforce so moving their CRM data over was easy.
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Bob Morales posted:Wow, people are still using Groupwise? Place I worked for over 10 years ago was big into moving them to Exchange. My company is still using Lotus Notes for HR.
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My job title contained Senior since I left University when I was 22 which shows how it is thrown about just like how Director is thrown about for anyone who would have been a manager years ago.
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CLAM DOWN posted:Surprise: Oracle is literal poo poo. Who knew?! Replace Oracle with any software vendor that also does it's own consultancy. Salesforce hosed my company in the arse hard with their "Professional Services". 3 years down the road and a good 25% of my time is spent fixing their crap and replacing the test classes they wrote that always return true just to get coverage above the contracted 90% number.
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Yeah start ups like to play the meritocracy card but what that really means is come make this idea work so we can sell it to google and make off into the sunset as billionaires while you get borged.
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I used to live in London and then Oxford after graduating University and then moved to Boston 2 years ago. When I did some comparison of my costs in the UK and then in the US it wasn't too far apart. In the UK you will pay more tax but that also includes what you would be paying the US for Health Insurance. Things Cheaper in the UK: Car/Home insurance Food Phone Internet Cable/Satellite TV Things Cheaper in the US: Petrol/Gas Utilities Housing (Boston is very expensive but in general the US is cheaper) Over all I would have around $300 less disposable income every month if I was still in the UK but then since I have lost 2 $200 tyres to pot holes in New England in the past 18 months it sort of evens out 
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Sep 4, 2014 15:28
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fluppet posted:Do you not mean Had one of those when I was like 9 or 10 and used to gently caress with the TVs at school. Teacher had no idea 
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meanieface posted:
5x5 weights Mon/Wed/Fri before work 60 minutes cardio Tue/Thur, get up and walk around when on conf calls and lunch and drink water not coffee/soda. Weekends try not to slob about too much.
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Conferences mainly. They will talk about their medium and long term road maps. Try to go to the ones with a general topic rather than those run by one vendor.
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EoRaptor posted:we just need to rank code auditing as a much more valuable part of our day to day expenses than it is now. It would be nice to get people to understand that I need to estimate for testing and some time to cover rework first. "Oh but it will work first time I am sure" no marketing/sales poo poo head, it won't, because you can't find 10 minutes to actually tell me what it is you want beyond some vague headline you can sell to your manager to get your bonus.
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Roargasm posted:Uptime is not the selling point of cloud service and I don't think that's the game you want to get into in your shop. In the absence of a backup line, your ISP is now a single point a failure. If you want redundancy, build two physical DCs. Even if the servers are crappy and had a 1% chance of exploding every day, the chance that DC1 AND DC2 would explode on the same day would be .01%. Same deal with network adapters on VM hosts - having a fallback adapter reduces the chance of simultaneous failure by a huge amount. When you're building an IT environment, identify points in your system that can fail and build redundancy. That sounds like it costs more than the bare minimum possible to make things work. I am afraid I am going to reject your capital request and instead spend the money on nicer conference rooms and business cards for directors and execs.
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Dark Helmut posted:I'm not sure what a "bellend" is but I'm fairly certain most of us were one at 21. It is the tip of your little man. Also when we were 21 we all thought we knew it all and were invincible. Some people never grow out of this and are usually the ones who deserve to be called "bellends".
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Left the house at 6:30, got to the office 9 miles away at 6:45 in time to get swole a the gym in the office. Clearly you need to move out to Metro West Boston 
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Che Delilas posted:
Sourcetree is ok, made up the same guys who do JIRA but there are times when you need to go back to the CLI to run some commands.
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My other half was offered a job a few weeks back and was getting to the salary... well hourly rate negotiation and she was concerned that if she pushed for the high end she would be seen as greedy. This is exactly what employers hope for. I told her to push and she got a decent increase over even the advertised because she had experience in the area due to her internships. Push for more money, the worst they can say is no.... and then take back their job offer.
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Oct 27, 2014 18:54
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I work for a company that produces an Anti Virus product and I have never heard of that. Which means it is probably better than what my company produces.
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Docjowles posted:I work for an image hosting company with a TOS banning certain content (mostly hardcore porn). The team that moderates content flagged as inappropriate... THEY are broken people. If you hear one of them laugh hysterically, or randomly exclaim "what the gently caress???", for the love of god, DO NOT look at their monitor. One of the products my company makes is a web and image filtering gateway so of course how do you collect URLs to filter and new images to add? You either look at the reports from customers and have to verify that it is indeed indecent and added or give them instructions on how to add it to their list (for example The Onion was on the default list for profanity for about 6 months until someone complained and it taken off) or go looking yourself on all the top humour sites on the internet! It is usually a job that is rotated around the labs staff and only those who are willing to do it. They are jaded shells of men.
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If you are getting $25k a year for helldesk work in say Boston you are getting screwed. If you are getting $25k a year in Bumblefuck Kentucky then you are probably ok.
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If you didn't have to fight your way through 15 years of undocumented bash scripts to make a usable system then you don't deserve to wear that medal soldier! I don't claim to be the greatest admin in the world but I have 4 years experience of running and developing an Oracle DB system on some old Sun boxes before porting it to PostgreSQL (converting Oracle PL to PostgreSQL PL is not fun) on some RH linux servers. We are all told to sell ourselves on our CVs and to put as many technologies and buzzwords as we think we can get away with because recruitment agents and HR people who don't have a clue about technology will look at the first and play buzzword bingo. This encourages people to create huge lists of stuff they have heard of or maybe looked at once because hey might help get your foot in the door. Of course then they come to the interview and you ask them about the specific things you are interested in which their CV said they had and yep they don't know anything so everyones time is wasted. What I am trying to say is tech recruitment is dumb and broken.
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We have a Box corporate account and the security guy pitches a fit about it whenever possible.
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AlternateAccount posted:Wait, what's their beef with Box? The guy is a bit paranoid and is convinced that the C level guys will upload stuff that should never leave our own machines like say drafts of annual profit reports which did end up on Box in an open to all employees folder.
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For a hell desk team lead? Not really. That is about $50k. My first job out of Uni 8 years ago was a "Senior" Dev and that started at £33k
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psydude posted:Being a general infrastructure linux sysadmin is awful in terms of daily grind and lack of people knowing or giving a gently caress about what you do. That is the same for any tech job where you are working with non technical people. They don't know, or care what you do just that you are overhead and must do as they say because. Example being Sales/Marketing asking for things which are "simple" and "quick" because hey they don't care about data leakage between resellers and distributors. So when you point out their "simple" and "quick" change is in fact a data security nightmare and the only way to get it to work is to complete throw away the tools standard UI and build a new one that might break every release from the vendor they just think you are lazy and/or stupid. Yes Marketing Drone #3428 I am the stupid one because I don't want our Resellers to steal each others business so they get pissed at us and we end up with no Resellers in an organisation that sells entirely through Resellers. There are times when I think about just jumping over into product engineering rather than IT but then it means dealing with BS politics between nerds which is worse imo.
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I used too before the current bunch I worked with found an Agile Development book somewhere and decided that telling me to develop everything in an Agile way means they tell me nothing and I have to guess what they want and when it isn't have to listen to their shrill ear splitting complaining that I didn't read their mind well enough. Why the business are pushing IT to develop one way or another is an entirely different conversation.
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Richard Noggin posted:For all of you budding server admins: when you're provisioning storage, for the love of Christ please don't carve out a 2TB volume when all you need is 30GB. If you need more space down the road, it's really easy to extend volumes in Windows (and probably Linux, but that's not my area) but quite the pain in the rear end to shrink them to a more manageable size after the fact. But storage is cheap 
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Misogynist posted:I think it's good for business units to have these conversations with each other, provided that the conversations are well-informed. Doing this is pretty much the sole function of any IT department that treats itself as a competitive advantage rather than a cost center. Hey, that process you have sucks! Maybe you should automate it! Let me show you how! Likewise, IT people tend to be pretty loving awful at managing and executing projects. Agreed, IT need to be involved and proactive. The problem is that when you are in an environment where everyone views you as a cost centre and is generally not open to IT feeding ideas on business process improvement because "You are just the IT guy" it makes it hard to work with them when you are being decreed the system will work like this without any feedback loop between IT and the business being in place. This is a cultural issue that comes all the way from the CEO who will issue his decrees and expect things to be done and then IT get pushed into trying to delivery something in the timeframe. At the moment we have 9 major projects running each of them allegedly vital and IT people are pulled between these on a near weekly basis depending on which project manager has cried the loudest in the last week. Timelines, scope and cost are dictated without any planning being done which means every project is late, over budget and buggy which leads to every project then needing a second project to fix the first which again is planned without any realistic timeline, cost or scope so it suffers the same fate and push back on the fact that all our projects are late, over budget and buggy is pushed aside. On top of this there is a revolving door of external consultancy companies that business units hire and don't say anything or have IT deal with before any contract has been sign and the first thing you know about them is when you get in Monday morning and see meeting invites for the whole week to have a workshop about a project you know nothing about. Misogynist posted:Agile can be great if people are bought in. It sounds like you aren't, because you want big design up front instead of to work with the users to figure out what they actually want. (This is an assumption on my part, because you wouldn't have to guess if you would be a human and ask questions instead.) Read Jeff Patton's User Story Mapping book for a good perspective on how to do this. Agile is fine if the business want to give very top level requirements but then they can't complain to the CTO and Director of IT when they get something at the end of the first few sprints demo'd to them that isn't the perfect system they envisioned. The people I work with are not invested enough into Agile to understand yes you get stuff quicker but it might not be what you wanted straight away. Also the business units do not talk to each other. For example Marketing and Sales last year both paid external companies to do data clean up in our CRM systems. When I pointed out to each other that they were both paying for the same thing and maybe they should talk to each other the response was very much it was their budget and they will spend on what they like. So yes considering the people I have to work with I want more details up front so I don't have to have those meetings with my boss and his boss about why this latest project didn't give Business Unit X what they wanted straight away and why is it late and why did you go over budget. User Story Mapping and all that fun stuff is great when you have business units who want to work with you rather than business units who want to shoot you a two line email of what they wanted yesterday and for 10 quid.
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Coredump posted:Microsoft wants me to install something called fiddler2 to capture some trace logs. Any of you heard of fiddler2 before? Is it a widely used thing that I just don't know about? Yes, it is a network traffic analyser and a useful tool. Pretty widely used in network and web design troubleshooting. Meanwhile... IT has finally broken me and I am on my way out. Long story short last November I left somewhere I had worked at for over 5 years for a number of reasons that always come up when you have worked in one place for a while and a couple that were just lovely management that took me for granted. Through someone I used to work with I got talking to some people at where I work now and was sold on the job I eventually took with them and have been working there for the last 6 months. However during that time it turns out the job I was sold was all make believe because they wanted me in the door for a couple of specific skills I have that are hard to find. This means that after I cleared up their backlog of stuff for that system and finished a bunch of half done projects I was sitting around with them trying to find things for me to do as they expected their backlog to take years to clear not a couple of months. So I have been pushed into doing some project management work that I despise because I hate having to be on the hook for other peoples bullshit and now it turns out one of the things that I implemented for them to help with release quality and SOX auditing has IT and Business people complaining since they cannot make changes to production systems on the fly anymore which was one of the main points of implementing a source control/continuous integration system to begin with. The new CIO who started after me is the most Dilbert of C level people you can imagine with a side of cronyism to go with it. She has basically decreed that my work is impeding the business and instead is bring in someone from her previous job to redo it. Now what I have implemented is pretty much exactly what anyone that uses source control and continuous integration for Salesforce will be using as there are not many choices with the issues with development speed being down to the IT staff being very poor technically and the business not being able to plan for more than 2 days ahead. No matter what you implement there will be overhead but of course time to hire in someone else who will probably change from Bitbucket and Bamboo to GitHub and CumulonusCI and call it a day. So I was sold a job that doesn't exist, now doing work I hate doing, being undermined by the CIO so she can get her friends jobs and the final nail being that I have 3 different reporting managers in the 6 months and between them I can count the conversations I have had on one hand as I work remotely. I am done with just configuring other peoples work for another group of people who don't know what they want for a third group who just want to coast through life doing the bare minimum. I am done with working with technical people who are just really bad and when you try to help them improve get all defensive, I am done with managers who know nothing about how anything works but make decisions on costs, timelines and staffing without talking to those who do know first and finally I am done working in huge companies where I have to deal with the politics and bullshit. In two weeks I start at a small company of 22 people that was spun out from a large university in Boston developing an application for Salesforce to manage student study plans and communication between students and lecturers as the lead Developer/Architect. I finally get to make something instead of just being the code janitor for other peoples crap, I get to institute what passes as code complete and the processes for smooth and stable releases. This is what I wanted to do from when I was 9 years old hammering away on a C64 but due to circumstances ended up in IT roles for over a decade (you don't turn down a job straight out of University making 10k more than everyone who graduated with you). It is a huge change and yeah there is some anxiety about a lot of factors but I needed a change because my current work situation was making me unhappy.
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