There are only 5 days left for President Trump to fulfill a campaign promise. In truth, the easiest promise to fulfill given all of the promises and outlandish statements made during the campaign. End the visa worker abuse in this country which has decimated high paying jobs for college educated workers. Ordinarily I don’t pay much attention to the writings of Michelle Malkin. She seems in large part to be a creature born without a … Only 5 Days Left to Fulfill a PromiseRead more
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Move Quickly and Turn Worthless Shit Into Production
We’ve all heard the phrase attributed to FaceBook “Move quickly and break things.” Some people have turned it into a totally fraudulent development methodology called Agile. Today I got to have a lovely exchange with what could charitably be called “offshore support” from Dice.com. I had come across a posting of interest and wanted to identify all of the other pimps hawking the same contract. Why? Because, even though the pimp flagged the contract as … Move Quickly and Turn Worthless Shit Into ProductionRead more
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Mounting a Second Internal Drive in Linux
The other day I put a 250GB SSD in the current desktop unit and made it the primary. I wiped the (now) secondary 1TB hard drive and left it be until I had time to mess with it. Yesterday I finally finished the much needed update of The Minimum You Need to Know Web site so I played with getting the second drive to auto mount just a bit. In theory we shouldn’t need to … Mounting a Second Internal Drive in LinuxRead more
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Sometimes SPAM is Entertaining
I’m sure this link will disappear shortly, but I received an email with it. They claim this is a “Business Analyst” role. Here’s a quote from the link though: This roles is starting off as a 6 month contract. This role is for 10 hours per week at a starting rate of $25.00/hr. That is sooooo far below market rate it would be laughable if they weren’t serious about it. Can you say “illegal aliens … Sometimes SPAM is EntertainingRead more
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Roman Numeral Calculator
If you work long enough in IT you will start to really get tired of all the cutesy ways companies try to “select” developers/consultants. Some of the worst ones send people to take on-line tests from commercial sites at the candidates own expense. I don’t see that much on reqs anymore. Why? Because only the most desperate of bottom feeders would do it. In truth the candidates were a good match because only a bottom … Roman Numeral CalculatorRead more