I have been hearing so many friends and relatives who are Trump supporters complain “If Trump doesn’t get in this time ammo prices are going to skyrocket!” Well, he’s not going to actually do anything to fix the problem. Yes, he will prove he is not a Republican by stopping the shipment of arms and ammo to Ukraine. No way he can stop sending it to Israel though. So, at best, it will mask the … The Real Reason Ammo Prices Are So HighRead more
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The Two Page Myth
I get so pissed off with this Two page Myth that it is finally time to empty my colon. When an HR professional tells you a resume can only span two facing pages you can be certain of the following: Lazy During my twenties I dated multiple technical recruiters. As one of them who left recruiting to become a mortgage broker pre-Jamie-Dimon-economy-tanking-mortgage-fraud It’s the second best job for a single girl. You meet them fact … The Two Page MythRead more
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Why IT Consultants Won’t Work in Chicago
During the 1980s and into the mid-1990s there were IT consultants who would take corporate housing, or some other dwelling type in the Naperville area and schlep into Chicago on the train. Many ended up buying homes and permanently relocating. It wasn’t just Naperville, but any Chicago suburb which had express train service. Billing rates “in the city” were about $10/hr higher. People ignored the fact they were wasting 45 minutes of their life each … Why IT Consultants Won’t Work in ChicagoRead more
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CrowdStrike – Undeniable Proof – Agile Must Be Banned Globally
By now most of you have heard of the Great CrowdStrike Outage of 2024. Actually using the year in the name is probably making too broad of an assumption that there will be only one. At least $10 billion in worldwide financial damage all due to Agile. This myth that a cesspit of User Stories, TDD, and CI/CD with daily stand-ups is a valid software development methodology, it’s not. We need global laws banning the … CrowdStrike – Undeniable Proof – Agile Must Be Banned GloballyRead more
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Time for Class Action to Block Avast Settlement
For those who don’t know, Avast got caught selling your data despite all of their claims to “privacy.” They now have a “settlement” with the FTC where they pay a token fine and agreed to “strict oversight.” We all know just how well “strict oversight” worked for Boeing. Manufacturing planes under “strict oversight” of the FAA and they still fell out of the sky. No Settlement Without Medium Security Prison Time for Management is Acceptable … Time for Class Action to Block Avast SettlementRead more