I don't know how I have not gone completely crazy programming for about 20 years now...
thank god for bicycles... great mental release..
thank god for bicycles... great mental release..
I hear ya man! Can't wait to get away from the keyboard and take it out on the trails tonight!I don't know how I have not gone completely crazy programming for about 20 years now...
thank god for bicycles... great mental release..
They're not creating EAV data "structures" are they??I too spend a lot of time in front of a computer in the IT realm - SQL Server related primarily. I work for a pretty great company and I enjoy a relatively flexible and reasonable schedule compared to a lot of people I know in the field. That being said, there are always ups and downs.
My biggest gripe being a data guy is very little consideration of data or the storage of it. I've been doing this for 18 years now and today's development tools make it so easy to throw really bad database models together. This works out great for devs who have project managers breathing down their neck to deliver, not so much for me when I get tasked with figuring out why the application is slow and doesn't scale. Seems like data guys (at least in my organization) are on the tail end of things when they should be involved earlier. But of course that would slow down application development so... yeah it goes round and round.
I used to work at John Deere so I'm all too familiar with the H-1B's. My team was brought in to clean up their mess.After 29 years in I.T. - programming and systems admin - I am SO thankful not to be in the field anymore. I made more $ in the 1990's than I would now. The H-1B's have taken over the market and salaries continue to flat line. I was told by a hiring mgr that the ONLY reason he posted jobs is that is was a legal requirement and he had NO intention of hiring any U.S. programmers for the two jobs he had open. He also told me that he would deny ANY word of this conversation if I bought it up to anyone outside of his company. Nice huh ?
On a more positive note I can't tell you how many times over that 29 year span that my mountain bike had literally been my sanity savior ! :thumbsup:
For you guys out there still programming hang in there. Hopefully one of these days the flood of cheap indian labor will be shut off and salaries will actually go up.
Sounds like they are trying out the Microsoft business model in an effort to halt the collapse in earnings! (2014: 3.1 billion, 2015 expected: 1.9 billion)john deere,, the company that is now trying to claim that you don't actually buy their mowers, but are merely buying a license to use it because of the proprietary software running them.