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Vulture Culture posted:Udemy doesn't have any real quality standards or oversight. They're a publishing platform for individuals, many of whom just pirate their course materials from other sites and sell them on Udemy. You can do worse than their Restaurant.com-style $10-for-any-course deals that they run a couple times a year, but the quality usually doesn't match Udacity or Pluralsight or Coursera. I completely gave up on Udemy after buying a couple courses where someone with an indecipherable accent had paid a native english speaker to record the promo videos. I've had a pluralsight sub for a few months now and Udemy isn't nearly on this level.
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Vulture Culture posted:Udemy doesn't have any real quality standards or oversight. They're a publishing platform for individuals, many of whom just pirate their course materials from other sites and sell them on Udemy. You can do worse than their Restaurant.com-style $10-for-any-course deals that they run a couple times a year, but the quality usually doesn't match Udacity or Pluralsight or Coursera. Udemy is ok for some of the basics (at least for me) and serves as a bit of springboard for other stuff. Agreed that they have LOTS of pirated material there but there are legit ones as well. Definateley buyer beware. The Pluralsite subscription price can be hard to swallow but there's a reason you pay a premium.
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I was slightly tempted to shell out thousands for the official Red Hat Certified System Administrator and Red Hat Certified Engineer training course. It's any where from a few to several grand but I've continuously heard great things. You've got the live lab and good instructor if you get stuck or have questions. I wonder if that would tax deductible.
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Tab8715 posted:I was slightly tempted to shell out thousands for the official Red Hat Certified System Administrator and Red Hat Certified Engineer training course. It's any where from a few to several grand but I've continuously heard great things. You've got the live lab and good instructor if you get stuck or have questions.
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Vulture Culture posted:It's a deductible business expense if you're a self-employed business owner (i.e. 1099 contractor) and you already work in systems engineering or with Linux. Do I have to be self-employeed? What if my employer wont pay or I am unemployed.
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Feb 20, 2019 21:49
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Only do the training if your work pays for it or if it’s tax deductible. Or if you have boat money and don’t care.
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Feb 20, 2019 22:54
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Agrikk posted:I once worked in an office that had sound cancelling speakers mounted in the ceiling throughout the floor. It was weird that I never noticed them but I also noticed that sound just did not carry. There were no echoes at all and the floor was quite civilized. My previous job with an open office definitely used white noise and it worked great. I don’t think my place is an open office, we all have basically 5ft tall cubes and it’s usually extremely quiet(when I’m not on the phone with my extremely loud and stimulating “phone voice”). We just have a small area with hardwood floors so sound carries.
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Doing a quick switch install for a client. Go to the 31st floor to check that the cables were ran, let our escort know I need to go to the 50th as well. He takes me to the lobby and says wait right here and disappears for an hour. Decided to just go take a dinner break 
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Sepist posted:Doing a quick switch install for a client. Go to the 31st floor to check that the cables were ran, let our escort know I need to go to the 50th as well. He takes me to the lobby and says wait right here and disappears for an hour. Decided to just go take a dinner break I once flew cross country to do a software install at a secure site. I show up, reception and security process me and I sit in a blank 4 wall room with only a table and chair. No sever rack, server, laptop, nothing. About 45 minutes later someone tells me what they're still waiting for the hardware vendor to deliver the server I'm installing things on. "UPS says it should be here tomorrow or next". So basically the US gov paid my employer about 1500 a day for me to sit in my room and watch TV for two days.
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Feb 21, 2019 00:36
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I have an opportunity to maybe move into QA at the company I'm currently at. I currently do something sort of 'QA Adjacent' which involves UAT testing. Are there any good online resources for QA Testing that I can begin going through to improve my chances of getting this job? I'm learning a lot of the terms used within QA, but I don't know where to start after that.
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Feb 21, 2019 05:01
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Is UAT Testing like ATM machine?
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Ranter posted:Is UAT Testing like ATM machine? exactly
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Feb 21, 2019 06:42
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I have to make an extremely tough decision by end of day tomorrow and I cant figure it out. Option 1 is to stay here as a consultant and get converted to FTE in a few months. Pros are the consultant income is 70k higher than option 2. Cons are long commute and probably a 30% income hit when they force my FTE conversion. Option 2 is to take the opportunity to go back to my old company for a lower base income than option 1 but running/growing the CISO as a service/security offering and taking 5% GP on all sales from that service in addition to 2% on non-CISO referrals from existing accounts. Pros are it has unlimited income potential and mostly work from home and free convention attendance. Cons are if I suck at sales I'll be taking an income hit and I lose my side business income I get from this company. The external opinion of me is I'm actually good at sales so maybe I'm just being scared of the unknown. But historically when I make a leap of faith it has worked out for me. Ugh
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Feb 21, 2019 16:49
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I feel like any place that would pull this contractor rate fuckery is going to have more fuckery in store. Get out.
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Feb 21, 2019 16:58
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Sepist posted:I have to make an extremely tough decision by end of day tomorrow and I cant figure it out. What's your marginal tax rate? Between 2 hours of your time lost per day travelling that costs money and is time you could be doing your side hustle and your tax bracket , and that you know it has a finite lifespan. I would suggest the first option doesn't actually make you as much more money that you think
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Methanar posted:What's your marginal tax rate? Between 2 hours of your time lost per day travelling that costs money and is time you could be doing your side hustle and your tax bracket , and that you know it has a finite lifespan. I would suggest the first option doesn't actually make you as much more money that you think 35% and yea that is something I've considered as well. Between forced furlough, unpaid holidays, and transit costs it doesnt end up being such a large discrepancy. I do get 20% of my self-employed income untaxed under trump though.
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Feb 21, 2019 17:06
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Zorak of Michigan posted:I feel like any place that would pull this contractor rate fuckery is going to have more fuckery in store. Get out. I agree with this point of view. Also, cutting rates by 10% across the board seems like a bad sign for the company. And the people who are going to stay are probably the ones who are stuck. Do you really want to continue working with the crappiest employees/contractors?
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Feb 21, 2019 17:41
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Tab8715 posted:Do I have to be self-employeed? What if my employer wont pay or I am unemployed. Look into college classes if you have time. They often have the same training material, and spread out over 6-12 weeks you can get more face time with the instructor. Networking with other students is also valuable. The full time, week long courses that cost $5k are aimed at employers who reimburse their employees and pay for them to get the training.
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Feb 21, 2019 18:17
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I’m trying to target the Red Hat course specifically and my employer pays for college but not training.
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Feb 21, 2019 18:36
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Douchebag actions of the month: It seems that Idera fired the majority of TravisCI employees just a few weeks after acquiring them. Also, they didn’t even inform the management that they were terminating a lot of employees. RIP Travis.
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In a single o365 tenant, can you have exchange account data living in different data centers? I feel like that answer has always been no. I feel like its been a required to have a separate tenant if you have requirements of inboxes in different data centers. GDPR, etc.
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Sickening posted:In a single o365 tenant, can you have exchange account data living in different data centers? I feel like that answer has always been no. I feel like its been a required to have a separate tenant if you have requirements of inboxes in different data centers. GDPR, etc. It's called Office 365 Multi-Geo, and you need 2500 accounts. https://products.office.com/en-gb/business/multi-geo-capabilities
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Tab8715 posted:I’m trying to target the Red Hat course specifically and my employer pays for college but not training. Stanly college offer these courses specifically. You may be able to find a local course too
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lampey posted:Stanly college offer these courses specifically. You may be able to find a local course too Hell yes!
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Holy poo poo. Apparently the best phishing email is the one sent from someone impersonating an ISP to warn sysadmins that there was <suspected malware activity< coming from <this website>. 3 members of my team have clicked the link so far. 
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GnarlyCharlie4u posted:Holy poo poo. Apparently the best phishing email is the one sent from someone impersonating an ISP to warn sysadmins that there was <suspected malware activity< coming from <this website>. God drat, that’s what an evil genius does.
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Proteus Jones posted:God drat, that’s what an evil genius does. For computer touchers? Yes. For everyone else you use the 2019-Raises_draft-Feb2019.xlx-FINAL.xlsx trick.
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I got an adjustable bed with USB ports. Working from home has never gotten better. I’ve got a laptop desk coming tomorrow with fans built into it.
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jaegerx posted:I got an adjustable bed with USB ports. Working from home has never gotten better. I’ve got a laptop desk coming tomorrow with fans built into it. Does your mom bring you pizza pops
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CLAM DOWN posted:Does your mom bring you pizza pops They’re called “pizza snacks”, get it right gah. Costco has the best ones.
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Feb 22, 2019 06:33
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drat, I have a coworker that bullshits clients quite bit when said coworker doesn't have an answer. It's not my problem but it did get me thinking. Is it really acceptable to outright BS clients with full on nonsense explanations? My philosophy is be honest, avoid jargon where possible and keep it concise. This hasn't steered me wrong yet. I think BSing is risky because of the risk of being called out eventually. My coworker's solution though for a difficult issue he doesn't have an answer for: "It's due to an enforced firewall and antiviral polices as well as a lack of implementation of a virtualized platform." Now my guess is it's simply an issue with the user profiles. But yeah bud virtualization is good!!! It's entertainment for me  as long as it doesn't affect myself or my other coworkers be interesting to see what's next.
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Feb 22, 2019 06:43
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jaegerx posted:I got an adjustable bed with USB ports. Working from home has never gotten better. I’ve got a laptop desk coming tomorrow with fans built into it. Breakfast, Baitin', Bullshitting Living the WFH dream entirely in your bed
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DropsySufferer posted:My coworker's solution though for a difficult issue he doesn't have an answer for: "It's due to an enforced firewall and antiviral polices as well as a lack of implementation of a virtualized platform." lol thats really loving ballsy
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Start-up got bought by a big place many moons ago. We're working on a hot open source data processing framework that's being used by our new overlords. Parallel to that, we have two teams working on projects meant to productize said framework and earn the company an income. Our CEO was making promises about "nothing changing" and said overlord being perfectly fine (no, enthusiastic!) with us building a product on a competitors' cloud. A few weeks after the sale, it was suddenly made clear we would all "receive new offers" to be "moved to the new corporate entity". Our teams would be merged into Overlord's respectable departments. Moreover, Overlord already has mildly similar products than what our team has been working on. There's been a few weeks with meetings about "product alignment", but no actual timeline, progress or conclusions. I'm starting to believe our place was bought purely for the core framework devs, and that our other teams will go the same way the Travis CI acquisition went. Part of me wants to sit this one out to see where it goes, part of me is anxious about the future. Glad I got this off my chest.
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Feb 22, 2019 10:48
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DropsySufferer posted:drat, I have a coworker that bullshits clients quite bit when said coworker doesn't have an answer. It's not my problem but it did get me thinking. Is it really acceptable to outright BS clients with full on nonsense explanations? My philosophy is be honest, avoid jargon where possible and keep it concise. This hasn't steered me wrong yet. I think BSing is risky because of the risk of being called out eventually. I am trying to work out if one of the helpdesk guy does this because he doesn't know the answer or if he believes the things he says. I might start taking bets because I just cant call it.
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That’s a bummer. Condolences. Keep your head up.
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DropsySufferer posted:drat, I have a coworker that bullshits clients quite bit when said coworker doesn't have an answer. It's not my problem but it did get me thinking. Is it really acceptable to outright BS clients with full on nonsense explanations? My philosophy is be honest, avoid jargon where possible and keep it concise. This hasn't steered me wrong yet. I think BSing is risky because of the risk of being called out eventually. I'm guessing these clients are either small business types with no technical knowledge, or non-technical coworkers? I had a consultant try to bullshit his way through an answer they obviously didn't know, and I knew "enough" of the correct answer to know he had no clue wtf he was talking about. When I confronted him on it instead of owning that he didn't know he double downed on the lie. We didn't work with that company again. You're right on with being honest, and if you don't know something, own that you don't know it but make it your responsibility to find out (even if that's just finding someone who does know). When in doubt "I don't know the answer to that, but I will find out for you".
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Yeah, that dude is real dumb and he's going to cause more problems than whatever problem he thinks he's avoiding. No one in the business world expects everyone to know everything, not even consultants. A "I need to research further" is fine. Also fine - "need to review with my team to confirm our best practices blah blah blah." Making up poo poo about solar flares causing network outages or whatever is going to get you into trouble. Just a matter of time.
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Yeah if you're just honest about not knowing the answer quite yet and that you will look into it, most people will live with it. There's always that one rear end in a top hat that is like 'if you are gonna just google the fix I can do it myself' but mostly it's good.
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