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a lawyers public reputation is built through the day-to-day work. Not a programmers can put their body of work on public display

Have worked with COBOL on a mainframe for a large bank in NYC for the past four years. A very stable and critical application, it's nice to work with a group of established and pro…

It seems fairly common to the point that 401k vesting horizons are something that can be expected. Filtering on "Vesting" against the Bloomberg data, 2 of the top 10 have similar c…

NYC, living single, making a bit less than the "West Coast" salary specified. All percentages approximate, but pretty close. Breaking down the original amount provided by the compa…

Fair enough. My intention was to avoid attacking the original quotation while still maintaining the actual translation.

Not to be pedantic, but the Rabassa translation reads: "Many years later, as he faced the firing squad, Colonel Aureliano Buendía was to remember that distant afternoon when his fa…

Instead of skipping coffee, buy a nice travel mug (that keeps your coffee hot) and brew from home before heading out. My travel mug keeps coffee made at 7.45 warm until around 9 be…

The true talent problem I see is maybe 20% solved by offshore talent. I say that because with most of these monster systems, it seems the talent comes in understanding the system y…

So this is a problem I've been dealing with. Been working out of school for almost two years at a big financial firm, working on Mainframes. I would say I'm relatively lucky in ter…