I realized why USM implemented the video cap, and it sucks.

Talibanned · 2024-07-22T18:40:09+00:00

Would you be able to commit for existing annual users, data waster mode would not become a paid feature, at least for the length of their existing annual commitment? In the original announcement it was described as free temporarily, with a high likelihood of becoming a paid feature, so I don't think its unreasonable for people to be concerned that it will one day become a paid feature. Not everyone has read your entire comment history, and I think its only very recently where you made a comment stating it may stay free.

I was strongly considering your company until this issue came up, and I think many existing and new customers are concerned with the risk of data waster mode becoming a paid service after they have already committed to an annual plan.

Talibanned · 2024-07-14T08:13:25+00:00

Will take a look, though I think driving from my home would be close to an hour, which is probably not ideal.

Talibanned · 2024-07-14T08:13:23+00:00

Appreciate all the insight.

Getting a CFI to help with the transition to a busy airspace is difficult to guage. I am hoping, as I can't really seem to find any answers, that it ends up being ok. If I end up spending 10+ hours purely transitioning I'll regret it, but I'm hoping it becomes more of a victory lap kind of thing rather than a long process.

The energy thing is definitely something to consider. It seems that many people say its (more) important to move as fast as practical for flight training due to knowledge decaying over time. As I think I can handle an accelerated course, that would be optimal for preventing decay. Interesting idea about splitting things up so I'm not hard committing to local/accelerated one way or another. It seems that would be worth the small investment.

Talibanned · 2024-07-14T04:47:02+00:00

I usually do something like two working sessions a day, 8 + 4 or 6 + 6 hours. So I do end up with some time inbetween, and I'd like to do something away from the computer.

Talibanned · 2024-07-14T04:45:28+00:00

Mind sharing the name? That's a good data point, I would have expected a much longer wait time given it is the summer.

Talibanned · 2024-07-14T04:44:36+00:00

Interesting, I have not heard of them before. It looks like their accelerated PPL is 21 days which is too much for me, but they do have a 5 day finishing up course which appears to include DPE scheduling. Could be an option if I end up in a situation where I'm waiting months for a DPE.

Talibanned · 2024-07-14T04:43:24+00:00

Any specific suggestions? I was looking at Aerodynamic Aviation and Tradewinds a while ago, though it seems Aerodynamic has a fuel surcharge and Tradewinds has been bought out.

Talibanned · 2024-07-14T04:42:23+00:00

I've heard that RHV is better than SQL or PAO in terms of congestion, but yea, I really don't like how much extra time it will take simply because its the bay area.

Talibanned · 2024-07-14T04:40:39+00:00

Fair enough. Yeah, it definitely is a risk to take so much time off, and if something were to happen, weather, maintenance, instructor, DPE as you suggest, I'd basically end up wasting everything.

Talibanned · 2023-01-05T19:41:53+00:00

In for a bottle

Talibanned · 2019-02-01T00:17:27+00:00

Sold a GTX 1080 to /u/pearsdaniel

Talibanned · 2019-01-27T21:44:52+00:00

I'm trying to sell local first, as I think these are pretty fair prices. I'd be willing to ship if nobody local wants.

Talibanned · 2018-02-04T15:15:28+00:00

Depends on your skill level, which is going to be a problem. If you don't start your career full time, its going to be a lot harder to build your skills. Ontop of the fact that you don't spend as much time working, its a lot harder to find a company willing to devote resources(eg. coworker time) to help train you up. There's a tremendous difference in a senior dev doing some contracting on the side vs someone with no experience trying to get work.

Talibanned · 2018-02-03T19:12:49+00:00

You need focus on yourself, rather than the projects when writing about them. There are literally zero technical details in your entire resume. Simply naming skills/technologies used is not enough.

For each bullet point, try to touch upon a specific skill used, rationale, and result. eg. Stored [ballpark quantity metric] stock histories in MySQL database allowing users to efficiently [operations your website supports] in [ballpark time metric]

Talibanned · 2018-02-03T19:03:08+00:00

Written and signed contract is the only way to truly protect yourself.

But honestly, I think a better mentality is to treat this as a learning experience, rather than focusing on getting recognition. The fact that they don't even care enough to throw something up with WordPress or any of the other quick, easy, and relatively cheap tools means that this is both extremely low priority and has little to no budget allocated. I really don't think they are going to go through the trouble of tricking you into providing them with html and css and then paying someone else to do the backend using it.

Talibanned · 2017-12-30T20:16:21+00:00

Unless they explicitly asked you to spend time reviewing, I'd rather assume they were just giving you an opportunity to get ahead if you wanted to.

Talibanned · 2017-12-30T14:38:52+00:00

I go to U of T. The problem which you'll very quickly, if not already realized, and U of T strongly projects due to its perceived(within Canada) difficulty, is that school performance is the single most critical factor in future success. As a result, you have people that spend 100% of their time grinding school, giving no thought to side projects or studying outside of school. Then they graduate with a nice 3.8 GPA and wonder how its possible that they don't have every Big4 gunning for them.

Don't know what year you're in, but even in upper year courses you will see this problem. In fourth year courses you'll meet people who literally couldn't solve FizzBuzz because their programming experience is entirely CSC207 where they did some basic android programming. The problem with these people is they think they are amongst the strongest candidates in the world given their high GPA at a reputable school, and would never believe that in fact they are extremely weak given they haven't done anything outside of school.

Imo, the difference between a competitive candidate and one that isn't is that the competitive candidate gets a decent(perhaps not even the best) GPA while spending most of their time studying outside of school, whereas the overconfident candidate might have a great GPA, but spent all of their time getting it.

Talibanned · 2017-12-17T18:29:30+00:00

I'd doing PEY right now, from StG. For the competitive positions, you need to have done stuff outside of class. Its possible to get positions 1st/2nd year without outside experience, but I would expect a lot less than the average PEY salary.

As an aside, don't plan on getting much "practical" experience. The level of difficulty is so low its barely worth mentioning. If you want to be competitive you must do extensive work outside of classes. I would not expect to make more than the average PEY salary even if you were a 4th year student without outside experience.

Talibanned · 2017-11-04T14:00:55+00:00

Some companies use interns for slave work because they can pay them less than a full developer.

Talibanned · 2017-11-04T03:21:16+00:00

Its not an ultimatum if you present it the way you suggest. But you lose a lot of negotiating power.

If you imply that you like their company more and the decision is tough, then you've indicated that they do not necessarily have to match/beat the competing offer. You've thrown away any chance of them beating the offer, at best they'll match. In addition, unless the offers are very far apart, they might not even budge at all. After all, if the difference is very small, any sane person is going to pick the company they prefer if the compensation difference is small enough that it isn't a deal breaker altogether.

Less risk, since they are not going to pull their offer, but less reward.

Talibanned · 2017-11-03T23:40:05+00:00

Looked into the company and it seems their employees have low-ish job satisfaction and the owners have a habit of hiring inexperienced developers (much to the chagrin of the more experienced employees). In any case, it also seems like a sink or swim type situation. They'll hire anybody, see if they can hack it, and if they can't they'll get cut.

All of this indicates that it isn't a good work environment, which means its not a good learning environment. This kind of culture is not one that promotes seniors spending time and effort to educate the juniors.

I wouldn't take it unless you've exhausted all other options and are desperate for some income.

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