Random Announcements
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I know @DougNg but I wear it like a badge oh honour (added the u for the UK market, hahahha)
so many people I know actually dropped out the marathon a long time ago; so, as cliché as it sounds I'm happy to be here with creaky knees and spoiled kids
that polygraph Simpsons bit is excellent
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Speaking of job hunts, I had a chat with a HR girl from a bank today.
They've got a role in Sydney at present, but it's a fixed term contract.
Normally in IT you have two options: Go permanent, and remain with the company for life. You get various benefits, the possibility of promotion, and some job security. Or you go contracting, where they pay you more, but you don't get any real scope for career progression, and you can be fired or laid off easily.
A fixed term contract is somewhere between the two, whereby you basically get the downsides of both of the above options.
The IT jobs market is generally sucking right now. I'm off to invent a cryptocurrency, and become
a millionairejust as broke.
Google SETL and email them
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I know what you mean, I'm surprised I haven't been hit with a coyote with a rocket strapped to his back yet
Jody was yelling at me the other day because I was changing out a light bulb standing on a bar stool one legged, told her I'll never die, I'm too full of piss and vinegar to die.
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see the difference is in my house I would of said that and ivy would have kicked the stool out from under me before I finished my sentence, hahahaha
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hahaha, at least she didn't set you on fire plus as long as it's a middle toe you could still balance just fine, hahaha
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@Graeme, idk how you feel about relocating, but have you thought any of working in New Zealand any? I went tdy there for work once, and some civilians along side their military tried their hardest to entice me. Apparently, there government was giving special incentives to foreign IT professionals, because their country was so short-handed.
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@organisys SETL looks interesting, but I feel that a lot of the Blockchain and Cryptocurrency startups are solutions looking for a problem. Adi Shamir, the cryptographer who's the S in RSA, wrote, "Yet to see a use-case for blockchain that can't be solved with an existing simpler technology."
I agree with him.
@UnTucked I'm probably tied into Australia until September or October. This is because my girlfriend is studying in Melbourne until then, and I'm wanting to apply for Australian citizenship in about six weeks, and that'll take five or six months to come through.
New Zealand is an option. I've got residency rights from holding Aussie PR (and hopefully citizenship soon), and my girlfriend should be able to get NZ PR fairly easily.
The trouble is that Auckland has the same problem as Sydney and Melbourne: a lot of money from local and foreign investors has been poured into property, making it insanely expensive. The average house price in Sydney is just under $1.2 million ($930K US), in Melbourne it's $900K ($700K US), and in Auckland it's $1 million ($730K US).
If you consider that the median in the Bay Area, which is reputed to be completely unaffordable without a tech company salary, is $825K, you get an idea of what it's like…
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Julian Assange is someone who's gone from hero to zero by his own hand.
He's been holed up in the Ecuadorian embassy since 2012, due to Swedish charges. These have now been dropped, or expired, but he still faces arrest by the British police for violating his bail conditions.
His QC brought an appeal, and the judge is rather scathing of Assange in his judgment. :o
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Did you know that these are a thing?
Also this is a thing:
TRUMPY BEAR SITS ON THE FRONT OF THE MOTORCYCLE!
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Just watched a clip of the "Fuck" scene from The Wire. Now I want to watch the whole series again.
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Fuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuck.
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