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From where I am (mid-altantic US) Google site are completely down (google.com, youtube)

My father worked in retail for over 40 years. 10 for Office Depot, which sells a lot of computers and phone stuff. He has never been subjected to a search, nor searched others.

My children (ages 8-12) all use Linux on their personal computers. Web browsing, Libre Office, and a few games from the Ubuntu repository.

We need to talk a lot more about fiction.

The Little Engine That Could and The Grapes of Wrath are good and all...

I've read Death's End and am currently reading All the Birds in the Sky.

Has anybody read any of the others?

This shouldn't have been stored on an unclassified, publicly accessible computer. This is a prime example of how the aggregation of unclassified information can be used to derive classified information.

Example... oh, there's lots of people with TS clearances in this little town in the midwest. Maybe there's something to that. Let's check it out.

Where I live the developer has to pay an "impact fee" per unit as part of the permitting process that is supposed to offset the cost of road and school construction. Right now it is about 4500 for a single family home (in semi-rural Maryland).

Make sure to contact the pertinent government office in your area that regulates child care. Summer camps, even those for middle schoolers, generally fall under their umbrella. Get all of the certifications you need and know what the requirements are for your instructors. Make sure your location will meet all of their requirements.

If possible, avoid this by teaming with a center that already has these certifications.

Mining for gold and items in WoW might be the best training. Being a pilot is being bored for hours on end while still maintaining high levels of alertness.

Location: Southern Maryland

Title: Computer Engineer

Years Exp: 12

Next Move: Open up a bookstore with my wife. Hope to open later this year. With luck, it will be successful enough that I can take a stab at starting a software business.

We used Singapore Math and really liked it. I think of it as having all the good parts of Common Core (an emphasis on abstract thought) but without all of the crazy parts.

Another thing that happened during this time frame is that certain professions, specifically teachers and nurses, began to require more and more education. I would also speculate, without offering any proof, that women in these professions were more likely to have children than other women of similar education. Therefore the increase.

One thing they care about is finding out whether or not what you are seeking therapy for could be used to blackmail you if somebody found out about it. Beyond that, they want to find out if you have some disorder that could cause you to lose it later.

If neither of those apply then you probably have nothing to worry about.

By the way, not all info security jobs require a TS. A lot of government/contractor jobs, even in the infosec field, just require a secret clearance. Same questions, same form, but the bar is lower.

One of my friends works in software during the day and runs a Gaming store(mostly MtG) in the evening. She is successful enough at it that she just moved into a new location double the size.

This one woman I used to work with didn't just burn bridges, she nuked them from orbit. We were contractors on a military base. She was in configuration management. She was in a meeting with a bunch of the division managers, it was a stressful day.

In the middle of the meeting, she blurts out, "Fuck this. I don't need this shit."

She gets up, leaves the meeting, and walks back to her desk. She drops her stuff in a box, walks out of the building, and drops her base pass off at the main gate.

Nobody heard from her again.

It is easier to market it as a product with an annual maintenance fee than as "SaaS". I say this because there is an established process (GSA for feds, it varies by state and local) for selling products, even product with maintenance agreements.

Another route you can take, depending on the agencies you are selling to, is to sell it to existing federal contractors. There is usually a "materials" line in their contract for buying stuff to bypass the normal process. This is common with DOD, not sure about others.

Good luck.

Your comment about bugs reminds me of my first job. One day the senior guy sitting next to me starting cursing. The program manager emailed him and asked him, before he even started coding, to estimate how many bugs there will be in the software in one year.

In the government contractor world overtime is often prohibited. By law, "you work it, you bill it."

One thing I should point out is that the readability formulas that they used were not designed for short form text like reviews. Most of them were designed for text that is at least 100 words.

About a year ago I was told Kickstarter didn't allow medical projects. It wasn't my project, but somebody I know was consulting for a medical startup. Unless they've changed since then you can't use them. I've heard some medical projects have had success on indiegogo, however I do not have first hand knowledge of this.

I'm going to focus on your last line...

"out-sourcing the slow/painful bits"

Which is exactly why I don't get the obsession with side projects or work samples. There is no guarantee that the person showing the work actually did the work. At best, it means they have access to people that can do the work, which I suppose is something.

Not that I am accusing you of cheating or lying or anything, just pointing out that in a world where outsourcing is easy and common that you can't take these things at face value.

I won't defend $235, but a textbook is more than just explaining the math. Developing the problem sets is a lot of work. This costs money, even if you are using low-wage graduate students.

And problem sets need to be updated or they will feel dated very quickly. Especially if you are supposed to be using technology to help solve the problem.

Some stores have started a pilot program where they give you a portable scanner gun and scan the items as you shop. Then you take the scanner to a cashier and pay. Works real fast.

That's 5% for them, 2.9% + 30c for CC processing.

Love the concept. I would love for this to go big.

But I went to the site a couple of times and "I love turtles." was the most coherent message I received.

Take that as you will.

Even in Bio it is not that bad. It took my brother an extra year than he wanted to find a post-doc(cell biology), but he is making over 40k in an affordable midwestern city. It's good enough that he can rent a 2 bedroom townhome by himself in a nice part of town.

Find out why he wants the NDA. Sometimes it is because they don't want it publicly known that they hired a freelancer to do the work. He might not want you shouting from the rooftops, "hey, I was the one who built this!"

If that's the case you can word the NDA so that it gives them what they want and you don't give up anything you don't want to give up.

It could also be that in order to implement the game (or whatever) you could require access to business strategy information (like pricing, upgrade dates...) that they want to keep secret. You can word the NDA to cover this but not the technical stuff.

Or if none of this applies then you can point out that NDAs don't cover information that is available publicly so any "ideas" typically won't be covered once they are publicly available.

And as others have pointed out always have your own template to start from.

Although I've never coded in Ada I have had to read existing code to figure out what it was doing.

Ada struck me as a language that would be a pain to write in(at least it would take a long time) but it was a pleasure to read. Even without an intimate knowledge of the language (I was a C++ guy) I was able to figure it out.

I liked the IEEE email header "DARPA prepared to bring Zombie Frankensatellites to life" better, but I went with the article headline.

And just like engineering standards, the nice thing about stock indexes is that there are so many to choose from.