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Bernard Lambert October 16,2021
In the old days of broadcast radio we were entertained by the spoken word and sound effects. The human voice and sound was the only mass media.
In the spirit of the “voice and sound effects only” I have many commentaries and opinions found here.
Bernard Lambert September 12, 2021
I was approached by an organization to utilize their talented people from elsewhere in the world. Coders were being quoted at eight dollars an hour. It is described as using talent from a place in the world where costs and wages are considerably lower than here in the US.
Every venture entrepreneur wants low development costs. Sometimes this can be overshadowed by low quality. Adjustments are made. Costs rise but eventually fix.
In the meantime I charge eighty-five dollars for every hour I spend on a project. Still, the low-cost seekers call. What happened to stating what you expect to pay somewhere near the beginning of the conversation?
Bernard Lambert September 13, 2021
IT security is in a revolution via the present-day challenges and how they are overcome. Some idea of the future is the speculation that follows.
We are presently countering invasions of the communications systems, the destinations along their routes, the systems at any of those destinations, and theft of the information in those systems. It is a vigil. The most often mistake made toward guarding against these things is to “bolt-on” some device or system and let it do the work. The vigil is left to the robots to alert you when things go awry. A most recent hack even invaded the very systems used to do such monitoring.
We are reacting to such things and not being proactive. High grade, high paid help is not employed here. A NOC or SOC is set up where the labor is cheap and fingers crossed; things won’t go wrong. Because of specialization in applications, systems, and networking individuals seldom have the combined talents necessary and are willing to work for much less compensation. The worst I have seen it is for the 150 monitoring systems in a global enterprise dropping from sight without anyone knowing for a long time.
workThat instance was easily remedied with robots to watch the robots along with continuous visual feeds to the NOC and enterprise management personnel. The vigil was reintroduced and easily used. What can stump everyone after such systems begin a cascade of information coming your way, is the sheer volume of the info stream and the adverse effect it has upon the operators of the NOC or SOC. One cannot keep up with the avalanche of data. This is a self-induced attack.
In all cases, the staffing headcount requirement has been woefully inadequate once problems arose. The “averaging” done on personnel cost neglects the real need in a real crisis. Because these happen in an instant an organization cannot react in a timely fashion with such short staffing. Problems are not “headed off”. Some are postponed to a future project. The response is thus untimely.
My recommendation is to establish a broad-based knowledge team to install and operate this vigil in a distributed fashion. You can use a cloud, do a hybrid, or build a data center. The team you hire to do the systems, application, networking, virtualization, cloud security, and compliance issues must have integration experience and integration skills. Yes, pay the man or woman more than fifty-five an hour.
What is your experience??
April 11, 2021
My video opinion on this subject:
The worst week in American history. Unamerican attacks on the seat of government in the United States.
The email brought me this chart from Dice.Com. It is meant to show what H1B visa workers are making in big American corporations. Take a look:
| Company | # of H-1B Filings | Average Salary |
|---|---|---|
| Microsoft | 32,735 | $135,535 |
| Vmware | 4,910 | $139,299 |
| Apple | 11,543 | $139,457 |
| eBay | 4,635 | $143,313 |
| 24,896 | $144,285 | |
| GM Cruise | 330 | $145,243 |
| Spotify | 468 | $145,800 |
| 1,794 | $149,188 | |
| Bloomberg | 2,914 | $149,863 |
| Waymo | 591 | $157,591 |
| 13,471 | $159,597 | |
| Doordash | 274 | $160,444 |
| Lyft | 1,174 | $167,650 |
| Airbnb | 1,451 | $168,306 |
Demand for code producers is high. The methods are myriad. Individuals that make timely, solid code are richly rewarded. The individuals that keep up with the ever-changing platforms for that code are also in high demand. They too reap rich rewards.
I’ll take you back to a time when Digital Equipment was in market favor and the language folks at Maynard were in high spirits. A young fellow from Redmond came and hired everyone at salaries unimagined up to that time. App and OS development stopped at Digital. The fellow from Redmond got the first iteration of Windows NT from the effort.
Paying performers in this IT business is de rigueur. It is also not as common as this chart indicates. Let’s dissect these stats a bit. Small and medium businesses cannot come close to this rate. The organizations hiring these workers charge the entire cost off as employee pay expense. That is the number you see above.
In the case of many H1B workers they actually get paid from the agency that brings them into the country as their sponsoring employer. Their employer bills the hiring corporation. Of course there is an employer’s/sponsor’s cut taken from that total billing. The aim of the sponsoring employer is to bring individuals that produce income for them. They also aim to just undercut what the “running cost” the client corporation is experiencing trying to acquire the same talent. It also allows for the quick “fire and hire” scenario when an individual does not pan out. That total cost is the big corporate “employment” cost shown above.
So does an imported worker enjoy those numbers shown above? No.
Your thoughts please???
We have been suffering under DJ’s Narcissistic Personality Disorder even more lately. An artist named Seigreid Woldhek produced this succinct work:
Truth should be simple and lasting. Well, I can hope. I can listen. I can think about it. I can seek many sources of information. I can do everything in my power to gain insight into everything I need to survive. It gets complicated in a hurry.
My first concern about truth is time and timeliness. While we cannot get back a minute of time while in the pursuit of truth, we spend it lavishly. Some just wait for it. Some just chase it. All spend a considerable amount of time finding the truth. Learning of it late or when it is no longer relative allows the truth to disappear into the moras of lies in circulation.
My second concern about truth is simplicity. When the only paper document you get with a product or service is a legal agreement in thousands of words, we have successfully evaded the truth. The hate mongers on the Internet build sites just to peddle discord and are successful because of the ease of having such a large audience. None of them offer simple truth.
We have come to a time where civility has been stripped away from public behavior. So far as the individuals who are demonstrating and protesting are concerned, they have been civil. The bad actors amongst them have caused all of the damages. Obviously the truth is being seen by millions of eyes and each of us has a different opinion of what the truth is even then.
While we observe things this political season, let’s try to keep truth lasting and simple….somehow!
Bernard Lambert – September 7, 2020
I was listening to an interview on the TV where the fellow described the method where one tells a lie and continuously reinforces it to further one’s cause. He was describing Trump behavior. After a thorough detailing of how it works we were reminded that this behavior has a common name; Liar’s Dividend.
What was very interesting was that the way it works was well explained. The one telling the lie can set the agenda by first offering up the lie. Thereafter anything that reinforces that lie is used to keep it out in a debate. In that process, the lie is made legitimate because it is accepted by at least a small group of supporters.
Fast forward to today….
Wharton School gradute speaks dividend!
Bernard Lambert – September 7, 2020
