When it stops is the time to get concerned.

I have just left a full time job for a contract job for getting paid for every hour and sane work schedule. This job fell through to no fault of my own and within a week I had 2 offers on the table with a streamlined interview process. If I didn't have people constantly calling I would have had to actually look for a job in tech and get my name out there. I drop referrals of current and post coworkers to a list of trusted people all the time. I have never been concerned the boss hears me take a call, spend a minute explaining that I am currently indisposed and please send me a email. I get back to the position that look interesting.

Have 2 or 3 professional references of people who answer their phones, can claim they supervised you at some point (umm a peer) and no longer work for the company that you worked with them at. They are free to give you a glowing recommendation. HR departments these days don't even call back on history inquiries any more.

There is a new wave of technical recruiters post the 2008 slowdown who are US born and tech savvy... find one of them and keep them up to date. I also tend to tell anyone who has a strong accent I am not really in their market as I top 10% in years in the industry. The shops who don't have a US voice typically are throwing people at HR departments filters hoping something will stick.... Unless you really want to work for ATT.

Traffic management at more than a half dozen peer points then becomes another huge hassle especially when the load varies over time in a very non regular pattern. Arrested Development hits the NETFLIX servers and the traffic peaks for a weekend as the consumers mainline the content, VZ doesn't move at a pace where they can engineer for that. If its 3 months past last years fiscal year the engineering budget is already dedicated to this FYs projects.

When you get to more than 6 interconnects with another network it is time to go up by a power of ten with a change in the media anyways. The monthly cost of pesky cables between the cages at the peer point may get a bit obscene when a third party like TELEX is running the inter-suite infrastructure at the peer point. This has a cost but these peer points are in places that already have bandwidth overbuild. Love to tell you that the cage/suite providers are smart enough to put in a TELCO row with a fiber infrastructure for distribution that can be fired up to meet daily needs.... they aren't. Its contracts, lawyers, POs, invoices and work orders as far as the eye can see for 4 hours of effort of firing up a 100Gig link over intra-building fiber..

To VZ eye, Netflix is floting in cash... they should pay the freight for the bandwidth. To Netflix, VZ has already collected the cash from the subscriber and should be reacting to their mutual customers demands.. There is the main reason for the standoff. There is one way that will certainly cause a reaction, NETFLIX block 90% of their content to VZ IPs and put a banner saying its because the subscriber is on VZ. The Netflix CEO calls the VZ CEO and says you want our distribution appliances now or do you want your call center lines to keep ringing with? I do see why that isn't what is going on...as What could go wrong with charging more for DVD distribution was just about forgotten wasnt it?.

The right of the people to be secure in their persons, houses, papers, and effects, against unreasonable searches and seizures, shall not be violated, and no Warrants shall issue, but upon probable cause, supported by Oath or affirmation, and particularly describing the place to be searched, and the persons or things to be seized.

None of the warrents said something like

"All emails stored on VZ servers (listed below) that mention pressurecookers as bombs from the 723 people (listed below) who visited terrorist training camps (listed below) in 2010-2013."

The thing about drag racing is the smell and the sounds. Could we build a 4 second electric drag car.... yes.... but computer limited tiresqueal and a OSHA and UL approved hum just wont cut fill the seats even a reasonable $5.

80% of the job is not dependant on code technologies in most shops.. Its tasks that have been the same throughout time at every development shop 1. Understanding the problem at Hand. Reading and clarifying the spec, delivering a timeline that can be achieved. 2. Simplifying the problem into Component Parts that can be completed with minimal effort along acceptable timeline. Reuse what might already be sitting there in the libraries and open source world. 3. Selection of the tool set to quickest solve the problem/build the component code. 4. Testing, Testing and Testing and then declaring it ready for testing in front of the client. 5. Deliver of Product on Time and at Budget, with comments and documented and supportable. Teaching younger staff to do these things regardless of what framework, language used and tempest in a teacup office politics that are going on is handy for just about any project. The Good to better Greybeards have seen it all.... nothing is new... technology is now faster and cheaper but man hours are more expensive than ever, They also typically enjoy the client meeting than the fresh code guns.

You got to be kidding me. NK is gone with a single strike and China isnt going to a single thing to their largest trading partners. They are capitolist now.

Was he more or less productive than his colleagues?

Battery technology has been a slow evolution and after 200 hundred years quantum leaps of performance are most expensive. The free market is working on this one, any money thrown at this just makes the market less free and less level. Wish the DOE would work on a standard "US Nuclear Power plant" design for the 21st century so all these batteries can be charged with the cheapest power possible on actual cost and pollution products basis.

At this point it is just a matter of how much you are willing to spend with 10Gig Ethernet becoming the standard method for handoff from the Telco demark. Just installed a L3 endpoint with well over 50Gig/sec of capacity with each gig/sec CIR costing less than it takes my company to write the check and split it out to the customers invoices. Storage and Power/Cooling are the last expensive item in the datacenter.

Here are the things network teams needed to much for Virtualization scheduleds and are the first to come back up when the switch/router power is restored.
1 x GPS TIME SERVER MASTERING FOR ALL SWITCH ROUTERS to Provide NTP to the CLIENTS.
2 x TACACS SERVERS FOR SWITCHS , ADMIN VPN, RSA 2 FACTOR... BLAH.
2 x DNS SERVERS BEHIND THAT SERVER AS MASTERS ( to SLAVES BEHIND THE F5s)
2 x ADMIN VPNs (JUNO, CISCO ASA)
2 x CONSOLE SERVERS to everything.
2 x CONFIG SERVERS, IOS, DOCUMENTATION STORES TFTP FTP SFTP
2 x SECURITY SERVERS THAT LET YOU IN THE DOOR
n x HVAC, POWER MONITORING, GENSET TOOLS.
2 x SYSLOG SERVER with local HHD.
2 x JUMPBOX with REAL OUT OF BAND BANDWIDTH (CABLE MODEM, CELL MODEM, VT100 in office space....sucks to work in a dark HOT DC)
1 x TIMECLOCK with cardstock because this is going to take a while.


All should have the least number of transfer switches(evil beasts) and should be at the base of the A and B sides of the Power Plan.