And do you really think software development is without its ignoble characters? There is more digital junk than there is fast food companies in this world.
Also, did you just announce your "retirement" from being a seasonal deck designer? Will you no longer be defecating all over this forum? Watch out commodore Balkins is back.
Oct 26, 15 11:22 am ·
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Non Sequitur wrote:
What kind of fool works 80+ hours a week for $26K per year as Dick Balkins describes?
You guys just to avoid getting a pink slip for 2 more weeks.
Oct 26, 15 12:40 pm ·
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rob_c,
Sorry, it was already been profaned before I got here.
Oct 26, 15 12:42 pm ·
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This is the kind of stuff you guys get all gooey over:
Perhaps, Zaha's buildings aren't particularly bad. When you compare it to say..... Frank Lloyd Wright's buildings or Greene & Greene or a number of others... it seems like architects aren't exactly designing for people anymore. They seem to be kinds of out of context with planet earth.
richard: get off the interwebs and get real friends.
Oct 26, 15 2:22 pm ·
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null pointer,
Too many in my generation don't socialize in public. If they do, they are getting themselves drunk plastered. I'm not into going to the bars and getting drunk. That's their socializing. Otherwise, they are spending their time on online games, social media and things like that but in person...???? You're joking. We are talking about people who you can't get them away from text messaging on their cell phones for 5 seconds to look at you face to face. Trying to find them outside socializing is pretty unlikely unless they hang out in the bar.
Add to that when they go to college age, they exile to big cities which is already overcrowded.
Businesses don't need to be in the big cities. There is no real need for that. Especially with the tools we have in technology but somehow, they seem to insist, they have to live and operate in the big city. Why the hell do they need to all crowd into a city.
For crying out loud, that's makes it easier for a hell bent terrorist with a nuclear or biological weapon of mass destruction to kill millions in a single day or a single 5 second moment in time when the bomb goes off and they are literally vaporized.
The smaller towns will certain have an influx of population and economy boost in response to the population growth.
It isn't like we need everyone living in 10 mile high Donald Trump towers.
Richard count how many times you wrote "it's not my fault" in this thread. Also count how many times you make excuses to not even TRY to move forward in the field. Those two things are the root of your problem. You think everything is impossible, and that it got that way because of everyone but you.
You say you can't get a job in a firm except in an IT capacity. But you also say you haven't tried in many years. You don't know what kind of job you can get unless you get out there and have some interviews and learn how to target what you say and what you present to get what you want. You need to TRY. I've tried over and over to help - to break things down into little pieces for you, to give you encouragement or a kick in the pants. But ALL you ever do is make excuses.
You say we're all out there working 80 hours a week for 35k. But most of us aren't. I just had my longest week all year - I worked about 50 hours last week. I make 6 figures. Now I'll grant you that I started in my first year out of architecture school at around 30k. I had to start somewhere. It was 20 years ago and I've never had a year yet when I didn't make more than the year before, even when I went out on my own. I don't work in one of the largest cities - though I did for some of my intern years. I don't have any rich developer relatives, architect uncles, or any special "in" - I just applied, and worked my way up, and moved on from one firm to another when it seemed like the right thing to do. Sometimes I've had to apply to a LOT of firms to find what I want - and all of it was great practice.
You're so hung up on not wanted to start out at a level that you feel is beneath you that you never start. Maybe you'd be working at 35k for a year or two, and maybe putting in more hours than you'd like - but in a few years you'd be making more, and eventually you'd be in a position to have more say over your hours.
If you never suck up your pride and START then you'll spend forever doing what you're doing right now (mostly nothing but ranting). How is that better?
About the invoice: I know you're just trying to make a point, but billing for services that weren't solicited, and where no agreement exists, is fraudulent invoicing. That's a crime, even in Oregon.
oh and add to that: his late fee = usury. i was called out on that within 5 minutes of starting my practice. hopefully he's not doing that in real life.
Oct 26, 15 4:19 pm ·
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kjdt,
Your right, you probably know it isn't worth my time to chase some anonymous ass over the internet for an invoice. In a sense, the person was soliciting for advice and advice can be billable. Remember, the 5-cent architecture guy who was making money for advising (answering questions).
Perhaps, its a joke more than a real invoice because any invoice I would send will require a contract in place... obviously... The real name of the person invoice. Technically, to be illegal, I have to be invoicing a real and existent entity. Since sasko2236 is fictitious and not a legal business entity name at the time of the joke invoice. If anything, the only thing legally binding to is an invoice to ghost. Maybe fitting for this Halloween season. Invoicing a ghost is not subject to Oregon law, as a ghost is not a legally defined person by the statutes of the law. I didn't invoice a person. I invoices a handle that is anonymous to an unregistered forum user.
I can be sasko2236 if I want to be. So can you or anyone.
Oct 26, 15 5:23 pm ·
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nullpointer,
I invoiced a handle/alias of anonymous entity------ unregistered guest user. I didn't in fact invoice a legally defined person. Therefore, not an actual invoice.
As far as we know, sasko2236 is just a ghost.
Until courts defines ghosts as 'persons', it is not an actual invoice.
Oct 26, 15 5:25 pm ·
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nullpointer,
Actually, it wouldn't be usury for usury would be an interest rate. It's would be a late penalty fee just like a bank would do if you don't make your payment. That penalty could be more than the debt owed because of the administrative cost penalty for having to re-invoice. It is not an interest rate because an interest rate is a % apr interest rate. Technically, it is just a late fee or past due fee and in this case instead of being daily calculated, it is calculated monthly.
It is not an interest charge.
I chosen my words on that. Usury applies to loan with an interest charge. Where as, its a past due fee or late fee which is not the same and not subject to interest rate percentages maximums.
The 5 cent architecture guy was charging for answers to questions that were asked to him, by people who understood the fees. Sasko actually stated that he didn't want responses except from those who could provide additional information about the house in question. You didn't provide the information he was asking for in the first place, and then you billed him for advice he didn't ask for, without disclosing that you bill for your advice.
Hell if that's the way it works you Richard owe me about $10k by now.
As for late fees: it's illegal to charge them unless you explicitly disclose them in your contract. The laws are very specific about what that contract language must say - you have to define what constitutes late, and it has to be agreed to before any services are provided. Banks generally have it buried in that fine print to which you agree in order to open accounts with them.
Oct 26, 15 7:03 pm ·
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kjdt,
I didn't invoice a person. I invoiced a handle which means I didn't invoice anything as it isn't an invoice.
Everyone bills for their time. My time isn't free. I'm not a charity. I said that prior to so pay for my time or advice should be assumed by any reasonable person to cost something. For there to be an invoice, the invoice must be addressed to a legally defined person by their legal name.
As far as we know, sasko2236 is a user handle for an A.I. bot program. Add to that, sasko2236 is not a legal name for a person and the laws applies only to persons not bots or droids or ghosts so the laws you refer to wouldn't apply.
If I were Richard I'd revamp my LinkedIn profile to not claim experience back to 1987. Potential employers' assessments could go in two diverging unfortunate directions: 1. They may assume he's 10 to 15 years older than he actually already is, thus making his late entry into the work force seem even that much later and more inexplicable. 2. If they have any sense of his actual age they may do the math, as I did, and realize that he's claiming business ownership and freelance experience starting +/- age 5 to 7 - which will make them all that much more suspicious that the rest of his experience, both computer and building design related, is vastly exaggerated at best, and falsified at worst.
part of our role as forum posters is to not respond to RWCB PBD posts in threads we don't want killed.
this thread had run it's course by the time it was derailed, but if there was interest in the original topic, the rest of us should have kept our posts on topic rather than posting about R's professional ambitions. if you don't want threads to die, don't contribute to their death.
It's unclear to me why the OP didn't just email an architect friend. That would be so much easier than making an account and hoping to find reliable information here about a very common vernacular American style.
Rob it is indeed a very common vernacular American style, but the OP probably isn't American (based on vocabulary.)
As for Richard I think he's provided a solution in this thread: let it be known that henceforth I will be invoicing him $162.50 per Richard-generated post, for my reading of any of his responses to any of my current or future posts.
can Archinect make a dollar to cents count for advise given on forum? like a check box that says "architectural services" and then end of year we bill all the people we advised.......so for instance if I am quite verbose and check the "architectural service" box I may earn say $0.05 a word?
Oct 27, 15 12:34 pm ·
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null pointer,
I know it was very very basic text and easy one to decipher. It is not meant to be a software program. I was programming in machine language back in the days back in the late 1980s. When the computers like the Commodore 128 literally came with a built in ML Monitor program. Add to that a slew of other computer programs.... some of them are in fact on audio cassette tapes.
In addition, your scripting to automating autodesk products like Autocad is not real programming. It is scripting not programming in the traditional sense. You're not creating complete stand-alone games or applications. That's programming. That's software development. When you sell them to customers, that's software publishing. That's no street cred.
How the hell would you know if I had a business in software development. Create programs and have a software publisher distribute the programs.
Back then, writing software programs and then having it distributed isn't all too much different than writing a book and having it published. Technically, it is a business as a commercial venture.
Add to that, there was also publishing software via BBS and other computer networks.
toy story bonnie house style
And do you really think software development is without its ignoble characters? There is more digital junk than there is fast food companies in this world.
Also, did you just announce your "retirement" from being a seasonal deck designer? Will you no longer be defecating all over this forum? Watch out commodore Balkins is back.
Non Sequitur wrote:
What kind of fool works 80+ hours a week for $26K per year as Dick Balkins describes?
You guys just to avoid getting a pink slip for 2 more weeks.
rob_c,
Sorry, it was already been profaned before I got here.
This is the kind of stuff you guys get all gooey over:
and
when I see you post those two pics, I think to myself; "What a tool. Too much of a puss to make a real go of it..."
As John Stewart said, Zaha makes the world's most fuckable buildings. Who am I to resist?
A+ would hit htat.
rob_c,
Perhaps, Zaha's buildings aren't particularly bad. When you compare it to say..... Frank Lloyd Wright's buildings or Greene & Greene or a number of others... it seems like architects aren't exactly designing for people anymore. They seem to be kinds of out of context with planet earth.
richard: get off the interwebs and get real friends.
null pointer,
Too many in my generation don't socialize in public. If they do, they are getting themselves drunk plastered. I'm not into going to the bars and getting drunk. That's their socializing. Otherwise, they are spending their time on online games, social media and things like that but in person...???? You're joking. We are talking about people who you can't get them away from text messaging on their cell phones for 5 seconds to look at you face to face. Trying to find them outside socializing is pretty unlikely unless they hang out in the bar.
Add to that when they go to college age, they exile to big cities which is already overcrowded.
Businesses don't need to be in the big cities. There is no real need for that. Especially with the tools we have in technology but somehow, they seem to insist, they have to live and operate in the big city. Why the hell do they need to all crowd into a city.
For crying out loud, that's makes it easier for a hell bent terrorist with a nuclear or biological weapon of mass destruction to kill millions in a single day or a single 5 second moment in time when the bomb goes off and they are literally vaporized.
The smaller towns will certain have an influx of population and economy boost in response to the population growth.
It isn't like we need everyone living in 10 mile high Donald Trump towers.
yup. you're fucking crazy.
Richard count how many times you wrote "it's not my fault" in this thread. Also count how many times you make excuses to not even TRY to move forward in the field.
Those two things are the root of your problem. You think everything is impossible, and that it got that way because of everyone but you.
You say you can't get a job in a firm except in an IT capacity. But you also say you haven't tried in many years. You don't know what kind of job you can get unless you get out there and have some interviews and learn how to target what you say and what you present to get what you want. You need to TRY. I've tried over and over to help - to break things down into little pieces for you, to give you encouragement or a kick in the pants. But ALL you ever do is make excuses.
You say we're all out there working 80 hours a week for 35k. But most of us aren't. I just had my longest week all year - I worked about 50 hours last week. I make 6 figures. Now I'll grant you that I started in my first year out of architecture school at around 30k. I had to start somewhere. It was 20 years ago and I've never had a year yet when I didn't make more than the year before, even when I went out on my own. I don't work in one of the largest cities - though I did for some of my intern years. I don't have any rich developer relatives, architect uncles, or any special "in" - I just applied, and worked my way up, and moved on from one firm to another when it seemed like the right thing to do. Sometimes I've had to apply to a LOT of firms to find what I want - and all of it was great practice.
You're so hung up on not wanted to start out at a level that you feel is beneath you that you never start. Maybe you'd be working at 35k for a year or two, and maybe putting in more hours than you'd like - but in a few years you'd be making more, and eventually you'd be in a position to have more say over your hours.
If you never suck up your pride and START then you'll spend forever doing what you're doing right now (mostly nothing but ranting). How is that better?
About the invoice: I know you're just trying to make a point, but billing for services that weren't solicited, and where no agreement exists, is fraudulent invoicing. That's a crime, even in Oregon.
I wasn't expecting such a lively conversation given the subject of this thread. *clap... clap... clap*
oh and add to that: his late fee = usury. i was called out on that within 5 minutes of starting my practice. hopefully he's not doing that in real life.
kjdt,
Your right, you probably know it isn't worth my time to chase some anonymous ass over the internet for an invoice. In a sense, the person was soliciting for advice and advice can be billable. Remember, the 5-cent architecture guy who was making money for advising (answering questions).
Perhaps, its a joke more than a real invoice because any invoice I would send will require a contract in place... obviously... The real name of the person invoice. Technically, to be illegal, I have to be invoicing a real and existent entity. Since sasko2236 is fictitious and not a legal business entity name at the time of the joke invoice. If anything, the only thing legally binding to is an invoice to ghost. Maybe fitting for this Halloween season. Invoicing a ghost is not subject to Oregon law, as a ghost is not a legally defined person by the statutes of the law. I didn't invoice a person. I invoices a handle that is anonymous to an unregistered forum user.
I can be sasko2236 if I want to be. So can you or anyone.
nullpointer,
I invoiced a handle/alias of anonymous entity------ unregistered guest user. I didn't in fact invoice a legally defined person. Therefore, not an actual invoice.
As far as we know, sasko2236 is just a ghost.
Until courts defines ghosts as 'persons', it is not an actual invoice.
nullpointer,
Actually, it wouldn't be usury for usury would be an interest rate. It's would be a late penalty fee just like a bank would do if you don't make your payment. That penalty could be more than the debt owed because of the administrative cost penalty for having to re-invoice. It is not an interest rate because an interest rate is a % apr interest rate. Technically, it is just a late fee or past due fee and in this case instead of being daily calculated, it is calculated monthly.
It is not an interest charge.
I chosen my words on that. Usury applies to loan with an interest charge. Where as, its a past due fee or late fee which is not the same and not subject to interest rate percentages maximums.
The 5 cent architecture guy was charging for answers to questions that were asked to him, by people who understood the fees. Sasko actually stated that he didn't want responses except from those who could provide additional information about the house in question. You didn't provide the information he was asking for in the first place, and then you billed him for advice he didn't ask for, without disclosing that you bill for your advice.
Hell if that's the way it works you Richard owe me about $10k by now.
As for late fees: it's illegal to charge them unless you explicitly disclose them in your contract. The laws are very specific about what that contract language must say - you have to define what constitutes late, and it has to be agreed to before any services are provided. Banks generally have it buried in that fine print to which you agree in order to open accounts with them.
kjdt,
I didn't invoice a person. I invoiced a handle which means I didn't invoice anything as it isn't an invoice.
Everyone bills for their time. My time isn't free. I'm not a charity. I said that prior to so pay for my time or advice should be assumed by any reasonable person to cost something. For there to be an invoice, the invoice must be addressed to a legally defined person by their legal name.
As far as we know, sasko2236 is a user handle for an A.I. bot program. Add to that, sasko2236 is not a legal name for a person and the laws applies only to persons not bots or droids or ghosts so the laws you refer to wouldn't apply.
you are a mess-
Balkins is like the Agent Smith of this forum. Any thread he wanders into immediately becomes about him.
oh dick, but your time is definitely free.
Balkins you are not a charity. But you are a charity case.
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null pointer,
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206f662066726565206164766963652c20646f6e277420626520612070656e69732e2057
68656e20796f752063616e20726561642074686973206d6573736167652c20676574206
261636b20746f206d65206f6e20736f66747761726520646576656c6f706d656e742e0d0a
bitch please, putting text into an ascii to hex converter is not going to give you any cred with me.
one way to kill a free advise thread - Balkins Post. what happened to sasko?
sasko read this thread and went running for the sanity of a mental hospital.
I think I have enough info here to determine with great certainty that my (sadly) empty coffee mug has more computer programming cred than Balkins.
nobody panic, I am now holding a delicious full mug.
https://www.linkedin.com/pub/richard-balkins/9/434/491
If I were Richard I'd revamp my LinkedIn profile to not claim experience back to 1987. Potential employers' assessments could go in two diverging unfortunate directions: 1. They may assume he's 10 to 15 years older than he actually already is, thus making his late entry into the work force seem even that much later and more inexplicable. 2. If they have any sense of his actual age they may do the math, as I did, and realize that he's claiming business ownership and freelance experience starting +/- age 5 to 7 - which will make them all that much more suspicious that the rest of his experience, both computer and building design related, is vastly exaggerated at best, and falsified at worst.
Non - glad to hear it, I was starting to get concerned.
kjdt,
this is why i wouldn't hire him with a different name.
graduated in 2000 (from high school - assumption).
claims to have been a software developer in 1987.
2000-18 = born in 1982.
started business in 1987.
this asshole is padding his resume.
to the shit pile it goes.
I laughed reading his LinkedIn, its probably one of the worst profiles I've seen and I thought mine was bad.
You guys, leave Richard alone. Just let him do his thing.
Donna, that's nice, but his thing is ruining this forum.
He needs to get banned ASAP. He's a fucking spambot (and just as smart as a spam bot).
But you can scroll right past his long rants, they're easy to identify by skimming, and the short posts he makes are usually very funny.
Nobody is ruining anything. The Forum is ever-changing.
part of our role as forum posters is to not respond to RWCB PBD posts in threads we don't want killed.
this thread had run it's course by the time it was derailed, but if there was interest in the original topic, the rest of us should have kept our posts on topic rather than posting about R's professional ambitions. if you don't want threads to die, don't contribute to their death.
Rob it is indeed a very common vernacular American style, but the OP probably isn't American (based on vocabulary.)
As for Richard I think he's provided a solution in this thread: let it be known that henceforth I will be invoicing him $162.50 per Richard-generated post, for my reading of any of his responses to any of my current or future posts.
can Archinect make a dollar to cents count for advise given on forum? like a check box that says "architectural services" and then end of year we bill all the people we advised.......so for instance if I am quite verbose and check the "architectural service" box I may earn say $0.05 a word?
null pointer,
I know it was very very basic text and easy one to decipher. It is not meant to be a software program. I was programming in machine language back in the days back in the late 1980s. When the computers like the Commodore 128 literally came with a built in ML Monitor program. Add to that a slew of other computer programs.... some of them are in fact on audio cassette tapes.
In addition, your scripting to automating autodesk products like Autocad is not real programming. It is scripting not programming in the traditional sense. You're not creating complete stand-alone games or applications. That's programming. That's software development. When you sell them to customers, that's software publishing. That's no street cred.
+1 curtkram
kjdt,
How the hell would you know if I had a business in software development. Create programs and have a software publisher distribute the programs.
Back then, writing software programs and then having it distributed isn't all too much different than writing a book and having it published. Technically, it is a business as a commercial venture.
Add to that, there was also publishing software via BBS and other computer networks.
I don't know where you're goin' Balkins but the rails are over here.
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