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dealing with outsourcing firms and large employers

The role of outsourcing firms with large employers like Microsoft, Oracle and Google has grown in economic significance, and is likely to remain strong for the next few years as hiring freezes persist, and human resource needs get filled using contingent workers. Part of this is driven by the regulatory regime, as permanent employees ha...

How much salary should I expect with my first job as a Software Engineer?

I'm a senior at a decent university majoring in Computer Science. Soon I will be interviewing for Software Engineer positions. I have had two good internships with will known tech companies, my grades are decent and I was active during college (president of ACM chapter, etc). I'm not sure if those things are even relevant though. I'l...

Discuss an estimate with a programmer

What is the least offensive way to confront a programmer about an estimate they've provided? Even considering that some programmers consistently under or over estimate, sometimes an estimate is far off from what you would ever imagine it to be (one of those... you're kidding me moments). How do you confront them without putting them on...

Getting RINGING response on SIP UAC without sending it from the other UAC

Hi, I hope this would be my last question about this SIP subject, I have managed to overcome the last issue I had by asking a friend to help me from a remote computer, I'm able to connect between the computers, but here is the thing, according to all the examples I saw, the Callee should invoke the Ringing response, but in my applicatio...

SSL_connect/read from "empty" BIO.

Hi, I have a problem making the link between the underlying socket (in this case, a (lib)ssh2 tunnel channel) and the BIO in order to make a handshake. The reason for all the trouble is: the server I wish to handshake with is not an SSL encrypted server initially, and has to be told to turn on SSL before SSL_connect()'ing/handshaking. ...