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I had a security clearance from my aerospace engineering career in the 80s & 90s that had long elapsed. But just having had a clearance, I got a gig in the 00s doing some Visual C++ work for some type of "situational awareness" application, and I think what made me stand out was that I had had a clearance, so it was a bit easier to get a temporary clearance (I can't remember the term, but it was like a quickie that was all that I needed to get to work behind the "safe" door).
This situation has arisen because employers don't want to invest anything in their employees, and would rather just buy skills, or in this case, a clearance, off the shelf. If I were still in the business, you can bet your sweet bippy that I would jump around to chase the dead Presidents. Oh, and H1Bs can't get this clearance; they can't even work in a NOFORN office.
The only problem with a clearance is that if you travel abroad a lot, it looks suspicious.
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Gurney Halleck (almost) sang: We work in the fields, we work in the towns,
and this is our lot in life.
For the rivers are wide, and the valleys are low,
and the Government-it is fat-headed.
Freedom is the freedom to say that two plus two make four. If that is granted, all else follows.
-- 6079 Smith W.
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It's extremely difficult to hire and retain good talent, whether it's software engineers or DBEs. If you lower the bar regarding quality/ability, then the pool is large. But when you do not have the luxury of that compromise, there is a serious lack of quality candidates. Also, most companies are not prepared to raise the stakes for a high quality candidate.
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The contracting company is restricted on what they can pay due to the bid price of the contract. The government uses the "lowest bid" model, which results in these low-money-ceiling contracts that result in less skilled contractor employees because the contractor did not submit a bid that would allow for higher skilled people to be hired. In order to hire someone of sufficient skill, they would have to effectively eliminate a person from the contract, which would jeopardize the company's ability to retain ownership of the contract at the end of the fiscal year.
A contractor bidding on a contract does not have to have personnel on their roster to even fulfill the needs of the contract. Currently the company that won the bid simply hire the existing people that are filling the seat. The last time this happened to me, they tried to get everyone on the contract to take lower pay in order to retain their positions. I told them, "Not only no, but f*ck no", and then went on to tell them that they would be hard pressed to replace me with someone that had even an equal skill set at the money I was making, while reminding them of the certifications that were required for my seat before the government would even consider letting them hire someone (Security+ CE, MCSA, and secret clearance).
I am their unicorn for that seat, and I hope the contract goes up for re-compete this year. I will probably be more forceful in my negotiations for pay and time off. I am confident that the group I work for will require that they keep me.
".45 ACP - because shooting twice is just silly" - JSOP, 2010
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You can never have too much ammo - unless you're swimming, or on fire. - JSOP, 2010
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When you pry the gun from my cold dead hands, be careful - the barrel will be very hot. - JSOP, 2013
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Why don't they hire full timers? Seems as if these are really long term projects.
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They do, they just don't pay as competitively as the private sector. I'm guessing that devs at JSOPs company make a bit more than I do, but have to deal with the private sector BS as well as the DoD requirements.
"There are three kinds of lies: lies, damned lies and statistics."
- Benjamin Disraeli
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are you making money from devexpress libraries? if so, is it more than 499? if so, what's the big deal? pay the f***ing 499 and call it a day. price of doing business. no brainer. 
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Use DevExpress Office API and make PDF instead of reports. You may supply a word or excel document as template and just fill it. Way better than reports.
If you want to stick with the reports way, then i guess you can pay the price and update, otherwise next time you decide to buy it, you will pay the full price.
In general Reporting is an important piece in a LoB application, you know, printing invoices, other documents, etc. - so the paid tools, no matter the producer/manufacturer, are usually far superior than free ones 
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Take a good look at the license terms; IIRC when DevExpress subscriptions expire you can keep using the last version available at the time of the expiration indefinitely 
Any time I looked at the alternatives, I found that the time spent in migrating and tweaking and fixing the open source equivalents was way more expensive than the DevExpress' retail price.
Just my 2c
Luca
The Price of Freedom is Eternal Vigilance. -- Wing Commander IV
En Það Besta Sem Guð Hefur Skapað, Er Nýr Dagur.
(But the best thing God has created, is a New Day.)
-- Sigur Ròs - Viðrar vel til loftárása
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Luca Leonardo Scorcia wrote: I found that the time spent in migrating and tweaking and fixing the open source equivalents was way more expensive than the DevExpress' retail price.
Amen!
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if you have build it with the license it should'nt show any message.just contact the support to assit
Caveat Emptor.
"Progress doesn't come from early risers – progress is made by lazy men looking for easier ways to do things." Lazarus Long
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I've used devexpress reports in the past, and found the to be
1. superior to anything else I've seen so far
2. thus worth the price (which includes support, and their support guys are really doing a good job)
I only have a signature in order to let @DalekDave follow my posts.
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Kevin Marois wrote: Any reason not to use it?
What, aside from the text that says "This is a very early alpha version not intented to be used in production environments", and the fact that it hasn't been migrated off the now-defunct CodePlex site? 
There's a forked version on GitHub[^], which was last updated in 2016. The "alpha / don't use" warning is still there.
It doesn't look like there's anyone actively working on it.
"These people looked deep within my soul and assigned me a number based on the order in which I joined."
- Homer
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Another flaw hits Tapplock smart locks, thanks to leaky server | ZDNet[^]
leaky company's API server....MAC address and converts it using the MD5 algorithm....
Who architects these solutions , who test them ...where are the standards ?
Caveat Emptor.
"Progress doesn't come from early risers – progress is made by lazy men looking for easier ways to do things." Lazarus Long
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Standards? We don't need no stinkin' standards.
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As long as we have badges!
I'm pretty sure I would not like to live in a world in which I would never be offended.
I am absolutely certain I don't want to live in a world in which you would never be offended.
Freedom doesn't mean the absence of things you don't like.
Dave
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Did you say badgers? ![Badger | [badger,badger,badger,badger...]](https://codeproject.global.ssl.fastly.net/script/Forums/Images/badger.gif)
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Wow. These folks shouldn't be allowed anywhere near a security-oriented business. I can't believe (according to the article) unlocking only requires an obfuscation (by MD5) of the MAC address. That's a criminally stupid design.
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They probably got the code from QA or SO ... 
Obligatory CommitStrip[^]
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Bad command or file name. Bad, bad command! Sit! Stay! Staaaay...
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And, double wow. How are these folks in business? Bad technological security and bad physical security as well...this product simply has it all.
A lock you can disassemble with a screwdriver. I guess at least its not a tool-less disassembly?
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"We will continue to monitor the latest security trends and provide updates from time to time"
What do they mean "continue"?
If they ever did that they wouldn't be having these problems in the first place 
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There are a lot of security trends to monitor, and they are starting from the beginning.
It shouldn't take them long, they have reached the point where the door key has been invented. Coming soon: the door lock.
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Bad command or file name. Bad, bad command! Sit! Stay! Staaaay...
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