Indeed. The fundamentalist protestants that believe in the Young Earth, and build replicas of Noah's ark, also believe that the pope is the antichrist. They are two completely different groups.
Right-o. Don't forget that Evangelicals and Pentecostals speak n tongues, build compounds with guns, sometimes have multiple wives, some think they hear "God's voice" in their head and declaring themselves prophets with the ability to amend the Bible. My favorite is the 7th Day Adventists whose beliefs are based on Ellen White's ramblings because she was mentally ill from sustaining head trauma when she was younger. She predicted the end of the world that didn't happen. None of it could possibly be delusional craziness could it?
My favorite part of this:
Hear God's voice in your head? Yay, you had a major blessed spiritual experience
Hear the voice of Elvis in your head? It's off to the funny farm to be heavily sedated for the rest of your life
I have personally fielded this question from my team. On that occasion, I reminded them that when I say, "great job", I mean it, and when I say, "You missed this one, lets try $colleague's idea this time." I am not just being a persnickety asshole boss, I am providing feedback, and directing a project.
See... you still don't get it though. Certain personalities want praise and admiration and that in whatever form is adequate to them. They are usually more narcissistic than others. There are other personalities however that are not interested in admiration to boost their self esteem. They don't derive their self worth from a popularity contest. They can provide their own basis for self worth. What these people want to know is what specifically did I get praised for? The reason is because they want to do more of the things that you find valuable to improve their performance and contribution to the company mission and support their families. They don't really care about you specifically praising them. You're just another human being. That's what people like you don't understand. Get some more background in psychology and it will become crystal clear.
That's likely to be the stuff I will praise the most for as well... both because it is most likely to be "above and beyond" and because it's apparent to everyone that the void is filled, but unexpectedly.
If "above and beyond" means 80 hour weeks and the job being the central part of my life, you can count me out. That's the road to burnout and depression. No employer is worth your sanity.
Oddly enough, the stuff I get the most praise for is stuff that I simply started doing because it filled a void that I felt was present. Full disclosure: I have a cool boss.
Please oh please tell us where you can find this "cool boss" you speak of. I haven't had one of those in about a decade. (sad panda) The ones I have worked for in the past 10 years have been narcissistic, incompetent pricks that suffer from the Dunning Kruger effect. It's been awful.
I would like to see an equivalent or better operating system have equivalent or better support for all popular software applications. Once this happens, Microsoft will bleed money faster than you can imagine.
"Improve" in the sense of working for an employer means better meeting the employer's expectations. If the employer is not providing expectations or feedback, you are trying to be clairvoyant which is not possible. One of my parents was like this. They would expect me to do things a certain way or at certain times but never inform me of that except by severely punishing me for not reading their minds. That's a toxic situation.
My advice, unless your employer doesn't question your performance and you can do whatever you like, leave. During the exit interview tell HR this is the main reason you are leaving. Hopefully they will take the feedback to heart but often employers don't because they are more often than not egotistical and believe they are infallible not open to criticism.
Just so you know, there is a cognitive bias whereby people think that everyone thinks the same and therefore they ought to arrive at the same conclusions, you know the "right" and "only" ones because you know there is a right way and everything is the wrong way (black and white thinking). They can't compute why someone wouldn't arrive at the "right way" independently other than there is something wrong with you and you are defective in some way. These people have the emotional intelligence skills of a rock and you don't want to work for them or be in any kind of dealing with them. They will make you miserable.
Go ahead mod the truth down, it doesn't make it anymore false. Lots of fantasy loving liberals on here. Go ahead live your life that way and see what the outcome is. You trade your freedom away every day and try to coerce everyone to conform to some hazy idealism and never get anywhere.
So basically, we don't really give a shit about copyright infringement what we do give a shit about is if an ISP like Cox doesn't have the processes in place to deal with copyright infringement (or anything else for that matter) and fails to respond competently in a timely manner, it will be sued. In summary, we are trying to protect ISP's from financial harm that are trying to squeeze every last time out of subscribers and then want to put internet toll roads in place to further extort the subscribers due to corporate greed.
If you can switch that easily then chances are the stuff that you are doing is either not that complicated, or you are doing a piss-poor job of it.
If you are being interrupted to the point that your main tasks - the ones you are paid to do - aren't being done then you'll very quickly find yourself either out of a job, or having a breakdown.
You clearly don't understand the concept of "your main tasks - the ones you are paid to do". If you work for a company or corporation, you are paid to do exactly what they tell you to do and if that means mentoring people and switching tasks to help other people complete their tasks, that's what you're paid to do.
Look I'm personally in agreement with your "No, Just... no" sentiment. The problem is the corporate universe doesn't give a single FUCK about that. Except we all need money to get by. It's a shitty game that we're all forced to play. If you learn how to play well, you can effectively buy your freedom and that to me is more worthwhile than anything else.
No sir, you didn't train yourself in context switching, but you have certainly mastered eating bullsh*t with a smile.
You can improve any brain function with targeted practice. And yes you would be correct, I have "mastered eating bullsh*t with a smile". In my mind, it's only temporary until I achieve my financial goals to free myself from wage slavery. You see, I will be free at that point and you, if you haven't done the same thing, will be force-fed the "bullsh*t" whether you like it or not. The choice is yours. We don't live in a perfect world.
In today's world, you train yourself to handle context switching better. If you don't, people like me out-compete you. The way I look at it, I don't get paid to program, I get paid to "work" somewhere. I get paid to do something for someone else the way they want to do it.
Here's a lesson kids: It's never fun to be a software engineer/developer/programmer working for the man. You won't get to do what you like best about it. This ought to compel you to make that money, invest it and pay yourself so you can have the freedom to do what you love in the way you like to do it. I wish I had learned that sooner.
It takes time, so if it feels like drudgery, make time to do something you actually like in your free time.
Many games that were fun to play but are no longer available live on because of emulators.
You can say that again! I'm a huge emulation fan! I still use ePSXe to play Final Fantasy 7 from time to time, MameUI64 for arcade, Fusion (I think it used to be called Kega?) for SMS/Genesis, ZSNES for SNES and FCEUX for NES. I keep going to back to my old favorites:
- FF7
- Space Gun/Star Wars/Galaga
- Phantasy Star 1/2
- FF2, SMB World
- Dragon Warrior, Bionic Commando, Ninja Gaiden, Castlevania
So many good times! I highly recommend this t-shirt Devo + Castlevania = Epic geekness.
is that there are too many software packages in use by organizations that require legacy support that won't work within many new browsers. My company has software that requires IE9 with outdated plugins that haven't been developed since 2003
That rhetoric used to be true but not anymore. I hate to tell you, your company is the minority and it's becoming more of a minority every day. Several problems with your argument are IE9 runs on which version of Windows again? Oh the one that Microsoft doesn't support anymore. Sources:
I guess you hope you're on Windows 7 and have the extended support. For the rest of us, we're not in the dark ages anymore. It's 2017 for crying out loud. Quirksmode vs. HTML 5, you do the math. How do you deliver a mobile experience with Quirksmode? *cough*
Its not surprising that the Millennials, who spend a lot of their time texting on their phones, like to be contacted by texts.
Meanwhile, Gen X likes to be contacted via ICQ or AOL Instant Messenger but the Millenials, who are attempting to hire them, don't understand what either of those things are. The struggle is real!
Oh the entertainment value of these endless stories about the latest way MS has found to abuse those who still use their products... I've been MS-free for the last seven years and it certainly does feel GOOD....
Oh the entertainment value of the endless rhetoric where the alternatives to Windows can't seem to find a way to adequately run the software people want to use. When that happens, Microsoft will be a thing of the past. And honestly I say, good riddens! But the reason M$ is still around is because the alternatives just don't stack up in the consumer space as it relates to applications.
Obesity (along with diabetes II) is caused by carbohydrate intake. Not fat.
It would be more correct to say improper balance of blood sugar due to improper carbohydrate consumption. Proper consumption varies by metabolic profile. I am an Endomorph, so if I look at a carb, I gain weight practically. However, if I eat low carb and do resistance training, I pack muscle on like a fiend. An Ectomorph does not have this experience.
This gets into the definition of healthy. Whole grains are universally accepted as healthy. However, while full fat might not have the cardiovascular risk that was one believed, more fat = more calories (also as I am sure you know the source of fat is pretty important) and we are not doing so great with obesity. Also pretty much everyone agrees the western diet contains to much sodium.
Bottom line, heart healthy, growth health, weight healthy do not necessarily line up squarely.
There is not a one size fits all set of dietary needs. As you might be aware of there is a range of metabolic profiles: Ectomorph, Mesomorph and Endomorph. Each of the variations of those metabolic profiles is going to require different customized dietary plans to achieve ideal health, body fat percentage and weight. Ideal weight also varies because even though people joke about being "big boned" people do in fact have different size skeletons. Those with larger frames are capable of supporting more muscle mass and as result are capable of carrying more weight. Those with smaller frames are not capable as much.
If the American government really cared about health and wellness, they would use tax dollars to do free evaluations of a persons health profile and then give them access to resources and information to help them manage that health profile. The problem is, no one ever seems to want to get serious about REAL HEALTH in this country. It's a joke.
Everyone, no matter what shit you've been told, if you want to be healthy focus on body fat percentage. Weight and BMI are crap. Ideal body fat percentage is different for men vs. women. Do your research. Also, regularly get blood work done. For diet, while you can start with a base diet for your metabolic profile. Everyone is different. What you do is you tweak your food intake and check the results over time to find one that works best for you based on the metrics you get from your OWN body. I was in serious peak physical shape at one point in time by doing precisely this. It's what professional and Olympic athletes do.
If you don't believe me, hire a reputable personal trainer to fact check me. Good luck!
By the way, in America, a lot of obesity problems are very exacerbated by sitting at desks in office jobs working too many hours. Not only that, it leads to tight muscles that atrophy.
No I don't work for Stardock. Pay the $5 for Start10. Customize all your registry settings. Re-create quick launch bar. Turn off all the Surface crap that's on by default. Bam, you have the operating system in the format that you most likely want it. I don't even mess with the Windows 8/10 features at all so I forget that Microsoft's Metro UI even exists and all the flaws with its UX.
I've been running Windows 10 like this for a year-ish with no problems. The only quibble I have is with the Windows Telemetry crap which is difficult to turn-off/thwart. It's do-able though.
For many years the most important criteria for evaluating a police officer was "number of arrests". Women just didn't measure up, and performed poorly.
Perhaps the women realized that the "number of arrests" a police officer makes isn't necessarily directly correlated with reducing crime? If I think I need to increase my "number of arrests" that means I'm going to be looking for an opportunity to arrest someone not for an opportunity to reduce crime.
"Facebook Rejects Female Engineers' Code More Often Than Male Counterparts, Analysis Finds"
Maybe it's just not as good, unless every female programmer signs it with "Coded by a Female Programmer!" That, and the little hearts above every lower-case "i".
I'm a male engineer who works with mostly male engineers and I can tell you that the reason is more likely to be because male engineers are more domineering. They're also a lot more irrational, opinionated and douchey. Heck I'll even admit I used to be like that until I stopped fighting some sort of code religious war about converting everyone over to my one style to rule them all when ever other person thinking like me had precisely the same idea. That dynamic leads to constant conflict, diminishes collaboration and ultimately doesn't do anything to deliver valuable software to the business.
I think the reason why geeks tend to fight this sort of social war in their circle is because the find out for the first time in some cases that they actually have a chance to "win" (really an illusion). Many of them were bullied in other social circles. It's all crap. Top to bottom. It takes awhile to realize it though.
I can't tell you the number of times I've seen the tabs vs. spaces religious war played out never with a positive outcome. There are a lot of engineers like Richard Hendricks in the world that would make tabs vs. spaces a deal breaker for sleeping with a hot girl.
You're right. Forgive me. What was I thinking considering the ethical implications of implementing an algorithm based system that arbitrarily tags individuals as criminals.
Guilty until proven innocent. Screw due process! It was just a fad.:P While you're at it, you might as well give away all your rights away to the plutocrats, since you obviously don't value them anyway. We would have all been better off in ye olden days as slaves of the Pharaoh.
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Indeed. The fundamentalist protestants that believe in the Young Earth, and build replicas of Noah's ark, also believe that the pope is the antichrist. They are two completely different groups.
Right-o. Don't forget that Evangelicals and Pentecostals speak n tongues, build compounds with guns, sometimes have multiple wives, some think they hear "God's voice" in their head and declaring themselves prophets with the ability to amend the Bible. My favorite is the 7th Day Adventists whose beliefs are based on Ellen White's ramblings because she was mentally ill from sustaining head trauma when she was younger. She predicted the end of the world that didn't happen. None of it could possibly be delusional craziness could it?
My favorite part of this:
Hear God's voice in your head? Yay, you had a major blessed spiritual experience
Hear the voice of Elvis in your head? It's off to the funny farm to be heavily sedated for the rest of your life
I have personally fielded this question from my team. On that occasion, I reminded them that when I say, "great job", I mean it, and when I say, "You missed this one, lets try $colleague's idea this time." I am not just being a persnickety asshole boss, I am providing feedback, and directing a project.
See... you still don't get it though. Certain personalities want praise and admiration and that in whatever form is adequate to them. They are usually more narcissistic than others. There are other personalities however that are not interested in admiration to boost their self esteem. They don't derive their self worth from a popularity contest. They can provide their own basis for self worth. What these people want to know is what specifically did I get praised for? The reason is because they want to do more of the things that you find valuable to improve their performance and contribution to the company mission and support their families. They don't really care about you specifically praising them. You're just another human being. That's what people like you don't understand. Get some more background in psychology and it will become crystal clear.
That's likely to be the stuff I will praise the most for as well... both because it is most likely to be "above and beyond" and because it's apparent to everyone that the void is filled, but unexpectedly.
If "above and beyond" means 80 hour weeks and the job being the central part of my life, you can count me out. That's the road to burnout and depression. No employer is worth your sanity.
Oddly enough, the stuff I get the most praise for is stuff that I simply started doing because it filled a void that I felt was present. Full disclosure: I have a cool boss.
Please oh please tell us where you can find this "cool boss" you speak of. I haven't had one of those in about a decade. (sad panda) The ones I have worked for in the past 10 years have been narcissistic, incompetent pricks that suffer from the Dunning Kruger effect. It's been awful.
I would like to see an equivalent or better operating system have equivalent or better support for all popular software applications. Once this happens, Microsoft will bleed money faster than you can imagine.
"Improve" in the sense of working for an employer means better meeting the employer's expectations. If the employer is not providing expectations or feedback, you are trying to be clairvoyant which is not possible. One of my parents was like this. They would expect me to do things a certain way or at certain times but never inform me of that except by severely punishing me for not reading their minds. That's a toxic situation.
My advice, unless your employer doesn't question your performance and you can do whatever you like, leave. During the exit interview tell HR this is the main reason you are leaving. Hopefully they will take the feedback to heart but often employers don't because they are more often than not egotistical and believe they are infallible not open to criticism.
Just so you know, there is a cognitive bias whereby people think that everyone thinks the same and therefore they ought to arrive at the same conclusions, you know the "right" and "only" ones because you know there is a right way and everything is the wrong way (black and white thinking). They can't compute why someone wouldn't arrive at the "right way" independently other than there is something wrong with you and you are defective in some way. These people have the emotional intelligence skills of a rock and you don't want to work for them or be in any kind of dealing with them. They will make you miserable.
Go ahead mod the truth down, it doesn't make it anymore false. Lots of fantasy loving liberals on here. Go ahead live your life that way and see what the outcome is. You trade your freedom away every day and try to coerce everyone to conform to some hazy idealism and never get anywhere.
So basically, we don't really give a shit about copyright infringement what we do give a shit about is if an ISP like Cox doesn't have the processes in place to deal with copyright infringement (or anything else for that matter) and fails to respond competently in a timely manner, it will be sued. In summary, we are trying to protect ISP's from financial harm that are trying to squeeze every last time out of subscribers and then want to put internet toll roads in place to further extort the subscribers due to corporate greed.
No. Just.... no.
If you can switch that easily then chances are the stuff that you are doing is either not that complicated, or you are doing a piss-poor job of it.
If you are being interrupted to the point that your main tasks - the ones you are paid to do - aren't being done then you'll very quickly find yourself either out of a job, or having a breakdown.
You clearly don't understand the concept of "your main tasks - the ones you are paid to do". If you work for a company or corporation, you are paid to do exactly what they tell you to do and if that means mentoring people and switching tasks to help other people complete their tasks, that's what you're paid to do.
Look I'm personally in agreement with your "No, Just... no" sentiment. The problem is the corporate universe doesn't give a single FUCK about that. Except we all need money to get by. It's a shitty game that we're all forced to play. If you learn how to play well, you can effectively buy your freedom and that to me is more worthwhile than anything else.
No sir, you didn't train yourself in context switching, but you have certainly mastered eating bullsh*t with a smile.
You can improve any brain function with targeted practice. And yes you would be correct, I have "mastered eating bullsh*t with a smile". In my mind, it's only temporary until I achieve my financial goals to free myself from wage slavery. You see, I will be free at that point and you, if you haven't done the same thing, will be force-fed the "bullsh*t" whether you like it or not. The choice is yours. We don't live in a perfect world.
FF7 came out for PC, why the need to emulate?
You can fast-forward through the XP grind.
In today's world, you train yourself to handle context switching better. If you don't, people like me out-compete you. The way I look at it, I don't get paid to program, I get paid to "work" somewhere. I get paid to do something for someone else the way they want to do it.
Here's a lesson kids: It's never fun to be a software engineer/developer/programmer working for the man. You won't get to do what you like best about it. This ought to compel you to make that money, invest it and pay yourself so you can have the freedom to do what you love in the way you like to do it. I wish I had learned that sooner.
It takes time, so if it feels like drudgery, make time to do something you actually like in your free time.
Many games that were fun to play but are no longer available live on because of emulators.
You can say that again! I'm a huge emulation fan! I still use ePSXe to play Final Fantasy 7 from time to time, MameUI64 for arcade, Fusion (I think it used to be called Kega?) for SMS/Genesis, ZSNES for SNES and FCEUX for NES. I keep going to back to my old favorites:
- FF7
- Space Gun/Star Wars/Galaga
- Phantasy Star 1/2
- FF2, SMB World
- Dragon Warrior, Bionic Commando, Ninja Gaiden, Castlevania
So many good times! I highly recommend this t-shirt Devo + Castlevania = Epic geekness.
is that there are too many software packages in use by organizations that require legacy support that won't work within many new browsers. My company has software that requires IE9 with outdated plugins that haven't been developed since 2003
That rhetoric used to be true but not anymore. I hate to tell you, your company is the minority and it's becoming more of a minority every day. Several problems with your argument are IE9 runs on which version of Windows again? Oh the one that Microsoft doesn't support anymore. Sources:
http://www.directionsonmicroso...
https://support.microsoft.com/...
I guess you hope you're on Windows 7 and have the extended support. For the rest of us, we're not in the dark ages anymore. It's 2017 for crying out loud. Quirksmode vs. HTML 5, you do the math. How do you deliver a mobile experience with Quirksmode? *cough*
Its not surprising that the Millennials, who spend a lot of their time texting on their phones, like to be contacted by texts.
Meanwhile, Gen X likes to be contacted via ICQ or AOL Instant Messenger but the Millenials, who are attempting to hire them, don't understand what either of those things are. The struggle is real!
Sure, he got it from anthrax from a 75-year old reindeer. Ridiculous.
I propose a theme song for this movie: Reindeer got run over by a permafrost! Do be do be do do do do do
Hai u haz job? I haz i wud lik to offr u, u intersted?
Or u could just go straight to the employer equivalent of Tinder. Ideal candidates will have exceptional rap battle skillz.
Oh the entertainment value of these endless stories about the latest way MS has found to abuse those who still use their products... I've been MS-free for the last seven years and it certainly does feel GOOD....
Oh the entertainment value of the endless rhetoric where the alternatives to Windows can't seem to find a way to adequately run the software people want to use. When that happens, Microsoft will be a thing of the past. And honestly I say, good riddens! But the reason M$ is still around is because the alternatives just don't stack up in the consumer space as it relates to applications.
Obesity (along with diabetes II) is caused by carbohydrate intake. Not fat.
It would be more correct to say improper balance of blood sugar due to improper carbohydrate consumption. Proper consumption varies by metabolic profile. I am an Endomorph, so if I look at a carb, I gain weight practically. However, if I eat low carb and do resistance training, I pack muscle on like a fiend. An Ectomorph does not have this experience.
This gets into the definition of healthy. Whole grains are universally accepted as healthy. However, while full fat might not have the cardiovascular risk that was one believed, more fat = more calories (also as I am sure you know the source of fat is pretty important) and we are not doing so great with obesity. Also pretty much everyone agrees the western diet contains to much sodium. Bottom line, heart healthy, growth health, weight healthy do not necessarily line up squarely.
There is not a one size fits all set of dietary needs. As you might be aware of there is a range of metabolic profiles: Ectomorph, Mesomorph and Endomorph. Each of the variations of those metabolic profiles is going to require different customized dietary plans to achieve ideal health, body fat percentage and weight. Ideal weight also varies because even though people joke about being "big boned" people do in fact have different size skeletons. Those with larger frames are capable of supporting more muscle mass and as result are capable of carrying more weight. Those with smaller frames are not capable as much.
If the American government really cared about health and wellness, they would use tax dollars to do free evaluations of a persons health profile and then give them access to resources and information to help them manage that health profile. The problem is, no one ever seems to want to get serious about REAL HEALTH in this country. It's a joke.
Everyone, no matter what shit you've been told, if you want to be healthy focus on body fat percentage. Weight and BMI are crap. Ideal body fat percentage is different for men vs. women. Do your research. Also, regularly get blood work done. For diet, while you can start with a base diet for your metabolic profile. Everyone is different. What you do is you tweak your food intake and check the results over time to find one that works best for you based on the metrics you get from your OWN body. I was in serious peak physical shape at one point in time by doing precisely this. It's what professional and Olympic athletes do.
If you don't believe me, hire a reputable personal trainer to fact check me. Good luck!
By the way, in America, a lot of obesity problems are very exacerbated by sitting at desks in office jobs working too many hours. Not only that, it leads to tight muscles that atrophy.
No I don't work for Stardock. Pay the $5 for Start10. Customize all your registry settings. Re-create quick launch bar. Turn off all the Surface crap that's on by default. Bam, you have the operating system in the format that you most likely want it. I don't even mess with the Windows 8/10 features at all so I forget that Microsoft's Metro UI even exists and all the flaws with its UX.
I've been running Windows 10 like this for a year-ish with no problems. The only quibble I have is with the Windows Telemetry crap which is difficult to turn-off/thwart. It's do-able though.
For many years the most important criteria for evaluating a police officer was "number of arrests". Women just didn't measure up, and performed poorly.
Perhaps the women realized that the "number of arrests" a police officer makes isn't necessarily directly correlated with reducing crime? If I think I need to increase my "number of arrests" that means I'm going to be looking for an opportunity to arrest someone not for an opportunity to reduce crime.
. . . the claim was "Maybe it's just not as good." Needs proof as you and parent said.
A sentence that begins with "maybe" is not a "claim".
What about one that starts with "I have faith that..." or "I find your lack of faith in this code disturbing"?
"Facebook Rejects Female Engineers' Code More Often Than Male Counterparts, Analysis Finds"
Maybe it's just not as good, unless every female programmer signs it with "Coded by a Female Programmer!" That, and the little hearts above every lower-case "i".
I'm a male engineer who works with mostly male engineers and I can tell you that the reason is more likely to be because male engineers are more domineering. They're also a lot more irrational, opinionated and douchey. Heck I'll even admit I used to be like that until I stopped fighting some sort of code religious war about converting everyone over to my one style to rule them all when ever other person thinking like me had precisely the same idea. That dynamic leads to constant conflict, diminishes collaboration and ultimately doesn't do anything to deliver valuable software to the business.
I think the reason why geeks tend to fight this sort of social war in their circle is because the find out for the first time in some cases that they actually have a chance to "win" (really an illusion). Many of them were bullied in other social circles. It's all crap. Top to bottom. It takes awhile to realize it though.
I can't tell you the number of times I've seen the tabs vs. spaces religious war played out never with a positive outcome. There are a lot of engineers like Richard Hendricks in the world that would make tabs vs. spaces a deal breaker for sleeping with a hot girl.
You're right. Forgive me. What was I thinking considering the ethical implications of implementing an algorithm based system that arbitrarily tags individuals as criminals.
Guilty until proven innocent. Screw due process! It was just a fad. :P While you're at it, you might as well give away all your rights away to the plutocrats, since you obviously don't value them anyway. We would have all been better off in ye olden days as slaves of the Pharaoh.