"Rock stars" - we called them divas in my company - are notoriously unmanageable: many of them are temperamental, don't work well with others, tend to do what they "know" is right instead of doing what they're told,
No disrespect, but we developers also have a name for people that describe developers the way you do:-)
"Rock stars" - we called them divas in my company - are notoriously unmanageable: many of them are temperamental, don't work well with others, tend to do what they "know" is right instead of doing what they're told,
No disrespect, but we developers also have a name for people that describe developers the way you do:-)
No, you don't need 10, idiot, you just need ONE, and about a dozen or so relatively obedeient and competent non-novice developers.
Some rules:
-The definition of 'rock star' is relative to the teams (both past and present). The rock star in one team can just be so-so in a different team.
- If everyone in the team knows (even if they don't publicly acknowledge) who their best guy is, all other egos are easily kept under control. No one wants to be more of an asshole than the best guy.
- By using both previous rules at the same time, the best thing you can do is find the brightest possible guy that is also humble. You might think this is asking for the impossible, but not so much. For example I can bet you that on the exit door of Google I/O you can find thousands of developers that were considered 'rock stars' in their companies that were having some internal battle after the sessions (you know, thinking, "Do I really suck so much?", "I don't even know where to start...").
Also, a fellow developer of mine used to say "Don't do today what you can leave for torromow; it's possible that you don't have to do it after all". When he said that I was in my 20s, he was north of 40. Back then, he sounded like a slacker. Fuck, was he right.
I agree. I'm left-handed and have always used a right-handed mouse or trackball.
Well, what's your definition of left-handed? We should start by discussing this. For most people it's "people who WRITE with the left hand" even if you do everything else with the right one.
I do write with the left, but apparently I do everything else (mouse, knife, and other mundane things) with the right. By the standard definition I'm a lefty but considering that I hardly ever actually write anything down, I don't think anyone who observed me for a few days would call me one.
By installing the first one in a non-linux shop when I was asked to install some service, once it was in used I mentioned it in some meeting with some big dog. No one had the balls to acknowledge they didn't know.
As someone with experience providing VPNs to Australian customers I can assure that saying "I'm in Australia, what's best for me" is not enough *at all*. At the very least, you should provide your city and ISP.
Not that you really care about replies obviously since you just wanted to advertise one specific provider:-)
Is it really too much to ask that people dress in a way that makes it possible to estimate their financial standing without direct contact?
It works that way already, just not in the way you seem to expect. If there's a meeting with IT people, the guy in the suit is sucking up to the guy in jeans, turtleneck shirt, or whatever. Not the other way around.
Or, if they're consultants working in the same company, the guy in the suit is telling the other guy why he should dress like him even if it's the fucking summer, there's 40 degrees C outside and you need to have the AC wasting lots of energy so that the suit guys are comfortable, at the expense of course of the people who dress appropriately (for the weather at least) sneezing non-stop. The other guy in the meeting is the one who doesn't give a fuck.
Eh? Door to door, flying from Denver to San Francisco, it's about half a day. 2.5 hour flight, an hour and a half on each side for getting to/from the airport, boarding, etc. Toss in some random stops to 7-11 or something and you're looking at spending about 6-8 hours of travel time.
Am I missing something?
Yes, high speed trains, but of course they may not be available in your country or for your desired trip.
When available it's a no brainer. The total time is roughly is same (for distances up to 1000 km), and they go from city center to city center, and they're a lot more comfortable.
I want safe, quick transportation from point A to point B at a reasonable price.667 Modern air travel mostly delivers this.
Only if your definition of quick only includes time elapsed between take off and landing. Definitely not that fast if you time door to door and include everything.
Also, why isn't a 'medium' class anymore? One would think that any company that provided decent legroom at a reasonable price would make a killing. Seriously, I don't want to pay business fares just so I can have a flight in which I'm not worried about the retard on the front row putting their seat all the way down (at the risk of breaking my knees), but I'd be happy to pay twice the coach fare if I could have the legroom from the seat in front on mine (ie half the rows at twice the price).
A flight from Madrid to New York costs 400 euros in coach, around 3000 in business. Damn, give me something decent for 800! I don't need champagne, I don't need slippers, I don't need a private selection of movies. I just need the legroom.
Famatech did the same crap with radmin. They forced all their old customers (who had bought 1.x which promised lifetime upgrades) to withdraw their right to their lifetime upgrades in order to get one final "free" upgrade to 2.x.
Of course nothing happened, we like to bitch a lot but we hardly ever take action.
I'll use an analogy to explain how this is possible. Imagine a game that is set in medieval times in which you are exploring castles 500 years old. The game is new, but the castles in it were old right from the start.
God played the same trick with us. The universe is 6000 years old, but when it was created (when he inserted the CD, if it makes you feel more comfy) it already had extinct species, people that had been dead for a few centuries and so on.
Clear now?
What about simply directing where 5% of your tax dollars will be spent?
It wouldn't work, as it can be easily worked-around by messing with the other 95%. Say 10% of your taxes go to healthcare (0,1 if you are an American). You say 'my 5% should go to healthcare', by which probably you mean you want 15% to go to healthcare. More likely than not numbers would be messed with so still 10% would go to what you want.
We see that in Spain with the Church budget. They're supposed to self-finance (there's an X you can check or not in the income tax form, so you can state whether you want to support the Church or not). However they have the following tricks:
a) If the money people give freely is not enough, the state will cover the rest.
b) There's another cross (called 'social issues') you can cross. If you do, the Church will ALSO get a portion from it.
c) If you select to give to the Church, that money is not an extra. If you go Church and have to pay 100 EUR in taxes, then 0,7 EUR will go to Church while 99.3 will go to everything else. If I have to pay 100 EUR and chose not to support the Church then 100 EUR will go to everything else, so fundamentally I'm paying more taxes than you for everything that isn't the Church.
So you see, the idea that we can opt-in support the Church or not is just an illusion.
Blame myself for placing all the eggs in one basket and thinking that a investment fund cannot go bust. Don't you have Past performance is not guarantee of future results. standard disclaimer over there?
Are you kidding me? That disclaimer doesn't say anything like "having honest management in the past is not guarantee of future management".
Maybe there should be a 3 strikes rule for infringement. The third time you infringe someone's rights by posting a bogus takedown request, you lose your right to request any additional takedowns.
This is why I hate it when "security questions" are obvious things that anyone who knows me even slightly can figure out easily.
I'm more pissed by the fact that the questions *can't be changed* and everyone asks the same ones. Seriously, how is it possible that both my bank and a torrent site make me tell them the name of the first school?
Questions must be user defined (a fucking string) instead of coming from a list of the same 5 or 6 questions that everyone asks.
Plus some of them just don't apply worldwide. The 'maiden name' of a mother may be something not trivial in the US, but in many countries the wife never changes her last name and in fact it's passed along to children.
I'm currently writing (in a physical notebook) the fake answers I provide to each site to those questions, since I just don't feel like telling anyone information that can easily be used to gain access to important stuff.
It only does Google content out of the Play store and YouTube videos.
And only if you are in the US. If you are somewhere else the Nexus Q android application *will not be available* to download to your android device, period. And even if you manage to download it by cheating, the youtube application won't display the icon to 'play on Q'.
We complain about DVD and blu-ray zones all the time, but this is even worse. With a blu-ray at least if you take the player with you you can play your media everyone, but with this you are fucked. You can't use the Nexus Q *at all*, even to stream a fucking youtube video you just uploaded yourself.
(i am a spaniard)
Sorry for assange he better get more lawyers or at least ones with better work history.
Garzon directly asked for money to the owner of the bank he was judging for his conferences in the US (http://diariorc.com/?p=6950)
This isn't true and has been disproven already.
Garzon is accused by one spanish counter terrorist (whichever trust this might have) of hiding the real person in charge of spanish inmoral and illegal war against terrorism
Uh? If you are referring to GAL, anyone who can prove anything can go to another judge. Saying that this particular judge, who discovered *the whole thing* decided to keep the GAL boss hidden is absurd.
, by this time he became for some time a politician affiliated to the political party who was accused of supporting this death squadron.
Get your facts straight. He was brought on board by PSOE to fight corruption, he wasn't allowed to apparently and he left quite quickly and went back to his judicial career. of course when he did this he became the enemy of many in PSOE (left wing party in Spain for those who don't know). He already had lots of enemies in PP (right wing party).
Garzon was accused of not investigating a possible crime commited by the army and police minister or someone close
of aborting a terrorist raid agains them....mmmm many things to make me wonder if this is the only lawyer assange should have.
Curious what the/, groupthink thinks of his attempt to extradite a Chilean and try him for crimes in a separate country. We all know the opinion on the US doing it, but what about Spain?
The grounds for the extradition request where that he killed and tortured Spanish citizens.
He isn't banned from practicing law. He's banning for the judicial career, but he has a law degree (obviously) and he can work as a lawyer.
Keep in mind that this guy has worked with lots of international agencies, and apparently he's found the people with the largest balls in each. Otherwise Pinochet wouldn't have spent almost a year in London, for example.
The reason he was unseated in Spain was for issuing illegal wiretaps on member of the government that were suspected of corruption.
Suspected as in jail no less. He ordered a wiretapping indeed, and everyone else in the process agreed, to make sure that the people in jail wouldn't use their lawyers to continue to commit crimes. In fact, the tapes proved that they were doing so.
To be honest the reason I submitted the story (one date late indeed, but I expected an Assange story to appear rather quickly) is to bring a bit of awareness on Garzon's story as well as the blatant corruption going on over here (Spain).
We really owe a lot to this guy, even if the end it seems like the bad guys are getting their way.
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"Rock stars" - we called them divas in my company - are notoriously unmanageable: many of them are temperamental, don't work well with others, tend to do what they "know" is right instead of doing what they're told,
No disrespect, but we developers also have a name for people that describe developers the way you do :-)
Let me guess: "Sir".
Keep telling yourself that :-)
"Rock stars" - we called them divas in my company - are notoriously unmanageable: many of them are temperamental, don't work well with others, tend to do what they "know" is right instead of doing what they're told,
No disrespect, but we developers also have a name for people that describe developers the way you do :-)
No, you don't need 10, idiot, you just need ONE, and about a dozen or so relatively obedeient and competent non-novice developers.
Some rules:
-The definition of 'rock star' is relative to the teams (both past and present). The rock star in one team can just be so-so in a different team.
- If everyone in the team knows (even if they don't publicly acknowledge) who their best guy is, all other egos are easily kept under control. No one wants to be more of an asshole than the best guy.
- By using both previous rules at the same time, the best thing you can do is find the brightest possible guy that is also humble. You might think this is asking for the impossible, but not so much. For example I can bet you that on the exit door of Google I/O you can find thousands of developers that were considered 'rock stars' in their companies that were having some internal battle after the sessions (you know, thinking, "Do I really suck so much?", "I don't even know where to start...").
Also, a fellow developer of mine used to say "Don't do today what you can leave for torromow; it's possible that you don't have to do it after all". When he said that I was in my 20s, he was north of 40. Back then, he sounded like a slacker. Fuck, was he right.
Daily. 100+ tabs open is not uncommon.
That's cute. What do those tab contain? Try 4 different rutorrent windows for instance.
I agree. I'm left-handed and have always used a right-handed mouse or trackball.
Well, what's your definition of left-handed? We should start by discussing this. For most people it's "people who WRITE with the left hand" even if you do everything else with the right one.
I do write with the left, but apparently I do everything else (mouse, knife, and other mundane things) with the right. By the standard definition I'm a lefty but considering that I hardly ever actually write anything down, I don't think anyone who observed me for a few days would call me one.
How Did You Become a Linux Professional?
By installing the first one in a non-linux shop when I was asked to install some service, once it was in used I mentioned it in some meeting with some big dog. No one had the balls to acknowledge they didn't know.
As someone with experience providing VPNs to Australian customers I can assure that saying "I'm in Australia, what's best for me" is not enough *at all*. At the very least, you should provide your city and ISP.
:-)
Not that you really care about replies obviously since you just wanted to advertise one specific provider
Is it really too much to ask that people dress in a way that makes it possible to estimate their financial standing without direct contact?
It works that way already, just not in the way you seem to expect. If there's a meeting with IT people, the guy in the suit is sucking up to the guy in jeans, turtleneck shirt, or whatever. Not the other way around.
Or, if they're consultants working in the same company, the guy in the suit is telling the other guy why he should dress like him even if it's the fucking summer, there's 40 degrees C outside and you need to have the AC wasting lots of energy so that the suit guys are comfortable, at the expense of course of the people who dress appropriately (for the weather at least) sneezing non-stop. The other guy in the meeting is the one who doesn't give a fuck.
Eh? Door to door, flying from Denver to San Francisco, it's about half a day. 2.5 hour flight, an hour and a half on each side for getting to/from the airport, boarding, etc. Toss in some random stops to 7-11 or something and you're looking at spending about 6-8 hours of travel time.
Am I missing something?
Yes, high speed trains, but of course they may not be available in your country or for your desired trip.
When available it's a no brainer. The total time is roughly is same (for distances up to 1000 km), and they go from city center to city center, and they're a lot more comfortable.
We would look forward for weeks to a flight, and wear our best clothes.
Yeah, I remember visiting the deluxe sweatpants section in my local department store the day before flying. Those were the days.
I want safe, quick transportation from point A to point B at a reasonable price.667 Modern air travel mostly delivers this.
Only if your definition of quick only includes time elapsed between take off and landing. Definitely not that fast if you time door to door and include everything.
Also, why isn't a 'medium' class anymore? One would think that any company that provided decent legroom at a reasonable price would make a killing. Seriously, I don't want to pay business fares just so I can have a flight in which I'm not worried about the retard on the front row putting their seat all the way down (at the risk of breaking my knees), but I'd be happy to pay twice the coach fare if I could have the legroom from the seat in front on mine (ie half the rows at twice the price).
A flight from Madrid to New York costs 400 euros in coach, around 3000 in business. Damn, give me something decent for 800! I don't need champagne, I don't need slippers, I don't need a private selection of movies. I just need the legroom.
Famatech did the same crap with radmin. They forced all their old customers (who had bought 1.x which promised lifetime upgrades) to withdraw their right to their lifetime upgrades in order to get one final "free" upgrade to 2.x.
Of course nothing happened, we like to bitch a lot but we hardly ever take action.
+1 "Poe's law"
I apologize. I'd like to add
:-)
To my original comment.
You never know who's going to google you.
But it's only 2012!
I'll use an analogy to explain how this is possible. Imagine a game that is set in medieval times in which you are exploring castles 500 years old. The game is new, but the castles in it were old right from the start.
God played the same trick with us. The universe is 6000 years old, but when it was created (when he inserted the CD, if it makes you feel more comfy) it already had extinct species, people that had been dead for a few centuries and so on.
Clear now?
You're talking about a country with a per capita income of only $2,600. Clearly only the top 1% buy these phones and thus the expensive apps.
You'd be surprised at the profiles of the 'letter from a prince generator' buyers...
What about simply directing where 5% of your tax dollars will be spent?
It wouldn't work, as it can be easily worked-around by messing with the other 95%. Say 10% of your taxes go to healthcare (0,1 if you are an American). You say 'my 5% should go to healthcare', by which probably you mean you want 15% to go to healthcare. More likely than not numbers would be messed with so still 10% would go to what you want.
We see that in Spain with the Church budget. They're supposed to self-finance (there's an X you can check or not in the income tax form, so you can state whether you want to support the Church or not). However they have the following tricks:
a) If the money people give freely is not enough, the state will cover the rest.
b) There's another cross (called 'social issues') you can cross. If you do, the Church will ALSO get a portion from it.
c) If you select to give to the Church, that money is not an extra. If you go Church and have to pay 100 EUR in taxes, then 0,7 EUR will go to Church while 99.3 will go to everything else. If I have to pay 100 EUR and chose not to support the Church then 100 EUR will go to everything else, so fundamentally I'm paying more taxes than you for everything that isn't the Church.
So you see, the idea that we can opt-in support the Church or not is just an illusion.
Blame myself for placing all the eggs in one basket and thinking that a investment fund cannot go bust. Don't you have Past performance is not guarantee of future results. standard disclaimer over there?
Are you kidding me? That disclaimer doesn't say anything like "having honest management in the past is not guarantee of future management".
Seems interesting that the registration link is not https
http://www.facebook.com/hackercup/register
Maybe there should be a 3 strikes rule for infringement. The third time you infringe someone's rights by posting a bogus takedown request, you lose your right to request any additional takedowns.
As well as your internet connection of course.
This is why I hate it when "security questions" are obvious things that anyone who knows me even slightly can figure out easily.
I'm more pissed by the fact that the questions *can't be changed* and everyone asks the same ones. Seriously, how is it possible that both my bank and a torrent site make me tell them the name of the first school?
Questions must be user defined (a fucking string) instead of coming from a list of the same 5 or 6 questions that everyone asks.
Plus some of them just don't apply worldwide. The 'maiden name' of a mother may be something not trivial in the US, but in many countries the wife never changes her last name and in fact it's passed along to children.
I'm currently writing (in a physical notebook) the fake answers I provide to each site to those questions, since I just don't feel like telling anyone information that can easily be used to gain access to important stuff.
It only does Google content out of the Play store and YouTube videos.
And only if you are in the US. If you are somewhere else the Nexus Q android application *will not be available* to download to your android device, period. And even if you manage to download it by cheating, the youtube application won't display the icon to 'play on Q'.
We complain about DVD and blu-ray zones all the time, but this is even worse. With a blu-ray at least if you take the player with you you can play your media everyone, but with this you are fucked. You can't use the Nexus Q *at all*, even to stream a fucking youtube video you just uploaded yourself.
(i am a spaniard) Sorry for assange he better get more lawyers or at least ones with better work history. Garzon directly asked for money to the owner of the bank he was judging for his conferences in the US (http://diariorc.com/?p=6950)
This isn't true and has been disproven already.
Garzon is accused by one spanish counter terrorist (whichever trust this might have) of hiding the real person in charge of spanish inmoral and illegal war against terrorism
Uh? If you are referring to GAL, anyone who can prove anything can go to another judge. Saying that this particular judge, who discovered *the whole thing* decided to keep the GAL boss hidden is absurd.
, by this time he became for some time a politician affiliated to the political party who was accused of supporting this death squadron.
Get your facts straight. He was brought on board by PSOE to fight corruption, he wasn't allowed to apparently and he left quite quickly and went back to his judicial career. of course when he did this he became the enemy of many in PSOE (left wing party in Spain for those who don't know). He already had lots of enemies in PP (right wing party).
Garzon was accused of not investigating a possible crime commited by the army and police minister or someone close of aborting a terrorist raid agains them ....mmmm many things to make me wonder if this is the only lawyer assange should have.
Link?
Curious what the /, groupthink thinks of his attempt to extradite a Chilean and try him for crimes in a separate country. We all know the opinion on the US doing it, but what about Spain?
The grounds for the extradition request where that he killed and tortured Spanish citizens.
This is becoming more and more media circus. Garzon has no credibility, as he acted as political activist, not a judge.
Could you elaborate?
He is banned from practicing law in Spain
He isn't banned from practicing law. He's banning for the judicial career, but he has a law degree (obviously) and he can work as a lawyer.
Keep in mind that this guy has worked with lots of international agencies, and apparently he's found the people with the largest balls in each. Otherwise Pinochet wouldn't have spent almost a year in London, for example.
The reason he was unseated in Spain was for issuing illegal wiretaps on member of the government that were suspected of corruption.
Suspected as in jail no less. He ordered a wiretapping indeed, and everyone else in the process agreed, to make sure that the people in jail wouldn't use their lawyers to continue to commit crimes. In fact, the tapes proved that they were doing so.
To be honest the reason I submitted the story (one date late indeed, but I expected an Assange story to appear rather quickly) is to bring a bit of awareness on Garzon's story as well as the blatant corruption going on over here (Spain).
We really owe a lot to this guy, even if the end it seems like the bad guys are getting their way.