I can totally agree with timothy on this one, it's not so much that doing your work makes you an unhappy person, it's that constantly thinking in a critical way (fault finding) can mess with your life. You begin to automatically think about every possible way in which something could go wrong and lose your positive attitude towards life (which is really handy).
I'm a software tester and so I'm always finding problems with everything, and this somewhat conditions your mind into always thinking that nothing is perfect, which of course it isn't, but your increased focus on the fact in unhealthy.
Of course there are plus sides like being able to make sure that things will run smoothly whether it be organising a holiday or buying a new household appliance, but in the end your over analysing still prevents you from properly relaxing. Like someone posted above, I think it's pretty important to get away from technology in your downtime, and into a situation where things can't really go wrong - you have what you need and don't care about anything else (snowboarding and drinking with mates come to mind for me).
I think it's good to realise you've developed some useful life skills, you're never going to make stupid blind decisions in life, and you just need to learn to control your thinking by not analysing things which aren't so important and just going with the flow.
Recently I was coding in perl and found that the zenburn colorscheme took away some of the syntax highlighting that I usually have (though some remains). Does anyone have an idea on how to fix this? I'd like to use zenburn but I find syntax highlighting more useful than a nice colorscheme. My guess is that the theme leaves some required colors unset and I might be able to add a few lines to fix this?
It's kind of surprising that you guys in the US aren't more familiar with caps and shaping of broadband. In Australia there was only every completely unlimited internet for a year or two...I guess it's harder for us since a lot more of the internet traffic is international and therefore more expensive, plus we have less users.
I think it's a reasonable measure to save the company money (as you can see from the stats, it's only really going to upset a very small percentage of users, but save a lot of money) however it seems some companies take it a bit too far just because they can.
Most of the plans over here are capped at a monthly usage of 10-20gig for the average plan, with usage being slowed dramatically after the cap is met (64kbit/ps). Quite a few plans have shaping which count your cap or limit your bandwidth differently based on the time of day which I think is definitely a good idea. The company I'm with counts upload towards your cap and limits upload speeds (to a fairly low speed - 16kbyte/ps) which really gives me the sh!ts...makes internet multitasking very poor and effectively limits your download speeds because of the DL overhead.
I think the ideal solution is a teared design where the more you use the slower it gets, the more off peak it is the less it counts, the lower the consistency of high usage the less it matters. I don't understand why everything always has to be implemented in massive steps rather than something with a gradient.
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I can totally agree with timothy on this one, it's not so much that doing your work makes you an unhappy person, it's that constantly thinking in a critical way (fault finding) can mess with your life. You begin to automatically think about every possible way in which something could go wrong and lose your positive attitude towards life (which is really handy).
I'm a software tester and so I'm always finding problems with everything, and this somewhat conditions your mind into always thinking that nothing is perfect, which of course it isn't, but your increased focus on the fact in unhealthy.
Of course there are plus sides like being able to make sure that things will run smoothly whether it be organising a holiday or buying a new household appliance, but in the end your over analysing still prevents you from properly relaxing. Like someone posted above, I think it's pretty important to get away from technology in your downtime, and into a situation where things can't really go wrong - you have what you need and don't care about anything else (snowboarding and drinking with mates come to mind for me).
I think it's good to realise you've developed some useful life skills, you're never going to make stupid blind decisions in life, and you just need to learn to control your thinking by not analysing things which aren't so important and just going with the flow.
Recently I was coding in perl and found that the zenburn colorscheme took away some of the syntax highlighting that I usually have (though some remains). Does anyone have an idea on how to fix this? I'd like to use zenburn but I find syntax highlighting more useful than a nice colorscheme. My guess is that the theme leaves some required colors unset and I might be able to add a few lines to fix this?
It's kind of surprising that you guys in the US aren't more familiar with caps and shaping of broadband. In Australia there was only every completely unlimited internet for a year or two...I guess it's harder for us since a lot more of the internet traffic is international and therefore more expensive, plus we have less users. I think it's a reasonable measure to save the company money (as you can see from the stats, it's only really going to upset a very small percentage of users, but save a lot of money) however it seems some companies take it a bit too far just because they can. Most of the plans over here are capped at a monthly usage of 10-20gig for the average plan, with usage being slowed dramatically after the cap is met (64kbit/ps). Quite a few plans have shaping which count your cap or limit your bandwidth differently based on the time of day which I think is definitely a good idea. The company I'm with counts upload towards your cap and limits upload speeds (to a fairly low speed - 16kbyte/ps) which really gives me the sh!ts...makes internet multitasking very poor and effectively limits your download speeds because of the DL overhead. I think the ideal solution is a teared design where the more you use the slower it gets, the more off peak it is the less it counts, the lower the consistency of high usage the less it matters. I don't understand why everything always has to be implemented in massive steps rather than something with a gradient.