If that involves insincerity, sympathy, flattery, or even outright dishonesty (provided reward exceeds cost) then that's the tactic to use.
It probably would not have worked if I said I'd be there in 15 minutes, and it takes me 2 hours to get there. I was PIP'd before I even got into the office the next day.
And remember: if the other party shows no respect or acts like a d**k then they've done you a favour by removing the standard requirement that you treat them with respect in return.
Apparently if your boss is totally unprofessional you still are required to treat them with respect. I got that as part of my Monday lecture.
Had I been in that situation, I would said that because I was out of town, there was no way for me to get in to work right now, but I'd tell them in the most assuring voice I could muster that I'd look into the matter on Monday.
Almost exactly what I said. Then i got reamed out for 5 minutes for "leaving town right after breaking the build" and being "a blocker to for the entire team". Waiting until Monday was "totally unacceptable".
The kicker was it was after 4pm, and it would take about 2 hours to get there. He didn't want to hold the two people after 6pm to wait for me. So rather than flatly refusing I was curt with him and told him that "since I can't get there in less than 2 hours, and you won't wait. then I won't be able to come in today."
I did offer to have the engineers who were in office call me and I would talk with them and try to walk through as best as I could. And one of them did call, but it was just not really feasible over the phone.
Place went under about 2 years after I left. So I would have eventually had to look for a new job anyways. Not really a big loss, just unfair.
I wasn't around long enough, I was fired through a PIP. Even though the PIP was, as far as I can tell, because I wasn't available to drop everything and drive 2 hours to work on a Sunday afternoon. I'd say management was hostile, and I'm not certain upper management was ever made aware that it wasn't my fault. I think they only saw a malcontent that was on his way out.
I was 2 hours out of town on a Sunday at a friend's birthday party and my boss calls. He demands I come in and work on an issue that he believes I caused. And berates me for 5 minutes on the phone after I refused with the reason being that I'm out of town. When I get into work Monday, I get reamed out further and put on a PIP (performance improvement plan). I was never told I was "on-call" for that weekend. And later on Monday, once I finally got to look at the problem. I discovered someone committed changes without running it through the mandatory integration process. Those changes conflicted with my weeks old change and causes numerous test failures. In short, not my fault. Not even my responsibility to diagnose what went wrong. Needless to say I was out there quickly due to the PIP and my total dickishness with telling everyone at work I've been wrongly accused of such bullshit and how poorly the management handled it.
I find open source to be useful even in cases where it isn't Free Software. There was a time, in the olden days, when you bought software libraries for development that were distributed as a binary and header. These binary only distributions sometimes required royalties, but it was also common to have been a one time charge and royalty free. Either way it sucked because you could not see how it worked, modified it for your needs, or ported it to a different platform. Then this idea of open source hit the scene and started to change that. You still had to pay for it, and sometimes there were royalties, but at least you could adapt it to your tools and didn't have to wrestle with constantly changing calling conventions between different compilers.
If all you care about is Free Software, then great. But I don't necessarily have to participate in your personal religious movement to find benefit from open source and meaning and distinction between the terms open source and Free Software.
Yea, no shit. It's a bit like arguing that we don't need geometry, trigonometry and Calculus because natural number arithmetic is the oldest standard for mathematics.
If I'm watching movies on my i7 I don't really care if I'm using a large fraction of my CPU performance in software decode since I'm not really doing anything else with my computer. (I don't normally watch a movie while playing a game and typing up my thesis)
For STB, you could probably still do software decode on a more powerful one. I haven't tried it yet, but Nvidia Shield might have enough grunt to do the job at 1080p. (I doubt 4K, but I don't have a 4K TV yet)
The cameras are mainly pointed at the neighborhoods around gated communities and the property of prominent business owners in the best parts of a commercial district. These cameras are not pointed at industrial areas or poor residential areas where you're likely to find people tagging bridges.
A hardware division of your resources is problematic because they'll never be fully indepedent. They will at least share a keyboard, monitor and probably camera and microphone. So a route between each system is still possible to establish and may be difficult to protect with a hardware only solution.
From software side you can implement more complex policies and enforce them with virtualization. There are OSes specifically to address what you are looking for and do so at different layers, for example Qubes OS lets you do a VM per window and color codes them. And something like BitVisor has a narrower focus on protecting your VPN keys and encrypting your harddrive, from there you can dual-boot and have only your "business" system access certain encrypted partitions and use the VPN. without exposing that information to your personal system. (and vice versa if you choose)
But sadly there are a lot of problems with virtualization that is secure these days due to flaws in CPU architectures. I feel that these issues will be mostly if not completely resolved, but it may take two or three years.
and removing chronically incompetent drivers from behind the wheel permanently.
But my freedoms! You suggest we travel down the path to a totalitarian state where I'm denied my God given right to drive just because I get into a few accidents each year.
If you "implements" or "extends" is that allowed? We would have assumed yes, but everything is thrown into question. What is "core" what can be extended, what interfaces are your permitted to use in your own implementation? Can I write an image file loader for Java? there is already a core class for that, what if mine implements the same interface, did I violate the license agreement? did I infringe copyright?
I'm not a lawyer so I don't know, but in light of this I suggest that no matter how small your business is you need to hire a lawyer that specializes in copyright law and software licensing. And perhaps commercial general liability insurance.
It's called American Exceptionalism. Look it up. Even if you don't believe in it, many Americans behave as if they do believe in it. And belief can have a real impact on the world.
Years ago, when people still used newspapers, if I put a housing ad in the newspaper that said "Single Mothers Need Not Apply". Would it be the newspaper or me that has violated fair housing laws?
Is it? If I write a plug-in then did I duplicate the implementation of an API? Is the direction of call why you're trying to distinguish here? I think you may be trying to differentiate two things that are really two sides of the same coin.
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To me .com looks like the domain for the United States Department of Commerce.
If that involves insincerity, sympathy, flattery, or even outright dishonesty (provided reward exceeds cost) then that's the tactic to use.
It probably would not have worked if I said I'd be there in 15 minutes, and it takes me 2 hours to get there. I was PIP'd before I even got into the office the next day.
And remember: if the other party shows no respect or acts like a d**k then they've done you a favour by removing the standard requirement that you treat them with respect in return.
Apparently if your boss is totally unprofessional you still are required to treat them with respect. I got that as part of my Monday lecture.
Had I been in that situation, I would said that because I was out of town, there was no way for me to get in to work right now, but I'd tell them in the most assuring voice I could muster that I'd look into the matter on Monday.
Almost exactly what I said. Then i got reamed out for 5 minutes for "leaving town right after breaking the build" and being "a blocker to for the entire team". Waiting until Monday was "totally unacceptable".
The kicker was it was after 4pm, and it would take about 2 hours to get there. He didn't want to hold the two people after 6pm to wait for me. So rather than flatly refusing I was curt with him and told him that "since I can't get there in less than 2 hours, and you won't wait. then I won't be able to come in today."
I did offer to have the engineers who were in office call me and I would talk with them and try to walk through as best as I could. And one of them did call, but it was just not really feasible over the phone.
Place went under about 2 years after I left. So I would have eventually had to look for a new job anyways. Not really a big loss, just unfair.
I wasn't around long enough, I was fired through a PIP. Even though the PIP was, as far as I can tell, because I wasn't available to drop everything and drive 2 hours to work on a Sunday afternoon. I'd say management was hostile, and I'm not certain upper management was ever made aware that it wasn't my fault. I think they only saw a malcontent that was on his way out.
I was 2 hours out of town on a Sunday at a friend's birthday party and my boss calls. He demands I come in and work on an issue that he believes I caused. And berates me for 5 minutes on the phone after I refused with the reason being that I'm out of town.
When I get into work Monday, I get reamed out further and put on a PIP (performance improvement plan). I was never told I was "on-call" for that weekend. And later on Monday, once I finally got to look at the problem. I discovered someone committed changes without running it through the mandatory integration process.
Those changes conflicted with my weeks old change and causes numerous test failures. In short, not my fault. Not even my responsibility to diagnose what went wrong. Needless to say I was out there quickly due to the PIP and my total dickishness with telling everyone at work I've been wrongly accused of such bullshit and how poorly the management handled it.
(not posting as AC, because you know who you are)
You go that far back in history and failed to mention the Halloween documents.
I've been running X on Windows for over 10 years, long before WSL. I don't think anything about WSL excludes you from running X.
I find open source to be useful even in cases where it isn't Free Software. There was a time, in the olden days, when you bought software libraries for development that were distributed as a binary and header. These binary only distributions sometimes required royalties, but it was also common to have been a one time charge and royalty free. Either way it sucked because you could not see how it worked, modified it for your needs, or ported it to a different platform. Then this idea of open source hit the scene and started to change that. You still had to pay for it, and sometimes there were royalties, but at least you could adapt it to your tools and didn't have to wrestle with constantly changing calling conventions between different compilers.
If all you care about is Free Software, then great. But I don't necessarily have to participate in your personal religious movement to find benefit from open source and meaning and distinction between the terms open source and Free Software.
Yea, no shit. It's a bit like arguing that we don't need geometry, trigonometry and Calculus because natural number arithmetic is the oldest standard for mathematics.
If I'm watching movies on my i7 I don't really care if I'm using a large fraction of my CPU performance in software decode since I'm not really doing anything else with my computer. (I don't normally watch a movie while playing a game and typing up my thesis)
For STB, you could probably still do software decode on a more powerful one. I haven't tried it yet, but Nvidia Shield might have enough grunt to do the job at 1080p. (I doubt 4K, but I don't have a 4K TV yet)
The cameras are mainly pointed at the neighborhoods around gated communities and the property of prominent business owners in the best parts of a commercial district. These cameras are not pointed at industrial areas or poor residential areas where you're likely to find people tagging bridges.
some obscure company (patent troll) claims this violates all their patents?
if you're that paranoid then best stick with MPEG-2 and MP3 until the patents on AV1 and Opus expire.
Yeah, I'm so sorry that translation software is very weak at interpreting gibberish.
haha oops
A hardware division of your resources is problematic because they'll never be fully indepedent. They will at least share a keyboard, monitor and probably camera and microphone. So a route between each system is still possible to establish and may be difficult to protect with a hardware only solution.
From software side you can implement more complex policies and enforce them with virtualization. There are OSes specifically to address what you are looking for and do so at different layers, for example Qubes OS lets you do a VM per window and color codes them. And something like BitVisor has a narrower focus on protecting your VPN keys and encrypting your harddrive, from there you can dual-boot and have only your "business" system access certain encrypted partitions and use the VPN. without exposing that information to your personal system. (and vice versa if you choose)
But sadly there are a lot of problems with virtualization that is secure these days due to flaws in CPU architectures. I feel that these issues will be mostly if not completely resolved, but it may take two or three years.
both acupuncture and sham acupuncture had the same effect.
It's a pity that both cost nearly the same, else I might have been able to save some money with that information.
and removing chronically incompetent drivers from behind the wheel permanently.
But my freedoms! You suggest we travel down the path to a totalitarian state where I'm denied my God given right to drive just because I get into a few accidents each year.
If you "implements" or "extends" is that allowed? We would have assumed yes, but everything is thrown into question. What is "core" what can be extended, what interfaces are your permitted to use in your own implementation? Can I write an image file loader for Java? there is already a core class for that, what if mine implements the same interface, did I violate the license agreement? did I infringe copyright?
I'm not a lawyer so I don't know, but in light of this I suggest that no matter how small your business is you need to hire a lawyer that specializes in copyright law and software licensing. And perhaps commercial general liability insurance.
Housing probably shouldn't be commercially advertised anyways.
It's called American Exceptionalism. Look it up. Even if you don't believe in it, many Americans behave as if they do believe in it. And belief can have a real impact on the world.
" Former British colony. Until 1999."
American education fail right there.
I don't know why the country with the worst grasp of geography and political history is in charge of running the world.
so one mis-tweet could easily exacerbate the political situation further.
I'm going to throw in the towel now then.
Baja California is part of California, and Trump should invade.
Years ago, when people still used newspapers, if I put a housing ad in the newspaper that said "Single Mothers Need Not Apply". Would it be the newspaper or me that has violated fair housing laws?
Is it? If I write a plug-in then did I duplicate the implementation of an API? Is the direction of call why you're trying to distinguish here? I think you may be trying to differentiate two things that are really two sides of the same coin.