Living in the Washington D.C. Metro area, having PEPCO as our power company and reliably having several blackouts a year, last one for about a week, I can relate.
Living near the capitol of what USED TO BE the most advanced country on the planet is sort of like living in a 3rd world country sometimes.
Thank you PEPCO and other 1%ers who are willing to let the US infrastructure rot so you buy yourself islands
This isn't such a big surprise considering that only a few corporations own all of the radio stations. The corporations are doing here what they do with everything else. They found a few things which appeal to most people, diversity doesn't maximize profit, so they let that erode and they give us the same music over and over again the way the supermarket gives us the same 6 types of produce despite there being thousands of varieties.
Going on the assumption of the predictative accuracy of this technology what ethical imperative does the government have to reengineer these situations to make crime not tempting or not an option?
The screenshots look like they are in X instead of the GTK, which is good isn't it. X rarely changes?
I can understand why you are interested in SWING. It has been over a decade since I made a Java GUI app, but the word on the street is that it has been years since SWING has been changed.
People are more likely to have Java or get Java to run an app than install the QT on Windows.
Putting it in Java might get you enough of a fan base to get you help in keeping the GUI code up to date.
Anyway, don't give up. GUI libraries being updated is a fact of life and a good thing. Don't let the frustration drive you away.
I've spent most of my career as an enthuiastic Java Developer. I still am. To me, Java is a server side language and that is where it shines. My preference for client apps is not Java, with a few exceptions.
May I ask what your application does?
If it does something unique or uniniquely well people will bother with Java.
If you are willing to go to the trouble to port to Java, you might as well make the adjustments for modern GNOME, or since you have a soureforge project get a fan to do that for you while you port elsewhere.
The situation you ran into is a fact of life for programmers in all spheres, open source, paid, etc. So, I completely relate to your frustration. That kind of frustration is just so much part of the programming life you might as well give up on any program anytime you have too many compiler errors. I would make a polite complaint where people can see, take a break and start over.
Serious, don't do it. Trying to sell someone on a platform they are not self motivated into investigating on their own is a thankless job.
You may get them to listen and try a few things, but it is rare you will ignite sustained enthusiasm in them. After a while your will go out, you will get tired of being their personal IT guy for every little thing, their system will rot, they will give it up, go to something else and you will feel disappointed.
I work in a small IT department with women (it's about 5 men, 3 women). We don't have any issues with harassment. But, then again, we are all over 21 years of age.
The same is probably true of the original poster's company, but there is chronological age and psychological age.
My guess is that it is a startup created by a few buddies who don't realize they aren't working in the boss's garage anymore and can get sued into oblivion.
I'm not an expert, but I think those cutesy games will just deepen any hole your IT staff might dig for your company.
Hire a professional HR person or a temporary HR consultant versed in these issues. It is one of the things they are good for.
Have that person hold a class for the company, teach the laws to the employees, document that the classes were taken and have that person make a policy to keep on file.
The whole idea is to get ready in case anyone sues. You want proof that the employees involved were educated so it is their problem instead of the company's
I'm glad I ditched Google+, kept a separate account for youtube and only used my real first name to get the accounts. I'm also glad that I log out completely when I look at anything remotely sexual.
Given the comments I see on FB I can't say that forcing people to use their real names will improve the quality of comments on youtube.
Great points, but it sounds like you are the one with the attitude problem.
I've seen a number of news articles about the lousy working conditions at Amazon over the years so I tend to think that those conditions are real and really bad, not an exagerration of an overpriveleged bacon eating basement living libertarian IT worker.
Given that it is likely conditions at Amazon are that bad, your anger should be directed at Amazon, not people commentators on Slashdot...........but that wouldn't be as easy.
It is enough that any company being shitty to people is brought to light - even if the all aren't
People buying by price is natural and is not the problem,
Bezos who is in the headlines every few months contemplating doing rich man stunts can afford to take a LITTLE bit of his profits to treat his workers like decent people AND keep Amazon's prices competitive.
It doesn't work that way. People with your attitudes have to stop voting GOP ( like for Gov Scott Walking in Wisconsin )and anti-union first and fight for what you want next.
Someone mentioned the very good point that Facebook is TRYING to become the single signon king. However, nobody trusts Facebook.
It brings up the question of how a single signon organization would make its money.
Nobody would trust it, use it, if it makes its money like FB or Google......basically by selling its users out.
It would have to be some sort of not-for-profit trust that could pay its employees well without having ties to other businesses.
That sounds like the government. I wouldn't want to give my single sign on info to the government or an organization that might be petitioned by the government.
Slashdot Mirror
Ever read "Les Miserabes" or "War And Peace"? Ever notice that many 19th century novels are HUGE?
That is because they paid by word.
It would be interesting to see what would happen if a company experimented with metrics for and paying by:
- the fewest lines of code for a given task
- speed
- useful error messages
- ease of maintenance
- fewest memory leaks, least memory usage
Living in the Washington D.C. Metro area, having PEPCO as our power company and reliably having several blackouts a year, last one for about a week, I can relate.
Living near the capitol of what USED TO BE the most advanced country on the planet is sort of like living in a 3rd world country sometimes.
Thank you PEPCO and other 1%ers who are willing to let the US infrastructure rot so you buy yourself islands
This isn't such a big surprise considering that only a few corporations own all of the radio stations. The corporations are doing here what they do with everything else. They found a few things which appeal to most people, diversity doesn't maximize profit, so they let that erode and they give us the same music over and over again the way the supermarket gives us the same 6 types of produce despite there being thousands of varieties.
Going on the assumption of the predictative accuracy of this technology what ethical imperative does the government have to reengineer these situations to make crime not tempting or not an option?
My Facebook account is under a fake name, set to unsearchable and "private" every way FB will let me do it.
I don't tell anyone related to a job that I have a FB account.
If they ask, I tell them the half truth that I deleted my FB page a few years ago when they started exposing people's info without asking.
Anyone who reads the comments of an online newspaper will see plenty of people with their pictures and real names getting into pissing contests.
I see your point. It took years for it to sink down to some people that they should get a separate email from work for personal messages.
The screenshots look like they are in X instead of the GTK, which is good isn't it. X rarely changes?
I can understand why you are interested in SWING. It has been over a decade since I made a Java GUI app, but the word on the street is that it has been years since SWING has been changed.
People are more likely to have Java or get Java to run an app than install the QT on Windows.
Putting it in Java might get you enough of a fan base to get you help in keeping the GUI code up to date.
Anyway, don't give up. GUI libraries being updated is a fact of life and a good thing. Don't let the frustration drive you away.
I've spent most of my career as an enthuiastic Java Developer. I still am. To me, Java is a server side language and that is where it shines. My preference for client apps is not Java, with a few exceptions.
May I ask what your application does?
If it does something unique or uniniquely well people will bother with Java.
If you are willing to go to the trouble to port to Java, you might as well make the adjustments for modern GNOME, or since you have a soureforge project get a fan to do that for you while you port elsewhere.
The situation you ran into is a fact of life for programmers in all spheres, open source, paid, etc. So, I completely relate to your frustration. That kind of frustration is just so much part of the programming life you might as well give up on any program anytime you have too many compiler errors. I would make a polite complaint where people can see, take a break and start over.
+1
I'm a Java Developer. I've had the displeasure of being forced into contact with Oracle after they borged Java and several other technologies I use.
Their documentation is almost deliberately terrible - perhaps to sell support and classes. They are very difficult to communicate with.
They have very little regard for users and developers.
Their help forums fun on bad technology that is very old that even someone putting up a personal web site would be ashamed to use.
Serious, don't do it. Trying to sell someone on a platform they are not self motivated into investigating on their own is a thankless job.
You may get them to listen and try a few things, but it is rare you will ignite sustained enthusiasm in them. After a while your will go out, you will get tired of being their personal IT guy for every little thing, their system will rot, they will give it up, go to something else and you will feel disappointed.
I work in a small IT department with women (it's about 5 men, 3 women). We don't have any issues with harassment. But, then again, we are all over 21 years of age.
The same is probably true of the original poster's company, but there is chronological age and psychological age.
My guess is that it is a startup created by a few buddies who don't realize they aren't working in the boss's garage anymore and can get sued into oblivion.
There are some real dinosaurs tucked away in the back corners of huge orgs.
I'm not an expert, but I think those cutesy games will just deepen any hole your IT staff might dig for your company.
Hire a professional HR person or a temporary HR consultant versed in these issues. It is one of the things they are good for.
Have that person hold a class for the company, teach the laws to the employees, document that the classes were taken and have that person make a policy to keep on file.
The whole idea is to get ready in case anyone sues. You want proof that the employees involved were educated so it is their problem instead of the company's
Interesting.
I've heard about treadmill desks.
How much does your standing desk cost? Where did you get it?
How difficult was it to get your job to buy it and or let you have it?
Natural Gas == Fracking == Destruction Of Dwindling Clean Drinking Water.
Not much of an improvement
Last I heard streaming content was nowhere in size near DVD based content
I'm glad I ditched Google+, kept a separate account for youtube and only used my real first name to get the accounts. I'm also glad that I log out completely when I look at anything remotely sexual.
Given the comments I see on FB I can't say that forcing people to use their real names will improve the quality of comments on youtube.
richER
They are already the 1%ers and getting hefty tax brakes while the rest of us foot the bill for their wars and infrastructure
Great points, but it sounds like you are the one with the attitude problem.
I've seen a number of news articles about the lousy working conditions at Amazon over the years so I tend to think that those conditions are real and really bad, not an exagerration of an overpriveleged bacon eating basement living libertarian IT worker.
Given that it is likely conditions at Amazon are that bad, your anger should be directed at Amazon, not people commentators on Slashdot...........but that wouldn't be as easy.
Two wrongs don't make a right,
It is enough that any company being shitty to people is brought to light - even if the all aren't
People buying by price is natural and is not the problem,
Bezos who is in the headlines every few months contemplating doing rich man stunts can afford to take a LITTLE bit of his profits to treat his workers like decent people AND keep Amazon's prices competitive.
That is probably already the case.
Hiring people for 39 hours instead of 40 hours a week is the oldest trick in the book for avoiding health coverage costs.
Hiring temporary/contract people is also fairly standard for shitty working conditions. Such people tend not to have the resources to fight back.
It doesn't work that way. People with your attitudes have to stop voting GOP ( like for Gov Scott Walking in Wisconsin )and anti-union first and fight for what you want next.
Someone mentioned the very good point that Facebook is TRYING to become the single signon king. However, nobody trusts Facebook.
It brings up the question of how a single signon organization would make its money.
Nobody would trust it, use it, if it makes its money like FB or Google......basically by selling its users out.
It would have to be some sort of not-for-profit trust that could pay its employees well without having ties to other businesses.
That sounds like the government. I wouldn't want to give my single sign on info to the government or an organization that might be petitioned by the government.
Back to square zero.