Personally I've found that when I'm not enjoying my job: 1: I work less and WAB more... 2: This results in me having to work harder in spurts to get shit done... 3:...and even then it's often late and of poor quality 4: This in turn leads to poor relations with my employers and co-workers... 5:...and LOTs of added stress which... 6:...makes enjoying my off-work time harder
I've moved jobs a couple of times and my most recent move was specifically because I felt my role was not beneficial to me. Although it was a stable, permanent position it had also gotten very boring and I was simply no longer interesested in the job. The knock-on effect was that I ended up stressed and unhappy.
I've since moved to a new, smaller company and I'm happier overall on every level. The work is more challenging and I get the chance to learn and apply new skills and technologies far more often.
Better career opportunities > rotting in your current job, watching you skills degenerate and your life become an unhappy trudge from sun-up to sun-down.
Yeah.............last time I looked into this it turned out that there is basically one kooky biologist who is convinced that Dolphins are sentient and have an actual language...
Pretty much everyone else working with dolphins is unconvinced. They're clever, for sure, but probably not to the degree of being self-aware of passing knowledge down across generations.
As for unique identifies for individuals, dolphins are not unique in this regard.
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Why don't we have 95% of the population exploring one branch of science or another? Why can't more books be written? More movies be done? More people help those who need help?
Would it be so bad to live in a world where there is 0% NEED to work and everyone just decides whether they want to be a medic, or an astrophysicist, or a script writer, or...
Only amazingly lazy people believe everyone would stop "working" if it was voluntary. Even if the only payment was respect by the society, joy, or simply to fight boredom, most people would do something.
You're ignoring the fact that 99% of the populace are too stupid to do anything other than make-work.
I agree. Python is nice but the replacing visible braces with invisible whitespace is basically a dumb idea.
If a coder needs to be forced to indent properly then the coder in question should just stop coding all together and save everyone the trouble of reading their code.
Agreed. Just because I tried PCBSD and it failed to work at all on my laptop doesn't mean I hate PCBSD and BSD in general. I'm not the target audience and I recognise that.
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Thanks, this is some of the kind of information I was looking for. I had no idea the Revoke Access system even existed. Thanks for enlightening me :-)
What terrible advice:
Personally I've found that when I'm not enjoying my job: ...and even then it's often late and of poor quality ...and LOTs of added stress which... ...makes enjoying my off-work time harder
1: I work less and WAB more...
2: This results in me having to work harder in spurts to get shit done...
3:
4: This in turn leads to poor relations with my employers and co-workers...
5:
6:
I've moved jobs a couple of times and my most recent move was specifically because I felt my role was not beneficial to me. Although it was a stable, permanent position it had also gotten very boring and I was simply no longer interesested in the job. The knock-on effect was that I ended up stressed and unhappy.
I've since moved to a new, smaller company and I'm happier overall on every level. The work is more challenging and I get the chance to learn and apply new skills and technologies far more often.
Better career opportunities > rotting in your current job, watching you skills degenerate and your life become an unhappy trudge from sun-up to sun-down.
I'm not sure Star Trek should be considered in the same sentence as talk of viable space exploration the future.
Utopian thinking is nice but it's an ideal not a potential reality.
The day Linux becomes a main-stream desktop OS is they day Linux as we know it dies.
The needs and usage-patterns of power users, sysadmins and developers are pretty orthogonal to those of light users and graphic designers.
I also played World of Tanks on the NA Server (In-game name OOPMan).
I'm taking a break tho. The micro-lag introduced in 8.11 makes it unplayable for me :-(
Stories like this are why I work in the Private sector for small companies only.
There's simply no room for failure in small companies.
What an arbitrary distinction. The assumption that because a language is not compiled it is "simple" is stupid.
I don't think everyone should learn to code.
For one thing, it would probably lead to an increase in the number of grossly incompetent coders out there.
For another, its debatable whether or not its even a relevant skill for the majority of people.
Even though I have no good reason to want this feature, I think it's cool nevertheless.
Yeah.............last time I looked into this it turned out that there is basically one kooky biologist who is convinced that Dolphins are sentient and have an actual language...
Pretty much everyone else working with dolphins is unconvinced. They're clever, for sure, but probably not to the degree of being self-aware of passing knowledge down across generations.
As for unique identifies for individuals, dolphins are not unique in this regard.
Why don't we have 95% of the population exploring one branch of science or another? Why can't more books be written? More movies be done? More people help those who need help?
Would it be so bad to live in a world where there is 0% NEED to work and everyone just decides whether they want to be a medic, or an astrophysicist, or a script writer, or...
Only amazingly lazy people believe everyone would stop "working" if it was voluntary. Even if the only payment was respect by the society, joy, or simply to fight boredom, most people would do something.
You're ignoring the fact that 99% of the populace are too stupid to do anything other than make-work.
I agree. Python is nice but the replacing visible braces with invisible whitespace is basically a dumb idea.
If a coder needs to be forced to indent properly then the coder in question should just stop coding all together and save everyone the trouble of reading their code.
Thanks for that, I laughed.
I just borrow a friends XBox 360 controller...
Yeah, I'm going to try SteamOS just to see if Metro Last Light works on it.
Tried it on my 64-bit Sabayon and it just dies on startup :-/
It's sad to see how many people are part of the anti-nuclear group.
Ignorance is not a sufficient excuse for making the wrong decision in today's age of information dissemination.
Runs nicely on my work laptop:
Chrome 31
Asus X550CC
Nvidia 720M chipset
2ghz Core i7U
8gb of RAM
Seems to me like the cross-language compatibility thing is really won by the JVM given how active the JVM languages scene is...
Indeed. Why waste money on some dumb family to be the "face of the country".
Seriously.
Why not just erect a statue to some mythic national figure and use that as the face of the country.
It will cost less, not need feeding, cleaning, clothing or transport and so forth.
In fact, why bother with a statue.
Why not just find a large rock, paint it purple and call that the face of the nation.
If you absolutely need to have something useless, you might as well just get the age-old classic...
Agreed. Just because I tried PCBSD and it failed to work at all on my laptop doesn't mean I hate PCBSD and BSD in general. I'm not the target audience and I recognise that.
Headphones + Music which doesn't Distract solves that issue.
Typical parenting failure.
Personally I would be okay with that.
Why would I want to own a gun?
Guns are primarily weapons of offence.
They are not primarily defensive devices.
If I wanted to go out and kill someone tomorrow, sure, I can see a need to print my own gun.
For self defence though?
No thanks...