Why does it have to be a "guy"--or do you mean like "dude" in the generic, gender-neutral sense?
At any rate, it sounds more like you need a partner--offer someone the promise of making even more money, should your tiny consulting firm make it really big and/or get bought by some big company (like, one you've done many projects for--worked for a place I worked at), or stock, and this person may work for less. If you're in the US you could also consider hiring someone on an H1B visa who's scurrying to get a new position--almost all of the folks I've met in this position are hard working and know a lot of different programming languages--and if you make a pledge to help them with Green Card issues, you could definitely negotiate a lower salary.
But think about the hire as more of a stakeholder in your enterprise--you can still be the boss, but you're looking for a trusted deputy. It will be cool, trust me--just pick someone smart you feel comfortable with, with a varied resume and good contacts/references. Maybe even one of your past contractors.
That is after all the underlying reason for the viewpoint.
True, although what people often forget is that thinking about your very own parents having sex is also icky.
Therefore, we should ban all marriage. Or maybe thoughts.
I've never eaten at a two-star restaurant (nor wanted to), I've always lived in the U.S., and I personally think cheap gadgets are great even if you can afford better because they are less financially risky to experiment on.
Eat shit or not--I don't care about your diet either--I'm not into $tatus.
I've been a small time PEZ dealer for years. Once I even arranged a family trip to include a visit the PEZ Museum.
I mean...well, all the kids do it. My father even took PEZ--not in front of me, but once I found PEZ paraphenalia on top of his dresser. You can buy it literally anywhere.
If you haven't played Bejeweled Blitz blitzed on PEZ and caffeine, while Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan plays on YouTube on another Firefox tab, YOU HAVEN'T LIVED!
It's really not all that crippling, and usually they're ovals. If you see them at all any more. Usually they occur near a natural break in the action anyway, and there are usually other clues that just this visual to that in the near future. Possibly it's more disturbing if for some period you were needed to notice these because you might be there to wake up the projectionist if the reel transition doesn't happen.
What I find more disturbing are the dark red dots, frequently in the pattern you'd see on the 5-side of a die, right in the middle of the screen. Or maybe it's just me that sees them EVERY TIME I go to the cinema.
You can be badly mislead by believing what the comments say the code is doing. An ancient programming text from the 70s had the advice that when reading code, you should cover up the right hand side of the page (this was back in the FORTRAN days, so only some of us will remember that columns 72-80 weren't code).
I've worked places with execrable coding practices in regards to coding, e.g., that all comments must be passed through a spell-checker and grammar-checker before checking in the code. (Right.) Luckily, I didn't have the appropriate security clearance to read the Coding Standards document, so I happily just wrote good code. (Until I got caught at it.)
That rant over, I do like the occasional comment as sort of a guidepost as to what previous developers might have intended the code to do. But I never trust it.
It's not just the risk of inadvertantly doing something illegal, there's also the risk that persons who have no reasonable excuse for looking at the compiled data might also get access to it, either through illegal means like hacking or theft, or for morally corrupt reasons, such as the bad luck to have an ex-spouse who works for federal or local governent, or even something as bizarre as Nixon's "Enemies List"--suppose once, in a phone conversation with your mother, you express doubts about the President's foreign policy, and shortly after that the IRS decides to audit you, or you suddenly get laid off from your job working programming for NOAA...yes, it's a bit paranoid, but considering the allegations about political bias in the Justice Department, not completely far-fetched.
It's perfectly possible to suffer the consequences for doing nothing illegal.
I'm not sure I care to listen to great symphonies created by child-raper-killers. I already stopped buying/reading a popular mystery series about a amnesiac detective when it was widely revealed that the author was a convicted (served, released) matricide who claimed amnesia--it's not that I don't respect people's ability to make a living, it just made me queasy to think about it.
The ability to read something when you've been without power for 3+ days due to some natural disaster.
The ability to not lose your entire library with one purse-snatch or lost luggage incident. Not to mention being accidentally dropped to the floor or down a flight of stairs.
The ability to have a half a dozen books open at the same time, all with full readable views, and to be able to have at least two different books open to two pages at the same time. (Prefer all 6 books / 12 pages though.) Really big pages, not mere popular novels.
Who the hell has chemistry, calculus, and circuits all on one day? Freshmen? Who the hell cares about Freshmen??
This is exactly why I trust Yahoo with my email more than Google: it's reasonably reliable, and there are fewer customers for data trolling of my very boring messages about what movie we're going to, and who's going to show up on the weekend to teach children to stab people.
Oh, whoops, did I post that?
I've already seen how a snotty comment on Yelp got picked up by blogs and pretty much put the last nail in the coffin of a friend's retail business. Yes, let's immortalize the whims of the ignorant and the malicious!
(Hell, one stupid comment (but accurate) about a different store I made on Usenet close to 20 years ago still survives on multiple web-sites.)
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Why does it have to be a "guy"--or do you mean like "dude" in the generic, gender-neutral sense? At any rate, it sounds more like you need a partner--offer someone the promise of making even more money, should your tiny consulting firm make it really big and/or get bought by some big company (like, one you've done many projects for--worked for a place I worked at), or stock, and this person may work for less. If you're in the US you could also consider hiring someone on an H1B visa who's scurrying to get a new position--almost all of the folks I've met in this position are hard working and know a lot of different programming languages--and if you make a pledge to help them with Green Card issues, you could definitely negotiate a lower salary. But think about the hire as more of a stakeholder in your enterprise--you can still be the boss, but you're looking for a trusted deputy. It will be cool, trust me--just pick someone smart you feel comfortable with, with a varied resume and good contacts/references. Maybe even one of your past contractors.
Because gays are icky.
That is after all the underlying reason for the viewpoint.
True, although what people often forget is that thinking about your very own parents having sex is also icky. Therefore, we should ban all marriage. Or maybe thoughts.
I've never eaten at a two-star restaurant (nor wanted to), I've always lived in the U.S., and I personally think cheap gadgets are great even if you can afford better because they are less financially risky to experiment on. Eat shit or not--I don't care about your diet either--I'm not into $tatus.
I mean...well, all the kids do it. My father even took PEZ--not in front of me, but once I found PEZ paraphenalia on top of his dresser. You can buy it literally anywhere.
If you haven't played Bejeweled Blitz blitzed on PEZ and caffeine, while Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan plays on YouTube on another Firefox tab, YOU HAVEN'T LIVED!
It's really not all that crippling, and usually they're ovals. If you see them at all any more. Usually they occur near a natural break in the action anyway, and there are usually other clues that just this visual to that in the near future. Possibly it's more disturbing if for some period you were needed to notice these because you might be there to wake up the projectionist if the reel transition doesn't happen.
What I find more disturbing are the dark red dots, frequently in the pattern you'd see on the 5-side of a die, right in the middle of the screen. Or maybe it's just me that sees them EVERY TIME I go to the cinema.
People are trying to avoid being stalked by ex-SOs or ex-employees, etc. (Ha ha! Diedrich will never find me here!)
I worked for one of those, but at least we were only bilking I mean milking private investors.
My karma is bad, so I'll live on and on in /. !
That's a lot of klaudt he's got there...
Everyone knows beautiful brunettes prefer LOTRO.
We may never know his capacitance for this.
That was A LOT longer ago than 15 years--more like 33.
Comments lie; only code tells the truth.
You can be badly mislead by believing what the comments say the code is doing. An ancient programming text from the 70s had the advice that when reading code, you should cover up the right hand side of the page (this was back in the FORTRAN days, so only some of us will remember that columns 72-80 weren't code).
I've worked places with execrable coding practices in regards to coding, e.g., that all comments must be passed through a spell-checker and grammar-checker before checking in the code. (Right.) Luckily, I didn't have the appropriate security clearance to read the Coding Standards document, so I happily just wrote good code. (Until I got caught at it.)
That rant over, I do like the occasional comment as sort of a guidepost as to what previous developers might have intended the code to do. But I never trust it.
They were certainly mentioned very early on in the comment stream, but most of those early ones seem to have been moderated into invisibility.
This ought to excite all those who expected Obama to make an announcement around Thanksgiving that ETs are real...
It's perfectly possible to suffer the consequences for doing nothing illegal.
Argh!
Anybody remember the MS License Agreement that required you not use Word to criticize MS?
I'm not sure I care to listen to great symphonies created by child-raper-killers. I already stopped buying/reading a popular mystery series about a amnesiac detective when it was widely revealed that the author was a convicted (served, released) matricide who claimed amnesia--it's not that I don't respect people's ability to make a living, it just made me queasy to think about it.
The ability to not lose your entire library with one purse-snatch or lost luggage incident. Not to mention being accidentally dropped to the floor or down a flight of stairs.
The ability to have a half a dozen books open at the same time, all with full readable views, and to be able to have at least two different books open to two pages at the same time. (Prefer all 6 books / 12 pages though.) Really big pages, not mere popular novels.
Who the hell has chemistry, calculus, and circuits all on one day? Freshmen? Who the hell cares about Freshmen??
Only people with flagrant amounts of spare cash can afford to buy used books! I used the library whenever possible.
Oh, so you have worked in Marketing!
Boss may be innocent if he/she schedules lots of nap-inducing meetings, though.
This is exactly why I trust Yahoo with my email more than Google: it's reasonably reliable, and there are fewer customers for data trolling of my very boring messages about what movie we're going to, and who's going to show up on the weekend to teach children to stab people. Oh, whoops, did I post that?
I've already seen how a snotty comment on Yelp got picked up by blogs and pretty much put the last nail in the coffin of a friend's retail business. Yes, let's immortalize the whims of the ignorant and the malicious! (Hell, one stupid comment (but accurate) about a different store I made on Usenet close to 20 years ago still survives on multiple web-sites.)