Well, I can't really recommend Mensa. I found that most of the members weren't particularly interesting after they started repeating their party pieces. They liked playing games, both on and off paper, whereas I prefer to do something more useful with my life (plus I'm not very good at the games they played;-)
Their attitude towards intelligence was disappointing. They appeared to believe that a high IQ is both necessary and sufficient to do well, in much the same way that an immature teenager thinks he knows how to drive because he has a car with a big engine.
Twenty-one years ago, I wrote and ran a BBS on a Vic-20. It had multiple message areas (like Slashdot) which users could create themselves and make public or private. It also had private mail and an online game, all in 9.6K of BASIC.
Are you working for them or are you working for yourself, for a feeling of having done something worthwhile whether or not it is recognised by others? I was treated much the same way at another company after management got tired of my steadily chanting "We really must inspect the code before the product ships". Being dumped hurts a lot and the only solution I can see is to do most of the work for my own satisfaction and not expect other people to praise or even acknowledge it. It's nice when they do, but no longer necessary.
I once rewrote 2,650 lines of C code as a seven line shell script. The previous programming team had written their own implementation of ftp; I just used the one which was already on the computer.
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I've been programming for twenty-six years (I really must go home one day) and the worst bug I've seen was when the previous programmer had changed stdio.h.
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Well, I can't really recommend Mensa. I found that most of the members weren't particularly interesting after they started repeating their party pieces. They liked playing games, both on and off paper, whereas I prefer to do something more useful with my life (plus I'm not very good at the games they played ;-)
Their attitude towards intelligence was disappointing. They appeared to believe that a high IQ is both necessary and sufficient to do well, in much the same way that an immature teenager thinks he knows how to drive because he has a car with a big engine.
GoDaddy has to pay for all those Microsoft licences somehow...
Twenty-one years ago, I wrote and ran a BBS on a Vic-20. It had multiple message areas (like Slashdot) which users could create themselves and make public or private. It also had private mail and an online game, all in 9.6K of BASIC.
Set your own finish lines.
Are you working for them or are you working for yourself, for a feeling of having done something worthwhile whether or not it is recognised by others? I was treated much the same way at another company after management got tired of my steadily chanting "We really must inspect the code before the product ships". Being dumped hurts a lot and the only solution I can see is to do most of the work for my own satisfaction and not expect other people to praise or even acknowledge it. It's nice when they do, but no longer necessary.
Just tell her that an unexpected problem has occurred and you need some money to tide you over until the bank gets its act together.
The ARC file format came before ZIP. Read http://www.esva.net/~thom/philkatz.html
Maybe he fixed the bugs and forgot to document the changes ;-)
Coming soon: virtual passengers to save the airline industry.
No, it's only considered slacking if your boss catches you reading Slashdot.
I once rewrote 2,650 lines of C code as a seven line shell script. The previous programming team had written their own implementation of ftp; I just used the one which was already on the computer.
I'm sure I saw that in Linux somewhere...
I've been programming for twenty-six years (I really must go home one day) and the worst bug I've seen was when the previous programmer had changed stdio.h.