OK.. so I am not sure why, but it is. See, at work people always get praise for "going the extra mile", working overtime to get the job done. The people who rarely get the accolades are the ones who work effectively and efficiently at just doing the work. They don't get "recognition awards" for getting things done on schedule. That's just their job. But the downside is that to prove your worth, it is in your best interest to create a little chaos so you can step up and put out the fires.
Kudos to Linus and the kernel maintainers for continuing to do what they do.
Am in a similar boat. Linux is my desktop. No looking back. I use Wine for quite a number of apps that I need, and it does take some wrangling occasionally, but it's no comparison to Windows. I have a dual boot option for when I something such as to edit an image in Photoshop.
Linux is my desktop, and has been since 1998. My kids have windows PCs, and I have an old one that has been sitting around for a while. I still haven't had to boot it up for anything.
The only time I have needed windows for anything was recently to join a webex for work. I can work from home on my linux machine, I just run a container that has openconnect and xfreerdp on it, it launches and connects me to the VPN at work, then rdp's into my machine there. But on this particular occasion, I needed to have a webex and use the video. I used to be able to do this no problem, but I couldn't get it to work on my linux machine. It was really an issue with webex. It detected that I wasn't using an "approved" OS/Browser. I could even join their "test meeting" no problem, but couldn't get it to work with the one I was trying to join. So after a frantic 30 minutes, I just joined via phone. It was clearly due to some 'upgrade' on webex and not something on my side. So if I have to do that again, I will likely fire up that old windows machine just for that purpose.
I have more games than time to play... I have Emulation Station installed, so I have MAME, Gameboy, Atari, and Super Nintendo to play. And quite a few games from Humble Bundles and Steam.
And I understand that some people may have some apps that they need Windows for, but unless you are a professional, I don't think Photoshop is one of them. Give GIMP a try. I understand if you spent the cash and are comfortable with Photoshop, but imagine not being tied to it.
That Fake News was form when they were trying to get Obama and Hillary elected. What has been dropping is the number of unemployed looking for jobs, once they gave up and stopped looking they no longer add to the unemployment rate...
You are talking about two different things. The definition of "unemployment rate" hasn't changed. It's not Fake News, it's called statistics, and they clearly define what they are measuring. Nothing fake about it. What is fake is people who make up things to push their position on something, and pretend they know what they are talking about. Like saying unemployment is something different than what it is. Saying people stopped looking for work is fine and may be true (no real stats to back that up though) - but saying the government is making up unemployment stats is patently false - or alternative facts, whichever term you prefer.
I too run a local email client. In fact, I run pine (well, alpine). Yep, text based email. Everyone I work with thinks I'm crazy. For me, it's what I need and I have used it for a long time. For a few years back in the mid 2000s I ran Thunderbird, but it was still too heavy. And I couldn't get to my mail if I was elsewhere very easily.
I do have a few emails, and pull them into my local account with fetchmail. I can ssh in from work or elsewhere (even mobile) and check it. This means that I don't have to pull my mail into my work computer, or use webmail, which I really don't like. Attachments or URLs in an email are simple if I am at home, and can be a little problematic if I am remote. But it's a good tradeoff for blazing speed and simplicity. Archive off by month, I can grep my history quickly.
I know I am probably in a very remote few people who still use this, especially as my primary email. But I love it. Sorry Thunderbird.
Didn't see a post on it yet, but yet another Trump job creation victory! Seems like we'll be hearing a lot more like this in the coming four years.
I wonder what Trumps re-election prospects will be given a dramatic rise in jobs and economic growth is pretty much assured at this point, due to the administration before holding the economy down for so long... the geologic concept of elastic rebound applies here I think.
Say what? The unemployment rate has been on a steady decline for the last 6 years. That was after we entered a recession (which, by the way, was caused by previous administrations) It is right about at pre-recession levels.
And this announcement is just that - an announcement. A promise of jobs. By a company that markets people who sell an image, who do jobs that do nothing, for a premium price. If you don't mind, I'll just sit back and wait to see what happens.
I know very little to anything about him. However, I think this entire story is such shit.
yes, he's a multi-billionaire and the CEO of a huge company. All he did was post some information that was rattling around in his head - which EVERYONE seems to think is absolutely a necessary thing to do these days. Then, he thought better of one sentence, and removed it.
And people lose their fucking minds and consider that to be NEWS worthy of reporting on. It's all asinine.
I have managed teams from 3 to 50, and I agree with you completely. The real problem comes in when the manager's manager has different ideas. It's so much harder to be a good manager if your manager is not.
The National Security Adviser resigns after 90 days in office, and the President of the United States says this: "The real story here is why are there so many illegal leaks coming out of Washington? Will these leaks be happening as I deal on N Korea etc?"
Along with BBSes and usenet, you had to use gopher and FTP sites to get/share any information. It was more of a discovery process. It's staggering to think how far we have come since then. Everyone also had copies of the Jargon File and the Anarchist Cookbook in txt format.
I used to be able to read hex quickly, from using line analyzers at my first job (cell phone communications). I also had to use 9-track tapes. Builds took several hours, installs took even longer. For the systems we were working on it was a 24hr cycle from build to running test system, and we only did them every two weeks. You had to be much more careful, and failing fast wasn't an option. I don't miss those days.
Paying your employees so poorly, and taking such poor care of them, is also sleazy. So we see here sleaze being used to fight sleaze. I am having a hard time getting upset.
Except for this: The claim is that he was specifically paid by the UAW to join the company and encourage people to join a union. If true, then that was his goal going in, which means he is just doing what he was paid to do - come up with a story about why they should unionize. If it were a former employee, or a current one, then it would have more credibility. But knowing that he joined for that purpose immediately weakens his credibility.
If that is not true, he could be just a regular working trying to organize in order to get better working conditions. We don't really know though.
"Martin was employed as a private contractor by at least seven different companies, working for several government agencies beginning in 1993 after serving in the U.S. Navy for four years, according to the indictment. "
CEOs don't get paid for what they do. They get paid for what they promise to do. They get paid more if they actually do it. That is just the reality of it.
They set the direction of a company, and make sure that they follow it. There are lots of factors there, and everyone seems to think it's an easy job. I don't, I think it would be extremely difficult. I think FF set out to grow, and become a bigger and more well-known brand. It was ambitious, but they were going up against a juggernaut in Google. They took some risks, it hasn't worked out that great, and they are regrouping. I hope they learn and come back better for it.
Everyone thinks that CEOs get paid too much, but what if they are successful? They can turn a company around or make them even more valuable. Just as they can break a company, they can make one as well. If they do that, then they are usually rewarded for it, and everyone wins.
I have done some pretty complex spreadsheets, and some things that I consider cool in Excel. Like being able to do a data extract from our system, plop it into a tab, change the name in a cell to that of the tab, and have all of my 10 tabs of graphs / charts / tables update by reading that cell. It uses an INDIRECT call, makes for big and ugly formulas, but cut down a manual process from 2 days worth of work to about 5 minutes. [yes, I know you can set up a data source and just read the data into the spreadsheet, but I was able to hand this off to some business people to do and they loved it]
Now, having said that...:) Excel is over-used for things it is not well suited for. People on my test team use Excel to create test data load files in csv format for an application. It has about 100 columns, and usually no more than 50 rows or so. One of the fields needs to be unique, so it's easy in Excel to make it a number, then just drag the cell to increment it. The problem arose where we were doing a load test, and needed 1MM rows. They were trying, but failing, in Excel. It struggled with 30k rows, let alone that the process to create them was painful.
With a quick shell script I was able to create a 1mm row csv in about 5 minutes. They were amazed. Then we needed to create another file. This time, I used the 1mm csv and vi, and made the new file in about 2 minutes. They were astounded! I have since made many more files for them, even a 5mm row file. Even in csv, it was 2.1GB in size although it compressed quite nicely.:)
I have also started teaching them how to fish by having them download gvim for Windows and giving them pointers on how to use it. We are a Windows shop, so to many people csv=Excel, and I am trying hard to break them of that.
yep. I am not a sysadmin, except on my own linux machine at home. I have been since 1998. I have learned that when I write scripts to do things, which is quite often, I always echo the key commands before actually running them.
for i in 1 2 3 4 5 do echo "rm -f $i" done
I run it, look at what the command is going to do, then remove the echo. When messing around with files that might have spaces in them, or using multiple functions/calculations/variables, there is always something that can go wrong.
I still remember back in 1999, I was working at a startup and a new developer, as root, did "rm -rf/" on a test server. He didn't live that down.
I know what you're saying... but its tricky! Now, I took that new job at lower pay, but there was a chance that my salary wasn't too high. If I go in and say I want X and they say "you're hired!" I may have just screwed myself.
If I say "I am making X but I would be willing to take less" it tells them that I would be willing to take a pay cut (which shows I want the job, I am not just looking for $), and it also gives them the chance to match my current salary. What you don't want to do is lowball thinking that once you get in you will prove yourself and get good raises/bonuses. I have learned the painful way that when you are in a company, it is hard to make good advances. I have been there myself, as an employee and as a manager. I have had employees that I inherited that were paid well below the minimum for their job. And they were good. I know.... it's unfair, it sucks. HR doesn't care. You can't dig them out of that hole. The only thing they can do is switch jobs. If you are in a big company and try to move internally, they always try to do the 'lateral move' maneuver. i.e. no pay increase. Guess what? Then you get to wait a whole year until you sync up with the review cycle until you are even up for a raise.
Funny thing is, HR does NOT want you to know the pay grades for your job, or other jobs. Where I have worked, that is highly guarded information.
I agree. I think that people want to get fit, and honestly that they wear one to show people that they are working out. I see people wearing them that either don't work out, or clearly aren't doing it right. They don't need a fitbit to give them that info. I work on the 6th floor. I see people with fitbits, and they take the elevator. I take the stairs every day.
When the fad started catching on, I looked into them out of curiosity. $100+ ballpark. Wow. It seems to be that with advances in technology, practicality has gone out the window. In the information age, people don't seem to know any more than they did 20 years ago. It's all just chasing fads. When I was recently at a family gathering I was questioned why I don't eat carbs. (I have been paleoish for 4 years now) I was asked "Do you eat eggs?" I answered it with a simple, "yes, I eat about a dozen a week". What I wanted to say was "Do you even know what a carb is?!" The person who asked me is a nurse.
It boggles my mind sometimes about how we are so directionally off course. Gadgets to help you refine your exercise plan? Sure, I suppose. Gadgets to pretend you have such a well established exercise plan that you need to make minor refinements to fine-tune your performance, so you can monitor your step count on the way to Taco Bell? I don't know where to start.
I read the summary 3 times... it makes no sense. I read the article... still no help. What is this? Is this supposed to be one of those announcements that creates buzz? If I, as a tech person, don't get it then how will anyone else?
Several months ago I was in the Microsoft Store in a mall. I didn't even know they HAD Microsoft stores, and I hadn't been in a Mall for 10 years. So it was like a "things I despise" turducken. But my son's scout troop was in there doing a thing where they did game design. It was very lame, and he didn't have any fun. But while he was doing it, I sat and marveled at the Microsoft Store. They were really trying. Glitz and shiny things. Big screens, a VR! There were actual customers in there, which surprised me.
But I overheard a young, hip salesperson trying to sell an Office subscription to a middle-aged man, and she was really trying to get him to understand how it worked. There was a physical package on the shelf, and he could buy the 3 month subscription, take it home and then go to the website and register. He wanted to know how he installed it, and she explained he didn't. He wasn't getting it (and quite honestly, I wasn't either) She kept steering him towards a 12 month subscription - to something he didn't understand how to use. It was comical. He eventually gave up and left.
Good ol' Microsoft. They understand business - get in, sign the deals, make sure they are locked in. They understand oems - become the only thing they use, and make sure there are no other options. They understand acquisitions - buy things that are successful. They sure don't understand how to be relevant beyond those three things. And actually, I am not sure they really need to, but they keep trying.
I think it all depends on where you are in the hiring process. If it is because you are at the offer stage, then tell them. You can give general numbers. I don't think they can actually verify that information though. In general, most companies will only verify that you worked for them from this date to that. Depending on the job, they may do background checks, and they could be extensive. So... they may be able to verify your story. I honestly only vaguely remember how much I was making at some of my last jobs. So as long as you are close it shouldn't be an issue. Lie, and they find out, and you will be dropped immediately.
I have hired many people over the years, and I know exactly where you are coming from. However, most of my experience has been with companies that have a hiring process. Therefore, I don't get to ask those questions. The recruiter may, i don't know what they do as part of their vetting process. I also know that the position pay range is between X and Z, with Y being the mid-point. HR wants you to hire at the mid-point (unless you are hiring internally, then it is 'as low as possible'). Not my rules, but the reality I have seen.
There are obviously downsides to this situation, in that I don't always get all of the information I may need. Also, it doesn't always work out for the candidate. I know, because I have been on that side as well. I was at one job where I was paid well, I got about a 12% increase when I joined it. It was higher-up the food chain too. But my boss was a nightmare, from day 1. I hated every single day I worked there. I tried to make it work... but after a year I started looking.
Recruiters wouldn't ask my salary history, but would ask my current salary. When i told them, they usually would start backpedaling. I would then explain what I was willing to take. There was one promising job, two rounds of interviews went great, it was a great work environment and I really wanted it. I told the recruiter what I was making but what I was willing to take. Unfortunately, he only told the employer what I was making. So I didn't get the job.
How do I know all of this? Because they hired me. A month or so later I got a call from that recruiter, wanting to know if I was still interested. I was! He said salary was an issue, and they couldn't meet my current pay. I reiterated to him what I was willing to take, and after a little negotiating I got the job. As it turned out, the recruiter was a dumbass and didn't tell the hiring manager (my new boss) about my willingness to take less than my current salary. The person they had chosen over me didn't work out, and I am really glad that they came back to me because I am still there and it has been great. I have since learned more about our corporate recruiters, and how terrible they are. I keep that in mind as I have started hiring more people. Remember this - their job is to get people hired, not necessarily to hire the right people. I know that sounds crazy, but it's true. And the strange thing is, they aren't very good at it.
They don't start to die... they just die. Platter drives will start to give you problems, at which point you can usually buy another drive and transfer your data. If an SSD goes, it's gone. poof. I had it happen on a work laptop once. That was about 6 years ago, so maybe they have gotten a little more reliable since then. At home, on my machine, it's all platter drives.
I hate all of those things and more. I have to use Windows10 every day at work, and I hate it. Macs anger me, nothing makes sense. At home, I have used Linux since 1998 exclusively. I use XFCE and love it! It's got just enough slickness and all the usability I need.
I can also tell you that you don't really appreciate a good UI until you get a bad one. Example: Roku. After a couple of minutes it was easy. Now, not all parts of it - I still make some oopses if I do something out of the norm. They went with the 'simple remote' options, so there are some things that had to be compromised (e.g. entering passwords is still painful). But overall it is very good.
And I am a Netflix user, and the UI on the Roku is great. How do you know? Go use Amazon Prime. *shudder* Or some of the network TV channels *ugh* They are menus of show screenshots which are simple to browse, but damn near impossible to find something if you are looking for it. I think the Netflix UI is pretty good on the Roku. How they assemble their content is another matter, but the UI itself is pretty good save a few things.
I don't mind my Android UI. It's a near-stock on a BLU Life One X. I am not all about customizing it though, just give me simple and effective and I am happy. I boggle the developer's minds at work when I check my email using pine though.
And you know... sometimes you just have to google something. Want to do a one-handed zoom on Google maps on your phone? You can. Double-tap, then drag your thumb (or finger) up or down to zoom in/out.
We can probably agree on a lot of what is bad, but which ones do you really like?
I agree with your efficiency comment, but I am certainly not looking forward to those solutions you mention. I live 18 miles from work, and about 17 of that is 2 or 3 lane divided highway. Speed limit is 65. I can make it to work on a normal day in about 23 minutes. That is mostly doing about 75, with some areas where it is slower, and usually comes to a dead stop in a couple of places due to heavy merging traffic.
The other day it was snowy. The roads were ok, but not great. It seemed that there was the same amount of traffic, but everyone was going about 50. I got to work in 25 minutes. The drive was easy, no sudden braking, no slowing to a stop, or even slowing at all. No dumbasses who HAVE to be going 85, weaving in and out trying to eke ahead while putting everyone at risk. It was rather pleasant.
I have to wonder if we did that every day if there would be fewer accidents and more consistent travel times.
The funny thing is that if you'd have just reset your profile in Firefox and settled for the same relatively limited experience Pale Moon offers you, then you would probably have better performance then even Pale Moon offers. Firefox is often only truly slow because of all the customizations and unexpectedly heavy addons people toss at it, and when you switch to another browser you end up losing a lot of those things in the process. It's only later on that you realize that Pale Moon suffers the same problems, and you're left worried about whether they'll be able to keep it going or whether it will collapse as it cannot adopt the very necessary improvements that Firefox is making right now, because the core of Pale Moon is too obsolete.
I use Adblocker Plus and a Gestures addon. That's it. No customizations. I even tested it out with a new profile, thinking maybe it was my browsing history or something that was causing it. I search my browsing history a lot when trying remember something I had looked at in the past. I have a lot of bookmarks, many of them old and I haven't cleaned them out. But I imported all of those into PaleMoon.
So while I appreciate the idea, that isn't what was slowing down my Firefox. It was just Firefox.
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OK.. so I am not sure why, but it is.
See, at work people always get praise for "going the extra mile", working overtime to get the job done. The people who rarely get the accolades are the ones who work effectively and efficiently at just doing the work. They don't get "recognition awards" for getting things done on schedule. That's just their job. But the downside is that to prove your worth, it is in your best interest to create a little chaos so you can step up and put out the fires.
Kudos to Linus and the kernel maintainers for continuing to do what they do.
Am in a similar boat. Linux is my desktop. No looking back. I use Wine for quite a number of apps that I need, and it does take some wrangling occasionally, but it's no comparison to Windows. I have a dual boot option for when I something such as to edit an image in Photoshop.
Linux is my desktop, and has been since 1998. My kids have windows PCs, and I have an old one that has been sitting around for a while. I still haven't had to boot it up for anything.
The only time I have needed windows for anything was recently to join a webex for work. I can work from home on my linux machine, I just run a container that has openconnect and xfreerdp on it, it launches and connects me to the VPN at work, then rdp's into my machine there. But on this particular occasion, I needed to have a webex and use the video. I used to be able to do this no problem, but I couldn't get it to work on my linux machine. It was really an issue with webex. It detected that I wasn't using an "approved" OS/Browser. I could even join their "test meeting" no problem, but couldn't get it to work with the one I was trying to join. So after a frantic 30 minutes, I just joined via phone. It was clearly due to some 'upgrade' on webex and not something on my side. So if I have to do that again, I will likely fire up that old windows machine just for that purpose.
I have more games than time to play... I have Emulation Station installed, so I have MAME, Gameboy, Atari, and Super Nintendo to play. And quite a few games from Humble Bundles and Steam.
And I understand that some people may have some apps that they need Windows for, but unless you are a professional, I don't think Photoshop is one of them. Give GIMP a try. I understand if you spent the cash and are comfortable with Photoshop, but imagine not being tied to it.
That Fake News was form when they were trying to get Obama and Hillary elected. What has been dropping is the number of unemployed looking for jobs, once they gave up and stopped looking they no longer add to the unemployment rate...
You are talking about two different things. The definition of "unemployment rate" hasn't changed. It's not Fake News, it's called statistics, and they clearly define what they are measuring. Nothing fake about it. What is fake is people who make up things to push their position on something, and pretend they know what they are talking about. Like saying unemployment is something different than what it is. Saying people stopped looking for work is fine and may be true (no real stats to back that up though) - but saying the government is making up unemployment stats is patently false - or alternative facts, whichever term you prefer.
I too run a local email client.
In fact, I run pine (well, alpine). Yep, text based email.
Everyone I work with thinks I'm crazy. For me, it's what I need and I have used it for a long time.
For a few years back in the mid 2000s I ran Thunderbird, but it was still too heavy. And I couldn't get to my mail if I was elsewhere very easily.
I do have a few emails, and pull them into my local account with fetchmail. I can ssh in from work or elsewhere (even mobile) and check it. This means that I don't have to pull my mail into my work computer, or use webmail, which I really don't like. Attachments or URLs in an email are simple if I am at home, and can be a little problematic if I am remote. But it's a good tradeoff for blazing speed and simplicity. Archive off by month, I can grep my history quickly.
I know I am probably in a very remote few people who still use this, especially as my primary email. But I love it. Sorry Thunderbird.
Didn't see a post on it yet, but yet another Trump job creation victory! Seems like we'll be hearing a lot more like this in the coming four years.
I wonder what Trumps re-election prospects will be given a dramatic rise in jobs and economic growth is pretty much assured at this point, due to the administration before holding the economy down for so long... the geologic concept of elastic rebound applies here I think.
Say what?
The unemployment rate has been on a steady decline for the last 6 years. That was after we entered a recession (which, by the way, was caused by previous administrations) It is right about at pre-recession levels.
But don't let actual data stand in the way of your argument.
And this announcement is just that - an announcement. A promise of jobs. By a company that markets people who sell an image, who do jobs that do nothing, for a premium price. If you don't mind, I'll just sit back and wait to see what happens.
I know very little to anything about him. However, I think this entire story is such shit.
yes, he's a multi-billionaire and the CEO of a huge company.
All he did was post some information that was rattling around in his head - which EVERYONE seems to think is absolutely a necessary thing to do these days.
Then, he thought better of one sentence, and removed it.
And people lose their fucking minds and consider that to be NEWS worthy of reporting on. It's all asinine.
It's not important. It really isn't.
I have managed teams from 3 to 50, and I agree with you completely.
The real problem comes in when the manager's manager has different ideas. It's so much harder to be a good manager if your manager is not.
The National Security Adviser resigns after 90 days in office, and the President of the United States says this: "The real story here is why are there so many illegal leaks coming out of Washington? Will these leaks be happening as I deal on N Korea etc?"
Along with BBSes and usenet, you had to use gopher and FTP sites to get/share any information. It was more of a discovery process. It's staggering to think how far we have come since then. Everyone also had copies of the Jargon File and the Anarchist Cookbook in txt format.
I used to be able to read hex quickly, from using line analyzers at my first job (cell phone communications).
I also had to use 9-track tapes. Builds took several hours, installs took even longer. For the systems we were working on it was a 24hr cycle from build to running test system, and we only did them every two weeks. You had to be much more careful, and failing fast wasn't an option. I don't miss those days.
Paying your employees so poorly, and taking such poor care of them, is also sleazy. So we see here sleaze being used to fight sleaze. I am having a hard time getting upset.
Except for this: The claim is that he was specifically paid by the UAW to join the company and encourage people to join a union. If true, then that was his goal going in, which means he is just doing what he was paid to do - come up with a story about why they should unionize. If it were a former employee, or a current one, then it would have more credibility. But knowing that he joined for that purpose immediately weakens his credibility.
If that is not true, he could be just a regular working trying to organize in order to get better working conditions. We don't really know though.
RTFA
"Martin was employed as a private contractor by at least seven different companies, working for several government agencies beginning in 1993 after serving in the U.S. Navy for four years, according to the indictment. "
CEOs don't get paid for what they do. They get paid for what they promise to do. They get paid more if they actually do it.
That is just the reality of it.
They set the direction of a company, and make sure that they follow it. There are lots of factors there, and everyone seems to think it's an easy job. I don't, I think it would be extremely difficult. I think FF set out to grow, and become a bigger and more well-known brand. It was ambitious, but they were going up against a juggernaut in Google. They took some risks, it hasn't worked out that great, and they are regrouping. I hope they learn and come back better for it.
Everyone thinks that CEOs get paid too much, but what if they are successful? They can turn a company around or make them even more valuable. Just as they can break a company, they can make one as well. If they do that, then they are usually rewarded for it, and everyone wins.
Just trying to inject a little reality into this.
I have done some pretty complex spreadsheets, and some things that I consider cool in Excel. Like being able to do a data extract from our system, plop it into a tab, change the name in a cell to that of the tab, and have all of my 10 tabs of graphs / charts / tables update by reading that cell. It uses an INDIRECT call, makes for big and ugly formulas, but cut down a manual process from 2 days worth of work to about 5 minutes.
[yes, I know you can set up a data source and just read the data into the spreadsheet, but I was able to hand this off to some business people to do and they loved it]
Now, having said that... :)
Excel is over-used for things it is not well suited for. People on my test team use Excel to create test data load files in csv format for an application. It has about 100 columns, and usually no more than 50 rows or so. One of the fields needs to be unique, so it's easy in Excel to make it a number, then just drag the cell to increment it. The problem arose where we were doing a load test, and needed 1MM rows. They were trying, but failing, in Excel. It struggled with 30k rows, let alone that the process to create them was painful.
With a quick shell script I was able to create a 1mm row csv in about 5 minutes. They were amazed. Then we needed to create another file. This time, I used the 1mm csv and vi, and made the new file in about 2 minutes. They were astounded! I have since made many more files for them, even a 5mm row file. Even in csv, it was 2.1GB in size although it compressed quite nicely. :)
I have also started teaching them how to fish by having them download gvim for Windows and giving them pointers on how to use it. We are a Windows shop, so to many people csv=Excel, and I am trying hard to break them of that.
To be more precise... test your RESTORE PROCESS.
It is important to not only know that your backups are good, but that your process of restoring them is sound and that you have at least tried it.
yep.
I am not a sysadmin, except on my own linux machine at home. I have been since 1998.
I have learned that when I write scripts to do things, which is quite often, I always echo the key commands before actually running them.
for i in 1 2 3 4 5
do
echo "rm -f $i"
done
I run it, look at what the command is going to do, then remove the echo. When messing around with files that might have spaces in them, or using multiple functions/calculations/variables, there is always something that can go wrong.
I still remember back in 1999, I was working at a startup and a new developer, as root, did "rm -rf /" on a test server. He didn't live that down.
My Pillow is the #1 pillow recommended by the National Sleep Foundation.
I know what you're saying... but its tricky! Now, I took that new job at lower pay, but there was a chance that my salary wasn't too high. If I go in and say I want X and they say "you're hired!" I may have just screwed myself.
If I say "I am making X but I would be willing to take less" it tells them that I would be willing to take a pay cut (which shows I want the job, I am not just looking for $), and it also gives them the chance to match my current salary. What you don't want to do is lowball thinking that once you get in you will prove yourself and get good raises/bonuses. I have learned the painful way that when you are in a company, it is hard to make good advances. I have been there myself, as an employee and as a manager. I have had employees that I inherited that were paid well below the minimum for their job. And they were good. I know.... it's unfair, it sucks. HR doesn't care. You can't dig them out of that hole. The only thing they can do is switch jobs. If you are in a big company and try to move internally, they always try to do the 'lateral move' maneuver. i.e. no pay increase. Guess what? Then you get to wait a whole year until you sync up with the review cycle until you are even up for a raise.
Funny thing is, HR does NOT want you to know the pay grades for your job, or other jobs. Where I have worked, that is highly guarded information.
I agree. I think that people want to get fit, and honestly that they wear one to show people that they are working out. I see people wearing them that either don't work out, or clearly aren't doing it right. They don't need a fitbit to give them that info. I work on the 6th floor. I see people with fitbits, and they take the elevator. I take the stairs every day.
When the fad started catching on, I looked into them out of curiosity. $100+ ballpark. Wow. It seems to be that with advances in technology, practicality has gone out the window. In the information age, people don't seem to know any more than they did 20 years ago. It's all just chasing fads. When I was recently at a family gathering I was questioned why I don't eat carbs. (I have been paleoish for 4 years now) I was asked "Do you eat eggs?" I answered it with a simple, "yes, I eat about a dozen a week". What I wanted to say was "Do you even know what a carb is?!" The person who asked me is a nurse.
It boggles my mind sometimes about how we are so directionally off course. Gadgets to help you refine your exercise plan? Sure, I suppose. Gadgets to pretend you have such a well established exercise plan that you need to make minor refinements to fine-tune your performance, so you can monitor your step count on the way to Taco Bell? I don't know where to start.
I read the summary 3 times... it makes no sense. I read the article... still no help.
What is this? Is this supposed to be one of those announcements that creates buzz? If I, as a tech person, don't get it then how will anyone else?
Several months ago I was in the Microsoft Store in a mall. I didn't even know they HAD Microsoft stores, and I hadn't been in a Mall for 10 years. So it was like a "things I despise" turducken. But my son's scout troop was in there doing a thing where they did game design. It was very lame, and he didn't have any fun. But while he was doing it, I sat and marveled at the Microsoft Store. They were really trying. Glitz and shiny things. Big screens, a VR! There were actual customers in there, which surprised me.
But I overheard a young, hip salesperson trying to sell an Office subscription to a middle-aged man, and she was really trying to get him to understand how it worked. There was a physical package on the shelf, and he could buy the 3 month subscription, take it home and then go to the website and register. He wanted to know how he installed it, and she explained he didn't. He wasn't getting it (and quite honestly, I wasn't either) She kept steering him towards a 12 month subscription - to something he didn't understand how to use. It was comical. He eventually gave up and left.
Good ol' Microsoft. They understand business - get in, sign the deals, make sure they are locked in. They understand oems - become the only thing they use, and make sure there are no other options. They understand acquisitions - buy things that are successful. They sure don't understand how to be relevant beyond those three things. And actually, I am not sure they really need to, but they keep trying.
I think it all depends on where you are in the hiring process. If it is because you are at the offer stage, then tell them. You can give general numbers. I don't think they can actually verify that information though. In general, most companies will only verify that you worked for them from this date to that. Depending on the job, they may do background checks, and they could be extensive. So... they may be able to verify your story. I honestly only vaguely remember how much I was making at some of my last jobs. So as long as you are close it shouldn't be an issue. Lie, and they find out, and you will be dropped immediately.
I have hired many people over the years, and I know exactly where you are coming from.
However, most of my experience has been with companies that have a hiring process. Therefore, I don't get to ask those questions. The recruiter may, i don't know what they do as part of their vetting process. I also know that the position pay range is between X and Z, with Y being the mid-point. HR wants you to hire at the mid-point (unless you are hiring internally, then it is 'as low as possible'). Not my rules, but the reality I have seen.
There are obviously downsides to this situation, in that I don't always get all of the information I may need. Also, it doesn't always work out for the candidate. I know, because I have been on that side as well. I was at one job where I was paid well, I got about a 12% increase when I joined it. It was higher-up the food chain too. But my boss was a nightmare, from day 1. I hated every single day I worked there. I tried to make it work... but after a year I started looking.
Recruiters wouldn't ask my salary history, but would ask my current salary. When i told them, they usually would start backpedaling. I would then explain what I was willing to take. There was one promising job, two rounds of interviews went great, it was a great work environment and I really wanted it. I told the recruiter what I was making but what I was willing to take. Unfortunately, he only told the employer what I was making. So I didn't get the job.
How do I know all of this? Because they hired me. A month or so later I got a call from that recruiter, wanting to know if I was still interested. I was! He said salary was an issue, and they couldn't meet my current pay. I reiterated to him what I was willing to take, and after a little negotiating I got the job. As it turned out, the recruiter was a dumbass and didn't tell the hiring manager (my new boss) about my willingness to take less than my current salary. The person they had chosen over me didn't work out, and I am really glad that they came back to me because I am still there and it has been great. I have since learned more about our corporate recruiters, and how terrible they are. I keep that in mind as I have started hiring more people. Remember this - their job is to get people hired, not necessarily to hire the right people. I know that sounds crazy, but it's true. And the strange thing is, they aren't very good at it.
They don't start to die... they just die.
Platter drives will start to give you problems, at which point you can usually buy another drive and transfer your data.
If an SSD goes, it's gone. poof. I had it happen on a work laptop once. That was about 6 years ago, so maybe they have gotten a little more reliable since then. At home, on my machine, it's all platter drives.
I hate all of those things and more. I have to use Windows10 every day at work, and I hate it. Macs anger me, nothing makes sense.
At home, I have used Linux since 1998 exclusively. I use XFCE and love it! It's got just enough slickness and all the usability I need.
I can also tell you that you don't really appreciate a good UI until you get a bad one.
Example: Roku. After a couple of minutes it was easy. Now, not all parts of it - I still make some oopses if I do something out of the norm. They went with the 'simple remote' options, so there are some things that had to be compromised (e.g. entering passwords is still painful). But overall it is very good.
And I am a Netflix user, and the UI on the Roku is great. How do you know? Go use Amazon Prime. *shudder* Or some of the network TV channels *ugh* They are menus of show screenshots which are simple to browse, but damn near impossible to find something if you are looking for it. I think the Netflix UI is pretty good on the Roku. How they assemble their content is another matter, but the UI itself is pretty good save a few things.
I don't mind my Android UI. It's a near-stock on a BLU Life One X. I am not all about customizing it though, just give me simple and effective and I am happy. I boggle the developer's minds at work when I check my email using pine though.
And you know... sometimes you just have to google something. Want to do a one-handed zoom on Google maps on your phone? You can. Double-tap, then drag your thumb (or finger) up or down to zoom in/out.
We can probably agree on a lot of what is bad, but which ones do you really like?
I run Linux, a browser with ad blocking, and a hosts file with 94.5k entries (for shady sites) that redirect to a dummy IP.
I agree with your efficiency comment, but I am certainly not looking forward to those solutions you mention.
I live 18 miles from work, and about 17 of that is 2 or 3 lane divided highway. Speed limit is 65. I can make it to work on a normal day in about 23 minutes. That is mostly doing about 75, with some areas where it is slower, and usually comes to a dead stop in a couple of places due to heavy merging traffic.
The other day it was snowy. The roads were ok, but not great. It seemed that there was the same amount of traffic, but everyone was going about 50. I got to work in 25 minutes. The drive was easy, no sudden braking, no slowing to a stop, or even slowing at all. No dumbasses who HAVE to be going 85, weaving in and out trying to eke ahead while putting everyone at risk. It was rather pleasant.
I have to wonder if we did that every day if there would be fewer accidents and more consistent travel times.
The funny thing is that if you'd have just reset your profile in Firefox and settled for the same relatively limited experience Pale Moon offers you, then you would probably have better performance then even Pale Moon offers. Firefox is often only truly slow because of all the customizations and unexpectedly heavy addons people toss at it, and when you switch to another browser you end up losing a lot of those things in the process. It's only later on that you realize that Pale Moon suffers the same problems, and you're left worried about whether they'll be able to keep it going or whether it will collapse as it cannot adopt the very necessary improvements that Firefox is making right now, because the core of Pale Moon is too obsolete.
I use Adblocker Plus and a Gestures addon. That's it. No customizations. I even tested it out with a new profile, thinking maybe it was my browsing history or something that was causing it. I search my browsing history a lot when trying remember something I had looked at in the past. I have a lot of bookmarks, many of them old and I haven't cleaned them out. But I imported all of those into PaleMoon.
So while I appreciate the idea, that isn't what was slowing down my Firefox. It was just Firefox.