Either his employer behave fairly and offers him the right compensation for the work they have asked him to do, or they behave unfairly and they do not.
Employer-employee relationships should not be a free-market free-for-all.
1. Most bosses would rather drop an employee rather than give in to demands. This is management 101 and why we need unions. So do not threaten anything and don't stop doing work. 2. Ask for training. It'll cost your boss and you'll learn something. But don't do it if you have to commit to a minimum contract term. 3. When you have learnt enough from your new role (but before you learn too many bad habits) start looking for another job. Then leave. Don't stay at your current job - they may offer you more money to stop you leaving but they will always see it as betrayal and kick you later on. 4. If your employer had any respect for you they would have automatically offered a promotion to you - they did not - so you should leave.
Well the collaboration features are worth more to me than the polish of MS Word (the same polish that overwrites styles for no reason and crashes documents with tables in the header I guess;)
Lovelock has been wildly misquoted in the media on this and other statements in the last few days. Tuesday morning he was on BBC Radio 4 and faced John Humphries and gave a very good account of himself, correcting some earlier misquotes. He promotes an unpopular agenda (it's too late - let's live with it) so he is the enemy of all sides in the climate change debate.
As much as I love playing Nexiuz I can't really support this move. It's off my PC and will never return. I'm sure no-one really cares, but I do, and I guess that's what it's all about in the end - what I can live with. If PS3 is closed - then DON'T RELEASE TO IT... Back to BZFlag...
One thing has always bothered me about the violent video game issue - is that they are really sold on being an almost immersive experience, and we know already that repeated exposure to violent images makes kids immune to future violent images (hell, same for military vets., even me!) so how exactly do video games get away from saying that they do not make kids immune to images of violence?
Cars, they don't make you _feel_ violent -- neither do planes...
Anyway, Switzerland is a wonderfully democratic country so this not really a big issue for us to get worked up about --- not unless I can go burning images of Christ and the US flag in Texas...
Speaking as someone who works with teams in England, India, Poland, Switzerland, Germany and the US - I can tell you that 'speaking up' is definitely a trait stronger in England than anywhere else. People in the England do it too much, India not enough, the Polish are about half way (they speak up, but about weird things). The Swiss are way more cynical than I thought, so they speak up like the British do - in a mildly sarcastic way (which never helps). The US team, well they are strange, because they speak up only when they have prepared an exit plan - it's almost as if they have some sort of secret evil plan... perish the thought;) In summary, everyone should be English.
Zotero is brilliant. I could go on about how I use it every day at work and it makes everything a hell of a lot easier, but instead, just check it out. Versioning of documents it doesn't do - but that's what Mercurial is for I guess.
I cannot disagree more. A service is something like the ex-sailor who comes to freshen up the plants. For most modern businesses IT is worthy of consideration as a constant opportunity for making more money - by speeding up and streamlining processes. Sometimes this comes with new technologies which on IT people have the knowledge and perspective to understand. Web Services and such like. Treating IT as a service is what gets us into the position of hiring idiot cube monkeys. IMHO of course:)
... he could really be suffering from this illness couldn't he? I mean, it's not beyond the bounds of reality that he has a weird physical make-up is it? The county should test him properly and if he really is a sufferer they should paint his walls with metal paint. On the other hand, if he is not found to be sensitive, then he should STOP PUBLISHING BOOKS ON THE SUBJECT, STOP CAMPAIGNING TO BAN WI-FI , AND LEAVE HIS NEIGHBOUR (an ex-friend of his I gather) THE F**K ALONE. Also, if you street-map the address in the article you'll see that the place is strewn with overhead power lines (power lines in the US right?) so how come he didn't get sick beforehand?
I pride myself on being a know-it-all but in this case I want to thank you sincerely; I have never heard of NetBeans before but after you mentioned it I tried it and it is now my favourite Python IDE. Thanks!
"What did he say?" "I dunno - here - give him this iPhone - it has a translation app" "Nah - it's bust - no network signal in this area, something about the local cell provider not supporting network heavy phones in this area - If only it was a Toshiba" "Anyway, where's that syringe gone..."
You know I wouldn't have responded except that you seemed to be levelling some criticism at me (and missing the 'I' point of view). So here goes with some unnecessarily vitriolic responses...
1. If I needed grep to find email then I think I would rather go to hell, which is where you obviously already.
2. Gmail may lose data but cannot believe that it does so as often as a regular user unless you are on crack.
3. If you can SSH from your work PC then you are probably breaking a whole load of company security policies and should be fired.
So, you are in hell, on crack, and soon to be fired.
I, on the other hand, am drinking vodka, have half a dozen laptops in various locations from where I can access all my email and documents without having to do a single thing.
Seriously - this is dumb - IT projects, just like life, will often fail. We know they will and we know why. If it was such a problem then clients and project managers would actually do something about it - but they don't. So in that case all I care about is that I get some of the money - and I work in IT - so I do. Hooray!
Also, failure isn't such a bad thing - my past relationships failed, I didn't regret them (well, ok, I did...) - my latest poem failed to be any good, I didn't regret trying - my last batch of home brew has gone bad (I may still drink it of course) but that's life.
I regret nothing;) the speed and agility one gains from 'light' but imperfect solutions is far better than the effort required to do anything else.
Plain text is best of course, but binary formats are easier for dimwit colleagues to understand - and I get paid quicker that way too. We both have problems diff'ing between binary formats so most of the time they don't bother and neither do I - no loss really because most documents have a very limited lifetime (especially when you use LiveLink:). It's kind of a devil's pact - I promise to write documents in MS Word if you promise never to ask me to figure out the history of changes or keep older versions.
Email is the same story really- I never really searched through past email, but I did lose archives during sync operations and missed having access to email when at the office. Gmail wins this battle every time. Another devil's pact - I promise to reply to emails quickly wherever I am if you promise never to ask me to remember what we talked about.
It sounds a bit lackadaisical - and it is - because life's really like that - and in the real world of the idiots no one even backs up their computers - so we are already on to a winner! And in the real world it's always better to have an immediate if imperfect (but rosier) recall of past events than it is to say 'yeah, well let me just go and grep that for you' because not only does that sound dorky, but no one will thank you for remembering the truth (not if you want to be president that is:)
OK, so when it gets serious, i.e. when I start coding (because emails, documents, spreadsheets are just the pointless stuff that stops me from coding) then it's plain text, Python and Mercurial SCM every single time. No argument. Colleagues can't understand how Mercurial works? Then I tell them to find another job. Another devil's pact... let me use my own tools and I will write good software for you.
Basically, aside from coding work, life's too short to worry about retracing your steps --- it's much easier (and rosier) to try and remember what you 'think' happened and go from there.
One past client had a rule that all email was auto-deleted after two months... sound horrific, but boy did it stop all the 'you said' 'he said' arguments... (also, stopped any horrible litigation:)
The killer app in all these years, as I transition from thinking like a coder to thinking like a mild alcoholic, has been Freemind, which helps me organise my thoughts and tasks but is practically useless for keeping a history of changes (ok, so it does, but the whole 'history' keeping doesn't work in mind maps). The thing about Freemind is that keeping information in a mind map somehow etches that same information in your brain - so I can remember almost exactly what's in my Freemind project map.
I was trying to be polite to De Icaza:) but by suggesting we boycott Gnome (in the same damn sentance) I had hoped that would indicate where I stand on his whole surreal Microsoft love affair (to make it clear - I HATE IT) Also, Novell, for literally going to bed with Microsoft (I HATE IT) Also Jono Bacon, for giving the Boycott Novell guy a hard time on FOSS Weekly (I HATE HIM FOR THAT) And finally Microsoft, for all the crappy software, every changing interfaces, having had a part in inventing web services (which I like, so it makes it worse), having a damn good tech support site (which again I like but also regret), inventing visual basic for applications, SmartTags and Clippy, the way my work laptop takes 30 minutes to start (I HATE MICOSOFT) So, to summarise, I HATE MICROSOFT, NOVELL, ICAZA, BACON, MOST OF AMERICA
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Sir, you are a scholar.
Obviously I disagree with you entirely.
Either his employer behave fairly and offers him the right compensation for the work they have asked him to do, or they behave unfairly and they do not.
Employer-employee relationships should not be a free-market free-for-all.
1. Most bosses would rather drop an employee rather than give in to demands. This is management 101 and why we need unions. So do not threaten anything and don't stop doing work.
2. Ask for training. It'll cost your boss and you'll learn something. But don't do it if you have to commit to a minimum contract term.
3. When you have learnt enough from your new role (but before you learn too many bad habits) start looking for another job. Then leave. Don't stay at your current job - they may offer you more money to stop you leaving but they will always see it as betrayal and kick you later on.
4. If your employer had any respect for you they would have automatically offered a promotion to you - they did not - so you should leave.
Well the collaboration features are worth more to me than the polish of MS Word (the same polish that overwrites styles for no reason and crashes documents with tables in the header I guess ;)
Lovelock has been wildly misquoted in the media on this and other statements in the last few days.
Tuesday morning he was on BBC Radio 4 and faced John Humphries and gave a very good account of himself, correcting some earlier misquotes.
He promotes an unpopular agenda (it's too late - let's live with it) so he is the enemy of all sides in the climate change debate.
Cool - well then I'm in when Xonotic releases.
But calling me a 'little human' - well that is certainly a new kind of insult I guess.
As much as I love playing Nexiuz I can't really support this move. It's off my PC and will never return. I'm sure no-one really cares, but I do, and I guess that's what it's all about in the end - what I can live with.
If PS3 is closed - then DON'T RELEASE TO IT...
Back to BZFlag...
Because everyone knows that Google IS the modern internet.
One thing has always bothered me about the violent video game issue - is that they are really sold on being an almost immersive experience, and we know already that repeated exposure to violent images makes kids immune to future violent images (hell, same for military vets., even me!) so how exactly do video games get away from saying that they do not make kids immune to images of violence?
Cars, they don't make you _feel_ violent -- neither do planes...
Anyway, Switzerland is a wonderfully democratic country so this not really a big issue for us to get worked up about --- not unless I can go burning images of Christ and the US flag in Texas...
Speaking as someone who works with teams in England, India, Poland, Switzerland, Germany and the US - I can tell you that 'speaking up' is definitely a trait stronger in England than anywhere else. ... perish the thought ;)
People in the England do it too much, India not enough, the Polish are about half way (they speak up, but about weird things). The Swiss are way more cynical than I thought, so they speak up like the British do - in a mildly sarcastic way (which never helps).
The US team, well they are strange, because they speak up only when they have prepared an exit plan - it's almost as if they have some sort of secret evil plan
In summary, everyone should be English.
The only thing I think will be useful to come out of this is the coincidental visit of Lexx (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LVshOOG2hcc)
Zotero is brilliant. I could go on about how I use it every day at work and it makes everything a hell of a lot easier, but instead, just check it out.
Versioning of documents it doesn't do - but that's what Mercurial is for I guess.
I cannot disagree more. A service is something like the ex-sailor who comes to freshen up the plants. For most modern businesses IT is worthy of consideration as a constant opportunity for making more money - by speeding up and streamlining processes. Sometimes this comes with new technologies which on IT people have the knowledge and perspective to understand. Web Services and such like. :)
Treating IT as a service is what gets us into the position of hiring idiot cube monkeys.
IMHO of course
... he could really be suffering from this illness couldn't he? I mean, it's not beyond the bounds of reality that he has a weird physical make-up is it?
The county should test him properly and if he really is a sufferer they should paint his walls with metal paint.
On the other hand, if he is not found to be sensitive, then he should STOP PUBLISHING BOOKS ON THE SUBJECT, STOP CAMPAIGNING TO BAN WI-FI , AND LEAVE HIS NEIGHBOUR (an ex-friend of his I gather) THE F**K ALONE.
Also, if you street-map the address in the article you'll see that the place is strewn with overhead power lines (power lines in the US right?) so how come he didn't get sick beforehand?
... this is like running a hair salon and then letting Britney come in and cut her own hair. And charging her only $5 for it. And selling the photos.
If you buy a PC from Best Buy and don't immediately boot it into a Linux install then you are an idiot.
Then it would be more like running a hair salon and giving your male patrons something for the weekend and your female patrons some root conditioner.
I pride myself on being a know-it-all but in this case I want to thank you sincerely; I have never heard of NetBeans before but after you mentioned it I tried it and it is now my favourite Python IDE. Thanks!
Glad you asked.
Make sure you give Freemind a try - it really is superb.
"What did he say?" ..."
"I dunno - here - give him this iPhone - it has a translation app"
"Nah - it's bust - no network signal in this area, something about the local cell provider not supporting network heavy phones in this area - If only it was a Toshiba"
"Anyway, where's that syringe gone
... ants that is...
You know I wouldn't have responded except that you seemed to be levelling some criticism at me (and missing the 'I' point of view). So here goes with some unnecessarily vitriolic responses...
1. If I needed grep to find email then I think I would rather go to hell, which is where you obviously already.
2. Gmail may lose data but cannot believe that it does so as often as a regular user unless you are on crack.
3. If you can SSH from your work PC then you are probably breaking a whole load of company security policies and should be fired.
So, you are in hell, on crack, and soon to be fired.
I, on the other hand, am drinking vodka, have half a dozen laptops in various locations from where I can access all my email and documents without having to do a single thing.
Seriously - this is dumb - IT projects, just like life, will often fail. We know they will and we know why. If it was such a problem then clients and project managers would actually do something about it - but they don't. So in that case all I care about is that I get some of the money - and I work in IT - so I do. Hooray!
Also, failure isn't such a bad thing - my past relationships failed, I didn't regret them (well, ok, I did...) - my latest poem failed to be any good, I didn't regret trying - my last batch of home brew has gone bad (I may still drink it of course) but that's life.
I regret nothing ;) the speed and agility one gains from 'light' but imperfect solutions is far better than the effort required to do anything else.
Plain text is best of course, but binary formats are easier for dimwit colleagues to understand - and I get paid quicker that way too. We both have problems diff'ing between binary formats so most of the time they don't bother and neither do I - no loss really because most documents have a very limited lifetime (especially when you use LiveLink :). It's kind of a devil's pact - I promise to write documents in MS Word if you promise never to ask me to figure out the history of changes or keep older versions.
Email is the same story really- I never really searched through past email, but I did lose archives during sync operations and missed having access to email when at the office. Gmail wins this battle every time. Another devil's pact - I promise to reply to emails quickly wherever I am if you promise never to ask me to remember what we talked about.
It sounds a bit lackadaisical - and it is - because life's really like that - and in the real world of the idiots no one even backs up their computers - so we are already on to a winner! And in the real world it's always better to have an immediate if imperfect (but rosier) recall of past events than it is to say 'yeah, well let me just go and grep that for you' because not only does that sound dorky, but no one will thank you for remembering the truth (not if you want to be president that is :)
OK, so when it gets serious, i.e. when I start coding (because emails, documents, spreadsheets are just the pointless stuff that stops me from coding) then it's plain text, Python and Mercurial SCM every single time. No argument. Colleagues can't understand how Mercurial works? Then I tell them to find another job. Another devil's pact ... let me use my own tools and I will write good software for you.
Basically, aside from coding work, life's too short to worry about retracing your steps --- it's much easier (and rosier) to try and remember what you 'think' happened and go from there.
One past client had a rule that all email was auto-deleted after two months ... sound horrific, but boy did it stop all the 'you said' 'he said' arguments... (also, stopped any horrible litigation :)
The killer app in all these years, as I transition from thinking like a coder to thinking like a mild alcoholic, has been Freemind, which helps me organise my thoughts and tasks but is practically useless for keeping a history of changes (ok, so it does, but the whole 'history' keeping doesn't work in mind maps). The thing about Freemind is that keeping information in a mind map somehow etches that same information in your brain - so I can remember almost exactly what's in my Freemind project map.
So, in summary, drink vodka...
.... just what I need to fool my clients into using Ubuntu instead of crappy Microsoft XP.
I was trying to be polite to De Icaza :) but by suggesting we boycott Gnome (in the same damn sentance) I had hoped that would indicate where I stand on his whole surreal Microsoft love affair (to make it clear - I HATE IT)
Also, Novell, for literally going to bed with Microsoft (I HATE IT)
Also Jono Bacon, for giving the Boycott Novell guy a hard time on FOSS Weekly (I HATE HIM FOR THAT)
And finally Microsoft, for all the crappy software, every changing interfaces, having had a part in inventing web services (which I like, so it makes it worse), having a damn good tech support site (which again I like but also regret), inventing visual basic for applications, SmartTags and Clippy, the way my work laptop takes 30 minutes to start (I HATE MICOSOFT)
So, to summarise, I HATE MICROSOFT, NOVELL, ICAZA, BACON, MOST OF AMERICA
Have you thought of re-booting your Emacs addiction?
gVim was perfect - I used to write all of my documents in restructured text (gVim addon or rst2pdf to get PDFs) and all my emails with Mutt and Pine.
One day I switched to Freemind and Open Office for documents and Gmail for email ... so terribly un-geek like, but so much easier.
Never looked back.
You should give it a try.