I'm not normally a proponent of this sort of work-life imbalance. But we're talking video games here, and the cliché is that long crunches are how (some of) the customers actually do use the product.
Abstractly, getting paid straight time for overtime stretches with possible health effects to boot should command a premium. Realistically, I fear that the people involved are getting part of their "pay" in early-release game experience instead of something that can pay their rent or build towards retirement.
Companies won't care if they drive employees away, though. Not unless the rate of new (and cheap) applicants drops below the rate at which people leave.
I, for one, appreciate that it takes money to protect my freedom from terrorists. I have nothing to hide
And innocent people have nothing to fear.
Hey, guess what. YOU don't get to determine what's "innocent".
Back in the 1800s, Heroin was a commercial product, cocaine was legal and you could stockpile weed without ending up in prison. These days, buying fertilizer can get you in trouble. For decades, alcohol was illegal There is virtually nothing so innocuous that some group cannot get all worked up about and make illegal and suddenly all your records about your little hobby can be used to put you away. Not just the obvious vices, but things like photography, home vegetables, choir practice and more.
If the government becomes too powerful, they'll track back through your "anonymous" shielding and nuke you and your silly little gun collection on the spot.
The best alternative would be to work to get those yokels out of power, and pointing guns at people isn't likely to help that.
The worst alternative would be a well-regulated and large militia set up in opposition, but a handful of swamp-runners running around like fantasy heroes isn't going to restore the USA as we knew it.
The bigger problem is that our body politic is incapable of having an adult conversation about risk. We live in a society that won't let kids use playgrounds where they might scrape a knee.
Yet thinks its perfectly appropriate for people to walk around with loaded firearms.
Personally, I felt safer overall back when I could simply walk through the gates and onto the plane without being run through a wringer by own country on a domestic flight. Hell, it's not like I'm likely to be on more than one flight that gets blown up or whatever. The TSA gets you every time.
Actually, as has been noted before, if terrorists weren't so obsessed by the airplanes themselves, that massive chokepoint that has replaced the distributed individual waiting areas is prime target material.
It wasn't original then either. The Coliseum was in service for a LONG time and various changes and repairs of greater and lesser degree were done to it for its entire career as a combat venue, to say nothing of the things that people did with it afterwards. The idea that you'd build something and leave it fundamentally unchanged until the day you knocked it down again isn't something that really had that much going for it until recently when the expected lifespans of structures grew less and the engineered durability of structures became greater (or, if the bean-counters took charge, less).
They rebuilt one small section of the Coliseum using native materials and Roman building techniques. As far as possible, the only difference was that the people who were involved were born about 2000 years later than the original artisans.
if 100% material authenticity were the only thing, then the best we could do is try and remove later changes and watch the original structure slowly crumble into the landscape. But the importance of the Coliseum isn't just the stone, mortar, wood fragments and residual metal, it's the conception of one of the most important aspects of Rome, and to properly grasp that, you need an opportunity to see it as the Romans themselves saw it.
Aparently the use of the word "they" as gender/number fuzz dates back a long way. Long enough that it's considered no less correct that a lot of other rule-breaking exceptions to the supposedly logical structure of the English language.
Maybe I'm showing my age and upbringing, but use of "she" in a document mentally throws my gender-neutral/faceless person reading out of whack in a way that "he" does not. I can live with "they" if other people have the same reaction to "he". It's less grating then (sic) when people with a gender agenda think that they have free reign (sic) to make me tow (sic) the line. If I'm trying to interpret a technical document, I really don't need to be simultaneously wasting energy thinking about it as a gender manifesto.
When was the last time that you saw a recruitment ad for a polyglot?
They all demand specific (and often unrealistic) experience in a specific language or small set of languages. Usually paired with specific platform.
Companies don't want flexible people, they demand cheap easily-replaceable cogs. And what they often get are people willing to lie about their experience, since the "must-have" list is so long an inflexible that maybe 3 people on the planet will fit and all of them are undoubtedly already making more than was offered.
I was going to say spend a million or two on a "enterprise solution tailored to fit your needs" that never actually works like you wanted, but middle management loves because the salesman took them out for drinks, then spend another half-million on training so that everybody gets up to speed. Then after wasting time for 6 months, use some wacky combination of access and excel that lives on some shared drive *somewhere*, Finally give up and scrap the whole idea when a new operations director comes in and has a NEW enterprise solution lined up from his good buddy at yet another company.
You forgot about the part where you pull in HR and make them advertise for an unrealistic amount of experience in this overpriced "solution", mixed, of course with a long and unlikely laundry list of "must-have" skills. To which a number of offshore outfits will immediately respond claiming that they have all this and certs to boot all for an Everyday Low Price, followed by hiring of a bunch of clueless entry-level people who can barely speak English.
If they were really that concerned with getting things done, they'd pare down these "laundry" lists to the skills that are both essential and cannot be acquired in a short period of time. And would take time to recognize equivalences (for example, someone who's done MySQL for 5 years might not have such a learning curve for Oracle and vice versa).
Too many businesses are so obsessed with getting someone who can "hit the ground running" that the only "qualified" candidates are either lying about it or statistical outliers.
The worst of it is that many times the business actually has a certain amount of "blue sky" in the project where some of these "must have" skills end up never being used, and instead staff ends up having to learn some other skill instead.
People used to starve in England as well during the Little Ice Age, because there wasn't enough summer to grow crops in.
The Little Ice age was just a volcanic eruption's short-term impact. What we're talking now isn't a flash event, it's the accumulated result of slow buildup, and it's going to be equally slow to mitigate.
And unlike volcanoes, we do have a choice as to whether to keep making it worse.
Slashdot Mirror
Phone tag! You're it!
Fax machines are still widely used.
Not by me.
I had to sign something the other day. Even that was digital.
But your call is very important to us! (crappy lo-fi music continues)
Screenplay by Richard (Omega Man/Last Man on Earth) Matheson.
I'm not normally a proponent of this sort of work-life imbalance. But we're talking video games here, and the cliché is that long crunches are how (some of) the customers actually do use the product.
Abstractly, getting paid straight time for overtime stretches with possible health effects to boot should command a premium. Realistically, I fear that the people involved are getting part of their "pay" in early-release game experience instead of something that can pay their rent or build towards retirement.
Companies won't care if they drive employees away, though. Not unless the rate of new (and cheap) applicants drops below the rate at which people leave.
"Three men can keep a secret if two of them are dead".
Benjamin Franklin, old Russian proverb, I dunno.
Snowden determined the "when" more that the "what".
I, for one, appreciate that it takes money to protect my freedom from terrorists. I have nothing to hide
And innocent people have nothing to fear.
Hey, guess what. YOU don't get to determine what's "innocent".
Back in the 1800s, Heroin was a commercial product, cocaine was legal and you could stockpile weed without ending up in prison. These days, buying fertilizer can get you in trouble. For decades, alcohol was illegal There is virtually nothing so innocuous that some group cannot get all worked up about and make illegal and suddenly all your records about your little hobby can be used to put you away. Not just the obvious vices, but things like photography, home vegetables, choir practice and more.
If the government becomes too powerful, they'll track back through your "anonymous" shielding and nuke you and your silly little gun collection on the spot.
The best alternative would be to work to get those yokels out of power, and pointing guns at people isn't likely to help that.
The worst alternative would be a well-regulated and large militia set up in opposition, but a handful of swamp-runners running around like fantasy heroes isn't going to restore the USA as we knew it.
Yet thinks its perfectly appropriate for people to walk around with loaded firearms.
As long as they're not naked.
Personally, I felt safer overall back when I could simply walk through the gates and onto the plane without being run through a wringer by own country on a domestic flight. Hell, it's not like I'm likely to be on more than one flight that gets blown up or whatever. The TSA gets you every time.
Actually, as has been noted before, if terrorists weren't so obsessed by the airplanes themselves, that massive chokepoint that has replaced the distributed individual waiting areas is prime target material.
Forget it. Landru is a Commie Socialist! We'd rather vote for the Great Old Ones!
A three-dimensional Beowulf cluster of these things!
So, alas, does the mold in my refrigerator.
Or vice versa.
I did a write-in for Him Who is Not to be Named.
It wasn't original then either. The Coliseum was in service for a LONG time and various changes and repairs of greater and lesser degree were done to it for its entire career as a combat venue, to say nothing of the things that people did with it afterwards. The idea that you'd build something and leave it fundamentally unchanged until the day you knocked it down again isn't something that really had that much going for it until recently when the expected lifespans of structures grew less and the engineered durability of structures became greater (or, if the bean-counters took charge, less).
They rebuilt one small section of the Coliseum using native materials and Roman building techniques. As far as possible, the only difference was that the people who were involved were born about 2000 years later than the original artisans.
if 100% material authenticity were the only thing, then the best we could do is try and remove later changes and watch the original structure slowly crumble into the landscape. But the importance of the Coliseum isn't just the stone, mortar, wood fragments and residual metal, it's the conception of one of the most important aspects of Rome, and to properly grasp that, you need an opportunity to see it as the Romans themselves saw it.
Aparently the use of the word "they" as gender/number fuzz dates back a long way. Long enough that it's considered no less correct that a lot of other rule-breaking exceptions to the supposedly logical structure of the English language.
Maybe I'm showing my age and upbringing, but use of "she" in a document mentally throws my gender-neutral/faceless person reading out of whack in a way that "he" does not. I can live with "they" if other people have the same reaction to "he". It's less grating then (sic) when people with a gender agenda think that they have free reign (sic) to make me tow (sic) the line. If I'm trying to interpret a technical document, I really don't need to be simultaneously wasting energy thinking about it as a gender manifesto.
Hire well-trained polyglots.
When was the last time that you saw a recruitment ad for a polyglot?
They all demand specific (and often unrealistic) experience in a specific language or small set of languages. Usually paired with specific platform.
Companies don't want flexible people, they demand cheap easily-replaceable cogs. And what they often get are people willing to lie about their experience, since the "must-have" list is so long an inflexible that maybe 3 people on the planet will fit and all of them are undoubtedly already making more than was offered.
I was going to say spend a million or two on a "enterprise solution tailored to fit your needs" that never actually works like you wanted, but middle management loves because the salesman took them out for drinks, then spend another half-million on training so that everybody gets up to speed. Then after wasting time for 6 months, use some wacky combination of access and excel that lives on some shared drive *somewhere*, Finally give up and scrap the whole idea when a new operations director comes in and has a NEW enterprise solution lined up from his good buddy at yet another company.
You forgot about the part where you pull in HR and make them advertise for an unrealistic amount of experience in this overpriced "solution", mixed, of course with a long and unlikely laundry list of "must-have" skills. To which a number of offshore outfits will immediately respond claiming that they have all this and certs to boot all for an Everyday Low Price, followed by hiring of a bunch of clueless entry-level people who can barely speak English.
Funny, they have no problem with remote workers when the remote workers are located in Mumbai.
If they were really that concerned with getting things done, they'd pare down these "laundry" lists to the skills that are both essential and cannot be acquired in a short period of time. And would take time to recognize equivalences (for example, someone who's done MySQL for 5 years might not have such a learning curve for Oracle and vice versa).
Too many businesses are so obsessed with getting someone who can "hit the ground running" that the only "qualified" candidates are either lying about it or statistical outliers.
The worst of it is that many times the business actually has a certain amount of "blue sky" in the project where some of these "must have" skills end up never being used, and instead staff ends up having to learn some other skill instead.
People used to starve in England as well during the Little Ice Age, because there wasn't enough summer to grow crops in.
The Little Ice age was just a volcanic eruption's short-term impact. What we're talking now isn't a flash event, it's the accumulated result of slow buildup, and it's going to be equally slow to mitigate.
And unlike volcanoes, we do have a choice as to whether to keep making it worse.
... in a few dozen million years will have a whole new set of flora and fauna and perhaps newXXXX intelligent species.
There. Fixed.
You wouldn't want to use our surface water. It's full of oil and fertilizer runoff.
Although they've been doing a good job of sneaking it into the aquifer lately as well.
That's exactly what the High Council on Krypton did!