Honestly. I realize and understand that a lot of us geeks tend to define ourselves by what we do/know, but it isn't worth getting depressed about some setbacks.
Take a step back from what's causing the difficulty and regroup. Work on something else for a couple hours/days. If it's criticism from a project manager/client on a project, try not to take it personally. Pause for a minute and think about previous obstacles that you've overcome. Ask for help. There is no shame in asking someone "hey, can you give me a hand with this?" Often, I'll work out my problem just by describing it to someone else.
This may sound wasteful, but when I've become completely frustrated with a piece of code (trying to make it work right), I just scrap it and start over. If it's so broken that I'm getting frustrated, it needs it anyway. Plus, it gets me back to the really "fun" stuff - work out the algorithm, write some pseudocode, hammer it into real code. It's a pick-me-up.
Things I do:
After a really bad day/week, stop on the way home and pick up a 6-pack of Labatt Ice and drain it (or as much as possible) that night.
Take a weekend and hang out at the girlfriend's place with her family. Babysitting a 10-month-old for 6 hours will make you entirely forget about work.
Go out for a drive. Some of my best ideas have come to me while driving. Keep a pad of paper handy in the car.
Work on my truck (replacing perfectly servicable parts with upgrades).
Make other people happy. When I can make my troublesome clients happy, it takes a layer of stress off my life. Help another programmer with something they're having trouble with (just by answering a question or 2).
Treat yourself to that DVD/CD/Playstation2 game you've been thinking about getting.
Or anything else that interests you.
I also found that my general stress/depression level went up when I stopped exercising regularly.
Most importantly, don't let a setback lower your self-esteem. One failure or setback does not make you a bad person. It means you're human, just like anyone else. Failure is a part of life. Those who have the most difficulty dealing with it are those who have hardly ever failed (you can't fail if you don't try something). It builds character - you will grow from the experience.
uh...As is explained to every American teenager, driving is a priviledge, not a right. There was and still is freedom without Internet access (are people who don't use the Internet "less free" than those who do? Some may contend that they are "more free."), so how does that change for people who had access and no longer do?
If I had meant Macromedia Flash,I would have capitalized it. But I didn't. I said "flash" as in eye-candy, which most sites do in a very bandwidth-unfriendly way.
Maybe your users select "modem" with the thought that if they select higher bandwidth, you'll force-feed them a more graphics/flash-heavy site, and they don't want that?
Or maybe they think cable modem == modem?
If I had a dollar for every website form I filled out truthfully, I'd be a very poor man.
All that transmission gear (belts, clutches, driveshafts, "splitters" and so on) would make more noise than a group of individual motors. Plus, moving parts = wear & tear = maintenance.
Not to mention the headache when your single point of mechanical failure goes out.
I'm using Mozilla 0.9.4 and I'm still getting the blocking page at 7:33 US Eastern time
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Last I checked, both IIS and Apache generate (or can be set to generate) W3C standard format logfiles. Part of the reason for having/using that standard is so that you don't get locked into a proprietary tool.
Someone has to make the final decisions. I'll probably get roasted for this example, but here goes.
Look at the discussion & infighting through the recent Linux kernel changes, especially over VM implementations. Now imagine if there was no Linus or Alan to put forth a final decision.
Discussion, debate and arguing are vital, but if you don't have someone (or a very small, focused group) to take that input and render a decision, no progress will be made. Decisions by committee are slow and may not be beneficial to the good of the project.
Well, at least to a small degree. We're entirely rewriting the underlying code of a portion of my company's website, and I got to do the base work for the HTML output. Stripped out all the formatting tags, went to CSS exclusively for formatting, etc., using tables only for layout, no FONT tags.
The pages are functional in NS4, but not terribly pretty due to NS4's terrible CSS. We made the decision to not put forth the effort to make things perfect in NS4 because it would hold us back in the future, negating the flexibility CSS and my other work had given us. That's one thing that people don't seem to realize - sticking with the standards makes the pages easier to maintain.
The pages look good, are standards-compliant (look better in Mozilla than IE), easier to maintain, and are lighter to download than the previous version. Like I said, they don't look perfect in NS4, but they do work properly.
Making threats with no action behind them yields no long-term benefit - eventually, the enemy seees that it's nothing but a smoke screen.
"Diplomacy" has failed time and again, not only in this conflict, but throughout history. Diplomacy does not work when the opposition doesn't give a rat's ass about compromise or making anyone but themself happy but.
Sometimes, you there is no alternative but to fight.
And yet when people propose doing the same with CodeRed and the like (detect an attack, then use the same tactics to "infect" the attacking system with the patch), it's considered bad?
I'm sure there will be (or already is) a clause in the contract stating that by signing it, you accept the advertisements, which Sprint will attempt to use to defeat any lawsuit you bring.
We do not ever use Windows Update, everything is installed manually after verifying that we really do need it. Sometimes, we'll get a patch for a piece of software we don't use. Why install it if it's not needed?
We attempt eliminate every possible chance for error by testing before putting a patch onto our live servers. We like our service level agreement statistics to be in the black, and that means getting it right on the first try. 2 reboots on a Tuesday afternoon, one for "well, let's try the new version" and the second for "oops, didn't work" do not go over well with a client who only grudgingly accepts 4 hours of downtime early on Sunday mornings for scheduled system maintenance.
Any patch/upgrade for software installed on our servers we place on test servers first, check out for a week to ensure there are no ill effects, then patch the productional servers the following weekend. We can't afford downtime due to "well, this should work OK" (yes, I do recognize the irony of this with my above disclaimer).
Only the most urgent of patches/upgrades get applied in the rapid-fire manner to which you allude. And even then we install it on a test box first so we know what to expect on the productional one.
I don't think anyone can say in all honesty that they aren't more concerned about it. But I also feel fairly safe as I keep a minimum of ports open and I don't screw around with software I suspect to be unsafe. Nor do I just run anything someone sends to me.
It's hard to not be "one of those smug Linux geeks" this week. However, my Linux- FreeBSD-lovin' friends, our day will come if we don't keep watching out for ourselves. Keep your eyes open and your ports closed.
I'll probably get modded off-topic here, but back in the QuakeWorld days, I got pretty good on dial-up. When I got a fat pipe (college LAN), it took me a couple weeks to regain that. I was so tuned into anticipating the moves and compensating for the lag that I had on a modem that without it, I looked like a spaz.
But our clients insist on brain-dead-simple software (oversimplified, actually; they simply refuse to learn or listen to anything technical) to use. We've shelled out big money for Visual Intercept and they're not even totally happy with that.
I believe General Electric has a 10 or 12 meg limit on mailboxes. If someone sends you an attachment, you pretty much have to save it to your hard drive and remove it from your mail within a couple hours to stay under the limit.
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SourceSafe can't diff binaries either; each revision is stored as a completely new file, rather than the difference between the 2 versions.
Take a step back from what's causing the difficulty and regroup. Work on something else for a couple hours/days. If it's criticism from a project manager/client on a project, try not to take it personally. Pause for a minute and think about previous obstacles that you've overcome. Ask for help. There is no shame in asking someone "hey, can you give me a hand with this?" Often, I'll work out my problem just by describing it to someone else.
This may sound wasteful, but when I've become completely frustrated with a piece of code (trying to make it work right), I just scrap it and start over. If it's so broken that I'm getting frustrated, it needs it anyway. Plus, it gets me back to the really "fun" stuff - work out the algorithm, write some pseudocode, hammer it into real code. It's a pick-me-up.
Things I do:
- After a really bad day/week, stop on the way home and pick up a 6-pack of Labatt Ice and drain it (or as much as possible) that night.
- Take a weekend and hang out at the girlfriend's place with her family. Babysitting a 10-month-old for 6 hours will make you entirely forget about work.
- Go out for a drive. Some of my best ideas have come to me while driving. Keep a pad of paper handy in the car.
- Work on my truck (replacing perfectly servicable parts with upgrades).
- Make other people happy. When I can make my troublesome clients happy, it takes a layer of stress off my life. Help another programmer with something they're having trouble with (just by answering a question or 2).
- Treat yourself to that DVD/CD/Playstation2 game you've been thinking about getting.
Or anything else that interests you.I also found that my general stress/depression level went up when I stopped exercising regularly.
Most importantly, don't let a setback lower your self-esteem. One failure or setback does not make you a bad person. It means you're human, just like anyone else. Failure is a part of life. Those who have the most difficulty dealing with it are those who have hardly ever failed (you can't fail if you don't try something). It builds character - you will grow from the experience.
uh...As is explained to every American teenager, driving is a priviledge, not a right. There was and still is freedom without Internet access (are people who don't use the Internet "less free" than those who do? Some may contend that they are "more free."), so how does that change for people who had access and no longer do?
If I had meant Macromedia Flash,I would have capitalized it. But I didn't. I said "flash" as in eye-candy, which most sites do in a very bandwidth-unfriendly way.
I thank you for placing words in my mouth.
Maybe your users select "modem" with the thought that if they select higher bandwidth, you'll force-feed them a more graphics/flash-heavy site, and they don't want that?
Or maybe they think cable modem == modem?
If I had a dollar for every website form I filled out truthfully, I'd be a very poor man.
All that transmission gear (belts, clutches, driveshafts, "splitters" and so on) would make more noise than a group of individual motors. Plus, moving parts = wear & tear = maintenance.
Not to mention the headache when your single point of mechanical failure goes out.
that's all the action a lot of those people get all year.
Before posting the licenses for public review, remove the company's name and any other identifiable information.
I'm using Mozilla 0.9.4 and I'm still getting the blocking page at 7:33 US Eastern time
Last I checked, both IIS and Apache generate (or can be set to generate) W3C standard format logfiles. Part of the reason for having/using that standard is so that you don't get locked into a proprietary tool.
Who the hell is moderating these days!? I swear, these people have had their funny bones surgically removed.
Someone has to make the final decisions. I'll probably get roasted for this example, but here goes.
Look at the discussion & infighting through the recent Linux kernel changes, especially over VM implementations. Now imagine if there was no Linus or Alan to put forth a final decision.
Discussion, debate and arguing are vital, but if you don't have someone (or a very small, focused group) to take that input and render a decision, no progress will be made. Decisions by committee are slow and may not be beneficial to the good of the project.
Well, at least to a small degree. We're entirely rewriting the underlying code of a portion of my company's website, and I got to do the base work for the HTML output. Stripped out all the formatting tags, went to CSS exclusively for formatting, etc., using tables only for layout, no FONT tags.
The pages are functional in NS4, but not terribly pretty due to NS4's terrible CSS. We made the decision to not put forth the effort to make things perfect in NS4 because it would hold us back in the future, negating the flexibility CSS and my other work had given us. That's one thing that people don't seem to realize - sticking with the standards makes the pages easier to maintain.
The pages look good, are standards-compliant (look better in Mozilla than IE), easier to maintain, and are lighter to download than the previous version. Like I said, they don't look perfect in NS4, but they do work properly.
No, version x.odd_number.y is unstable. Once you have x.even_number, they're all supposed to be stable kernels.
Making threats with no action behind them yields no long-term benefit - eventually, the enemy seees that it's nothing but a smoke screen.
"Diplomacy" has failed time and again, not only in this conflict, but throughout history. Diplomacy does not work when the opposition doesn't give a rat's ass about compromise or making anyone but themself happy but.
Sometimes, you there is no alternative but to fight.
And yet when people propose doing the same with CodeRed and the like (detect an attack, then use the same tactics to "infect" the attacking system with the patch), it's considered bad?
I'm sure there will be (or already is) a clause in the contract stating that by signing it, you accept the advertisements, which Sprint will attempt to use to defeat any lawsuit you bring.
Yeah, but the way RMS acts, it's easily confused.
We attempt eliminate every possible chance for error by testing before putting a patch onto our live servers. We like our service level agreement statistics to be in the black, and that means getting it right on the first try. 2 reboots on a Tuesday afternoon, one for "well, let's try the new version" and the second for "oops, didn't work" do not go over well with a client who only grudgingly accepts 4 hours of downtime early on Sunday mornings for scheduled system maintenance.
Any patch/upgrade for software installed on our servers we place on test servers first, check out for a week to ensure there are no ill effects, then patch the productional servers the following weekend. We can't afford downtime due to "well, this should work OK" (yes, I do recognize the irony of this with my above disclaimer).
Only the most urgent of patches/upgrades get applied in the rapid-fire manner to which you allude. And even then we install it on a test box first so we know what to expect on the productional one.
It's hard to not be "one of those smug Linux geeks" this week. However, my Linux- FreeBSD-lovin' friends, our day will come if we don't keep watching out for ourselves. Keep your eyes open and your ports closed.
My Cingular plan lets me travel from Virginia to Maine with no roaming charges and call in that area with no long-distance charges.
Maybe you need to shop around some more for a plan that already exists?
I'll probably get modded off-topic here, but back in the QuakeWorld days, I got pretty good on dial-up. When I got a fat pipe (college LAN), it took me a couple weeks to regain that. I was so tuned into anticipating the moves and compensating for the lag that I had on a modem that without it, I looked like a spaz.
But our clients insist on brain-dead-simple software (oversimplified, actually; they simply refuse to learn or listen to anything technical) to use. We've shelled out big money for Visual Intercept and they're not even totally happy with that.
I believe General Electric has a 10 or 12 meg limit on mailboxes. If someone sends you an attachment, you pretty much have to save it to your hard drive and remove it from your mail within a couple hours to stay under the limit.