I want those rose tainted glasses matey, I would live in a less anguished world.
If you were a politician in opossition you would be living in hell.
If during a political campaign you claim a politician in power is not doing his job properly and why you could do it better, the politician in question will sue you for libel, take you to court, and Singapore is still waiting for the first goverment official that loses one of these cases.
Once you lose the case (beacuse lose you will) the punishment is draconian and basically you are ordered to pay outlandish damages to make sure your larn your lesson. Several prominent Singaporean opposition figures have been bankrupted this way.
Singapore executes people with the happy detachement only to be found in China (google around, you can always find one or two recent cases that leave you cringing with disgust for their "judicial system").
Singapore was also the first country in the world to introduce nationwide filtering of the Internet (but all is of course in the benefit of the citizens of the happy city-state, what do they want foreigners spreading lies about this forward looking country!).
No, I am not Singaporean, neither have Singaporean friends, but I lived and visited there, it reminded me of "Brave New World" a bit.
Big bussinesses have legal constraints to control change in Production systems.
Especially onerous is the situation in the Financial Industry. I kid you not, but I have seen foreign machines detected and isolated in a matter of minutes in properly administered networks.
That does not mean these bussinesses do not use OSS solutions. Heck, they take full advantage of it, but they do so under a controlled process that minimizes risks.
5.1 and 5.10 have both the same number of significative digits: 2.
0 in 5.10 is of no significance whatsoever, that is why we normally write 5.1 not 5.10 (unless you are dealing with an anal retentive context, like currency, or Ubuntu's version numbering).
They could try 5.01 and 5.10, that should be clear enough, but frankly other versioning systems are simpler and clearer.
IT jobs are going to be very scarce in those countries.
China and India are pumping 1 million IT people each a year and all companies are either outsourcing, relocating or hiring from there.
Now half the people I interact with are of Indian origin.
Many in the/. crowd delude themselves hiding in a latent racism. Indian IT people are brilliant, well prepared and clever. But living in denial is very cosy I am told.
Chinese and Indians are going to be replaced later by Vietnamese, Malaysians or Indonesians (or Africans in the countries where they get their act together, Botswana is beginning to integrate to the globalized economy for example).
Did I mention that half of my shop was relocated to Eastern Europe from London?
Sorry but it is a no win situation for IT new students. It is though and is going to get even worse.
Many bits of London are very pleasent. If you have not made an effort to enjoy London is your own failure, old Londinium is not to blame.
If you want to live in a place with a few sleepy cows and funny sheep you are welcome, those places do not compare with the cultural and social posibilities of London.
You moved your work to where you live, the other solution is to move where you live close to your work.
During most of the hitory of mankind, work was always close to home.
It was only with the advent of the car first, and long distance trains later, that we fell on this nonsensical notion that we could work in a place 100 km away as something normal.
I was doing exactly that, commuting from suburban Britain to London. 2 to 4 hours wasted every day.
I got fed up, and my solution has been to move walking distance from my office.
Best think I have done in my life.
After finishing work I have a full world of posibilities each day to spend my free time: I can go back home, relax, go out, go to the gym. Whatever. I am actually saving money in transportation and food (cooking at home is cheaper than buing ready made food or take aways).
My place is small, but so what? There are families as well where I live. All perfectly nice people. There is a bit of gang violence going on around, but guess what, it is not as much as the media always says (what a surprise).
In any case eventually economcis will bring people to their senses. A situation where people commute 2 hours, with all the wastage this implies, is completely unsustainable.
I prefer my small flat in the middle of London where the best movies, food, concerts, libraries, bookshops, events, exhibitions, museums are ready to be cherry-picked.
Rural living is grossly overrated, so much so that most humans prefer to live in cities.
For technological, democratic, inidividualistic societies religion is probing to be a divisive obstacle to progress.
If religious types would keep their nonsense to themselves I would have no problem with religion. But the ones that are not trying to kill you, are trying to convert you, to control how you live or to judge your actions. They simply have no space in a modern, advanced society based in mutual respect.
The sooner we manage to convince people of the lack of any redeeming value of religion for modern, intelligent, rational people, the better.
And like those examples there are many. The problem fundamentslists have with science is that natural phenomena are shown not to need the will of a god to happen.
That is why they are scared shitless. Science is slowly but surely buring their fary tale world. And that of course feels them with fear.
You are going to impress the girls doing something you hate or are not good at, changing who you are, becoming a fake. Great advice Romeo.
My geek powers have landed me a couple of gorgeous ladies, some other peripheral activities have done the same.
To suggest to abandon one's life's interests in the slim hope of finding girlies is ludicrous.
Life does not work like that, some people that do nothing meet load of girls, some that do everything don't, there are no recipes, in that cotext yours is the worst.
I have never used formal attire for interviews. I have figured out that if they don't give me a job for my appeareance then I don't want to work for them.
Guess what? I have worked in multinational companies all around the world for the last 15 years.
Use your common sense: if you are worth it you will get away with murder.
If you are not top cookie you will need to conform a bit more, but still dressing is a matter of individuality and taste. Giving rules like if we were part of the Communist party is absolutely horrendous, specially on an era in which pretty much everything goes.
Just because you can't deal with poetic and philosophycal matters (paying respect to the vastness of space) all the rest wiil bow to such an idiotic opinion.
If they want to control where you enter they can use a centralized computer and magnetic cards, doors with numeric PINs or many other mechanisms (what is wrong with a guy in the door with your name in a list?)
They don't need to know your location at all moments at all times.
These measures would have been the wet dream of people like Joseph Stalin, and here you are, defending them in the name of technical coolness.
The day it becomes mandatory to have one implanted I hope you enjoy the intrusion.
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I want those rose tainted glasses matey, I would live in a less anguished world.
If you were a politician in opossition you would be living in hell.
If during a political campaign you claim a politician in power is not doing his job properly and why you could do it better, the politician in question will sue you for libel, take you to court, and Singapore is still waiting for the first goverment official that loses one of these cases.
Once you lose the case (beacuse lose you will) the punishment is draconian and basically you are ordered to pay outlandish damages to make sure your larn your lesson. Several prominent Singaporean opposition figures have been bankrupted this way.
Singapore executes people with the happy detachement only to be found in China (google around, you can always find one or two recent cases that leave you cringing with disgust for their "judicial system").
Singapore was also the first country in the world to introduce nationwide filtering of the Internet (but all is of course in the benefit of the citizens of the happy city-state, what do they want foreigners spreading lies about this forward looking country!).
No, I am not Singaporean, neither have Singaporean friends, but I lived and visited there, it reminded me of "Brave New World" a bit.
Big bussinesses have legal constraints to control change in Production systems.
Especially onerous is the situation in the Financial Industry. I kid you not, but I have seen foreign machines detected and isolated in a matter of minutes in properly administered networks.
That does not mean these bussinesses do not use OSS solutions. Heck, they take full advantage of it, but they do so under a controlled process that minimizes risks.
In all the offices I have worked (US, UK, Mexico, Malaysia, Vietnam, etc) alcohol was always strictily forbidden, party or not.
Which kind of companies are those that allow this kind of stuff to happen?
Secondly, only in the US and UK they find funny to show their ass. Is this an aglosaxon thing or what?
5.1 and 5.10 have both the same number of significative digits: 2.
0 in 5.10 is of no significance whatsoever, that is why we normally write 5.1 not 5.10 (unless you are dealing with an anal retentive context, like currency, or Ubuntu's version numbering).
They could try 5.01 and 5.10, that should be clear enough, but frankly other versioning systems are simpler and clearer.
... you should always keep a paper trail of your work experience.
Payslips, performance appraisals, raise of salay communications, anything that helps you to probe you were there.
When I leave a job I always ask a letter explaining what I did, for how long, etc.
IT jobs are going to be very scarce in those countries.
/. crowd delude themselves hiding in a latent racism. Indian IT people are brilliant, well prepared and clever. But living in denial is very cosy I am told.
China and India are pumping 1 million IT people each a year and all companies are either outsourcing, relocating or hiring from there.
Now half the people I interact with are of Indian origin.
Many in the
Chinese and Indians are going to be replaced later by Vietnamese, Malaysians or Indonesians (or Africans in the countries where they get their act together, Botswana is beginning to integrate to the globalized economy for example).
Did I mention that half of my shop was relocated to Eastern Europe from London?
Sorry but it is a no win situation for IT new students. It is though and is going to get even worse.
Many bits of London are very pleasent. If you have not made an effort to enjoy London is your own failure, old Londinium is not to blame.
If you want to live in a place with a few sleepy cows and funny sheep you are welcome, those places do not compare with the cultural and social posibilities of London.
The killer is that Paris is just 2.5 hours away.
No brainer frankly.
You moved your work to where you live, the other solution is to move where you live close to your work.
During most of the hitory of mankind, work was always close to home.
It was only with the advent of the car first, and long distance trains later, that we fell on this nonsensical notion that we could work in a place 100 km away as something normal.
I was doing exactly that, commuting from suburban Britain to London. 2 to 4 hours wasted every day.
I got fed up, and my solution has been to move walking distance from my office.
Best think I have done in my life.
After finishing work I have a full world of posibilities each day to spend my free time: I can go back home, relax, go out, go to the gym. Whatever. I am actually saving money in transportation and food (cooking at home is cheaper than buing ready made food or take aways).
My place is small, but so what? There are families as well where I live. All perfectly nice people. There is a bit of gang violence going on around, but guess what, it is not as much as the media always says (what a surprise).
In any case eventually economcis will bring people to their senses. A situation where people commute 2 hours, with all the wastage this implies, is completely unsustainable.
.... in the middle of a cultural lunar landscape.
I prefer my small flat in the middle of London where the best movies, food, concerts, libraries, bookshops, events, exhibitions, museums are ready to be cherry-picked.
Rural living is grossly overrated, so much so that most humans prefer to live in cities.
... for medieval and primitive societies.
For technological, democratic, inidividualistic societies religion is probing to be a divisive obstacle to progress.
If religious types would keep their nonsense to themselves I would have no problem with religion. But the ones that are not trying to kill you, are trying to convert you, to control how you live or to judge your actions. They simply have no space in a modern, advanced society based in mutual respect.
The sooner we manage to convince people of the lack of any redeeming value of religion for modern, intelligent, rational people, the better.
Moral can exist without religion.
I hope even you can appreciate that.
Remember Galileo?
Contraception?
Condoms?
And like those examples there are many. The problem fundamentslists have with science is that natural phenomena are shown not to need the will of a god to happen.
That is why they are scared shitless. Science is slowly but surely buring their fary tale world. And that of course feels them with fear.
We will be a more advanced society when we let our macho instincts run rampant.
So much sexism in so few words.
.... then you had a serious problem at the analysis phase of your project, and thus deserve to fail.
If you favour your patron you will have no credibility.
If you don't, the study will not be published (or enlighten us, when have you seen a paid for study showing the payer in a bad light?)
You are going to impress the girls doing something you hate or are not good at, changing who you are, becoming a fake. Great advice Romeo.
My geek powers have landed me a couple of gorgeous ladies, some other peripheral activities have done the same.
To suggest to abandon one's life's interests in the slim hope of finding girlies is ludicrous.
Life does not work like that, some people that do nothing meet load of girls, some that do everything don't, there are no recipes, in that cotext yours is the worst.
You are socially inept.
What you are describing is rude and shows bad manners.
Tell me what is the utility of such useless piece of cloth.
The question to ask is, is he correct?
Chairman Mao would have not wrote it any better.
I have never used formal attire for interviews. I have figured out that if they don't give me a job for my appeareance then I don't want to work for them.
Guess what? I have worked in multinational companies all around the world for the last 15 years.
Use your common sense: if you are worth it you will get away with murder.
If you are not top cookie you will need to conform a bit more, but still dressing is a matter of individuality and taste. Giving rules like if we were part of the Communist party is absolutely horrendous, specially on an era in which pretty much everything goes.
Keep Windows machines to access broken, propietary formats.
Have a project to convert the old, propietary, broken formats to open formats.
Demand from your providers to use open formats to exchange information.
Convince your clients to use Open Formats. If you have the cloud to do so, force them. Otherwise keep a few Windows machines for old documents.
Did they sign a contract? It says how many hours you are payed to work.
If you have to put extra hours on ocassions then any decent company will compensate you or give you time in lieu.
You know poor geeks only...
Just because you can't deal with poetic and philosophycal matters (paying respect to the vastness of space) all the rest wiil bow to such an idiotic opinion.
If they want to control where you enter they can use a centralized computer and magnetic cards, doors with numeric PINs or many other mechanisms (what is wrong with a guy in the door with your name in a list?)
They don't need to know your location at all moments at all times.
These measures would have been the wet dream of people like Joseph Stalin, and here you are, defending them in the name of technical coolness.
The day it becomes mandatory to have one implanted I hope you enjoy the intrusion.