People are simply not productive for that long. A really, really good worker is able to produce good work for about 6 hours a day. That's above average by an hour or two a day. That's right, the average person can produce good work for about 4 hours a day. Having them vomit out product for an additional 6 hours a day means you're spending more time fixing that vomit than you are making good products.
If you think that someone can do more work in then you have a lot of reading and learning to do. Do you still think that a woman could have a baby in 5 months if she gave up her personal life? What about nine women, could they have one baby in a month?
"Programmers in their 40s have wives, kids, and hobbies, and that means they won't put up with the 50-60 hour week bullshit we can get the 20-year-olds to eat." Also, they expect raises and vacation, and we just can't have that.
Work isn't your life. Work is what you do to pay for your life.
The current government in Canada has threatened any scientist that talks to the media with censure. If they say anything that's "outside message", they lose their funding.
I wanted to reframe it a little because the first draft looked like I was against LI housing in my neighbourhood. I've lived in market-rate LIH, and it's pretty nice.
1/2 the neighbours were families down on their luck, 1/2 were working their way up (I'd just graduated from University and we had a toddler), a handful were people who... well, they set up a lot of their life choices so they didn't have the chance for a lot of good outcomes.
I watched the 2010 Winter Olympics. All of them, as much as I could, in HD on my new TV.
Why? Because as a BC resident, I was going to be footing the FOUR BILLION DOLLAR bill for the rest of my working life. I figured I damned well should watch the spectacle. From the building of the Canada Line to the dead Romanian; from the the failed moving torch to the helicoptering in of snow from other locales to the demolition of the athlete's housing and their reappearance as low-income housing down the street (which, by the way, I think was one good thing to come out of Those Damned Games.), I saw the entire lifecycle.
For what it's worth, I don't really understand the obsession people have with sports. It's like I've got a kind of colour blindness or something.
There's one major flaw in OO or LO. That's the difficulty of changing a document to Landscape mode.
Word: Click Landscape radio button OO: Search on google for the tutorial, edit a template, save, open the new docume... you know what, I don't know. It's a PITA and it's a killer PITA that's probably the biggest reason there isn't a bigger market share. Half the documents I write are in landscape mode.
And I use Ubuntu at home (with significant modifications), I've contributed to one of the projects, and I've done life-critical assembly programming for money.
If I think it's a PITA, 80%+ of the potential users will think it's impossible.
It's a side effect of all the antibiotics in the meat. Continued low-level doses of antibiotics cause mass increase. That's still in the meat you eat, so you've got the same low-level antibiotic exposure.
If you cannot resell a legally purchased copy then it's best you pirate and be done with it. I don't subscribe to the idea that there is a grey market.
That's why I've given up on trying to follow whatever arbitrary rules they've decided on this week.
I keep a lawyer and a hitman on retainer. One of those two will solve the problem.
They were closing schools left right and center here (Canada) a few years ago (2006). The school board was also selling the land and keeping the money. I know, holy shit, right? They also spent a fortune doing earthquake upgrades and renovations on one school, then closed it and turned it into the school board offices. One of the schools that had already been torn down was turned into low-income housing, another became a for-profit post-secondary.
Anyway, the provincial government stepped in and said, "You can't DO that. If you are done with the land, let us know. We'll take it, see if another ministry needs it, and if not, then we'll sell it and keep the money."
Not a single school has closed since then. Sadly, nobody went to jail for it.
I can tell you one story along those lines. In one of my previous jobs, we had a CNC machine run by a Linux box and EMC2. It worked great, except every now and then the X axis would lose sync and it couldn't keep milling. The sensors were okay, the computer was okay, the cables were okay. We couldn't figure it out.
To make it worse, every time you opened the case, it would start working again. It was impossible to diagnose this intermittent problem because every single time I tried to open the case it would start working again.
One day I decided "fuck this, I'm rewiring the inside of the computer." So I did, I replaced all the wires inside with some better wires. That didn't help either, but as I was putting the last ones in, I noticed that the interface plate was a little funny. That gave me that data I needed:
The heat from the graphics card was heating up the interface panel that was mounted to the case door. When it heated up, it flexed and a cold solder joint broke the connection on the ground bus for the X axis. It was, of course, on the back, and when the case got opened, we'd flex it back into conductivity and make it work again.
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My boss' attitude is "manage your own day".
You have a lot to learn.
People are simply not productive for that long. A really, really good worker is able to produce good work for about 6 hours a day. That's above average by an hour or two a day. That's right, the average person can produce good work for about 4 hours a day. Having them vomit out product for an additional 6 hours a day means you're spending more time fixing that vomit than you are making good products.
If you think that someone can do more work in then you have a lot of reading and learning to do. Do you still think that a woman could have a baby in 5 months if she gave up her personal life? What about nine women, could they have one baby in a month?
I don't care about your stupid JEEP program. I drive a Mazda.
I think what they're really saying here is:
"Programmers in their 40s have wives, kids, and hobbies, and that means they won't put up with the 50-60 hour week bullshit we can get the 20-year-olds to eat." Also, they expect raises and vacation, and we just can't have that.
Work isn't your life. Work is what you do to pay for your life.
It's worse than that.
The current government in Canada has threatened any scientist that talks to the media with censure. If they say anything that's "outside message", they lose their funding.
Too many links to list, here's a google search.
The message is "there are no environmental concerns in Canada."
They must really hate me. I found my PS2 in the neighbour's trash and bought all my games used.
I picked up God of War at a pawn shop last weekend.
I am a slightly overweight middle-aged guy who could use the exercise anyway.
I went from 250# to about 160# by biking to school then work. Hell, I even teach spin classes now.
Whoooo MAAAADENNNN!!!!
I love you BRO!
I borrow my games from the library. Fuck em all.
Because I've got a bike? Jessica's made out of materials that are, shall we say, little more recently developed than what's on most production cars.
Yes, my bike has a name, and yes, she is very pretty.
That's true, CL is nice.
I wanted to reframe it a little because the first draft looked like I was against LI housing in my neighbourhood. I've lived in market-rate LIH, and it's pretty nice.
1/2 the neighbours were families down on their luck, 1/2 were working their way up (I'd just graduated from University and we had a toddler), a handful were people who... well, they set up a lot of their life choices so they didn't have the chance for a lot of good outcomes.
I end up replacing a set of tires every year on average.
I watched the 2010 Winter Olympics. All of them, as much as I could, in HD on my new TV.
Why? Because as a BC resident, I was going to be footing the FOUR BILLION DOLLAR bill for the rest of my working life. I figured I damned well should watch the spectacle. From the building of the Canada Line to the dead Romanian; from the the failed moving torch to the helicoptering in of snow from other locales to the demolition of the athlete's housing and their reappearance as low-income housing down the street (which, by the way, I think was one good thing to come out of Those Damned Games.), I saw the entire lifecycle.
For what it's worth, I don't really understand the obsession people have with sports. It's like I've got a kind of colour blindness or something.
Are you kidding me?
I'll have to check that out once I get home, thanks.
I have a bicycle, so I laugh at your post-apocalyptic dependence on fossil fuels.
Since, you know, I'm a farmer, doctor, engineer, and marksman. Also my bike doesn't require lubricant or tires for some reason.
There's one major flaw in OO or LO. That's the difficulty of changing a document to Landscape mode.
Word: Click Landscape radio button
OO: Search on google for the tutorial, edit a template, save, open the new docume... you know what, I don't know. It's a PITA and it's a killer PITA that's probably the biggest reason there isn't a bigger market share. Half the documents I write are in landscape mode.
And I use Ubuntu at home (with significant modifications), I've contributed to one of the projects, and I've done life-critical assembly programming for money.
If I think it's a PITA, 80%+ of the potential users will think it's impossible.
It's a side effect of all the antibiotics in the meat. Continued low-level doses of antibiotics cause mass increase. That's still in the meat you eat, so you've got the same low-level antibiotic exposure.
That's too much effort. I just put a screwdriver on the case when I was typing. Occasionally you pick it up and give it a twirl.
My programs always compiled.
Or good landscapers... ...which may or may nor be the same person.
If you cannot resell a legally purchased copy then it's best you pirate and be done with it. I don't subscribe to the idea that there is a grey market.
That's why I've given up on trying to follow whatever arbitrary rules they've decided on this week.
I keep a lawyer and a hitman on retainer. One of those two will solve the problem.
It's not you, the frothy post is always given a troll / redundant rating.
I think it's automatic; you have to work doubly hard to make that first post a good one.
They were closing schools left right and center here (Canada) a few years ago (2006). The school board was also selling the land and keeping the money. I know, holy shit, right? They also spent a fortune doing earthquake upgrades and renovations on one school, then closed it and turned it into the school board offices. One of the schools that had already been torn down was turned into low-income housing, another became a for-profit post-secondary.
Anyway, the provincial government stepped in and said, "You can't DO that. If you are done with the land, let us know. We'll take it, see if another ministry needs it, and if not, then we'll sell it and keep the money."
Not a single school has closed since then. Sadly, nobody went to jail for it.
I can tell you one story along those lines. In one of my previous jobs, we had a CNC machine run by a Linux box and EMC2. It worked great, except every now and then the X axis would lose sync and it couldn't keep milling. The sensors were okay, the computer was okay, the cables were okay. We couldn't figure it out.
To make it worse, every time you opened the case, it would start working again. It was impossible to diagnose this intermittent problem because every single time I tried to open the case it would start working again.
One day I decided "fuck this, I'm rewiring the inside of the computer." So I did, I replaced all the wires inside with some better wires. That didn't help either, but as I was putting the last ones in, I noticed that the interface plate was a little funny. That gave me that data I needed:
The heat from the graphics card was heating up the interface panel that was mounted to the case door. When it heated up, it flexed and a cold solder joint broke the connection on the ground bus for the X axis. It was, of course, on the back, and when the case got opened, we'd flex it back into conductivity and make it work again.
It took a year to figure it out.
No, for two reasons:
1. The bullets would cost $750 each.
2. People would hold them wrong.
I always get stuck trying to figure out why the triangle has so many sides. It does gives me something to do while I wait for it to turn green.