I used to think, in the days of DSSL, that web design secretly aspired to match the standards of print design, and would do so when the technology could support it. And then advance further. Ink on paper is highly evolved. And smells nice. But we seem to have got to papyrus and somehow been dragged back to tablets. With print design values dragged down too. Although I'd concede that I can now do template automation in Word that would have taken 5-10k worth of software a decade ago. I dunno.
I never heard heard of taints and scruttocks before. (I live in a backward country.) But you may be assured I will use both in conversation by the end of the week. Bless you,/.
Indian restaurants are closing all over the UK because of a visa requirement that experienced chefs need a job offer of over £35k in order to get a visa.
Yep. It's a popular misconception that you need 2 eyes for depth perception.
About 8 years ago I saw a DIY show done by students in a warehouse using really cheap kit I was convinced a real person was standing on the stage until she threw a glove off and it just disappeared into thin air. That's the kind of 3d I want. Little people in the corner of my living room. The technology seems to exist.
... of all this crap on the web? Every cat photo. Every dumb script. Oversized image files. Etc. Each one has a tiny cost, if only to power the routers that smear it across the globe.
We learned to live with the dumbing down of design to accommodate acessibility and mobile. Could we live with image rationing and yellow on blue again, if it turned out the internet was pissing away enough resources to feed a small country every day?
(I guess jobs are created too. But I'd argue the people who do them would be better employed digging holes and building stuff.)
I did show them how to make a bookmarky launcher. And explained that a niche, geographically localised product that nobody was prepared to pay more than £2.99 for wasn't really going to wash its face. "Just do it." But hey, at least they allowed themselves to be persuaded that storing the content on the device and syncing every 6 months wasn't the way to go. Which was pretty much what the big ticket developers who had jumped from Palm etc were trying to sell. If I'd had my wits about me I'd have spouted some magical words ("responsive design" would have done it) instead to waffling on about stylesheets and web servers.
Yes. Brit. (We've had internet for a long time here - before there was pictures on it - , but a lot of our children pretend to be American these days.) Screwing over is a reasonable translation. ("Fanny" might amuse you. Family Guy's English episodes provide a pretty good overview of related territory.)
Good luck with negotiating that. Seriously - whatever the minimum facetime policy is, add some extra for free. The old saying about things getting done by people who turn up applies. You're not less valuable if you're not present in the room. But it's easier for people who are in the room to make themselves more valuable.
"If companies actually payed people based on the results they produced rather than being warm bodies at a desk.........".
That's because software engineering isn't - except in some of the places where it really matters - a real engineering discipline. For sure, it's possible to quantify the value of work done. And the quality. But I can't remember that last time I met anyone who could live with the extra zero on the invoice. Who cares? And how often does it matter?
If you were wanting to work out how to do a software properly, spending a lot of prep time in a quiet room with no distractions from idiot colleagues would be a good way to go. I have a perfect zone for that sort of thing in my house. And backpack. And head.
One time I told a prospective employer that they shouldn't get overly distressed if they see me spending a lot of time wandering around talking to people, or sitting looking out the window. Or smoking with end-users in the car park (I made some sacrifices, but alas no more.) . Best job I ever had. And best work I ever did. I'm not optimistic about that ever happening again.
Yes, raymorris. Totes agree. Anyone who has ever done that knows it to be a fine way to do things. How could anyone disagree? But, also, I would argue that you need to have established the trust with that particular employer. (Try doing it with your next one.)
I'd further argue that to a new employer with whom your only established credentials are that you generally haven't been in prison and your referees have found you to be to some extent agreeable, you need to put in a fair bit of face time first. Unless your value add is quantifiably obvious. (In which case, why would you be an employee at all?) Employers may tolerate telcommuters - if they have to or have a spare desk - but I'm not persuaded that many see a good reason to go out looking for them.
In my world "rockstar" = "reliable and doesn't take the piss". Which I imagine is a bit of a treat for a lot of employers/ees. Don't get me started on global "rockstars", which is a different and ridiculous ballgame. Except in the odd case where they actually do something more than promote themselfs.
apart from people who don't have a business that is developed enough to make it worth shelling out for office on-costs?
Telecommuting is a perk for trusted in-house rockstars who aren't quite board material. The value those rockstars deliver is nearly always organisation specific. It isn't tranferable. Don't believe the hype. Unless you is a global rockstar or sumfink.
True. There have been plenty other countries gung ho enough to give it a go if they could. (I'm not proud of some of the "what-if country x had conquered space" scenarios that just flashed through my head.)
Why not? They have more advanced technology than America had in 1969, a reasonably high appetite for risk, and a belief that space can and ought to be conquered..
They already ask for your email. And have acess to major social media providers' logs and databases. And have the technology to join the dots. Why would they ask?
(And any fule kno that all major subversive business is done in dark corners of Club Penguin.)
Sounds pretty much like what the world and his/her infomatics monkey were trying to sell budget-holding informatics monkeys 15 years ago. I'm sure I'm excited, but would be more excited by a clear account of the whole bidness.
The non-trivial challenge of delivering useful health information in the absence of a useful patient record has burned quite a lot cash and made quite a few careers. Citizens may wish to review Google's interminable chain of cross referenced privacy policies. Give me fluffy results any time. I can make my own mind up and nobody need know too much about what was going on in it. If I go for "I'm feeling yucky" and stop there.... more people than I want to know already get to know. Who else will eventually be authorised to know under "we reserve the right to modify our terms" clauses?
Secondly, medics and programmers have a lot in common. Both are (or should be) scientists, who often fail to do their job properly when they get to imagining they are artists. (Poiticians being, needless to say, artists who believe they are scientists.)
Thirdly, the medical and IT professions [arguably] both deserve everything they get from the self-obsessed consumers of their services.
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Isn't Kali the destroyer?
I used to think, in the days of DSSL, that web design secretly aspired to match the standards of print design, and would do so when the technology could support it. And then advance further. Ink on paper is highly evolved. And smells nice. But we seem to have got to papyrus and somehow been dragged back to tablets. With print design values dragged down too. Although I'd concede that I can now do template automation in Word that would have taken 5-10k worth of software a decade ago. I dunno.
I never heard heard of taints and scruttocks before. (I live in a backward country.) But you may be assured I will use both in conversation by the end of the week. Bless you, /.
Indian restaurants are closing all over the UK because of a visa requirement that experienced chefs need a job offer of over £35k in order to get a visa.
https://www.theguardian.com/li...
see the words "review study" in the article? But, yer, seems like a bit of academic enterprise.
Yep. It's a popular misconception that you need 2 eyes for depth perception.
About 8 years ago I saw a DIY show done by students in a warehouse using really cheap kit I was convinced a real person was standing on the stage until she threw a glove off and it just disappeared into thin air. That's the kind of 3d I want. Little people in the corner of my living room. The technology seems to exist.
in reality, it's precision engineering all the way down.
... of all this crap on the web? Every cat photo. Every dumb script. Oversized image files. Etc. Each one has a tiny cost, if only to power the routers that smear it across the globe.
We learned to live with the dumbing down of design to accommodate acessibility and mobile. Could we live with image rationing and yellow on blue again, if it turned out the internet was pissing away enough resources to feed a small country every day?
(I guess jobs are created too. But I'd argue the people who do them would be better employed digging holes and building stuff.)
Has anyone done the sums?
if a drone came in your yard without an invite could you keep it for dissection and experiments?
I did show them how to make a bookmarky launcher. And explained that a niche, geographically localised product that nobody was prepared to pay more than £2.99 for wasn't really going to wash its face. "Just do it." But hey, at least they allowed themselves to be persuaded that storing the content on the device and syncing every 6 months wasn't the way to go. Which was pretty much what the big ticket developers who had jumped from Palm etc were trying to sell. If I'd had my wits about me I'd have spouted some magical words ("responsive design" would have done it) instead to waffling on about stylesheets and web servers.
"compiled the list" is internet for "cut and paste" . In this case from Schedule 4 of http://www.publications.parlia...
I was once instructed to make an iphone app that would display content from an existing website.
Yes. Brit. (We've had internet for a long time here - before there was pictures on it - , but a lot of our children pretend to be American these days.)
Screwing over is a reasonable translation. ("Fanny" might amuse you. Family Guy's English episodes provide a pretty good overview of related territory.)
Good luck with negotiating that. Seriously - whatever the minimum facetime policy is, add some extra for free. The old saying about things getting done by people who turn up applies. You're not less valuable if you're not present in the room. But it's easier for people who are in the room to make themselves more valuable.
"If companies actually payed people based on the results they produced rather than being warm bodies at a desk.........".
That's because software engineering isn't - except in some of the places where it really matters - a real engineering discipline. For sure, it's possible to quantify the value of work done. And the quality. But I can't remember that last time I met anyone who could live with the extra zero on the invoice. Who cares? And how often does it matter?
If you were wanting to work out how to do a software properly, spending a lot of prep time in a quiet room with no distractions from idiot colleagues would be a good way to go. I have a perfect zone for that sort of thing in my house. And backpack. And head.
One time I told a prospective employer that they shouldn't get overly distressed if they see me spending a lot of time wandering around talking to people, or sitting looking out the window. Or smoking with end-users in the car park (I made some sacrifices, but alas no more.) . Best job I ever had. And best work I ever did. I'm not optimistic about that ever happening again.
Yes, raymorris. Totes agree. Anyone who has ever done that knows it to be a fine way to do things. How could anyone disagree? But, also, I would argue that you need to have established the trust with that particular employer. (Try doing it with your next one.)
I'd further argue that to a new employer with whom your only established credentials are that you generally haven't been in prison and your referees have found you to be to some extent agreeable, you need to put in a fair bit of face time first. Unless your value add is quantifiably obvious. (In which case, why would you be an employee at all?) Employers may tolerate telcommuters - if they have to or have a spare desk - but I'm not persuaded that many see a good reason to go out looking for them.
In my world "rockstar" = "reliable and doesn't take the piss". Which I imagine is a bit of a treat for a lot of employers/ees. Don't get me started on global "rockstars", which is a different and ridiculous ballgame. Except in the odd case where they actually do something more than promote themselfs.
apart from people who don't have a business that is developed enough to make it worth shelling out for office on-costs?
Telecommuting is a perk for trusted in-house rockstars who aren't quite board material. The value those rockstars deliver is nearly always organisation specific. It isn't tranferable. Don't believe the hype. Unless you is a global rockstar or sumfink.
True. There have been plenty other countries gung ho enough to give it a go if they could. (I'm not proud of some of the "what-if country x had conquered space" scenarios that just flashed through my head.)
Why not? They have more advanced technology than America had in 1969, a reasonably high appetite for risk, and a belief that space can and ought to be conquered..
In olden days there was something like this. Although it seems slashdot has rolled it back in the interests of thwarting spambots.
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They already ask for your email. And have acess to major social media providers' logs and databases. And have the technology to join the dots. Why would they ask?
(And any fule kno that all major subversive business is done in dark corners of Club Penguin.)
Sounds pretty much like what the world and his/her infomatics monkey were trying to sell budget-holding informatics monkeys 15 years ago. I'm sure I'm excited, but would be more excited by a clear account of the whole bidness.
The non-trivial challenge of delivering useful health information in the absence of a useful patient record has burned quite a lot cash and made quite a few careers. Citizens may wish to review Google's interminable chain of cross referenced privacy policies. Give me fluffy results any time. I can make my own mind up and nobody need know too much about what was going on in it. If I go for "I'm feeling yucky" and stop there.... more people than I want to know already get to know. Who else will eventually be authorised to know under "we reserve the right to modify our terms" clauses?
Secondly, medics and programmers have a lot in common. Both are (or should be) scientists, who often fail to do their job properly when they get to imagining they are artists. (Poiticians being, needless to say, artists who believe they are scientists.)
Thirdly, the medical and IT professions [arguably] both deserve everything they get from the self-obsessed consumers of their services.