...and in 20 years when management decides to offshore *all* of its tech work to India (due to bloated contracts with said unions, bloated wages, and a systme where the incompetent could never get fired, let alone done so in a timely manner), we can all sit back and say we at least tried, right?
Actually, a culture forms whether or not management fosters one. Oftentimes, a culture will form that is decidedly counter to what management wants to foster.
If management is a bunch of cut-throat snakes, the employees adapt and form their own counter-culture of sorts. The result only gets uglier over time, and management usually doesn't find out until the company is rapidly sinking (at which time many of them have either jumped ship or are about to).
Even better - go work for a (relatively more) sane company. Let the dysfunctional companies get stuck with dysfunctional employees. Eventually they (the companies) die.
- We have historical (and current) discrimination to overcome.
"historical" means approximately bupkis - no sane human is in the business of reparations, or of acting on induced guilt for things that they themselves have not done.
"(and current)"? Must not be all that prevalent if it's in parentheses, now is it?
- Different people from different viewpoints are almost invariably GOOD for an organization.
Almost, but...
doing so doesn't require "diversity" as the SJW crowd defines it
having differing viewpoints just for the sake of having them can be just as detrimental as having a monoculture/bubble/echo-chamber
there is a huge difference between having different viewpoints to consider from, and giving all of those differing viewpoints equal influence and/or power in an organization (else you have 'paralysis by analysis')
Like sibling said... there is way more to PTSD than some Hollywood-style flashback thing. Actual PTSD alters behavior, heightens feelings of paranoia and insecurity (often to the point of interference with daily life), alters emotional behavior (and in children, can actually stop emotional development), jacks up one's aversion to risk... and I doubt I've even scratched the surface.
Note that it doesn't just come from war/battle, either. It can happen due to actual trauma (injury), crime (e.g. rape), and similar.
To many ISPs, privacy is a product. Or, rather, privacy is something they would proclaim long and loud whenever some RIAA/MPAA flack tried to subpoena records.
Now some ISPs (*cough*Comcast*cough*) would happily whore out your info for a buck.
That first sentence brings me to a question: Would some IP cartel resort to buying lists, then using it to chase after users who visit certain torrent sites a little too often, or correlate IP addys with names, billing addresses, visits to torrent sites, etc? Wouldn't take much more than a simple SQL query to whip up a list of intimidation (err, litigation) targets.
If that was their only problem, they could have recovered more easily. But they also had: - $100 higher price to cover the cost of Kinect -- a device few wanted
Devil's Advocate: Microsoft thought (well, logically) that they could try and gain share by stealing some thunder from Nintendo (the Kinect was aimed at the Wii, not the PlayStation.) It made sense because the Wii ate Sony *and* Microsoft's lunch in raw sales (in spite of not doing HD, having a DVD-R that couldn't play a movie DVD, shit resolution, shit sound, etc...)
The serialized shows are a double edged sword. They might encourage me to stick with a series, but they also discourage me from starting one, especially if I don't start until Episode #5.
Indeed... and as a corollary, if episode #1 of a season totally turns me off or I decide that it's crap, I may just decide to not bother with the rest of the season. If I change my mind later and decide maybe to give it another shot, I'd immediately think 'why bother? I'd have to catch up first, and I'm not really sure if it's worth the time to do so.'
Best example I can think of is The Walking Dead, when they killed off a character at the end of last season that a huge chunk of viewers really liked, and they did it with a megaton of gratuitous violence. I'm willing to bet that AMC lost at least 10-15% of their viewership for the show right then and there, and most of them probably haven't come back.
You can thank the terms "Intellectual Property" and "Monetization" for that. Seriously - when creative works are locked-up tight in literal century-plus copyright term lengths, and are bought and sold like commodities under that condition? There's little wonder that Hollywood is trying to see some kind of ROI on the stuff they bought, as opposed to coming up with (or at least taking a risk on incorporating) original stuff.
Drop copyright term lengths back to 25 years (retroactively, BTW), and I bet you'll see Hollywood get their shit together again... because then they won't have a choice but to do so.
Spoken like someone who has never seen an H1b's code or just doesn't know what good code looks like.
I'm talking about the color of the text, not the quality of the code (which is variable).
PS: I've seen some mega-shit copypasta-outta-stack-exchange code come from guys paler than freshly-fallen snow, and I've seen code gorgeous enough to make a grown man cry come from guys who positively reek of curry, so that ain't it either.
Point is, race/culture has fuck-all to do with code - it's the quality that counts (and not just "holy shit it compiled!", either.) That's the metric you use when you decide who should write for you, and who should not. It is true that the low-bid stuff almost always has low-bid quality, but you get what you pay for... something the aforementioned megacorps haven't quite figured out yet.
The open floor plan isn't too awful; you just need a good set of (over-the-ear, noise-cancelling) headphones and a smartphone full of good tunes (or Spotify and a generous data plan).
An infant is gonna be hard to work near, I agree... but that clears up in a year or two; that, or you can put a shed in the backyard (living arrangement/space permitting) and turn it into a separate office space.
...how, exactly? Specifically, are you pushing registry hacks, specific GPO rules, or what? GP is using a pair of test boxes, so I don't expect him to have all the AD bells and whistles attached to his machinery. That said, some specificity is desired as to how you avoided the trouble.
And why isn't everyone using Gmail or something better by now?
Even better - why isn't every self-respecting business large enough to have more than 50 employees not using on-prem email/MTA solutions, instead of renting it out to people whose outages don't give a damn about your schedule?
Even better - get all the company-issued stuff back onsite so it's easier to confiscate when the axes fall.
Fiserv was (and likely still is) notorious for this during their periodic purges (they do it about once every two years, where x% of each department has to go, regardless of growth). It starts as a demand that all remote-workers come into the office... you knew what was coming next. Within a week or two they start canning all the victims, and everyone is back under the thumb to boot.
I mean seriously... in the age of corporate IM and collaboration(e.g. Webex) applications, why the hell are they complaining about "phone tag"? Just require your employees to keep their damned IM app open if you're that worried about it. I mean, IBM isn't exactly running a commodities trading house, so it's not like they need split-second employee response times... -- In general though, a hybrid solution is best in my opinion... you come in a day or two each week for meetings and suchlike, then work from home the rest of the time so you can have a quiet place to concentrate (that is, as long as your family is educated/smart enough to leave you alone).
I say this for a couple of reasons: * Face-time. Politics(sadly) and team cohesion requires physically getting together periodically. * Meetings are best conducted together as a physical when possible, mostly because even video doesn't really help you gauge the room when speaking/listening/etc. This isn't true for all meetings, but for most of them, it holds true.
Conversely, working from home allows you to concentrate with a minimum of interruption. Yeah, IMs are the suck, but at least allow you to finish up whatever little thought/task you had going before you answer it.
Delivery is a red herring though, having items delivered is likely a more efficient use of fuel than using a car to get items for single household.
Where I live, population density is 14/sq mi. It's more efficient in my case to drive into town once a month or so in a larger vehicle, load up on everything I need for the month, come back, and not burn any fuel after that (I work remotely). If I missed something, I do without it until the next time I go out (barring actual emergencies, e.g. a suddenly dead well pump or a solar inverter that goes on the fritz, though I do keep spares on-hand for both).
In GP's assertion, a 1 lb. item burns an impressive amount of fuel-per-pound for that UPS/FedEx/Whatever truck if it's just the one item, even if the truck were to only go a block out of its way... even worse when its cumulative, which was his point.
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Was about to say the same thing - it's like how they used to stack Mac sales against every PC maker combined...
...and in 20 years when management decides to offshore *all* of its tech work to India (due to bloated contracts with said unions, bloated wages, and a systme where the incompetent could never get fired, let alone done so in a timely manner), we can all sit back and say we at least tried, right?
Actually, a culture forms whether or not management fosters one. Oftentimes, a culture will form that is decidedly counter to what management wants to foster.
If management is a bunch of cut-throat snakes, the employees adapt and form their own counter-culture of sorts. The result only gets uglier over time, and management usually doesn't find out until the company is rapidly sinking (at which time many of them have either jumped ship or are about to).
Even better - go work for a (relatively more) sane company. Let the dysfunctional companies get stuck with dysfunctional employees. Eventually they (the companies) die.
- We have historical (and current) discrimination to overcome.
"historical" means approximately bupkis - no sane human is in the business of reparations, or of acting on induced guilt for things that they themselves have not done.
"(and current)"? Must not be all that prevalent if it's in parentheses, now is it?
- Different people from different viewpoints are almost invariably GOOD for an organization.
Almost, but...
Generalization aside, I was actually sort of with you on that until...
They also think they're entitled to power even though they haven't worked hard enough to earn a management position.
That should read "they haven't worked long and/or smart enough to earn a management position."
Entrepreneurs who are successful enough to found their own self-sustaining company are exempt from this, naturally...
I got one at the same time, for the same reason... how the hell did you keep enough fresh batteries handy?
Like sibling said... there is way more to PTSD than some Hollywood-style flashback thing. Actual PTSD alters behavior, heightens feelings of paranoia and insecurity (often to the point of interference with daily life), alters emotional behavior (and in children, can actually stop emotional development), jacks up one's aversion to risk... and I doubt I've even scratched the surface.
Note that it doesn't just come from war/battle, either. It can happen due to actual trauma (injury), crime (e.g. rape), and similar.
To many ISPs, privacy is a product. Or, rather, privacy is something they would proclaim long and loud whenever some RIAA/MPAA flack tried to subpoena records.
Now some ISPs (*cough*Comcast*cough*) would happily whore out your info for a buck.
That first sentence brings me to a question: Would some IP cartel resort to buying lists, then using it to chase after users who visit certain torrent sites a little too often, or correlate IP addys with names, billing addresses, visits to torrent sites, etc? Wouldn't take much more than a simple SQL query to whip up a list of intimidation (err, litigation) targets.
You can, though the result gives the ISP profile of you making a buttload of connections to a private VPN... and nothing else.
If that was their only problem, they could have recovered more easily. But they also had:
- $100 higher price to cover the cost of Kinect -- a device few wanted
Devil's Advocate: Microsoft thought (well, logically) that they could try and gain share by stealing some thunder from Nintendo (the Kinect was aimed at the Wii, not the PlayStation.) It made sense because the Wii ate Sony *and* Microsoft's lunch in raw sales (in spite of not doing HD, having a DVD-R that couldn't play a movie DVD, shit resolution, shit sound, etc...)
No arguments against the rest, though.
The serialized shows are a double edged sword. They might encourage me to stick with a series, but they also discourage me from starting one, especially if I don't start until Episode #5.
Indeed... and as a corollary, if episode #1 of a season totally turns me off or I decide that it's crap, I may just decide to not bother with the rest of the season. If I change my mind later and decide maybe to give it another shot, I'd immediately think 'why bother? I'd have to catch up first, and I'm not really sure if it's worth the time to do so.'
Best example I can think of is The Walking Dead, when they killed off a character at the end of last season that a huge chunk of viewers really liked, and they did it with a megaton of gratuitous violence. I'm willing to bet that AMC lost at least 10-15% of their viewership for the show right then and there, and most of them probably haven't come back.
Hollywood hasn't had a new idea in decades.
You can thank the terms "Intellectual Property" and "Monetization" for that. Seriously - when creative works are locked-up tight in literal century-plus copyright term lengths, and are bought and sold like commodities under that condition? There's little wonder that Hollywood is trying to see some kind of ROI on the stuff they bought, as opposed to coming up with (or at least taking a risk on incorporating) original stuff.
Drop copyright term lengths back to 25 years (retroactively, BTW), and I bet you'll see Hollywood get their shit together again... because then they won't have a choice but to do so.
It all looks the same on my IDE.
Spoken like someone who has never seen an H1b's code or just doesn't know what good code looks like.
I'm talking about the color of the text, not the quality of the code (which is variable).
PS: I've seen some mega-shit copypasta-outta-stack-exchange code come from guys paler than freshly-fallen snow, and I've seen code gorgeous enough to make a grown man cry come from guys who positively reek of curry, so that ain't it either.
Point is, race/culture has fuck-all to do with code - it's the quality that counts (and not just "holy shit it compiled!", either.) That's the metric you use when you decide who should write for you, and who should not. It is true that the low-bid stuff almost always has low-bid quality, but you get what you pay for... something the aforementioned megacorps haven't quite figured out yet.
....Waiting for the first chants of "Racist/Racism".....
These aren't a bunch of white guys...you can't take this way about them or their talents.....
What color is the skin on their code? It all looks the same on my IDE.
(and worse, it ain't the color brown that makes them attractive to megacorps - it's the color green.)
There's not going to be an amazing new Microsoft foldable phone.
There's going to be an amazing Microsoft patent, so that anyone who actually makes a foldable phone has to pay Microsoft.
...which will be the Jitterbug phone for old folks, and ..who?
s'okay; at least it's still out of the reach of the old GNAA trolls...
Kidding, but I'm old enough to remember when running Windows 95 on the old AMD K6 boxen was a no-go...
That said, does this fix affect performance any (no matter the OS)?
The open floor plan isn't too awful; you just need a good set of (over-the-ear, noise-cancelling) headphones and a smartphone full of good tunes (or Spotify and a generous data plan).
An infant is gonna be hard to work near, I agree... but that clears up in a year or two; that, or you can put a shed in the backyard (living arrangement/space permitting) and turn it into a separate office space.
...how, exactly? Specifically, are you pushing registry hacks, specific GPO rules, or what? GP is using a pair of test boxes, so I don't expect him to have all the AD bells and whistles attached to his machinery. That said, some specificity is desired as to how you avoided the trouble.
And why isn't everyone using Gmail or something better by now?
Even better - why isn't every self-respecting business large enough to have more than 50 employees not using on-prem email/MTA solutions, instead of renting it out to people whose outages don't give a damn about your schedule?
Even better - get all the company-issued stuff back onsite so it's easier to confiscate when the axes fall.
Fiserv was (and likely still is) notorious for this during their periodic purges (they do it about once every two years, where x% of each department has to go, regardless of growth). It starts as a demand that all remote-workers come into the office... you knew what was coming next. Within a week or two they start canning all the victims, and everyone is back under the thumb to boot.
Well, Marissa Meyer did it - and, in the end, she got tens of millions of dollars.
...and Yahoo! Went! Down! The! Shitter! Faster! ;)
This, exactly this.
I mean seriously... in the age of corporate IM and collaboration(e.g. Webex) applications, why the hell are they complaining about "phone tag"? Just require your employees to keep their damned IM app open if you're that worried about it. I mean, IBM isn't exactly running a commodities trading house, so it's not like they need split-second employee response times...
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In general though, a hybrid solution is best in my opinion... you come in a day or two each week for meetings and suchlike, then work from home the rest of the time so you can have a quiet place to concentrate (that is, as long as your family is educated/smart enough to leave you alone).
I say this for a couple of reasons:
* Face-time. Politics(sadly) and team cohesion requires physically getting together periodically.
* Meetings are best conducted together as a physical when possible, mostly because even video doesn't really help you gauge the room when speaking/listening/etc. This isn't true for all meetings, but for most of them, it holds true.
Conversely, working from home allows you to concentrate with a minimum of interruption. Yeah, IMs are the suck, but at least allow you to finish up whatever little thought/task you had going before you answer it.
Delivery is a red herring though, having items delivered is likely a more efficient use of fuel than using a car to get items for single household.
Where I live, population density is 14/sq mi. It's more efficient in my case to drive into town once a month or so in a larger vehicle, load up on everything I need for the month, come back, and not burn any fuel after that (I work remotely). If I missed something, I do without it until the next time I go out (barring actual emergencies, e.g. a suddenly dead well pump or a solar inverter that goes on the fritz, though I do keep spares on-hand for both).
In GP's assertion, a 1 lb. item burns an impressive amount of fuel-per-pound for that UPS/FedEx/Whatever truck if it's just the one item, even if the truck were to only go a block out of its way... even worse when its cumulative, which was his point.
PS: I don't own an SUV.