This is probably the best advice I've seen so far, especially the part about quitting or moving closer. I've got a far away job too, but thankfully I've become a telecommuter most of the time. Anyway...
Why not do some short exercises at the NOC? You get a lunch break or 15 minute breaks here and there, right? A set of push-ups or crunches take under a minute to complete. There's got to be a electronic copy of the Army PT Manual somewhere on the internet.
He can't be the one sent to jail. Only the CEO and CFO are personally liable for financial accountability. SOX doesn't say anything about IMs either. COBIT might.
Not to nitpick, but I owned Turbo C++ and Turbo Pascal. They were about $100-130 each. Sure, most computer programs were $30-40, but it still wasn't that expensive.
And 386s with 32MB of RAM? Maybe there were some, but they hardly grew on trees. Christ, most hard drives back then were 40-80MB. My 4MB RAM upgrade cost me $400, so 32MB on a PC? Come on.
And there certainly was email. I ran a WWIVnet board, and another BBS in town had FidoNet (seemed overcomplicated for the end user). Sure, it took 7 days for a message to get from Michigan to Mexico, but it got there.
Skills are swell and all, but attitude affects how an employee approaches every project/instruction/other employee. I'd rather have a good coder who can work well on a team than a whiney one no one else wants to work with. I'm not the OP, but I have a department to run, not just one employee.
I was only skimming the thread here, so maybe I missed something where you don't want to do this... but when you need something crazy, just pass the SQL.
month = 6
Entries.find_by_sql ["SELECT * FROM entries WHERE MONTH(date) = ?", month]
We have a production Mongrel server that runs just fine. In the three months that it's been running, I have never had it crash.
And for what it's worth, there are two of us here working on it, yet it was developed by two other developers earlier this year. 5000 lines of code not including tests... It's just not that hard.
I finish my coffee while I look over anything interesting on Google News and Slashdot. If I look in the morning, I don't think about it the rest of the day, so I don't get distracted. Then I make sure nothing important appeared in my email overnight, and I look over my plans for the day. So I guess the "good" answer is, I do a quick plan for eight hours of work.
I don't see how this got modded informative. I don't recall the xServe spare parts kit ever having a hard drive in it. I have a few, and I knew what was in the kit when I bought it. I also know that when I buy a critical server I should buy a spare hard drive - it's the part that seems to fail most frequently.
You can buy a $600 Mac Mini, pick and keyboard, mouse, and monitor you want (you probably have spares), and buy a copy of InDesign.
Even though a Mac and PC both have a copy of InDesign, the files aren't going to play nice. What are you going to do about fonts? Now that you have two different platforms, you're going to have to create outlines for all the fonts, making the InDesign file's fonts uneditable.
Maybe you should have listened to your design guy, since he obviously knows at least the basics of working with layout files. You don't.
I disagree. Ask Slashdot used to be specific questions about a technology or how to go about something. Lately, however, it's been one question after another that goes:
"I'm working on this project that will be able to do X? How do I do it?"
There's a big difference between learning how to do something and asking somebody else to figure it out for you.
I typically stay one or two carlengths from whatever I'm riding behind, but people still can't see me. I've since made a habit of swerving out from behind the car just enough for people to see me from an intersection.
This would be great if people on the internet weren't retarded. I bet when I click over to Fark, this is on there.
Maybe Bill Gates bringing computers to the masses wasn't such a bright idea.
As geeky as the average Slashdotter is, the majority of Americans wouldn't be caught dead with some of the lame stuff that comes out of Japan. I mean, DDR? Perfect example.
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This is probably the best advice I've seen so far, especially the part about quitting or moving closer. I've got a far away job too, but thankfully I've become a telecommuter most of the time. Anyway... Why not do some short exercises at the NOC? You get a lunch break or 15 minute breaks here and there, right? A set of push-ups or crunches take under a minute to complete. There's got to be a electronic copy of the Army PT Manual somewhere on the internet.
He can't be the one sent to jail. Only the CEO and CFO are personally liable for financial accountability. SOX doesn't say anything about IMs either. COBIT might.
Why would someone hate vacations?
Orientate is not a word.
Not to nitpick, but I owned Turbo C++ and Turbo Pascal. They were about $100-130 each. Sure, most computer programs were $30-40, but it still wasn't that expensive.
And 386s with 32MB of RAM? Maybe there were some, but they hardly grew on trees. Christ, most hard drives back then were 40-80MB. My 4MB RAM upgrade cost me $400, so 32MB on a PC? Come on.
And there certainly was email. I ran a WWIVnet board, and another BBS in town had FidoNet (seemed overcomplicated for the end user). Sure, it took 7 days for a message to get from Michigan to Mexico, but it got there.
Skills are swell and all, but attitude affects how an employee approaches every project/instruction/other employee. I'd rather have a good coder who can work well on a team than a whiney one no one else wants to work with. I'm not the OP, but I have a department to run, not just one employee.
I wouldn't hire him either.
I was only skimming the thread here, so maybe I missed something where you don't want to do this... but when you need something crazy, just pass the SQL.
month = 6
Entries.find_by_sql ["SELECT * FROM entries WHERE MONTH(date) = ?", month]
We have a production Mongrel server that runs just fine. In the three months that it's been running, I have never had it crash.
And for what it's worth, there are two of us here working on it, yet it was developed by two other developers earlier this year. 5000 lines of code not including tests... It's just not that hard.
What the fuck does "boned" mean? Am I that old already?
It's Australia, not the US, you fucking retard.
I finish my coffee while I look over anything interesting on Google News and Slashdot. If I look in the morning, I don't think about it the rest of the day, so I don't get distracted. Then I make sure nothing important appeared in my email overnight, and I look over my plans for the day. So I guess the "good" answer is, I do a quick plan for eight hours of work.
Of all the things going on in the world and the country, if you actually care about this, you shouldn't be allowed to vote.
The ACLU isn't funded by taxpayers, so how is this a waste of taxpayer money?
Browsers all have spell checkers now? Or does /. now have a spell checker? Oh, neither? Then can it.
I don't see how this got modded informative. I don't recall the xServe spare parts kit ever having a hard drive in it. I have a few, and I knew what was in the kit when I bought it. I also know that when I buy a critical server I should buy a spare hard drive - it's the part that seems to fail most frequently.
You can buy a $600 Mac Mini, pick and keyboard, mouse, and monitor you want (you probably have spares), and buy a copy of InDesign. Even though a Mac and PC both have a copy of InDesign, the files aren't going to play nice. What are you going to do about fonts? Now that you have two different platforms, you're going to have to create outlines for all the fonts, making the InDesign file's fonts uneditable. Maybe you should have listened to your design guy, since he obviously knows at least the basics of working with layout files. You don't.
I disagree. Ask Slashdot used to be specific questions about a technology or how to go about something. Lately, however, it's been one question after another that goes:
"I'm working on this project that will be able to do X? How do I do it?"
There's a big difference between learning how to do something and asking somebody else to figure it out for you.
Better than nothing, I hope.
Oh my god! Five whole servers by someone who's not MCSE?! Whatever will they do?
This would be great if people on the internet weren't retarded. I bet when I click over to Fark, this is on there. Maybe Bill Gates bringing computers to the masses wasn't such a bright idea.
And you could have had the foresight to mute your speakers if you're screwing around at work.
Um... have you ever seen a Japanese person drive? They need it. :^)
As geeky as the average Slashdotter is, the majority of Americans wouldn't be caught dead with some of the lame stuff that comes out of Japan. I mean, DDR? Perfect example.
"These guys have a lot of time on their hands...." ... said the guy who sat around watching the stupid video.
What's with all the gay jokes? Take them out, and there's not a whole lot left. Looks like the Jib Jab guys are out of ideas.