In a nutshell, that's the answer if you left strictly because the company decided to use a particular language or a particular compiler/IDE. Learning new tools and languages are part of reality in this industry. If you don't lean new tricks, you quickly become a dinosaur. You don't necessarily have to like the IDE/language to do your job effectively. It definately helps but it is not a _requirement_.
Did you even try the new tools? If not, you were foolish.
Did you have a new job already lined up? Are you independently wealthy? If not, you were hasty.
Conventional wisdom says that it's easier to find a new job when you already have one. This is largely because you have the ability to be very selective about the new position you take. When you leave first, you may find yourself in the position of needing to find a job to pay the bills and may not have the freedom to be selective.
At this point though, it sounds like you have already made the choice so all you can do is learn as much as you can from the way this turns out and keep it in mind when you find yourself in a similar situation.
It's nice to be idealistic, but in my book, it's even nicer to have a place to live and food on the table.
I have hobbies to have fun. I'm just lucky that I also have fun while at work.
The last I checked, even individual people cannot just start spouting off about things that someone has supposedly done. If something that someone said turns out to be false (and probably a few other criteria, IANAL) then there is a good chance of them getting sued and getting slapped with paying a judgement.
You can't just start running around calling someone a dirty thief and not expect someone to stand up and say "Give us proof or STFU." This is pretty much what I think RedHat is doing here.
I have heard Sen. Hatch's comments on several issues before that were completely against my own opinions and beliefs. Now that he is casually throwing around comments about letting copyright holders destroy my machine because they think I'm illegally copying music or ebooks or pictures scanned from Playboy (yep, that's a copyright violation, too) without the little protection called due process, (remember, innocent until proven guilty?) really pisses me off.
Unfortunately, I don't live in Utah to help vote him out but hopefully this latest incident will wake a few people out of their trance and get him the hell out of office.
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In a nutshell, that's the answer if you left strictly because the company decided to use a particular language or a particular compiler/IDE. Learning new tools and languages are part of reality in this industry. If you don't lean new tricks, you quickly become a dinosaur. You don't necessarily have to like the IDE/language to do your job effectively. It definately helps but it is not a _requirement_.
Did you even try the new tools? If not, you were foolish.
Did you have a new job already lined up? Are you independently wealthy? If not, you were hasty.
Conventional wisdom says that it's easier to find a new job when you already have one. This is largely because you have the ability to be very selective about the new position you take. When you leave first, you may find yourself in the position of needing to find a job to pay the bills and may not have the freedom to be selective.
At this point though, it sounds like you have already made the choice so all you can do is learn as much as you can from the way this turns out and keep it in mind when you find yourself in a similar situation.
It's nice to be idealistic, but in my book, it's even nicer to have a place to live and food on the table.
I have hobbies to have fun. I'm just lucky that I also have fun while at work.
The last I checked, even individual people cannot just start spouting off about things that someone has supposedly done. If something that someone said turns out to be false (and probably a few other criteria, IANAL) then there is a good chance of them getting sued and getting slapped with paying a judgement.
You can't just start running around calling someone a dirty thief and not expect someone to stand up and say "Give us proof or STFU." This is pretty much what I think RedHat is doing here.
I have heard Sen. Hatch's comments on several issues before that were completely against my own opinions and beliefs. Now that he is casually throwing around comments about letting copyright holders destroy my machine because they think I'm illegally copying music or ebooks or pictures scanned from Playboy (yep, that's a copyright violation, too) without the little protection called due process, (remember, innocent until proven guilty?) really pisses me off.
Unfortunately, I don't live in Utah to help vote him out but hopefully this latest incident will wake a few people out of their trance and get him the hell out of office.