Even if you can, 30 years of work to retire at 50 means you have funds for 10 years of retirement, i.e., 60.
Most people these days will be expecting to live to 80. So they'll still be working until 65 to enact your plan. Maybe 60 if they manage to get a mortgage in their lives where they work (this gets harder year on year due to lack of housing stock in areas of high employment, e.g., my £289k house in 2012 is now a £500k house), and then sell up and move to a shack in the country later on. Which is my plan, except something will probably screw it up.
And they'll vote for whoever props up the social security pension scheme.
Hence in the UK - triple lock pensions (pension rises at the max of Average Earnings Growth, RPI, 2.5%). Now admittedly pensions in the UK were historically a bit crap, and there was some catching up to do, but it'll take a government with a massive lead in the polls at election time to risk not running on that policy (like this year).
It's the old suckling on the hard work of the young, and they do it without any guilt.
Indeed back in the 90s Logo was what was taught at school for the introductory stuff - the visual feedback made it work very well. Sadly most lessons didn't really teach why things worked, just what to do to draw pictures.
My educational route would have been BASIC (at home), Logo, Pascal, [university:] ML, Modula-3 and then Java.
If you don't have online code reviews as part of the process then set it up. WfH would usually be an earned benefit after you've proven yourself (i.e., passed probation at work for example), so people will trust your abilities. One thing is your online Kanban/Scrum/Whatever system needs to work well, and people need to use it well. Another thing is the company needs a chat system (Slack, Mattermost, Teams, IRC) for teams to talk in groups, and a voicechat system (Skype for Business), again needs multi-user chat, not just one to one.
And I think going into the office a couple of days a week still helps, 100% WfH might be a bit too much. Those days in the office generally turn into paperwork days - for your meetings, team demo/retro/planning, other general bullshit, rather than getting work done days.
Wife can be trained to bring you coffee/tea every hour. Kids should be at school over half of the year, and apart from a small range of ages should understand to leave you alone. Cats. Seriously? I have two and I can cope with their shenanigans when working from home, welcome relaxing de-stressing situations, these. Just sit where you want - sofa, dining table, desk in bedroom/hallway, edge of bed, in bed, local pub.
But you really really do need your workplace to move into the 2010s and provide you with a laptop and VPN solution, rather than remote desktop. Remote desktop kills WfH.
Anyway, you also have the choice of where to sit at home, desk, dining table, sofa, garden, local pub. Change your location, feel better about things, relaxed and less stressed. You'll do your work better.
You also feel like you are getting something out of your house rather than being a place to sleep, crap and eat whilst watching TV for a couple of hours.
I've found once I get past the procrastination, working from home is far better to get work done than in the office. But you do need to set up a conducive working area free of your daily clutter.
Sure, during holiday time they'll be home, so go into the office or ship them off to the grandparents for a holiday, but for the majority of the year they are at school.
Oh, but they come home at 3? After school club is well worth paying for, as you'll be saving otherwise by working from home. Anyway, unless you keep popping out children, they will eventually grow past an age where they annoy you. Summer's better if you have a garden too.
The two hours of commuting WfH saves is generally well worth it where possible, never mind the train fare each day, and then the cost of lunch which is always more than preparing something at home.
Let's not admit to the never mentioned hangover solution too, after you've 'appeared' at work in the morning for your online standup or sent an email or two, go back to bed until you feel better, and work later to make up for it. Win-Win all round, you get the work done, the employer is happy because the work was done.
Damn right. $800 cash, hotel stay, free flight the next day. Done deal, cost is marginal to the carrier when balanced against the cost of not running that subsequent flight.
$800 in flight vouchers (I might not fly again before they expire) is far less attractive. Better than a bloody face I guess.
$800 vouchers, when I'm losing $1000+ in earnings (never mind loss of reputation, losing clients, etc) by not being at work the next day... nope.
Which clearly makes the value of the seats a lot higher than what was reportedly offered. A cancelled flight would have been hundreds of thousands in refunds.
I'm sure 4 people would have volunteered had the offer been higher than was was reportedly offered.
There was no need for this situation at all, and the PR cost is immense, and surely until it's forgotten (so next week at most) they will lose a significant amount of business.
An old (as updated apps have mandated a 64-bit binary alongside the 32-bit one for a while now) 32-bit app would still work if the OS supported 32-bit apps.
Therefore, logically, support for 32-bit-only apps is going. This may be an iOS 11 thing, or it may be an Apple A11 thing (remove AArch32 support in hardware).
It's likely an OS thing - maintaining two sets of OS APIs must have quite some overhead, when there are so many.
It's good to see that the problems are being worked on, even to the level where the most miserable arguments (what if i'm driving through the sahara and there are no charging spots) are being invalidated.
The only thing is getting the supercharger network even more densely connected.
Yeah, for my WfH days I don't deliberately work more hours (I may make up some if I had to leave work earlier on other days), although having a child I have to take to school removes that 'Wake up 5 minutes before the morning stand-up call' temptation.
I may end up working more hours just because it's a better environment to get work done, or I decide to have a 2 hour nap in the middle of the day.
I think an expectation of remote work ability (at least after a couple of months or so of joining) should be an expectation for anyone looking to move company these days. Especially if you have children it gives you the necessary flexibility to cope with the situation. For most it would be 2 or 3 times a week, face to face time may still be important/necessary for some to retain humanity .
The last thing I would want to do is sit in a car in a traffic jam daily. Luckily I've avoided that throughout my career so far (admittedly this is easier in the UK/London than the US, but OTOH I have Southern Rail to contend with).
TBH pretty much the only exercise I get is the walk to and from the train station for work (at both ends). Which luckily probably totals over three miles a day, and it's an enforced routine.
Problem is, work has recently started an aggressive Working from Home culture (well, 2 or 3 days a week). Guess how much I walk on those days... sure, I eat better, but that's about it. "Bed -> Desk (via Kitchen for coffee/lunch/dinner) -> Sofa -> Bed" isn't the greatest daily routine. Saves a decent amount of time and money though (especially when you factor in work lunch and occasional beers).
I guess at some point HDMI will have to break compatibility with the form factor. Maybe for 16K120? However the reasonably sized, standard, non-changing, form factor is one of the selling points.
So it makes sense to go optical then for the main data stream, although the temptation for them to push copper further will be very high. Look at USB 3 - I remember way back that they were thinking of optical USB as the future, and it turned into merely having even more standard I/Os.
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That's great if you can afford it.
Even if you can, 30 years of work to retire at 50 means you have funds for 10 years of retirement, i.e., 60.
Most people these days will be expecting to live to 80. So they'll still be working until 65 to enact your plan. Maybe 60 if they manage to get a mortgage in their lives where they work (this gets harder year on year due to lack of housing stock in areas of high employment, e.g., my £289k house in 2012 is now a £500k house), and then sell up and move to a shack in the country later on. Which is my plan, except something will probably screw it up.
Old people vote a lot more than younger people.
And they'll vote for whoever props up the social security pension scheme.
Hence in the UK - triple lock pensions (pension rises at the max of Average Earnings Growth, RPI, 2.5%). Now admittedly pensions in the UK were historically a bit crap, and there was some catching up to do, but it'll take a government with a massive lead in the polls at election time to risk not running on that policy (like this year).
It's the old suckling on the hard work of the young, and they do it without any guilt.
Indeed back in the 90s Logo was what was taught at school for the introductory stuff - the visual feedback made it work very well. Sadly most lessons didn't really teach why things worked, just what to do to draw pictures.
My educational route would have been BASIC (at home), Logo, Pascal, [university:] ML, Modula-3 and then Java.
You should see some of the abominations of spreadsheets non-developer people come up with, instead of using a more suitable solution!
HackADay, sure. Always need to know more about ESP32s.
Slashdot? Not since 2002 to be honest.
If you don't have online code reviews as part of the process then set it up.
WfH would usually be an earned benefit after you've proven yourself (i.e., passed probation at work for example), so people will trust your abilities.
One thing is your online Kanban/Scrum/Whatever system needs to work well, and people need to use it well.
Another thing is the company needs a chat system (Slack, Mattermost, Teams, IRC) for teams to talk in groups, and a voicechat system (Skype for Business), again needs multi-user chat, not just one to one.
And I think going into the office a couple of days a week still helps, 100% WfH might be a bit too much. Those days in the office generally turn into paperwork days - for your meetings, team demo/retro/planning, other general bullshit, rather than getting work done days.
Wife can be trained to bring you coffee/tea every hour.
Kids should be at school over half of the year, and apart from a small range of ages should understand to leave you alone.
Cats. Seriously? I have two and I can cope with their shenanigans when working from home, welcome relaxing de-stressing situations, these.
Just sit where you want - sofa, dining table, desk in bedroom/hallway, edge of bed, in bed, local pub.
But you really really do need your workplace to move into the 2010s and provide you with a laptop and VPN solution, rather than remote desktop. Remote desktop kills WfH.
What's vacuuming? :p
Anyway, you also have the choice of where to sit at home, desk, dining table, sofa, garden, local pub. Change your location, feel better about things, relaxed and less stressed. You'll do your work better.
You also feel like you are getting something out of your house rather than being a place to sleep, crap and eat whilst watching TV for a couple of hours.
I've found once I get past the procrastination, working from home is far better to get work done than in the office. But you do need to set up a conducive working area free of your daily clutter.
Sure, during holiday time they'll be home, so go into the office or ship them off to the grandparents for a holiday, but for the majority of the year they are at school.
Oh, but they come home at 3? After school club is well worth paying for, as you'll be saving otherwise by working from home. Anyway, unless you keep popping out children, they will eventually grow past an age where they annoy you. Summer's better if you have a garden too.
The two hours of commuting WfH saves is generally well worth it where possible, never mind the train fare each day, and then the cost of lunch which is always more than preparing something at home.
Let's not admit to the never mentioned hangover solution too, after you've 'appeared' at work in the morning for your online standup or sent an email or two, go back to bed until you feel better, and work later to make up for it. Win-Win all round, you get the work done, the employer is happy because the work was done.
Damn right. $800 cash, hotel stay, free flight the next day. Done deal, cost is marginal to the carrier when balanced against the cost of not running that subsequent flight.
$800 in flight vouchers (I might not fly again before they expire) is far less attractive. Better than a bloody face I guess.
$800 vouchers, when I'm losing $1000+ in earnings (never mind loss of reputation, losing clients, etc) by not being at work the next day... nope.
Which may or may not actually be reasonable and fair terms and conditions.
Which clearly makes the value of the seats a lot higher than what was reportedly offered. A cancelled flight would have been hundreds of thousands in refunds.
I'm sure 4 people would have volunteered had the offer been higher than was was reportedly offered.
There was no need for this situation at all, and the PR cost is immense, and surely until it's forgotten (so next week at most) they will lose a significant amount of business.
Override the Slashdot CSS to use a font like FiraCode then.
Just take some washlets in with you if they supply terrible toilet paper. And raise it with facilities.
Yes. There are two Aeron user types.
* The Reclining near-Horizontal User
* The Sit Up Vertical User
Luckily it only takes a short time to lock the recline and fix the height of the chair and arms but it does go wrong occasionally.
When was this patented?
Ancient browsers have web page caching in the mid 90s, for example.
And lets not mention dial-up services in the 80s.
God, is it so hard to write:
"In 2010 an electric car battery cost $x per kWh and usually had capacity y kWh, and by 2020 this will be $x' and y'."
An old (as updated apps have mandated a 64-bit binary alongside the 32-bit one for a while now) 32-bit app would still work if the OS supported 32-bit apps.
Therefore, logically, support for 32-bit-only apps is going. This may be an iOS 11 thing, or it may be an Apple A11 thing (remove AArch32 support in hardware).
It's likely an OS thing - maintaining two sets of OS APIs must have quite some overhead, when there are so many.
It's good to see that the problems are being worked on, even to the level where the most miserable arguments (what if i'm driving through the sahara and there are no charging spots) are being invalidated.
The only thing is getting the supercharger network even more densely connected.
Yeah, for my WfH days I don't deliberately work more hours (I may make up some if I had to leave work earlier on other days), although having a child I have to take to school removes that 'Wake up 5 minutes before the morning stand-up call' temptation.
I may end up working more hours just because it's a better environment to get work done, or I decide to have a 2 hour nap in the middle of the day.
I think an expectation of remote work ability (at least after a couple of months or so of joining) should be an expectation for anyone looking to move company these days. Especially if you have children it gives you the necessary flexibility to cope with the situation. For most it would be 2 or 3 times a week, face to face time may still be important/necessary for some to retain humanity .
The last thing I would want to do is sit in a car in a traffic jam daily. Luckily I've avoided that throughout my career so far (admittedly this is easier in the UK/London than the US, but OTOH I have Southern Rail to contend with).
TBH pretty much the only exercise I get is the walk to and from the train station for work (at both ends). Which luckily probably totals over three miles a day, and it's an enforced routine.
Problem is, work has recently started an aggressive Working from Home culture (well, 2 or 3 days a week). Guess how much I walk on those days... sure, I eat better, but that's about it. "Bed -> Desk (via Kitchen for coffee/lunch/dinner) -> Sofa -> Bed" isn't the greatest daily routine. Saves a decent amount of time and money though (especially when you factor in work lunch and occasional beers).
I guess at some point HDMI will have to break compatibility with the form factor. Maybe for 16K120? However the reasonably sized, standard, non-changing, form factor is one of the selling points.
So it makes sense to go optical then for the main data stream, although the temptation for them to push copper further will be very high. Look at USB 3 - I remember way back that they were thinking of optical USB as the future, and it turned into merely having even more standard I/Os.
The only thing still missing from HDMI is power to drive HDMI attached media dongles. Maybe with HDMI 3.0 ...
Still, modern TVs have enough USB ports these days to power a couple of these, or you can get single socket multi-usb adapters.
A *consumer* 48Gbps cable is a pretty damn amazing creation, especially being backward / forward compatible with old ports / old cables.