you're kidding me; do you really think that going behind people's backs is going to allow you to keep your job?
You're missing the entire point - business is war and sticking your head up too much gets you shot. Played properly, this isn't viewed as going behind anybody's back. Instead, you're in favor of whatever squirrelbrained plan is being presented, but you can't go forward because of _fill_in_the_blank_.
If you think about it, when you go uphill the hybrid uses both the gas engine and the electric motor to power the car. Going down hill all it is doing is charging the battery.
Ya know, all you had to do was cite the second law of thermodynamics: You can't break even.
The fact is, an iPod is pretty useless without music on it, whereas I play music all the time and I don't even own an iPod.
I use an Ipod, and I've bought a grand total of 2 (two) songs from itms. Where do I get all my tunes? Well, there's the small matter of 2 roadcases full of CDs.
It's wrong for people to make excuses for bugs in code which expose my personal information to hackers, stalkers and marketers.
Bite me. Programmers don't control the schedule. They also don't decide when to ship, or to delay bugfixes for browser exploits for months. That's all up to managers - they control the schedule and the priorities are.
Paying customer, right? I'm not comfortable with being sued for a piece of software that I wrote and released and have no control over. For example, what if I wrote a password keyring for myself and distributed it with source - somebody else uses it to hold passwords to medical record and gets compromised. Now I'm on the hook for the people who's medical records got passed around - even if I had nothing to do with the breach, I still have to respond to a lawsuit.
Absent balancing actions, the primary result of this would be to remove the ability for single and small groups of software developers to distribute software.
I'm not saying that the books have no use. I'm saying that they mostly repeat themselves, or give shallow treatments of material that is covered in depth elsewhere.
Your computer is not a brain and your brain is not a computer. Your computer cannot think. How many beads do I have to string on my abacus before it becomes self-aware?
Your brain is a computer. It just has better software than your computer.
Kind of offtopic, but is there any easy way to tell how much your machines pulling?
Get an Ammeter. Plug it into the wall and then the computer into it. It will tell you the Amps that are being drawn. Multiply by 115 for an approximation of the power usage, or dig around on google to find out how you have to convert AC Amps and Volts to Watts.
It's the modern dilemma: there is too much to know. Two or three hundred years ago, you could read every book ever written. Now you can't even read every book ever written about computing.
But you can read most of what's been written about computing. By eliminating redundant books/passages, you can probably reduce the amount of material by an order of magnitude or two.
Wow, thank you for opening my eyes to what an evil person I am. I will now quit my job and watch my kids starve, so that your already comfortable life can get infinitesimally more comfortable.
Or you could get a real job. They do exist.
No, wait, I won't. You're a selfish, self-important asshat who's probably never been short of money in his entire pampered life, let alone been responsible for feeding any other mouths.
So because somebody doesn't want a stranger calling them out of the blue, they're an asshole? Project much?
Some of us don't have college degrees.
Boo frickin hoo. Experienced tradesmen make serious bank.
Some of us have to take what jobs we can, instead of getting to pick and choose from the cream of high-pay, low-effort sinecures that the rich families keep for their kids.
Spoken like someone who's never thought to take charge of their career. I went to college and I make good money, but my parents aren't rich. Here's the support I got from the bank of Mom: a few years of student loan payments and some encouragement to go fulfill my potential.
We had a position open for a.NET/SQL Server dev for 8+ months, and couldn't find anyone who was qualified and could pass a basic competancy
Meh. I do Java, C++, and SQL (Oracle flavor, mostly)..Net/SQL Server is hardly a problem. In the first few months of my current job, I've absorbed something like 3 separate application frameworks (all internal to the company) and a custom build/deployment environment..Net has no horrors to frighten me. Now the thing is this: you can waste time (and you will waste it) looking for that perfect round peg, or you can look for someone like me, who is highly competent and has similar experience and then give him (usually a guy, makes for boring team outings) a month or two to come up to speed. He'll enjoy something new, and you get your dev in less time.
Bonus: if your requirements/platform change, no need to hire different people.
Crying lawyer will just make his boss uneasy in which case his boss will get a lawyer who will then claim the work is being done on company time and thus should belong to the company.
No he won't. You get the lawyer to write a contract stating the opposite. The only thing that he should advise you on are issues that you've missed. The submitter's already got permission for this, so policy is already decided.
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would it be legal to "make up" fake SS#s when dealing with stupid organizations who shouldn't really have access to it anyway.
I dunno, probably wouldn't be illegal, unless you picked one that someone else already had. just to be safe, try using xxx-00-xxxx. None of those are valid. You can also ferret out the 'sample' ssn that's likewise invalid.
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Someone should invent a special "web token" of sorts that would keep you logged in.
Tried that. Turns out, nobody wants all their online identities to merge together.
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you're kidding me; do you really think that going behind people's backs is going to allow you to keep your job?
You're missing the entire point - business is war and sticking your head up too much gets you shot. Played properly, this isn't viewed as going behind anybody's back. Instead, you're in favor of whatever squirrelbrained plan is being presented, but you can't go forward because of _fill_in_the_blank_.
SUN TZU is a great reading when going to the cubicle battle, and you will find lots of insights ...
You know, I wonder if Machiavelli or his contemporaries were even aware of Sun Tzu.
People I work with are MAD that I get good mileage in my Escape Hybrid. It may only be 33 mpg, but they get 12.
Maybe it's cognitive dissonance - SUV = teh Evil, Hybrid = Good. Hybrid SUV = brain segfaults.
But then you'd be driving a Metro ;). I drove a Geo once, as a rental. Never again.
If you think about it, when you go uphill the hybrid uses both the gas engine and the electric motor to power the car. Going down hill all it is doing is charging the battery.
Ya know, all you had to do was cite the second law of thermodynamics: You can't break even.
The fact is, an iPod is pretty useless without music on it, whereas I play music all the time and I don't even own an iPod.
I use an Ipod, and I've bought a grand total of 2 (two) songs from itms. Where do I get all my tunes? Well, there's the small matter of 2 roadcases full of CDs.
It's not like he's ever been afraid to gruffly tell the shareholders, "You'll understand when we get there."
Yeah well, he can do that. That's what happens when you make a habit of being right
/APPL shareholder
It's wrong for people to make excuses for bugs in code which expose my personal information to hackers, stalkers and marketers.
Bite me. Programmers don't control the schedule. They also don't decide when to ship, or to delay bugfixes for browser exploits for months. That's all up to managers - they control the schedule and the priorities are.
Paying customer, right? I'm not comfortable with being sued for a piece of software that I wrote and released and have no control over. For example, what if I wrote a password keyring for myself and distributed it with source - somebody else uses it to hold passwords to medical record and gets compromised. Now I'm on the hook for the people who's medical records got passed around - even if I had nothing to do with the breach, I still have to respond to a lawsuit.
Absent balancing actions, the primary result of this would be to remove the ability for single and small groups of software developers to distribute software.
I'm not saying that the books have no use. I'm saying that they mostly repeat themselves, or give shallow treatments of material that is covered in depth elsewhere.
7) The police actually have to do their job, which may involve installing bugs.
Your computer is not a brain and your brain is not a computer. Your computer cannot think. How many beads do I have to string on my abacus before it becomes self-aware?
Your brain is a computer. It just has better software than your computer.
How about getting some noise of color?
You want Pink noise?
Kind of offtopic, but is there any easy way to tell how much your machines pulling?
Get an Ammeter. Plug it into the wall and then the computer into it. It will tell you the Amps that are being drawn. Multiply by 115 for an approximation of the power usage, or dig around on google to find out how you have to convert AC Amps and Volts to Watts.
It's the modern dilemma: there is too much to know. Two or three hundred years ago, you could read every book ever written. Now you can't even read every book ever written about computing.
But you can read most of what's been written about computing. By eliminating redundant books/passages, you can probably reduce the amount of material by an order of magnitude or two.
Axe body spray doesn't get you laid
So, what you're saying is that I should take a shower after butchering my victims if I want to go hit the clubs tonight, right?
What I want to know is this: what authority does the FCC have to dictate what apps I use on a privately owned network?
Wow, thank you for opening my eyes to what an evil person I am. I will now quit my job and watch my kids starve, so that your already comfortable life can get infinitesimally more comfortable.
Or you could get a real job. They do exist.
No, wait, I won't. You're a selfish, self-important asshat who's probably never been short of money in his entire pampered life, let alone been responsible for feeding any other mouths.
So because somebody doesn't want a stranger calling them out of the blue, they're an asshole? Project much?
Some of us don't have college degrees.
Boo frickin hoo. Experienced tradesmen make serious bank.
Some of us have to take what jobs we can, instead of getting to pick and choose from the cream of high-pay, low-effort sinecures that the rich families keep for their kids.
Spoken like someone who's never thought to take charge of their career. I went to college and I make good money, but my parents aren't rich. Here's the support I got from the bank of Mom: a few years of student loan payments and some encouragement to go fulfill my potential.
My first chemical engineering professor (Dr. Edmond Ko) set me on fire.
Don't stand so close to the bunsen burner.
-Ko
We had a position open for a .NET/SQL Server dev for 8+ months, and couldn't find anyone who was qualified and could pass a basic competancy
Meh. I do Java, C++, and SQL (Oracle flavor, mostly). .Net/SQL Server is hardly a problem. In the first few months of my current job, I've absorbed something like 3 separate application frameworks (all internal to the company) and a custom build/deployment environment. .Net has no horrors to frighten me. Now the thing is this: you can waste time (and you will waste it) looking for that perfect round peg, or you can look for someone like me, who is highly competent and has similar experience and then give him (usually a guy, makes for boring team outings) a month or two to come up to speed. He'll enjoy something new, and you get your dev in less time.
Bonus: if your requirements/platform change, no need to hire different people.
If you are a contractor hired to do work, it is work done for hire and all belongs to the client.
This is the second or third post to miss a rather obvious point: 'work made for hire' is a default. You're free to modify it with a contract.
Crying lawyer will just make his boss uneasy in which case his boss will get a lawyer who will then claim the work is being done on company time and thus should belong to the company.
No he won't. You get the lawyer to write a contract stating the opposite. The only thing that he should advise you on are issues that you've missed. The submitter's already got permission for this, so policy is already decided.
would it be legal to "make up" fake SS#s when dealing with stupid organizations who shouldn't really have access to it anyway.
I dunno, probably wouldn't be illegal, unless you picked one that someone else already had. just to be safe, try using xxx-00-xxxx. None of those are valid. You can also ferret out the 'sample' ssn that's likewise invalid.
Someone should invent a special "web token" of sorts that would keep you logged in.
Tried that. Turns out, nobody wants all their online identities to merge together.
Hey, maybe you can telecommute. Lord knows the only thing I'd go to Utah for is the Skiing.