But you will get no where near that kind of life on an all American TV or a computer monitor which will get far more use than any of the current AMOLED devices out there.
My pair of cheap-ass Sceptre 1680x1050 displays are on their eleventh year now. No problems with either of them and still on the original CCFL backlights, but I would like to get some higher-resolution ones at some point.
Interestingly, I'm dealing with that problem now. The place I'm renting has a bad slab leak, and rather than bust up the floor to fix it, the landlord decided it's going to be better to put new pipe in the walls, meaning that one bedroom, a closet, both bathrooms, and the kitchen are going to get the walls ripped up to put the new plumbing in. I'm *so* looking forward to the next few days, and then cleaning up all of the dust when everyone involved is done.
It is true that dependencies are unavoidable, but I have seen things reach the point where to build something, the build tools will have to hoover the Internet and download a bunch of gunk. What is it used for? You may know why your direct dependencies are present, but those dependencies may have other dependencies and it is all opaque as to why they are there.
Yeah, this is an exciting thing to deal with. At the last place I worked, the "architect" decided that the existing Java/.NET framework was crap (even though the code had worked just fine for years at production sites) and declared that we were moving it all to Node.js. Where it got fun was when the engineer in charge of builds saw his distributable package jump to almost 40,000 files, and the master build was unable to run every couple of weeks because of broken dependencies, which had to be isolated and dealt with each time. Meanwhile, problems that had continued to plague the system because of the 20-year old "roll-your-own" DBMS that didn't even support concurrency went unaddressed because they just weren't as much fun for him to work on.
The "enforced lunch" is something that annoys me to no end. I'd much rather get in early, do my time, and get out early. Avoiding traffic is a major plus, and the reduced travel time as a result means more free time at the end of the day. On top of that, if I'm in an hour earlier, I get a lot more done because no one is bugging me. I'd also rather work 4 10-hour days and save one day's drive to/from work.
You don't need a pack of alpha sleigh dogs. That only ensures that you have everyone pulling into a different direction and everyone's wasting everyone else's energy.
Yeah, it's always fun when you have a handful of "rock stars" that are convinced that their way is the only way and that everyone else is an idiot, failing to note that no two of them can agree on the "right" way to do something.
No he is not more valuable to his employer. He and his friends put a lot of effort into non-work hobbies. That is not nearly the same as putting a lot of effort into work projects. Note how none of his mentioned proofs of passion do something for employer.
Really? I can't count the number of times something that I've done at home has made things easier (meaning it takes less time, in turn meaning it costs my employer less) or even possible at work. Having a broad range of technical interests off the clock means that there are a lot of assignments where I can hit the ground running instead of spending time on training or otherwise becoming familiar with something new to the workplace.
You realise that its extremely hard to just let a worker go in the UK, right? We dont have the equivalent of Californias "right to work" rules here.
You're confusing "right-to-work" with "at-will employment". Right-to-work means that union membership can't be a condition of employment. At-will employment means either you or your employer can terminate the relationship unless there's a contract specifiying otherwise.
1) Ship en-route to Alpha Centauri-- They entangle their transmitter and receptor beams at the launch, stay in realtime contact the entire flight. Flight takes many decades, but they stay in contact with earth in realtime. (as long as the beams never lose power, and thus stop being entangled.)
My knowledge of physics is admittedly not as good as I'd like, but would this be subject to any relativistic effects? We don't have anything that can go a substantial fraction of the speed of light, but it seems it still might be a factor given that we have to account for these effects with the GPS satellites.
I had a bit of a row with management a couple of years back over this. They wanted me to install Outlook on my personal phone, and I refused because of the remote management capabilities. I don't care who you are, it's not your phone and I'm not going to give you the ability to remote wipe it, monitor me, have access to passwords, etc. If it's important enough that I need to be able to be contacted via cell phone, then give me a company phone expressly for that purpose and don't be surprised if it gets left at home when I go out.
Win8 flopped and while Win10 is doing better, it isn't doing as well as you might expect given it's basically free.
Win10 is actually doing better than I would have expected, given that 8 will be the last release running on anything I own owing to the telemetry issues and the MS's near-total disregard for the needs/desires of their user base they've displayed subsequent to Win7. It's like Microsoft is doing everything they can to make Win10 unappealing for as many people as possible. Either they're completely out of touch with what people have said they want, or they just don't care.
AAA (I have a "plus" membership which has extra goodies to make it worth while, esp, the 100 miles free towing)
And then there's the Premier membership which includes one 200 mile tow along with up to three 100 mile tows per year. I don't know of any insurance-provided roadside assistance program that offers a comparable benefit. A single 200 mile tow would make up for several years' worth of membership fees.
They've really done a good job at pricing the locals out of the park over the last 15 years. Even the annual pass prices are out of control. It's probably because we didn't spend all our money on food and merch; we were just taking up space as far as they're concerned. Welcome to Disneyland, the pinnacle of American capitalism.
Similar situation at the Florida parks. I used to go to Epcot a couple of times each week to have dinner, but with the tourist dining plans they've implemented over the last several years, it's damned near impossible to get a seating at the more popular restaurants unless you book it a couple of months out.
It varies. For Disney World, the shortest attraction is Goofy's Barnstormer in the Magic Kingdom at 1:03, and the longest is Ellen's Energy Adventure in Epcot, at 45:00.
"It's a Small World" clocks in at 10:30. I mention this last one to help fine-tune the dosage for whatever medication you need to remain unconscious.
Having gone there many years ago - and once was more than enough, Disney's pinnacle achievement was not the rides, the infrastructure or any of the things most people would attribute to them.
Its the fact that they have managed to get a lot of people to spend a lot of money to spend a lot of time waiting in line.
Having worked there, I found the REAL pinnacle achievement is running payroll for 60,000 employees each week and not screwing it up. EPCOT actually stands for "Every Paycheck Comes On Thursday".;-)
This is seasonal pricing, and as long as it's advertised in advance is very common in various industries.
It's not quite seasonal pricing. They're talking about raising prices for very specific times throughout the year, for instance having a higher price on Memorial Day weekend vs. pricing for the rest of that week. Conversely, they likely will be lowering prices for the week after Labor Day, as that's historically been Disney World's slowest week of the year.
When I worked for NCR, HR would go around with paycheck deduction forms to contribute to the United Way - in the name of NCR.
Disney does exactly the same thing with the United Way. It was usually the union shop stewards at Disney World that went around trying to guilt everyone into donating. I wouldn't even accept the forms. Sure, you get the stinkeye for it, but I really didn't care.
The company says they are already in the midst of the process of updating their servers to SHA-2, but this blunder now puts some of its users in danger of not having their payments go through.
I'm still not understanding why it's Mozilla's responsibility to fix an issue caused by WorldPay's irresponsibility. WorldPlay should have been ready for the new certs months ago, not still "in the midst of the process of updating their servers to SHA-2" two full months after they should have had that in production. Let WorldPay take the flak for the issue. If they can't even manage their certificate policy properly, they really have no business being a payment processor.
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But you will get no where near that kind of life on an all American TV or a computer monitor which will get far more use than any of the current AMOLED devices out there.
My pair of cheap-ass Sceptre 1680x1050 displays are on their eleventh year now. No problems with either of them and still on the original CCFL backlights, but I would like to get some higher-resolution ones at some point.
Interestingly, I'm dealing with that problem now. The place I'm renting has a bad slab leak, and rather than bust up the floor to fix it, the landlord decided it's going to be better to put new pipe in the walls, meaning that one bedroom, a closet, both bathrooms, and the kitchen are going to get the walls ripped up to put the new plumbing in. I'm *so* looking forward to the next few days, and then cleaning up all of the dust when everyone involved is done.
I'd almost rather deal with Javascript. Almost.
It is true that dependencies are unavoidable, but I have seen things reach the point where to build something, the build tools will have to hoover the Internet and download a bunch of gunk. What is it used for? You may know why your direct dependencies are present, but those dependencies may have other dependencies and it is all opaque as to why they are there.
Yeah, this is an exciting thing to deal with. At the last place I worked, the "architect" decided that the existing Java/.NET framework was crap (even though the code had worked just fine for years at production sites) and declared that we were moving it all to Node.js. Where it got fun was when the engineer in charge of builds saw his distributable package jump to almost 40,000 files, and the master build was unable to run every couple of weeks because of broken dependencies, which had to be isolated and dealt with each time. Meanwhile, problems that had continued to plague the system because of the 20-year old "roll-your-own" DBMS that didn't even support concurrency went unaddressed because they just weren't as much fun for him to work on.
The "enforced lunch" is something that annoys me to no end. I'd much rather get in early, do my time, and get out early. Avoiding traffic is a major plus, and the reduced travel time as a result means more free time at the end of the day. On top of that, if I'm in an hour earlier, I get a lot more done because no one is bugging me. I'd also rather work 4 10-hour days and save one day's drive to/from work.
That "bitter, twisted shell of a human being" seems pretty happy to me, judging from his post.
You don't need a pack of alpha sleigh dogs. That only ensures that you have everyone pulling into a different direction and everyone's wasting everyone else's energy.
Yeah, it's always fun when you have a handful of "rock stars" that are convinced that their way is the only way and that everyone else is an idiot, failing to note that no two of them can agree on the "right" way to do something.
No he is not more valuable to his employer. He and his friends put a lot of effort into non-work hobbies. That is not nearly the same as putting a lot of effort into work projects. Note how none of his mentioned proofs of passion do something for employer.
Really? I can't count the number of times something that I've done at home has made things easier (meaning it takes less time, in turn meaning it costs my employer less) or even possible at work. Having a broad range of technical interests off the clock means that there are a lot of assignments where I can hit the ground running instead of spending time on training or otherwise becoming familiar with something new to the workplace.
it does not matter because court cases cannot be brought using information gathered without warrant
Yes they can.
Those TSA-approved locks were already useless against someone with a $40 set of linesman's pliers, but your point still stands.
You realise that its extremely hard to just let a worker go in the UK, right? We dont have the equivalent of Californias "right to work" rules here.
You're confusing "right-to-work" with "at-will employment". Right-to-work means that union membership can't be a condition of employment. At-will employment means either you or your employer can terminate the relationship unless there's a contract specifiying otherwise.
He always messes up some mundane detail.
1) Ship en-route to Alpha Centauri-- They entangle their transmitter and receptor beams at the launch, stay in realtime contact the entire flight. Flight takes many decades, but they stay in contact with earth in realtime. (as long as the beams never lose power, and thus stop being entangled.)
My knowledge of physics is admittedly not as good as I'd like, but would this be subject to any relativistic effects? We don't have anything that can go a substantial fraction of the speed of light, but it seems it still might be a factor given that we have to account for these effects with the GPS satellites.
If you read the article he mentions being capable of being marginally more offensive than he could be in an F-16.
I can be more offensive than almost anything, and I don't even need an airplane.
I had a bit of a row with management a couple of years back over this. They wanted me to install Outlook on my personal phone, and I refused because of the remote management capabilities. I don't care who you are, it's not your phone and I'm not going to give you the ability to remote wipe it, monitor me, have access to passwords, etc. If it's important enough that I need to be able to be contacted via cell phone, then give me a company phone expressly for that purpose and don't be surprised if it gets left at home when I go out.
Win8 flopped and while Win10 is doing better, it isn't doing as well as you might expect given it's basically free.
Win10 is actually doing better than I would have expected, given that 8 will be the last release running on anything I own owing to the telemetry issues and the MS's near-total disregard for the needs/desires of their user base they've displayed subsequent to Win7. It's like Microsoft is doing everything they can to make Win10 unappealing for as many people as possible. Either they're completely out of touch with what people have said they want, or they just don't care.
AAA (I have a "plus" membership which has extra goodies to make it worth while, esp, the 100 miles free towing)
And then there's the Premier membership which includes one 200 mile tow along with up to three 100 mile tows per year. I don't know of any insurance-provided roadside assistance program that offers a comparable benefit. A single 200 mile tow would make up for several years' worth of membership fees.
They've really done a good job at pricing the locals out of the park over the last 15 years. Even the annual pass prices are out of control. It's probably because we didn't spend all our money on food and merch; we were just taking up space as far as they're concerned. Welcome to Disneyland, the pinnacle of American capitalism.
Similar situation at the Florida parks. I used to go to Epcot a couple of times each week to have dinner, but with the tourist dining plans they've implemented over the last several years, it's damned near impossible to get a seating at the more popular restaurants unless you book it a couple of months out.
It varies. For Disney World, the shortest attraction is Goofy's Barnstormer in the Magic Kingdom at 1:03, and the longest is Ellen's Energy Adventure in Epcot, at 45:00.
"It's a Small World" clocks in at 10:30. I mention this last one to help fine-tune the dosage for whatever medication you need to remain unconscious.
Having gone there many years ago - and once was more than enough, Disney's pinnacle achievement was not the rides, the infrastructure or any of the things most people would attribute to them. Its the fact that they have managed to get a lot of people to spend a lot of money to spend a lot of time waiting in line.
;-)
Having worked there, I found the REAL pinnacle achievement is running payroll for 60,000 employees each week and not screwing it up. EPCOT actually stands for "Every Paycheck Comes On Thursday".
This is seasonal pricing, and as long as it's advertised in advance is very common in various industries.
It's not quite seasonal pricing. They're talking about raising prices for very specific times throughout the year, for instance having a higher price on Memorial Day weekend vs. pricing for the rest of that week. Conversely, they likely will be lowering prices for the week after Labor Day, as that's historically been Disney World's slowest week of the year.
When I worked for NCR, HR would go around with paycheck deduction forms to contribute to the United Way - in the name of NCR.
Disney does exactly the same thing with the United Way. It was usually the union shop stewards at Disney World that went around trying to guilt everyone into donating. I wouldn't even accept the forms. Sure, you get the stinkeye for it, but I really didn't care.
On the flip side, it sounds like it'd make a great coating for window blinds or drapes.
The company says they are already in the midst of the process of updating their servers to SHA-2, but this blunder now puts some of its users in danger of not having their payments go through.
I'm still not understanding why it's Mozilla's responsibility to fix an issue caused by WorldPay's irresponsibility. WorldPlay should have been ready for the new certs months ago, not still "in the midst of the process of updating their servers to SHA-2" two full months after they should have had that in production. Let WorldPay take the flak for the issue. If they can't even manage their certificate policy properly, they really have no business being a payment processor.
I will personally bet you $100 on that.
Coming from an AC, that means a lot.
The position and opportunity IS the incentive. $174K is peanuts to those guys, and they spend FAR more than that campaigning.