I consider myself a communication veteran rock-star. At my first job I was responsible for the network well being and also the senior (read only) graphical artist of the agency. Every year I learned something new, got more responsibilities, to the point yo ucan now call me event designer, or video director/editor/producer (listed in order of real world importance), I also can program a CMS in C++ if required... when the company closed due to boss retirement and no succession, I can now barely stay a year in one place, the repetitiveness and boring nature of any job I got depress me deeply (medicaly). Especially in family businesses where your last name is WAY more important than actual skills to get promoted, the bosses kids are usually afraid from me stealing their supposed rightful place in the company...
If you read "Game design and architecture" the second half of the book talks about managing creative developers. It is SO insightful, a must read to help you manage a team. The Cowboy developer is very often a Joker, someone proficient in what he/she does, but filled with surprises (weird code, weird behaviour, difficult to integrate in the team). Weak point, but definitely worth a read.
Speaking for myself (self learned not professionnal, but enough to create a simple AI ambiguity resolver) I love to do a easy to read implementation of my functions first, comment it and have the optimised version live. Revisiting my code without doing it is freakin tedious and time consuming.
This is why we, the Rest Of the World (ROW) should try to emulate what works best instead of shoving our heads in sands shouting WE ARE THE BEST. No one have absolute truth but some people do some things better and it deserve more recognition.
In my experience, hiring temps are very bad economics. I was in major corporate event planning, mainly shareholders meetings. Hiring temps was a two year exercise, first year we hired a guy to help us about 1 month before our big season and it was a burden cause of lack of experience, basically we paid him to do serious training and once he knew enough we lost him quickly. Next year we tried hiring our "temp" 6 months before our big surge of work, but still not enough time for him to become proficient... again we paid his training and he left. At the end of the day, it was simpler, and better economics, to skip the temp and simply work ous ass 100 hours a week couple of months a year.
Different industries may have different results, thsi post represents my experience and opinions and do not represent the data extracted form a serious, rigorous and scientific study. (nit-picky whiners please abstain) Also, engrish is my second language.;-)
I guess the people are starting to wake up to the fact their (USA) system is failing big time. It sails on it's own momentum at the moment, and this will get out of fuel eventually. The saaddest thing is, most americans are brainwashed in thinking if they dont vote for on of the rich people's party (D and R) they lose their vote... strategic voting is bullocks, vote with your hearth, not with the telly! And good luck to you all, I love the US and it's people and hate to see them in this downward spiral. And regarding the debt of USA, it is hugely astronomical (federal+states+municipal) and future (long term) capacity to repay it is shaky at best as it is. So much that it is belived congress actually prepared for a potential coming civil war...
For having a couple of rough patch in my life, I can tell you living on assistance is no fun at all. Sometime you cannot even afford transportation to go to an interview, that makes you feel worthless and it is a real downward spiral... Have you ever spent weeks eating rice cause you cant afford anything else? Try yo conduct a good interview in that circumstance... not an easy task. Working under the table to put some money aside becomes the only mean to escape the system and eveybody that got off it that I know did it that way (including myself). The cheaters are like the nude dancers (drug dealers, etc) making couple THOUSANDS a week earning black money that are on welfare to justify not paying taxes... a couple bad apples do not mean we should stop helping the ones who really needs it as bad apples are the exception, not the norm.
You also dont factor in the pleasure one can have teaching others to fish and see them become more and more independant. This usually happens best on a personal level, thus the social network (NOT social medias) is crucial in society's progress.
The most fulfilling year of my entire life is when I gave my time and some money to help establish a small music studio that offers affordable demos recording and rehearsing space. Part of the initiative was teaching street kids how music is made, haw they can produce their own concerts (small scale) to motivate them to do something else than drugs... and it worked! For me it was a financial disaster, for the homeless to have dreams again and little support to get off the street and do something with their lives is priceless. Individualism do to promote this behavior, but that is how humanity's culture and education evolved and got where it is today.
If people had the mean to actually raise their children instead of going to work at any cost and leaving them with strangers all day, our world would be much more less fucked up... more contact with nature would help too.
That being said, my next laptop may be a MacBookPro Retina... running my favorite linux distro. The hardware is well designed but software side, I hate the speed at which Walled Gardens are getting shoved down our throats.
The point here is freedom of choice. Some prefer Ubuntu, some prefer Macs, some dont have a clue and use whatever is on the machine. The young engineers may one day choose differently, but now our youth is attarcted to bling, a real blasphemy to the whole performance per watt. Many people are superficial anyway and mostly want peer recognition and blending in, if owning a bligny apple product help them with their self-esteem, good for them. I have evolve beyond that need and prefer something I can run in anyway I see fit.
Try Xubuntu, one thing Linux is good at is providing enough flexibility for you to escape those dumbed down distro. Failure to recognize this will get your nerd licence revoked!
Running on Linux fulltime for 3 years and counting... I find it funny how in so many people's measure the non-commercial linux offering with commercial metrics. Linux fills my niche pretty well, employees at Google would agree with me too. The desktop is a viable alternative, I say it suceeded where it counts, to computer literate people like me and many many other slashdotters.
I've yet to see anyone spout this who really understood what they were talking about, rather than just parroting something they'd heard or read somewhere.
Stephen Hawkin explains it very well in the series "Into the Universe"... Sounds like a credible source to me, and it's just wonderful to watch.
OpenSource economics are different from commercial ones. The end goal is offering something unique that will appeal to a set of users. The fact that you can install a DE from many providers means people who prefer traditional desktops can turn to LXDE/XFCE, if you want eye-candy and "paradigm" buzzwords, you can use KDE/GNOME, you prefer a tiling desktop, install AwesomeWM, etc...
My point is, the end goal is to fill the niche, GNOME3 try to fill them all and failed to find it's sweet spot...
If the orbit is low enough, radion protection is not much of an issue... This also indicates the orbit will decay quite fast. This is the first ephemeral art installation in orbit. But that dont make it less stupid. 100K can feed many hungry homeless... that says a lot about our priorities and values.
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"Don't do today what you can leave for torromow; it's possible that you don't have to do it after all"
Dilbert, is that you?
I consider myself a communication veteran rock-star. At my first job I was responsible for the network well being and also the senior (read only) graphical artist of the agency. Every year I learned something new, got more responsibilities, to the point yo ucan now call me event designer, or video director/editor/producer (listed in order of real world importance), I also can program a CMS in C++ if required... when the company closed due to boss retirement and no succession, I can now barely stay a year in one place, the repetitiveness and boring nature of any job I got depress me deeply (medicaly). Especially in family businesses where your last name is WAY more important than actual skills to get promoted, the bosses kids are usually afraid from me stealing their supposed rightful place in the company...
If you read "Game design and architecture" the second half of the book talks about managing creative developers. It is SO insightful, a must read to help you manage a team. The Cowboy developer is very often a Joker, someone proficient in what he/she does, but filled with surprises (weird code, weird behaviour, difficult to integrate in the team). Weak point, but definitely worth a read.
Speaking for myself (self learned not professionnal, but enough to create a simple AI ambiguity resolver) I love to do a easy to read implementation of my functions first, comment it and have the optimised version live. Revisiting my code without doing it is freakin tedious and time consuming.
+5 insightful. Well said fellow canadian! (I am from quebec, but im canadian first and would not separate anytime soon)
This is why we, the Rest Of the World (ROW) should try to emulate what works best instead of shoving our heads in sands shouting WE ARE THE BEST. No one have absolute truth but some people do some things better and it deserve more recognition.
In my experience, hiring temps are very bad economics. I was in major corporate event planning, mainly shareholders meetings. Hiring temps was a two year exercise, first year we hired a guy to help us about 1 month before our big season and it was a burden cause of lack of experience, basically we paid him to do serious training and once he knew enough we lost him quickly. Next year we tried hiring our "temp" 6 months before our big surge of work, but still not enough time for him to become proficient... again we paid his training and he left. At the end of the day, it was simpler, and better economics, to skip the temp and simply work ous ass 100 hours a week couple of months a year.
Different industries may have different results, thsi post represents my experience and opinions and do not represent the data extracted form a serious, rigorous and scientific study. (nit-picky whiners please abstain) Also, engrish is my second language. ;-)
Same thing in Quebec... I assume it is similar in the rest of Canada.
I guess the people are starting to wake up to the fact their (USA) system is failing big time. It sails on it's own momentum at the moment, and this will get out of fuel eventually. The saaddest thing is, most americans are brainwashed in thinking if they dont vote for on of the rich people's party (D and R) they lose their vote... strategic voting is bullocks, vote with your hearth, not with the telly! And good luck to you all, I love the US and it's people and hate to see them in this downward spiral. And regarding the debt of USA, it is hugely astronomical (federal+states+municipal) and future (long term) capacity to repay it is shaky at best as it is. So much that it is belived congress actually prepared for a potential coming civil war...
For having a couple of rough patch in my life, I can tell you living on assistance is no fun at all. Sometime you cannot even afford transportation to go to an interview, that makes you feel worthless and it is a real downward spiral... Have you ever spent weeks eating rice cause you cant afford anything else? Try yo conduct a good interview in that circumstance... not an easy task. Working under the table to put some money aside becomes the only mean to escape the system and eveybody that got off it that I know did it that way (including myself). The cheaters are like the nude dancers (drug dealers, etc) making couple THOUSANDS a week earning black money that are on welfare to justify not paying taxes... a couple bad apples do not mean we should stop helping the ones who really needs it as bad apples are the exception, not the norm.
You also dont factor in the pleasure one can have teaching others to fish and see them become more and more independant. This usually happens best on a personal level, thus the social network (NOT social medias) is crucial in society's progress.
The most fulfilling year of my entire life is when I gave my time and some money to help establish a small music studio that offers affordable demos recording and rehearsing space. Part of the initiative was teaching street kids how music is made, haw they can produce their own concerts (small scale) to motivate them to do something else than drugs... and it worked! For me it was a financial disaster, for the homeless to have dreams again and little support to get off the street and do something with their lives is priceless. Individualism do to promote this behavior, but that is how humanity's culture and education evolved and got where it is today.
If people had the mean to actually raise their children instead of going to work at any cost and leaving them with strangers all day, our world would be much more less fucked up... more contact with nature would help too.
unmodding an error...
That being said, my next laptop may be a MacBookPro Retina... running my favorite linux distro. The hardware is well designed but software side, I hate the speed at which Walled Gardens are getting shoved down our throats.
The point here is freedom of choice. Some prefer Ubuntu, some prefer Macs, some dont have a clue and use whatever is on the machine. The young engineers may one day choose differently, but now our youth is attarcted to bling, a real blasphemy to the whole performance per watt. Many people are superficial anyway and mostly want peer recognition and blending in, if owning a bligny apple product help them with their self-esteem, good for them. I have evolve beyond that need and prefer something I can run in anyway I see fit.
Try Xubuntu, one thing Linux is good at is providing enough flexibility for you to escape those dumbed down distro. Failure to recognize this will get your nerd licence revoked!
^ This
Running on Linux fulltime for 3 years and counting... I find it funny how in so many people's measure the non-commercial linux offering with commercial metrics. Linux fills my niche pretty well, employees at Google would agree with me too. The desktop is a viable alternative, I say it suceeded where it counts, to computer literate people like me and many many other slashdotters.
Market domination is not the only way to succeed.
I've yet to see anyone spout this who really understood what they were talking about, rather than just parroting something they'd heard or read somewhere.
Stephen Hawkin explains it very well in the series "Into the Universe"... Sounds like a credible source to me, and it's just wonderful to watch.
Superb link, post of the month!
deamons are not demons. If you are to be pedantic about something, try to be right or it loses all of its value.
Try XFCE4... you will be surprised.
OpenSource economics are different from commercial ones. The end goal is offering something unique that will appeal to a set of users. The fact that you can install a DE from many providers means people who prefer traditional desktops can turn to LXDE/XFCE, if you want eye-candy and "paradigm" buzzwords, you can use KDE/GNOME, you prefer a tiling desktop, install AwesomeWM, etc...
My point is, the end goal is to fill the niche, GNOME3 try to fill them all and failed to find it's sweet spot...
In Democratic Ecuador the government saves you???
Thank for pointing out, non native engrish speaker here ;-)
If the orbit is low enough, radion protection is not much of an issue... This also indicates the orbit will decay quite fast. This is the first ephemeral art installation in orbit. But that dont make it less stupid. 100K can feed many hungry homeless... that says a lot about our priorities and values.