Also that site releases a list of kiddy porn sites, which might cause the blacklisting, to right or wrong, there's links to kiddy porn (full blacklist released).
Furthermore, Finnish goverment has quite a track record on refusing all kinds of EU laws & orders etc. Well, at least mostly pertaining to heavy taxation with high refusal to let go of absurdly high taxes.
They still do have to peer with someone for rest of the internet access. Fiber in itself has absolutely no use and value, unless you connect it to hundreds of millions to other devices.
the review cpus "just happened" to work better than off-the-shelf cpus in the past too. This happened with last gen 40nm extreme cpus, or actually all quad 40nm. All review sites gave glorifying reviews running with nForce chipset and SLI, or tri-sli. We had 3 to test, 2 extremes, 1 regular (2nd fastest regular), none of them worked well with any nForce chipset if at all, and and SLI was pretty much no go without underclocking. 3 different motherboards, 3 different models were tried aswell.
CPUs were Q9550 and the relevant same series both extreme CPUs. This is widely known problem, admitted my mobo manufacturers to a degree, but never been to news.
Honest mistake just like the WIFI data collection ordeal? yeah sure... There's no mistakes like that happening with Google, only closing data collection after public outrage and blaming it as a mistake
(This brings feasible maximum to around 34Tb RAID-5, with still 1Gbit/s connectivity per hard drive. If ~330Mbps is enough you can go for 104Tb, RAID6)
Serves Sony completely right to get sued over and over again, and angry military forces is going to be nice!
Companies doing the shit like Sony just did deserves this happening, all too rarely anyone does anything about it, as a single unit is so worthless but it's about damn time at least one company is ending up paying for this kind of bullshit.
That wasn't actually good in terms of human capability.
Infact that was quite easy. Show me when there's only maximum of 10cm (pro race driver everyday accuracy limit for high speed) of space, ACTUAL sliding(drifting) and regular RWD car, going forwards at atleast 40km/h (slow speed).
That isn't even impressive for a robot, as that can be mostly static programming, no AI required. Yes, that stunt actually is that simple.
When it starts to be impressive is done on slippery surface, where conditions change rapidly on the current surface. That needs some sensory skills, adaptation, estimation etc. But on dry tarmac, reversing a FWD is simply higher speed precision(somewhat) driving.
But honestly, looking at the average joe behind the steering wheel: That is bloody hell impressive.... For an average joe with absolutely no car control skills.
FYI, i speak from experience. I do things like that regularly. Comes with the territory of being a drifter. FYI, harder things than that are required here in Finland just to get your driver's license at all.
The default search there is now is easy to scrape, very easy infact despite the attempts to obfuscate the page.
There is this basicly:
div id: ires -- contains the results li id: imagebox class g --- image results li class g -- normal result
within li class: g there is: h3 class r - subject/title, and div class s -- result meta.
It's very easy to scrape. Infact anyone who has done a serious scraper with proper methods in the past, could probably scrape the results with just 30-60minutes of work properly, and from that doing the proxying page is easy.
Infact, the new Google interface sucks so bad i might do one myself, just to have a simpler interface, for myself.
The Google AJAX API is far from API to get the search results, quite contrary: It's pretty much just embedding in a even less scrapeable manner.
Working 60hour weeks for 40hour salary? You got to be insane. That only helps create environment for abuse of the greatest asset a software company has. In my experience how much you work means shit, infact if you work longer hours you will have LESS respect from management, even if you are not a push over and get paid +50% extra hourly salary for those hours.
IT employees are probably the most abused, neglected bunch of employees in the world just because of that kind of an attitude. Good coders are actually highly creative, yet engineer like while sometimes code is just as much art as engineering, if not even more about art than engineering to create that very simplified, easy to maintain system. Simple code pretty much is an art, to see the connections and make it so simple. To be creative you need good environment, but promoting abusive behavior like working 50% more for the same salary is going to just make things worse, it's like saying "It's ok to whip my back bloody to get more productivity out of me, and ruin my personal life".
I feel for you. I suffer from tiredness related vertigo and BPPV by self diagnosis. and when it hits it's really annoying, and can last upto days. Sometimes going to certain positions seems to cure it however for months, and first time it started from a bad position: I was leaning forwards all the way from my chair to floor to fiddle with computer innards and a bad dizziness struck. It lasted for weeks, until i was again leaning forwards adjusting carburators on my car for idle speed. But always tiredness had a change to it even then, more tired, the worse it got. When driving a car back then it eased a lot.
Ever since the first time however, it seems to be about how tired i am. Go and figure? Doctors wouldn't diagnose it further, only told me to exercise and stretch my neck area, rest more and take it easy. I had high blood pressure at the time of first incident as well.
It still today starts always when i'm too tired (couple weeks with 6hrs or less sleep, or sleeping during the wrong hours might trigger it aswell), but the first time it seemed positional. Who knows. Once i was welding and a big ball of red hot sludge flew into my left ear, deep in there. So maybe that has caused me to have vertigo occasionally? Then again, when i goto the track and if i'm having vertigo, the first couple laps are really hard with vertigo when the g forces hit, but then it eases and i'm able to concentrate at ease even during high G-force cornering. So that sounds like positional.
Maybe i should visit doctor again and demand them to diagnose? (Good luck with that, Finnish public healthcare being what it is)
Ever heard of OPEC? It's a legalized cartel controlling the prices.... more likely to oil company favor than anyone elses.
Time to do some reading up: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/OPEC "According to its statutes, one of the principal goals is the determination of the best means for safeguarding the cartel's interests, individually and collectively. It also pursues ways and means of ensuring the stabilization of prices in international oil markets with a view to eliminating harmful and unnecessary fluctuations; giving due regard at all times to the interests of the producing nations and to the necessity of securing a steady income to the producing countries; an efficient and regular supply of petroleum to consuming nations, and a fair return on their capital to those investing in the petroleum industry.[4]"
Easy. The oil companies have been running a global cartel for ages. You know, the thing which is illegal for any smaller companies? It's called OPEC. Even on Wikipedia it's clearly written it's a cartel: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/OPEC
They control the supply, so in other words, they control the price. Controlling the supply makes indirect adjustment for prices, but actually they also pretty much decide directly on the price. The few companies outside of OPEC are way too small to in anyway change OPECs decision. They simply lack the supply, and it's common sense for them to raise the prices as well, just keep undercutting slightly for better profit margins, more profit on their very slim supply.
They don't even try to hide this, they are upfront and public about it. "According to its statutes, one of the principal goals is the determination of the best means for safeguarding the cartel's interests, individually and collectively. It also pursues ways and means of ensuring the stabilization of prices in international oil markets with a view to eliminating harmful and unnecessary fluctuations; giving due regard at all times to the interests of the producing nations and to the necessity of securing a steady income to the producing countries; an efficient and regular supply of petroleum to consuming nations, and a fair return on their capital to those investing in the petroleum industry.[4]"
Their Meta keywords even says: "Global organization dedicated to stability in and shared control of the petroleum markets."
And don't even try to say politicians can't be bought....
This oil spill i would say raises probably 25% or more the gas prices due to "significant loss on world oil supplies, and increased environmental costs". And yes, it's going to be mostly used as an excuse to raise prices.
Oh and i do live in a country where gas right now costs over 1.4e per liter, and per capita one of the worst modern countries of purchase power (money left) after necessary costs, infact probably the worst: Finland. if gas prices hike 40% i know i'm going to take so significant blow on my budget i have to restrict driving in everything i do, spending right now up to 450e a month already in gas... Due to work, etc. i might end up driving over 3 500km in a single month. All paid from after tax income...
Also them on starting each other is a assumption their social structure resembles ours. What if they are hive mind? Or maybe immensively pro-whatever_race_they_are, ie. doing anything to advance their race and civilization, but are completely ruthless when it comes to other species?
Or maybe, they think killing on another is loving one another, allowing them to progress to the next life. How they reproduce then? Maybe they don't have sexes and lay eggs or something.
They might be immensively hostile race as well, kill each other and mass murderer is highly respected status in their species, but they reproduce so fast it doesn't really matter how much they kill each other.
They might just aswell be loners, and hate all unnecessary contact with other sentient beings, and just be so damn brilliant that they are still so advanced that basicly every family line has invented their own technologies?
Also, what if they are so gigantic, that actually planets are cells in their bodies, and we are atoms, relatively?
thinking of that, they could be planet sized bodies themselves, who perceive time in a scale that their second is a year to us.
That setup and i would quit promptly. I demand some privacy.
At my last work place we had corner tables and facing each other or next to each other, a little bit privacy was there but behind me the wall had large windows. Boss sometimes stayed there looking what i'm doing and the room corner tables were desired for privacy. Every developer needs a little bit of time now and then to look here on./ etc. to recharge creativity so to speak.
I hated that i didn't have privacy, and was one of the reasons i ultimately quit. Albeit, i was so damn busy that it was very lucky day if i had time to scan through./ headers anyways, or have normal working hours and not working late. I also preferred to work late so i can concentrate best, because 4 guys on the room, and one of them was talking a lot, when a second guy like that came, working might stop for 30mins at a time couple times day. Couldn't concentrate those times.
Table arrangement is a tough thing, you got to have privacy yet allow collaboration, especially important is that weak coders can collaborate.
and that they did here in Finland... I guess they weren't getting to fine enough people. Infact, the fines given are significant for the goverment. The aim of dropping the speed limits by 10km/h was to double revenue from fines, to approximately 15euros per capita. The increase in fine quotas to be met by police on speeding was quietly put in place couple months before generally dropping speed limits, and dropping the police judgement on what is speeding and what is not, to a static 6km/h overspeed == fine, and directly to the highest bracket.
Before it was 20km/h speeding before you were likely to get fined, or just 5km/h on low speed limits. Now it's always 6km/h, no exceptions, ever. Oh, traffic minister doesn't even have driver's license and she thinks taxi is the same as public transportation....
As a car enthusiast & hobbyist, it sucks to live here in Finland due to laws and decisions like this.
And considering how racist we humans are, meeting the aliens will def not be very peacefull, atleast at first, followed by decades of hatred. So it might be that we are better off not meeting aliens anytime soon.
Or maybe we meet aliens, but the distance is so vast, and neither of our technologies are capable for actually getting into same physical place, and we may only communicate with vast latency.
or maybe they are so much more technologically advanced, that despite them being very friendly our hatred pushes them away.
Who knows, possibilities are endless, but very few of them seem to be positive.
That is indeed fair system. Keep it honest, and going. Don't ever forget to really reward for getting most done, and if someone fails remember to check the specs, if it was feasible or was the problem elsewhere.
I've been with an employer who constantly gave me more work. He gave me about 6-7months total working time to complete 13month project, which was in the first place under budgeted, under manned effort. He told me i can use couple guys as much as i need, but told them to refuse almost anything but the absolutely most crucial, by keeping their workload and priority list so that i wouldn't get any help. Needless to say that project was late at the time of my departure, but still within 13month hour budget, and 95% complete.
During this time i was given a complete company to look over which was acquired, i was made the manager of network operations. My job also consisted of whole new areas, i also did some sales and customer support. I saved multiple client relationships by pulling aces out of my sleeve by stepping into the project. During the short timespan i was in the company, on paper i was least experienced, least educated, but when i left i had the 2nd biggest responsiblity in the company, directly after the owner & founder of the company. I was involved literally in everything. I worked way too long hours too, at constant sprint speed. It was a reaally lucky day if i got a 10minute break to read slashdot.
I told my responsibilities and workload does not match anywhere near my compensation. I was being paid 30% under average, basic junior web developer's salary. I was laughed at and basicly told to f* off. This despite being just offered partnership, which was used as an excuse for keeping my salary same. Partnership you ask? Yeah, he asked for money. I would have had to buy shares, without knowing if there will be dividends. I was given absolutely no details. I was also invited to the board. Best of all? My salary was so low that i couldn't afford to buy shares. I was living from hand to mouth. Every person in the world needs hobbies etc. to stay sane, so my only choices was to end all my hobbies to afford even proper clothing required for my level. I had only 300e monthly budget for extra expenses. The lowest i've had ever, even unemployed i had more.
Don't become that slaver. There was plenty more wrong in that place, such as working time was accounted at 15minute accuracy, and you were supposed to put almost every single minute of your working time to some client.
writing down notes, sketching etc. is def part of programming. It's stupid how few people realize that paper is still way superior tool for visualizing and solving complex problems quickly.
In my last place of work both project manager of software projects and the boss both suck in that kind of stuff. I was never told what i needed to know, i was invited to meetings when it was next to useless for me, but not invited when it was actually necessary. Thank god that atleast i were the boss of network operations so i made the decisions on that 1/4 of my job:)
Tho i left as 50+hr constant sprint was considered that i had to cheat somewhere, and under 50hr was considered i was slacking off along with the fact that i were by far most talented in that company being paid 30% under industry average. Yet being senior management, and offered partnership. Tho that partnership sounded like a trap, asked money for shares without telling if there's ever going to be dividends.
That means you are probably becoming better coder, not faster, but better quality of produced code.
You should try to get the speed up as well, just for the fun. Try to figure out structures and design paradigms for a specific job in the shortest amount of time, just jumping into it, and basing choices on few simple rulesets. Works really well for me.
Of course such jumping in is not for whole systems, but portions of systems (ie. max 2 days of work).
Code quality also directly translates into speed of maintenance. Maintainability will increase, bugs will be less and easier to debug.
Slashdot Mirror
Also that site releases a list of kiddy porn sites, which might cause the blacklisting, to right or wrong, there's links to kiddy porn (full blacklist released).
Furthermore, Finnish goverment has quite a track record on refusing all kinds of EU laws & orders etc. Well, at least mostly pertaining to heavy taxation with high refusal to let go of absurdly high taxes.
They still do have to peer with someone for rest of the internet access. Fiber in itself has absolutely no use and value, unless you connect it to hundreds of millions to other devices.
the review cpus "just happened" to work better than off-the-shelf cpus in the past too. This happened with last gen 40nm extreme cpus, or actually all quad 40nm. All review sites gave glorifying reviews running with nForce chipset and SLI, or tri-sli. We had 3 to test, 2 extremes, 1 regular (2nd fastest regular), none of them worked well with any nForce chipset if at all, and and SLI was pretty much no go without underclocking. 3 different motherboards, 3 different models were tried aswell.
CPUs were Q9550 and the relevant same series both extreme CPUs. This is widely known problem, admitted my mobo manufacturers to a degree, but never been to news.
Honest mistake just like the WIFI data collection ordeal? yeah sure ...
There's no mistakes like that happening with Google, only closing data collection after public outrage and blaming it as a mistake
and thus this is in no way surprising
Charging the batteries in a hybrid is no where near 95% efficient.
Maybe he was talking about brushed motors, they are very inefficient.
Too easy, problem solved. Next one?
(This brings feasible maximum to around 34Tb RAID-5, with still 1Gbit/s connectivity per hard drive. If ~330Mbps is enough you can go for 104Tb, RAID6)
To me they refunded due to CC handler issues without me having to request or anything, they simply did that a month later or so.
Serves Sony completely right to get sued over and over again, and angry military forces is going to be nice!
Companies doing the shit like Sony just did deserves this happening, all too rarely anyone does anything about it, as a single unit is so worthless but it's about damn time at least one company is ending up paying for this kind of bullshit.
That wasn't actually good in terms of human capability.
Infact that was quite easy. Show me when there's only maximum of 10cm (pro race driver everyday accuracy limit for high speed) of space, ACTUAL sliding(drifting) and regular RWD car, going forwards at atleast 40km/h (slow speed).
That isn't even impressive for a robot, as that can be mostly static programming, no AI required. Yes, that stunt actually is that simple.
When it starts to be impressive is done on slippery surface, where conditions change rapidly on the current surface. That needs some sensory skills, adaptation, estimation etc. But on dry tarmac, reversing a FWD is simply higher speed precision(somewhat) driving.
But honestly, looking at the average joe behind the steering wheel: That is bloody hell impressive .... For an average joe with absolutely no car control skills.
FYI, i speak from experience. I do things like that regularly. Comes with the territory of being a drifter.
FYI, harder things than that are required here in Finland just to get your driver's license at all.
The default search there is now is easy to scrape, very easy infact despite the attempts to obfuscate the page.
There is this basicly:
div id: ires -- contains the results
li id: imagebox class g --- image results
li class g -- normal result
within li class: g there is: h3 class r - subject/title, and div class s -- result meta.
It's very easy to scrape. Infact anyone who has done a serious scraper with proper methods in the past, could probably scrape the results with just 30-60minutes of work properly, and from that doing the proxying page is easy.
Infact, the new Google interface sucks so bad i might do one myself, just to have a simpler interface, for myself.
The Google AJAX API is far from API to get the search results, quite contrary: It's pretty much just embedding in a even less scrapeable manner.
Working 60hour weeks for 40hour salary? You got to be insane.
That only helps create environment for abuse of the greatest asset a software company has. In my experience how much you work means shit, infact if you work longer hours you will have LESS respect from management, even if you are not a push over and get paid +50% extra hourly salary for those hours.
IT employees are probably the most abused, neglected bunch of employees in the world just because of that kind of an attitude. Good coders are actually highly creative, yet engineer like while sometimes code is just as much art as engineering, if not even more about art than engineering to create that very simplified, easy to maintain system. Simple code pretty much is an art, to see the connections and make it so simple. To be creative you need good environment, but promoting abusive behavior like working 50% more for the same salary is going to just make things worse, it's like saying "It's ok to whip my back bloody to get more productivity out of me, and ruin my personal life".
I feel for you.
I suffer from tiredness related vertigo and BPPV by self diagnosis. and when it hits it's really annoying, and can last upto days. Sometimes going to certain positions seems to cure it however for months, and first time it started from a bad position: I was leaning forwards all the way from my chair to floor to fiddle with computer innards and a bad dizziness struck. It lasted for weeks, until i was again leaning forwards adjusting carburators on my car for idle speed. But always tiredness had a change to it even then, more tired, the worse it got. When driving a car back then it eased a lot.
Ever since the first time however, it seems to be about how tired i am. Go and figure? Doctors wouldn't diagnose it further, only told me to exercise and stretch my neck area, rest more and take it easy. I had high blood pressure at the time of first incident as well.
It still today starts always when i'm too tired (couple weeks with 6hrs or less sleep, or sleeping during the wrong hours might trigger it aswell), but the first time it seemed positional. Who knows. Once i was welding and a big ball of red hot sludge flew into my left ear, deep in there. So maybe that has caused me to have vertigo occasionally? Then again, when i goto the track and if i'm having vertigo, the first couple laps are really hard with vertigo when the g forces hit, but then it eases and i'm able to concentrate at ease even during high G-force cornering. So that sounds like positional.
Maybe i should visit doctor again and demand them to diagnose? (Good luck with that, Finnish public healthcare being what it is)
Ever heard of OPEC? It's a legalized cartel controlling the prices .... more likely to oil company favor than anyone elses.
Time to do some reading up: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/OPEC
"According to its statutes, one of the principal goals is the determination of the best means for safeguarding the cartel's interests, individually and collectively. It also pursues ways and means of ensuring the stabilization of prices in international oil markets with a view to eliminating harmful and unnecessary fluctuations; giving due regard at all times to the interests of the producing nations and to the necessity of securing a steady income to the producing countries; an efficient and regular supply of petroleum to consuming nations, and a fair return on their capital to those investing in the petroleum industry.[4]"
Fair return has always been maximal profit.
Easy. The oil companies have been running a global cartel for ages. You know, the thing which is illegal for any smaller companies? It's called OPEC.
Even on Wikipedia it's clearly written it's a cartel: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/OPEC
They control the supply, so in other words, they control the price. Controlling the supply makes indirect adjustment for prices, but actually they also pretty much decide directly on the price. The few companies outside of OPEC are way too small to in anyway change OPECs decision. They simply lack the supply, and it's common sense for them to raise the prices as well, just keep undercutting slightly for better profit margins, more profit on their very slim supply.
They don't even try to hide this, they are upfront and public about it.
"According to its statutes, one of the principal goals is the determination of the best means for safeguarding the cartel's interests, individually and collectively. It also pursues ways and means of ensuring the stabilization of prices in international oil markets with a view to eliminating harmful and unnecessary fluctuations; giving due regard at all times to the interests of the producing nations and to the necessity of securing a steady income to the producing countries; an efficient and regular supply of petroleum to consuming nations, and a fair return on their capital to those investing in the petroleum industry.[4]"
Their Meta keywords even says: "Global organization dedicated to stability in and shared control of the petroleum markets."
And don't even try to say politicians can't be bought ....
This oil spill i would say raises probably 25% or more the gas prices due to "significant loss on world oil supplies, and increased environmental costs". And yes, it's going to be mostly used as an excuse to raise prices.
Oh and i do live in a country where gas right now costs over 1.4e per liter, and per capita one of the worst modern countries of purchase power (money left) after necessary costs, infact probably the worst: Finland. if gas prices hike 40% i know i'm going to take so significant blow on my budget i have to restrict driving in everything i do, spending right now up to 450e a month already in gas... Due to work, etc. i might end up driving over 3 500km in a single month. All paid from after tax income ...
Also them on starting each other is a assumption their social structure resembles ours. What if they are hive mind? Or maybe immensively pro-whatever_race_they_are, ie. doing anything to advance their race and civilization, but are completely ruthless when it comes to other species?
Or maybe, they think killing on another is loving one another, allowing them to progress to the next life. How they reproduce then? Maybe they don't have sexes and lay eggs or something.
They might be immensively hostile race as well, kill each other and mass murderer is highly respected status in their species, but they reproduce so fast it doesn't really matter how much they kill each other.
They might just aswell be loners, and hate all unnecessary contact with other sentient beings, and just be so damn brilliant that they are still so advanced that basicly every family line has invented their own technologies?
Also, what if they are so gigantic, that actually planets are cells in their bodies, and we are atoms, relatively?
thinking of that, they could be planet sized bodies themselves, who perceive time in a scale that their second is a year to us.
and think of a leviathan from farscape ...
That setup and i would quit promptly. I demand some privacy.
At my last work place we had corner tables and facing each other or next to each other, a little bit privacy was there but behind me the wall had large windows. Boss sometimes stayed there looking what i'm doing and the room corner tables were desired for privacy. Every developer needs a little bit of time now and then to look here on ./ etc. to recharge creativity so to speak.
I hated that i didn't have privacy, and was one of the reasons i ultimately quit. Albeit, i was so damn busy that it was very lucky day if i had time to scan through ./ headers anyways, or have normal working hours and not working late. I also preferred to work late so i can concentrate best, because 4 guys on the room, and one of them was talking a lot, when a second guy like that came, working might stop for 30mins at a time couple times day. Couldn't concentrate those times.
Table arrangement is a tough thing, you got to have privacy yet allow collaboration, especially important is that weak coders can collaborate.
and that they did here in Finland ... I guess they weren't getting to fine enough people. Infact, the fines given are significant for the goverment. The aim of dropping the speed limits by 10km/h was to double revenue from fines, to approximately 15euros per capita. The increase in fine quotas to be met by police on speeding was quietly put in place couple months before generally dropping speed limits, and dropping the police judgement on what is speeding and what is not, to a static 6km/h overspeed == fine, and directly to the highest bracket.
Before it was 20km/h speeding before you were likely to get fined, or just 5km/h on low speed limits. Now it's always 6km/h, no exceptions, ever. Oh, traffic minister doesn't even have driver's license and she thinks taxi is the same as public transportation....
As a car enthusiast & hobbyist, it sucks to live here in Finland due to laws and decisions like this.
Exactly, right to the point! ;P Nothing more fun to watch than exploding speed camera >;)
And considering how racist we humans are, meeting the aliens will def not be very peacefull, atleast at first, followed by decades of hatred. So it might be that we are better off not meeting aliens anytime soon.
Or maybe we meet aliens, but the distance is so vast, and neither of our technologies are capable for actually getting into same physical place, and we may only communicate with vast latency.
or maybe they are so much more technologically advanced, that despite them being very friendly our hatred pushes them away.
Who knows, possibilities are endless, but very few of them seem to be positive.
That is indeed fair system. Keep it honest, and going. Don't ever forget to really reward for getting most done, and if someone fails remember to check the specs, if it was feasible or was the problem elsewhere.
I've been with an employer who constantly gave me more work. He gave me about 6-7months total working time to complete 13month project, which was in the first place under budgeted, under manned effort. He told me i can use couple guys as much as i need, but told them to refuse almost anything but the absolutely most crucial, by keeping their workload and priority list so that i wouldn't get any help. Needless to say that project was late at the time of my departure, but still within 13month hour budget, and 95% complete.
During this time i was given a complete company to look over which was acquired, i was made the manager of network operations. My job also consisted of whole new areas, i also did some sales and customer support. I saved multiple client relationships by pulling aces out of my sleeve by stepping into the project. During the short timespan i was in the company, on paper i was least experienced, least educated, but when i left i had the 2nd biggest responsiblity in the company, directly after the owner & founder of the company. I was involved literally in everything. I worked way too long hours too, at constant sprint speed. It was a reaally lucky day if i got a 10minute break to read slashdot.
I told my responsibilities and workload does not match anywhere near my compensation. I was being paid 30% under average, basic junior web developer's salary. I was laughed at and basicly told to f* off. This despite being just offered partnership, which was used as an excuse for keeping my salary same. Partnership you ask? Yeah, he asked for money. I would have had to buy shares, without knowing if there will be dividends. I was given absolutely no details. I was also invited to the board. Best of all? My salary was so low that i couldn't afford to buy shares. I was living from hand to mouth. Every person in the world needs hobbies etc. to stay sane, so my only choices was to end all my hobbies to afford even proper clothing required for my level. I had only 300e monthly budget for extra expenses. The lowest i've had ever, even unemployed i had more.
Don't become that slaver. There was plenty more wrong in that place, such as working time was accounted at 15minute accuracy, and you were supposed to put almost every single minute of your working time to some client.
All slavers would rather have you burn out in a month, than have sustained high productivity. Been there, Seen it, done that. Burned out and quit.
writing down notes, sketching etc. is def part of programming. It's stupid how few people realize that paper is still way superior tool for visualizing and solving complex problems quickly.
Good for you :)
In my last place of work both project manager of software projects and the boss both suck in that kind of stuff. I was never told what i needed to know, i was invited to meetings when it was next to useless for me, but not invited when it was actually necessary. Thank god that atleast i were the boss of network operations so i made the decisions on that 1/4 of my job :)
Tho i left as 50+hr constant sprint was considered that i had to cheat somewhere, and under 50hr was considered i was slacking off along with the fact that i were by far most talented in that company being paid 30% under industry average. Yet being senior management, and offered partnership. Tho that partnership sounded like a trap, asked money for shares without telling if there's ever going to be dividends.
That means you are probably becoming better coder, not faster, but better quality of produced code.
You should try to get the speed up as well, just for the fun. Try to figure out structures and design paradigms for a specific job in the shortest amount of time, just jumping into it, and basing choices on few simple rulesets. Works really well for me.
Of course such jumping in is not for whole systems, but portions of systems (ie. max 2 days of work).
Code quality also directly translates into speed of maintenance. Maintainability will increase, bugs will be less and easier to debug.