Workers have the obligation to bring the effort in. No less no more. Entrepreneurs accept contracts with preestablished result. Workers can be asked to appear. Entrepreneurs can be asked to fulfill their contractual obligations. Programmers initially are workers and not entrepreneurs and so bug fixes cannot be demanded to be solved in their own time. If you happen o have a working contract stipulating that you should carry company risk without having clear benefits on success then you should have it scrutinized.
Best GUI used to be xterm. Nowadays Cygwin/Mintty with SSH does the trick. Fat clients are hardly justifiable. A few exceptions are Office suites (Web applications still haven't hacked that), IDEs and web browsers.
I sometimes cringe when I see a promising lad mucking about with copy/pasting stuff from GUIs to analyze something. Same analysis with *nix tools would take a fraction of the time and be more precise.accurate.
The USA produces cars for the man in his 40ties with average income. Wife, kids, dog, shopping and long stretches of road. Nothing exciting for the young ones. You don't aspire driving an SUV 'cause you'll look like your dad. Any affordable hybrid makes you look like your mom. Muscle cars made of cheap artificial materials.
But above all Steve McQueen and Paul Newman have been replaced with metrosexual characters that mostly convey the meaning of having a good hair dresser.
I don't want to disrespect grandmasters. Not even lesser chess players as I think their mental capabilities are impressive. But jobs consisting of repetitive actions are the ones we need to get rid of by all means. Shovelling coals requires physical strength and endurance. Playing chess requires a huge mental container to consider many moves ahead but no particular level of creativity. Creativity is the main property/virtue that creates added value. Acquiring creativity is much harder than than using sheer mental power in learning facts from books. It requires a peculiar combination of a laissez faire attitude (to brood over concepts) and determination in grasping concepts. Overdoing the "laissez faire" bit inevitably will backfire and hence creativity comes at a high risk which in its turn must inevitably translate into higher earnings and appreciation.
The question now is what we will do when everyone is out of a job. There's no clear answer but we can assume a few things. One is that society fares better when people are employed. The second is that values shift and that we pay more for property and services that are scarce or that are a nuisance. So how will employed society look like in 30 years? War and other instabilities hurt business and therefore new activities will appear in order to prevent these. So which ones will come? I don't know but I'm sure there will be. Perhaps working on a way to extract desert heat and to bring water to it in order to allow crops to grow and humans to live. To me such ideas seem easier to entertain than say smart phones 100 years ago.
A whole team is working. Yet no prototype has been produced. What's their main activity then? Pushing pencils? Having meetings to organise funding? It all sounds a bit strange.
Don't confuse "free choic"e with "responding well to carefully planned psychological campaigns". As long as even smart people maintain they exercise "free choice" mass communication specialists and the execs commissioning them continue to have champaign for breakfast.
I was at the event where the Gotthard tunnels -north and south- actually connected. The last bit of rock was drilled through and the drill head became visible. A worker opened a door in the head an a festive drink was shared through that door. Didn't the designers of Bertha have at least a celebration in mind? Hell you could also think of doors to analyze issues like the one they deal with currently.
Buddy you remind of myself and my son more than you can guess. Sure, the checklists... You really want to be a robot all your life? I myself am sometimes much too direct and many people react badly to that. I compensate by working hard and by trying to be a genuine caring person towards people around me. I never considered myself to have ADHD and I will pay attention. As I am highly creative I could not bare living a fake life of etiquette just to please people that most likely will reject me anyways. Instead I choose the attack strategy. I slowly start to genuinely appreciate people and to act accordingly. Perfection has not kicked in yet but I have good hopes.
Kids who now have ADHD used to be called a-bit-of-a-hand-full or vivacious or blustering or some other endearing term. Sure, there were times where you'd get annoyed by the pestering "brutes". But then they would show their unexpected lovable side and everything was fine once more. You"d deal with them and they would with you. Both became better in accepting different characters. Nowadays we define norms and anything outside of them will be therapeuted away. I say let kids be without protection that eventually will drop away from them. Let them learn how to deal with themselves and be there when they need you.
All of the huge financial organisations I have worked for pretty much ran their own Windows distro. Sure, standard Windows with a bucket load of special features. You'd be amazed at how much needs tweaking. An own Linux distro isn't' completely out of this world.
So your grandfather was basically messing with simpleton brains. He must have been a character and I for one would probably have appreciated his conversation.
I live in CH and getting a job is easily doable up to 55. Then it gets a harder but not impossible. Here in CH there's no real job protection and so you can get fired and hired more easily. The US should be even more radical. In countries where job protection is paramount, jobs clung on dearly and you're basically screwed once you hit 50.
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Are we on /. supposed to mourn or to celebrate the distruction of plastic cars that don't particularly corner well? I thought so.
Workers have the obligation to bring the effort in. No less no more. Entrepreneurs accept contracts with preestablished result. Workers can be asked to appear. Entrepreneurs can be asked to fulfill their contractual obligations. Programmers initially are workers and not entrepreneurs and so bug fixes cannot be demanded to be solved in their own time. If you happen o have a working contract stipulating that you should carry company risk without having clear benefits on success then you should have it scrutinized.
If I were a lawyer I'd provide you with legal advice. And charge you for it of course.
It accomplishes nothing except letting you "think" that you are doing something when you are powerless to do anything.
That bit of reality really made my day... Sigh...
Should I learn ballet? And gravely insult many cultured souls and minds? I rest my case.
Best GUI used to be xterm. Nowadays Cygwin/Mintty with SSH does the trick. Fat clients are hardly justifiable. A few exceptions are Office suites (Web applications still haven't hacked that), IDEs and web browsers.
I sometimes cringe when I see a promising lad mucking about with copy/pasting stuff from GUIs to analyze something. Same analysis with *nix tools would take a fraction of the time and be more precise.accurate.
What scent for sexy time? Fish? Cheese? Candles? Leather? Urine? Feces?
Just good food? Who gave your country democracy? The USA? Philosophy and art would be nowhere without the Mediterranean countries.
The USA produces cars for the man in his 40ties with average income. Wife, kids, dog, shopping and long stretches of road. Nothing exciting for the young ones. You don't aspire driving an SUV 'cause you'll look like your dad. Any affordable hybrid makes you look like your mom. Muscle cars made of cheap artificial materials. But above all Steve McQueen and Paul Newman have been replaced with metrosexual characters that mostly convey the meaning of having a good hair dresser.
I never understand why people pick a tribe and then pray for the destruction of their foes.
Easy. It's the smell if incense at the ceremonies that does it for me.
I don't want to disrespect grandmasters. Not even lesser chess players as I think their mental capabilities are impressive. But jobs consisting of repetitive actions are the ones we need to get rid of by all means. Shovelling coals requires physical strength and endurance. Playing chess requires a huge mental container to consider many moves ahead but no particular level of creativity. Creativity is the main property/virtue that creates added value. Acquiring creativity is much harder than than using sheer mental power in learning facts from books. It requires a peculiar combination of a laissez faire attitude (to brood over concepts) and determination in grasping concepts. Overdoing the "laissez faire" bit inevitably will backfire and hence creativity comes at a high risk which in its turn must inevitably translate into higher earnings and appreciation.
The question now is what we will do when everyone is out of a job. There's no clear answer but we can assume a few things. One is that society fares better when people are employed. The second is that values shift and that we pay more for property and services that are scarce or that are a nuisance. So how will employed society look like in 30 years? War and other instabilities hurt business and therefore new activities will appear in order to prevent these. So which ones will come? I don't know but I'm sure there will be. Perhaps working on a way to extract desert heat and to bring water to it in order to allow crops to grow and humans to live. To me such ideas seem easier to entertain than say smart phones 100 years ago.
I don't work for the DoD... But it sometimes sure feels like it.
A whole team is working. Yet no prototype has been produced. What's their main activity then? Pushing pencils? Having meetings to organise funding? It all sounds a bit strange.
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Don't confuse "free choic"e with "responding well to carefully planned psychological campaigns". As long as even smart people maintain they exercise "free choice" mass communication specialists and the execs commissioning them continue to have champaign for breakfast.
The bar at the top needs a special kind of love I don't possess.
I was at the event where the Gotthard tunnels -north and south- actually connected. The last bit of rock was drilled through and the drill head became visible. A worker opened a door in the head an a festive drink was shared through that door. Didn't the designers of Bertha have at least a celebration in mind? Hell you could also think of doors to analyze issues like the one they deal with currently.
What? For enhancing the"experience"?
Je should have offered to mail popcorn. That would have reduced the fine bin $10'000. I mean, every penny counts.
Buddy you remind of myself and my son more than you can guess. Sure, the checklists... You really want to be a robot all your life? I myself am sometimes much too direct and many people react badly to that. I compensate by working hard and by trying to be a genuine caring person towards people around me.
I never considered myself to have ADHD and I will pay attention.
As I am highly creative I could not bare living a fake life of etiquette just to please people that most likely will reject me anyways. Instead I choose the attack strategy. I slowly start to genuinely appreciate people and to act accordingly. Perfection has not kicked in yet but I have good hopes.
Kids who now have ADHD used to be called a-bit-of-a-hand-full or vivacious or blustering or some other endearing term. Sure, there were times where you'd get annoyed by the pestering "brutes". But then they would show their unexpected lovable side and everything was fine once more. You"d deal with them and they would with you. Both became better in accepting different characters.
Nowadays we define norms and anything outside of them will be therapeuted away. I say let kids be without protection that eventually will drop away from them. Let them learn how to deal with themselves and be there when they need you.
All of the huge financial organisations I have worked for pretty much ran their own Windows distro. Sure, standard Windows with a bucket load of special features. You'd be amazed at how much needs tweaking. An own Linux distro isn't' completely out of this world.
So your grandfather was basically messing with simpleton brains. He must have been a character and I for one would probably have appreciated his conversation.
Will it recognize me when I do "the stranger"? I'd be damned pissed off in such a moment of need.
I live in CH and getting a job is easily doable up to 55. Then it gets a harder but not impossible. Here in CH there's no real job protection and so you can get fired and hired more easily. The US should be even more radical. In countries where job protection is paramount, jobs clung on dearly and you're basically screwed once you hit 50.