Me, I truly believe information should be free, and only personal information (like, your bank account #'s, passcodes, etc) has any business being private. I'm a big supporter of all our little neo-communist mechanisms in the OSS movement. But really...don't get ownership of a car confused with ownership of software.
Wow, you wrote a post on/. that:
1. stated that software is *not* like a car 2. mentioned OSS and communism in the same sentence
and you were modded informative, not flamebait?!? You, my friend, are truly a god among gods.
I've never understood why the IT industry has been so adverse (sic) to Unions?
s Because unions usually force collective bargaining and oppose pay for merit. Programmers are mostly individualists and think that they're worth more than the next guy.
Why is this modded "flamebait"? That seemed like a dead-on comment. I have never observed much sympathy for unions among programmers, and an individualistic streak would appear to be the reason.
Now my own insight into the effect of 10+ hour days:
I work at a company where it is the norm for developers to work overtime. On any given day, probably 50% of developers will stay late. Now the question is, will this help or hurt your career.
I can see no evidence of anyone's career being held back because they worked too hard. On the other hand, does it help your career? The answer appears to be yes, but not by very much. Most people get promoted either because they are the most technically competant or because they do the best job of promoting themselves to the boss. Working extra-hard may get you a raise or some stock options, but it won't get you promoted.
The reason is because the people in positions of authority are the ones who are called upon to exercise good judgement. Working overtime is a sign of dedication, but it doesn't do anything to prove why you should be the one to make the tough decisions.
Isn't there a port or something you could block to disable VOIP services? I don't know a whole lot about it but I assume it must use a port that could be firewalled out.
This can be very tricky. SIP uses UDP 5060 to negotiate calls, then picks variable high ports (~16000 I think) but can be run pretty much anywhere.
Ummm... easy. Block 5060 at the firewall level. No control channel => no data channel. Now I suppose someone could get devious and negotiate the control channel from one AP and then roam to a different AP, but how likely is that? (And it assumes that SIP actually supports this case - I have no idea.)
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Calling them on a regular basis (daily even!) shows that you are eager for the position, and may help you win out in the decision process.
Speaking as a manager who has hired a fair number of people in the last couple of years... calling regularly to check didn't do any harm (or good). However, there was one guy that I probably would have hired had he not called me daily.
Trust me: calling daily is too often (especially when you are calling a technical contact rather than an HR person).
So in other word, the article is a deceptive propaganda piece. I think I got that from the capsule summary, but I still wanted to read the comments to see what/.ers think.
Having done a couple projects on the side now, getting paid either by the hr or fixed price hasn't worked out to be that worth it. There's a very real limit to how much you can work after the Real Job while remaining sane.
I'm all for open source, but expecting to profit from software you release under an open license will lead to disappointment.
Personally, I think I'm going to go the crippleware route. And sell the source to commercial users so I never have to spend my nights/wknds supporting it again.
Can someone explain to me why this is flamebait? It seems like an honest enough opinion, eloquently expressed...
I am a manager, but I don't have a degree. I was hired based on my experience and promoted based on competance (AFAIK:-)). Once you have experience, everyone just assumes you have a degree. Sometimes people even ask me where I did my Masters.
That being said, I know that when my employer hires applicantss in China they definitely want to the see the degree. (The original - no photocopies.)
One other underrated game "PTBAD 3" was supposed to be a satire of bad text-adventures, but almost nobody understood that it was a satire - but even an improved rating wouldn't bring it past average.
According to the authors "Stack Overflow" was meant to be a satire of bad text-adventures, whereas PTBAD3 was just meant to be a troll.
a) Your worth (at least in $ terms) is defined by the market.
b) Your worth is not your cost, it is what you bring to the company set against your cost.
Actually, these statements are both correct. They just define slightly different concepts of worth. The fact is, socio-economic systems based exclusively on either one of these principles don't work very well. Our system works (for the most part) because we strike a balance between the two. (It happens naturally, based on the public mood.)
Read Penn Jillette's great explanation for details.
Okay, that's funny in a sort of Penn Jillette/Dave Barry kind of way. But that explanation would only make sense to someone who already understood the math!
There is nothing illegal about trying to sell to good customers. It's just common sense. And I, for one, am sick (sick!) of all the consumer activist weenies on/. who insist on taking adages such as "the customer is always right" completely literally.
Let's face it:/. readers make lousy customers. They won't buy software. They pirate movies & music (in an alleged effort to force the media companies to lower the price). They drive around the city in an effort to save a couple of bucks off wifi broadband. And they are always complaining that they don't get more respect from the private sector (which is obviously due to a conspiracy among corrupt politicians).
I'm sure someone will correct me if I'm wrong... but I learnt somewhere that not only are octopus eyes as complex as human eyes they are actually better "designed" since they do not have blind spots. I've always thought that was as compelling argument as any against creationism. God may think you're the bees knees, but he gave the good eyes to the celaphopods...
You probably read it in one of Richard Dawkins' books. The Blind Watchmaker, I think.
I'm not saying don't ever bluff, but in an amateur game it's usually not necessary. A lot of novice players play very loose. The best way to counter that is to play the odds and catch them in a bluff.
Of course if you find yourself in a situation where everyone at the table is playing too tight then you throw in some bluffs. But unless you're a mind reader, you bluff according to the odds (based upon each opponent's call frequency).
Also, many friendly games have raise limits where bluffing just doesn't work. You can't bluff someone out of a $20 pot when there is a $1 raise limit.
I can state from my own experience that playing the odds exclusively works great against friends. I almost feel bad about taking their money. It's too easy.
I occasionally watch the world poker tour on TV. I even watched some today. At that level, the outcome of the game seems to be based mostly on luck. Sure it takes a lot of skill to make it to the final group, but going all in on an A5 suited takes mostly guts, not skill.
So, the interactive part is clicking on the download link, and the fiction part is actually finishing the download while the servers are being slashdotted! This is the most fun I've had all day!
D'oh... I saw the announcement on rgif yesterday but figured I'd wait a day or so to get the games. When I saw that all 4 mirrors weren't working just now, I knew there could be only one explanation.
How come the comp didn't make the front page of/. the year I entered?:-(
I browse through all the photos and didn't see any evidence of a big green 42 on the top of the building. Of course most of the photos were either from far away or from street level (so you can hardly see the top). Anyway, that leads me to suspect that it might have been temporary. (In the US, they regularly light up buildings with red, white, and blue.)
Shortly after DNA's death, I was in London and I noticed that a large, green 42 was visible on the skyline (on a skyscraper). Does anyone who lives in London remember this and know whether this was in honour of Douglas Adamns or if this is just a street address or something.
I'm certain that is the only reason Jar Jar Binks ever survived being edited out of Episode 1 is that no one would dare say to George, "Uh, George, you may not have realized it, but this character is nothing more than an offensive racial stereotype that will not go down well with anyone."
I've seen plenty of 8 year olds whose favorite Star Wars character is Jar Jar Binks. I guess it just goes to show who Lucas considers to be his audience.
Remember when the Challenger crashed (yeah, that first big shuttle disaster). NASA had made some grand prediction like the odds against a shuttle disaster was 200 to 1. Now, it seems like they are batting around.500.
Actually, Haier offers a ray of hope for us westerners. They may outsource all the programming jobs, but anyone who's every seen the Haier logo has got to believe that marketing and PR is going to stay local for the time being. (That photo may look fairly innocent right now, but trust me... once it gets a little worn/faded you'll be asking yourself what a couple of cartoon gay men are doingpromoting your air conditioner.)
With disinformation campaigns such as this, it doesn't really even matter if the accusers believe their lies. I forget exactly where I saw this (it may have been the Daily Show, but I think it actually was regular network news)... they showed a study that while most people state they do not believe the accusations from the SBV, most people also state that they are less likely to vote for Kerry because of them. Standard psychological espionage.
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Me, I truly believe information should be free, and only personal information (like, your bank account #'s, passcodes, etc) has any business being private. I'm a big supporter of all our little neo-communist mechanisms in the OSS movement. But really...don't get ownership of a car confused with ownership of software.
/. that:
Wow, you wrote a post on
1. stated that software is *not* like a car
2. mentioned OSS and communism in the same sentence
and you were modded informative, not flamebait?!? You, my friend, are truly a god among gods.
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Because unions usually force collective bargaining and oppose pay for merit. Programmers are mostly individualists and think that they're worth more than the next guy.
Why is this modded "flamebait"? That seemed like a dead-on comment. I have never observed much sympathy for unions among programmers, and an individualistic streak would appear to be the reason.
Now my own insight into the effect of 10+ hour days:
I work at a company where it is the norm for developers to work overtime. On any given day, probably 50% of developers will stay late. Now the question is, will this help or hurt your career.
I can see no evidence of anyone's career being held back because they worked too hard. On the other hand, does it help your career? The answer appears to be yes, but not by very much. Most people get promoted either because they are the most technically competant or because they do the best job of promoting themselves to the boss. Working extra-hard may get you a raise or some stock options, but it won't get you promoted.
The reason is because the people in positions of authority are the ones who are called upon to exercise good judgement. Working overtime is a sign of dedication, but it doesn't do anything to prove why you should be the one to make the tough decisions.
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This can be very tricky. SIP uses UDP 5060 to negotiate calls, then picks variable high ports (~16000 I think) but can be run pretty much anywhere.
Ummm... easy. Block 5060 at the firewall level. No control channel => no data channel. Now I suppose someone could get devious and negotiate the control channel from one AP and then roam to a different AP, but how likely is that? (And it assumes that SIP actually supports this case - I have no idea.)
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Calling them on a regular basis (daily even!) shows that you are eager for the position, and may help you win out in the decision process.
Speaking as a manager who has hired a fair number of people in the last couple of years... calling regularly to check didn't do any harm (or good). However, there was one guy that I probably would have hired had he not called me daily.
Trust me: calling daily is too often (especially when you are calling a technical contact rather than an HR person).
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You know, that was really well point. Sorry I let my mod points expire. :-(
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So in other word, the article is a deceptive propaganda piece. I think I got that from the capsule summary, but I still wanted to read the comments to see what /.ers think.
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Who cares if the human race survives if I am still dead?
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Having done a couple projects on the side now, getting paid either by the hr or fixed price hasn't worked out to be that worth it. There's a very real limit to how much you can work after the Real Job while remaining sane.
I'm all for open source, but expecting to profit from software you release under an open license will lead to disappointment.
Personally, I think I'm going to go the crippleware route. And sell the source to commercial users so I never have to spend my nights/wknds supporting it again.
Can someone explain to me why this is flamebait? It seems like an honest enough opinion, eloquently expressed...
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I am a manager, but I don't have a degree. I was hired based on my experience and promoted based on competance (AFAIK :-)). Once you have experience, everyone just assumes you have a degree. Sometimes people even ask me where I did my Masters.
That being said, I know that when my employer hires applicantss in China they definitely want to the see the degree. (The original - no photocopies.)
-a
One other underrated game "PTBAD 3" was supposed to be a satire of bad text-adventures, but almost nobody understood that it was a satire - but even an improved rating wouldn't bring it past average.
According to the authors "Stack Overflow" was meant to be a satire of bad text-adventures, whereas PTBAD3 was just meant to be a troll.
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a) Your worth (at least in $ terms) is defined by the market.
b) Your worth is not your cost, it is what you bring to the company set against your cost.
Actually, these statements are both correct. They just define slightly different concepts of worth. The fact is, socio-economic systems based exclusively on either one of these principles don't work very well. Our system works (for the most part) because we strike a balance between the two. (It happens naturally, based on the public mood.)
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Read Penn Jillette's great explanation for details.
Okay, that's funny in a sort of Penn Jillette/Dave Barry kind of way. But that explanation would only make sense to someone who already understood the math!
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There is nothing illegal about trying to sell to good customers. It's just common sense. And I, for one, am sick (sick!) of all the consumer activist weenies on /. who insist on taking adages such as "the customer is always right" completely literally.
/. readers make lousy customers. They won't buy software. They pirate movies & music (in an alleged effort to force the media companies to lower the price). They drive around the city in an effort to save a couple of bucks off wifi broadband. And they are always complaining that they don't get more respect from the private sector (which is obviously due to a conspiracy among corrupt politicians).
Let's face it:
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I'm sure someone will correct me if I'm wrong ... but I learnt somewhere that not only are octopus eyes as complex as human eyes they are actually better "designed" since they do not have blind spots. I've always thought that was as compelling argument as any against creationism. God may think you're the bees knees, but he gave the good eyes to the celaphopods...
You probably read it in one of Richard Dawkins' books. The Blind Watchmaker, I think.
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I'm not saying don't ever bluff, but in an amateur game it's usually not necessary. A lot of novice players play very loose. The best way to counter that is to play the odds and catch them in a bluff.
Of course if you find yourself in a situation where everyone at the table is playing too tight then you throw in some bluffs. But unless you're a mind reader, you bluff according to the odds (based upon each opponent's call frequency).
Also, many friendly games have raise limits where bluffing just doesn't work. You can't bluff someone out of a $20 pot when there is a $1 raise limit.
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I can state from my own experience that playing the odds exclusively works great against friends. I almost feel bad about taking their money. It's too easy.
I occasionally watch the world poker tour on TV. I even watched some today. At that level, the outcome of the game seems to be based mostly on luck. Sure it takes a lot of skill to make it to the final group, but going all in on an A5 suited takes mostly guts, not skill.
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So, the interactive part is clicking on the download link, and the fiction part is actually finishing the download while the servers are being slashdotted! This is the most fun I've had all day!
/. the year I entered? :-(
D'oh... I saw the announcement on rgif yesterday but figured I'd wait a day or so to get the games. When I saw that all 4 mirrors weren't working just now, I knew there could be only one explanation.
How come the comp didn't make the front page of
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Yes, I did wonder if that was a green blur I saw in some of those photos. Thanks. (This question has been weighing on my mind for years.)
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I browse through all the photos and didn't see any evidence of a big green 42 on the top of the building. Of course most of the photos were either from far away or from street level (so you can hardly see the top). Anyway, that leads me to suspect that it might have been temporary. (In the US, they regularly light up buildings with red, white, and blue.)
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This wouldn't have been Tower 42 which includes a bar and a restaurant ?
Yes, I imagine it probably was. But I can't see from the pictures in those links whether there is a big green 42 on the top of the building.
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Shortly after DNA's death, I was in London and I noticed that a large, green 42 was visible on the skyline (on a skyscraper). Does anyone who lives in London remember this and know whether this was in honour of Douglas Adamns or if this is just a street address or something.
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I'm certain that is the only reason Jar Jar Binks ever survived being edited out of Episode 1 is that no one would dare say to George, "Uh, George, you may not have realized it, but this character is nothing more than an offensive racial stereotype that will not go down well with anyone."
I've seen plenty of 8 year olds whose favorite Star Wars character is Jar Jar Binks. I guess it just goes to show who Lucas considers to be his audience.
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Remember when the Challenger crashed (yeah, that first big shuttle disaster). NASA had made some grand prediction like the odds against a shuttle disaster was 200 to 1. Now, it seems like they are batting around .500.
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Actually, Haier offers a ray of hope for us westerners. They may outsource all the programming jobs, but anyone who's every seen
the Haier logo has got to believe that marketing and PR is going to stay local for the time being. (That photo may look fairly innocent right now, but trust me... once it gets a little worn/faded you'll be asking yourself what a couple of cartoon gay men are doingpromoting your air conditioner.)
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With disinformation campaigns such as this, it doesn't really even matter if the accusers believe their lies. I forget exactly where I saw this (it may have been the Daily Show, but I think it actually was regular network news)... they showed a study that while most people state they do not believe the accusations from the SBV, most people also state that they are less likely to vote for Kerry because of them. Standard psychological espionage.
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