Thanks for the link. I'm not sure if that would help or not.
One of the problems I have with the various, potentially valid ideas people are floating about good chair / table configurations, is that I really don't have the budget to try more than one. So, for example, it's hard for me to drop a few hundred on a chair / table combo, only to find out it didn't work.
That's an interesting idea, but I think the problem with a drafting stool is that it pinpoints too much of my body weight on my rear end, rather than distributing it over the entire back of my thighs. That seems to cause problems with sciatica. A decent office chair with a large seat pan seems to be necessary to avoid that problem, at least in my case.
I worked for one year at a company which offers standing desks. I found them to be pretty nice. It was hard to gauge productivity, because it was also my only time in an open office, so there were lots of other distractions I wasn't used to.
I'm in my early 40's, and I'm starting to run into a variety of back problems from poor posture / poor back muscle tone, as well as carpal tunnel and medial nerve (funny bone) problems from the way I rest my arms on the desk when coding. A standing desk helps with pretty much all of those things, if it can be easily readjusted over the course of the day to accommodate you need to both sit and stand.
The biggest problem is that decent standing desks aren't cheap, and companies treat them like a luxury. I seriously think there's a case for OSHA forcing companies to offer adjustable desks to office workers. Unfortunately, national politics don't currently favor such actions becoming reality.
If I have enough negotiating power, I'll make a standing desk a requirement for any future job I take.
You've somehow managed to originate two insanely useful pieces of software: Linux, and Git.
Do you think there's anything in your work habits, your approach to choosing projects, etc., that have helped you achieve that level of productivity? Or is it just the traditional combination of talent, effort, and luck?
I started playing with C++ when I when into college in 1991. At one point I probably would have qualified as more or less a C++ expert. Then, as the language grew more and more insanely complex with each revision, I stopped trying to keep up on the whole language.
Nowadays I'm content to just make sure I understand the subset I normally use, read up when I come across a part I don't use, and ignore the rest. For my own programming, at least, the language has simply become too complex to be worth mastering.
Since you started quoting, (as a Greek) i like to quote something a bit older: the (about 2 milleniums old) Latin "verba volant, scripta manent" - roughly translated by me to English as "spoken words fly, written words stay".
It's funny that you're a Greek repeating a Latin quote. Glad to see someone remembers who won in the Battle of Corinth!
So CS classes are critical for our future, while at the same time H1B's are replacing Americans (Disney) and the latest leak of TISA shows they may be simplifying the ability to bring in foreign workers.
You seem to have misunderstood. s/our future/stockholder returns/
Google Play placed ads at the beginning of Archer episodes. It pissed by off considerably. I pay good money to NOT see commercials. Being force-fed ads when I paid for something (a movie ticket, a Google Play video, etc.) is about the surest way to get me to stop paying you money.
Seriously, fuck you Google. And if you do this, fuck you Netflix too.
How about collaboration, a team can do more than single entity
A team is also a single entity. Does its productivity drop once they realize that, like how cartoon characters only fall once they've noticed they're in mid-air?
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Thanks for the link. I'm not sure if that would help or not.
One of the problems I have with the various, potentially valid ideas people are floating about good chair / table configurations, is that I really don't have the budget to try more than one. So, for example, it's hard for me to drop a few hundred on a chair / table combo, only to find out it didn't work.
That's an interesting idea, but I think the problem with a drafting stool is that it pinpoints too much of my body weight on my rear end, rather than distributing it over the entire back of my thighs. That seems to cause problems with sciatica. A decent office chair with a large seat pan seems to be necessary to avoid that problem, at least in my case.
I worked for one year at a company which offers standing desks. I found them to be pretty nice. It was hard to gauge productivity, because it was also my only time in an open office, so there were lots of other distractions I wasn't used to.
I'm in my early 40's, and I'm starting to run into a variety of back problems from poor posture / poor back muscle tone, as well as carpal tunnel and medial nerve (funny bone) problems from the way I rest my arms on the desk when coding. A standing desk helps with pretty much all of those things, if it can be easily readjusted over the course of the day to accommodate you need to both sit and stand.
The biggest problem is that decent standing desks aren't cheap, and companies treat them like a luxury. I seriously think there's a case for OSHA forcing companies to offer adjustable desks to office workers. Unfortunately, national politics don't currently favor such actions becoming reality.
If I have enough negotiating power, I'll make a standing desk a requirement for any future job I take.
Any theories for why Tesla's stock price didn't pop on this news?
I agree - Apple products are unseemly.
sue them.
You've somehow managed to originate two insanely useful pieces of software: Linux, and Git.
Do you think there's anything in your work habits, your approach to choosing projects, etc., that have helped you achieve that level of productivity? Or is it just the traditional combination of talent, effort, and luck?
I started playing with C++ when I when into college in 1991. At one point I probably would have qualified as more or less a C++ expert. Then, as the language grew more and more insanely complex with each revision, I stopped trying to keep up on the whole language.
Nowadays I'm content to just make sure I understand the subset I normally use, read up when I come across a part I don't use, and ignore the rest. For my own programming, at least, the language has simply become too complex to be worth mastering.
I don't think a little pride in one's country is a problem. Just resist the urge to invade Poland because of it, and we're good ;)
Thanks for the link! That's pretty cool.
Love it. , .
Since you started quoting, (as a Greek) i like to quote something a bit older: the (about 2 milleniums old) Latin "verba volant, scripta manent" - roughly translated by me to English as "spoken words fly, written words stay".
It's funny that you're a Greek repeating a Latin quote. Glad to see someone remembers who won in the Battle of Corinth!
Why did the stupid parent comment get modded up to 5, Insightful?
Good Heavans, man, are you trying to make us all deaf with the sound of that whoosh???
I don't think "fail" means what you think it means. I would call not installing their app a "success".
This almost makes me wish Dice would go back to starting its flame-wars with stories on gender inequality.
You seem to have misunderstood. s/our future/stockholder returns/
Today is Friday! Thanks, Dice!
I thought Dice saved the flame-baiting articles for Fridays.
Go Fuck. Yourselves.
From recent revelations, it's more likely the governments are looking for easier ways to break into citizens' computers.
You wouldn't steal a car, would you?
Choosing your own screensaver is not a victimless crime.
www.gnomecontrolcenter.gov
Google Play placed ads at the beginning of Archer episodes. It pissed by off considerably. I pay good money to NOT see commercials. Being force-fed ads when I paid for something (a movie ticket, a Google Play video, etc.) is about the surest way to get me to stop paying you money.
Seriously, fuck you Google. And if you do this, fuck you Netflix too.
It's most likely for a defensive purpose and something that the legal firm advised doing.
Then we can expect them to issue a legally binding promise to transfer the patent rights to the Patent Commons, yes?
How about collaboration, a team can do more than single entity
A team is also a single entity. Does its productivity drop once they realize that, like how cartoon characters only fall once they've noticed they're in mid-air?
Of what the TPP is going to do.
Or perhaps the TPP people don't want the SCOTUS ruling on this, because it could provide a constitutional basis for challenging the TPP.
Nah, nevermind. That couldn't be the motivation of The Most Transparent Administration in History.