Too short, wrong tone. Any "Farewell" e-mail should be looked at as advertising for your now forced move to self-employment (I don't care if you're officially laid-off and unemployed, everybody on slashdot has skills that friends and family use for free that can be marketed to strangers to meet the difference between paying the mortgage and eating). It should be relatively upbeat, thank people for the privilege of working on their team, contain a very short skills list of what you did for the team to remind them to think of you in the future, then include all appropriate private contact information and/or your contracting company's contact information.
Here's my last one (with some redactions): [redacted, project and engagement specific info]
However, it has been great working with all of you. Keep [Consulting company] and myself in mind for future projects, we are an [big company] Partner Vendor and we have contracts with other companies outside of [big company], so I am sure we are not going anywhere soon. My services should be available through [big company] IT Flex & [Consulting company]- contact [big company liaison] or [consulting company manager].
[redacted, introductions for people who have never met or communicated with liaison or manager & more project related resource management stuff]
Once again, it was nice working with all of you, and hopefully I will get to work with you again in the future.
Sure. Coder A, in Amersterdam, logs on to the team website and starts work on foo.bar in the web editor. Coder B, in Japan, logs on to the team website and starts work on foo.bar in the web editor. Since both are actually working remotely on the same server, sure would be nice if both could see the other person's changes in realtime.
A slightly different model, of course, has Coder A do his changes to foo.bar and save, Coder B do his changes to foo.bar and save, and Project Manager C gets an e-mail alert with a URL to jump into a pair of DIFF editor windows to reconcile the changes for final checkin.
Those were just the first two off the top of my head- there are three or four project management techniques that integrating the editor and the storage system could enable for geographically dispersed team editing.
However, as I said above, I'd like to see a couple of improvements in the speed and integration of the WHOLE idea first.
Looks like an obvious use for a Work Flow Diagram- you can do it in Visio as a flow chart with "page links", but then the user would have to have Visio to actually read the document. I suspect it could be done in HTML also.
The one does not have anything to do with the other. One provides a managed place for you to put your code, the other lets you write code in a comfortable unified environment. Why would you want to integrate those two?
When working in a team environment, integrating the two makes for another channel of communication, especially between geographically separated team members (which seems to be an increasing trend in my personal contracts; I've gone from originally working in a company where source code control was done by shouting over the cubicle walls, to a situation where I'm getting up 3 hours earlier than normal to collaborate with coders in European time zones). It also seems to me to greatly simplify the autosave process if the two were integrated, especially in a web environment- thus capturing all branches of the code automatically server-side, for the project manager to integrate the final code for build.
Of course, this all would require at least two major advancements to the current codesets in TFA:
1. enough speed for professional software development (something that even current client-side IDEs sometimes lack for me, though the problem might be more of a PEBCAK, or more precisely, a PEBBAF (Problem exists between brain and fingers, instead of between Chair and Keyboard). 2. sufficient integration between the data entered in the client-side web interface and the code repository to show changes when two team members are working on the same source code file.
It also sounds to me like something that would be *really neat* to include in a source code control product for teams. Kind of like Microsoft's Visual Studio Team edition, but an intranet web version for closed source and a downright internet web version for open source (so everybody can see everybody else's edits).
That's a good idea until the creative accountants (a la the music industry) rig the books to show that the idea has been losing money. There goes the retirement.
Yes, but that depends on how well you diversify- and if your former bosses actually bothered with "creative accountants" instead of an expert system.
The problem here is that stock in a private company is incredibly hard to value- and as likely to be worthless and never pay a dividend as not. I still "own" stock in several companies that were delisted.
The residuals idea is different. Say, given the above, you gave Noah $1 out of that $350 fee. As long as version 1.0 of the job board is still online, regardless of where Noah went, he'd still get that $1 out of every $350 advert you sell. However, with Fogzbugz, instead you've got a per-feature deal with your programmers- as long as the feature they added is still in the software and you're still renting out your software (Fogzbugz is subscription based), they get a small portion of the subscription *regardless* of if they're still working for you or not.
This is compensation you can quantify- to both your customers AND to other developers. And all team members get a share.
An idea for a software program is not unlike an idea for a book, a poem, or a song. I suggest that if a company *really* wants innovation, that they offer 1% royalties that are not negated by loss of employment. That way, a good software developer may, after 10 or 30 years of coding, actually be able to retire.
I'm still disappointed. "Real 3-D" to me doesn't mean two images with opposite polarization (which means I have to put on my non-polarized glasses to see it). "Real 3-D" to me should be at least 2048x1080x1080- and allow me to choose to sit in the theater @ 2048x1080x730, or any other row away from the screen....
Well, that's exactly what I'm wondering. They claim a resolution of 2,048x1,080 pixels, but wouldn't real 3d be a resolution of say, 2048x1080x1080 at least?
After all, even with this new addition to Gmail, production is going to be down. As a person born in Albany, OR, and having to smell the paper plant every time I go back- let's just say at least as smog it has "flavor" (a kind of spicy smell....)
Show of hands: who's excited about losing autonomy for personal medical decisions and having your medical treatments routed through some HMO CEO who would rather spend your premiums on a yacht?
I suspect the first use won't be for cars. I suspect the first non-governmental use will be in the RV industry: Just think, put these shock absorbers on your boat trailer, and your electric boat will be charged and ready to go when you hit the lake. Put them on your (very heavy) Class C RV Bus (all 10 wheels) and you'll have 10kw of energy generation to recharge those batteries in between campgrounds.
What you are describing is how you wish the world worked, as opposed to how the world really works
Uh, YES- that would be the reason for the fun of a test case and the media blitz, to change how the world works.
Search warrants are issued in this country based on "probable cause".
Yes.
Probable cause is established when there is evidence such that a reasonable person would believe that evidence of a crime or contraband would be discovered in that search.
And if there is to be a true presumption of innocence in this country, then anybody being judged by a jury of his peers as being *innocent beyond any doubt* would mean that the original person would not have been being reasonable.
If an investigator traces criminal activity to an IP address, there is definitely probable cause to get a search warrant
Uh, no. Or rather, a reasonable person who understands how the network works would not come to that conclusion.
(first to reveal the identity of the user of that IP address at the time the evidence was collected, as well as for the subsequent search of the computer equipment where that IP address was assigned).
But this isn't reasonable use of an IP address. An IP address means almost nothing for those uses, as any *reasonable* person knows. Only an idiot would make those assumptions- a dangerously incompetent idiot who needs to be removed from his position.
I'm sorry, but you can't collect damages that result from a lawfully-issued search warrant.
But that isn't a lawfully-issued search warrant, because that is not a reasonable use of the IP address. Thus the need for a test case and a media blitz so that *everybody* is taught in the 2nd grade enough about networking so this is never a reasonable probable cause.
If I was guilty, I'd plea bargain. But if I'm innocent- and all the evidence against me is circumstantial and can be explained in other ways- then I've got more than "proof beyond reasonable doubt", I've got "proof beyond all doubt". And at that point, they wouldn't be able to shut me up without paying me enough to live on the rest of my life.
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Read the 2nd link- Software Developer in general is about as useful in the United States as a textile worker.
Maybe they're training them to Move to Brazil or India.
Yep, they claim to be training Americans, but they're training them for jobs that are disappearing forever.
Too short, wrong tone. Any "Farewell" e-mail should be looked at as advertising for your now forced move to self-employment (I don't care if you're officially laid-off and unemployed, everybody on slashdot has skills that friends and family use for free that can be marketed to strangers to meet the difference between paying the mortgage and eating). It should be relatively upbeat, thank people for the privilege of working on their team, contain a very short skills list of what you did for the team to remind them to think of you in the future, then include all appropriate private contact information and/or your contracting company's contact information.
Here's my last one (with some redactions):
[redacted, project and engagement specific info]
However, it has been great working with all of you. Keep [Consulting company] and myself in mind for future projects, we are an [big company] Partner Vendor and we have contracts with other companies outside of [big company], so I am sure we are not going anywhere soon. My services should be available through [big company] IT Flex & [Consulting company]- contact [big company liaison] or [consulting company manager].
[redacted, introductions for people who have never met or communicated with liaison or manager & more project related resource management stuff]
Once again, it was nice working with all of you, and hopefully I will get to work with you again in the future.
[redacted, contact info]
Sure. Coder A, in Amersterdam, logs on to the team website and starts work on foo.bar in the web editor. Coder B, in Japan, logs on to the team website and starts work on foo.bar in the web editor. Since both are actually working remotely on the same server, sure would be nice if both could see the other person's changes in realtime.
A slightly different model, of course, has Coder A do his changes to foo.bar and save, Coder B do his changes to foo.bar and save, and Project Manager C gets an e-mail alert with a URL to jump into a pair of DIFF editor windows to reconcile the changes for final checkin.
Those were just the first two off the top of my head- there are three or four project management techniques that integrating the editor and the storage system could enable for geographically dispersed team editing.
However, as I said above, I'd like to see a couple of improvements in the speed and integration of the WHOLE idea first.
Looks like an obvious use for a Work Flow Diagram- you can do it in Visio as a flow chart with "page links", but then the user would have to have Visio to actually read the document. I suspect it could be done in HTML also.
The one does not have anything to do with the other. One provides a managed place for you to put your code, the other lets you write code in a comfortable unified environment. Why would you want to integrate those two?
When working in a team environment, integrating the two makes for another channel of communication, especially between geographically separated team members (which seems to be an increasing trend in my personal contracts; I've gone from originally working in a company where source code control was done by shouting over the cubicle walls, to a situation where I'm getting up 3 hours earlier than normal to collaborate with coders in European time zones). It also seems to me to greatly simplify the autosave process if the two were integrated, especially in a web environment- thus capturing all branches of the code automatically server-side, for the project manager to integrate the final code for build.
Of course, this all would require at least two major advancements to the current codesets in TFA:
1. enough speed for professional software development (something that even current client-side IDEs sometimes lack for me, though the problem might be more of a PEBCAK, or more precisely, a PEBBAF (Problem exists between brain and fingers, instead of between Chair and Keyboard).
2. sufficient integration between the data entered in the client-side web interface and the code repository to show changes when two team members are working on the same source code file.
It also sounds to me like something that would be *really neat* to include in a source code control product for teams. Kind of like Microsoft's Visual Studio Team edition, but an intranet web version for closed source and a downright internet web version for open source (so everybody can see everybody else's edits).
Well, actually- it points out the absurdity of a contract without a signature.
Look out for those hibernating Gu'ald....
That's a good idea until the creative accountants (a la the music industry) rig the books to show that the idea has been losing money. There goes the retirement.
Yes, but that depends on how well you diversify- and if your former bosses actually bothered with "creative accountants" instead of an expert system.
The problem here is that stock in a private company is incredibly hard to value- and as likely to be worthless and never pay a dividend as not. I still "own" stock in several companies that were delisted.
The residuals idea is different. Say, given the above, you gave Noah $1 out of that $350 fee. As long as version 1.0 of the job board is still online, regardless of where Noah went, he'd still get that $1 out of every $350 advert you sell. However, with Fogzbugz, instead you've got a per-feature deal with your programmers- as long as the feature they added is still in the software and you're still renting out your software (Fogzbugz is subscription based), they get a small portion of the subscription *regardless* of if they're still working for you or not.
This is compensation you can quantify- to both your customers AND to other developers. And all team members get a share.
An idea for a software program is not unlike an idea for a book, a poem, or a song. I suggest that if a company *really* wants innovation, that they offer 1% royalties that are not negated by loss of employment. That way, a good software developer may, after 10 or 30 years of coding, actually be able to retire.
Or are you suggesting Google & Amazon are fly-by-night operations that might nuke your data on their way out the door?
I'd suggest that Google & Amazon are fly-by-night capitalist organizations who will nuke your data with the first late payment on a bill.
I'm still disappointed. "Real 3-D" to me doesn't mean two images with opposite polarization (which means I have to put on my non-polarized glasses to see it). "Real 3-D" to me should be at least 2048x1080x1080- and allow me to choose to sit in the theater @ 2048x1080x730, or any other row away from the screen....
Well, that's exactly what I'm wondering. They claim a resolution of 2,048x1,080 pixels, but wouldn't real 3d be a resolution of say, 2048x1080x1080 at least?
They shut it down for a lack of wood fiber? They should just have planted 30 one-acre stands of Supertrees near by- one a year.
After all, even with this new addition to Gmail, production is going to be down. As a person born in Albany, OR, and having to smell the paper plant every time I go back- let's just say at least as smog it has "flavor" (a kind of spicy smell....)
There's this new thing called the airplane. Just about every state that has become a state since it's invention, has ceased to have post roads built.
Show of hands: who's excited about losing autonomy for personal medical decisions and having your medical treatments routed through some HMO CEO who would rather spend your premiums on a yacht?
I suspect the first use won't be for cars. I suspect the first non-governmental use will be in the RV industry: Just think, put these shock absorbers on your boat trailer, and your electric boat will be charged and ready to go when you hit the lake. Put them on your (very heavy) Class C RV Bus (all 10 wheels) and you'll have 10kw of energy generation to recharge those batteries in between campgrounds.
Emacs? Why not just go for the quote from THHGTG Radio Show:
Trillian (to Zaphod): Please take your hand off me. And the other one. And the other one.
Zaphod: I grew that arm just for you, baby....
It's the only way the world ever changes- when it is forced to.
What you are describing is how you wish the world worked, as opposed to how the world really works
Uh, YES- that would be the reason for the fun of a test case and the media blitz, to change how the world works.
Search warrants are issued in this country based on "probable cause".
Yes.
Probable cause is established when there is evidence such that a reasonable person would believe that evidence of a crime or contraband would be discovered in that search.
And if there is to be a true presumption of innocence in this country, then anybody being judged by a jury of his peers as being *innocent beyond any doubt* would mean that the original person would not have been being reasonable.
If an investigator traces criminal activity to an IP address, there is definitely probable cause to get a search warrant
Uh, no. Or rather, a reasonable person who understands how the network works would not come to that conclusion.
(first to reveal the identity of the user of that IP address at the time the evidence was collected, as well as for the subsequent search of the computer equipment where that IP address was assigned).
But this isn't reasonable use of an IP address. An IP address means almost nothing for those uses, as any *reasonable* person knows. Only an idiot would make those assumptions- a dangerously incompetent idiot who needs to be removed from his position.
I'm sorry, but you can't collect damages that result from a lawfully-issued search warrant.
But that isn't a lawfully-issued search warrant, because that is not a reasonable use of the IP address. Thus the need for a test case and a media blitz so that *everybody* is taught in the 2nd grade enough about networking so this is never a reasonable probable cause.
No, actually, that's the point of this troll.
If I was guilty, I'd plea bargain. But if I'm innocent- and all the evidence against me is circumstantial and can be explained in other ways- then I've got more than "proof beyond reasonable doubt", I've got "proof beyond all doubt". And at that point, they wouldn't be able to shut me up without paying me enough to live on the rest of my life.