That's actually for the best. It is never in your best interests to air grievances in an exit interview.
The best-case scenario is that they might pay lip service to your grievances and ultimately ignore them. After all, if they were going to fix any of the problems, they would have done so before you decided to leave.
The worst-case scenario is that you've now burned all bridges with your current company and any future companies your boss and co-workers ever move to.
When I want to backspace over something that's indented with tabs, there's no way to know how many times I will have to hit backspace. Are there 4 spaces and a tab so I have to hit backspace 5 times? Or just a tab, so I have to hit it once?
I've simply gotten into the habit of showing white space characters in any editor I use, so I always know exactly what to expect.
Celebrities deal with what the majority thinks. Everyone else has to deal with the people around them, whose beliefs and actions can significantly deviate from the public at large. For a regular person, your sexual preference or religion (just to name two examples) can still invite prejudice and violence in some areas of the country.
Given how quickly and severely those prejudices can change, I would just assume keep my privacy. Just look at the reaction to those following Islam pre- and post-9/11. While my particular tastes and idiosyncrasies may not put me in any danger today, I'll make no bets about tomorrow.
What's more important is what the volume buyers (i.e., businesses) do. Many businesses bulk purchase hardware and re-image it. You can bet that 100+ machine purchase will generate a backlash when re-imaging it to Windows 7 so mission critical apps still work results in bricked machines.
IBM and Microsoft collaborated on OS/2. When the partnership dissolved, Microsoft went on to make NT out of the result. I would assume it was kosher, since IBM certainly could have crushed Microsoft at that point if anything ran afoul of patents or copyright. Still, it was amusing seeing OS/2 error messages in the early NT versions (e.g., if you tried to start the machine with a non-bootable floppy).
other than that: the keyboard i have seen which people absolutely swear by is - don't laugh - the old IBM AT keyboard! apparently you can still get them. they're noisy, but people who use them don't care. that tactile response - the click - appears to be crucial to ast and wrist-stress-free long-term usage.
IBM Model M keyboards last forever. Sure, they're noisy, and they're heavy, but unless you go out of your way to break one, they last decades. In fact, you are more likely to replace the keyboard because it's input port has disappeared on your new computer than because it has stopped functioning.
The US, on the other hand, largely follows a philosophy of punishment (in concept if not enshrined in law); the idea is that the fear of prison as a punishment will keep people out of mischief.
Of course, we as a country also like to ignore the fact that we have the largest prison population in the world, which disproves that idea rather handily. Note that it is not merely the largest per-capita. We have more than twice as many people in jail as any other country save China, who we still beat by around 50%.
They have been at the leading edge of a number of computer technologies over the years. It's a shame that IBM has been so poor at capitalizing on them.
That one goes both ways. I see plenty of entitled cyclists asserting right of way when they don't have it, but I have also seen a number of times where drivers are either oblivious or malicious to bicyclists, nearly running them down. This includes cases where there are bike lanes and the cars feel the need to cross into said lanes for nothing more than getting around another car or running through crosswalks despite the signal and despite having a red.
If a user has strong feelings about how Twitter should behave, it is in his or her best interests to voice those opinions. While Twitter is a private business not legally bound by the First Amendment, if enough users voice a desire for Twitter to limit censorship or avoid it altogether, it may adopt such a policy.
The only concern of any kind I've ever seen raised is autism, which is based on a report that failed to show a causal link, had too small a sample size, and was thoroughly debunked by peer review. It is not a valid concern.
In addition to the other responses - every non-vaccinated person who contracts the disease increases the chance that said disease mutates into a form the vaccine can no longer protect against.
Biology is blasphemy, with all its ramblings about heresy like evolution and common building components like DNA and RNA. We try to teach as little of it as possible.
And if only MS had a similar "never break userspace" rule that applied to even the most unbelievably "casual" of software too.
You mean the same Microsoft that named their next OS version Windows 10 because Windows 9 would break a number of applications that checked OS version with string comparison on the name rather than by the actual version number?
We could finally have the glorious final showdown involving JarJar that everybody has been waiting for since he first showed his annoying face in episode 1.
The root cause is the parents - both because they fail to teach their kids not to bully and how to deal with it when you are bullied, but also for demanding their legislators pass this law.
Because terrorism is a red herring, and this looks like a shiny new power they can grab without much hassle from the rabble. Fear is a great vehicle for stripping away liberties. Freedom is *far* more at risk from our own governments than it ever was from terrorists.
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That's actually for the best. It is never in your best interests to air grievances in an exit interview.
The best-case scenario is that they might pay lip service to your grievances and ultimately ignore them. After all, if they were going to fix any of the problems, they would have done so before you decided to leave.
The worst-case scenario is that you've now burned all bridges with your current company and any future companies your boss and co-workers ever move to.
When I want to backspace over something that's indented with tabs, there's no way to know how many times I will have to hit backspace. Are there 4 spaces and a tab so I have to hit backspace 5 times? Or just a tab, so I have to hit it once?
I've simply gotten into the habit of showing white space characters in any editor I use, so I always know exactly what to expect.
That just means the school is better preparing its students for the real world.
Celebrities deal with what the majority thinks. Everyone else has to deal with the people around them, whose beliefs and actions can significantly deviate from the public at large. For a regular person, your sexual preference or religion (just to name two examples) can still invite prejudice and violence in some areas of the country.
Given how quickly and severely those prejudices can change, I would just assume keep my privacy. Just look at the reaction to those following Islam pre- and post-9/11. While my particular tastes and idiosyncrasies may not put me in any danger today, I'll make no bets about tomorrow.
That's obviously because we can trust the police and other authorities more than the general public. Authorities would never abuse massive surveillance databases.
What's more important is what the volume buyers (i.e., businesses) do. Many businesses bulk purchase hardware and re-image it. You can bet that 100+ machine purchase will generate a backlash when re-imaging it to Windows 7 so mission critical apps still work results in bricked machines.
IBM and Microsoft collaborated on OS/2. When the partnership dissolved, Microsoft went on to make NT out of the result. I would assume it was kosher, since IBM certainly could have crushed Microsoft at that point if anything ran afoul of patents or copyright. Still, it was amusing seeing OS/2 error messages in the early NT versions (e.g., if you tried to start the machine with a non-bootable floppy).
other than that: the keyboard i have seen which people absolutely swear by is - don't laugh - the old IBM AT keyboard! apparently you can still get them. they're noisy, but people who use them don't care. that tactile response - the click - appears to be crucial to ast and wrist-stress-free long-term usage.
IBM Model M keyboards last forever. Sure, they're noisy, and they're heavy, but unless you go out of your way to break one, they last decades. In fact, you are more likely to replace the keyboard because it's input port has disappeared on your new computer than because it has stopped functioning.
The US, on the other hand, largely follows a philosophy of punishment (in concept if not enshrined in law); the idea is that the fear of prison as a punishment will keep people out of mischief.
Of course, we as a country also like to ignore the fact that we have the largest prison population in the world, which disproves that idea rather handily. Note that it is not merely the largest per-capita. We have more than twice as many people in jail as any other country save China, who we still beat by around 50%.
The compile step is building the bridge. The coding step is drawing the blueprints, which *does* involve iteration.
For that, you can thank IBM.
They have been at the leading edge of a number of computer technologies over the years. It's a shame that IBM has been so poor at capitalizing on them.
3. Bicyclists
That one goes both ways. I see plenty of entitled cyclists asserting right of way when they don't have it, but I have also seen a number of times where drivers are either oblivious or malicious to bicyclists, nearly running them down. This includes cases where there are bike lanes and the cars feel the need to cross into said lanes for nothing more than getting around another car or running through crosswalks despite the signal and despite having a red.
tl:dr: people are dicks, especially on the road
Don't worry too much. Economics is essentially pseudoscience, so don't put too much stock in the report.
I agree. It is becoming increasingly difficult to consider the NSA as anything other than an extremely well-funded criminal organization.
If a user has strong feelings about how Twitter should behave, it is in his or her best interests to voice those opinions. While Twitter is a private business not legally bound by the First Amendment, if enough users voice a desire for Twitter to limit censorship or avoid it altogether, it may adopt such a policy.
What valid health concerns are those?
The only concern of any kind I've ever seen raised is autism, which is based on a report that failed to show a causal link, had too small a sample size, and was thoroughly debunked by peer review. It is not a valid concern.
In addition to the other responses - every non-vaccinated person who contracts the disease increases the chance that said disease mutates into a form the vaccine can no longer protect against.
Your toaster may be internet-enabled now, but my teapot has been internet-enabled for years. It even has its own HTTP status code (418)!
The public at large is too engrossed in shows like American Idol to be concerned with what's going on in the country.
Biology is blasphemy, with all its ramblings about heresy like evolution and common building components like DNA and RNA. We try to teach as little of it as possible.
And if only MS had a similar "never break userspace" rule that applied to even the most unbelievably "casual" of software too.
You mean the same Microsoft that named their next OS version Windows 10 because Windows 9 would break a number of applications that checked OS version with string comparison on the name rather than by the actual version number?
We could finally have the glorious final showdown involving JarJar that everybody has been waiting for since he first showed his annoying face in episode 1.
Hostel 3: meesa gonna die now.
The root cause is the parents - both because they fail to teach their kids not to bully and how to deal with it when you are bullied, but also for demanding their legislators pass this law.
If we gave our offices very specific names, people might notice when there is overreach and a subsequent expansion of power/budget.
Because terrorism is a red herring, and this looks like a shiny new power they can grab without much hassle from the rabble. Fear is a great vehicle for stripping away liberties. Freedom is *far* more at risk from our own governments than it ever was from terrorists.