Compared to other jobs, developers are very hard to replace, especially the last developer. Your boss is in a situation where in the long run, it won't be worth it to pay what's needed to keep you, but in the short run, they won't be able to adequately replace you in the time you've given them.
He should be willing to pay something extra if he wants more than two weeks. That's only fair. It's far more damaging to them for you to leave too quickly than for them to have to pay extra, but it's also damaging to you to be expected to stay longer with a new job already lined up. Call it severance pay, your reward for not destroying them on your way out.
I'm in a similar situation. I'm an only developer, also acting as tech support guy and administrator of absolutely everything, and I can't stay for what I'm getting. I've been getting better offers since December. I wanted to complete the projects I had already started, so I gave them a rough notice based on the time estimated to complete those projects, plus a month or so, because when I leave, whatever projects I'm still working on will most likely just die, and their investment into those projects will have been for nothing.
I chose to work at the wage they were offering. If I made a bad decision, it's my fault. If I'm simply worth more now, it's still my fault. There's no need to punish the company for something that's my fault. Sure, it's hurting me in the short term to stay, but perhaps future employers will see some value in an employee who won't leave mid-project or without adequate notice.
That was fast. www.nitrd.gov was/.ed even before the article went public for non-subscribers. Or maybe it went down some other way. Netcraft says they've been running a pretty old Apache.
Actually, I think that it's worse than that. The Mensa tests that I took were mostly word tests, which were hard because not everybody has the same vocabulary. That really bothered me.
My experience exactly. They seem to define IQ as knowing lots and lots of words that you can use to be less understood by other english speakers. I was last reminded of this when someone bought me a calendar for Christmas with a mensa problem for every day of the year. It was nearly all vocab problems, the kind that require knowledge to solve, and the few math problems were very simple.
The first example has been used by tens of thousands of programs (granted, most are for Windows), is extremely human readable to even the computer illiterate, and is rather straightforward to deal with programmatically. The second is xml.
In high school I encountered a 386 with only 4mb of ram running Windows 95. I don't remember all the specs but it seemed to run quite well. I was surprised, since my home machine was a 200mhz pentium w/mmx with 72mb of ram, and also ran Windows 95, with roughly the same level of responsiveness.
That has to be the most depressing thing I've seen all afternoon. A broken system is worthless, no matter how much it cost. Governments need to make that clear.
Search spamming sometimes works, for a while at least, but it all goes to hell when your clients' sites get penalized or banned because your tactics. We've seen competitors's sites with hidden text disappear from the search rankings. On one occasion one of our own sites was badly penalized for a typo that could be seen as spamming. It took a couple months for it to rise back up to the top. And every year or so, Google does a major update to shake a bunch of the spammy sites out of their index. SEO's give these updates names like they were hurricanes, like Florida and Brandy.
This guy sounds like a complete amatuer. He talks like doing what the other 100000 black hat SEO's are already doing will guarantee his clients a lasting top 10 result. And PageRank has much less weight today than it used to. In 6 months some of his clients will probably want to sue him.
You can get a good rank that lasts without being spammy. For the most part, having good content works very well.
It's often Windows users who do Windows ports. There's nothing wrong with that. For most people and businesses, migrating from Windows to Linux or any other OS is not very wise unless they can be sure that the benefit will outweigh the costs. With Windows ports of OSS software, at least they can safely swap programs out one at a time until all they have left is OSS, at which point switching to Linux is a breeze.
I got XP, Office, and Visual Studio.Net all legit, could find Windows ports of all the OSS software I needed, have had no viruses or spyware for many years, had many Windows-only programs which I loved dearly, and I still switched to Linux. I still have a Windows system with all the above mentioned Windows software, but it's just been collecting dust for the past year. They keyboard is underneath about a foot of papers and other trash. One of these days I'll cannibalize it for all the expensive hardware I put into it a few months before.
Aside from a desire to train myself on Linux, anger and frustration might have had something to do with the switch. Microsoft has failed to serve my interests. They've impaired their own products, started this "Get the Facts" campaign which focuses on paid opinions and research biased against Linux, insulted people whom I have great respect for, and invested millions in legal attacks against Linux. Out of spite I wrote some network login scripts to allow the company where I work to use XP home as preinstalled on new systems without the usual problems.
If Microsoft had just focused on writing and maintaining good software, I'd still have faith in them, and respect for them. But what do they have to show for the last 3 years aside from the usually monthly patches and a couple service packs? Just a lot of deceptive negative marketing against people who write their own software and share it freely. By doing so they've managed to do little more than offend lots and lots of OSS users, most of them also being users of Microsoft software. You don't win a lot of support by launching big marketing campaigns to insult and offend your own customers. They should have seen the trend towards community developed software as a sign that they need to do a better job, if their own users are competing with them and writing better software for free.
It's illegal only if they talk to each other about it, and if you can prove it.
A legal way to do price fixing is to follow the leader. Whoever changes their pricing first, all the others notice and change their pricing to match. Each figuring out that the other big players are following this strategy, they'll aim for monopoly prices, rather than price competitively. Vendors want to go along with this because they usually mark up by a %, so even if it'll still be profitable, they'll naturally aim to keep lower priced games off the shelves, with the exception of vendors like WalMart who just want volume.
If Joe User started on Linux, or *BSD, then trying to use Windows would require taking time to learn.
You can tell that Windows is meant to be used as a tool and not just for hobby because in Office and the Explorer search pane they have dozens of these little characters that'll dance and do tricks and stuff without really helping you out in the process. And a bunch of the window actions can be animated to slow them down a bit. You've got connection limits and such to ensure that you only use your desktop for desktop stuff. Network authentication restrictions ensure that your intranet design fits a standard, well supported model, and that the right edition gets used for the right job. And the whole thing is pretty awesome for running games.
Linux must certainly be meant just for hobby because it comes with thousands of these little tools that just do their jobs without much in the way of glitter and animation to impress the user, or even a requirement that a user must be directly interacting with them.
These tiny blackholes will fall into the core of the earth, and slowly grow one quark at a time, but at an accelerating rate. In a 100 million years or so, it'll come back to haunt the descendents of the super dolphins that'll overthrow the advanced alien race that'll conquer the robots that'll destroy us.
Then, registration for the contest asks for extra personal information information. Address, phone number, etc.
From the official rules: By entering the Game, you agree to Yahoo!'s use of your personal information as described in Yahoo!'s Privacy Policy
From the privacy policy: We provide the information to trusted partners who work on behalf of or with Yahoo! under confidentiality agreements. These companies may use your personal information to help Yahoo! communicate with you about offers from Yahoo! and our marketing partners.
I expect that by playing the game you tell them exactly what types of products you think about, moreso than they could deduce from search strings.
It sounds like you're saying you've violated the GPL.
IANAL, but I think you need to talk with the original authors to sort things out. They have the authority to relicense the code under the closed terms your company seems to want. Let them know which code is still being used and to what extent. They should also tell you who else you need to get permission from. Some who won't give permission freely will accept payment for a license. If they won't give permission, or ask too much, see if they'll be satisfied if the GPL'd code was removed or replaced. If none of that works, you get to choose between GPL'ing the derived code and offering to share it on demand, or risking claims of copyright infringement. If your derived code has already been released, then it all gets much much harder, as downstream users may have created their own GPL'd derivative works and so on, but it still boils down to convincing everyone involved to agree to your terms.
If you can't sort out the licensing issues while retaining company ownership of the code then you may have breached your employment contract. Again, IANAL.
Having one button is simply too confusing for ordinary users. New users are always asking "How do I right click with this?" Apple has heard their cries and has been working around the clock ever since the first request to engineer a new breed of mouse, with TWO buttons, possibly shaped like big mouse ears.
In another decade, who knows? With users already asking "Is there an easier way to scroll?", they may even develop a mouse with three buttons, with the middle one doubling as a wheel. It'll be the nose of the mouse with little eyes and whiskers drawn on the other buttons.
I've seen different C compilers with all speed optimizations enabled generate code for the same problem that differed in performance by a factor of 20. This was not consistent with other benchmarks I had seen on the web comparing the same compilers. The benchmark was an html compressor. I'd share more, but unfortunately the code was automatically deleted by XP's chkdsk after a minor crash.
One algorithm is sometimes not enough to accurately judge between compilers. But I guess if it's OCaml, then sure, C++ is faster.
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Compared to other jobs, developers are very hard to replace, especially the last developer. Your boss is in a situation where in the long run, it won't be worth it to pay what's needed to keep you, but in the short run, they won't be able to adequately replace you in the time you've given them.
He should be willing to pay something extra if he wants more than two weeks. That's only fair. It's far more damaging to them for you to leave too quickly than for them to have to pay extra, but it's also damaging to you to be expected to stay longer with a new job already lined up. Call it severance pay, your reward for not destroying them on your way out.
I'm in a similar situation. I'm an only developer, also acting as tech support guy and administrator of absolutely everything, and I can't stay for what I'm getting. I've been getting better offers since December. I wanted to complete the projects I had already started, so I gave them a rough notice based on the time estimated to complete those projects, plus a month or so, because when I leave, whatever projects I'm still working on will most likely just die, and their investment into those projects will have been for nothing.
I chose to work at the wage they were offering. If I made a bad decision, it's my fault. If I'm simply worth more now, it's still my fault. There's no need to punish the company for something that's my fault. Sure, it's hurting me in the short term to stay, but perhaps future employers will see some value in an employee who won't leave mid-project or without adequate notice.
We use the corporate edition but I really don't use antivirus software on my own Windows PC's. It bogs them down too much and causes other problems.
Probably 2.700 city blocks. In some countries they use "," instead of ".", in order to be misunderstood by the rest of the world.
if we can expect another Duke Nukem Forever demo from 3D Realms this year.
That must be why kids here haven't had a 5 day school week in a couple years.
That was fast. www.nitrd.gov was /.ed even before the article went public for non-subscribers. Or maybe it went down some other way. Netcraft says they've been running a pretty old Apache.
Microsoft will invite us to hack Windows XP SP2, with all the default services enabled, such as the firewall.
Actually, I think that it's worse than that. The Mensa tests that I took were mostly word tests, which were hard because not everybody has the same vocabulary. That really bothered me.
My experience exactly. They seem to define IQ as knowing lots and lots of words that you can use to be less understood by other english speakers. I was last reminded of this when someone bought me a calendar for Christmas with a mensa problem for every day of the year. It was nearly all vocab problems, the kind that require knowledge to solve, and the few math problems were very simple.
The first example has been used by tens of thousands of programs (granted, most are for Windows), is extremely human readable to even the computer illiterate, and is rather straightforward to deal with programmatically. The second is xml.
In high school I encountered a 386 with only 4mb of ram running Windows 95. I don't remember all the specs but it seemed to run quite well. I was surprised, since my home machine was a 200mhz pentium w/mmx with 72mb of ram, and also ran Windows 95, with roughly the same level of responsiveness.
I skimmed the titles and read the article "Loss of aid to poor feared".
That has to be the most depressing thing I've seen all afternoon. A broken system is worthless, no matter how much it cost. Governments need to make that clear.
Just rent a bot net. 40000 unique IP's. That'll do the trick.
Search spamming sometimes works, for a while at least, but it all goes to hell when your clients' sites get penalized or banned because your tactics. We've seen competitors's sites with hidden text disappear from the search rankings. On one occasion one of our own sites was badly penalized for a typo that could be seen as spamming. It took a couple months for it to rise back up to the top. And every year or so, Google does a major update to shake a bunch of the spammy sites out of their index. SEO's give these updates names like they were hurricanes, like Florida and Brandy.
This guy sounds like a complete amatuer. He talks like doing what the other 100000 black hat SEO's are already doing will guarantee his clients a lasting top 10 result. And PageRank has much less weight today than it used to. In 6 months some of his clients will probably want to sue him.
You can get a good rank that lasts without being spammy. For the most part, having good content works very well.
@echo off
top:
start kill.bat
start defrag c:
goto top
It's often Windows users who do Windows ports. There's nothing wrong with that. For most people and businesses, migrating from Windows to Linux or any other OS is not very wise unless they can be sure that the benefit will outweigh the costs. With Windows ports of OSS software, at least they can safely swap programs out one at a time until all they have left is OSS, at which point switching to Linux is a breeze.
.Net all legit, could find Windows ports of all the OSS software I needed, have had no viruses or spyware for many years, had many Windows-only programs which I loved dearly, and I still switched to Linux. I still have a Windows system with all the above mentioned Windows software, but it's just been collecting dust for the past year. They keyboard is underneath about a foot of papers and other trash. One of these days I'll cannibalize it for all the expensive hardware I put into it a few months before.
I got XP, Office, and Visual Studio
Aside from a desire to train myself on Linux, anger and frustration might have had something to do with the switch. Microsoft has failed to serve my interests. They've impaired their own products, started this "Get the Facts" campaign which focuses on paid opinions and research biased against Linux, insulted people whom I have great respect for, and invested millions in legal attacks against Linux. Out of spite I wrote some network login scripts to allow the company where I work to use XP home as preinstalled on new systems without the usual problems.
If Microsoft had just focused on writing and maintaining good software, I'd still have faith in them, and respect for them. But what do they have to show for the last 3 years aside from the usually monthly patches and a couple service packs? Just a lot of deceptive negative marketing against people who write their own software and share it freely. By doing so they've managed to do little more than offend lots and lots of OSS users, most of them also being users of Microsoft software. You don't win a lot of support by launching big marketing campaigns to insult and offend your own customers. They should have seen the trend towards community developed software as a sign that they need to do a better job, if their own users are competing with them and writing better software for free.
david@ubuntu:~ $ date +%s
1111121778
david@ubuntu:~ $
I missed it
It's illegal only if they talk to each other about it, and if you can prove it.
A legal way to do price fixing is to follow the leader. Whoever changes their pricing first, all the others notice and change their pricing to match. Each figuring out that the other big players are following this strategy, they'll aim for monopoly prices, rather than price competitively. Vendors want to go along with this because they usually mark up by a %, so even if it'll still be profitable, they'll naturally aim to keep lower priced games off the shelves, with the exception of vendors like WalMart who just want volume.
Successful businesses don't compete.
If Joe User started on Linux, or *BSD, then trying to use Windows would require taking time to learn.
You can tell that Windows is meant to be used as a tool and not just for hobby because in Office and the Explorer search pane they have dozens of these little characters that'll dance and do tricks and stuff without really helping you out in the process. And a bunch of the window actions can be animated to slow them down a bit. You've got connection limits and such to ensure that you only use your desktop for desktop stuff. Network authentication restrictions ensure that your intranet design fits a standard, well supported model, and that the right edition gets used for the right job. And the whole thing is pretty awesome for running games.
Linux must certainly be meant just for hobby because it comes with thousands of these little tools that just do their jobs without much in the way of glitter and animation to impress the user, or even a requirement that a user must be directly interacting with them.
These tiny blackholes will fall into the core of the earth, and slowly grow one quark at a time, but at an accelerating rate. In a 100 million years or so, it'll come back to haunt the descendents of the super dolphins that'll overthrow the advanced alien race that'll conquer the robots that'll destroy us.
First, you give them your email.
Then, registration for the contest asks for extra personal information information. Address, phone number, etc.
From the official rules:
By entering the Game, you agree to Yahoo!'s use of your personal information as described in Yahoo!'s Privacy Policy
From the privacy policy:
We provide the information to trusted partners who work on behalf of or with Yahoo! under confidentiality agreements. These companies may use your personal information to help Yahoo! communicate with you about offers from Yahoo! and our marketing partners.
I expect that by playing the game you tell them exactly what types of products you think about, moreso than they could deduce from search strings.
It sounds like you're saying you've violated the GPL.
IANAL, but I think you need to talk with the original authors to sort things out. They have the authority to relicense the code under the closed terms your company seems to want. Let them know which code is still being used and to what extent. They should also tell you who else you need to get permission from. Some who won't give permission freely will accept payment for a license. If they won't give permission, or ask too much, see if they'll be satisfied if the GPL'd code was removed or replaced. If none of that works, you get to choose between GPL'ing the derived code and offering to share it on demand, or risking claims of copyright infringement. If your derived code has already been released, then it all gets much much harder, as downstream users may have created their own GPL'd derivative works and so on, but it still boils down to convincing everyone involved to agree to your terms.
If you can't sort out the licensing issues while retaining company ownership of the code then you may have breached your employment contract. Again, IANAL.
Having one button is simply too confusing for ordinary users. New users are always asking "How do I right click with this?" Apple has heard their cries and has been working around the clock ever since the first request to engineer a new breed of mouse, with TWO buttons, possibly shaped like big mouse ears.
In another decade, who knows? With users already asking "Is there an easier way to scroll?", they may even develop a mouse with three buttons, with the middle one doubling as a wheel. It'll be the nose of the mouse with little eyes and whiskers drawn on the other buttons.
Sure they can. They just did.
I've seen different C compilers with all speed optimizations enabled generate code for the same problem that differed in performance by a factor of 20. This was not consistent with other benchmarks I had seen on the web comparing the same compilers. The benchmark was an html compressor. I'd share more, but unfortunately the code was automatically deleted by XP's chkdsk after a minor crash.
One algorithm is sometimes not enough to accurately judge between compilers. But I guess if it's OCaml, then sure, C++ is faster.