This is a phrase you should repeat to yourself. If someone can't understand your mental issues, and doesn't give you an ounce of compassion, they're simply not worth your time or consideration. There are, unfortunately, a lot of such people in the world. There are also a lot of people who DO care. When you're depressed, the latter group can tend to fade completely into the former.
Get yourself to a doctor. Get family to help if you can. Even if you find that drugs do not help -- and while I understand that your mother had a serious problem with them in the past -- they're probably not going to immediately send you to a mental institution. If you do get a prescription, do some due diligence yourself. The internet is full of information that was previously only available to doctors. This is why, when a family member was prescribed Paxil a few years ago, I urged caution and told them to be on the lookout for the feeling of "electricity", because it was part of a well-known terrible side effect and withdrawal effect. It's a good thing, too, because they encountered this, so we worked to get them off of the drug and onto something different.
The antidepressants I have experience with were quite low dose, but we still did have to try a couple before we found one that worked with a minimum of side effects. Any good doctor would know this and work with you. If you get a doctor that doesn't schedule a follow-up visit in 30 days after prescribing you an antidepressant / antianxiety medication, find another doctor.
Even if you're not prescribed a medication, having someone to talk to would be beneficial by itself. This is not something you should have to go alone. You (likely) have a problem with your brain chemistry. The reason that it seems easy for everyone else is that they DON'T have a problem with their brain chemistry; it IS easier for them. That's NOT your fault.
Becoming brave is a noble goal, but you should embrace the idea that this is a medical condition that needs treatment. If other people disagree and think you can just "power through it", fuck em. They don't get it, and probably never will.
Long-time Linux user here. I gotta disagree. MS Office is tangibly better in a lot of ways (mostly the ones that the GP posted as a sibling to this post) than LibreOffice.
You would do the free software community a service by not trumping up free software and simply describing it as it is. LibreOffice has a lot of use cases, but Office is still a very well put together set of productivity apps.
Go learn a programming language and build something. Grab some decent books on the subjects necessary (PHP, MySQL, RDBMS architecture in general, CSS, HTML, Javascript, design); online tutorials are great but personally I find books to pack more valuable data in one place. I suggest (and I'm going to get attacked for this, but oh well) PHP and MySQL, and that you go build a forum (with user registration, threads, posts, profiles, etc.). I think that's about the right scope to be able to put on your resume while still being possible to do in your spare time. I should know, I built one about a decade ago, and I'm now a professional web developer with a great startup, about to release a mobile app for several clients nationwide.
If you want to stay with Microsoft, you could do the same thing in ASP.NET and SQL Server in place of PHP and MySQL (though I find that using Microsoft technology stacks tends to silo you from the rest of the development world). Or you could go all new-age and use Rails or other frameworks.
Even if you don't want to be a developer, this will give you a thing to point to on your resume / cover letter to say "see, I have experience with these methodologies" even if you've never worked with them professionally.
My conclusion was that they rounded the grades to certain points. I'm not sure where he got the inference of malice or tampering, other than bumping failing grades up, which isn't exactly malicious (though probably unfair).
Never attribute to malice that which can be explained by stupidity... or policy.
Also, I give this guy a couple of days, a week max, before he's in jail for quite a while.
In fact, parent mentioned the lawsuit as "World Wildlife Fund v. World Wrestling Federation", when the plaintiff is usually in the former slot of a lawsuit, seemingly indicating that the World Wildlife Fund initiated.
Honestly, it depends what he's trying to do. If he's moving files around, or doing word processing, sure, maintain a history and allow reversibility, wiki-style. If he's running a nuclear power plant, it might be a tad more difficult to recover from a bad operation. The question isn't detailed enough to allow for a decent answer.
[ off_topic ] Welcome back to Slashdot! Good to see you here again, and a little surprising. Have you ever considered running a simulated US Federal Government? I have been toying with the idea for a few years, and it seems there would be quite a few overlaps with wiki technology and processes (document version management, online elections, that sort of thing). I'd be curious to see what the internet would do with the federal government if given the ability to write and vote on (theoretical) bills, in addition perhaps to real bills in process through Congress. Allow users to offer themselves up for election, and vote on users to form an "Internet US Government", as an experiment. I think at least in this country, the Federal Government is the most broken part... and I think crowdsourcing part of it, at least as an experiment, would be a good way to start fixing it (it seems the real thing is too entrenched to get any real change done). If nothing else, it would be an interesting educational piece. Let me know what you think if you get time. Thanks! [/off_topic ]
The guy I'd need to hire would have to know a lot of languages and be proficient in all of them. Plus, I can't afford to pay someone $100k/year right now.
Sounds like you're screwed.
Look, if you're not willing to pay for talent, and consider that a cost of doing good business, then you have no right doing what you're doing. Speed, cost, quality: pick two.
(I am a web developer with over ten years of professional experience. Your attitude is great and it sounds like you're learning fast. Don't listen to the know-it-alls who think they're hot shit. They're not, they're just loud.)
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strpos and friends are one of a few exceptions, to which developers are prominently alerted in the documentation.
Yes, why NOT rewrite the entire language tokenizer for vague reasons of potentially avoiding a single keystroke?
Honestly I find == good enough for normal usage in PHP. Javascript is another matter.
Fuck the haters.
This is a phrase you should repeat to yourself. If someone can't understand your mental issues, and doesn't give you an ounce of compassion, they're simply not worth your time or consideration. There are, unfortunately, a lot of such people in the world. There are also a lot of people who DO care. When you're depressed, the latter group can tend to fade completely into the former.
Get yourself to a doctor. Get family to help if you can. Even if you find that drugs do not help -- and while I understand that your mother had a serious problem with them in the past -- they're probably not going to immediately send you to a mental institution. If you do get a prescription, do some due diligence yourself. The internet is full of information that was previously only available to doctors. This is why, when a family member was prescribed Paxil a few years ago, I urged caution and told them to be on the lookout for the feeling of "electricity", because it was part of a well-known terrible side effect and withdrawal effect. It's a good thing, too, because they encountered this, so we worked to get them off of the drug and onto something different.
The antidepressants I have experience with were quite low dose, but we still did have to try a couple before we found one that worked with a minimum of side effects. Any good doctor would know this and work with you. If you get a doctor that doesn't schedule a follow-up visit in 30 days after prescribing you an antidepressant / antianxiety medication, find another doctor.
Even if you're not prescribed a medication, having someone to talk to would be beneficial by itself. This is not something you should have to go alone. You (likely) have a problem with your brain chemistry. The reason that it seems easy for everyone else is that they DON'T have a problem with their brain chemistry; it IS easier for them. That's NOT your fault.
Becoming brave is a noble goal, but you should embrace the idea that this is a medical condition that needs treatment. If other people disagree and think you can just "power through it", fuck em. They don't get it, and probably never will.
Are you on any sort of treatment for your social anxiety? You don't mention it in your text. If not, why not?
Well, I'm glad someone is keeping their egos in check.
Become a prostitute. Writing code isn't about money, it's about passion.
As it happens, so is your alternative.
I bet Gnome kills classic mode because too many people are using it.
Doesn't Comedy Central restrict streaming off of their website directly to the US?
(I mean, sure, you could pretty trivially get around it with a proxy based in the US, but still.)
Long-time Linux user here. I gotta disagree. MS Office is tangibly better in a lot of ways (mostly the ones that the GP posted as a sibling to this post) than LibreOffice.
You would do the free software community a service by not trumping up free software and simply describing it as it is. LibreOffice has a lot of use cases, but Office is still a very well put together set of productivity apps.
Go learn a programming language and build something. Grab some decent books on the subjects necessary (PHP, MySQL, RDBMS architecture in general, CSS, HTML, Javascript, design); online tutorials are great but personally I find books to pack more valuable data in one place. I suggest (and I'm going to get attacked for this, but oh well) PHP and MySQL, and that you go build a forum (with user registration, threads, posts, profiles, etc.). I think that's about the right scope to be able to put on your resume while still being possible to do in your spare time. I should know, I built one about a decade ago, and I'm now a professional web developer with a great startup, about to release a mobile app for several clients nationwide.
If you want to stay with Microsoft, you could do the same thing in ASP.NET and SQL Server in place of PHP and MySQL (though I find that using Microsoft technology stacks tends to silo you from the rest of the development world). Or you could go all new-age and use Rails or other frameworks.
Even if you don't want to be a developer, this will give you a thing to point to on your resume / cover letter to say "see, I have experience with these methodologies" even if you've never worked with them professionally.
My conclusion was that they rounded the grades to certain points. I'm not sure where he got the inference of malice or tampering, other than bumping failing grades up, which isn't exactly malicious (though probably unfair).
Never attribute to malice that which can be explained by stupidity... or policy.
Also, I give this guy a couple of days, a week max, before he's in jail for quite a while.
In fact, parent mentioned the lawsuit as "World Wildlife Fund v. World Wrestling Federation", when the plaintiff is usually in the former slot of a lawsuit, seemingly indicating that the World Wildlife Fund initiated.
Huh, I always thought it was the other way around. Can you cite?
He's the real deal, I've seen him post before.
Honestly, it depends what he's trying to do. If he's moving files around, or doing word processing, sure, maintain a history and allow reversibility, wiki-style. If he's running a nuclear power plant, it might be a tad more difficult to recover from a bad operation. The question isn't detailed enough to allow for a decent answer.
[ off_topic ] Welcome back to Slashdot! Good to see you here again, and a little surprising. Have you ever considered running a simulated US Federal Government? I have been toying with the idea for a few years, and it seems there would be quite a few overlaps with wiki technology and processes (document version management, online elections, that sort of thing). I'd be curious to see what the internet would do with the federal government if given the ability to write and vote on (theoretical) bills, in addition perhaps to real bills in process through Congress. Allow users to offer themselves up for election, and vote on users to form an "Internet US Government", as an experiment. I think at least in this country, the Federal Government is the most broken part... and I think crowdsourcing part of it, at least as an experiment, would be a good way to start fixing it (it seems the real thing is too entrenched to get any real change done). If nothing else, it would be an interesting educational piece. Let me know what you think if you get time. Thanks! [ /off_topic ]
I'm not sure I would consider forcing the used game buyers to buy new instead a "failure" from Microsoft's perspective.
Anecdotally, we switched to Maria from MySQL during a move to a cloud architecture, and haven't had any major problems with it.
The guy I'd need to hire would have to know a lot of languages and be proficient in all of them. Plus, I can't afford to pay someone $100k/year right now.
Sounds like you're screwed.
Look, if you're not willing to pay for talent, and consider that a cost of doing good business, then you have no right doing what you're doing. Speed, cost, quality: pick two.
Like all class action lawsuits, end users will see next to nothing, and more likely than not will actually see a coupon.
"Sir, they just don't want to have their internet filtered."
"Do it anyway and don't tell them about it. They'll get used to it eventually."
I read that as "Space Station Cow Prepares for Emergency Spacewalk" and was momentarily excited for pictures.
Yes, the guy should totally judge his employability by a theoretical programming robot that doesn't currently exist.
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(I am a web developer with over ten years of professional experience. Your attitude is great and it sounds like you're learning fast. Don't listen to the know-it-alls who think they're hot shit. They're not, they're just loud.)
Nah.
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