No, it's a name for a person who's tried JavaScript and didn't like it because it's not identical to another language they already know. See also: People who bemoan that C++ doesn't have finally clauses in exception handling.
Employees wanting to enjoy their jobs is entitlement now.
Not just now, but always. The purpose for going to work is not to have an enjoyable time, it's to trade labor for money. Some jobs, like porta-potty cleaning, don't even really allow for enjoying the work.
With that said, however, some people take lesser paying jobs that are more enjoyable. If it's understood as part of the compensation package that's one thing. But otherwise, when it occurs (for those lucky enough for whom it can), it really is just an added bonus.
So unless you think you're somehow better than others, then you're not owed enjoyment at your job. (And if you think you're a better human being than those who do the more menial jobs, then the problem goes far beyond just a sense of entitlement.)
If you've followed Slashdot for any non-negligible amount of time, you should have grokked that 1) it's almost completely Leftists here, and 2) they define Left-wing software as that which is made and licensed to oppose capitalism; specifically, its for-profit and private property rights legs. So ads in copyleft software represents an obvious intrusion of the other side's values.
It still means that Windows Defender has possibly detected malware and isn't telling you about it.
That's the problem I have with Defender. I've been running Vista for a few years now, and early on when I first edited my hosts file it blocked it, either by setting it back silently and putting something in Defender's history or by prompting me, I can't remember which.
But the solution was to turn off hosts file protection in the Defender prefs. So I get to modify it all I want, but I don't get warned if something else does. Seems way too course-grained of a solution.
I wonder would it really be that big a deal to have a prompting option (and off by default, suitable for most users (who wouldn't modify their hosts file)) to allow intentional changes, and then a snapshot-based differencing system, for just that file.
Or maybe just leave anything alone that is pointed to localhost?
If you can't find a job now in IT, then you are either not qualified or you don't interview well.
Or you're unemployed. Where the longer you're unemployed, the more "unemployed == unemployable" evaluates to true. And unemployed == "not qualified" to HR.
And the music soundtracks. I may have lost some mid-range sensitivity from too many years of listening to metal, but I'm not the only one who's been complaining in the last few years that they can barely make out the dialog sometimes over the "background" music.
The ones I've seen have been directly run by govt. civilian program managers, with their military oversight person changing frequently as mentioned. These projects make slow and wasteful progress because the govie program mgrs seem to think it's a primary part of their job to jerk the contracting organizations around; make them suffer a little to make up for how good a thing they have going, it seems. So constant requirements churn and pressure to keep up, and evidently to justify your place on the contract.
And yet no different than in any other large organization, where you end up not working towards the org's goals per se, but to keep your immediate boss happy while s/he ego-trips and haphazardly goes from vision to vision of how the product should be. Then as long as their boss doesn't really know, or care (like if it's only a temporary assignment), dysfunction is permitted. In short, I think large orgs could use a team of roving, program-independent auditors that go around and visit ongoing projects and keep the middle mgrs from going off on their own.
I'm a Christian and I would say that you're perfectly justified in hating certain flavors of the belief in God/gods, as you are in hating certain flavors of political philosophies. You just wouldn't be if you hated all belief in God/gods like you wouldn't be if you hated all political philosophies.
So in summary, the former one is "so special" because it's not equivalent to those others in cardinality. The three are not directly comparable because the latter two are members of a set and the former is itself a (different) set.
What I want to know is how are they going to incorporate a love triangle, a secret pregnancy, little Timmy getting sick, and all the crying of 7th Heaven into a FPS?
I don't know why this was modded down; it's damn good advice. Technology has become easy enough that anyone who's been doing it can almost certainly continue to with sufficiently successful results. Now it's more a matter of can you fit in with the culture and personalities at a given place.
When I go for or sit in on interviews, it's pretty much assumed the candidate can do the job, so they want to know what s/he's like to work with. Be easy to work with. Do what it takes to pull that off, even if it goes against your true nature. That's your #1 job skill nowadays.
You should move to another job. At my previous job just a few years ago I started on the same day as another new-hire, me in the developer group and him in the IT group, and after about a year he mentioned that while he has to run around the building hand-holding the people in the various departments, he never has to walk down to our end of the building, and presumed (correctly) that we fix our own stuff.
I don't like answers like, "that's just the way we've always done it",
I estimate the average age of our technology staff to be about 45. From being there a little over a year now, it seems that the technical people willingly embrace new technology, but everyone who's been there a while (including our youngest) are reluctant to consider new processes. I wasn't expecting to actually ever hear the "because that's the way we've always done it" "argument" posited in my career, but I have now. A few times.
Interest and dedication in tech is more about how nerdy you are than age or gender or anything else.
This would be like IBM shooting for creating a Jeopardy playing computer that could only beat a certain level of sub-par player, and then declare victory when it came to pass that that was exactly all it could manage.
Good point, and one you come to realize on your own as you get later in your career, vice earlier when you're short on qualifications so you try to be as comprehensive about yourself as possible.
If specifically asked what is the highest degree you've attained, don't lie, but otherwise you tailor your resume to the job, leaving out the inapplicable stuff.
The Start Menu was a nice improvement over having 200 programs in program manager under Windows 3.1.
The Start Menu was an absurdity. Look at your All Programs view and it's a crapload of "program groups" all stuffed into a humongous list. Human beings do not work optimally with long, single-column lists. What's easier to get a feel for, that the SQL Server program group is the splotch that's 2 slots down and one to the right, or the hairline row that's 19 spaces from the bottom?
The Control Panel menu that flies off my Start Menu is so tall it has to scroll, and I've got 1200px of vertical space. Ridiculous. It looks like no thought of user-friendliness went into it and it was just what was easiest for the programmer. I heartily welcome back item grids. I want my progman.exe and winfile.exe equivalents.
Windows 3.1 with a 4-bit or 8-bit color scheme and beautiful 32-bit alpha-blended icons.
Yup, it looks very disjoint. If they're going to go with flat elements and everything solid-colored, they need to finish the transition.
It's amazing how it was not that many years ago that MS realized that PC graphics power had improved to the point that special effects could be applied to everything. And now they're realizing that PC's might not always be all there is. I imagine when portable devices get the power of today's PC that they'll cycle back to GUI gewgaws.
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No, it's a name for a person who's tried JavaScript and didn't like it because it's not identical to another language they already know. See also: People who bemoan that C++ doesn't have finally clauses in exception handling.
Not just now, but always. The purpose for going to work is not to have an enjoyable time, it's to trade labor for money. Some jobs, like porta-potty cleaning, don't even really allow for enjoying the work.
With that said, however, some people take lesser paying jobs that are more enjoyable. If it's understood as part of the compensation package that's one thing. But otherwise, when it occurs (for those lucky enough for whom it can), it really is just an added bonus.
So unless you think you're somehow better than others, then you're not owed enjoyment at your job. (And if you think you're a better human being than those who do the more menial jobs, then the problem goes far beyond just a sense of entitlement.)
If you've followed Slashdot for any non-negligible amount of time, you should have grokked that 1) it's almost completely Leftists here, and 2) they define Left-wing software as that which is made and licensed to oppose capitalism; specifically, its for-profit and private property rights legs. So ads in copyleft software represents an obvious intrusion of the other side's values.
But if competition is good, and competition includes theft, then the police and courts should be gotten rid of as well.
That's the problem I have with Defender. I've been running Vista for a few years now, and early on when I first edited my hosts file it blocked it, either by setting it back silently and putting something in Defender's history or by prompting me, I can't remember which.
But the solution was to turn off hosts file protection in the Defender prefs. So I get to modify it all I want, but I don't get warned if something else does. Seems way too course-grained of a solution.
I wonder would it really be that big a deal to have a prompting option (and off by default, suitable for most users (who wouldn't modify their hosts file)) to allow intentional changes, and then a snapshot-based differencing system, for just that file.
Or maybe just leave anything alone that is pointed to localhost?
Or you're unemployed. Where the longer you're unemployed, the more "unemployed == unemployable" evaluates to true. And unemployed == "not qualified" to HR.
And the music soundtracks. I may have lost some mid-range sensitivity from too many years of listening to metal, but I'm not the only one who's been complaining in the last few years that they can barely make out the dialog sometimes over the "background" music.
The ones I've seen have been directly run by govt. civilian program managers, with their military oversight person changing frequently as mentioned. These projects make slow and wasteful progress because the govie program mgrs seem to think it's a primary part of their job to jerk the contracting organizations around; make them suffer a little to make up for how good a thing they have going, it seems. So constant requirements churn and pressure to keep up, and evidently to justify your place on the contract.
And yet no different than in any other large organization, where you end up not working towards the org's goals per se, but to keep your immediate boss happy while s/he ego-trips and haphazardly goes from vision to vision of how the product should be. Then as long as their boss doesn't really know, or care (like if it's only a temporary assignment), dysfunction is permitted. In short, I think large orgs could use a team of roving, program-independent auditors that go around and visit ongoing projects and keep the middle mgrs from going off on their own.
I'm a Christian and I would say that you're perfectly justified in hating certain flavors of the belief in God/gods, as you are in hating certain flavors of political philosophies. You just wouldn't be if you hated all belief in God/gods like you wouldn't be if you hated all political philosophies.
So in summary, the former one is "so special" because it's not equivalent to those others in cardinality. The three are not directly comparable because the latter two are members of a set and the former is itself a (different) set.
What I want to know is how are they going to incorporate a love triangle, a secret pregnancy, little Timmy getting sick, and all the crying of 7th Heaven into a FPS?
Oops, that could be taken as insulting where absolutely not meant to be. Make that "...even if it goes against a part of your true nature."
I don't know why this was modded down; it's damn good advice. Technology has become easy enough that anyone who's been doing it can almost certainly continue to with sufficiently successful results. Now it's more a matter of can you fit in with the culture and personalities at a given place.
When I go for or sit in on interviews, it's pretty much assumed the candidate can do the job, so they want to know what s/he's like to work with. Be easy to work with. Do what it takes to pull that off, even if it goes against your true nature. That's your #1 job skill nowadays.
You should move to another job. At my previous job just a few years ago I started on the same day as another new-hire, me in the developer group and him in the IT group, and after about a year he mentioned that while he has to run around the building hand-holding the people in the various departments, he never has to walk down to our end of the building, and presumed (correctly) that we fix our own stuff.
Anyone who thinks this attitude correlates to being middle-aged and older has never worked in a university computer lab!
I estimate the average age of our technology staff to be about 45. From being there a little over a year now, it seems that the technical people willingly embrace new technology, but everyone who's been there a while (including our youngest) are reluctant to consider new processes. I wasn't expecting to actually ever hear the "because that's the way we've always done it" "argument" posited in my career, but I have now. A few times.
Interest and dedication in tech is more about how nerdy you are than age or gender or anything else.
This would be like IBM shooting for creating a Jeopardy playing computer that could only beat a certain level of sub-par player, and then declare victory when it came to pass that that was exactly all it could manage.
I would've never guessed George Thorogood could've even made it to that age, what with his pal Johnny Walker and his brothers Black and Red.
What other nations do is up to them. I'm not a globalist, so I wouldn't let them have an influence over what we do.
Don't drone me bro!
Got your education from the same place you got your political indoctrination I see.
A Do Not Kill list only needs one entry: American citizen.
Good point, and one you come to realize on your own as you get later in your career, vice earlier when you're short on qualifications so you try to be as comprehensive about yourself as possible.
If specifically asked what is the highest degree you've attained, don't lie, but otherwise you tailor your resume to the job, leaving out the inapplicable stuff.
Arbitrarily combining versions kinda destroys the distinction of skipping "every other" version. Try:
Consumer versions
3.0 Bad
3.1 Good
95 Good
98 Bad
98SE Good
ME Bad
Business versions
NT 3.51 Good
NT 4.0 Bad
2000 Good
XP Bad
Vista Good
7 Bad
8 Good?
The Start Menu was an absurdity. Look at your All Programs view and it's a crapload of "program groups" all stuffed into a humongous list. Human beings do not work optimally with long, single-column lists. What's easier to get a feel for, that the SQL Server program group is the splotch that's 2 slots down and one to the right, or the hairline row that's 19 spaces from the bottom?
The Control Panel menu that flies off my Start Menu is so tall it has to scroll, and I've got 1200px of vertical space. Ridiculous. It looks like no thought of user-friendliness went into it and it was just what was easiest for the programmer. I heartily welcome back item grids. I want my progman.exe and winfile.exe equivalents.
Or at least the functionality. Putting all my volumes in one mile-long list was a huge step backwards in usability.
Yup, it looks very disjoint. If they're going to go with flat elements and everything solid-colored, they need to finish the transition.
It's amazing how it was not that many years ago that MS realized that PC graphics power had improved to the point that special effects could be applied to everything. And now they're realizing that PC's might not always be all there is. I imagine when portable devices get the power of today's PC that they'll cycle back to GUI gewgaws.