to all this patent nonsense. The software industry is so stifled by all this crap. And it's almost a necessity now. If a company didn't patent it's technology it's at a disadvantage from those companies that do. It allows competitors to both use their technology freely while at the same time leveraging their own patents to stop the company using the competitors technology. Guess it will take either a law change or some ballsy stance by a big player in the patent game to stop taking out patents...I'd vote the former will happen a long time before the latter.
That cell phone radiation does cause problems in brain tissue....in rats.
I can't help but shake my head in dismay when I read one of these sorts of "findings". Where they take some rats, or other animal, do some tests, claim something and expect us to extrapolate that to humans accurately. It reeks of bad scientific methodology to me.
Of course, that doesn't mean that cellphone radiation doesn't cause problems in people, it just means they should do real, scientific tests.
Maybe the fact that he can only articulate the change of tools as the reason means something else is going on - something more mental with no real tangible thing to blame. I've been near to quitting myself over the last couple of years, but I think I found out why I am feeling like that..
For a long time now I've been unhappy in my work. It's been boring, the product we once worked on (A world leader in it's class) has gone and the future is uncertain. I have been unable to motivate myself enough to find something enjoyable to work on and we are changing tools (Moving to.NET and C#). Even thinking about another job, or a career change seems to hit a dead end. I have been very close on a couple of occasions to quitting, and living off my savings for a bit until I find something else, but for the life of me I can't seem to get excited about anything!
Recently though I think I've come up with a reason - I am absolutely, utterly, exhausted - not just from work, not just computers, from everything. I work fulltime, I also do non-profit work (In another field entirely) after hours and add to that the general life stuff (housework etc etc) I have maybe a few hours a week to chill if I'm lucky. I'm always doing new things, and keeping busy. Even if I'm not doing "important" things I'm reading forums, learning new things, DIY'ing or whatever - I just do not know how to relax.
As this has started to dawn on me, I have tried to allow myself time to do nothing - drink a beer (On my new deck that I *had* to get busy on and build) and life has changed. Does it mean I get less done - yup. But it keeps me sane and it makes things so much clearer. I allow myself time to dwell, and explore other possiblities. And while this means I'm still sure I want to give up progamming, other possibilities are not so much dead ends anymore and I can now dedicate time to making the new path I take happen. And I can do this and work at my job for now, and pay my mortgage - which is kinda handy.
I guess what I'm saying is that as computer people, a lot of us are always thinking. Always programming, at work, home whatever. Always reading, learning - always trying to keep our minds busy cause we don't know how to manage when we don't - I see a lot of people like that everyday. This can lead us to eventually burn out, and making often rash decisions. We will want to find something to hate about a job so we can put our finger on something physical to quit over.
Whether the poster is like this or not, I don't know, but it might be an explanation.
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to all this patent nonsense. The software industry is so stifled by all this crap. And it's almost a necessity now. If a company didn't patent it's technology it's at a disadvantage from those companies that do. It allows competitors to both use their technology freely while at the same time leveraging their own patents to stop the company using the competitors technology. Guess it will take either a law change or some ballsy stance by a big player in the patent game to stop taking out patents...I'd vote the former will happen a long time before the latter.
That cell phone radiation does cause problems in brain tissue....in rats. I can't help but shake my head in dismay when I read one of these sorts of "findings". Where they take some rats, or other animal, do some tests, claim something and expect us to extrapolate that to humans accurately. It reeks of bad scientific methodology to me. Of course, that doesn't mean that cellphone radiation doesn't cause problems in people, it just means they should do real, scientific tests.
For a long time now I've been unhappy in my work. It's been boring, the product we once worked on (A world leader in it's class) has gone and the future is uncertain. I have been unable to motivate myself enough to find something enjoyable to work on and we are changing tools (Moving to .NET and C#). Even thinking about another job, or a career change seems to hit a dead end. I have been very close on a couple of occasions to quitting, and living off my savings for a bit until I find something else, but for the life of me I can't seem to get excited about anything!
Recently though I think I've come up with a reason - I am absolutely, utterly, exhausted - not just from work, not just computers, from everything. I work fulltime, I also do non-profit work (In another field entirely) after hours and add to that the general life stuff (housework etc etc) I have maybe a few hours a week to chill if I'm lucky. I'm always doing new things, and keeping busy. Even if I'm not doing "important" things I'm reading forums, learning new things, DIY'ing or whatever - I just do not know how to relax.
As this has started to dawn on me, I have tried to allow myself time to do nothing - drink a beer (On my new deck that I *had* to get busy on and build) and life has changed. Does it mean I get less done - yup. But it keeps me sane and it makes things so much clearer. I allow myself time to dwell, and explore other possiblities. And while this means I'm still sure I want to give up progamming, other possibilities are not so much dead ends anymore and I can now dedicate time to making the new path I take happen. And I can do this and work at my job for now, and pay my mortgage - which is kinda handy.
I guess what I'm saying is that as computer people, a lot of us are always thinking. Always programming, at work, home whatever. Always reading, learning - always trying to keep our minds busy cause we don't know how to manage when we don't - I see a lot of people like that everyday. This can lead us to eventually burn out, and making often rash decisions. We will want to find something to hate about a job so we can put our finger on something physical to quit over.
Whether the poster is like this or not, I don't know, but it might be an explanation.