Agreed, I've rambled about my old internship a few times in the comments for this article, and I am happy that I learned not to believe all the promised benefits and bonuses that I am not contractually obligated to. Working 70 hour weeks for $600 with the promises of bonuses totaling in the thousands that, hey look! I never got them! Just some fast money and burned through in the 5 hours I week I wasn't at school or interning or sleeping!
I am not a morning person and when I had an internship I would come in later. But hey, it was also 30 hours a week (but wait actually no you have to do 70 hours a week! even though you are in school!) and I would often work 10-14 hours a day. Not paid hourly, btw. I guess finally realizing I was being used and quitting means I don't have a good work ethic:) All these arguments sound like things my boss used to say. Fact is, I couldn't party when I had this job; I pushed my friends away and almost my girlfriend. I was tired and up all night because I was partying? Hah yeah right I was up all night doing homework, or actually, at the office until 4 AM:) My boss would also say I was distracted a lot. Well hey, working 70 hour weeks before school mean that when I wake up for work and don't get that much done in the morning when I come in, I guess it's my fault. The people older than me pulled in upper middle class salaries and didn't stay as long as me. I got $600 a week, but I had to pay for my cabs (yeah, I needed cabs unless I wanted to wake up even earlier so I could do a triple transfer subway ride plus 20 minute walk). My mistake was committing myself. I am never gonna work that much again, unless it's for myself. Sorry:) PS: I think if I had a normal job, where working every single weekend as an "emergency" wasn't the case, I might be a bit more productive, call me crazy
Anyway, I know you aren't talking about me specifically but you really said a lot of things that I feel were used against me, when I was working my ass off and pretty much being treated like a lazy failure. This was as a fucking intern, too. Especially the party bullshit. That was the worst; everyone assuming I was tired because I would stay out all night partying when I pretty much stopped talking to all my fucking friends. Maybe I'm tired because I'm doing school (full time job) plus 70 hours a week? Maybe I'm tired because I came in at 11am and left at 4am so I could wake up again at 8am unless I wanna just miss class again and fuck up my grades even more? I fucking wished I was partying like a normal college student.
We can play this game with any arbitrary innovation at any point in history, buddy, but in the end SMS is not leading to collapse of society. Innovation leads to change and change leads to pissed off people who are so stuck in their ways that they cannot deal with the fact there are things now that weren't there before. Slashdot didn't always exist, why don't nerds just gather at bi-annual conventions to discuss things? It's so impulsive to have news stories updated regularly along with the ability to comment in real time regardless of location. This new level of communicative ability is really stifling to patience and the old timey way of not being able to talk with people about similar interests and news stories relevant to one's lifestyle!
I can totally relate to this. I had an internship last year (as a Junior in college) where I was told I would have to work 30 hrs/week at least. This is already a lot for a part time job, but I was going to get $400 a week. Of course this sounded enticing. Well this was November and shit ended up getting hardcore. I dropped out in the beginning of April; by that point I was making $600 a week (this was all flat rate, not hourly), but I was working up to 70 hour weeks (this was BEFORE school factored in, classes and homework). I spent pretty much my entire winter break working, weekends and all, along with spring break (I worked weekends consistently through January and February until I finally spoke up). My transportation wasn't paid for and when you have 10-14 hour days and work across town, you end up taking expensive cab rides so my salary already lost $25 a day, for the most part. I wasted away and my girlfriend was depressed, I couldn't hang out with my friends and I couldn't lift at the gym and lost a lot of the muscle I had put on. I finally had to quit because finals were coming up and I couldn't handle it. Now, over the summer, I have to work on a paper that I didn't do well on but had a nice enough professor that she gave me an incomplete so that I could work on the paper after the term and get at best, a C in the class. My other classes I didn't do all that much better in, but luckily I get credit for all of them (even the major classes) so it's not the end of the world. However the stress literally made me waste away and push away people around me. My parents just assumed I hated them because I stopped going home as often.
My girlfriend constantly told me I was getting used, and I blew her off refusing to believe her and would get angry thinking she just didn't want me to succeed.
Finally, I saw the light and realized I didn't like where I was in life. The hardest part was breaking away from the "cool company" ideal every young developer dreams of in high school and realizing how full of shit it generally is when a business tries to appeal to your fun side and act relatable. It's worse than a high school assembly where some 20 year olds try and come in and act relatable so they can warn you about the evils of sex and drugs. If I'm in a work environment, then it should be relaxed but it shouldn't constantly pretend it understands where I'm coming from while feeding me bullshit.
I had to eventually "buy out of" the whole idea that the work I was doing was important; that our small dev shop was better than everyone else's small dev shop and all the other internal propaganda that gets circulated around. This is the hardest to do because the reason you work so many hours is because you are tricked into thinking that by doing so you are going to become the next 20 something year old billionaire if just put enough hours in and that everything your company thinks of is gold. In the end, just like every other small dev shop, it's people scrambling around in the twilight of the social networking boom trying to latch on to the one or two social networks that will remain relevant even after the bubble bursts (think the Amazons and Ebays of Web 2.0 compared to whatever the hell websites thought they had a future back in 1998 that no one remembers or cares about).
The good thing to come out of all of this is that I learned my lesson and got some experience. I want to make it, but I'm not going to listen to any management bullshit that I need to work mandatory unpaid overtime to get there. No one "makes it" putting their life into someone else's company. The only time working a job significantly more than M-F, 9-5 is if it is your company or partly your company. If you have an idea or you and a friend have an idea, then you put your life into it. If someone has an idea, don't let them hire you to put your life into it. There is no reason to ever do this much work for someone else because you will never reap the benefits. I was strung along with guarantees of a couple thousand here, a couple thous
No, but it means if there is a growing trend of atheists liking people in the name of atheism, it would not go unnoticed as a new rise in religious fanaticism.
Tell us what else you pity, negRo_slim. We are all really excited to here about things you look down upon from your Cheeto dust encrusted throne. Women? Alcohol? Parties? Why, the possibilities are endless! Look at all these people doing things like "socializing" and "giving a shit about how they come across to others", what a bunch of conformist tools.
See, a lot of the Slashdot crowd has chosen not to interact with real people due to a myriad of insecurities hidden by a superiority complex. This presents itself worst when they start to pant and whine about other people mentioning situations in which one is in forced proximity with other people with whom you may have to "socially interact". Mentioning any sort of situation like this causes bouts of anxiety fueled nerdrage in which the perceived aggressor is mocked and jeered through choked back tears of bitter, vitriol-fueled anguish on a playing field sympathetic to such unrealistic and unhealthy views (Slashdot).
There are nuns who have nothing who do good works as well, and I'm not denying that there are charitable people who do good works and make contributions that are important, who aren't rich. My point is, philanthropy is tied to wealth because it's using one's personal wealth to better humanity; something that can generally only be done when one has a substantial amount of money.
If you don't like Apple products you don't have to use them. Seriously, the whole shift from hating M$ to hating Apple is just more of the same "I HATE YOU FAGGUTS" asperging bullshit and if you can't exist in a world with companies that you don't like, then fuck yourself and die. Use Loonix or 7 or whatever operating system makes your dick feel a couple of inches bigger and kill yourself.
Well I honestly don't know much about Vista or 7 but back when I was an XP user and Windows was hated by the Slashdot crowd more than Apple, I remember everyone would ramble on about how Windows was inherently less secure than Unix and BSD derivatives, mainly in regard to how each handled user privileges (the fact that Unix and BSD have root which is only specifically accessed for certain tasks I think was a big point).
I would probably use regex for this. If the language didn't support regex, I would assume that this was a much smaller scale app or utility and then review my options based on that, but for any good sized project, regex would do the job better than any sort of native character comparisons and I can't imagine there is any serious development language that doesn't have a regex library or regex support.
This is quite possibly the stupidest thing I've ever read in my life. How many broke ass philanthropists do you know? How many middle class, family providing philanthropists do you know? How many struggling worker philanthropists do you know? All these people may do good works or contribute to charity when they can but a philanthropist's life is moving large sums of their money around to places where he or she feels it can help people.
It doesn't matter how smugly you can act like what you're doing is only interpreted as a threat, when you are on the internet, but I'm sure in an actual court you would be found guilty of something.
In America, we have Best Buy and then local big name stores, it seems like. Usually the local big name guys are named after someone and their family like P.C. Richards & Sons. I always use Best Buy. Sure the salesmen are generally what you would expect but if you have any clue what you are talking about they will send you where you need to go. I was looking for a female DVI to male HDMI converter a few weeks ago and Best Buy had one for $30 (a rip off seeing that DVI can be turned into HDMI without conversion and the "conversion" is just capping a DVI cable with an HDMI connector that doesn't carry sound.. whatever AV shit is pointlessly expensive I get it). Anyway I go to P.C. Richards to see if they have one for less, just to shop around. Big mistake. Some fucking guy with a heavy Brooklyn accent is like "yeah over heres" and I see hes pointed me to male DVI to female HDMI. I clarify I want the other way around and he's like "DEY DONT MAKE DOZE" and walks off. Fuck you buddy, I'll go to Best Buy then and pay $30 I don't need to go to a seedy "family operated" shit hole electronics store that reeks of damaged goods and scams. The fuck if I'm ever going back into that craphole. That's why family operated businesses are dying; no one wants to put up with the colorful people running these shit holes, they just want a conglomerate where they can get their shit and get out without being treated like crap by some Jersey Shore reject who thinks selling overpriced triple shielded gold plated RCA cabling to mouth breathing idiots makes him an electronics guy.
These places are never honest, they are barely a step up from the electronics stores you see in the shitty areas selling fresh off the truck stereo systems and club lighting that looks like it found it's way from "FIRE HAZARD RECALL" into their stupid cash only ghettotronic shit hole.
You can't lie about "rules" coming from high up in your distribution channel, like "oh Apple says you have to buy accessories, sorry not our rules". This is illegal, because you are deceiving a customer. You could say "oh we're only selling it as a bundle here, sorry".
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Agreed, I've rambled about my old internship a few times in the comments for this article, and I am happy that I learned not to believe all the promised benefits and bonuses that I am not contractually obligated to. Working 70 hour weeks for $600 with the promises of bonuses totaling in the thousands that, hey look! I never got them! Just some fast money and burned through in the 5 hours I week I wasn't at school or interning or sleeping!
I am not a morning person and when I had an internship I would come in later. But hey, it was also 30 hours a week (but wait actually no you have to do 70 hours a week! even though you are in school!) and I would often work 10-14 hours a day. Not paid hourly, btw. I guess finally realizing I was being used and quitting means I don't have a good work ethic :) All these arguments sound like things my boss used to say. Fact is, I couldn't party when I had this job; I pushed my friends away and almost my girlfriend. I was tired and up all night because I was partying? Hah yeah right I was up all night doing homework, or actually, at the office until 4 AM :) My boss would also say I was distracted a lot. Well hey, working 70 hour weeks before school mean that when I wake up for work and don't get that much done in the morning when I come in, I guess it's my fault. The people older than me pulled in upper middle class salaries and didn't stay as long as me. I got $600 a week, but I had to pay for my cabs (yeah, I needed cabs unless I wanted to wake up even earlier so I could do a triple transfer subway ride plus 20 minute walk). My mistake was committing myself. I am never gonna work that much again, unless it's for myself. Sorry :) PS: I think if I had a normal job, where working every single weekend as an "emergency" wasn't the case, I might be a bit more productive, call me crazy
Anyway, I know you aren't talking about me specifically but you really said a lot of things that I feel were used against me, when I was working my ass off and pretty much being treated like a lazy failure. This was as a fucking intern, too. Especially the party bullshit. That was the worst; everyone assuming I was tired because I would stay out all night partying when I pretty much stopped talking to all my fucking friends. Maybe I'm tired because I'm doing school (full time job) plus 70 hours a week? Maybe I'm tired because I came in at 11am and left at 4am so I could wake up again at 8am unless I wanna just miss class again and fuck up my grades even more? I fucking wished I was partying like a normal college student.
We can play this game with any arbitrary innovation at any point in history, buddy, but in the end SMS is not leading to collapse of society. Innovation leads to change and change leads to pissed off people who are so stuck in their ways that they cannot deal with the fact there are things now that weren't there before. Slashdot didn't always exist, why don't nerds just gather at bi-annual conventions to discuss things? It's so impulsive to have news stories updated regularly along with the ability to comment in real time regardless of location. This new level of communicative ability is really stifling to patience and the old timey way of not being able to talk with people about similar interests and news stories relevant to one's lifestyle!
I can totally relate to this. I had an internship last year (as a Junior in college) where I was told I would have to work 30 hrs/week at least. This is already a lot for a part time job, but I was going to get $400 a week. Of course this sounded enticing. Well this was November and shit ended up getting hardcore. I dropped out in the beginning of April; by that point I was making $600 a week (this was all flat rate, not hourly), but I was working up to 70 hour weeks (this was BEFORE school factored in, classes and homework). I spent pretty much my entire winter break working, weekends and all, along with spring break (I worked weekends consistently through January and February until I finally spoke up). My transportation wasn't paid for and when you have 10-14 hour days and work across town, you end up taking expensive cab rides so my salary already lost $25 a day, for the most part. I wasted away and my girlfriend was depressed, I couldn't hang out with my friends and I couldn't lift at the gym and lost a lot of the muscle I had put on. I finally had to quit because finals were coming up and I couldn't handle it. Now, over the summer, I have to work on a paper that I didn't do well on but had a nice enough professor that she gave me an incomplete so that I could work on the paper after the term and get at best, a C in the class. My other classes I didn't do all that much better in, but luckily I get credit for all of them (even the major classes) so it's not the end of the world. However the stress literally made me waste away and push away people around me. My parents just assumed I hated them because I stopped going home as often.
My girlfriend constantly told me I was getting used, and I blew her off refusing to believe her and would get angry thinking she just didn't want me to succeed.
Finally, I saw the light and realized I didn't like where I was in life. The hardest part was breaking away from the "cool company" ideal every young developer dreams of in high school and realizing how full of shit it generally is when a business tries to appeal to your fun side and act relatable. It's worse than a high school assembly where some 20 year olds try and come in and act relatable so they can warn you about the evils of sex and drugs. If I'm in a work environment, then it should be relaxed but it shouldn't constantly pretend it understands where I'm coming from while feeding me bullshit.
I had to eventually "buy out of" the whole idea that the work I was doing was important; that our small dev shop was better than everyone else's small dev shop and all the other internal propaganda that gets circulated around. This is the hardest to do because the reason you work so many hours is because you are tricked into thinking that by doing so you are going to become the next 20 something year old billionaire if just put enough hours in and that everything your company thinks of is gold. In the end, just like every other small dev shop, it's people scrambling around in the twilight of the social networking boom trying to latch on to the one or two social networks that will remain relevant even after the bubble bursts (think the Amazons and Ebays of Web 2.0 compared to whatever the hell websites thought they had a future back in 1998 that no one remembers or cares about).
The good thing to come out of all of this is that I learned my lesson and got some experience. I want to make it, but I'm not going to listen to any management bullshit that I need to work mandatory unpaid overtime to get there. No one "makes it" putting their life into someone else's company. The only time working a job significantly more than M-F, 9-5 is if it is your company or partly your company. If you have an idea or you and a friend have an idea, then you put your life into it. If someone has an idea, don't let them hire you to put your life into it. There is no reason to ever do this much work for someone else because you will never reap the benefits. I was strung along with guarantees of a couple thousand here, a couple thous
And by liking I mean killing. Although liking does relate to Facebook :/
No, but it means if there is a growing trend of atheists liking people in the name of atheism, it would not go unnoticed as a new rise in religious fanaticism.
Don't worry my karma is shot for defending Apple. We're not so different, you and I, Zelgadiss.
I wasn't referring to SQL, I was referring to the abrrsct example provided by the parent of my OP
Conveniently, Doom is in the film as well so we can also test violent video games!
Tell us what else you pity, negRo_slim. We are all really excited to here about things you look down upon from your Cheeto dust encrusted throne. Women? Alcohol? Parties? Why, the possibilities are endless! Look at all these people doing things like "socializing" and "giving a shit about how they come across to others", what a bunch of conformist tools.
There is no Apple "culture". Slashdot creates one to rage against. Sort of like Emmanuel Goldstein, or "popular kids" in high school.
Yeah I know right man? People buying things and other people selling them. WHAT IS THE WORLD COMING TO
See, a lot of the Slashdot crowd has chosen not to interact with real people due to a myriad of insecurities hidden by a superiority complex. This presents itself worst when they start to pant and whine about other people mentioning situations in which one is in forced proximity with other people with whom you may have to "socially interact". Mentioning any sort of situation like this causes bouts of anxiety fueled nerdrage in which the perceived aggressor is mocked and jeered through choked back tears of bitter, vitriol-fueled anguish on a playing field sympathetic to such unrealistic and unhealthy views (Slashdot).
Sounds like Nietzche had he been around in the mid 1990s
There are nuns who have nothing who do good works as well, and I'm not denying that there are charitable people who do good works and make contributions that are important, who aren't rich. My point is, philanthropy is tied to wealth because it's using one's personal wealth to better humanity; something that can generally only be done when one has a substantial amount of money.
If you don't like Apple products you don't have to use them. Seriously, the whole shift from hating M$ to hating Apple is just more of the same "I HATE YOU FAGGUTS" asperging bullshit and if you can't exist in a world with companies that you don't like, then fuck yourself and die. Use Loonix or 7 or whatever operating system makes your dick feel a couple of inches bigger and kill yourself.
Well I honestly don't know much about Vista or 7 but back when I was an XP user and Windows was hated by the Slashdot crowd more than Apple, I remember everyone would ramble on about how Windows was inherently less secure than Unix and BSD derivatives, mainly in regard to how each handled user privileges (the fact that Unix and BSD have root which is only specifically accessed for certain tasks I think was a big point).
I would probably use regex for this. If the language didn't support regex, I would assume that this was a much smaller scale app or utility and then review my options based on that, but for any good sized project, regex would do the job better than any sort of native character comparisons and I can't imagine there is any serious development language that doesn't have a regex library or regex support.
Nope :)
This is quite possibly the stupidest thing I've ever read in my life. How many broke ass philanthropists do you know? How many middle class, family providing philanthropists do you know? How many struggling worker philanthropists do you know? All these people may do good works or contribute to charity when they can but a philanthropist's life is moving large sums of their money around to places where he or she feels it can help people.
...of minerals
Sounds likewe won't be able to become independent of these nations after all, even of we abandon oil.
It doesn't matter how smugly you can act like what you're doing is only interpreted as a threat, when you are on the internet, but I'm sure in an actual court you would be found guilty of something.
In America, we have Best Buy and then local big name stores, it seems like. Usually the local big name guys are named after someone and their family like P.C. Richards & Sons. I always use Best Buy. Sure the salesmen are generally what you would expect but if you have any clue what you are talking about they will send you where you need to go. I was looking for a female DVI to male HDMI converter a few weeks ago and Best Buy had one for $30 (a rip off seeing that DVI can be turned into HDMI without conversion and the "conversion" is just capping a DVI cable with an HDMI connector that doesn't carry sound.. whatever AV shit is pointlessly expensive I get it). Anyway I go to P.C. Richards to see if they have one for less, just to shop around. Big mistake. Some fucking guy with a heavy Brooklyn accent is like "yeah over heres" and I see hes pointed me to male DVI to female HDMI. I clarify I want the other way around and he's like "DEY DONT MAKE DOZE" and walks off. Fuck you buddy, I'll go to Best Buy then and pay $30 I don't need to go to a seedy "family operated" shit hole electronics store that reeks of damaged goods and scams. The fuck if I'm ever going back into that craphole. That's why family operated businesses are dying; no one wants to put up with the colorful people running these shit holes, they just want a conglomerate where they can get their shit and get out without being treated like crap by some Jersey Shore reject who thinks selling overpriced triple shielded gold plated RCA cabling to mouth breathing idiots makes him an electronics guy.
These places are never honest, they are barely a step up from the electronics stores you see in the shitty areas selling fresh off the truck stereo systems and club lighting that looks like it found it's way from "FIRE HAZARD RECALL" into their stupid cash only ghettotronic shit hole.
You can't lie about "rules" coming from high up in your distribution channel, like "oh Apple says you have to buy accessories, sorry not our rules". This is illegal, because you are deceiving a customer. You could say "oh we're only selling it as a bundle here, sorry".