I saw a similar tactic recently from a non-open-source product. We are implementing a properly licensed software package. The purchased license comes with support. I contacted support because I'm trying to use their import functionality to import an xml file, and the data wasn't importing correctly. The response that I received was "There's something wrong with your xml file. If you want us to tell you what's wrong with it, you must purchase our *Premium* support package." After running some SQL traces, I figured out that it was a bug. I was able to fix it by altering one of their stored procedures.
"Obama has let slip more than any politician I can recall in years" Wow. People you've already forgotten George W. Bush?
"yet half the country still slavishly supports him, and thinks he's going to deliver them to some Nirvana of some sort- free from all suffering and, I dunno, rainbows and ponies or something."
No. We just think he's going to screw it up less than the other guy. You know. The one who thinks airplane windows should roll down, dogs like to ride strapped to the roofs of cars and cutting taxes magically fixes the deficit.
jerk: someone who makes up spurious definitions to common terms and then applies those definitions in order to make other people seem less credible. </irony>
According to Merriam-Webster: Geek (noun): 1: a carnival performer often billed as a wild man whose act usually includes biting the head off a live chicken or snake 2: a person often of an intellectual bent who is disliked 3: an enthusiast or expert especially in a technological field or activity <computer geek>
Cake Day, Massage Day, paintballing, etc... and you want to do more carrot less stick? If you seriously have all of these motivational perks and your team isn't responding, then I think it is time to pull out the stick. People shouldn't be in constant fear for their jobs, but they shouldn't assume they can slack off all day every day without repercussions, either.
If we remove the adjective "Brilliant", it seems that the original post is saying that people who produce things are jerks and business people aren't. That would be the opposite of my experience.
It also sounds like he's saying, "We have a guy who did all the work to get us off the ground. He's not as necessary anymore, so the PHBs want to sideline him and reap the benefits of his hard work."
Perhaps you should think about giving HIM a golden parachute like you would one of your "Brilliant Business People" buddies.
FYI, your "fact" that "the only growing sector of the economy is government" Is utter bullshit. According to the Bureau of Labor Statistics, Government jobs have declined nationally since June of 2010 -- Remember because of all the budget cuts. Mean while the private sector has added jobs every month since March of 2010.
Wanna talk about villification, lets talk about the vilification of Government, instead.
Masturbation is mentioned at the end of that definition: jerk (n.2) "tedious and ineffectual person," 1935 (the lyric in "Big Rock Candy Mountain" apparently is "Where they hung the Turk [not jerk] that invented work"), Amer.Eng. carnival slang, of uncertain origin. Perhaps from jerkwater town (1878), where a steam locomotive crew had to take on boiler water from a trough or a creek because there was no water tank [Barnhart, OED]. This led 1890s to an adjectival use of jerk as "inferior, insignificant." Alternatively, or influenced by, verbal phrase jerk off "masturbate" [Rawson].
"Voting for" an amendment is a bit different from "Co-Sponsoring" an amendment. The latter implies that he had some editorial control over the content.
There are two kinds of people who have read Ayn Rand... Those who understand her ideas and see them as value to society... and those who are too stupid to understand.
Because obviously, if someone doesn't agree with your way of thinking, the only possible explanation is that they're stupid.
You said that you were wearing jeans and t-shirts, so we can assume that is within the cultural norm. I would suggest trading in the T-shirt for something with a collar on it. In order to maintain your geek-cred, you could check out the "First Party" line of shirts over at penny-arcade.
Well, I've known since "Wargames" that any teenager with an acoustic coupler modem could hack into a government super-computer. The password is the programmer's kid's name, for chrissakes.
Yes, you were delusional if you thought that stuff that you made digital and put on a network was somehow "safe". Somehow, eventually, it's going to make it to the public. Ask any teenage starlet who send nude pictures to her boyfriend's cellphone.
This is why my wife only lets me take her nude pictures with a poloroid. Man, I wish they'd fix the resolution on those things.
Even if you use a web-client to access your email, the email still uses other protocols (POP, SMTP, IMAP) to move from server to server. So yes, we are using things other than the World Wide Web. Also, I thought Web Services are were being obsoleted by WPF Services and the like...No longer restricted to HTTP protocol.
You're right. Bush didn't ask congress. Instead, he created Gitmo, Abu Graib and CIA black sites without asking Congress. Oh, and when Obama tried to shut down Gitmo, the Republicans in Congress blocked him.
I work as a consultant through a consulting firm. Sometimes I'm in a "staffing position" where I go work onsite at a client and sometimes I work with our internal "Development Center" for projects that have been farmed out to us. We are all American and we have people all over the country -- many working remotely. We provide top-notch work and we often have clients ask us back for new projects. And, we're not cheap. Some of our clients give us restricted access to their source control. For some projects we host the source control. We can provide project management services if necessary. You can pretty much have as tight or loose of control as you want. Our clients are happy with this work.
I have also worked at several places (previous to this job) where work was sent to another country. I've been involved with at least 5 projects where that happened. IT NEVER WORKS OUT. On three of those projects, I was brought in specifically to fix code that was written (poorly) by coders in other countries.
So, like the others said. You get what you pay for. And paying for cheap workers in other countries is never worth it.
Most modern IDEs have some sort of code-formatter that would end up making it the same. Also, having similar coding standards would make you end up with the same indentation.
And he's pissed at that other woman's poo flinging to get free pills paid for by our tax dollars.
Obviously, you never heard what she actually said, only the lies that he made up about her. This whole thing was about PRIVATE INSURANCE not YOUR TAX DOLLARS. The only thing your tax dollars had to do with it was that they had to spend money having a second hearing because they refused to let any women speak at the first one.
Being that you "went to university" and studied "maths", I assume you were not in the U.S. Most of this discussion has been around how broken the American system is.
That being said, I was not expected to simply do rote memorization or learn to the test in either my public High School or the small liberal arts college where I did my undergrad work. Of course, that was over a decade before No Child Left Behind...
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I saw a similar tactic recently from a non-open-source product. We are implementing a properly licensed software package. The purchased license comes with support. I contacted support because I'm trying to use their import functionality to import an xml file, and the data wasn't importing correctly. The response that I received was "There's something wrong with your xml file. If you want us to tell you what's wrong with it, you must purchase our *Premium* support package." After running some SQL traces, I figured out that it was a bug. I was able to fix it by altering one of their stored procedures.
"Obama has let slip more than any politician I can recall in years"
Wow. People you've already forgotten George W. Bush?
"yet half the country still slavishly supports him, and thinks he's going to deliver them to some Nirvana of some sort- free from all suffering and, I dunno, rainbows and ponies or something."
No. We just think he's going to screw it up less than the other guy. You know. The one who thinks airplane windows should roll down, dogs like to ride strapped to the roofs of cars and cutting taxes magically fixes the deficit.
jerk: someone who makes up spurious definitions to common terms and then applies those definitions in order to make other people seem less credible.
</irony>
According to Merriam-Webster:
Geek (noun):
1: a carnival performer often billed as a wild man whose act usually includes biting the head off a live chicken or snake
2: a person often of an intellectual bent who is disliked
3: an enthusiast or expert especially in a technological field or activity <computer geek>
something that will be the biggest success for probably the rest of our lives
I bet you're a lot of fun at parties....
For the record, bicycle helmets are not mandatory for adults in the US ... at least not in my city/state (Louisville, KY).
Cake Day, Massage Day, paintballing, etc... and you want to do more carrot less stick? If you seriously have all of these motivational perks and your team isn't responding, then I think it is time to pull out the stick. People shouldn't be in constant fear for their jobs, but they shouldn't assume they can slack off all day every day without repercussions, either.
If we remove the adjective "Brilliant", it seems that the original post is saying that people who produce things are jerks and business people aren't. That would be the opposite of my experience.
It also sounds like he's saying, "We have a guy who did all the work to get us off the ground. He's not as necessary anymore, so the PHBs want to sideline him and reap the benefits of his hard work."
Perhaps you should think about giving HIM a golden parachute like you would one of your "Brilliant Business People" buddies.
FYI, your "fact" that "the only growing sector of the economy is government" Is utter bullshit. According to the Bureau of Labor Statistics, Government jobs have declined nationally since June of 2010 -- Remember because of all the budget cuts. Mean while the private sector has added jobs every month since March of 2010.
Wanna talk about villification, lets talk about the vilification of Government, instead.
Masturbation is mentioned at the end of that definition:
jerk (n.2) "tedious and ineffectual person," 1935 (the lyric in "Big Rock Candy Mountain" apparently is "Where they hung the Turk [not jerk] that invented work"), Amer.Eng. carnival slang, of uncertain origin. Perhaps from jerkwater town (1878), where a steam locomotive crew had to take on boiler water from a trough or a creek because there was no water tank [Barnhart, OED]. This led 1890s to an adjectival use of jerk as "inferior, insignificant." Alternatively, or influenced by, verbal phrase jerk off "masturbate" [Rawson].
"Voting for" an amendment is a bit different from "Co-Sponsoring" an amendment. The latter implies that he had some editorial control over the content.
I hadn't seen it yet, and you just gave away the ending. You insensitive clod!
There are two kinds of people who have read Ayn Rand... Those who understand her ideas and see them as value to society... and those who are too stupid to understand.
Because obviously, if someone doesn't agree with your way of thinking, the only possible explanation is that they're stupid.
You said that you were wearing jeans and t-shirts, so we can assume that is within the cultural norm. I would suggest trading in the T-shirt for something with a collar on it. In order to maintain your geek-cred, you could check out the "First Party" line of shirts over at penny-arcade.
On the other hand, a tweed jacket and a bow-tie would work.
"don't see any compelling reason to use it."
Maybe...all those things you just said?
That's what she said.
Same here.
Well, I've known since "Wargames" that any teenager with an acoustic coupler modem could hack into a government super-computer. The password is the programmer's kid's name, for chrissakes.
Yes, you were delusional if you thought that stuff that you made digital and put on a network was somehow "safe". Somehow, eventually, it's going to make it to the public. Ask any teenage starlet who send nude pictures to her boyfriend's cellphone.
This is why my wife only lets me take her nude pictures with a poloroid. Man, I wish they'd fix the resolution on those things.
Even if you use a web-client to access your email, the email still uses other protocols (POP, SMTP, IMAP) to move from server to server. So yes, we are using things other than the World Wide Web. Also, I thought Web Services are were being obsoleted by WPF Services and the like...No longer restricted to HTTP protocol.
You're right. Bush didn't ask congress. Instead, he created Gitmo, Abu Graib and CIA black sites without asking Congress. Oh, and when Obama tried to shut down Gitmo, the Republicans in Congress blocked him.
Pretty soon they'll start throwing people in prison without trial and torturing them!
No...wait...that was the other guys....
I work as a consultant through a consulting firm. Sometimes I'm in a "staffing position" where I go work onsite at a client and sometimes I work with our internal "Development Center" for projects that have been farmed out to us. We are all American and we have people all over the country -- many working remotely. We provide top-notch work and we often have clients ask us back for new projects. And, we're not cheap. Some of our clients give us restricted access to their source control. For some projects we host the source control. We can provide project management services if necessary. You can pretty much have as tight or loose of control as you want. Our clients are happy with this work.
I have also worked at several places (previous to this job) where work was sent to another country. I've been involved with at least 5 projects where that happened. IT NEVER WORKS OUT. On three of those projects, I was brought in specifically to fix code that was written (poorly) by coders in other countries.
So, like the others said. You get what you pay for. And paying for cheap workers in other countries is never worth it.
Most modern IDEs have some sort of code-formatter that would end up making it the same. Also, having similar coding standards would make you end up with the same indentation.
P.S. You gave no context for the 6th rule... How could I possibly be taking it out of context?
And he's pissed at that other woman's poo flinging to get free pills paid for by our tax dollars.
Obviously, you never heard what she actually said, only the lies that he made up about her. This whole thing was about PRIVATE INSURANCE not YOUR TAX DOLLARS. The only thing your tax dollars had to do with it was that they had to spend money having a second hearing because they refused to let any women speak at the first one.
Being that you "went to university" and studied "maths", I assume you were not in the U.S. Most of this discussion has been around how broken the American system is.
That being said, I was not expected to simply do rote memorization or learn to the test in either my public High School or the small liberal arts college where I did my undergrad work. Of course, that was over a decade before No Child Left Behind...