In several companies I've seen several developers go from awesomely capable, really nice people, to frustrated crabs with no time to do good work. It's easy to resent them when they get to the latter state. You know they're good, but they don't have time for you.
Also, we all think we're better than average. We can't all be right.
There can indeed be a difference between being walked out on the spot, just as you've been notified; and actually being no longer employed. It can be hard to tell the difference emotionally as you carry your box of stuff out to your car, though. I was walked out. In a previous job, two positions were consolidated into one, and I got it. The previous occupant of the other stayed to help me come up to speed, and clearly hated every day of it. Now *that* is what I call professional courtesy. When I later left that company, I gave 2 weeks notice, and worked to the last day, past the last hour, and missed my 'going away' lunch, too boot. Now *that* is what I call silly.
It's the way of the world now. Even in non-IT positions, you should clean out your personal stuff well in advance, check around home to be sure you don't have any of their equipment, etc. If THEY need you to login again for some reason, they'll handle it.
Strange coincidence; I was contemplating Lord Rayleigh just yesterday. I did so while engaged in the same activity which supposedly inspired his analysis of flow through elliptical orifices. Of course, he was a little post-Elizabethan, and I'd like to think he wasn't photographing himself at the time:-)
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Over 30 years ago, Roger Waters knew what was coming. Cosmic ! Or merely Brain Damage...
NM has a very high per capita drunk driving rate, and it's hard to drive there for long without eeing some truly horrifying things (e.g., cars zig-zagging across all lanes of a freeway at 30 MPH, because the driver's reflexes are that shot; pedestrians staggering into traffic or down the middle of a highway.) As has already been commented here, most of these folks are well out of the income levels where they'll be buying a car anytime soon (does the bill include pickup trucks; SUVs ?) These are also people who will be unaffected be license revocation (that happened long ago, if they ever bothered to get one) or fines (you could impound the vehicle, but there's no fixed income or real assets.) This might reduce the rate of certain types of car theft, I guess. Bottom line: If you don't drink, don't drive:-)
Moller's Sky Car looks pretty cool, and footage of its test flights can be seen in lots of places (e.g. History Channel's big boy's toys.) Moller says the sky car will be in production within 4 years and ubiquitous in 10 years. I'm not sure which I'd trust more:-)
Today I received a paper-mail ad for a class by Tufte on "Presenting Data and Information". I believe his book is well regarded, but wonder what prompted this review at this time:-)
At the software company I work for, we have in the past had suggestions to employ similar phone-home schemes. Sometimes it's in the context of catching cheaters; more often it's a way to find what parts of the software do people most use. That kind of data can be priceless; the user often isn't really concious of what he uses, and only remembers the best and worst parts.
We have always refrained. (But once at another job, a developer surreptitiously added a system call to email to himself a message everytime his library was used; QA caught it, and he had his hand spanked.)
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That's all I'm looking at, anyway.
So I drive about 40% as much now as in the previous 20 years.
But I also drive less recreationally than 30 years ago, and I think that's partly due to Internet access.
Nothing of substance to add.
Isn't (wasn't) that 'For all intents and purposes' ? Or is that no longer a phrase ?
In several companies I've seen several developers go from awesomely capable, really nice people, to frustrated crabs with no time to do good work.
It's easy to resent them when they get to the latter state. You know they're good, but they don't have time for you.
Also, we all think we're better than average. We can't all be right.
There can indeed be a difference between being walked out on the spot, just as you've been notified; and actually being no longer employed.
It can be hard to tell the difference emotionally as you carry your box of stuff out to your car, though.
I was walked out.
In a previous job, two positions were consolidated into one, and I got it. The previous occupant of the other stayed to help me come up to speed, and clearly hated every day of it. Now *that* is what I call professional courtesy. When I later left that company, I gave 2 weeks notice, and worked to the last day, past the last hour, and missed my 'going away' lunch, too boot. Now *that* is what I call silly.
and if the Holy Therns had left the atmosphere plants alone, it still would.
... if he hit his head, I guess it's not inconceivable ?
Why only 5 TVs ?
and don't get pulled over for anything.
I wonder how big is the DNA content in a breathalyzer test?
if they're extraterritorial
but that's just 'cuz of my juvenile taste in fiction.
Now how will I keep the neighbors off the network ?
It's the way of the world now. Even in non-IT positions, you should clean out your
personal stuff well in advance, check around home to be sure you don't have any of
their equipment, etc.
If THEY need you to login again for some reason, they'll handle it.
Strange coincidence; I was contemplating Lord Rayleigh just yesterday. :-)
I did so while engaged in the same activity which supposedly inspired his
analysis of flow through elliptical orifices.
Of course, he was a little post-Elizabethan, and I'd like to think he
wasn't photographing himself at the time
Over 30 years ago, Roger Waters knew what was coming.
Cosmic ! Or merely Brain Damage...
Perhaps BayStar just plans to acquire SCO (and thereby its claims to Unix rights) so that they can pursue the rest of us more effectively ?
No, I guess not...
the cooperating employees are at snipermail,
according to the CNN article.
NM has a very high per capita drunk driving rate, and it's hard to drive there for long without eeing some truly horrifying things (e.g., cars zig-zagging across all lanes of a freeway at 30 MPH, because the driver's reflexes are that shot; pedestrians staggering into traffic or down the middle of a highway.) :-)
As has already been commented here, most of these folks are well out of the income levels where they'll be buying a car anytime soon (does the bill include pickup trucks; SUVs ?)
These are also people who will be unaffected be license revocation (that happened long ago, if they ever bothered to get one) or fines (you could impound the vehicle, but there's no fixed income or real assets.)
This might reduce the rate of certain types of car theft, I guess.
Bottom line: If you don't drink, don't drive
Moller's Sky Car looks pretty cool, and footage of its test flights can be seen in lots of places (e.g. History Channel's big boy's toys.) :-)
Moller says the sky car will be in production
within 4 years and ubiquitous in 10 years.
I'm not sure which I'd trust more
before long :-)
Today I received a paper-mail ad for a class by Tufte on "Presenting Data and Information". :-)
I believe his book is well regarded, but wonder what prompted this review at this time
> Oh, you're going to go around suing every company in Asia and Europe?
Hey, if it works for the RIAA...
At the software company I work for, we have in the past had suggestions to employ similar phone-home schemes. Sometimes it's in the context of catching cheaters; more often it's a way to find what parts of the software do people most use. That kind of data can be priceless; the user often isn't really concious of what he uses, and only remembers the best and worst parts.
We have always refrained. (But once at another job, a developer surreptitiously added a system call to email to himself a message everytime his library was used; QA caught it, and he had his hand spanked.)