Which is kind of my point. Managers are people. For the most part, normal people. In my management roles, I've tried to do well for the company, for my people, and for myself, in no particular order. In my experience, if I take care of people, they take care of me, which has worked out pretty well for me. If I take care of my folks, while watching for the company objectives, the company usually appreciates that.
It was "Eatme69!". Yeah, he was young and dumb. But he didn't deserve to get fired for it. A gal looked over his shoulder as he was typing it in to test connectivity on her machine. She read it from his typing, not from the screen, and lodged a complaint.
You know, you can quit and go to work as a carpenter, iron worker, plumber, etc., and get overtime. The pay cut is a bitch, of course, but the option is there. My carpenter buddy makes $29/hr, time and a half over 40 hours, and double time on sundays. Of course, he's been idle for two months.
Nobody is forcing us to take the well paid indoor job with no heavy lifting. I work 45-50 hours a week most weeks, and have for years. I make well over $100k. I'm OK with that. The effort I have put in has made me competent, knowledgable, sought after as a member of teams, and kept me employed during down times. It has the enviable side effect of generally being less boring than being, say, a tax assessor.
Y'all might look at the part of the glass with water in it.
Never EVER trust a manager, even if you are friends. They will NOT go to bat for you.
Wow. Just wow. Is this, and the other manager-loathing screeds here just a measure of your own collective self distrust? If you were a manager, would you shed your character and cease to ever go to bat for a member of your team? Would you shed your humanity as if it were a lizard skin?
I think it's smart to have some perspective about the counter incentives in a corporate structure that operate against your own self interest. But if you go through life treating everyone in a management position as a thief and a cheat, you may create a self fulfilling prophesy. If you don't trust, you don't earn the basis for trust.
Says a manager who has:
1) gone to the house of a depressive employee who didn't show up for three days to see if he was OK and get him to a doctor,
2) gone head to head with a VP of HR who was hell bent on firing a junior kid for perceived sexual harrassment (poor choice of a password that someone read over his shoulder)
3) Helped an employee change divisions and towns to elude a stalker.
Actually, that's not true. If you get the hiring manager to put it in writing in your offer letter, you can tell HR to go screw. It's a contract. I have done this several times. It's best to do it with things like getting your cell phone and network connection paid for, as opposed to challenging major policies like sick leave.
I don't like companies that want you to use your OWN money for traveling and training up front then get reimbursed.
In 25 years and seven companies, I've never seen it any other way, for travel expenses at least. This is standard procedure for sales and consulting jobs.
A more subtle way of approaching this is, "what are your VPN/remote access facilities and policies? If I have an idea in the middle of the night, how hard is it for me to work on it a bit?"
1) don't run services that you don't need. If the box is isn't serving mail, don't run sendmail.
2) make sure all accounts have non-trivial passwords. My root password is 13 characters, yours should be similar.
3) don't run anything as root that doesn't need to run as root. Some things do need to run as root, so the advice in the following post about turning suid root programs off is liable to cause you trouble. As a developer, you should be very wary about designing something that needs to run suid root. If the distro has something installed as suid root, you probably want to leave that. But I'd be wary of new apps that do so.
4) if the machine is publically visible, look into denyhosts.py, which scans for folks trying to enter and disables the IP address they are coming from.
5) configure your firewall to limit access from hosts you're not going to come in from. Somebody in russia doesn't need to ssh in.
6) consider using ssh keys for shell access, rather than passwords, if you access the machine remotely.
7) remove or disable accounts that aren't used.
Linux isn't invincible, but it's quite robust with just a modicum of precaution.
While I think you are correct, the man in the blue shirt with the badge on it may not know this or care. I can think of a lot of jurisdictions where you may get a trip downtown if you insist on this.
Fraud requires money or property of value to change hands. Its perfectly legal to lie through your teeth, so long as it isn't to get money from someone.
Most companies don't actually exchange anything on the level of a word document with third parties regularly, it just doesn't make sense. How often do you need someone outside your company to send you a document you can edit? For that matter, how often do you send editable documents?
Every company with lawyers and accountants in it does so on a daily basis. It's extremely common to send editable red-lined versions of contracts back and forth in the negotiating process.
I should add, CALs can affect pricing of other MSFT products as well, notably SQL Server. It's also a pretty standard component of pricing other things like CRM and ERP software, where per seat costs are common. We use Perforce at my office, and they are even worse, where it's $700/seat/year!
On the off chance that you're serious, it's a Client Access License. It's effectively a user seat via remote desktop. You need as many as you are going to have concurrent user logins to the machine. It's rare that you need more than what the OS comes with. They cost money because MSFT is an evil profit-seeking commercial business who has the nerve to expect to be able to charge people for using their product.
Would you pass whatever it is you're smoking? I love linux, but denying it has a higher learning curve than windows is hallucination. How about MVS/Z-OS, Solaris, HP-UX, VMS, MPE? You would assert that windows is harder for the novice or even the well travelled geek to learn than these? You be crazy, boy.
And what version of Windows includes a web server and ftp server
Wouldn't that be Windows 2003 Server? While it's not my preferred platform, I've been serving a lot of files and pages off of windows for many years, without ever paying extra for the privilege.
I prefer linux, but windows is a decent alternative if you have the money.
Yeah, but at 30 mph, it's still about 88 feet. That could still take 2 cars easily. Around here that would get filled. At 15 mph it's 44 feet, and that would get filled.
The 2 second rule is nice, but unworkable in practice.
I agree with the goal, but I don't think it's realistic in any rush hour traffic I've ever been in. Around here, that amount of gap would get filled with 2 to 3 cars.
There is no reason to stop if people obey the 2 second rule
The 2 second rule implies 176 feet/53 meters between cars at 60 mph/100kph. I don't see many freeways around here (Seattle) where that is a realistic hope.
All roads have to have some 'hump' to them, or they turn into lakes when it rains. Even the interstates have some of this, though it's slight enough that you don't see it.
Well, what happens when only 1% of the population can be gainfully employed - do they each draw a billion dollars a year in salary, and everybody else starves?
Remember the French Revolution?
That's the thing that republicans and other ardent supporters of the "I've got mine, you go get yours or starve" ethos forget. If the fortunate members of society don't engineer things so that the less fortunate can eat and survive, the rich are going to find that the rule of law will get pretty tenuous. It's hard to stay rich without an orderly society.
At least some of the ensemble modeling techniques handle this just fine. They will develop classifiers that detect your ratings, classifiers that detect her ratings and classifiers that detect your joint ratings. See the previous citation for adaboost at wikipedia. They do this by looking at error from a given classifier, and finding additional weak classifiers that address the error. So if your wife likes schwarzenegger movies, your liking for tear jerkers will show up as errors, and the algorithm will seek an additional classifier to select for tear jerkers. Then eventually you get True Lies in the suggestion list.;-)
I think we're getting into how many angels can dance on the head of a pin.
I don't base my thinking on some 'belief' that there is no god. I base my thinking on a set of precepts which does not include a belief in a god. I waste no time investing in some thought process which wastes energy on trying to prove any absence of a god, any more than I worry about proving the absence of an Easter Bunny. Why worry about proving the absence of something, when you simply don't have any evidence that you need to believe in it's presence? It's like needing to prove the absence of a new type of force in the universe. Absent evidence that you need to explain an objects movement by something in addition to electromagnetic and gravitational forces, why would you invest energy in trying to prove there are no additional forces. You don't have to 'believe' that only electromagnetic forces and gravitional forces exist, you simply use just those in your calculations of motion.
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Which is kind of my point. Managers are people. For the most part, normal people. In my management roles, I've tried to do well for the company, for my people, and for myself, in no particular order. In my experience, if I take care of people, they take care of me, which has worked out pretty well for me. If I take care of my folks, while watching for the company objectives, the company usually appreciates that.
At the risk of seeming trite, + a lot to you, sir, for stepping up. You are a good citizen.
It was "Eatme69!". Yeah, he was young and dumb. But he didn't deserve to get fired for it. A gal looked over his shoulder as he was typing it in to test connectivity on her machine. She read it from his typing, not from the screen, and lodged a complaint.
Now, I don't mind working 80+ hour weeks if that's what it takes, but dammit, PAY me what it's worth.
If you're accepting what they are paying, by definition, they are paying what it's worth. You are the only person who can decide that.
You know, you can quit and go to work as a carpenter, iron worker, plumber, etc., and get overtime. The pay cut is a bitch, of course, but the option is there. My carpenter buddy makes $29/hr, time and a half over 40 hours, and double time on sundays. Of course, he's been idle for two months.
Nobody is forcing us to take the well paid indoor job with no heavy lifting. I work 45-50 hours a week most weeks, and have for years. I make well over $100k. I'm OK with that. The effort I have put in has made me competent, knowledgable, sought after as a member of teams, and kept me employed during down times. It has the enviable side effect of generally being less boring than being, say, a tax assessor.
Y'all might look at the part of the glass with water in it.
Never EVER trust a manager, even if you are friends. They will NOT go to bat for you.
Wow. Just wow. Is this, and the other manager-loathing screeds here just a measure of your own collective self distrust? If you were a manager, would you shed your character and cease to ever go to bat for a member of your team? Would you shed your humanity as if it were a lizard skin?
I think it's smart to have some perspective about the counter incentives in a corporate structure that operate against your own self interest. But if you go through life treating everyone in a management position as a thief and a cheat, you may create a self fulfilling prophesy. If you don't trust, you don't earn the basis for trust.
Says a manager who has:
1) gone to the house of a depressive employee who didn't show up for three days to see if he was OK and get him to a doctor,
2) gone head to head with a VP of HR who was hell bent on firing a junior kid for perceived sexual harrassment (poor choice of a password that someone read over his shoulder)
3) Helped an employee change divisions and towns to elude a stalker.
We're not all compulsively evil.
Very astute question and one that will reflect well on you to the people that know what you are talking about, and not alarm those that don't.
Actually, that's not true. If you get the hiring manager to put it in writing in your offer letter, you can tell HR to go screw. It's a contract. I have done this several times. It's best to do it with things like getting your cell phone and network connection paid for, as opposed to challenging major policies like sick leave.
I don't like companies that want you to use your OWN money for traveling and training up front then get reimbursed.
In 25 years and seven companies, I've never seen it any other way, for travel expenses at least. This is standard procedure for sales and consulting jobs.
A more subtle way of approaching this is, "what are your VPN/remote access facilities and policies? If I have an idea in the middle of the night, how hard is it for me to work on it a bit?"
The basics include:
1) don't run services that you don't need. If the box is isn't serving mail, don't run sendmail.
2) make sure all accounts have non-trivial passwords. My root password is 13 characters, yours should be similar.
3) don't run anything as root that doesn't need to run as root. Some things do need to run as root, so the advice in the following post about turning suid root programs off is liable to cause you trouble. As a developer, you should be very wary about designing something that needs to run suid root. If the distro has something installed as suid root, you probably want to leave that. But I'd be wary of new apps that do so.
4) if the machine is publically visible, look into denyhosts.py, which scans for folks trying to enter and disables the IP address they are coming from.
5) configure your firewall to limit access from hosts you're not going to come in from. Somebody in russia doesn't need to ssh in.
6) consider using ssh keys for shell access, rather than passwords, if you access the machine remotely.
7) remove or disable accounts that aren't used.
Linux isn't invincible, but it's quite robust with just a modicum of precaution.
While I think you are correct, the man in the blue shirt with the badge on it may not know this or care. I can think of a lot of jurisdictions where you may get a trip downtown if you insist on this.
Fraud requires money or property of value to change hands. Its perfectly legal to lie through your teeth, so long as it isn't to get money from someone.
Most companies don't actually exchange anything on the level of a word document with third parties regularly, it just doesn't make sense. How often do you need someone outside your company to send you a document you can edit? For that matter, how often do you send editable documents?
Every company with lawyers and accountants in it does so on a daily basis. It's extremely common to send editable red-lined versions of contracts back and forth in the negotiating process.
I should add, CALs can affect pricing of other MSFT products as well, notably SQL Server. It's also a pretty standard component of pricing other things like CRM and ERP software, where per seat costs are common. We use Perforce at my office, and they are even worse, where it's $700/seat/year!
On the off chance that you're serious, it's a Client Access License. It's effectively a user seat via remote desktop. You need as many as you are going to have concurrent user logins to the machine. It's rare that you need more than what the OS comes with. They cost money because MSFT is an evil profit-seeking commercial business who has the nerve to expect to be able to charge people for using their product.
Windows has the largest learning curve of any OS
Would you pass whatever it is you're smoking? I love linux, but denying it has a higher learning curve than windows is hallucination. How about MVS/Z-OS, Solaris, HP-UX, VMS, MPE? You would assert that windows is harder for the novice or even the well travelled geek to learn than these? You be crazy, boy.
And what version of Windows includes a web server and ftp server
Wouldn't that be Windows 2003 Server? While it's not my preferred platform, I've been serving a lot of files and pages off of windows for many years, without ever paying extra for the privilege.
I prefer linux, but windows is a decent alternative if you have the money.
Yeah, but at 30 mph, it's still about 88 feet. That could still take 2 cars easily. Around here that would get filled. At 15 mph it's 44 feet, and that would get filled.
The 2 second rule is nice, but unworkable in practice.
I agree with the goal, but I don't think it's realistic in any rush hour traffic I've ever been in. Around here, that amount of gap would get filled with 2 to 3 cars.
There is no reason to stop if people obey the 2 second rule
The 2 second rule implies 176 feet/53 meters between cars at 60 mph/100kph. I don't see many freeways around here (Seattle) where that is a realistic hope.
All roads have to have some 'hump' to them, or they turn into lakes when it rains. Even the interstates have some of this, though it's slight enough that you don't see it.
Well, what happens when only 1% of the population can be gainfully employed - do they each draw a billion dollars a year in salary, and everybody else starves?
Remember the French Revolution?
That's the thing that republicans and other ardent supporters of the "I've got mine, you go get yours or starve" ethos forget. If the fortunate members of society don't engineer things so that the less fortunate can eat and survive, the rich are going to find that the rule of law will get pretty tenuous. It's hard to stay rich without an orderly society.
At least some of the ensemble modeling techniques handle this just fine. They will develop classifiers that detect your ratings, classifiers that detect her ratings and classifiers that detect your joint ratings. See the previous citation for adaboost at wikipedia. They do this by looking at error from a given classifier, and finding additional weak classifiers that address the error. So if your wife likes schwarzenegger movies, your liking for tear jerkers will show up as errors, and the algorithm will seek an additional classifier to select for tear jerkers. Then eventually you get True Lies in the suggestion list. ;-)
I think we're getting into how many angels can dance on the head of a pin.
I don't base my thinking on some 'belief' that there is no god. I base my thinking on a set of precepts which does not include a belief in a god. I waste no time investing in some thought process which wastes energy on trying to prove any absence of a god, any more than I worry about proving the absence of an Easter Bunny. Why worry about proving the absence of something, when you simply don't have any evidence that you need to believe in it's presence? It's like needing to prove the absence of a new type of force in the universe. Absent evidence that you need to explain an objects movement by something in addition to electromagnetic and gravitational forces, why would you invest energy in trying to prove there are no additional forces. You don't have to 'believe' that only electromagnetic forces and gravitional forces exist, you simply use just those in your calculations of motion.