Yeah, back when I worked for a bespoke dev house and worked onsite at the clients, I'd turn up in a suit & tie, chat to management, get the details then hit the trenches.
Jacket off, tie off, top button undone and the short-sleeved shirt immediately gave me credibility with their staff, backed up with professional expertise and serious delivery.
Everybody happy, particularly my bosses back at base.
If you ever do get the chance to have a real job that has a real dress code you'll learn pretty fast why they have them. I can guarantee those people you harbor so much irrational hate for are far more skilled than you at applying clothing.
I have a real job that has a real dress code. The man that demands it is a cock, the dress code is stupid and unnecessary and some of the smartest dressers are frankly fucking incompetent.
How about letting people dress comfortably in the office and enjoying the individuality and creativity that releases. Focus people's teamworking on the work, not the way they dress.
Agreed completely. A director shouldn't be under desks.
Demonstrating technical knowledge and prowess is good, especially in a discrete and subtle manner*, but crawling under desks wont impress your team and definitely wont impress your peers (or manager).
* when someone comes to you recommending a high-end consumer system, comment that "Look, those are great - I have one at home hosting my film collection - but they lack the admin and backup options we need in our environment. I know those features aren't cheap in upfront costs but the TCO is far lower once you take support and resilience into account." People will respect your broader vision and you've just thrown in a level of personal experience and capability that will be acknowledged. Unless you get it wrong of course, in which case they'll take the piss.
Worse case, you can at least tell people, "Yes, I can code, but it's not my thing. I'd rather be helping people deal with their computer problems face to face.."
I'm struggling to understand whether you're a troll or just an ignorant fuckwit.
Deciding to buy an iphone 5 before they've been announced is stupidity in the extreme. It might be fucking shit. It might be an iPhone 4S with a bigger screen but otherwise a year behind the curve on the technology, UI and cost front.
Conversely it might be the greatest electronic device in history, capable of telephoning all of your friends for free, finding prospective employers for you and predicting the lottery numbers. But no, you don't want one because a fucking advert has received some bad press.
How about - and I appreciate I'm going out on a limb here - waiting for the next Apple telephone to be announced and deciding at that point whether it meets your needs and would be a sensible purchase.
Or continue being an ignorant fuckwit and spending your money on whatever's fashionable, cool and makes you feel superior. Which is, lets face it, the modus operandi of most Apple iPhone buyers anyway.
As it happens, yes. I think the world would be better without them.
They do have a role in industrial design and development, and many people argue that they're essential for medical research, but I'd abandon all those benefits if it meant getting rid of the bullshit patents that prevent innovation, add tremendous cost to acquiring new advances and slow down the rate of improvement in our society.
Fuck patents, and fuck people that abuse them. Including Apple, pharmaceutical companies and anybody that ever registered a software patent.
UK small claims court let's you claim for the costs of bringing the action, including court costs. What, you live somewhere that justice is only available to the rich?
Anyway, I didn't say Joe would win on all counts. He doesn't have to, as I highlighted it's going to cost a fuck of a lot more than $12 dollars to defend against his claim.
Surely unless you've given them permission to include you in the class suit they can not legally represent you?
In fact, invite Netflix to sue them for lying out of their arses for misrepresenting whether they're representing you. About $200m should be reasonable.
But Joe doesn't claim for $12. He claims for $12, plus $400/hour for the two hours he spent investigating this issue, plus $2000 for the day he had to take off work to attend court.
Now the 10 million customers are costing the company $28bn, or they're having to fight 10 million individual claims, paying a member of staff at least half a day per claim.
5 million man-days is going to come in at well over $120m even if they don't then pay out $12 on top.
So yes, large scale consumer action where no consumer does more than a trivial amount will heavily impact on companies.
and indeed, if Valve ever cut off access to the games I've purchased from them, I'll be pursuing them in small claims court for the replacement cost of those games.
That may well be less than I paid for them (or, for games I bought in a sale, maybe more) but I'll be seeking restitution not punishment.
Class action lawsuits have always struck me as being very wrongly biased towards the lawyers. I suspect their intent is to allow people to pool resources to bring a case, but the outcome seems to generally be extremely rich lawyers.
he's trying to live up to the perceived desires of his father
That's one interpretation of what he said, but even if true, it's also true that he failed to win gold, so if his father desired a gold for him, he's let his father down. Simple fact, and just what's the problem with highlighting it?0
Me, I'm brutally offended by the suggestion that dead people have feelings. I feel sickened by the idea that I must say only nice things about dead people. Fuck 'em. Not literally, that's illegal.
So when someone says that they're doing something for a dead person, I don't think it's at all inappropriate to point out they fucked up when they fuck up. You don't want your dead relatives in this conversation then you shouldn't bring them up in the first place.
Daly started the whole dead dad thing, he shouldn't complain when other people continue it.
As noticed by the anon responders to my post, I lack empathy. I know this. I also haven't bothered using twitter to send messages to Daly because frankly, I don't give a shit. Well done on doing as well as he did, but don't go pretending I should actually feel bad because his dad died, he made a commitment he couldn't keep and someone called him out on it.
This leads to a number of complicated dichotomies. Surely by being 'cock loving' the female athletes must at the minimum harbour some attractive to the opposite sex, making them at least bisexual if not full-blown hetero-sexual.
Yet at the same time you've unambiguously stated that they are homosexual.
I can see only two ways out of this:
- either you're suggesting that there are no female athletes at the olympics, and that Caster Semenya is merely a little more obvious than most, or
- all Olympic athletes love male chickens.
While the latter may well be true, it feels a little oblique to the discussion at hand.
However, it's still quite beyond me how olympic athletes can be deemed faggots or faggots.
I can only conclude that you are in fact delusional and that olympic athletes represent a broad spectrum of sexual diversity and chicken consumption.
Indeed, when someone says, "I'm doing this for my [dead] dad" then fails to do it, it's only reasonable to point out that they let down their [dead] dad.
That's no more offensive than the insinuation that some corpse gives a flying fuck about someone's ability to jump into a pool.
There's a reason why people used to working on Unix like systems haven't embraced the point and click programming IDE. Command line interfaces and specially built tools that do their task exceptionally well are much, much, better.
IDEs are fantastic at various tasks such as auto-completion, refactoring, click-through navigation..
I would miss those working without an IDE, and command line tools just aren't going to provide that same ease of use and boost to productivity.
Pretty much everything else though, I agree with you completely. Learn to program on the command line, get good at it, automate the hell out of everything (including your check-in and test process). But then boot up the IDE because it will help you work faster.
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Unless, of course, you really do call the shots. Then you dress how you want and woe to those that misinterpret it.
Worked for Steve Jobs, but works for lesser mortals too.
Yeah, back when I worked for a bespoke dev house and worked onsite at the clients, I'd turn up in a suit & tie, chat to management, get the details then hit the trenches.
Jacket off, tie off, top button undone and the short-sleeved shirt immediately gave me credibility with their staff, backed up with professional expertise and serious delivery.
Everybody happy, particularly my bosses back at base.
If you ever do get the chance to have a real job that has a real dress code you'll learn pretty fast why they have them. I can guarantee those people you harbor so much irrational hate for are far more skilled than you at applying clothing.
I have a real job that has a real dress code. The man that demands it is a cock, the dress code is stupid and unnecessary and some of the smartest dressers are frankly fucking incompetent.
How about letting people dress comfortably in the office and enjoying the individuality and creativity that releases. Focus people's teamworking on the work, not the way they dress.
Black shoes. With everything.
I wear black jeans so yeah, even jeans.
I wear sports sandals when I'm wearing shorts. I wear neither to work.
I think you could get away with formal-wear (tie and tails, gowns) ballroom dancing with no shoes
One of the best dancers I know dances barefoot:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oUmlHhQDXAs
Agreed completely. A director shouldn't be under desks.
Demonstrating technical knowledge and prowess is good, especially in a discrete and subtle manner*, but crawling under desks wont impress your team and definitely wont impress your peers (or manager).
* when someone comes to you recommending a high-end consumer system, comment that "Look, those are great - I have one at home hosting my film collection - but they lack the admin and backup options we need in our environment. I know those features aren't cheap in upfront costs but the TCO is far lower once you take support and resilience into account." People will respect your broader vision and you've just thrown in a level of personal experience and capability that will be acknowledged. Unless you get it wrong of course, in which case they'll take the piss.
oddly no - I've encountered very senior management types that are very observant about shoes, and draw conclusions based on them.
Look at it this way: Would you expect a senior manager to be wearing flip-flops?
Personally I'd love a company with that culture, but many wouldn't - including, sadly, the suit-clad members of the executive team.
No I've never written a line of code in my life.
Try it, you might find it fun.
Worse case, you can at least tell people, "Yes, I can code, but it's not my thing. I'd rather be helping people deal with their computer problems face to face.."
I'm struggling to understand whether you're a troll or just an ignorant fuckwit.
Deciding to buy an iphone 5 before they've been announced is stupidity in the extreme. It might be fucking shit. It might be an iPhone 4S with a bigger screen but otherwise a year behind the curve on the technology, UI and cost front.
Conversely it might be the greatest electronic device in history, capable of telephoning all of your friends for free, finding prospective employers for you and predicting the lottery numbers. But no, you don't want one because a fucking advert has received some bad press.
How about - and I appreciate I'm going out on a limb here - waiting for the next Apple telephone to be announced and deciding at that point whether it meets your needs and would be a sensible purchase.
Or continue being an ignorant fuckwit and spending your money on whatever's fashionable, cool and makes you feel superior. Which is, lets face it, the modus operandi of most Apple iPhone buyers anyway.
Surely a generic anus is a genetic one?
(No, I can't believe I'm posting this either)
Then you find patents to be ridiculous
As it happens, yes. I think the world would be better without them.
They do have a role in industrial design and development, and many people argue that they're essential for medical research, but I'd abandon all those benefits if it meant getting rid of the bullshit patents that prevent innovation, add tremendous cost to acquiring new advances and slow down the rate of improvement in our society.
Fuck patents, and fuck people that abuse them. Including Apple, pharmaceutical companies and anybody that ever registered a software patent.
The issue is like in your soccer example. There are still countries poor enough where the timekeepr is a referee with a wristwatch.
You mean, around 196 countries? Just that I've yet to see the timekeeper be anybody other than the referee and his wristwatch(es).
Hmm. My 120D is rated at 57 and I struggle to get it above 40. Admittedly I'm not driving it in the most economical manner..
Interesting. So why doesn't the company initiate a class action against itself, settle for $4.98 and walk away giggling?
UK small claims court let's you claim for the costs of bringing the action, including court costs. What, you live somewhere that justice is only available to the rich?
Anyway, I didn't say Joe would win on all counts. He doesn't have to, as I highlighted it's going to cost a fuck of a lot more than $12 dollars to defend against his claim.
Try going to amazon.com and clicking on the link marked "Press Releases": http://phx.corporate-ir.net/phoenix.zhtml?c=176060&p=irol-newsArticle&ID=1720457&highlight=
Hopefully you (and the people that modded you up) are a little less ignorant now.
Surely unless you've given them permission to include you in the class suit they can not legally represent you?
In fact, invite Netflix to sue them for lying out of their arses for misrepresenting whether they're representing you. About $200m should be reasonable.
But Joe doesn't claim for $12. He claims for $12, plus $400/hour for the two hours he spent investigating this issue, plus $2000 for the day he had to take off work to attend court.
Now the 10 million customers are costing the company $28bn, or they're having to fight 10 million individual claims, paying a member of staff at least half a day per claim.
5 million man-days is going to come in at well over $120m even if they don't then pay out $12 on top.
So yes, large scale consumer action where no consumer does more than a trivial amount will heavily impact on companies.
and indeed, if Valve ever cut off access to the games I've purchased from them, I'll be pursuing them in small claims court for the replacement cost of those games.
That may well be less than I paid for them (or, for games I bought in a sale, maybe more) but I'll be seeking restitution not punishment.
Class action lawsuits have always struck me as being very wrongly biased towards the lawyers. I suspect their intent is to allow people to pool resources to bring a case, but the outcome seems to generally be extremely rich lawyers.
providing users with more granular control over which ads they see and where they see them
How about "none" and "ever"?
This is why I pay for independent email hosting..
he's trying to live up to the perceived desires of his father
That's one interpretation of what he said, but even if true, it's also true that he failed to win gold, so if his father desired a gold for him, he's let his father down. Simple fact, and just what's the problem with highlighting it?0
Me, I'm brutally offended by the suggestion that dead people have feelings. I feel sickened by the idea that I must say only nice things about dead people. Fuck 'em. Not literally, that's illegal.
So when someone says that they're doing something for a dead person, I don't think it's at all inappropriate to point out they fucked up when they fuck up. You don't want your dead relatives in this conversation then you shouldn't bring them up in the first place.
Daly started the whole dead dad thing, he shouldn't complain when other people continue it.
As noticed by the anon responders to my post, I lack empathy. I know this. I also haven't bothered using twitter to send messages to Daly because frankly, I don't give a shit. Well done on doing as well as he did, but don't go pretending I should actually feel bad because his dad died, he made a commitment he couldn't keep and someone called him out on it.
Yet at the same time you've unambiguously stated that they are homosexual.
I can see only two ways out of this:
- either you're suggesting that there are no female athletes at the olympics, and that Caster Semenya is merely a little more obvious than most, or
- all Olympic athletes love male chickens.
While the latter may well be true, it feels a little oblique to the discussion at hand.
However, it's still quite beyond me how olympic athletes can be deemed faggots or faggots.
I can only conclude that you are in fact delusional and that olympic athletes represent a broad spectrum of sexual diversity and chicken consumption.
Indeed, when someone says, "I'm doing this for my [dead] dad" then fails to do it, it's only reasonable to point out that they let down their [dead] dad.
That's no more offensive than the insinuation that some corpse gives a flying fuck about someone's ability to jump into a pool.
I've found my need for creative outlets increases when I don't play as many games.
If I don't really game for a week or two I start taking more photographs, and start spending more time post-processing them.
The Steam summer sale really killed my photography :)
There's a reason why people used to working on Unix like systems haven't embraced the point and click programming IDE. Command line interfaces and specially built tools that do their task exceptionally well are much, much, better.
IDEs are fantastic at various tasks such as auto-completion, refactoring, click-through navigation..
I would miss those working without an IDE, and command line tools just aren't going to provide that same ease of use and boost to productivity.
Pretty much everything else though, I agree with you completely. Learn to program on the command line, get good at it, automate the hell out of everything (including your check-in and test process). But then boot up the IDE because it will help you work faster.