working 60 hour weeks writing code and everything else that comes up on a software project, you think that when i left that job I had personal code projects at home I'd been writing on?
no, at home I was playing computer games, getting out and socialising, shooting field archery and playing snooker.
it isn't that i wasn't interested in code outside of 9-5, it was that the job wasn't 9-5 and i (along with a lot of other people) have more than one interest in life.
Incidentally, one company I interviewed with did send a programming problem through with a "please send a programmed solution through within three days". I wrote it up and sent it in after two evenings and they liked my solution.
Do that if you want code examples, don't expect everybody to be writing code in their spare time, and definitely don't expect commercially sensitive code to be brought along to interview.
Hmm. 3.5k java jobs available in the uk at the moment on Jobserve.com alone.
Even allowing for duplicates, that's enough for a significant percentage of the UK java programming workforce to switch jobs with immediate effect. Which would free up further Java programming jobs.
Out of work Java programmers may be harder to find than you think.
Most sane capital gains taxes apply when the capital item is divested. Thus any interim gains are not taxed.
So you can acquire a considerable amount of value in your online estate; as long as you don't attempt to liquidise that asset you should not be taxed on it. At the point at which you attempt to realise the value of that asset, that is when you should be taxed.
This fits pretty well with existing tax structures, and accurately recognises the real-world monetary benefits you realise.
Of course, this all falls down when online virtual assets are traded against each other. The Second Life currency can be used to acquire assets with real-world value, and a considerable amount of trading can occur entirely in the virtual environment. That is very different to the real-world, where taxation on financial transactions can be (and is) applied. I can thus understand a desire to apply taxation to such exchanges, but I can't yet see a way to achieve it in a sensible manner, especially without causing considerable complexity to games such as MMORPGs, where real-world money is acquired through the re-sale of virtual items (even though those items nominally belong to the company's running the games).
But treating any virtual capital as an unrealised capital gain and taxing it at the point of realisation is very much possible and probably very sensible. The only real question is whether you charge it using capital gains taxes or merely as taxable income.
8p per litre at the garage I filled up at this morning:(
Then again, the car I bought two weeks ago just gave me 545 miles from a full tank (filled up on Tuesday) at 45mpg, which isn't too bad for an automatic with me driving:)
It's not a SUV, a minivan, a truck or a small car.
Fewer resources? We have our own oilfields! High refining costs? Why any more than anybody elses? High transportation costs? There isn't as far to transport, so if anything, lower. Higher taxes? That's the one. That's the only one.
Being a small island nation has fuck all to do with it.
(Note 'small' refers entirely to physical and population size; economically we're far from small, and militarily we're extremely large)
If they haven't picked a distribution yet then they haven't done proper TCO comparisons and so they really shouldn't be claiming lower TCO. So either they're incompetent or they're baiting Microsoft.
This is an excellent point. I'm a habitual recliner - sitting at approx. 135 degrees - but my back is resting (almost sideways) against the back of the chair, which I've set to that angle.
A lot of people think my chairs at home and in the office are broken, because they are set to that steep an angle almost permanently, but it means I can sit in complete relaxation, fully supported, and maintain that posture for extended periods without discomfort (I switch whether I lean back and left or back and right at frequent intervals).
Have you tried standing up for an extended period? In one place? It hurts!
I relate strongly to the research findings. I'm currently sat in my default position - leaning backwards diagonally, chair turned slightly so I'm leaning almost sideways at a 45 degree angle against the back of the chair, the desk curving to that side so that arm is resting flat along the desk. The other arm is resting flat on my hip and the desk, supported in the middle by part of my body that I've evolved to be a fine arm-rest when sat in this position. (At other times it's described as my belly)
Muscles under tension below the neck..? None. Therefore strain on my body..? Minimal.
Maybe doesn't work for everybody, and in a few minutes I'll switch and lean the other way, but I do this pretty much all the time.
The reason sitting people have back pain is because they are sitting so much.
At university I was spending over 100 hours a week sitting at computers. Add cycling to/from uni, to/from work, time in lectures/seminars, time sat in the pub and about the only time I didn't spend sitting was spent sleeping or playing Pool or Ultimate.
Since leaving Uni the amount of sitting I do has possibly increased.
Assuming for the moment that you are who you represent yourself to be, once the legal side of this is over could you perhaps select a cross-section of the posts in this article and respond to them?
I'd be interested to here the thoughts of the lawyer involved on some of the things discussed here, although I accept that it would be inappropriate for you to comment prior to any settlement or judgement.
Someone calls my employer, my employer tells them "Go fuck yourself". They are obliged to due to the DPA (although they may be permitted to use slightly different words).
Further than that, my employer would not (and legally can not) fire me or deny me promotion based on something someone said in a phone call.
Perhaps you need to start campaigning for better employment law - fucked up though this RIAA bullshit is, it sounds nothing compared to your utter lack of protection for employees.
Why is FSM a mockery and not God. FSM is an equally valid response to those holes and as legitimate to be taught to children. That's the entire point of it.
Better yet, failure to believe in the FSM doesn't condemn you to an eternity of pain.
Combined with a bluetooth keyboard/mouse combo and a combined LCD monitor/TV, that's a possible approach. You'd still need to convince people to write the games for the consoles that PC games players play. MMORPGs, RTS, online FPS (I know the consoles are getting there on that one), other online games and various offline ones.
All too often I've come close to failing in my classes because I didn't do some useless assignment, and yet, still I have a perfect grasp of the concepts that were "taught".
And how do you demonstrate your perfect grasp of the concepts? In a form that is verifiable by a third party? You may think you understand perfectly, but being made to express that understanding in a form accessible to others is an excellent mechanism for demonstrating it.
If they've shown they can do it, then what's the point in giving out more work
Reinforcement. People remember things within a few seconds, or the same day. Remembering it a week later is trickier. Remembering it a few years later is nigh-on impossible. Unless there's been something that helps that memory.
Boring repetition is one such technique. It may not be the best, but it is relatively easy to implement, and for learning mathematics (where subsequent learnings very clearly build upon earlier ones) I think it's pretty valuable.
Now let me move on to incompetent teachers. Any teacher who needs to rely on a book as a primary source of teaching, need not be teaching. If you can't teach the concept yourself, with minimal help from a book, then you need to go back and learn it some more yourself.
I was taught physics by a teacher that hadn't ever learned it himself. He didn't know the subject material. Fortunately he did know how to teach. I passed that exam with the top grade. The exams are independently set, in my case from another country, and so were testing at a national standard level.
You could argue that the school should have found another teacher, and I'd agree. I also accept that good physics teachers are hard to find. I'd rather have a good teacher that uses a book for the source material than a bad one that knows the material but can't communicate it. Obviously I'd prefer a teacher that knows their stuff and can teach it.
Ultimately knowing everything is great. If you want to pass exams at school, you have to be able to show that you know everything. If you get to university, you'll still have to show you know everything. If you join a company, they wont give a shit what you know, they'll want you to produce things. Maybe that sucks, but there's always ditch digging.
With all due respect to your desire to follow bureaucratic rules, why the heck should she?
If someone is old enough to drive then they're definitely old enough to determine when they need medical attention. They're also old enough to choose to leave a school site to do so. Give them a stern talking to when they come back, if it's necessary, but don't assault them and deny them aid.
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working 60 hour weeks writing code and everything else that comes up on a software project, you think that when i left that job I had personal code projects at home I'd been writing on?
no, at home I was playing computer games, getting out and socialising, shooting field archery and playing snooker.
it isn't that i wasn't interested in code outside of 9-5, it was that the job wasn't 9-5 and i (along with a lot of other people) have more than one interest in life.
Incidentally, one company I interviewed with did send a programming problem through with a "please send a programmed solution through within three days". I wrote it up and sent it in after two evenings and they liked my solution.
Do that if you want code examples, don't expect everybody to be writing code in their spare time, and definitely don't expect commercially sensitive code to be brought along to interview.
Because DB2 doesn't have penetration in the same market as MySQL?
Ah, I'm with you entirely.
Love Logitech mice. Every mouse I've bought for the last decade is Logitech. Five of them are still in use.
Every single PC on which I use them is using standard Windows mouse drivers. Hate Logitech mouse drivers.
Beautiful hardware, woeful drivers.
(I have the G15 keyboard too. Beautiful hardware, I suffer the drivers - the LCD panel is just that little bit too nice and too useful to ignore)
The hair? You must've missed the pink-shorts and black tights combo.
ok. rewrite.
wtf use does a compound bow have that a gun doesn't?
shit, some compound bows are more powerful than some guns.
~cederic should avoid posting on slashdot within two hours of international air travel
wtf use does a compound bow have that a bow doesn't?
shit, some compound bows are more powerful than some bows.
Hmm. 3.5k java jobs available in the uk at the moment on Jobserve.com alone.
Even allowing for duplicates, that's enough for a significant percentage of the UK java programming workforce to switch jobs with immediate effect. Which would free up further Java programming jobs.
Out of work Java programmers may be harder to find than you think.
Most sane capital gains taxes apply when the capital item is divested. Thus any interim gains are not taxed.
So you can acquire a considerable amount of value in your online estate; as long as you don't attempt to liquidise that asset you should not be taxed on it. At the point at which you attempt to realise the value of that asset, that is when you should be taxed.
This fits pretty well with existing tax structures, and accurately recognises the real-world monetary benefits you realise.
Of course, this all falls down when online virtual assets are traded against each other. The Second Life currency can be used to acquire assets with real-world value, and a considerable amount of trading can occur entirely in the virtual environment. That is very different to the real-world, where taxation on financial transactions can be (and is) applied. I can thus understand a desire to apply taxation to such exchanges, but I can't yet see a way to achieve it in a sensible manner, especially without causing considerable complexity to games such as MMORPGs, where real-world money is acquired through the re-sale of virtual items (even though those items nominally belong to the company's running the games).
But treating any virtual capital as an unrealised capital gain and taxing it at the point of realisation is very much possible and probably very sensible. The only real question is whether you charge it using capital gains taxes or merely as taxable income.
8p per litre at the garage I filled up at this morning
Then again, the car I bought two weeks ago just gave me 545 miles from a full tank (filled up on Tuesday) at 45mpg, which isn't too bad for an automatic with me driving
It's not a SUV, a minivan, a truck or a small car.
Fewer resources? We have our own oilfields!
High refining costs? Why any more than anybody elses?
High transportation costs? There isn't as far to transport, so if anything, lower.
Higher taxes? That's the one. That's the only one.
Being a small island nation has fuck all to do with it.
(Note 'small' refers entirely to physical and population size; economically we're far from small, and militarily we're extremely large)
Your translation matches my thoughts.
If they haven't picked a distribution yet then they haven't done proper TCO comparisons and so they really shouldn't be claiming lower TCO. So either they're incompetent or they're baiting Microsoft.
Hmm, they're French. Could go either way..
This is an excellent point. I'm a habitual recliner - sitting at approx. 135 degrees - but my back is resting (almost sideways) against the back of the chair, which I've set to that angle.
A lot of people think my chairs at home and in the office are broken, because they are set to that steep an angle almost permanently, but it means I can sit in complete relaxation, fully supported, and maintain that posture for extended periods without discomfort (I switch whether I lean back and left or back and right at frequent intervals).
Have you tried standing up for an extended period? In one place? It hurts!
I relate strongly to the research findings. I'm currently sat in my default position - leaning backwards diagonally, chair turned slightly so I'm leaning almost sideways at a 45 degree angle against the back of the chair, the desk curving to that side so that arm is resting flat along the desk. The other arm is resting flat on my hip and the desk, supported in the middle by part of my body that I've evolved to be a fine arm-rest when sat in this position. (At other times it's described as my belly)
Muscles under tension below the neck..? None. Therefore strain on my body..? Minimal.
Maybe doesn't work for everybody, and in a few minutes I'll switch and lean the other way, but I do this pretty much all the time.
Standing however hurts. Don't do it!
The reason sitting people have back pain is because they are sitting so much.
At university I was spending over 100 hours a week sitting at computers. Add cycling to/from uni, to/from work, time in lectures/seminars, time sat in the pub and about the only time I didn't spend sitting was spent sleeping or playing Pool or Ultimate.
Since leaving Uni the amount of sitting I do has possibly increased.
I don't get back pain.
Sitting does not cause back pain.
Assuming for the moment that you are who you represent yourself to be, once the legal side of this is over could you perhaps select a cross-section of the posts in this article and respond to them?
I'd be interested to here the thoughts of the lawyer involved on some of the things discussed here, although I accept that it would be inappropriate for you to comment prior to any settlement or judgement.
Someone calls my employer, my employer tells them "Go fuck yourself". They are obliged to due to the DPA (although they may be permitted to use slightly different words).
Further than that, my employer would not (and legally can not) fire me or deny me promotion based on something someone said in a phone call.
Perhaps you need to start campaigning for better employment law - fucked up though this RIAA bullshit is, it sounds nothing compared to your utter lack of protection for employees.
Custard? On hotdogs? eek!
Custard goes on Rhubarb Crumble, on Spotted Dick, on Treacle Pudding...
Why is FSM a mockery and not God. FSM is an equally valid response to those holes and as legitimate to be taught to children. That's the entire point of it.
Better yet, failure to believe in the FSM doesn't condemn you to an eternity of pain.
As I said, if they're old enough to drive then they're old enough to make their own decisions.
Why force people that mature to stay in school? That's illogical and counter-productive.
Combined with a bluetooth keyboard/mouse combo and a combined LCD monitor/TV, that's a possible approach. You'd still need to convince people to write the games for the consoles that PC games players play. MMORPGs, RTS, online FPS (I know the consoles are getting there on that one), other online games and various offline ones.
Give it games support and the mass market will follow it.
Fail to do that and it wont get used by the people that advise other people on their software purchases.
[Adam] is appropriately positioned, so he can be modest. There will be a lamb or something
Fantastic. Now the idiots going to this museum can find out that Adam was a sheep shagger.
(depressingly Firefox spellcheck doesn't recognise the word 'shagger'. impressively it doesn't recognise 'Firefox' or 'spellcheck' either)
All too often I've come close to failing in my classes because I didn't do some useless assignment, and yet, still I have a perfect grasp of the concepts that were "taught".
And how do you demonstrate your perfect grasp of the concepts? In a form that is verifiable by a third party? You may think you understand perfectly, but being made to express that understanding in a form accessible to others is an excellent mechanism for demonstrating it.
If they've shown they can do it, then what's the point in giving out more work
Reinforcement. People remember things within a few seconds, or the same day. Remembering it a week later is trickier. Remembering it a few years later is nigh-on impossible. Unless there's been something that helps that memory.
Boring repetition is one such technique. It may not be the best, but it is relatively easy to implement, and for learning mathematics (where subsequent learnings very clearly build upon earlier ones) I think it's pretty valuable.
Now let me move on to incompetent teachers. Any teacher who needs to rely on a book as a primary source of teaching, need not be teaching. If you can't teach the concept yourself, with minimal help from a book, then you need to go back and learn it some more yourself.
I was taught physics by a teacher that hadn't ever learned it himself. He didn't know the subject material. Fortunately he did know how to teach. I passed that exam with the top grade. The exams are independently set, in my case from another country, and so were testing at a national standard level.
You could argue that the school should have found another teacher, and I'd agree. I also accept that good physics teachers are hard to find. I'd rather have a good teacher that uses a book for the source material than a bad one that knows the material but can't communicate it. Obviously I'd prefer a teacher that knows their stuff and can teach it.
Ultimately knowing everything is great. If you want to pass exams at school, you have to be able to show that you know everything. If you get to university, you'll still have to show you know everything. If you join a company, they wont give a shit what you know, they'll want you to produce things. Maybe that sucks, but there's always ditch digging.
I left school at 16 - like everyone else in the UK
I left school at 18, in the UK.
With all due respect to your desire to follow bureaucratic rules, why the heck should she?
If someone is old enough to drive then they're definitely old enough to determine when they need medical attention. They're also old enough to choose to leave a school site to do so. Give them a stern talking to when they come back, if it's necessary, but don't assault them and deny them aid.