Telecommuting does not work for programmers in any sort of team environment, which either is or should be most jobs.
Development is not a solo effort, you need to talk to the users, the analysts, the other coders, the testers, there's a whole design process.
getting back towards the topic, I think telecommuting very occasionally, like maybe one or two days a month is ok, it's like a bit of an extra holiday and can give people a bit of space when they feel their job has become a little stale.
Once you're doing it every week though you should really look at the reasons you don't like going to your work place and try to fix those problems rather than running away from them I think you vastly over-estimate the level of involvement required in most development jobs. Sure when the application is being designed and developed there needs to be a lot of face to face interaction. However, once the application is in maintenance mode there's little to no need for face time. I can read a bug out of bugzilla, look at the screenshots and fix the bug just as well from home as I do in the office. Secondly I can add another screen that looks similar to all the other screens and uses the same dao + a couple of columns without any real face time. I can also create a report that shows [whatever] without face time. The VAST majority of development is in maintenance mode or upgrades to software that already has a large foundation.
Just to be on the safe side, I wanted to note that I hope it was obvious that I was being terribly sarcastic. Child pornography is disgusting and evil.
What initially made them more enthusiastic was the possibility of taking photographs and filming each others with the included webcams. Ahh the hopes and dreams of every Uruguayan child can now finally be realized. To think that every child has the opportunity of opening their very own child pornography website brings a little crocodile tear to my eye. This is a moment we should all cherish.
That's what the art of negotiation is all about. Whatever we ask for we won't get. It'll be negotiated down to something in the middle. That's why Green Peace is important. They ask for more than they expect to get and then negotiate down.
Yes, because I'd much rather push my bank password through several other user's machines than to have my ISP route directly to the site. Tor is for anonymity, not data security.
They'll go with you for the same reason the outsourcing company went with you, price. You won't need to pay your CEO $1 million. Your CEO can live like a GOD for about $50k. Big difference.
$100k lunch is salary for one of those 150,000 employees. A drop in the bucket really. Of course, it's still a slap in the face... but it's not as if it's that much money for IBM.
I take it that it never occured to you that Sweden has copyright laws? As does nearly every other country on Earth? It occurred to me. It also occurred to me that if the Pirate Bay had broken the swedish copyright laws that Sweden would deal with it. It would NEVER occur to me that if someone in Sweden broke an American law that the Swedish government would prosecute them for it. Does that mean that whenever I see someone spit gum out on the sidewalk I can cane them because that's the law in Singapore?
If Novell distributes software under the GPL or any other license when it doesn't have the legal authority to make those licensing claims then Novell and Novell only will be in hot water. Remember, it'll be Novell who holds the copyright to whatever they distribute. If they ALLOW me to redistribute it because they released it under GPL then that's on them and not me.
No offense, but simply because you're allowed to thrive doesn't mean you have the foggiest idea what you're doing with respect to keeping your machines clean.
I can't speak for everyone, obviously, but my office's mail server and various other network services seem to go down more than Google even on a bad week for the GOOG. Honestly I'd bet my money on Google being up. That doesn't mean I'd host my business sensitive data there, but that's not what the article is talking about.
More than that, now a government official can get a warrant for [insert major company] who will gladly allow them access to your system via their pre-installed spyware. They're in your network and you don't even know it. More snooping without the ability to detect or fight in court. Remember, they're looking at the corporations records, not looking at your box (which you stand a chance to fight in court).
Sony will say that because of big bad rippers they had to update the security. The ones who will look bad in the media are the rippers. Sony knows damn good and well that this will barely cause a hiccup in illegal copying of DVDs. What it does is give them an opportunity to demonize the copiers. Remember, the media giants who own the news outlets? Well, they care about their digial rights and copyright as well. They WILL NOT come out in favor of the consumer on this. You'll see.
There's not a lack of choices for the consumer. I can run any of a number of Fedora Core, Ubuntu, Solaris x86, FreeBSD, Windows XP, Windows 2000, DOS, Debian, and dozens upon dozens of other operating systems on my machine. The fact that I can't run one in particular doesn't indicate to me that I have a lack of choices. It means one provider of operating systems chooses not to target me as a potential customer. It happens all the time.
I agree. The price is so high not because Doubleclick's advertising is so high, but because Google wanted to pick them up before Microsoft or some other advertising company bought/merged with them. It might have been expensive, but if you're looking to monopolize the online advertising market, no price is too high to sweep the feet out from under competitors.
Ok, so AMD aren't doing this because it makes their customers happy. PC hardware has become a lot like the cable television business. Even though you send your check to the cable provider every month you are not the customer. You are the product provided to their advertisers. AMD and Intel need content providers to provide content on their hardware so that you will buy it. PC manufacturers are happy to sell you to their content providers.
That doesn't mean the feature didn't work. It just means the feature wasn't beneficial at that resolution. In other words, "It's not a bug, it's a feature!" =)
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Good thing Microsoft doesn't make computers, otherwise that story would look really bad for them.
Development is not a solo effort, you need to talk to the users, the analysts, the other coders, the testers, there's a whole design process.
getting back towards the topic, I think telecommuting very occasionally, like maybe one or two days a month is ok, it's like a bit of an extra holiday and can give people a bit of space when they feel their job has become a little stale.
Once you're doing it every week though you should really look at the reasons you don't like going to your work place and try to fix those problems rather than running away from them I think you vastly over-estimate the level of involvement required in most development jobs. Sure when the application is being designed and developed there needs to be a lot of face to face interaction. However, once the application is in maintenance mode there's little to no need for face time. I can read a bug out of bugzilla, look at the screenshots and fix the bug just as well from home as I do in the office. Secondly I can add another screen that looks similar to all the other screens and uses the same dao + a couple of columns without any real face time. I can also create a report that shows [whatever] without face time. The VAST majority of development is in maintenance mode or upgrades to software that already has a large foundation.
Just to be on the safe side, I wanted to note that I hope it was obvious that I was being terribly sarcastic. Child pornography is disgusting and evil.
Imagine average joe user calling Dell because [insert Windows app] doesn't work in wine. Dell doesn't want that.
That's what the art of negotiation is all about. Whatever we ask for we won't get. It'll be negotiated down to something in the middle. That's why Green Peace is important. They ask for more than they expect to get and then negotiate down.
He just needs to put his thoughts on government owned machines. Those things are apparently quite good at forgetting.
Actually, the Opera browser on the Wii has a flash plugin, so yes. I can't speak to the PS3 or cell phone based browsers.
Yes, because I'd much rather push my bank password through several other user's machines than to have my ISP route directly to the site. Tor is for anonymity, not data security.
It's entirely possible that a random key generator gets lucky on the first try. What's that, like 1 millisecond?
What I'm wondering is where are the people researching how much of the funding for the research of this drug was paid for by our tax dollars?
They'll go with you for the same reason the outsourcing company went with you, price. You won't need to pay your CEO $1 million. Your CEO can live like a GOD for about $50k. Big difference.
$100k lunch is salary for one of those 150,000 employees. A drop in the bucket really. Of course, it's still a slap in the face... but it's not as if it's that much money for IBM.
It occurred to me. It also occurred to me that if the Pirate Bay had broken the swedish copyright laws that Sweden would deal with it. It would NEVER occur to me that if someone in Sweden broke an American law that the Swedish government would prosecute them for it. Does that mean that whenever I see someone spit gum out on the sidewalk I can cane them because that's the law in Singapore?
If Novell distributes software under the GPL or any other license when it doesn't have the legal authority to make those licensing claims then Novell and Novell only will be in hot water. Remember, it'll be Novell who holds the copyright to whatever they distribute. If they ALLOW me to redistribute it because they released it under GPL then that's on them and not me.
No offense, but simply because you're allowed to thrive doesn't mean you have the foggiest idea what you're doing with respect to keeping your machines clean.
I can't speak for everyone, obviously, but my office's mail server and various other network services seem to go down more than Google even on a bad week for the GOOG. Honestly I'd bet my money on Google being up. That doesn't mean I'd host my business sensitive data there, but that's not what the article is talking about.
More than that, now a government official can get a warrant for [insert major company] who will gladly allow them access to your system via their pre-installed spyware. They're in your network and you don't even know it. More snooping without the ability to detect or fight in court. Remember, they're looking at the corporations records, not looking at your box (which you stand a chance to fight in court).
Sony will say that because of big bad rippers they had to update the security. The ones who will look bad in the media are the rippers. Sony knows damn good and well that this will barely cause a hiccup in illegal copying of DVDs. What it does is give them an opportunity to demonize the copiers. Remember, the media giants who own the news outlets? Well, they care about their digial rights and copyright as well. They WILL NOT come out in favor of the consumer on this. You'll see.
There's not a lack of choices for the consumer. I can run any of a number of Fedora Core, Ubuntu, Solaris x86, FreeBSD, Windows XP, Windows 2000, DOS, Debian, and dozens upon dozens of other operating systems on my machine. The fact that I can't run one in particular doesn't indicate to me that I have a lack of choices. It means one provider of operating systems chooses not to target me as a potential customer. It happens all the time.
I agree. The price is so high not because Doubleclick's advertising is so high, but because Google wanted to pick them up before Microsoft or some other advertising company bought/merged with them. It might have been expensive, but if you're looking to monopolize the online advertising market, no price is too high to sweep the feet out from under competitors.
That doesn't mean the feature didn't work. It just means the feature wasn't beneficial at that resolution. In other words, "It's not a bug, it's a feature!" =)
My monitor is set steady at 1024x768. You would be amazed how many of us there are. You'd be even more amazed at how many people still use 800x600.