same here: repetitive music without clean vocals increases my productivity, while clean vocals distract me. I'm a big black metal fan, so I listen to Burzum (and the like) everyday with my in ear earbuds. Cancels out everything:)
yep. Same reason we have mandatory breaks at our job. Otherwise the marketing department gets nervous. Some people don't seem to get that others don't want to socialize for 30 minutes every day.
You do that once (as a new idealistic developer), get your ass fired and never do it again. The managers are probably friends with someone high up. You probably ain't. And developing things on that level is not about competence, it's all about politics.
Amen to that. I'm in that situation for two years now, and seriously considering raping my predecessor's face with a chainsaw.
In my experience, duct tape programmers come in two kinds: a project lead who thinks along the lines of "Oh, I was in my previous life a dba, I can do everything myself and they just have to work with what I give them without complaining because I get payed more" and the "oh hi, I am an ex-marketing guy and I know some vba so I obviously know how to program in.net"
Yeah. I've got to talk (and work) with some marketing girls & boys: they're good at what they do. Some of them are (comparatively speaking) better marketers than I am a software developer. And they are responsible for your paycheck (if your company doesn't sell anything they don't have money to pay you) so before throwing the whole "omg marketeers suck lulz" tantrum try and talk to them. They might just be nice human beings after all.
well, in 2007 some customers complained, and later it was confirmed (search for "capping", both links are Dutch). However, Telenet isn't talking about it. I wouldn't be surprised if they did however.
True about the not lasting long, but mine was a bad example: I think if I made a page about some obscure subject (that was Wikipedia-viable) the people coming to the wikipedia page would receive wrong information, and since it takes a long time (I think) for the editors to notice & fix the obscure pages the damage may have already been done.
And if i remember correctly there isn't any "fact" checking in the references either. I can make a page saying I rule the universe and wikipedia will gladly accept it as a source (unless, of course, someone removes it as an unreliable source - but if you're learning about the subject you don't know what is reliable/unreliable...)
What are you afraid of exactly? Is it the principle of collecting (probably anonymous) data? Why do you buy the game then - you support a company and might be paying for the next round of monitoring? Did you ever question the alternative use of the data that was collected - what kind of porn you like or something like that? Personally, I don't think there is some kind of big market for game data bound to a specific game...
or did you just read "privacy" and "monitoring" and started running around like a retarded chicken?
Yeah, I hate it too when my friends tell me that I need to get facebook/twitter or whatever.
... wait, they don't do that. Maybe you should just get some new friends who are satisfied when you share your latest pictures on your personal web space. Or sitting on the couch while watching the pictures on your television and having a beer.
While I understand the general idea of your post, it seems to me like you're making a bad precedent for yourself: once your boss knows that he can ask you to work 60 hour weeks (instead of let's say 40 hours), that will be the standard that you're supposed to work and everything over 60 will be looked at like overtime.
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Not speaking for the one you responded to, but I'd trust his opinion as much as I'd trust the opinion of a random slashdotter
same here: repetitive music without clean vocals increases my productivity, while clean vocals distract me. I'm a big black metal fan, so I listen to Burzum (and the like) everyday with my in ear earbuds. Cancels out everything :)
yep. Same reason we have mandatory breaks at our job. Otherwise the marketing department gets nervous. Some people don't seem to get that others don't want to socialize for 30 minutes every day.
Yeah, heaven forbid someone actually does some R&D and develops things that are not mainstream.
Nah, then the slashdot crowd will be up in arms on how about "omg anti-captilasim move to USA and dump Europe. USA! USA!".
You do that once (as a new idealistic developer), get your ass fired and never do it again. The managers are probably friends with someone high up. You probably ain't. And developing things on that level is not about competence, it's all about politics.
Sounds interesting: any links to back that up?
Amen to that. I'm in that situation for two years now, and seriously considering raping my predecessor's face with a chainsaw.
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In my experience, duct tape programmers come in two kinds: a project lead who thinks along the lines of "Oh, I was in my previous life a dba, I can do everything myself and they just have to work with what I give them without complaining because I get payed more" and the "oh hi, I am an ex-marketing guy and I know some vba so I obviously know how to program in
I hate to quote an overused quote, but who watches the watchmen?
So their reaction is "Ooh, a mac clone with firefox stickers! You've obviously got too much time! Wanna go out"?
Yeah. I've got to talk (and work) with some marketing girls & boys: they're good at what they do. Some of them are (comparatively speaking) better marketers than I am a software developer. And they are responsible for your paycheck (if your company doesn't sell anything they don't have money to pay you) so before throwing the whole "omg marketeers suck lulz" tantrum try and talk to them. They might just be nice human beings after all.
No, some nerds "get" that google is not interested in whatever the hell it is they are doing.
I think me yelling "give me back my purse" would get met lots of weird looks :)
I might start yelling I'm a vegetarian and that I'm better than the guy or girl tho. Works with greenpeace activists.
Same here. I will ignore you and if you insist on bothering me I will yell.
Isn't it more like banning guns because the majority of the users use it to kill people instead of wildlife or instead as for self defense?
Maybe, just maybe, you could educate them instead of just plain laughing in their face.
well, in 2007 some customers complained, and later it was confirmed (search for "capping", both links are Dutch). However, Telenet isn't talking about it. I wouldn't be surprised if they did however.
True about the not lasting long, but mine was a bad example: I think if I made a page about some obscure subject (that was Wikipedia-viable) the people coming to the wikipedia page would receive wrong information, and since it takes a long time (I think) for the editors to notice & fix the obscure pages the damage may have already been done.
And if i remember correctly there isn't any "fact" checking in the references either. I can make a page saying I rule the universe and wikipedia will gladly accept it as a source (unless, of course, someone removes it as an unreliable source - but if you're learning about the subject you don't know what is reliable/unreliable ...)
Yeah, and there is no possibly way that that could be abused.
Possibly even better answer: 90% of the Palm users don't care.
What are you afraid of exactly? Is it the principle of collecting (probably anonymous) data? Why do you buy the game then - you support a company and might be paying for the next round of monitoring? Did you ever question the alternative use of the data that was collected - what kind of porn you like or something like that? Personally, I don't think there is some kind of big market for game data bound to a specific game...
or did you just read "privacy" and "monitoring" and started running around like a retarded chicken?
Yeah, I hate it too when my friends tell me that I need to get facebook/twitter or whatever.
... wait, they don't do that. Maybe you should just get some new friends who are satisfied when you share your latest pictures on your personal web space. Or sitting on the couch while watching the pictures on your television and having a beer.
I liked them because I didn't know better. I'll pick a round controller every day over the bricks we used to have.
While I understand the general idea of your post, it seems to me like you're making a bad precedent for yourself: once your boss knows that he can ask you to work 60 hour weeks (instead of let's say 40 hours), that will be the standard that you're supposed to work and everything over 60 will be looked at like overtime.