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Its expensive to employ ( UK ) people on PAYE employers have to pay national insurance , sick pay and holidays and bank holidays. Contractors typically don't get these benefits but they get higher pay.
We can’t stop here, this is bat country - Hunter S Thompson RIP
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Sure, I get that, but some companies pay even more when going through a contracting agency. The extra fees and percent increase on the wage is a lot more costly than what they can save. A direct corp-to-corp contract would be one thing I suppose. I could get that.
Jeremy Falcon
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I don't think it's even legal in the Netherlands.
Employees have rights here, weird as that may sound to Americans 
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I'm starting to agree.
Jeremy Falcon
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Sure. I can contract for $90/hr or more, but the effective employee hourly rate is usually around half that.
Marc
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If it were just a contract situation I would agree. But it's a contract to hire thing. The company uses a contracting / staffing company and pays a huge overhead just for the righ to "not hire" someone they don't like with no legal fuss.
Jeremy Falcon
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Quote: By default, Windows 10 quietly reconfigures your default printer every time you print.
[Link]
Why am I telling you this? Because I just spent 4 hours trying to track down a devilish bug in a well known hated reporting library due to this setting being enabled on a test rig running the latest version of Winten.
Most reports worked fine. Others threw an access violation exception and crashed the program...all work fine in development.  I spent hours looking through code and comparing working reports to non-working reports. I was getting nowhere until I moved on to something else for awhile. The thought finally occurred to me to change the default printer. I noticed going into the control panel for printer/devices that no default printer was marked??? Previously, it had been set (under 8.1) to a pdf printer/driver. I set the default back to it's original setting and was informed that manually setting a default would disable 'Automatic Default Printer Management'. OK, no problem...didn't even know what it was or how it got switched on. With a default printer manually configured, all reports now work like they should! I'm back on schedule for Monday!
Maybe this will save someone else from pulling their hair out! Now, if I can just figure out why the SQL Service refuses to start automatically since the takeover! Not asking...not that important!
Have a great weekend! 
"Go forth into the source" - Neal Morse
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kmoorevs wrote: Why am I telling you this?
More to the point, why are you telling us this on a Saturday?
Bad command or file name. Bad, bad command! Sit! Stay! Staaaay...
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Sorry, I got interrupted yesterday and posted without re-reading this morning. 
"Go forth into the source" - Neal Morse
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I was going to say! I had the Friday rant 
Charlie Gilley
<italic>Stuck in a dysfunctional matrix from which I must escape...
"Where liberty dwells, there is my country." B. Franklin, 1783
“They who can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety.” BF, 1759
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Yes, it was comforting knowing I wasn't the only poor bastard cursing on Friday!
"Go forth into the source" - Neal Morse
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That's a feature of winio's Automatic Default Calendar Management.
I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!
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... it's better than just a box, but...[^]
I assume the architect was smoking something, and the client was drunk?
Bad command or file name. Bad, bad command! Sit! Stay! Staaaay...
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Hi Griff,
Thanks to you, I may have found the right designers for my creative writing website; I sense these people will understand me: Krzywy Domek ("Crazy House") web-site: [^].
cheers, Bill
«There is a spectrum, from "clearly desirable behaviour," to "possibly dodgy behavior that still makes some sense," to "clearly undesirable behavior." We try to make the latter into warnings or, better, errors. But stuff that is in the middle category you don’t want to restrict unless there is a clear way to work around it.» Eric Lippert, May 14, 2008
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Depends when you catch them, I guess: the Ballmer Peak[^] is a pretty fine balance!
Bad command or file name. Bad, bad command! Sit! Stay! Staaaay...
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They might understand you, but I can't understand a bluddy word they say.
I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!
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OK, so ha have to (note that that's not "want to") install Java on one of my machines, so I go to their site and click the download button:
You don't have permission to access "http://sdlc-esd-stage.oracle.com/ESD6/JSCDL/jdk/8u101-b13/JavaSetup8u101.exe?" on this server.
Fine, so the button's broken. Go to manual download:
You don't have permission to access "http://sdlc-esd-stage.oracle.com/ESD6/JSCDL/jdk/8u101-b13/jre-8u101-windows-i586.exe?" on this server.
Right. Last option: manual download-as-you-go:
You don't have permission to access "http://sdlc-esd-stage.oracle.com/ESD6/JSCDL/jdk/8u101-b13/jre-8u101-windows-i586-iftw.exe?" on this server.
Bluddy morons! They don't even mention that the "other links" are to the JRE, not the JDK.
I eventually had to settle for a copy of the JRE from here:
http://download.oracle.com/otn-pub/java/jdk/8u101-b13/jre-8u101-windows-x64.exe"
But you can't do a Hell of a lot with a bluddy JRE! Looky but no touchy.
I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!
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Well I had a link in my favourites that led me there. But when I typed "java development kit" into Google just now, that was the top link. I don't know where you got your link, which someone in QA also got.
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Yours was probably routed through a different part of India.
I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!
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I tried to download jre last week to my 2008 server only to see tar.jz files for windows. Really? Are we lazy or just mad at the world?
I also found that link to the .exe installer the OP specified but when I double click it it after downloading does nothing so -- no Jira for my server, Fogbugz still.
I'll try harder next week.
modified 24-Sep-16 14:24pm.
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So one thing I'd love to do more of is reading/studying clean code/software. I've been reading material by Steve McConnell and Uncle Bob, which are fantastic... But I'd like to see more examples of the principles actually in code. I tried searching for Uncle Bob' GitHub and found it, but it's rather limited.. And haven't even been able to find any code by Steve McConnell online.
Are there any other folks who are known for writing good code that you'd recommend I check out? I'm looking for actual source code... Because just roaming around the web everywhere, I've found all kinds of nasty stuff! Bonus points for C# but really, C++, and Java would be understandable as well.
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Just my $0.02 but I think you can only get so far by looking at other people's code. Just like writing a book, the only way to do it well is by actually writing a lot. Do look at good code, but don't spend too long on it.
Another thing is there is no objectively "well written" software. When you go out into the industry (I'm assuming you still haven't or are new to it), you will come across all kinds of a-holes who find fault with every f-ing thing no matter how well it's written. I think there was someone who posted here about how the boss rejected his code because the others were too incompetent to understand it.
Of course this is no reason to write shoddy software, but it is better to adopt your style to the situation at hand, and to develop your own style irrespective of what others are doing. There is no reason to reinvent the wheel, but even less reason to not innovate just because something good enough is already available. From personal experience, I am less and less inclined to actually create anything because it is so easy to string together other people's code (employers seem to expect it too, given the tight deadlines and ridiculous budgets), and it has had a detrimental effect on my work quality.
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