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"It really does amaze me that I work with people who seem so unhappy with their work place and yet, aren’t making any effort to find another place to work."
In my case, my job involves various technical reasons I am unhappy, but gives me the flexibility I need as a single dad. The risk of losing that is too high.
"If you don't fail at least 90 percent of the time, you're not aiming high enough."
Alan Kay.
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Exactly, Rob. It's hardly a question of psychology, it's one of options and necessities.
Slogans aren't solutions.
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I was pleasantly surprised to see the positive response to this one. Thanks.
"If you don't fail at least 90 percent of the time, you're not aiming high enough."
Alan Kay.
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Rob Grainger wrote: In my case, my job involves various technical reasons I am unhappy, but gives me the flexibility I need as a single dad. The risk of losing that is too high.
Wow, this could be my post. Spot on and true.
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Glad its not just me who puts family first.
"If you don't fail at least 90 percent of the time, you're not aiming high enough."
Alan Kay.
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My job sucks but either I keep on living to my parents' expense or I move to my life with my soon-to-be wife. I chose the latter, I will pull and bear. Family comes first in my opinion.
* CALL APOGEE, SAY AARDWOLF
* GCS d--- s-/++ a- C++++ U+++ P- L- E-- W++ N++ o+ K- w+++ O? M-- V? PS+ PE- Y+ PGP t++ 5? X R++ tv-- b+ DI+++ D++ G e++>+++ h--- ++>+++ y+++* Weapons extension: ma- k++ F+2 X
* Never pay more than 20 bucks for a computer game.
* I'm a puny punmaker.
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Keep going - work to live, not live to work.
"If you don't fail at least 90 percent of the time, you're not aiming high enough."
Alan Kay.
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All your ways of reacting to events in your life are learned responses. Most of those responses you learned before you were 5.
Commuting to this contract job that I have, sitting in a cube of lavender-ish (that's the best name I can come up with for the color) fuzzy walls and gray metal shelving, with no windows (the closest window is a hundred feet away), close enough to the overhead vent that a lot of the time I have to wear a hat so I'm not frozen (though ironically it's 30F degrees outside, why in the world is the AC on???), having essentially zero human interaction except for the Monday meeting (ironic, that I actually look forward to a meeting) and basically listening to audio books so that when my brain disengages from the stultifying work I don't immediately go into the "geez, I could do this work so much more comfortably and efficiently from home" thinking), I notice (yes, back to the "commuting" intro) the yellow school buses and I think, wow, our young children are being groomed for this kind of mass behavior -- being acclimated starting at the age of 5 to long commutes, uncomfortable and unpleasant environments, doing things that are stultifying (most education the way it's taught is) and quickly learning about the hierarchical top-down management model that ultimately is the foundation of all religion, intended to dis-empower the vast majority of the human race.
I'll get back to work now. 
Marc
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Nah, by the time they grow up, they'll have jetpacks.
I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!
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The problem is the interview process. Nobody likes it - on both sides of the table.
".45 ACP - because shooting twice is just silly" - JSOP, 2010
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You can never have too much ammo - unless you're swimming, or on fire. - JSOP, 2010
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When you pry the gun from my cold dead hands, be careful - the barrel will be very hot. - JSOP, 2013
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Researchers at the University of California at Riverside have invented a type of paper that can be printed on using just light, erased by heating, and reused up to 80 times. Won't someone think of the recycling bins?
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All paper can be erased by heat - at 451 Fahrenheit I believe?
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Neat, but pointless. By the time you would get to the reuse stage, the paper would be wrinkled, torn, creased and otherwise rendered non-reusable, aside from shopping lists, playing hangman or writing ransom notes.
To reduce paper use, the best solution is to stop printing stuff.
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Joe Woodbury wrote: By the time you would get to the reuse stage, the paper would be wrinkled, torn, creased
Put the sheets of paper through a trouser press. The paper will be smoothed and erased simultaneously. 
If you have an important point to make, don't try to be subtle or clever. Use a pile driver. Hit the point once. Then come back and hit it again. Then hit it a third time - a tremendous whack.
--Winston Churchill
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Most of the time I prefer having extracts of documentation printed, in order to take notes and free up my virtual environment (tester + sniffer + code editor + log analyzer clutter the screen easily). Also it's refreshing for the eyes.
CALL APOGEE, SAY AARDWOLF
GCS d--- s-/++ a- C++++ U+++ P- L- E-- W++ N++ o+ K- w+++ O? M-- V? PS+ PE- Y+ PGP t++ 5? X R++ tv-- b+ DI+++ D++ G e++>+++ h--- ++>+++ y+++* Weapons extension: ma- k++ F+2 X
Never pay more than 20 bucks for a computer game.
I'm a puny punmaker.
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A paper for 5 day notes...
Skipper: We'll fix it.
Alex: Fix it? How you gonna fix this?
Skipper: Grit, spit and a whole lotta duct tape.
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I personally fail to see any possible business application. That probably means that it will conquer the world.
Slogans aren't solutions.
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Kent Sharkey wrote: Won't someone think of the recycling bins?
Or blueprint printers. Why did no-one ever think of those?
I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!
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If left alone, the paper reverts to its original state in five days.
I can think of a lot of corrupt politicians and businessmen that would love that feature.
Then again, the solution is probably refrigeration. So I think the carbon emission benefits of re-usable paper will be outweighed by the refrigeration. 
Marc
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Not entirely sure the re-use will offset the environmental costs of increased chemical production.
Scratch that - I'm pretty sure they won't, and the result will probably not be recycleable after those 80 uses.
Did Trump invest in this one?'
"If you don't fail at least 90 percent of the time, you're not aiming high enough."
Alan Kay.
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Microsoft hosts the Windows source in a monstrous 300GB Git repository | Ars Technica[^]
Quote: Git, the open source distributed version control system created by Linus Torvalds to handle Linux's decentralized development model, is being used for a rather surprising project: Windows.
Quote: Microsoft has been working to enhance Git to improve the way it handles vast repositories. Central to this effort is a new project released (in part) as open source Git Virtual File system (GVFS). The premise of GVFS is straightforward enough: rather than fetching all the data at once, only a bare skeleton of the repository needs to be populated up front.
Quote: Microsoft describes the GVFS driver as the "moral equivalent of the FUSE driver in Linux." If it truly is the moral equivalent of FUSE, it suggests that Windows will at last get the same kind of extensibility and scope for user mode file systems that Unix users have enjoyed for many years.
#SupportHeForShe
Government can give you nothing but what it takes from somebody else. A government big enough to give you everything you want is big enough to take everything you've got, including your freedom.-Ezra Taft Benson
You must accept 1 of 2 basic premises: Either we are alone in the universe or we are not alone. Either way, the implications are staggering!-Wernher von Braun
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"If it truly is the moral equivalent of FUSE, it suggests that Windows will at last get the same kind of extensibility and scope for user mode file systems that Unix users have enjoyed for many years."
Whether they will expose that flexibility to 3rd parties is another question again.
"If you don't fail at least 90 percent of the time, you're not aiming high enough."
Alan Kay.
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At least the Android team has fun...
What do you get when you cross a joke with a rhetorical question?
The metaphorical solid rear-end expulsions have impacted the metaphorical motorized bladed rotating air movement mechanism.
Do questions with multiple question marks annoy you???
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And here I was, thinking it's to do with the Chinese zodiac.
Software rusts. Simon Stephenson, ca 1994. So does this signature. me, 2012
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