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Kent Sharkey wrote: it's better than some most of the Q&A folk OPs
FTFY.
The sh*t I complain about
It's like there ain't a cloud in the sky and it's raining out - Eminem
~! Firewall !~
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True, I did mean the Q-ers, not the A-ers. Thanks.
TTFN - Kent
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Americans, famously, take far less vacation time than their European counterparts: less than 17 days, on average, compared to 30 days in France, for example. But for many Americans, that’s apparently all the time they need. "Takin' care of business and workin' overtime"
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Hmm, I loose 2 vacation days a month if I don't take them since I am at the limit I can hold. Also 1 sick day per month for the same reason.
John
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In my former job I wasn't allowed to take more than 2 days off in a week and they couldn't be consecutive because "the team can't handle the additional workload when you're gone." 30 days off per year sounds amazing 
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Jon McKee wrote: "the team can't handle the additional workload when you're gone."
A good compliment, but no one is irreplaceable
M.D.V. 
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Sort of how I viewed it. Highly doubtful it was actually true; more of a "I don't want to do your work."
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Jon McKee wrote: In my former job I wasn't allowed to take more than 2 days off in a week and they couldn't be consecutive because "the team can't handle the additional workload when you're gone..."
One of my previous bosses had an interesting approach. When he joined a group as manager, he determined who in the group was "unreplaceable" and got rid of them. Somehow he ran some of the most successful projects I've ever seen.
I'm retired. There's a nap for that...
- Harvey
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That's an interesting approach. I guess it provokes the rest of the team to start doing their part since their crutch is now gone? 
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Kent Sharkey wrote: But for many Americans, that’s apparently all the time they need can / are allowed to take.
FTFY
I don't think they just refuse to take their off time on purpose / voluntarily.
M.D.V.
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No one who forces them to.
But then again, if a people is that competitive, then I can play you against your neighbour. If you won't, he will. So, this is just a consequence of that choice 
Bastard Programmer from Hell 
If you can't read my code, try converting it here[^]
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well... if really voluntarily... then their choice.
the day my baby was born I learned that "live to work" is not that worth, so now I try to "work to live" instead (which doesn't mean I am not competitive).
M.D.V.
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A slave is alive just to work. The rest of us only work to survive.
But yes, it is that sentiment that makes it possible; after all, if you're not available on the phone each night (for free ofc) then you do not love your company 
Bastard Programmer from Hell
If you can't read my code, try converting it here[^]
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Intel announced a new family of “Core X” desktop processors at Computex today, offering even more powerful versions of its existing Core i5 and Core i7 models, along with a new, top-of-the-line Core i9 line for those who want even more firepower. Do they make chainsaw noises when they work under load?
18 cores?! Does it come with a liquid nitrogen tank?
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Parallelism free lunch! With only 4 cores, it is hard to get more than 2.5X perf gain due to other running programs. Hopefully, more developers will parallelize their programs to utilize more than 4 cores.
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With the demise of Windows Phone and Windows 10 Mobile well documented, those who have been holding out for Microsoft to break back into the mobile space with their own hardware and software have had little hope on the horizon. Well of course they are. 
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Awesome, we get new Windows for mobile phones, after the last ever Windows which works everywhere .
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As far as they do a new version for desktop too... 
M.D.V.
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NY Times, May 27: "Is China Outsmarting America in A.I.?" [^].
Note: I am able to view this article in a Chrome 'incognito' window without a subscription to the NY Times.Quote: The balance of power in technology is shifting. China, which for years watched enviously as the West invented the software and the chips powering today’s digital age, has become a major player in artificial intelligence, what some think may be the most important technology of the future. Experts widely believe China is only a step behind the United States.
Quote: Quantifying China’s spending push is difficult, because authorities there disclose little. But experts say it looks to be considerable. Numerous provinces and cities are spending billions on developing robotics, and a part of that funding is likely to go to artificial intelligence research. For example, the relatively unknown city of Xiangtan, in China’s Hunan province, has pledged $2 billion toward developing robots and artificial intelligence. Other places have direct incentives for the A.I. industry. In Suzhou, leading artificial intelligence companies can get about $800,000 in subsidies for setting up shop locally, while Shenzhen, in southern China, is offering $1 million to support any A.I. project established there.
«When I consider my brief span of life, swallowed up in an eternity before and after, the little space I fill, and even can see, engulfed in the infinite immensity of spaces of which I am ignorant, and which know me not, I am frightened, and am astonished at being here rather than there; for there is no reason why here rather than there, now rather than then.» Blaise Pascal
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It all seems a bit too vague and hypothetical to label it a "massive investment".
In this present crisis, government is not the solution to our problem; government is the problem. ~ Ronald Reagan
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Colossal Cave Adventure was the first text-based adventure game—It was developed in 1976 using one of the earliest computer programming languages, at the same time as the earliest version of the internet itself, ARPANET. The game is an important part of both hacking and gaming history, and now, Colossal Cave Adventure's code is online and open source. "Xyzzy"
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Finally!? It's been open source since at least 1980!
Here's[^] my MS-DOS port if anyone's interested.
/ravi
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And it's "Crowther", not "Crowder". The author of the article seems to imply if it's not on Github, it's not open source. <sigh> Please let's stop posting Vice wannabe tech related links in The Insider News.
/ravi
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Oh God, it gets worse... the Github repo is a port of the original C&W version. 
Someone please remove this thread from Insider News. Are we that starved for content?
/ravi
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