You are working remotely, I'm sure you will find the flexibility to adjust your working hours by at least 1-2 hours?
By the way, is there a reason you called it Türkiye instead of Turkey?
By the way, is there a reason you called it Türkiye instead of Turkey?
Turkey is a bird. The Turkish word for Turkey is Hindi (which is funny, because the Turkish word for India is Hindistan, -stan means country, so a literal translation of Hindistan is "Country of Turkey")
Türkiye is the Turkish spelling for the Republic of Turkey.
The commenter who called it Türkiye claims to be from the USA in his or her bio.
[1] https://www.economist.com/johnson/2010/11/11/beijing-or-peki...
An interesting exception is [Peking University](http://english.pku.edu.cn/) which elected (and was permitted) to retain its venerable Romanized style.
The shift to Beijing did happen in Dutch, without too much fuss. Peking is now only used for the duck recipe (Pekingeend).
Odd really, because Beijing is kind of unique in this aspect. For most capitals the Dutch name is consequently used (Berlijn/Parijs vs. Berlin/Paris).
Mr. Halligan, how was Napster back in those days? Like, do you have a blog about that time period?
I was the "only" sysadmin when I was at Napster (We had 2 people in desktop support/it, one of whom actually died a few years later. The guy I replaced, Stephen Fountain, was actually shot to death by police). We hired 2 more a week or two before I left. It was a shit-show that I prefer to forget. (I'm also not at all proud of my work there. I was an unprofessional, somewhat incompetent 19 year-old workaholic who worked 100 hours a week and did a half-assed job at everything, which in the end actually was a huge net-negative to the organization, and myself!)
Thank you for the VERY frank responses, I appreciate the effort and the time. As a follow-up question, do you think the 100 hour weeks had diminishing returns after what point, if at all? Also, how is the work-life balance in Turkey in general?
Again, my condolences on your losses.