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I pushed myself too hard, but this can occur when you are expected to work till you drop dead from exhaustion. This is what my first supervisor expected of me, because she thought I was a low life piece of shit. I had hardly any experience in insurance, especially claims which a lot of people in the building considered to be the sharp end of the business. Administration on a new claim was estimated on average to take around 90 minutes, it took me a day and a half. I was furnished with written procedure notes (about 40 pages worth), a laptop with no mouse and told to get on with it. I didn't consider this to be unfair, because this is the attitude I have experienced in most of my jobs. I had been in my new role for two days when I was given this task. All the thanks I got was a casual remark from my supervisor "Well, that's our Christmas bonus gone isn't it."
I was often shouted at in the office. Being an open plan space this behaviour was witnessed by about 80 other people. If my queries were not understood at first, the response I would get is "WHAT?!". When the day ended and the office was mostly empty, my supervisor's behaviour became very hostile.
The experience was incredibly stressful. My ulnar nerve issue worsened, so now it feels like I have a knife stuck in my little finger. Also I became so nervous about making a mistake (because my mistakes were over emphasised) that I worked at a rate about 4 times slower than my colleagues. Trust in my proof reading ability was lost, so I would check every single lexicon in a letter of correspondence and rereading my work nearly a dozen times. Some people would recognise this as OCD. I was considered incapable of performing my role, a bit offensive I might add.
I have a suspicion that I was treated like this partially because I am genetically male. My hope is to get a new job in the company's call center, and occasionally I would dress as a woman (or most of the time). I would like to see how I am treated by my ex supervisor/torturer while wearing a skirt, and how someone who is quite religious reacts to someone slowly coming out as transgender. I recently referred to her as a "fucking bitch" in a conversation with one of my other work colleagues. I regret that a lot, because (s)he isn't a real woman, and I'm more of a woman than she'll ever be.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/I,_Robot_(1995_The_Outer_Limits...
The other day a work colleague of mine described me as "so meek and mild", and I couldn't agree more.
I wouldn't call myself an expert, but I avoid calling C portable assembler. I tend to think of C as having low level data manipulation and high level flow.
I was physically assaulted by a doctor around six years ago, I would use a much harsher term than asshole.
"Confefs" ? The old and the new in one word.
Minetest [0] has some scripting ability, utilising Lua.
Anyway, thank you for the link.
Anyway, recently I decided I should try to be more multilingual, Javascript with Eloquent Javascript.
Just curious, is there a particular language you were thinking of learning?
I'm guessing the pieces were original works used just for the study, the article doesn't state what was used.
[0] http://news.stanford.edu/news/2006/may31/brainwave-053106.ht...
Would you be referring to the business morals or technical requirements of Facebook? You need a lot of good hacks to deal with large bulks of data. For example: https://github.com/facebook/warp
I heard Goooogle developed Go partially because they were fed up with the time taken up compiling massive C programs.
EDIT: This indicates that the original comment [0] is quite opaque.
Eloquent or not, I thought that the supplied article was irresponsible and lacked substance.
I sincerely hope that the given name "Travis Benton", is a pseudonym (and that photograph is not of him). If a potential employer has perused this article, it could effect his chances of gaining more suitable or substantial employment.
The article has possibly put "Mr. Benton" at a serious disadvantage in life. If a similar article was published about me I would call up the editor and shoot hell-fire down the phone.
The terrible stuff may be used for cutting and scratching. If you scratch the vinyl, it adds character.
The cyberpunk aesthetic was already in existence, like: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Akira_(manga)
The alternative Lady Grey tea [0] has lower concentrations of oil of bergamot.
I would definitely agree with point A.
The odd gem, like [0].
Advice or pointers from other HN readers.
I do not work in the software industry, but I would call myself a hacker.
The term "hacker" can be interpreted in imaginative ways, I wouldn't be surprised to find hackers in your area of work.
Well I found this little sound-byte from a link in the original article. I didn't find it particularly original.
From [0] > “Programs” are written using special blueprints called corelets. Each corelet specifies the basic functioning of a network of neurosynaptic cores. Individual corelets can be linked into more and more complex structures—nested, Modha says, “like Russian dolls.”
The term 'Russian doll' evoked recursion (and distant memories of my late grandfather), very common even 50 odd years ago.
[0] http://www.technologyreview.com/news/517876/ibm-scientists-s...
I used to constantly crack jokes to one of my work colleagues, yet she hardly ever laughed at them. One day I uttered a joke which she merely scorned at, a few minutes later another colleague uttered exactly the same joke and she started giggling. At that I moment I realised that she was deeply prejudiced towards me. It would explain why she would often shout at me, insult me and even threaten me with violence.
My humour served a very serious purpose, it exposed someone as being an emotional sadist.
[0] https://www.google.co.uk/search?q=askew&oq=askew&aqs=chrome....
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1681505
EDIT: and another https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4972756
I am a bit confused as to what you mean. 2^2^n is still classified as an exponential function.
From the article> Wikimedia's editors are split on the legal issues. One user, Saffron Blaze, said in a comment section associated with the photo: "I am not sure I am convinced by the no copyright argument. In this case the outcome was very disrespectful of the photographer who created the conditions that allowed these photos to be created. There are some jurisdictions where even the monkey could be imbued with the copyright as its creator."
Original source [0].
As an old art student, I can readily sympathise with this. Spontaneity is often considered to be an important component of great art.
[0] https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Commons:Featured_picture_...