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You are running a financial company. Focus on that. Don’t tell people what is good to do. That’s well out of your bounds.

A lot of companies do overnight batch processing so that could have been the case here.

I’m all for mantras that give you the right mindset to achieve your goals, but I wonder whether it’s necessary or healthy to compare oneself to others.

Also, to what do you attribute the successes of those dumber people? Pure hard work?

“Fetal bovine serum (FBS) is a ubiquitously used essential supplement in cell culture media. However, there are serious scientific and ethical concerns about the use of FBS regarding its harvest and production.”

From an abstract of a research paper regarding FBS-free media.

Excellent points and completely agreed. Social media has turned the private into the public. The old adage, don’t talk politics and don’t throw stones has been completely abandoned. We used to discuss these divisive topics within the contexts in which it was appropriate to do so. Now, it’s literally everywhere.

I am not sure what the solution is. It’s a societal pandora’s box and it’s open.

I think it can happen anywhere where these sentiments are allowed to rear their heads. It only takes a few people to create this atmosphere, but if the culture of the organization turns a blind eye then this can be disproportionately detrimental to the people targeted by harassment.

Calling the lawsuit "counterproductive" is troubling as well as it almost sounds like they felt the situation was previously productive, i.e. moving in a positive direction.

I’ll repeat what was already said. You shouldn’t hijack the back button. That is hostile to the user and will not generate sales for you. I think the idea is great and is something I can use, but I’ll pass.

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To counteract the obvious sense of loss that came from an official separation from my wife, I took up sketching, first in pencil and then in pen. It’s run its course so I have slowed down quite a bit.

I am planning to take up photography next.

I take your point and agree that OP is writing from a place of privilege. His post is addressed to knowledge workers and people who could theoretically afford this type of existence. I'm sure just as Darwin was leisurely walking around, there were people working 12 hour days to ensure that he could do so.

In a case like this, management can either see the dilemma they are in or pretend it isn’t happening. If they pretend it isn’t happening then life will be very miserable for you. They will expect the same turnaround and throughput that they are used to and you will be on the hook to deliver.

If they accept the situation then they may well decide to de-risk your team. That could come from bringing someone trusted over from another team and putting them in charge or by fully outsourcing the work. In that case, you do not benefit from the upside of being the critical member in the long term.

So. I don’t think that staying the works in the long term and I think you will be facing an uphill climb in the interim as the company gets its bearings. Get the pay increase in the interim if possible.

I have a consulting gig where I pair program with my client. We do up to a four hour session before I can’t really think too much.

Unfortunately, nowadays I dont have large blocks of personal time where I also have the energy and motivation to do programming.

When I had my own company, it wasn’t uncommon for me to put in 6 hours of straight development after hours since there were no distractions.

Both AWS and shared hosting providers run on a “F you. Pay me!” model. The difference is that small hosting resellers knew they couldn’t collect on debts while Amazon knows it can.

To understand love like that is to understand an equally profound loss.

I started to notice I was getting less hits on searches related to .NET development for versions prior to .NET Core. I pessimistically assumed it was due to some concerted effort to reduce access to MS-related articles. I don't use Google for much more than that nowadays so I wasn't aware it is a general lack of quality results across the board.

These get more and more frightening as you go along. You shut down someone's business and you just casually mention you will re-enable them almost as if it is a favor?

I'm sorry you are going through this.

Where does it stand now?

There are a lot of risks to a rewrite of software. Doubly so when created in a silo. It pays to see it from the perspective of the company.

Additionally, you either worked on your own time to do so or you worked during company time. If you did this on your time, you should take that as a lesson to use your time for yourself, including looking for a new job if the situation isn't rectified. If you worked on this during working hours, then you may have wasted your employer's time and money. Be wary of doing that type of thing.

Truthfully, I was assigned one by the gym as I had little perspective on it, but I was clear about my goals and they assigned someone who had experience in helping clients reach those goals. I would say that you shouldn't feel strange about switching trainers if needed. They are people, like us, and so some are more dedicated to the task than others.

My own goals were weight loss and regaining mobility. I played a lot of basketball in high school, college, and then again in my late 20s. By 38, I couldn't go down stairs without pain nor could I jump nor run. I achieved those goals with the help of the trainer and even played some basketball again, which I had completely written off as a possibility. In terms of weight loss, I lost 50 lbs and gained about 10-15 lbs of muscle.

You are me, almost down to the word, but I am 41 now. At 38, I decided to pay for a trainer for a year and a half. At 40, just before pandemic, I was in the best shape of my life. Unfortunately, I let the stresses of pandemic and end of a marriage derail me, but I am remotivated to get back on track now. I agree that health and relationships are the most important things in retrospect, but I think you can still get to where you want. There is time yet.

Somewhat similar stories. We partnered with a customer to form a company that would serve their market and we formed a JV to sell it to other companies in their space. They were the investor. We brought strong domain expertise and technical skills.

We provided a budget and timeline. They gave us half the budget we requested (amounting to half the people) and still had us stick to the original timeline. We invested our money to hire others because we believed in the product and potential. They subsequently cut our budget by almost half again and we painfully managed to maintain our team.

When we were ready to start selling the product, they effectively used the hostile contract we had agreed to. By threatening to dissolve the company, they pulled the business away from us while trying to coax us into being employees instead of owners. We didn't come to an agreement and after a long and difficult process, the whole thing ended, we laid our team off, the software never saw the light of day, and our collective time and money was wasted.

Lessons: - Listen to your gut. - A hostile contract lays out how someone can screw you over. Ignore it at your own peril. - Don't optimize prematurely.

For your life circumstances, is there an amount of money that is large enough to celebrate, but not so large as to be life changing? If so, then you can relate to the author's point, but for a different value of N. The author is speaking from their experience. I think if they were to caveat every point like this, it would be a much longer read and one would get tired of reading the disclaimers.

In the past few years, I've received bonuses that were massive and I could only have dreamed of some years ago. Since then I've come to realize that sums like that were not life changing. When I dreamed of them some time ago, I imagined they would have been. I would have bought the car I really wanted or bought a bigger apartment or something. But in the end, I would have still had a car and somewhere to live, working to sustain that quality of life. Is it life changing?

I would start by kicking out the person who suggested this terrible idea. They are either naive or cunning. Either of those are dangerous for a new company.

Beyond promoting a toxic culture, this will also result in people teaming up to push performance incentives their way. Like any other system, it can and will be gamed.

This is how I came to know the term. I was a fan of the PBS weekend lineups during the 90s.

I would live in the 1960s through 1980s, traveling internationally.

I'm on an iPhone 6s so it is over 5 years old. I'm just on the verge of getting a new phone since I need more space, a better camera, and a phone that can actually hold a charge. I tend to hold for 3-5 years since I've had probably 2 phones in the past decade (iPhone 4 and iPhone 6s).

I am not in your space or even in your continent, but how do you go about participating in bank affiliate programs?

Sorry to pry, but what does one do after a professional astronomy career?

I believe that public service should be limited to 12 years. All public service. All of it, combined, and ever. Want to be a police office, and a senator, and president? You can, but all of those have to be limited to 12 (not necessarily consecutive) years.

An influx of new people will do the following:

- Reduce graft and nepotism and corruption as a whole.

- Constantly bring fresh eyes to old processes.

- Increase and improve knowledge sharing.

- Provide people with a safety net while bringing them working skills that can be applied outside of government.

- Give more people a chance to understand how and why the government works. It will make them more sympathetic for others when dealing with bureaucracy of government and make them feel like they are a stakeholder in the process.

The concept of professional politicians is a new one. It is a sign that we have all given up on our ability to understand and participate in the democratic process. We should all be engaged and feel like we can be part of the process, at any level in the process.

At one role, I was interviewed and vetted by my predecessor. I came to understand he hated the role and was looking to fill the gap he had left that no one wanted to fill. Coincidentally, he was the last person I spoke with before leaving on my last day and he apologized to me for having put me in that position.