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In my opinion, you need to understand the difference between hard work and smart work. Software development is like an art. A person may spend 18 hours a day to create something that just works while another may spend just 8 creative hours to create a masterpiece. There are many disadvantages of being a hard worker / workaholic:

* The expectation of your manager will get elevated and if one fails to be consistent in working for long hours, it's a negative.

* One does not have much room to accommodate something else at times of need. Think of an outage, you have already worked for 18 hours and fail to deliver at that crucial time.

* It's very difficult to innovate in an insomniac state.

Remember, doing hard work is easier that smart work. It requires much more learning and thinking. But, if you are able to do it, you will be able to contribute much more.

Appraisal based on relative performance: This sounds logical. If a person contributes better to the company's goal, he/she should be appreciated for that. Think yourself being that person it should make sense.

Note: I am not taking the political aspects of your office into consideration. If your manager loves late night availability, long emails at weird hours, it is his weakness. Probably, you can be smart and automate sending 'corporate bullshit' emails at night ;)

Or just find yourself a right workplace.

rohit6223on Ask HN: Why GitHub is downgrading its GitHub Pages?

https://www.rohit.io/

The CSS of the complete website is broken with hardly any change.

rohit6223on RIP Nagios. Hello Docker Shinken

Yes. I also pushed a docker image with thruk pre-installed: https://registry.hub.docker.com/u/rohit01/shinken_thruk

rohit6223on Announcing Free Incoming SMS For All

Who is "everybody"? and what unit do they use?

rohit6223on Nagios site down: No monitoring by Nagios?

It says: Database Error: Unable to connect to the database:Could not connect to MySQL

rohit6223on Youtube is down?

Yes. Its down for me as well!

https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/78317387/500_error_youtu...

rohit6223on How I introduced a 27-year-old computer to the web

congratulations!

rohit6223on Wikipedia Zero

Great initiative.. I am glad to India as blue in the map :)

rohit6223on Who needs Google Street View? Indian brothers launch rival service

http://www.wonobo.com/

Amazing :)

rohit6223on Google DNS is down

This one is my favorite:

What's really funny about Google DNS being down is that clients can't google a workaround. Funny if it's not you that is.

rohit6223on Ask: Do VCs provide 100% funding?

If they believe in your company and founders: Yes

rohit6223on Ask: Do VCs provide 100% funding?

The concept is different. VC buy shares/equity of a company. The company may be owned by a group of individuals (they may or may not have invested money, but they are typically founders of the company)... When a VC invest in Equity of a company, they get some percentage of ownership in the company...

rohit6223on Facebook Hires Co-Founders Of Trustworthiness Verification Startup Legit

Message in their website: They have joined Facebook :) http://www.legit.co/

rohit6223on Free Plivo Developer Accounts for Life

Thanks for the info :)

rohit6223on Free Plivo Developer Accounts for Life

Plivo Endpoints works just as great as real numbers. So, you can just build your app using endpoints and use real numbers when you are good to go.

rohit6223on Use long flags when scripting

I write a lot of shell scripts as part of my daily Sys Admin work. In my opinion, the author gave us choice to write less codes & readable code by using short flags for most of the command functionalities.

Consider something like this: $ rsync -qaogtHr example.com:/opt/data/ /home/backup/

1. Elaborating all the short flags into long ones will increase readability by explaining this statement but at the cost of more lines of code.

2. All UNIX commands have options to combine short flags. For eg: ls -l -t -r ./ can be written as: ls -ltr ./ This also helps in reducing code. Writing less code helps in managing it more easily.

Long options may help beginners, but once they get comfortable, Short flags may seem more readable!!

rohit6223on Twitter Site Issue

Twitter is very shy in posting status updates: http://status.twitter.com/

while heroku floods their status page with automated updates almost daily: https://status.heroku.com/

rohit6223on Twitter Is Having Connectivity Issues Again, But Why?

Twitter is very shy in posting status updates: http://status.twitter.com/

while heroku floods their status page with automated updates almost daily: https://status.heroku.com/

rohit6223on Heroku API down

Heroku uptime is almost a replica of AWS uptime. If AWS is down, heroku is the first service to go down.

But status emailing system is really good :)