> people want to live in one place and work in another, which is usually a bad idea
do you suggest moving every time you change jobs? I suppose that can be done as a single person or a couple, but moving homes every 4-6 years with children who have to change schools, etc is (I'm sorry) an insane proposition.
Annoyingly there can be slight imbalance. If a smoker takes 10 min break every hour, it's seen as "ok, he's just having a smoke". If a nonsmoker takes the same 10 mins break to check on their phone, or just chill outside, it's "oh, I've noticed you're away from your desk quite often". It's not a rule, but I've seen this happen more often that not.
Many moons ago I worked at a computer service shop that also repaired CRTs. Once, as a practical joke, someone asked me to hold a lead... Which was live with around 4kV. Wasn't pleasant experience.
There's quite a lot of hate in the comments for UML is seems. And while a lot of it is quite valid, I have to say that sometimes I miss _some_ of what UML could do, especially in form of documentation. Sometimes a simple sequence diagram is able to communicate the behavior of a system much clearer than 10's of pages of disjointed prose... Just my opinion.
> millions of other incredibly talented and skilled people are also working on the same problem, and no one has really had much success such as to be notable
I wonder how many strategies are profitable, but not at the scale that would be worthwhile for mid/large sized hedge funds to actually use. What I mean is that let's say I come up with some relatively naive strategy, that consistently delivers sub-1000/day profit. Can I just throw x1000 more monies at it and expect it to deliver 1M/day? I don't think these things scale linearly.
Very good points. One question - any advise how to deal with people who "borrow" your presentation, in other words, they interrupt, and start explaining the concepts for you. It could be out of good will, an attempt to "help", but it can definitely ruin the flow for you. I tend to counter-interrupt and continue, but wondering if there's better solution.
Simple data design flaw, or the absence of such. "Ms", "Miss", etc is only a title and that's about it. Want a flag child/adult, well, add it then. Or better yet, use age to determine average weight even more accurately.
Edit: It usually means a disaster when people try to read "between the lines". One favourite example is trying to infer purpose/role of the server based on its hostname. When hostname starts with "X" it means only one thing - the first character of the hostname is "X", no more, no less.
Is that so? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/State_quality_mark_of_the_USSR: "Obtaining the sign allowed the enterprises to increase the state controlled price for the goods by ten percent." Arguably this was abused, as explained later, but the original statement that quality control was absent in USSR is not entirely correct. There were penalties for "doing things deliberately wrong" and quite severe from what I recall. Then again I might have warped perception as I grew up in a city with several "black box factories".
Usually this has a tendency to propagate, in my experience. The deadlines come from above and/or externally dictated. So even if you have balls to say a), your boss (or your boss' boss, etc) may not, or they might have different agenda, that has nothing to do with the quality of the deliverables.
I hope this is going to take off. I'd happily take a stroll across a park to a shared workspace, then go back home, rather than spend 3 hours commuting.
The problem (not for me, but potentially for my employer) is that I will not be sitting with my coworkers, so building this sense of "community" is going to be much harder for them. The solution? Force everyone back in to the office as soon as possible...
I see it and treat more like a platform now, a marketplace. Like ebay. It just so happens that one of the biggest sellers there is Amazon itself. My usual process of buying - search for the product I need (generic term for simple items, or exact model), click on "prime only", this filters out a lot of shipments from China. Then either filter out, or carefully look at the seller of each product. Takes some time and getting used to, especially that UI isn't favouring this workflow.
I think you're contradicting yourself. Creating new (payroll) software ticks all the boxes you mention, ie running a company (I can run a company that produces payroll s/w), engineering (writing s/w is engineering, no?), making money (selling payroll f/w is making money). So why do you say that this cannot be fun?
Specifying vacation range got me in to few confusing situations, so I have a habit now announcing them as: "I'm on vacation from X to Y, returning to the office on Z"...
Amazon is still ok, but you have to know exactly what you're after. For example, if you want "kitchen knife" that's a no go. if you want "robert welch kitchen knife" there's a chance that it's cheaper on Amazon, but not by much, if at all. In other words, as a search platform to find items it doesn't work anymore, as a place to buy, sometimes. That's just my experience lately.
Can confirm - had to point to the area that was supposed to be operated while laying in pre-op (or whatever it's called) room, just before being knocked out... Was quite scary ("you should know what you're doing!"), but quite sensible on a second thought.
I usually order good quality photo prints online. It's not immediate feedback, but I never found a need for that. Otherwise so-so quality can be produced by a color laser printer.
And if/when the buttons crack/fall-off there's a very good chance that you can fix it there and then with a drop of super-glue.
Try that with fancy touchscreen...
As everyone is saying - just go for it. Also, sometimes "difficult" or "complicated" things aren't really that difficult or complicated. Also, don't pay too much attention to some of the "elitist" videos/tutorials. Pockethole joins aren't for real woodworkers? It holds two pieces of wood, looks neat, and is very simple to achieve, so I'm going to go for it, "real" woodworking or not.
so 100x100mm pcb, 2 layers, x5, manufacturing costs - £1.56
12-16 business day delivery - £4.18
7-9 days - £9.25
4-6 dhl standard - £15.58
I think 30pcs protoboard for £9.90 with next day delivery from amazon still beats the custom made pcbs. And I don't need to spend time making sure my pcb design is 100% bug free...