Comment Re:Threats are threats (Score 4, Insightful) 806
Threats are threats.
Yup, sounds about right.
Next topic, please!
I believe saying I want to is quite different from saying I'm going to.
Threats are threats.
Yup, sounds about right.
Next topic, please!
I believe saying I want to is quite different from saying I'm going to.
Guess it would work best in reverse: people who are *not* afraid are obvious psychopaths...
Exactly. "If we haven't scared you enough with all this fake security theater that does nothing to actually keep you safe, you are obviously a terrorist." - TSA
in feminist thinking, porn actresses are the new pioneers
Oh, so NOW we find out what your low budget Filipino movie really is.
It will be commercially available by January. The bad news is, this is a write only memory device.
Wow, that sucks. I was hoping I could read the data after I wrote it.
In other words: it would be nice if the real world would be as you want it, your [sic] arrogant, hypocrite fuck.
Yeah I know it is not from this post but Pot, meet Kettle. Oh, and I added a [sic] tag that you seem to be so fond of.
What really amazes me is that you seem to honestly believe that the sun shines out of your ass. You are completely convinced of your own superiority yet offer no compelling evidence to support this stance.
Many people visit my website instead of the competittors' [sic] because it's cooler than theirs.
So please enlighten us, what is your cool website? And BTW, there are no rules for cool, ask a real artist.
With love, Professional web developer.
This is my favorite thing you've said. I don't mean to belittle an entire swath of people who have the same career as you, just people like you who think 'Web Developer' is some how an elevated position in the realm of programming. You are not a Software Engineer nor a Computer Scientist, and based on the way you talk about the work you do you are not even really a programmer. Don't get me wrong, there are many actual programmers that work on web related projects, but you are a scripter at best.
Seriously, if you had even the slightest idea of the problems faced by real software folk, you would realize that your arrogance and self righteous attitude are completely unfounded.
before I sue you for copyright infringement because you copied what I said without using 'quote' tags.
Huh?
So you ONLY program for work now. You NEVER program a small project on your own time, for yourself. Then I would say you have lost the passion. Sure, we can all brag about other stuff we have to do in our lives, if you think that makes you special you are a moron. But somehow I still find time to program, even now.
Well, you assume that you can't be passionate about the programming you do at work. I love my job and I give it 100% of myself for 40hrs a week, and I am very productive in those 40hrs, but when I go home I just want to relax and let something different happen so that I may have a new experience.
That's fine that after 10-15 years your craft is no longer your highest interest or priority
I guess you missed this part of my post:
Don't get me wrong, I still have a great passion for programming
You can call it balance, call it experience, and it probably is, but however you parse it, if your productive output is less than that of someone else, you can't fault an employer for choosing someone else, especially someone else at half your salary.
Who said anything about productive output. You think a coder is more productive if he also programs in his spare time. First, my productive output is as good or better than my other co-workers. (I'm lucky to work with some really great programmers)
Second, I would argue that someone who has many outside coding projects may actually be less productive.
The truth is I have a few outside projects every now and again, but for the most part, I intentionally try to stay away from them so that other things can come into my life. If you are one of those people that spends all of his free time coding, I urge you, take a break. You don't have to do any specific thing, just leave some time open for life to happen.
Otherwise you might as well say that Ferrari should only hire race drivers who have no real interest in driving or airlines should only hire pilots who have no interest in flying outside of sitting in a 737 pilot seat monitoring systems for 3 hours.
I don't suppose you've met very many 737 pilots have you? Flying a 737 or other large aircraft is like driving a bus in the sky. For most, at least of the 10 or so I know personally, flying may have once been a great passion but it has been replaced as something they do as a job.
As far as the article is concerned, I am a programmer, a damn good and distinguished one as a matter of fact, but my experience has taught me that in order to lead a healthy and productive life, there needs to be balance. Which for me, means leaving my work at work, and enjoying other interests in my off time. Don't get me wrong, I still have a great passion for programming, but like I said, I need balance. I would also wager that the majority of programmers who do a lot of coding in their spare time are fairly young in the craft. Once you get about 10-15 years experience of busting your ass day in and day out as a programmer, most will begin to find out that need other things in their life outside of programming.
Then again, I've met quite a few other programmers that really just had nothing better to do with their spare time.
I heard that the FBI kept on relying on parts of the (un)Patriot(ic) Act long after the Supreme Court overturned those same parts of it. Business as usual, carry on.
I heard that you actually eat babies, but then again, neither one of us has a citation.
Sure. Like Paris Hilton.
...of infrared blowjob fame.
It is hard to blame someone for feeling frustrated after running up a massive debt pursuing a career that from the earliest age via every message system possible has been told they must get a higher education and a professional job, otherwise you end up as a menial labourer, with no real hope of a future and it's your fault that you are exploited by the rich and greedy and an uncaring government and, by a whole bunch of stuck up arse holes who do have professional jobs and think menial works should be treated like shit on minimum wage and be thankful for it.
Well, maybe you can't blame them completely. Maybe their parents and society at large has sent that message without the emphasis that it is only a first step that needs to be mixed with a lot of hard work in order to succeed. No matter how you spread the blame however, it doesn't change the fact that these people are just flat out lazy.
It sounds like even though you've had some crap jobs in the past you've worked hard at those jobs and have striven for self improvement. This little girl on the other hand, like so many entitled brats her age, has slid by on good enough and trying just hard enough to pass, without putting in the real time and dedication it takes to make something of yourself.
No matter what your education level, you will never move out of your shit entry level job, be it sucking grease traps or working the IT helpdesk, unless you put some freakin effort into improving yourself and start striving for more than being average.
It has also led to the systematic demonisation of the working class
The chavscum this is aimed at are shirking class, not working class. Some of them are third generation dole bludgers, and most have never done an honest day's work in their lives.
Could someone please translate this post into English for me?
"Engineering without management is art." -- Jeff Johnson
