My thought exactly. No COBRA for your insurance either. I am sure that HR will word the choice as "resign" hoping that as many dummies as possible will make that mistake. I would just refuse to make the choice and spend my days job searching until they officially kicked me to the curb.
Great story. I've never had trouble understanding code I wrote. That's probably because I have one of the world's worst memories, so I always write code with lots of clues to help me decipher what's going on.
This is me as well with the poor memory. My co-workers thank me for writing such beautiful and easy-to-follow code. I explain to them that it is about my survival, I do it more for me than for them.
5 years is a good time span at any one company, anything over 2 years looks great on a resume. My personal experience was that nobody mentioned my degree after my first job, networking is far more important than a degree. Networking is also more important than kissing management butt to claw your way up the chain of command. When your co-workers like you personally and respect your work ethic in addition to you skills then you will eventually old buddies regularly calling you to see if you have any interest in a new position. Jumping ship becomes a matter of deciding when the time has come to try something different for more money.
If 20 kids were injured and none of them killed then the attacker wasn't really trying to kill them. He must have been slashing instead of stabbing. FBI statistics say 6 out of 10 gunshot victims die from sustained injuries 8 out of 10 knife attack victims die from sustained injuries.
Because VM images are easy to duplicate and move. Easy to scale up, easy to back up, easy to swap failing hardware. You use multiple VMs and not just one box running everything so that you can easily duplicate or move one service (or group of related services) without touching others.
Butt-kicking! For goodness!
Building a space station with artificial gravity is prohibitively difficult. It has to be huge and very heavy to withstand the stress that all that centrifugal force will put on the frame. Heavy means expensive to put into orbit with our limited launch capabilities. Plus there are issues with keeping it balanced. For instance, if all the astronauts stand in one section at the same time it becomes unbalanced. So the frame has to be even stronger and heavier to account for that eventuality.
Um, what "research" have they actually done?
Hundreds of experiments listed here. I am not sure if these are ALL the experiments or just those conducted by NASA: http://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/station/research/experiments/List.html
I have noticed over the years that I tend to have a special knack for finding answers to software development issues via Google. My team can be on a conference call and somebody brings up an issue they are struggling with and I am usually the one on the call who comes up with an answer first. Don't laugh - knowing what terms to search for and where to put quotes around phrases to bring the most relevant answers to the top is a very useful skill that has served me well.
Me too, I am telecommuting. I fill up my supercharged '98 cobra maybe once every six weeks. My office is on the second floor of my house above the garage with big windows on all four sides. I run the A/C only in the worst heat of the summer, and only on days where there is no breeze whatsoever. I have a fan on my desk hooked to a small solar panel in the window.
And most dogs will just wag their tails all friendly-like at the burglar as they come and go.
I've never owned a dog that didn't go absolutely ape-shit whenever anyone sets foot on my property. This is a small sampling, but I am 4 for 4 dogs on that count. I like a medium-large size dog with a good deep bark. Most solicitors who ring the doorbell are gone by the time I open the door because of that mean face poking through the curtains growling at them. Delivery men don't wait for a signature, they are back in the truck by the time I answer the door. I've never suffered a break-in. My father with his alarm system has - over time he got lazy and stopped turning it on when he left the house. Now he has a dog too.
I am an American who played rugby in college and have had a lifetime of watching NFL football. As my rugby coach explained things, the reason you wear pads in American football but not rugby is because American football is a game of yards, whereas in rugby only the end line matters. In rugby they teach tackling by wrapping the legs and letting the ball carrier carry you backwards over your shoulder. Using this technique I was able to tackle runners much larger than I was without injury. In rugby you only try to stop the ball carrier head on if you meet him on the goal line, and that doesn't happen very often. In American football, the goal line is the first down marker which is eternally just a little distance away all the way down the field, so every tackle becomes a "stop him here, stop him now" critical moment.
I have a Dell Latitude with 256 MB of RAM running Antix that I use for 2D game development in C++. It works perfect for when my kids are tying up my big gaming rig, and I bought it on eBay for $30. I bet the Raspberry PI using decade newer tech will kick that old Latitude's arse.
If you can find it, Darby the Dragon is absolutely wonderful. It is tons of fun, has lots of creative mini-games, and has GREAT music. My two daughters both played through it numerous times.
This is another anecdote, but this story leads me to advise others to look into Homeopathy once contemporary options have run out.
A young woman I worked with in her early 20s started getting this crazy itching in her scalp. It felt like it was coming from inside her skull, and scratching would not alleviate the itch. It was driving her crazy, and she quit her job and just stayed home. It got so bad that she could no longer sleep.
She went through several specialists and 10's of thousands of dollars in tests. Nothing they gave her helped, and they deemed the problem inoperable. After months of no REM sleep her body started to shut down, her organs failing, and the doctors gave her only two weeks to live.
As a last ditch effort she went to a Homeopathic doctor. After a 30 minute consult he diagnosed her with a brain parasite, and gave her something to take (liquid copper if I recall correctly) for $50 and told her within two days she would feel better. He was spot on, the itching went away the very next day.
I talked to her mother a year later and she was still perfectly healthy.
We are each entitled to our own opinion, but no one is entitled to his own facts. -- Patrick Moynihan
