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Comment Job Description? Seriously? (Score 5, Insightful) 848

by ajdub (#38510520) Attached to: Ask Slashdot: Handing Over Personal Work Without Compensation?
You're looking at this the wrong way... You have obviously done the right thing by taking the initiative in the first place, but now, I hate to say, your attitude is all wrong.

Here's how it works:

1) You get some job
2) You "beast" it. That is... you do what you're asked very well and you take the initiative to use the extra skills you have to wow everyone by changing everything
3) You ensure that it is known that you are responsible for your work
4a) They offer you a payrise or more responsibility and pay
4b) They don't, you stick it on your resume and you get a better job somewhere else with a beamingly positive reference

Do the right thing, make sure there are no problems of attribution and it will pay off in the end. Do not crap up your reputation by trying to strongarm more money out of them upfront. Keep a good attitude and it will pay off in the end. If I had tried to extract extra pay for going above and beyond every time I did so in my career, I can all but guarantee I would not have done as well as I have.

Do interesting stuff, be unbelievably useful. The money will follow, it always does.

Comment Drudge generates more inane comment traffic than.. (Score 3, Insightful) 216

by ajdub (#36074040) Attached to: Drudge Generates More News Traffic Than Social Media
I'm always amused by the comment sections on stories that get linked by Drudge. It's like a freakin' firehose that sprays misspelled conspiracy theories about illegal space alien Obama clones that maraud across the countryside in the thick of night, eating babies and freedom while dropping turds of poisonous socialism that are festering with job eating worms.

Submission + - Client-side JavaScript to Replace Server-side HTML (zx2c4.com) 4

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zx2c4 writes: "I've recently finished writing a simple photo gallery web application that scans a directory tree of photographs and generates static JSON files and thumbnails. There is then an accompanying web page that consists of a single index.html with some heavy JavaScript that fetches the JSON files and writes the layout of the page. You can navigate various pages and switch between different views, all without loading a different HTML page, but because the information is downloaded from the JSON files via AJAX. The app uses hash URLs to mimic navigating through a normal web page. It's all very similar to how GMail works, really. So, we've all seen AJAX used in a low key way at a zillion places around the Internet. But what I'm wondering is — do you suppose that the future of web applications will be in doing all of the page structure in client-side JavaScript, and that servers will only serve up the static index.html/scripts.js/styles.css and then a bunch of (dynamic or static) JSON files? Are the days of having a server dynamically write the actual HTML over? Do you expect to see nothing but JavaScript apps doing all the display for JSON data? Do websites still have a responsibility to display with out JavaScript as a requirement, or have we all got to accept that JavaScript is here to stay, and will be in the future responsible for most HTML writing?"

Comment Aggressiveness of Microsoft (Score 1) 116

by ajdub (#35585690) Attached to: Linus Says Android License Claim Is 'Bogus'
Am I the only one who thinks Microsoft has turned incredibly aggressive (yes, even compared to the past) and has been playing a bit dirty with respect to phone stuff? First, an ex-Microsoft guy takes over at Nokia where he, surprise surprise, decides to implement a massive seachange in mobile strategy that includes dumping an existing effort in which millions had been invested and instead jumping into bed with Microsoft. Then some lawyer with close ties to Microsoft comes out with some preposterous claim about how using Linux kernel headers entails the derivative works provision of the GPL, thus creating "serious legal problems" for Android.

Who knows for sure, but it sure does smell like some kind of desperate business strategy. Which I guess makes sense, since mobile seems to be the way things are going and they've flailed so hard in that space...

Comment if they don't like it... (Score 2) 117

by ajdub (#35373990) Attached to: UK Controllers Say Air Traffic System 'Not Safe'
the people who built it failed to do their jobs correctly. if there's one thing i can't stand, it's when technology is done wrong by people who don't know what they're doing, then foistered upon others by a heavy hand of management. if the system doesn't make the controllers happy, it's wrong. they're not whiney users... the system sucks.

Feed Obsessed kid collects, names and dreams of vacuums (engadget.com)

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Filed under: Household

Just like your average five-year-old, Aidan Adkins is obsessed with robots, bubblegum and most of all, vacuums. He's been into the suckers ever could walk, and has amassed a collection of eleven various vacs, ranging from toys to pro models. For his birthday and Christmas he asks for money to buy more to add to his collection, and then carefully researches the options to spend his hard-earned allowance on the latest and greatest. Naturally, he's got names for all of them, like "Shoppy" the Shop Vac; "Scrubby," a Bissell Pro Heat 2X; and "Kitchy" for the kitchens. Bissell recently sent him a Healthy Home vac for his birthday, which he named "Sucky." We would poke fun at the peculiar hobby, but about half our Engadget Mobile editors have a similar basement phone collection, and our own Evan Blass opens his home for nursing abandoned and abused Pocket PC devices back to life. Sure, you won't see Paris Hilton at a vacuum launch any time soon, but we're sure Aidan has plans to change all that -- once he scores the dream job Dyson internship and single-handedly revolutionizes the industry with slim n' sexy vacs.

[Thanks, Brian P]

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Submission + - Why no machine readable rights data in RSS?

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ajdub
ajdub writes: "Once upon a time RSS was built for syndicating news stories. Maybe some of that goes on today, but as far as I know people mostly just use it for aggregating news feeds in a personal reader. (or enabling others to do so) Recently I came across the situation where Deb Ng of writersrow.com got upset because her content was syndicated when she intended for it to be personally aggregated.

XML is a format for machine data exchange. If RSS is a syndication standard, why does it not include machine readable metadata that indicates whether or not public content syndication (public reproduction) is permitted by the author? Sure, it could be quite the rabbit hole trying to create an XML specification for IP rights (actually that could be quite a fun interdisciplinary project). But it seems to me that a simple in the XML standard would suffice... (Ok that's ugly, but you get the point.)"

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