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Comment Re:Display server (Score 1) 826

As long as xterm & the web browser are running on Wayland, nobody will complain.

And X-forwarding.

X.org has became such a mess itself (compared to the old XFree86) so anything smaller, simpler, faster and 100% compatible is welcome.

Makes you feel good that the same people who messed up X.org are building Wayland, doesn't it?

Comment Re:My opinion on the matter. (Score 1) 826

is Slackware and from what I've heard Patrick and the devs over there feel the same way I do about systemd.... Maybe its time to revisit an old friend.

You will feel at home in so many ways. You will type 'ps aux' and see the process list can be read in a single page.

The only downsides will be the lack of a solid package manager, most specifically no way to automatically upgrade all software on your system; and (possibly, depending on your hardware) driver issues not being resolved as easily.

Comment Re:Definition of Irony (Score 1) 243

in fact, it appears to me that being an arrogant prick is more likely to lead to success than intelligence.

Studies of company CxO suites have shown that the opposite is true.....success leads to arrogance, rather than the other way around. No one wants to promote the arrogant prick, but they become arrogant once they get there.

Comment Re:Public cynicism about fusion (Score 1) 147

If we'd spent a fraction of those amounts on energy research...my God. It's not for sure that throwing money at energy research will solve all our problems,

But it would solve the problem of oil money funding ISIS. (That is, if we combined it with electric cars, since most oil goes to power transportation, not power plants)

Comment Re:Bullshit (Score 1) 441

we'll there's your problem, you got bit once and now you're gun-shy. For a public company, unless you think the stock is going to drop significantly in the next year, you can generally consider it on terms of $1 stock = $1 salary. It might go up (and in Google's case, I guess it has), but don't count on that. (Also, a lot of companies give stock grants instead of options, which are lower risk because you don't have to wait for the stock to go up, you don't have to deal with the same tax issues, and even if the value of the company drops in half, you still get money).

That's not the same as pre-IPO stock, which I count as $0 in terms of compensation.

Also, Glassdoor has the median pre-bonus (and pre-stock) salary as $120k, which is too low for me, but I know I could negotiate better.

Although tbh I would probably rather work at a bank than at Google, so I don't care that you didn't take the job; just realize that a company with solid revenue offering stock is not the same as a 1990s bubble company offering stock.

Comment Re:why can the world (Score 1) 329

The largest contributing factor to my lack of job satisfaction is what usually causes everyone to be unhappy- the people. My repair team consists of 4 techs. There's me, who does all of the actual work, and then the other 3 ride on my back all day like the dead weight they are. They are all old and about to retire so they aren't going to actually do anything but they'll stand behind me and bitch the whole time! I just ignore them and go on but they certainly aren't making my world any brighter.

You can do better

Comment Re:why can the world (Score 1) 329

I get that you'd rather do other things than your job; I like programming but if I had a choice, I would go to the beach, not to work.

All the same, you need to find a way to make your work life enjoyable, otherwise you will be miserable. Currently, my company makes a very boring product, but I deal with it by focusing on the architecture, the parts I enjoy, and skipping product meetings, which I don't. Also, I enjoy hanging out with my coworkers, we have good times.

So yeah, every job has lame parts, but find the good parts and your life will be better.

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