No need to ban it. Just need to stop enforcing the monopolies.
If government paid for it, everyone can have it.
If you paid for it, you can either share it, or not, but the government doesn't prevent others from using it, it's your problem.

yes

Pied Piper compression works pretty well on gay porn video.
I've heard it's specially suited for dual jerk off material.

Well, to be honest, I believe Elon Musk is boring now.

"when there's really a need (ie big deadline ..."

That's what I mean by "braindead". A big deadline should not translate to OT, and OT is never a good fix for bad planning.
The fact that you don't realize that is what makes you braindead.

A better thing to value is people that get the work done, regardless the means. If I have a lazy sysadmin, that writes scripts in the morning so they can play videogames all afternoon, I'll value that, because that is what drives value . Effort is worth nothing. Results are.

What you say has some truth, but has nothing to do with the post you replied to.
I was saying that for a certain kind of management, appearances are more important than success, so you need to look the part they expect in order to get ahead.

Of course, there are several different ways of creating value for a company. Looks like you take pride in being a firefighter. I personally don't like that line of work, and prefer to not have a need for those.
Same thing for planning. If your company meets deadlines by working OT, then all managers involved are incompetent and unreliable.

May be both, but not in the obvious way.

Long hours mean lower productivity, but it also means you are there, in the office, pushing hard.

That is misread as "work ethic", and hard work, and productivity.

Braindead managers will think they are getting more bang for their buck by getting more than 40 hours a week, so you will be seen as more valuable than someone doing their 40 hours, no matter the results.

The thing is that braindead managers do exist, and it may be the case that you need to appeal to them to get ahead.

It happens more in large companies, old fashioned ones, or any organization not strictly focused on success, or at least where productivity is hard to measure.

Think about your breathing?!

No mod points, but this is insightful.

That's not a scrum meeting.
It's probably a daily meeting, but you are not doing scrum.

If you were doing scrum, you would quickly identify that as an obstacle, and get it out of the way. That's what retros are for.

Maybe go with the original this time? Get William Gibson to adapt it for them?

You have no idea.
I live in Latin America, and living standards in my country are much lower than in the US, but comparable.
We may probably consume like one third, or one quarter the energy you guys do. In some parts of Asia, they may consume like 1/10 or 1/20 of what you do.

They can live without power grid, without internet, without fuel and all that stuff. They do it right now. What you describe would be just business as usual for them.
We can prevail as a civilization with probably 1/10, or 1/100 the resources we currently consume. Just need to dramatically reduce resource consumption, but survival, as a civilization, is probably not an issue.

Linux os not full of innovation.
It's full of great work, executed properly.

I was not a believer. I hated the fact that he was pushing such an outdated design for a kernel.
Yet he proved that great execution of an existing idea is much more valuable and has a much greater impact (worldwide, long lasting impact) than a beautiful, innovative design.

Mozilla's raison d'être is political. The project had tthe mission of keeping the web open.
Software is the tool to push the politics forward.
It did succeed for a few years, and now it's over.

It's no surprise that now that Firefox is becoming irrelevant, Chrome is becoming more closed, forcing DRM down your throat and all.

Follow the first three rules of optimization:

1 - Don't do it
2 - Don't do it yet (only for experts)
3 - Profile, then optimize. I never see people follow this order.

http://wiki.c2.com/?RulesOfOpt...

In any case, readability is typically much more desirable than enhanced execution times. In few cases you will want to sacrifice even the smallest bit of readability, for better execution times. At least if you are not John Carmack.