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Many people slouch or strain their necks while working at the computer. A new study shows how jutting the head forward to read more closely compresses the neck and leads to neck and shoulder problems. Yes they can.
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It's in cases like these where Steve Jobs' true talent for cutting through cr@p shone brightest.
Which is better:
- A 500 word, boring, repetitive article?
- "You're holding it sitting wrong"?
I know which gets my vote.
I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!
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If the intent of that article was to make me feel even more smugly superior to uniscreen peasants hunched over their laptops, it succeeded wonderfully.
On my desk at work my laptop sits in a stack of 4 old programming books to elevate it's screen to the same height as my main monitors. When I use my personal laptop on the couch, I use an oversized pillow as a lap desk to raise the screen up a similar amount. (This is a sub-optimal height for typing, but when using my laptop that way my usage tends to be very heavily consumptive.)
Did you ever see history portrayed as an old man with a wise brow and pulseless heart, weighing all things in the balance of reason?
Is not rather the genius of history like an eternal, imploring maiden, full of fire, with a burning heart and flaming soul, humanly warm and humanly beautiful?
--Zachris Topelius
Training a telescope on one’s own belly button will only reveal lint. You like that? You go right on staring at it. I prefer looking at galaxies.
-- Sarah Hoyt
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A trend that started in companies for a few years now has been for managers to concern themselves with developer happiness. Let me know when you find it
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Demonstrating, once again, that managers have no clue what developers are all about.
Devs don't want you to make them happy; they want you to keep them busy. Piling just enough work on is how you show appreciation for their talents (making people listen to things like "I really appreciate..." is embarrassing and distracting, whereas showing trust is a sign of trust) (Who'da thunkit?)
Happiness is in the Eye of the Beholder*; management types will never understand (and can therefore never provide) the things that make devs happy -- all they can do is piss the guys off with stupid, time-wasting attempts.
* See how I snuck in a reference to the Forgotten Realms series, there? Nay daft I, aye?
I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!
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Mark largely hit the nail on the head, but this sentence should be written in bold and nailed to the foreheads of upper management: Quote: One of the most cited problems from developers perspective about big companies management is a lack of transparency regarding decisions made and lack of accountability for those decisions.
I'm weary of the following discussion:
Management: Last week you said it would take another three weeks, now you say it will take six. Why?
Developer: You added features X and Y and then had me roll feature K back to the previous version.
Management: Why didn't you say anything?
Developer: I did; I said it would add three weeks to the schedule.
Management stares at developer and then: But last week, you said it would only take another three weeks.
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It's pretty much a given, from studies on 'happiness', that the guaranteed way to kill happiness is to try and create happiness.
Happiness is generally nowadays seen as an effect of someone being engaged in their work with a sense of security and purpose.
One manager I worked with provided pizzas and free beer every Friday - strangely enough all the developers were more miserable under this manager than they were previously - largely because the manager thought that he could make up for his huge character flaws(constant dishonesty and lying) by buying people a few beers.
The cognitive dissonance exhibited by many in managerial positions is generally one of the main causes of misery.
“That which can be asserted without evidence, can be dismissed without evidence.”
― Christopher Hitchens
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I had a boss who would occasionally fly into rages, yelling and banging his fist on the table.
He would then, later in the day, have the company controller drop a bonus cheque on my desk "because I was performing so well" - in other words, since I had just stared at him and said nothing during such tirades and then pretended nothing had happened. He thought this was enough, and it was, when the cheques were big enough - and since he was a multi-millionaire who had lost touch with the real value of things, they always were.
He had a multiple personality disorder which manifested in him telling me a list of things that were his priority - and then, an hour or so later, doing it again and being surprised that I had already fixed many of the items. More bonus cheques. Good times, sort of.
- I would love to change the world, but they won’t give me the source code.
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Microsoft could face more complaints after a ruling says it's liable for damages caused by an unauthorized Windows 10 upgrade. "Finland , Finland , Finland. The country where I want to be."
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Kent Sharkey wrote: "Finland , Finland , Finland. The country where I want to be."
No, no, no! Wrong song!
Now try again -- but this time, imply a reference to spiking microsoft's celebratory champagne over winio, then think cheerleaders!
{*sigh*}
Do I have to do everything, around here?
I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!
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You have been on fire lately, thank you.
TTFN - Kent
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While many developers focus on increasing the intelligence of artificially intelligent (AI) algorithms, IBM is eyeing a different area of technology: quantum computing. And I aim to retire a millionaire, "in the next few years"
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Don't be so disrespectful to Big Blue!
Their other aim, over the centuries, was to be the biggest tech company in the world, and they've succ...
... ked at it, but that's not the point.
I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!
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GitHub is by far the most popular way to build and share software. That said, one weakness of the platform is that it limits who can create private repositories – that is, software projects that aren’t visible to the broader public, and are shared only with a handful of pre-defined collaborators – to paying users. Paid for by unlimited data-mining
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Will someone please tell Freud to give it a rest?
I read the title as "suppositories".
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For all the good they did me, I coulda... 
Still, unlimited, so, “yay?”
TTFN - Kent
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Now, there is no point of me staying with Atlassian's Bitbucket.
And sometimes, I want to keep the repository private until the codebase is stable and working: I do not wish other user to see my incomplete work.
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Windows 10 can download and install updates automatically when they are available. Although users are supposed to keep their desktop OS up-to-date, sometimes we might have good reason to delay an update. Alas, not forever
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Kent Sharkey wrote: Alas, not forever
Yup, forever.
The usefulness of my machines will never be disrupted by that travesty of an OS.
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IT staff are not often the fastest to install patches, lest they cause more issues than they solve, but a new vulnerability in all versions of Windows 10 and Windows Server suggests they may need to rethink that policy. I know it's been a while since the last time they had to patch their servers
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Rushing makes us neither faster, nor more productive; it increases stress and distracts focus. We need creativity, effectiveness, and focus. I must be going so fast
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I see that the infoq boys have finally started to catch up on their reading.
I mean, the source of the wisdom in their article (basically: "More haste, less speed") comes from The Wisdom of Sirach, which was only published about 200 years B.C.
Give 'em another thousand years, and they might catch up as far as the Philosophiæ Naturalis Principia Mathematica.
Can you imagine how excited they'll be, when they find out about early birds catching worms, and the value of birds in the hand?
I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!
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Mark_Wallace wrote: early birds catching worms
The early bird catches the worm. He works for the owner of the worm farm, who collects profits while he is still asleep. 
Oh sanctissimi Wilhelmus, Theodorus, et Fredericus!
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Bernhard Hiller wrote: The early bird catches the worm. He works for the owner of the worm farm, who collects profits while he is still asleep.
We need some benighted web journalist to write an article about that.
And another to write an article about how an existing, working process or application is worth two *Great* *New* *Ideas* that are untried and untested.
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