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Wow. A structure that rewards those who can bully and BS rather than rewarding those who quietly, efficiently, without fuss, put their heart and soul into a company.
Your salary as a popularity contest. Sounds like a great way to run a company into the ground.
cheers
Chris Maunder
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Chris Maunder wrote: A structure that rewards those who can bully and BS rather than rewarding those who quietly, efficiently, without fuss, put their heart and soul into a company. In Germany there is a story...
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A farmer had 3 chicken, and every afternoon there were only two eggs in the yardhouse. So he decided to spy the chickens to know which one was not putting an eye.
Everyday two of them were getting out the yardhouse clucking out loud and the third one was getting out fast, silently and with ducked head...
So he though... here you are, you lazy chicken...
And he got it and did a really tasty soup with it.
The next day, there were no eggs at all.
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The moral... it doesn't matter if you are the best and most productive part of a team, if you can't cluck it out, you might still end bad.
Please note: I know what you are trying to say, and I agree that this "new system" with the popularity contest is even worse. But a person must be able to sell oneself in most of the cases, because good managers that really know who is doing what and reward it properly... they are very, very rare.
M.D.V.
If something has a solution... Why do we have to worry about?. If it has no solution... For what reason do we have to worry about?
Help me to understand what I'm saying, and I'll explain it better to you
Rating helpful answers is nice, but saying thanks can be even nicer.
modified 6-May-21 10:10am.
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Unfortunately, large companies sometimes work that way too. Not often within groups, but between groups.
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10Pines and then there was none..
Caveat Emptor.
"Progress doesn't come from early risers – progress is made by lazy men looking for easier ways to do things." Lazarus Long
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Jeff Bezos’ Blue Origin is opening up a seat on its first flight to space, with an auction to snag the only spare ticket for one lucky would-be astronaut. 100km up - not exactly the "final frontier"
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A Windows Defender bug creates thousands of small files that waste gigabytes of storage space on Windows 10 hard drives. Can't attack a drive if it's full, can you? Brilliant!
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It sounds different from one I noticed recently, which is that Windows log files were building up. I let my disk cleaner purge them, but more of them would just be generated. Then nothing for a while, and then they started to accumulate again. Lately, nothing.
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A series of Instagram ads run by the privacy-positive platform Signal got the messaging app booted from the former’s ad platform, according to a blog post Signal published on Tuesday. The ads were meant to show users the bevy of data that Instagram and its parent company Facebook collects on users, by... targeting those users using Instagram’s own adtech tools.
You can tell how much farsebook really cares about transparency by what happens when someone attempts to apply it to them.
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
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A sign of desperation.
cheers
Chris Maunder
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More likely a sin of a junior person making a bad call. This is probably going to get >100x the attention that the actual ad buy would have.
Couldn't happen to a more deserving company.
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
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I wasn't talking about Signal being the desperate one
cheers
Chris Maunder
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Neither was I.
The best thing farsebook could've done was to ignore it completely.
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
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cheers
Chris Maunder
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Dan Neely wrote: The best thing farsebook could've done was to ignore it completely. exactly...
As you said... now is going to get way more coverage by media and mouth to mouth by people
M.D.V.
If something has a solution... Why do we have to worry about?. If it has no solution... For what reason do we have to worry about?
Help me to understand what I'm saying, and I'll explain it better to you
Rating helpful answers is nice, but saying thanks can be even nicer.
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Yes, Streisland in full effect.
"If you don't fail at least 90 percent of the time, you're not aiming high enough."
Alan Kay.
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Dan Neely wrote: This is probably going to get >100x the attention that the actual ad buy would have.
I suspect that was the intent all along.
TTFN - Kent
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A lot of Lisp code lurks inside big codebases, so it's smart to get familiar with the language. You have nothing to lose but your parentheses keys (and time)
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LISP was my first "high-level" computer language after 6809 assembly language, and a smattering of Pascal, and BASIC, (which I didn't like). LISP fitted in with my general philosophy that the weirder things were ... they probably helped me become weirder
I once spent two days figuring out the minimum multiply recursive code required to create a 2d row-column data structure from inputs of the numbers of columns and rows. I ended up with 3 or 4 lines of code that, 3 or 4 days later, I could not understand.
Obviously, at the time, I was not depending on programming to make a living !
Later, however, when I specialized in PostScript, which is really a late binding LISP equivalent engine with a stack to control program flow coupled to a vector-based graphic engine, the LISP experience made it easier for me.
I shudder at the thought of writing an app in LISP today.
«One day it will have to be officially admitted that what we have christened reality is an even greater illusion than the world of dreams.» Salvador Dali
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Don't we all wish we lived in a more elegant age?
- I would love to change the world, but they won’t give me the source code.
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cheers
Chris Maunder
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Nope. I'd much rather wear shorts, a print tshirt, and sneakers; than hose, a shirt with ruffles and lace, and pointy toed boots with heels.
PS get your minds out of the gutter, I mean this not that.
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
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If you've ever attempted a Sudoku puzzle, or tried to remember the names in Game of Thrones, then the chances are you've felt a burning in your skull that rivals DOMs following leg day. That explains why I've gained so much weight lately
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What if you're thinking really hard about pizza and ?
"the debugger doesn't tell me anything because this code compiles just fine" - random QA comment
"Facebook is where you tell lies to your friends. Twitter is where you tell the truth to strangers." - chriselst
"I don't drink any more... then again, I don't drink any less." - Mike Mullikins uncle
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