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The company I am at now was all of those things when I started, it is none of those things now. You work at relationships, not jump ship and talk about them behind their back.

I suppose I am in the minority when I say I was in the same sort of position but stuck with it. I was hired to work on a zombie of a product, walking dead, unprofitable. The problem was there had been no direction for several years and with my help the project is now back on track. There was a period of time where I did the absolute minimum but by taking the initiative and doubling down I am proud of what I have done. I have a problem with startup culture where people are quick to jump ship instead of putting in the required work to create real change.

Vesper isn't either, just below this post are 3 vesper related links.

This post smacks of reactionary prejudice. Some people are different than me? Something must be wrong with them! I am better than you because I wake up before you! You have got to be kidding.

If this post was written 40 years ago it would be directed at women telling them they actually have it pretty good. Hmm wait I actually saw that same thing just the other day.

These ignorant arrogant people need to figure out why they don't have even a smidgen of empathy and quit blaming us for being "bleeding hearts".

I read the original article as a PSA. It was basically saying "this thing exists and you shouldn't feel bad if you have it." I don't see where it was making excuses.

If you recognize that this is a real problem, you can take steps to fix it. Things like shifting your schedule or regulating blue light. Not just "don't be lazy" or "get off Reddit", that sort of attitude doesn't help.

I am pretty sure I have some version of DSPS, or maybe I am just a night owl. I've tried for years to fix it, going to bed hours earlier, locking my smartphone in a drawer, setting 12 alarms 2 minutes apart, taking pills. Nothing worked. Exercise helped a little, in that I was tired earlier in the day, but I am still useless until 10:00.

So you know what I did? I stopped trying to fix it. I realized that I might never be one of those people who get to work at 8am and I shifted my schedule. I am much happier now. This was the tone of the original article, and I take offense to this article telling me I am lazy.

I read the original article, I didn't see the part where it said it was OK to be late for meetings. If you say you will be somewhere at a certain time, you better be there.

That's what people said about the telephone!

I was at the grocery store and the cashier motioned to my hand and showed me her ring and we had a short discussion. I felt happy that I had this bond with a person I had never met and then immediately very sad that she was working as a cashier in a grocery store.

I suppose I am lucky, my immediate supervisors are both P.Eng because of the nature of what we do. I agree though, I don't think it matters much in the software field. I don't have the required amount of work experience yet, but as a Computer Engineer working in and interested in the software field I am on the fence.

There are very many "Software Engineers" that are not actually Engineers though and many job postings looking for a Software Engineer don't actually care if you actually went to an Engineering school. I think that is what that person meant.

We were instructed that the ring was to be worn on the dominant hand so that it could rub on the page while writing or drafting and serve as a reminder of our obligation. We were also told that the beveled design and iron metal was meant to cut into and destroy gold rings.

There wasn't ever any talk of left-handed married engineers, I assumed that this edge case was not thought of by Mr. Kipling.

When I resize the window the day counter at the top overlaps itself. And why is it upside down in the first place?

Is it stealing if you cash checks on an account you know is overdrawn but don't say anything? They gave you the money, it is up to them to verify the balance on the account, right?

Skiing in Tribes was originally a bug, and it became an essential feature and set the franchise apart from other shooters.

Exploits in speedrunning aren't often easy to do, and finding new applications for them are part of the challenge and can set one speedrunner ahead of another.

Blackjack already has a reproducible flaw, it is called card counting. It is not illegal, but casinos frown upon it and often ban people who are suspected of card counting. I would argue that noticing and exploiting a flaw in the blackjack card shuffler falls along the same lines. You are using meta-knowledge to reduce the house edge. But this is not what Kane did, he didn't alter his chances of winning, he altered the payout.

The real argument is not if pushing the buttons in the right order is cheating, but is it hacking? That issue seems to come down to whether or not there was an escalation of access. Did those button presses give him unauthorized access to data? He exploited a flaw to alter the payout of the game, and that is at the very least fraud. If we are using your blackjack analogy this is like he somehow Jedi mind tricked the dealer to change the payout for a 21. If I used a software exploit to get a bank computer to double my money I have no doubt that would be seen as hacking. So how is the gambling machine different?

Not being able to choose where things get installed killed Ninite for me. Their reasoning is "where an app is installed is an implementation detail that users shouldn't worry about." My SSD can only hold so much, and I don't see the benefit of having a browser or file sharing app on an SSD. That seems like a detail I should care about.

It's a popsci article. I wouldn't go criticizing the scientists based on this.

How could you not see how Instagram is a thing? You can take a picture then press few buttons and now everyone you know can see your picture. If you don't see how that is popular maybe the problem isn't with Instagram.

"Under Microsoft's current guidelines, which may still be changed, the decision of whether a game will require an internet connection to work and if that is a one-time authentication or a constant connection, will be left up to individual publishers."

source: http://www.polygon.com/2013/4/26/4268782/next-xbox-drm-achie...