You have limited options. I suggest using the internet for reference material only (no HN or Slashdot allowed). Your boss is not going to change. What is your job worth to you now? Do you need more compensation? If so,…
... Perhaps what you mean is you hate the escape characters used to switch between html and sql. Perhaps what you mean is you hate the MVC separation. I do not agree with swix that drag and drop is that solution. If…
I am in a very similar situation: Mortgage, kids, wife and in an almost failing startup. First, you need to know how much risk the wife can stomach. Second, the money does not matter to children; they may be better off…
Yes. 1) To practice my writing skill - I may be awesome at programming, but my prose comes out too slow. I hope practice will allow me to write faster, yet still coherently. 2) There are many people on the internet that…
Most items on this list are surprising effective when done by the media.
I do not know how you can call yourself a geek if you can tolerate boredom 3 or 4 times before even considering making a program instead. For some reason, you (and others here) assume efficiency is an attribute of…
May I suggest that you are not a geek: No Star Trek? Blasphemer!
IMHO, it is hard to find a domain that is challenging, useful, and small. But a couple of examples listed above are pretty good: 1) Write your own web server, blog software, etc: By leveraging existing libraries (or…
I dislike the free-form overlapping windows, but tiling is still worse. Tiling could be better if windows had a 'reduced' mode: which needs minimal screen area to show status. Some examples: I like the last two lines of…
Should have compared cubes instead of squares
From the article: "This should say to employers that insisting people work long hours is actually not good for your business" Wrong! As a business, you should overwork you employees. When the dementia starts affecting…
I am in Ontario. My advice is: 1) Stay in real cash (not equivelents) until this market turmoil is done. 2) Figure out what you want your next "career" to be. You are in a position to take some risks, but 2million is…
Sorry, I am not convinced. Java's exception handling may be slower, but exceptions should be rare: In the few cases exceptions are not rare, return an object instead. The issue of loosing some variables is misleading.…
"Europeans would look at our education system and be appalled by two things. One was that we were educating so many, which they considered to be highly wasteful. The other was that we were educating girls as much as…
...it's worse!
That was an interesting meme. I have long valued waking up early, and I promote going to bed hungry. Looks like the two principals are related.
I do the same. I have a script that will update my hosts file at the start and end of each day. All my bookmarked sites are blocked during the work day.
You have limited options. I suggest using the internet for reference material only (no HN or Slashdot allowed). Your boss is not going to change. What is your job worth to you now? Do you need more compensation? If so,…
... Perhaps what you mean is you hate the escape characters used to switch between html and sql. Perhaps what you mean is you hate the MVC separation. I do not agree with swix that drag and drop is that solution. If…
I am in a very similar situation: Mortgage, kids, wife and in an almost failing startup. First, you need to know how much risk the wife can stomach. Second, the money does not matter to children; they may be better off…
Yes. 1) To practice my writing skill - I may be awesome at programming, but my prose comes out too slow. I hope practice will allow me to write faster, yet still coherently. 2) There are many people on the internet that…
Most items on this list are surprising effective when done by the media.
I do not know how you can call yourself a geek if you can tolerate boredom 3 or 4 times before even considering making a program instead. For some reason, you (and others here) assume efficiency is an attribute of…
May I suggest that you are not a geek: No Star Trek? Blasphemer!
IMHO, it is hard to find a domain that is challenging, useful, and small. But a couple of examples listed above are pretty good: 1) Write your own web server, blog software, etc: By leveraging existing libraries (or…
I dislike the free-form overlapping windows, but tiling is still worse. Tiling could be better if windows had a 'reduced' mode: which needs minimal screen area to show status. Some examples: I like the last two lines of…
Should have compared cubes instead of squares
From the article: "This should say to employers that insisting people work long hours is actually not good for your business" Wrong! As a business, you should overwork you employees. When the dementia starts affecting…
I am in Ontario. My advice is: 1) Stay in real cash (not equivelents) until this market turmoil is done. 2) Figure out what you want your next "career" to be. You are in a position to take some risks, but 2million is…
Sorry, I am not convinced. Java's exception handling may be slower, but exceptions should be rare: In the few cases exceptions are not rare, return an object instead. The issue of loosing some variables is misleading.…
"Europeans would look at our education system and be appalled by two things. One was that we were educating so many, which they considered to be highly wasteful. The other was that we were educating girls as much as…
...it's worse!
That was an interesting meme. I have long valued waking up early, and I promote going to bed hungry. Looks like the two principals are related.
I do the same. I have a script that will update my hosts file at the start and end of each day. All my bookmarked sites are blocked during the work day.