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charlieg wrote: I'm telling you now, you live in a mercenary world.
It's been like that since man first emerged from the primeval slime.
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charlieg wrote: Avoid buying into this corporate "we're all family" bull$hit.
Amen. Corporate is not your friend; they are there to extract the maximum they can from you with minimum compensation.
charlieg wrote: As soon as you can, start your own business.
This is not necessarily true. Not everyone is cut out to be an entrepreneur, and not everyone is cut out to run a business. However, if one remains an employee, be mindful of my previous comment.
Tell your daughter that leaving employment is a business decision, and emotion should play no part in it. If the business would collapse without her input, she should either be paid a (lot!) more than she currently is, or the owner(s) should be looking to recruit additional experts in her field. If the business cannot afford to employ additional experts, perhaps it has no economic justification. In any case, it is not her concern!
Freedom is the freedom to say that two plus two make four. If that is granted, all else follows.
-- 6079 Smith W.
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Daniel Pfeffer wrote: Corporate is not your friend;
Neither is HR, even though they'll claim otherwise.
Why would any company pay people to place their employees' interests above their own?
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Daniel Pfeffer wrote: Tell your daughter that leaving employment is a business decision, and emotion should play no part in it.
While this is true, emotions definitely play into these decisions.
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I felt bad the first time: my mentor was a close friend (35 guests at my wedding, his family was 3 of them) and the company took me in as a very green graduate and helped me a lot. The company sucked, they paid a manual labor rate for engineers even after 10 years with them.
Second time I felt free: body rental jobs are soul crushing, especially when your competence is wasted to be a figurehead.
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The shortest horror story: On Error Resume Next
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den2k88 wrote: they paid a manual labor rate for engineers even after 10 years with them.
Hmmm, that reminds me of my first company. Myself and a buddy of mine - we graduated at the same time - both practically went in together begging for our first jobs in the field, but they only had the budget for one person. We offered to each work for half of the money. The way we both saw it, getting our foot in the door and making names for ourselves was more important than the actual paycheck.
They hired us, a few years later we were both working there full-time, then my friend left, but I didn't get much in terms of a raise. It's only when management went through a shuffle and - essentially - another coworker of mine became my boss, reviewed all individual employee files, and told me he was "disgusted" when he found out how little they paid me. Literal quote. I did get a healthy raise that year, and my boss admitted he was aiming at giving me even more but couldn't pull it off "in one go". My salary did increase steadily year after year after that.
In hindsight, I did let myself get advantage of at the start. After the first year...and especially after my friend left - I ought to have put my foot down.
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Had the same feeling with my first job.
My uncle was one of my employers and it certainly wasn't a billion euro corporation, probably more like a million, if even that.
I used to view my employment there as a chance they offered me.
They helped me in some way and I had to work there to show them gratitude.
At the same time, I felt I probably wasn't good enough to work somewhere else because they were all I knew.
I turned my view 360 degrees.
They gave me a chance, true, but after that I helped them make money for years.
I don't owe any employer anything, just like they don't owe me anything except what was contractually signed (I put in the work and knowledge and they give me salary, vacation, car, etc.).
And they owe me because I make them money, which is why they're offering in the first place.
Hopefully the giving and taking is in balance, and if it isn't you need to leave.
At my second and third job I learned that every workplace has bunglers and I'm better than a lot of them, or at the very least I bring in qualities that benefit other teams as well.
I now have my own company and I do my best for my employees, but at the same time I know they don't owe me and they can leave whenever they want.
And when they do decide to leave I'll hunt them down and make them pay!!! wish them all the best in their future endeavors 
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Are you sure you do not mean 180 degrees.
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I tell the youngins' as soon as they start treating you like a friend, keep your hand on your wallet.
Your employer is not your friend, no matter how much they want you think they are.
Your loyalty to them? What's their loyalty to you? They'd drop you in a NY minute the moment you were not profitable, just like you'd drop them if their paychecks bounced.
Don't go down the road of trying to make friends with your bosses.
I have had former employers I've been friends with. Key word being "former."
Check out my IoT graphics library here:
https://honeythecodewitch.com/gfx
And my IoT UI/User Experience library here:
https://honeythecodewitch.com/uix
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It's so close to working top down, render as you parse.
Except for scaling. In order to support the "view box" feature you need to know the bounding rectangle that contains all the drawing items, which you can't have until you parse them all.
So I either get to parse twice, or store the whole doc in memory. For one feature.
Check out my IoT graphics library here:
https://honeythecodewitch.com/gfx
And my IoT UI/User Experience library here:
https://honeythecodewitch.com/uix
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honey - shot you an email - but why? Is this project related?
Charlie Gilley
βThey who can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety.β BF, 1759
Has never been more appropriate.
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It's only project related in that it's part of my graphics library that I use for projects.
I've expanded some in email.
Check out my IoT graphics library here:
https://honeythecodewitch.com/gfx
And my IoT UI/User Experience library here:
https://honeythecodewitch.com/uix
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I googled and found a web version of such tool: fluidui.com.
just check CP members here to find more options...
diligent hands rule....
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Draw.io is free and offers some simple wireframing options.
Or use the free Silex Website Builder.
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I recommend trying the free version of Figma[^].
/ravi
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I hate specs. I'd rather look at code to determine how something works.
To that end I've been working with two SVG parsing codebases in C to determine how SVG works.
You know that point where things finally click? I got there.
And most of it is just propagating attribute values and bubbling them down tags.
The reason for all of this, is I wanted to peephole parse the whole thing, and render top down so I didn't have to keep a representation of the entire document in memory - just enough of a window of it to render the current step.
The result should be much more efficient than what I have been doing, but it's state machines all the way down, because peephole parsing.
In any event I have much of the core in place, and I'm peephole parsing all the attributes in the document. The elements are easy by comparison.
The main thing I have left is storing gradients and matching them up by ID, and then trying to impose viewbox scaling as I'm parsing, which I HOPE is possible.
I'm over the hump.
Check out my IoT graphics library here:
https://honeythecodewitch.com/gfx
And my IoT UI/User Experience library here:
https://honeythecodewitch.com/uix
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