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BryanFazekas wrote: I will add "Nor working productively".
Good point
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Does that include commuting? I consider it (part of) "work"; unproductive work .... which makes most people's days pretty long.
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Gerry Schmitz wrote: Does that include commuting? I consider it (part of) "work"; unproductive work ....
When I have been abroad I have always started the timer leaving the hotel and stopped it when coming back to the reception. But I did specify what was conmuting and what was "factory" time in my reports. Both got billed (and payed).
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"...if they want to see the country become a global economic powerhouse."
He also expresses the goal of India expanding their global impact, but in neither case are we told why any of that should matter to the Indian workers. How will any of that help them? Perhaps he should start there instead of simply opining that the Indians aren't working hard enough.
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Most, many, some? Developers seem to generate the best solutions when they AREN'T at work. Walking the dog, or going for a bike ride, or pushing the kids on the swing and suddenly inspiration strikes.
This doesn't seem to happen as much when you have a gun to your head to work insane hours to make your boss happy.
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I guess he's not worried about productivity and quality. Long hours reduces productivity and quality. I've worked with so many people who work crazy long hours but don't produce anything or what they do produce is full of defects.
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Maybe this idiot should work 70 hours a week instead...
Steve Naidamast
Sr. Software Engineer
Black Falcon Software, Inc.
blackfalconsoftware@outlook.com
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This mindset is not limited to Indian culture. I've seen it here in American culture before our work sector was inundated with cheap labor and lesser work-culture mores.
This approach is not what made America's economy soar far above any other in history.
The approach that has worked best in the history of the US, is this:
- Prioritize working smart, not working hard.
- A person working smart (and as hard as need be) will do more in 40 hours than a person working hard in 70 hours.
- A balanced life - God, family, work - is what enables one to be highly productive for an entire career.
- Some work does require long hours, even when working smart. Agriculture and law enforcement are just two examples. But it is the priority on working smart that increases productivity and makes the difference between success and failure.
- Working smart involves solving problems without a recipe. Most anyone can follow what someone else has figured out and try to shoehorn it into a current problem or work challenge, but that is inefficient and gives poor to mediocre results. Working smart means creating your own solutions by applying reason, knowing what to glean (not use directly) from "recipe" solutions similar challenges, and delivering excellence.
- Aim for excellence, not just enough to get by.
In most cases, working smart in software development and support for 40 hours a week yields better and more profitiable results than 70 hours of working hard, applying someone else's recipe without understanding the consequences.
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So, the very rich founder of a software company, in a country where employers treat workers like slaves, thinks the serfs should work 70 hours/week. I suppose his megayacht is a slave galley too. He gets all nationalistic about this self-serving opinion, because if he didn't, it would be even more obviously self-serving.
I think that if developers were paid for every hour they worked, you would hear this kind of opinion far less frequently. If they were paid time-and-a-half for overtime, you wouldn't hear it at all.
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Or put another way, if you want to be an "outlier", you need to put in 10,000 hours first.
(1000 days?)
"Before entering on an understanding, I have meditated for a long time, and have foreseen what might happen. It is not genius which reveals to me suddenly, secretly, what I have to say or to do in a circumstance unexpected by other people; it is reflection, it is meditation." - Napoleon I
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Hmmm, I think he's the father in law of the (current) British prime minister. I hope he doesn't start thinking this way.
Edit: yup, that's him.
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The guides did an excellent job of keeping us away from protestors, we didn't get to do everything on the list but it was an excellent trip.
But on the way home I started to feel a bit sick and the next day Covid, for the second time and this time seems worse than the first.
I don't think before I open my mouth, I like to be as surprised a everyone else.
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Yikes; take care, Mike.
I've had it once, and that was more than enough (my sense of smell is still iffy).
Software Zen: delete this;
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Where in Panama did you go?
In theory, theory and practice are the same. But in practice, they never are.”
If it's not broken, fix it until it is.
Everything makes sense in someone's mind.
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We started and ended in Panama City, went through the canal on a fairy and went to the Gatun Rain Forest and did the ?trolly? (not sure that's what it is called, a 4-6 person open cage that went though the rain forest).
I don't think before I open my mouth, I like to be as surprised a everyone else.
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Mike Hankey wrote: for the second time and this time seems worse than the first.
Hopefully was the first very soft and this is just medium 
Recover good and fast ![Rose | [Rose]](https://codeproject.freetls.fastly.net/script/Forums/Images/rose.gif)
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Thanks, 3 days in and still feel like a truck ran over me.
I don't think before I open my mouth, I like to be as surprised a everyone else.
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That sucks. On the other hand, I reach down, between my legs, ease the seat back.....
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Did you get some of that famour Panama paper I've been hearing about?
Apparently it's top notch!
Get well soon.
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So yesterday an article lauding the benefits of SQLite was sent out in the Daily Insider email. We have one application that uses it and we've had database corruption issues with it. I'm curious to everyone else's experience with it.
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I've used it on several projects and not had any problems with it.
The only time I had a problem was when I first started using it I would open the DB and leave it open and had corruption problems.
I don't think before I open my mouth, I like to be as surprised a everyone else.
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This is a third party application and I think that's what they were doing. We have a newer version and I'm hoping they've taken care of this.
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Mike Hankey wrote: The only time I had a problem was when I first started using it I would open the DB and leave it open and had corruption problems.
I wouldn't stop using whatever working database solution is currently being used in a project in favor of something that will corrupt itself by misusing its API. That sort of thing needs to be rock-solid before it can become a serious contender as an alternative to anything else.
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