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If you're getting to that point it's time to either switch jobs or find a new career.
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Absolutely true. The productivity drops down significantly otherwise.
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A pessimist sees only the dark side of the clouds, and mopes; a philosopher sees both sides, and shrugs; an optimist doesn't see the clouds at all - he's walking on them. --Leonard Louis Levinson
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...for me is, management starts having more status meetings to find out what the problems are.
By then I start reporting in my status report and status meetings that I'm not working on any problems becasue I'm always in status meetings.
By the time we get to 3 status meetings a day they (Management) can't figure out why nothing is getting done.
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Joe Q wrote: ...for me is, management starts having more status meetings to find out what the problems are.
By then I start reporting in my status report and status meetings that I'm not working on any problems becasue I'm always in status meetings.
By the time we get to 3 status meetings a day they (Management) can't figure out why nothing is getting done.
Sounds so familar, don't forget the looking for a scapegoat meeting, that usually occurs after the failed deadline. It's all bullshit and the management shouldn't have deadlines, the software is done when it's done, hope all managers are watching this 
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norm .net wrote: Sounds so familar, don't forget the looking for a scapegoat meeting, that usually occurs after the failed deadline.
Around here, I start looking for a scapegoat when we get to the daily status meetings. Plus, I start doing as much as I can by e-mail (rather than face to face) to keep a paper trail in case someone is looking at me as a scapegoat.
norm .net wrote: It's all bullsh*t and the management shouldn't have deadlines, the software is done when it's done, hope all managers are watching this
I don't mind the deadlines as long as I have some control over schedule, requirements, and I know the deadline can be extended if someone else is late getting me stuff, etc.
Saying that, around here, I haven't seen anything except the usual arbitrary management deadlines, the last minute changing of requirements, the late inputs, etc.
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Right when I saw the link in the Insider, I told myself it has to be Quality. I'm surprised nobody mentioned it before me. 
Somebody said "My manly aroma". 
Cheers,
Vikram.
"If a trend is truly global, then that trend ought to be visible across ANY subset of that data" - fat_boy
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Vikram A Punathambekar wrote: "If a trend is truly global, then that trend ought to be visible across ANY subset of that data" - fat_boy
Actually, I don't think so.
Consider: A trend is calculated from the full universe of points. It is, idealistically, a best-fit to the data. If one can pick any subset of the data, one can clearly select (in the general case) a subset of out-layers that will indicate a completely different trend.
Your scenario would only be true in the case of perfect data. I don't think one can (or should) properly call a perfect data fits a trend.
Or am I mistaken?
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"How do you find out if you're unwanted if everyone you try to ask tells you to go away?" - Balboos HaGadol
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I use that as my sig to ridicule fat_boy, a sceptic (that's putting it mildly) of global warming. He was essentially arguing that since some parts of the world are cooler, it cannot be 'global' warming and came up with this gem. Needless to say, he got pilloried, and to this day, I have it as my sig.
Cheers,
Vikram.
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Mate this is *so* true: "All I ask of my fellow man is good will. Reflection and experience have shown that[sic] this to be a lot to ask."
Cheers,
Vikram.
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Thanks - that's possibly first comment I've ever gotten relating to the site. It is my hope to one day become as famous as Yogi Berra for quotes!
Seriously, I try to foster sharing amongst the programmers - discuss, teach, etc. It took a long time, but has had some effect. You never know how someone has been burned in the past and thus remains fearful of sharing their source code (even though it's my job to be the backup!) and creates 40 pages of jibberish that are supposed to be documentation. Unfortunately, I may get a (figurative) broomstick up my ass if I ever have to really modify his code (if I can even find it).
Nonetheless -
I will wait the extra 2 or 3 seconds and hold the door for someone. Most do thank you. It's not a long time, although at first it seems so. Eventually it will sink in to a few that trying to do that little more for one another saves us all some work - and might even cause us to dislike each other a bit less. (I'm an optimistic cynic, so I need to express things in a convoluted manner). If you don't already do so, try the holding-the-door thing, try it for a while. With a bit of luck, it could become a habbit.
There's a piece of literature (ritual from Freemasonry) whose application was clearly intended to be extend to all persons: "G-d did not bring us into being to live in the narrow groove of selfish individualism, but to be as brethren, one to another, in mutual dependence and support."
In the meantime, I'm still wrestling with my only New Years Resolution, which is to break my New Years Resolution.
Keep your feet dry,
Balboos
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Man, I *so* agree.
Balboos wrote: It is my hope to one day become as famous as Yogi Berra for quotes
Tell you what - I plan to include a quote or two from your site when I finally get around to updating mine. What should I credit you as? Eg: "The secret of happiness is to admire without desiring." – FH Bradley.
Balboos wrote: Keep your feet dry
What does that phrase mean? I googled but got a lot of health tips. 
Cheers,
Vikram.
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"Keep Your Feet Dry"
This phrase alludes to avoiding the maintance of an excessively hydrated state on the lower extremities. This may be facilitated via (1) avoiding splashing in puddles, (2) Use of a towel.
It is an admonishment oft targeted by a mother to her spawn. (Disappointed?)
Well - I often go by Balboos HaGadol - but if I wish to be famous, you may as well attribute them to my duller personna (and only friend): Steve Miller.
Ol' S&M *
* I wonder what my parents meant when they gave me those initials? My wife's intials, prior to marriage, were PMS . How did they know?
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Steve, I will include a quote or two when I finally update my site. You, on the other hand, can start planning to take over the world right away.
Cheers,
Vikram.
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Vikram A Punathambekar wrote: take over the world
An interesting preposition.
A lot of decisions to consider. For example, should you be given a cabinet postion or used as an example to warn others.* I considered offering a martyr option, but it's just so over-used these days. Perhaps the figurehead/target route? These things are just so hard to decide.
Now, on a more serious note:
Vikram A Punathambekar wrote: You, on the other hand, can start planning to take over the world right away
My plan is already in place - I'm simply waiting for them to come crawling to me with the offer of Grand Emperor-Deluxe and Royal Smart Person. I can hear them grovel deep within my minds eye . . .
. . . Stop. Wait. what is this that you have done to me? Am I going mad? <Power, must have More pow> Must maintain control <er. It's for their own goo>. Losing control. The hunger. It grows. It must be satified . . . appeased . . . Sated. Make haste. Warn those that are left - before it's too late!
Must I rule, yet again? Is there truly no other?
Alas, My Kingdom for a Shrubbery,
Balboos HaGadol
The MODIFICATION:
Those those of you wondering - it's out of my system for know. I think it brought on by being exposed to so VB code.
*You needn't have done anything to earn any of these distinctions. I consider random acts to be much more effective at controlling the populous. It's served me well, so far, against the evil 'USER' of applications.
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"How do you find out if you're unwanted if everyone you try to ask tells you to go away?" - Balboos HaGadol
modified on Thursday, January 17, 2008 6:59:05 AM
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Vikram A Punathambekar wrote: Quality
Wouldn't this roughly correspond to
"The actual problem you are meant to be working on"?
To satisfy the customer and shift blames to a different square, people normally resort in tweaking the expectations to one level below.
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A pessimist sees only the dark side of the clouds, and mopes; a philosopher sees both sides, and shrugs; an optimist doesn't see the clouds at all - he's walking on them. --Leonard Louis Levinson
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Drown my concerns in the arms of a woman.
Afterwards, lay back and consider how to put the blame squarely where it belongs: management.
(This seems like a much more pleasant and just option than others offered so far).
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I like the way you think!!!
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Not enough time to cook, must work. So end result: "Hello, Dominoes pizza"
He who makes a beast out of himself gets rid of the pain of being a man
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Domino's and Papa John's already know my order. They don't even answer the phone, they just hang up and in 30 minutes my pizza arrives.....man I gotta get out of doing Litigation work...LOL.
I like the signature, a shoutout to Avenged Sevenfold's Bat Country I presume or someone they quoted.
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yup definitely. going to see them for the 3rd time in Brixton later this month
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Do you mean general eating or eating well.
I could never neglect eating. I change keyboards regularly because of things (crumbs, gravy, fruit juice) that get in becaue I am always eating as I work. the moment I can't find something to nibble on after a few hours, I stop coding, watch a movie, sleep, or try to see the few friends I have because those got neglected as part of the job and I am now making amends.
Let's make things simpler than possible.
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ah man, Gravy in the keyboard...
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 I watch a lot of comedies, like right now. Just finished my daily quota, drinking coke and having a sandwich. Sometimes I reach for something, knock over the thermos flask, coke bottle or just drop a few drops of whatever (gravy was only once though - I was in college and my mother has not forgotten that one)
But I never neglect eating. (Not overweight though. High metabolic rate and still have the same body I had when I was in the tae-kwon-do team).
Let's make things simpler than possible.
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Pete Hannon wrote: Not enough time to cook, must work.
New job, no deadlines, good bye Dominoes 
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