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In my late 20's my manager commented on my leaving at 5 PM, saying he expected his team to work 60 to 70 hours a week. I went straight to the president, with whom I had a very good working relationship (it was a small company) and told him I would report the manager to the labor board (or whatever sounded impressive.) The manager was very respectful after that and never harassed me again.
The article mentions entrepreneurs several times. I do believe, if you're an entrepreneur, you're going to be putting in more than 40 hours a week, for a variety of reasons. And that applies to just about anything, not just software development. But once one is out of the entrepreneur phase, work hours should be more normal, except that it's hard to break that "lifestyle."
I often wonder where the 40 hour work week came from, and according to wikipedia, we have....
CANADA!
to blame:
Quote: Canada. The labour movement in Canada tracked progress in the US and UK. In 1890, the Federation of Labour took up this issue, hoping to organise participation in May Day. In the 1960s, Canada adopted the 40-hour work week.
But not entirely:
Quote: The Ford Motor Company advanced the idea in 1914, when it scaled back from a 48-hour to a 40-hour workweek after founder Henry Ford believed that too many hours were bad for workers’ productivity.
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From Eight-hour day | National Museum of Australia[^]
Eight hours to work,
Eight hours to play,
Eight hours to sleep,
Eight bob a day.
A fair day’s work,
For a fair day’s pay.
Nineteenth Century Aussie unionism.
Software rusts. Simon Stephenson, ca 1994. So does this signature. me, 2012
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Marc Clifton wrote: The Ford Motor Company advanced the idea in 1914, when it scaled back from a 48-hour to a 40-hour workweek after founder Henry Ford believed that too many hours were bad for workers’ productivity.
It wasn't a subjective number or just Ford; the early 20th century saw lots of research into varying work day durations and frequencies, with the 40 hour figure coming out as the one that on average resulted in the maximum long term output per worker. >40h/week would see a gradual slow down in the hourly working rate due to fatigue along with a steady increase in the number of errors made. The one figure from that work that's commonly quoted today is that over a 2 month period a team working 40h/week and one working 60h/week will have the same total output, and over longer periods the 40h team will pull ahead because they're able to remain well rested and alert while the 60h one is fumbling around with exhaustion going slowly and creating lots of problems needing rework.
Did you ever see history portrayed as an old man with a wise brow and pulseless heart, weighing all things in the balance of reason?
Is not rather the genius of history like an eternal, imploring maiden, full of fire, with a burning heart and flaming soul, humanly warm and humanly beautiful?
--Zachris Topelius
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I wish I could turn it off after 5pm. More often than not I find myself up at 3am thinking about the project I currently working on, and not surprisingly, I'm good and tired the next day. It used to not be the case 20-25 years ago, but over time has become much worse. Perhaps more ![Beer | [beer]](https://www.codeproject.com/script/Forums/Images/beer.gif) before bed? 
"the debugger doesn't tell me anything because this code compiles just fine" - random QA comment
"Facebook is where you tell lies to your friends. Twitter is where you tell the truth to strangers." - chriselst
"I don't drink any more... then again, I don't drink any less." - Mike Mullikins uncle
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There were times, on interesting and challenging projects, when I put in 70 hours a week.
But some of those were offset by times when I put in 10 hours a week, even though my butt was in an office chair.
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"We" don't; I don't do overwork. In fact, my phone is off after the hours agreed upon in the contract.
You (!) are competing against each other, giving free overtime, always available; not me, since my rent is not that flexible and demands simple payments.
Haven't done overtime in over 20 years. The promises of sales are the problem of the manager, not mine 
Bastard Programmer from Hell 
"If you just follow the bacon Eddy, wherever it leads you, then you won't have to think about politics." -- Some Bell.
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To further validate the usefulness of our ASan implementation, we also used it on a collection of widely used open source projects where it found bugs in Boost, Azure IoT C SDK, and OpenSSL. But they have too many eyes looking at the source for there to be bugs
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Kent Sharkey wrote: But they have too many eyes looking at the source for there to be bugs
that's always what they say...
In my opinion, the difference is that biggest part of the (really skilled) eyes looking are actually looking for them not to fix them, but to exploit them.
M.D.V. 
If something has a solution... Why do we have to worry about?. If it has no solution... For what reason do we have to worry about?
Help me to understand what I'm saying, and I'll explain it better to you
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The Department of Computer Science and Center for Information Technology Policy at Princeton University has conducted a study and released a paper assessing the security and privacy risks of phone number recycling by mobile characters in the United States. "867-5309"
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Actually a pretty valid argument that many, many people is not aware of.
M.D.V.
If something has a solution... Why do we have to worry about?. If it has no solution... For what reason do we have to worry about?
Help me to understand what I'm saying, and I'll explain it better to you
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People change numbers when they get new phones? I've always migrated my number to the new phone so I don't have to change it in a million elephanting places. Had the same number since 1994 or 1995.
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It seemed like it was more common back in the pre-SIM days, but people seem to jump carriers a lot these days and get new numbers.
TTFN - Kent
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I thought numbers were portable now? Or, are people just that lazy when buying a new phone?
I've also stayed with the same carrier, AT&T. They've had a couple name changes along the way, but ...
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It could be my data (and I) are old - I know it's been a while since I got a "My number has changed" email.
TTFN - Kent
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You thought you knew how it works in big tech companies? Well, have you ever thought of charting your influence? How to make friends and influence people: Executive bafflegab edition
Make sure you have your Buzzword Bingo card at the ready, we're going to have a blackout game and it's going fast, my at-home and at-work constituents
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Quote: ...drive true empathy with both my at-home and at-work constituents.
Slow blink. Are two Microsoft interview questions:
1) Are you a charlatan?
2) Are you batshit crazy?
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And what are the expected answers? 
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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“Our goal is to make money, and not creating problems for society,” the statement continues. What nice young folk
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Still a plus point... people doing it due to ideology might be way more dangerous.
If you haven't read it, I recommend you "Blackout" by Marc Elsberg.
M.D.V. 
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The Apple AirTag has been available for just over a week. Sadly, it still can't play DOOM
Give them time...
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Our ability to meet your business and innovation needs is in part due to our growth mindset—which extends from front-end user experiences to small details like graphics and icons. We bring you only the important news of the day
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Nespreso Icons... what else?
no, I am no George Clooney
M.D.V.
If something has a solution... Why do we have to worry about?. If it has no solution... For what reason do we have to worry about?
Help me to understand what I'm saying, and I'll explain it better to you
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Can we go any lower than that?
But really!!!
"The only place where Success comes before Work is in the dictionary." Vidal Sassoon, 1928 - 2012
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Next year will be the monochromatic dark theme look.
The following year will revert to the block look, no curves allowed.
The third year the icons will be invisible requiring psychic training.
The fourth year there will be no icons, as AI will know what you want to do.
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Did you ever see history portrayed as an old man with a wise brow and pulseless heart, weighing all things in the balance of reason?
Is not rather the genius of history like an eternal, imploring maiden, full of fire, with a burning heart and flaming soul, humanly warm and humanly beautiful?
--Zachris Topelius
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