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lopatir wrote: many review sites now filtering
And search engines, hence me changing mine.
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lopatir wrote: without seeing user comments there's really no such thing as an honest review site anywhere
I always search variations of "Product X sucks". "Product X is terrible". "Product X never buying again" "hate product X" etc.
then i see what i come up with. i've always found that more honest than review sites. I'll look at maybe one of those reviews to see what features the thing has but that's all. i want to know what people dislike about it before i buy it.
When I was growin' up, I was the smartest kid I knew. Maybe that was just because I didn't know that many kids. All I know is now I feel the opposite.
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The reason comments are gone is spambots and trolls.
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Munchies_Matt wrote: Bing Google and use DuckDuckGo.
FTFY.
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Really? I am amazed at how well google works. They do such a good job making a ton of data useful.
Social Media - A platform that makes it easier for the crazies to find each other.
Everyone is born right handed. Only the strongest overcome it.
Fight for left-handed rights and hand equality.
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1st. Every resident of Israel will receive 45760 EUR from the European Union [link]
2nd. Every resident of Israel will receive 33674 EUR from the European Union [link]
3rd. Every resident of Israel will receive 64868 EUR from the European Union [link]
And it is all before 8 at the morning...
"The only place where Success comes before Work is in the dictionary." Vidal Sassoon, 1928 - 2012
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Kornfeld Eliyahu Peter wrote: And it is all before 8 at the morning...
Maybe that's why your links are missing.
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Do you want the links? 
"The only place where Success comes before Work is in the dictionary." Vidal Sassoon, 1928 - 2012
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I'll pass.
Sent from my Amstrad PC 1640
Never throw anything away, Griff
Bad command or file name. Bad, bad command! Sit! Stay! Staaaay...
AntiTwitter: @DalekDave is now a follower!
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Better be quick. Once we leave there won't be much money flowing in any more.
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Mazzeltov ! (in Dutch we would say "Je hebt mazzel")
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Oh boy - this is a new strategy … 
we are all used to mails from Google CEO …
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I haven't got any such e-mails. It must be because I have dual nationality - Israeli/British. 
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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I think you are just not worthy for such a gratitude of the EU... 
(I have trial nationality - so it can't be the problem)
"The only place where Success comes before Work is in the dictionary." Vidal Sassoon, 1928 - 2012
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Well, obviously. I'm British, and they want to punish anyone who might even be thinking of leaving the EU's paradise.
</sarc>
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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Ohhhh right. Now I understand.
Yeah, I had a look in my junk bin yesterday, apparently someone has some vids of me whacking off and is going to publish them.
I might get famous!
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I got the same a while ago.
"Nice," I thought, "saves me the trouble of sending it out myself."
Imagine my disappointment when I found out it was just a scam and they did no such thing
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Yeah, I know right! I thought I might make a new career out of it!
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Subscribe now to "The Porngrammer"!
For those who are turned on by middle aged fat, bald guys who drink coffee, eat pizza and sit behind a computer screen all day
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Sander Rossel wrote: fat, bald guys who drink coffee, eat pizza
Speak for yourself! 
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I'm not bald and I don't drink coffee so... Fat, hairy guys who drink tea and eat pizza?
Somehow I'm not making this any better
A wide variety of individuals?
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Mind you seeing what goes on youtube, like that 6 year old Koren kid, who vlogs herself eating, and mage millions (and has just bought a block of flats) you could be onto something!
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I read/studied the fascinating responses, reactions, cathartic recapitulations of trauma, etc., on the thread. I appreciate the opportunity to hear your voices.
It made me realize how atypical my experience was: I started programming at age 42, after dropping out of a doctoral program in social science after time in academia, and practicing psychotherapy. My path was from SAS/SPSS on mainframes, to 6909 assembly language to BASIC, to LISP, to PostScript.
By the time I was being interviewed, I had a rare specialty, PostScript, and thanks to a book I wrote most of for Addison-Wesley, and my work on Cricket Draw 1.1, I was quite well known in the "desktop publishing" arena.
When I participated in interviews as interviewer (at Adobe), the candidates were already pre-selected for excellence. Personality didn't matter that much unless the candidate really blew it.
Your responses tell me that the modal experience these days, in which personality is more of a factor, is in a context very different from my weird zig-zag through pre-internet days.
I hear, in many of your comments, a reflection of the current zeitgeist of political correctness in the workplace, that emphasis on protecting people from being "triggered" by whatever.
If I were hiring today, for a major desktop app project, I would try to achieve a mix of styles/personalities, and I would not base this on everybody "getting along." In fact, I'd like at least one a'hole on the team. Autistic: no problem if you write great code ! Painfully introverted: ditto. Obsessive-compulsives: you're hired. Caution for hysterics, and temperamental geniuses, however.
What this mix requires, of course, is careful planning and allocation for who works on what. And, yes, that's easy to say, and really hard to do ... well.
Meetings: most are a total waste of time. Formal code-reviews: yes. Hiring testing specialists who delight in finding bugs: yes, when budget and development allow.
Conflict/confrontation is not always a bad thing, and, imho, it's a program manager's task to channel conflict into "fair-fights" rather than sabotage, and inhibited productivity.
Say, I'm a manager, and, a relatively new hire comes to see me, someone still trying to getup to speed, but whose performance is adequate in terms of their role and length on the job:
Me: Hi, I want to reassure you you are doing okay, and meeting our expectations,
NH: Thanks, but, I'm worried ... I feel like the other programmers think I am stupid.
Me: What have you observed the other programmers doing that makes you react by having thoughts like 'I am stupid,' and feeling bad ?
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NH: Little things, like the way Jane rolls her eyes when she looks at my code ... the way James kind of grins when I ask him a question that demonstrates I don't fully understand the question.
Me: What if your code is stupid ? Where "stupid" means not yet reflecting the mastery of the complex codebase you are busy learning ?
NH: I hadn't thought of it quite like that ...
Me: What if rolling eyes and a sly grin are really a kind of superficial teasing that says: we know what you are struggling with ... we've been through it.
NH: It's hard to see it that way !
Me: It is hard for anyone to see it that way ! It takes effort to become aware of the trigger for the internal negative self-appraisal and develop the habit of confronting it before it takes root in the emotions.
NH: okay, that's interesting.
Me: Remember you might need to change how you react, and how you behave, but, you don't have to change who you are !
NH: okay
Me: Gotta go, the VP for Sales and I are going to go smoke enough crack that we can see how to fudge the sales for the quarter to keep the VC's off our back. Well, I told you I came from the past 
«One day it will have to be officially admitted that what we have christened reality is an even greater illusion than the world of dreams.» Salvador Dali
modified 8-Sep-19 3:48am.
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