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Researchers have come up with a mobile-sensing system that can track and rate the performance of workers by combining a smartphone, fitness bracelets and a custom app. I take back what I said elsewhere about the benefits of technology in the workplace
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Kent Sharkey wrote: I take back what I said elsewhere about the benefits of technology in the workplace
Too late...
"The only place where Success comes before Work is in the dictionary." Vidal Sassoon, 1928 - 2012
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Back to getting whipped for me, I guess. 
TTFN - Kent
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Needs a hack that will show you working industriously, when you're actually out back, napping in your car.
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Because the chains cause chafing ? 
«Where is the Life we have lost in living? Where is the wisdom we have lost in knowledge? Where is the knowledge we have lost in information?» T. S. Elliot
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Quote: The system was able to tell the difference between high performers and low performers with 80% accuracy.
Are people who do their jobs at 80% accuracy remotely qualified to tell anyone else how to do theirs?
As this is a KSS forum, I will not venture an opinion on these people and simply leave it your imagination and the more colourful end of your vocabulary to fill in the blanks ...
Whenever you find yourself on the side of the majority, it is time to pause and reflect. - Mark Twain
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PeejayAdams wrote: Are people who do their jobs at 80% accuracy remotely qualified to tell anyone else how to do theirs?
A lot of people I work with don't even get that 80%, yet they are more than willing to tell everyone what to do 
The most extreme case being a (now ex-)coworker who told me my JavaScript was way off and I had to rewrite it (because I used a module pattern rather than putting everything in the global scope).
That same coworker told me he couldn't even read my C# code because the syntax was foreign to him (I used a Func<something> with a lambda expression...)
This guy had such a big mouth that the entire project was suffering from his incompetence and he brought the whole team down to his level.
The problem is that this guy worked hard (producing negative results), so this new system would probably give him a high rating.
This isn't my only example either.
Basically, I think the harder people shout what you should do and how you should do it, the less qualified they are.
If they knew how to do their job they wouldn't be so concerned about the work of others...
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There are certain types who always do quite well in IT without ever doing anything useful.
The Ever-Present: He turns in at 7 and leaves late at night. During his extended shift he largely drinks coffee and talks about football but the PHB loves him because he's always first in and last out. Little does the PHB realise that he only does this because he's trapped in the marriage from Hell and really doesn't want to be at home.
The Voice: Like Sander's mate, he sounds like knows everything and has all the jargon to go with it. Everything that anybody else does is WRONG, WRONG, WRONG and he won't rest until everyone is made aware of this.
The Cheerleader: He may not be able to code his way out of a wet paper bag but he will passionately get behind the PHB's buzzword of the week. If the PHB is getting into DevOps, he's more than happy to champion DevOps even though he has no more idea than the rest of the planet what DevOps actually means.
Whenever you find yourself on the side of the majority, it is time to pause and reflect. - Mark Twain
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I've known multiple voices and at least one ever-present 
I don't think I've met a cheerleader before, mostly because the people I worked with were either afraid of change or knew their job well enough to either embrace it or reject it with good arguments.
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Ah yes, I remember that one - a handy reminder that we are all PITAs to work with!
Whenever you find yourself on the side of the majority, it is time to pause and reflect. - Mark Twain
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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
Rating helpful answers is nice, but saying thanks can be even nicer.
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The Pompous - The self-important jerk but clueless.
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That hardly qualifies as research; one can also guess the unmentioned cost of more people with a burnout.
Bastard Programmer from Hell 
If you can't read my code, try converting it here[^]
"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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That's it, Brothers!
I'm calling a union meeting!
This new AI will put time-and-motion men out of work within six months!
We can't be having that, Brothers!
They should be put out of work immediately right this minute!
I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!
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Dragonfly, a nuclear-powered drone, will visit Saturn’s largest moon in the 2030s As long as they're not going to Europa
Nuclear-powered drone is a great band name.
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The SKIL Framework created by the DevOps Institute focuses on a holistic approach to the human aspect of advancing DevOps rather than the machines involved in it. Because DevOps needed another 'framework'
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This iteration of Fuchsia.dev combines all current documentation from the Fuchsia source code’s “docs” folder, documentation specific to the Zircon kernel, and reference information about things accessible via FIDL. If enough people try it, they can cancel it
modified 1-Jul-19 1:34am.
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Kent Sharkey wrote: If enough people try it, they can cancel it
I took a brief glance... but it turned out to be SyFy.
Best Wishes,
-David Delaune
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Dang, fixed ( and thank you). Besides, I liked the SyFy one better.
TTFN - Kent
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That link takes me to the moon...
"The only place where Success comes before Work is in the dictionary." Vidal Sassoon, 1928 - 2012
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Dang, fixed ( and thank you)
TTFN - Kent
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The folks at the Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter Camera website have created a very cool interactive feature where you can view the landing site using an LROC image, and when you scroll through the mission timeline the image changes to show you where the astronauts were, what they were doing, and what conversations they were having with each other and Mission Control back on Earth. Based on Kubrick's original screenplay!
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Workers with access to technology that helps them work more productively helps them reduce their stress levels, according to a new report. In related news: not being regularly whipped improves worker happiness
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See 5 messages above 
You have answered yourself
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
Rating helpful answers is nice, but saying thanks can be even nicer.
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