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15-Mar-20 3:26

Long ago a folksinger (Joni Mitchell) sang a song "Yellow Taxi". It's most important words ever ring true:

"Don't it always seem to go - you don't know what you've got 'till it's gone"
Selah

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"The difference between genius and stupidity is that genius has its limits." - Albert Einstein
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Kent Sharkey13-Mar-20 7:25

Kent Sharkey

13-Mar-20 7:25

The poor Google employees now forced to work from home: A sad Google employee laments how COVID-19 coronavirus is ruining his work | ZDNet[^]

Quote:
"My productivity has gone down as well. Because (a) I didn't have a coffee machine at home, and ended up either having to take a mile-long walk to Starbucks or fight against my morning drowsiness."

:violin:

TTFN - Kent

John R. Shaw13-Mar-20 7:46

John R. Shaw

13-Mar-20 7:46

Damn, I did not think of that. A recruiter called me yesterday about a 6 month contact to hire in a part of the country I will never move too (medical issue since age 20, and other reasons). I automatically turned them down.

I forgot how many jobs I have had that allowed me to work remotely - usually after a trail period.

I think I should call them back, because I am one of the few people that is actually qualified for the position.

In reality, most of the original members of CP qualify.

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Jalapeno Bob13-Mar-20 7:50

Jalapeno Bob

13-Mar-20 7:50

I wish I had his problems. Boo-hoo....

Buy a coffee machine, or at least a $1.59 drip funnel.....

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PIEBALDconsult13-Mar-20 8:00

PIEBALDconsult

13-Mar-20 8:00

Sooo... even if he learned how to squeeze the coffee beans, he still wouldn't know how to milk the almonds?

Mark_Wallace13-Mar-20 11:51

13-Mar-20 11:51

PIEBALDconsult wrote:
Sooo... even if he learned how to squeeze the coffee beans, he still wouldn't know how to milk the almonds?

I'd be a bit hesitant there myself -- I mean, squeezing boobies is a lot of fun, to be sure, but I wouldn't want to get all turned around and start squeezing beans.

... Although I could name a few people whose beans I wouldn't mind crushing.

I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!

dandy7213-Mar-20 8:43

13-Mar-20 8:43

I smell a procrastinator.

I've been working from home for nearly 13 years now and wouldn't trade it for the world. I'm betting this guy's just hiding behind this excuse and in reality he's the type who stops by every cubicle and doesn't start his day until 10.

If you have no discipline whatsoever, then yeah, working from home might not be for you.

PIEBALDconsult13-Mar-20 9:56

PIEBALDconsult

13-Mar-20 9:56

dandy72 wrote:
If you have no discipline whatsoever, then yeah, working from home might not be for you.

Yup, that's me. I'm self-distracting.

Mark_Wallace13-Mar-20 12:10

13-Mar-20 12:10

So your beans obviously need grinding.

I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!

Mark_Wallace13-Mar-20 11:47

13-Mar-20 11:47

Bang on.

It's not that hard to say "OK, now I have to put the nose to the grindstone", and then actually do it.

I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!

Gary R. Wheeler13-Mar-20 14:55

Gary R. Wheeler

13-Mar-20 14:55

Good

ing grief. Buy a coffeemaker ($20 at WalMart), some coffee, and make your own you helpless twit.

The only time I bought regularly at a Starbucks was on a business trip when the hotel didn't have a continental breakfast and the restaurants weren't convenient to the job site.

Software Zen: delete this;

Amazing fact

W∴ Balboos, GHB13-Mar-20 5:41

13-Mar-20 5:41

With 14,472,358 members, roughly 0.2% of the world are members of CP.

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"The difference between genius and stupidity is that genius has its limits." - Albert Einstein
"If you are searching for perfection in others, then you seek disappointment. If you seek perfection in yourself, then you will find failure." - Balboos HaGadol Mar 2010

Mark_Wallace13-Mar-20 5:46

13-Mar-20 5:46

Maybe, but don't forget that 20% of members were created as sock puppets, for the soapbox.

I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!

lopatir13-Mar-20 5:49

lopatir

13-Mar-20 5:49

You forgot to discount the spambots, that figure will drop a lot!

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ZurdoDev13-Mar-20 6:02

ZurdoDev

13-Mar-20 6:02

How many will be infected with the Corona Virus?

Social Media - A platform that makes it easier for the crazies to find each other.

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John R. Shaw13-Mar-20 7:31

John R. Shaw

13-Mar-20 7:31

Interesting! Without doing that math, that would mean that ~0.0001 percent might actually know what they are doing. Who wants to do a statistical analysis of CP to determine the percentage of people who know what they are doing and those that are just here to pick their brains.

I want to say 10/90, but it is probably closer to 1/99.

DRHuff13-Mar-20 8:29

DRHuff

13-Mar-20 8:29

I’ll do the analysis for you!
...
Plz send codez!

If you can't laugh at yourself - ask me and I will do it for you.

dandy7213-Mar-20 8:36

13-Mar-20 8:36

If I'm to believe these guys, there should be (or should have been) around 26.4M developers worldwide in 2019.

So nearly 2/3 have an account here?

Yeah, I think there might be a few redundant ones.

I know: Let's see who's actually active. Everyone who reads this message, upvote it. I'll post the total in a few days... Roll eyes | :rolleyes:

W∴ Balboos, GHB13-Mar-20 8:40

13-Mar-20 8:40

dandy72 wrote:
I'll post the total in a few days...

That is referring to your total Reputation Points, of course.

How do they even count programmers? Schooling? What about self-taught (a lot). Employment? What about those who do it for pleasure alone?

I feel so used - exploiting my post to bugger the lounge for a surreptitious reputation boosts.*

* wish I had thought of it.

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"The difference between genius and stupidity is that genius has its limits." - Albert Einstein
"If you are searching for perfection in others, then you seek disappointment. If you seek perfection in yourself, then you will find failure." - Balboos HaGadol Mar 2010

dandy7213-Mar-20 8:47

13-Mar-20 8:47

Don't worry, I'll diligently subtract whatever miserly few points I already had when starting this.

raddevus13-Mar-20 9:14

raddevus

13-Mar-20 9:14

I upvoted. Please count me because I rarely count and am often picked last. Roll eyes | :rolleyes:

dandy7214-Mar-20 2:21

14-Mar-20 2:21

Ok. Total after 17h and 43m: 1.

See? Not only do you count, but you're unique on top of that.

Thought of the Day

OriginalGriff13-Mar-20 5:40

OriginalGriff

13-Mar-20 5:40

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Re: Thought of the Day

W∴ Balboos, GHB13-Mar-20 5:43