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Never give them food after midnight.
Never put in contact with water.
Never expose to sunlight.
reminds me something 
Patrice
“Everything should be made as simple as possible, but no simpler.” Albert Einstein
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Developers. 
"Bright light! Bright light!"
"These people looked deep within my soul and assigned me a number based on the order in which I joined."
- Homer
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A new Code of Practice grants all employees the right to stop checking their work laptops and phones outside of agreed working hours. Disco-whatnow?
As goes Ireland, so goes the world?
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Ooops... was a code of practice needed for that? 
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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Unpaid work outside the agreed-upon hours? And people agree to that?
Also never seen an emergency in workforce like that; things get called emergencies quickly, and they often exist due to poor planning. Deadlines that aren't realistic, because the salesperson cut it to get a contract, that kind of stuff. That's not an emergency, that's making a choice - and then shifting the burden to devs.
Or using code in production that isn't ready for production, where the customer is screaming fire; Well, apologize the next day and stop using pre-production code.
If I was a surgeon, yes, there'd be emergencies. Anything that is not life threathening can wait 
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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At the Fish Shoppe(tm) there are some groups that seem to pride themselves on all being online and working late into the night, every night. Those that didn't got pressured out (team or company). I never understood that mentality.
TTFN - Kent
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They competing against their coworkers, using the "hard working" thing as virtue (as helpful as being a virgin is a virtue). If the PHB don't like you, you're out, they reason. My mother competes in a similar way, saying that the younger ones are preferred if she doesn't work harder. It's an unspoken bluff.
I'm not hired because I'm liked, but because I'm skilled. And those skills need downtime. Even if they didn't, it is not in my bloody contract, and often unpaid.
And if unpaid, it's a scam.
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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Quote: and equally, workers should respect others' right to disconnect, by refraining from emailing or calling colleagues outside of agreed working times.
I almost wish they tried to make this mandatory instead of voluntary just for all the lulz that would come from blowing up the ability to function as a multi-national office or the use of offshore teams when you've got two groups with non-overlapping work days.
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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New research recasts silence as a productive force, one that results in more satisfying outcomes for both parties during bargaining.
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(wind moves the dry bale across the street)
(somewhere hidden sounds a mouth harp "ui ui uuuu, ui uuuu, ui ui uuuu, ui uuuuuu....)
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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Oh blimey, I thought they meant 'proper' silence, i.e. a strategic delay in responding to a negotiation offer. Such a delay (that is to say an appreciable fraction of a minute, or longer, in face to face discussions or hours in online written discussions) can be very powerful but it can go either way: It can either make one's opponent uncomfortable and be willing to improve their position OR it can result in them assuming that you are no longer interested and just walking away. You have to know how and when to do it and it's not an easy skill.
But I see that they are referring to face to face discussions and the kind of 'delay' they are talking about is only "three to nine seconds". This is barely a delay at all. It's merely taking a breath. Don't we all do that anyway, even when aroused?
They say that "pausing for at least three seconds before speaking allows parties time to respond with more meaningful rebuttals and counter argument" which is entirely true. But it's a normal pause. It's not really strategic in the sense I've witnessed it.
They also say that "The study also punctures the notion that keeping mum is a power move meant to make your opponent uncomfortable." This is over-simplistic. A "three to nine seconds" delay is not going to do anything to put your opponent off his stride! If you are aiming to make your opponent uncomfortable then the delay in responding needs to be long enough to be noticeably abnormal. "Three to nine seconds" isn't it. And, as I say, doing it successfully is difficult and requires skill. You have to be willing to actually annoy your opponent.
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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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Eddy Vluggen wrote: ...
What, WHAT? Tell me, I want to know. I'll agree to anything, just tell me.
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[..]
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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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Max Hodak says it could try to ‘generate novel diversity’ but the task has puzzled scientists for years He's too preoccupied with whether they could
(And I think he's way off on even the 'could' part)
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What would humanity, or even life on Earth, possibly gain from the revival of the dinosaurs?
(And I'm with you on the 'could' issue)
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'm not a biologist, but my daughter is. Introducing more 'energy' into an ecosystem that gives every appearance of beginning to oscillate isn't going to end well.
Software Zen: delete this;
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The experts agree this Supreme Court decision was a victory for developers and open-source software. The "man on the street" edition
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For some of us—isolates, happy in the dark—code is therapy, an escape and a path to hope in a troubled world. "Come on get down with the sickness"
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Quote: The Healing Power of JavaScript
If you're a sadomasochist.
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Marc Clifton wrote: Quote: The Healing Power of JavaScript
If you're a sadomasochist.
🎶 🎶 Oh I ache for the touch of your lips my dear. 🎶 🎶
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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Kent Sharkey wrote: "Come on get down with the sickness"
Best. Music. Reference. Ever!
Software Zen: delete this;
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Microsoft has released an open-source cyberattack simulator that allows security researchers and data scientists to create simulated network environments and see how they fare against AI-controlled cyber agents. "A strange game. The only winning move is not to play. How about a nice game of chess?"
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Across many experiments, participants tried to fix problems by adding stuff. "All problems in computer science can be solved by another level of indirection"
Technically the article isn't about dev work, but really - you know you do it. {waggles finger}
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Huh. Perhaps this is a problem for the newbies, but we *cough* more mature(*) *cough* developers often find a solution in refactoring that reduces the amount of code.
An example from earlier in the week:
I had several spots in my product that needed a common feature added. These spots were all explicitly coded, rather than being a single function with arguments, because they weren't complex enough to be worth the indirection. Adding the common feature changed that calculation. I replace around 200 lines of explicit code with calls to a 30 line function. This had the advantage that once I had the function working, it worked everywhere. I didn't have to test the common feature in several locations.
(*) aka old farts
Software Zen: delete this;
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