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Or "Much ado about nothing"
Or just "Silly me"
Well, last evenin I was very fed up with my fancy iPhone 8, that I got from my job. I alway liked the smaller form factor of iphone5 more. "I dont really need an ipad in my pocket". So... I find this small hole in the wall shop with a gentleman of distinctly oriental looking gentleman. ("we all know what orientals are like, eh?") Hello, gimme an iphone 5S please. Sure here you are. That'l be 150. Ok thanks, bye. Walking back from the shop, may five six blocks away I discover that "bloody hell, he gave me a 5SE  " run back, despite having closed he is still on the premises. "Oi! You gave me a 5SE, not 5S!" "Oh, but the SE is much better" "No it isnt!" "Yes it is" "No give me a 5S" "Thank you for bringing it back" "Yeye whatevva! You have a 5S?" "Yes sure, here you are" "Thanks" "And thank you for bringing it back" "Yeye". Back home I check. The 5SE was indeed a better phone. Same form factor but better CPU etc. 
"If we don't change direction, we'll end up where we're going"
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"To phone or not to phone" as Shakespeare would say 
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Are you saying that a sage man like Trump is wrong, and that you can sometimes trust Asians?
Well, OK, but there's no way he's wrong about Muslims. A great man like that couldn't be wrong twice.
I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!
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I have to covfefe.
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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No problem -- as long as you clean up, afterward.
I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!
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"The customer is always right" - even when he's being an idiot! 
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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Wise words from a true Griffter!
"If we don't change direction, we'll end up where we're going"
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Going from one person per less than a square meter with about 16 people crammed in a tiny room to one person per about two to three square meters with twelve in a bigger room.
In the previous workplace less than half the people didn't have a decent monitor, half the monitors were a crappy 1280x1024 and half the people didn't even have a monitor at all. It was mostly just working on a laptop.
At the new place everyone gets the same good monitor with additional mouse and keyboard and a docking station for easy setup.
I actually got some work done at work today 
Pretty cool, feels like I can work from home a lot less now...
Nah, I'll still work from home as much as possible
But man, don't underestimate the value of a good workplace.
I wouldn't be surprised if the company lost tens of thousands in lost productivity in the crappy old workplace.
The new place is pretty much what I was used to before this (and I've still had a lot better), but right now it feels like workplace heaven, I guess all the complaining helped
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In my case, I have decent equipment and budget for more. My problem is I have an absolutely horrible desk with not enough room for everything I want to have on it.
I am glad that things have improved for you. 
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Rick York wrote: not enough room for everything I want to have on it
I like to have as few on my desk as possible.
Laptop, one or two big monitors, keyboard and mouse, and preferably a little extra space for a notebook which I use occasionally.
And at the end of the day it all goes in my bag and back home (except the monitor(s), keyboard and mouse) 
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I would like three or four monitors plus the notebook. I now have two monitors plus the notebook and there is no room for anything else. I will be getting another computer fairly soon so it will a challenge to figure out what to do.
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Rick York wrote: not enough room for everything I want to have on it.
Is there even such a thing?
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Yes, the desk I previously had was just right with lots of room. I had to change desks and it was a huge step down.
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I always demand a corner office or nothing.
No prizes for guessing which I normally get.
I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!
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I demand the role of CEO or nothing.
Unfortunately, I know how to tie my own shoelaces, which makes me overqualified for most CEO jobs
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Sander Rossel wrote: Going from one person per less than a square meter with about 16 people crammed in a tiny room to one person per about two to three square meters with twelve in a bigger room.
Where is your workplace? Calcutta?
When I see that kind of space/person, the movie Soylent Green comes to mind.*
*I have 20-25 m2 office with an occasional room-mate. Even the clerks at their cubbies have about 2 m2 for the desktop. If I'm not mistaken, even a prison cell has more space than you currently get at your improved location.
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W∴ Balboos wrote: I have 20-25 m2 office with an occasional room-mate
That's a luxury not many of us get (although that's how I started).
I guess I have a little more than three square meters, depending on which desk I sit at.
At least the room is pretty spacious, so it's not as claustrophobic as my old workplace (which was really just horrible).
Today I was sitting next to the cutest girl in the office, so I kind of wanted the one square meter back 
W∴ Balboos wrote: If I'm not mistaken, even a prison cell has more space than you currently get at your improved location
But those people have to live there, I only have to write code there 
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When we first moved in to our new building, everyone had 10x10 (feet) cubicles. After a period of increased hiring, we were running out of room, so they downsized all of the cubicles to 7x10 feet.
Almost immediately the company started having financial difficulties, and began laying people off.
After several years of layoff happening every 6-9 months, my floor of about 60 cubicles has only about 20 occupied.
No one has bothered suggesting re-upsizing the cubicles.
Software Zen: delete this;
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A cubicle sounds even worse than an open space office.
We get like 1 x 2 m desks, but at least I can look outside and talk to my coworkers.
I don't think the cubicle is a thing here in the Netherlands, I've never actually seen one anyway.
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Gary Wheeler wrote: my floor of about 60 cubicles has only about 20 occupied
Sounds like the problem solved itself then...?
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Sadly, yes.
My team has gone from 14 people down to 5. We 5 have had to assume responsibility for those 14 folks' work, along with several other smaller products for people from other groups that have been laid off as well. This has also resulted in a 'brain gap', where we have no one on staff immediately capable of debugging customer issues. We now have very slow response times, angry customers, and trips to customer sites by engineers. Of course, this reduces our pace on new products even further.
This is not a happy workplace, unless you count the gallows humor  .
Software Zen: delete this;
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I once got paid to stick around for months at a company that had been purchased by a bigger fish, and they needed someone on-site who knew our system while they transitioned to something else at their head-office.
Myself and our accountant had 6,000 square feet split amongst the two of us.
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I was reading an article on Entrepreneur.com (entrepreneur magazine) and forgot about the tab.
At first I blamed Firefox when I saw that it had eaten over 4 Gigabytes of ram and lots of CPU. 
Then I investigated more closely and closed individual tabs until I found the bad one.
See the taskmanager output here : https://i.stack.imgur.com/USEhP.png[^]
Then I decided to load up Chrome and see what would happen on that page:
It's not been loaded as long but it's at 1.2GB and climbing and eating CPU too.
https://i.stack.imgur.com/fd8vI.png[^]
I know I shouldn't expect anything better than this from a cheap magazine web site...but I do!!!
I think more sites than we expect do this kind of terrible behavior too.
Well, at least CP seems to be a good net citizen. 
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You should've used IE. 
- I would love to change the world, but they won’t give me the source code.
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