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j91234 wrote: The remainder of the allotted time you give to yourself by studying something that is useful for your career all the while looking busy.
And if you work for an enlightened company (maybe Google?) you are actually given 10% or so of your time to work on whatever interests you, because an enlightened company will realize the benefit of giving employees time to learn new tech, explore other ideas, etc.
Still, it's little more than corporate slavery, since you really don't benefit from the actual profit the company makes off your work beyond a paycheck. (There, I just had to go an ruin an otherwise positive post, didn't I?)
Marc
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I've been found out! Fortunately my employer allows this!
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I always have a couple of cool things to tinker with lined up.
modified 20-Oct-19 21:02pm.
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Sometime over the weekend, Verizon added and turned on a new feature on my phone called "advanced calling".
I don't like it.
(and yes, I've already turned it off).
".45 ACP - because shooting twice is just silly" - JSOP, 2010
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You can never have too much ammo - unless you're swimming, or on fire. - JSOP, 2010
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When you pry the gun from my cold dead hands, be careful - the barrel will be very hot. - JSOP, 2013
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Weelllll, what is Advanced Calling???
If it's not broken, fix it until it is
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Just watch that they don't charge you extra for advanced calling exception services.
I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!
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it looks to be "advanced features" for HDef voice and video mail.
I'd rather be phishing!
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John Simmons / outlaw programmer wrote: Verizon added and turned on a new feature on my phone called "advanced calling".
To be followed with "Advanced Billing", "Advanced Outages", "Advanced Bandwidth Throttling", and "Advanced Support Hold Time."
Marc
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What is Advanced Calling?
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It gives you "HD" calling, which changes the way it sounds. I didn't like the change.
".45 ACP - because shooting twice is just silly" - JSOP, 2010
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You can never have too much ammo - unless you're swimming, or on fire. - JSOP, 2010
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When you pry the gun from my cold dead hands, be careful - the barrel will be very hot. - JSOP, 2013
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What, no intermediate calling option?
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Don't tell me, they've implemented tail call optimisations?
"If you don't fail at least 90 percent of the time, you're not aiming high enough."
Alan Kay.
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Are there eight Hobbits in a hobbyte?
Bad command or file name. Bad, bad command! Sit! Stay! Staaaay...
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Oi Griff! Hobbits are Shire fantasy.
... such stuff as dreams are made on
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I think you Took me too seriously: If you Burrows into the literature you find this is only a Gamgee, and anyway Hobbits are only a Proud Foot wide so they are easy to miss!
Bad command or file name. Bad, bad command! Sit! Stay! Staaaay...
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Some are several Proud Feet wide... or should that be Proud Foots?
- I would love to change the world, but they won’t give me the source code.
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Yea, some have high nippbbles and some have low nippbbles
Rules for the FOSW ![ ^]
if(this.signature != "")
{
MessageBox.Show("This is my signature: " + Environment.NewLine + signature);
}
else
{
MessageBox.Show("404-Signature not found");
}
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This has The Ring of truth to it - but it's not that exciting.
Mithril is from weirder events. For example, the other day I was Shire I Saruman barefoot, with hairy toes.
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With one Tolkien ring to bind them?
If you have an important point to make, don't try to be subtle or clever. Use a pile driver. Hit the point once. Then come back and hit it again. Then hit it a third time - a tremendous whack.
--Winston Churchill
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Tolkien Ring is so outdated; you should be using Ethereal Net!
- I would love to change the world, but they won’t give me the source code.
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May I remind you that the people of the Shire distrust new things?
If you have an important point to make, don't try to be subtle or clever. Use a pile driver. Hit the point once. Then come back and hit it again. Then hit it a third time - a tremendous whack.
--Winston Churchill
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Nice one!
The only way of discovering the limits of the possible is to venture a little way past them into the impossible.
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Why in the name of Jehovah the Plumber's Mate has no-one* thought of that before?
* By which I mean, of course, me.
I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!
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And there are 2000 in HobbiTON
Mongo: Mongo only pawn... in game of life.
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