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Since I became self employed I have embraced Mondays and feared Fridays.
Monday means two things to the self employed:
5 days to finish the puzzles that are dropped on my desk and a new week of financial potential.
Fridays mean I have one day to wrap it all up or someones gonna be less than enamored
with me and there are two days of sitting around making no money or headway.
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I remember the self employed days differently, Monday I could start chasing the invoices (not my favourite pastime) and filling the work funnel, Fridays I could look forward to 2 days of productive work actually earning some money.
The only great thing was that I worked from home 95% of the time and could take time out to hassle the kids on a regular basis.
Never underestimate the power of human stupidity
RAH
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Even those who work in places that promote the ideals of autonomy and intrinsic motivation often find that over time, things change for the worse. Why does this happen? I’ll let someone else ask the inevitable counter-question
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They start growing pointy hair
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They've always told me it's because they're victims; well at least half.
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From the article:
Phil Haack said: In many cases, it may not even be a conscious choice.
That probably accounts for 99.9% of it all.
No conscious thought.
I've worked at a great many small, medium, large companies.
Try asking any one of those managers...
"Hey, what's the last book you read to learn about people and/or leadership?"
99% of the time...
Manager :  <Cue the crickets!!>
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They lack a "best before..." sticker?
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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Kent Sharkey wrote: I’ll let someone else ask the inevitable counter-question
I assume that would be "Why do managers start bad?"
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That would be it, yes. And thank you.
TTFN - Kent
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A new survey reveals that 76 percent of employees say they experience regular password usage problems and more than a third need password-related help desk support at least once every month. Your password should consist of 8-12 letters, 2.5 numbers, a symbol, and at least one unspeakable horror beyond nightmare
Or everyone could just use that one from xkcd everywhere
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A yuuge improvement would be extremely simple and highly effective; stop making up new nonsense-rules and allow ALL text as a password.
Even official sites who deny using a password simply because its "too long" (serious? having storage problems and trying to save a few bytes or what?) or it contains non-ASCII characters.
Bastard Programmer from Hell 
If you can't read my code, try converting it here[^]
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Eddy Vluggen wrote: who deny using a password simply because its "too long"
What you want every password field to be varchar(max)! and every form to be the width of the page/view 
Never underestimate the power of human stupidity
RAH
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Mycroft Holmes wrote: and every form to be the width of the page/view
In Windows 3 there was this great invention called the "textbox". It can hold more text than it can display, so no need for page-wide inputfields.
Bastard Programmer from Hell
If you can't read my code, try converting it here[^]
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"Your password should consist of 8-12 letters, 2.5 numbers, a symbol, and at least one unspeakable horror beyond nightmare."
That is too funny. Is it original or taken from somewhere else?
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I think it was the official Royal Bank password rules last time I looked. 
No, that was just my fetid brain again.
TTFN - Kent
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Google, Twitter and Facebook workers who helped make technology so addictive are disconnecting themselves from the internet. Do as we sell, not as we do?
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A scene in the most recent episode of Star Trek: Discovery finds main character Michael Burnham set to work debugging some mysterious computer code. I hear Windows 2256 just isn't as user friendly as Windows 7
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It's commented out anyway. It seems like an export table of Kernel32.dll. But gives us hope of backward compatibility in coming years.
!false - It's funny, because it's true
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The future is doomed. On the plus side, the Borg can never assimilate us.
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The Equifax breach is the latest example of attackers targeting open-source software in the enterprise. Given enough eyeballs, all hacks are easy?
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For programmers and software developers, the Internet forums provide a great place to exchange knowledge and seek answers to concrete coding conundrums. Alas, they are not always the source of accurate information. You can't trust the codez plz?
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Rather than storing lithium, the metal safely coats the asphalt surface. "Crushing all deceivers, mashing non-believers, never ending potency"
Not sure why my brain went there, maybe due to road rage?
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The days of software packages are coming to an end. Say hello to what JFrog co-founder and chief architect Fred Simon calls “liquid software.” Yeah, who needs software that just installs when you can try to assemble it all yourself from badly matched components?
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