Managers may not seriously consider new options when they think you're saying "tuh-mah-toh" while the status quo is saying "tuh-mey-toh." Unfortunately, the status quo will sometimes really mean "excrement sandwich" and your cries of "No! Take the ham & cheese!" will be equally ignored.
You may know 2*5=10 but there are more who figure 1+3+4-6+7-8+9=10 and are willing to work for less.
Please join me in my efforts to support the American Heart Association. For your generous contribution I will join a mob of 10k strangers in a social setting I would normally go out of my way to avoid.
But we want a man hag-ridden by the Future -- haunted by visions of an imminent heaven or hell upon earth -- ready to break the Enemy's commands in the present if by so doing we make him think he can attain the one or avert the other -- dependent for his faith on the success or failure of schemes whose end he will not live to see.
Algore or Screwtape? You decide.
slacker's paradox --
time slips through his fingers slowly;
wasted time seen pass.
Is it funny how some capitalist ventures' IT strategy resembles Soviet central planning?
Comrade, we need Project X.
Certainly. Based on the amorphous description I could get of Project X I'll say that it'll take 60 days and $4000 to implement.
No, comrade, you have 10 days and $0. Do not let us down comrade, the fate of the empire rests on you making this look like it works.
That sounds serious. It'll look done in 10 days.
A week after delivery...
Comrade, we need Project XY.
Yes, but we never got Project X really working so it's hard to build XY on top of that. How about you give me 90 days and $6000 to get the whole thing done right?
Comrade, your jesting is not appreciated. We have already sung the praises of Project X to the General Secretary. He expects Project XY next week for $0. The fate of the empire depends on it looking finished.
A developer's catch-22: Conceiving new solutions requires contemplating unintended consequences and deploying systems that can gracefully recover from those issues that could not be anticipated.
A tough sell to management: Iterative Incremental Improvements.
I signed up for a del.icio.us account soon after hearing about it on Slashdot. The free service bills itself as "a social bookmarks manager." You manage your bookmarks by publicly posting your bookmarks and descriptions to your del.icio.us page and RSS feed. The social component comes from your bookmarks being automatically cross referenced against all other bookmarks that have been entered into del.icio.us by other users. This lets you find bookmarks from other users whom you may share a common bookmark with. In theory, people with similar interests may have found something of interest to you that you haven't come across yet.
While this great concept might have made me an account holder as soon as I heard of it, it did not get me to use it. That is, until my recent house cleaning at a soon-to-be previous employer. I found myself in need of a convenient way to catalogue the bookmarks I'd gathered across multiple browsers on multiple platforms. Once I started collecting them on del.icio.us I even recalled some pages where I'd squirreled away links deemed too transitory and unworthy for my browsers' built-in bookmark managers. At this point my del.icio.us page consists of 20 items culled from abandoned workstations. The social coincidences and the RSS feed should keep me adding to it in the future.
A. Delgado will be changing day jobs in 2 weeks -- more to come.
I've decided to start a service available only to close friends in possession of $50 plus the price of their meal(s). A beta test of the service, tentatively titled "S&S Run," was conducted earlier this month.
The $50 service fee covers me driving to a Steak & Shake and purchasing meals chosen off their online menu. Payment of the service fee plus the cost of the meal(s) is due upon delivery. The service area is presently restricted between Atlantic Boulevard to the south and Gateway Boulevard to the north. Contact me anytime after zero hour on Monday and not later than 2000 hours Saturday night if you wish to avail yourself of this exciting new convenience in fast food consumption.
There's this guy at work trying to teach himself C. He looks up to me like I know what I'm talking about so when he asked for a suggestion on a "hacker name" I suggested he go by cmd!found then I proceeded to show him how to execute his gcc compiled helloworld.c binary.
After three days of subjecting my body to the punishment that comes with fatherhood three times over and extended family Christmas visits I decided reliving my high school C days would be therapeutic. Below is my ode to keeping myself busy during a lull in my work day -- thinly work related, rejuvenating and educational.
#include <stdio.h>int
main( )
{
int heightFeet;
int heightInches;
float weightPounds;
float heightMeters;
float weightKilograms;
float bmi;
printf( "Please enter the feet portion of your height: " );
scanf( "%d", &heightFeet );
printf( "Please enter the inches portion of your height: " );
scanf( "%d", &heightInches );
printf( "Please enter your weight in pounds: " );
scanf( "%f", &weightPounds );
heightMeters = ( ( heightFeet * 12 ) + heightInches ) * 0.0254;
weightKilograms = weightPounds * 0.4535923;
bmi = weightKilograms / ( heightMeters * heightMeters );
printf( "\n\nYour Body Mass Indicator (%f kg / %f m^2) is %f.\n\n", weightKilograms, heightMeters, bmi );
return( 0 );
}