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###CEO guy rants about job hoppers
What are "job hoppers"?
If youâre 30 and have had 6 jobs since college youâre 98% likely to be a job hopper. Youâre probably disloyal. You donât have staying power. Youâre in it more for yourself than your company.
What heartles monster would put his own interests ahead of the company's!?
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Hmm. I'm not thirty and I haven't had more than two jobs since College. Well, guess I dodged a bullet there, huh?
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What heartles monster would put his own interests ahead of the company's!?
If it's just sometimes, it's no big deal. If you're the kind of person who sticks around for 6â12 months and then moves on, the company's probably not going to get all that much useful work out of you and you're effectively a liability to them (as it takes several months for people to start being effective in a role). After all, if they can instead hire someone else who'll probably hang around for 3â5 years, that saves a lot of fussing around with hiring and training replacements; the costs in that regard will be around a fifth even with perfect hiring (i.e., compare 9 months as an average employment time vs 42 months) and hiring is never perfect.
But that's from the CEO's perspective. That's not the worker bees' perspective.
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But that's from the CEO's perspective. That's not the worker bees' perspective.
Yeah, that's why the article is interesting.
Gives you an insight into a completely different perspective, that's just as valid as your own.
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huh..... '86-06-02
had five jobs since college.
two were retail jobs i had during college and kept going weekends only for a while to earn some extra spending cash, one is a still extant volunteer position for a local robotics team. one i was with the company 3 years (2.5 of which were while i was still in college) and then corporate politics nuked the satellite office i was working at and i declined to relocate to Seattle to stay with the company. and the last one i'm still at and not planning on leaving any time soon.
not exactly a job hopper.... am i the two percent?
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not exactly a job hopper...
Not at all. I'm even less of a job hopper than virtually everyone else (having been over 20 years in my current job) but working in a large firm for a long time is not necessarily the same as working in a small one for many years.
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This was interesting
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still extant volunteer position for a local robotics team
My team kinda forgot about me...
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My team kinda forgot about me...
US FIRST Team 58, The Riot Crew.
What's your team number?
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What's your team number?
1290, Wolfgang Robotics, though team name may have changed, it's been a while.
Heck, it seems I've been away so long my login at chiefdelphi was deleted...
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1290, Wolfgang Robotics
Arizona, no?
wrong part of the country for me to be very familliar with them, but i know the name.
a good team from what i hear, but they don't use nearly enough baltic birch. (we use a lot of wood in our robots. flexible, very light for how strong it is, and easy to work and repair on the fly)
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Yep!
Yes, I've been out of touch, but one year the robot had to be rebuilt on the fly, and it ended up being made of PVC pipe, some kind of vine fencing, and a few pieces of wood. Not a typical situation though. ;)
Good times.
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Yep!
one year the robot had to be rebuilt on the fly, and it ended up being made of PVC pipe, some kind of vine fencing, and a few pieces of wood.
ah yes. i know many teams that have had to completely rebuild after their first match. they tend to be the rookie or second year teams, but occasionally even twenty year veteren teams have a robot fail so catastrophically they need to build a whole new one while at competition
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itch.io is a simple way to find and share indie games online for free.
Fodder for @blakeyrat, as if he needed more.
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These sorts of sites really annoy me. They remind me so much of the shit done by our first year students, aimed at a dumb target without a real business plan and with irritating designâŚ
But at least the site didn't crash when I scrolled to the bottom, so it's got one up on Discourse!
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Also, a non sequitur name and an .io domain. Instant million dollar startup!
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YOU BETTER FUCKING HOPE THAT'S NOT A SPOILER MUTHERFUCKER
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It's based on the old movies, you're safe
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[spoiler]
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oh, you haven't seen it yet?
UNLIMITED POWER!!!!
BWAHAHAHAHAHAHAH
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oh, you haven't seen it yet?
UNLIMITED POWER!!!!BWAHAHAHAHAHAHAH
I'm still balancing on a sharp edge between disinterest and the danger of being spoiled.
I'll see if I can catch an early projection tomorrow, just to get it over with.
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it's a good movie. i wasn't going to see it so soon, but a friend invited me, so i had no excuse
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i wasn't going to see it so soon, but a friend invited me, so i had no excuse
Engine chuckles.
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Company I was with in 2009 was recommending our clients do that THEN. I mean it all depends.
But if you're a retailer who gets the majority of your hits directly to product pages, then yes, it's moronic to spend a lot of time optimizing and working on your homepage and instead you should spend effort to make each product's page a home page.
At least the dumb concept of the "landing page" is mostly dead.
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##Choosing an http status code
Cool flowcharts for REST developers wondering which status code to return.
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wondering
Why this guy spent time booting a VM for demonstration of the ancientiety of the RFC document:
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That's one of the most cogent descriptions I've seen. I'll distribute it to my cow-orkers in the new year once I start telling them that their Rails app is a steaming PoS⌠againâŚ
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##Choosing an http status code
http.catCool flowcharts for REST developers wondering which status code to return.
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Cool flowcharts for REST developers wondering which status code to return.
Soon it'll have to be amended with 451 Unavailable For Legal Reasons.
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Ray Bradbury, author of Fahrenheit 451.
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Soon it'll have to be amended with 451 Unavailable For Legal Reasons.
The status code should include body text explaining the reason for the takedown. I like the example text:
Unavailable For Legal Reasons
This request may not be serviced in the Roman Province
of Judea due to the Lex Julia Majestatis, which disallows
access to resources hosted on servers deemed to be
operated by the Peopleâs Front of Judea.Yes, the Monty Python reference is in the actual (draft) RFC. :)
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Monty Python and Office Space should be required watching for IT professionals
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one of these days i'll ctually watch the other 50% of that list.
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###The most misleading charts of 2015, fixed
These guys take some of the most misleading charts used during 2015 and fix them.
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That site manages to load new articles via Infiniscroll without fucking up the scrollbar or the browser history.
It Just Worksâ˘.
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Chromebook is a tablet
A tablet without a touch screen that has a hinge and a keyboard and a trackpad and USB ports? I think the word you're looking for is "laptop". Or maybe "computer".
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I think the word you're looking for is "laptop"
A laptop with just a browser, I think netbook is a better word :)
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The Top 10 Self-Referential Links of 2015:
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The top 10 Self-Referential Quotes of 2015:
@ben_lubar said:The top 10 Self-Referential Quotes of 2015:
@Lorne_Kates said:The Top 10 Self-Referential Links of 2015:
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you replied to your post from within the post
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...pray he doesn't self reference it any further.
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18 posts were split to a new topic: Cheney Lied People Pied
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##Does the Blockchain fit well into the American legal system?
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I would put it this way. Next time you sign a contract with a corporation, try making them the following offer. You will pay two percent more (or receive two percent less), but if a prespecified set of seventeen yaks, distributed at various points around the globe, all sneeze at exactly the same time, and can be photographed with a time stamp when doing so, the corporation is to send you ten million dollars no further questions asked. By the way, they could sneeze in tandem three years from now and still you would get the money.See how far you get. See if it matters whether they accept your argument that this is a very low probability event.
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Article about writing descriptions for spells in a game that is known to be extremely cryptic and mysterious. The level of complexity that the game has is mind-boggling.
Youâre instantly sent to the realm of the ice devils and it means certain death. It has a definite game use: itâs basically an insta-kill battlefield spell that counters powerful monsters with high magic resistance. (Hence the âcannot be resistedâ text.) It requires a lot of research, so it wonât make an appearance until the later, cataclysmic stages of the game. Despite my years of playing the game, Iâve never had anyone cast it.
So I wrote off the flavor text âcertain death for most mortalsâ as just a bit of flourish. I mean, itâs just descriptive flavor text, right? Bottom line is that the spells kills the target. Except thatâs a mistake that you or I might make based on a lifetime of playing strategy games with the irrelevant lore of the lizardmen who donât use vowels and whose backstory for all gameplay purposes ends at the first tutorial screen. Because in the case of Claws of Kokytos, Iâm pretty sure that immortal beings (a class of units in the game) are immune to this spell. And the fact that it says âcertain death for most mortalsâ means that it doesnât mean this for all of them. Because when I was going through the spell effects with Johan, I learned that if you are banished to Kokytos, there is actually a very small chance that you will return.
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