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@Bee not that I can see. I'm sure I know who and why, though. It happens often when I get into a disagreement on another stack, I get a sudden rash of down-votes. Obviously, with my rep it has no effect, but it's amusing to see how vindictive people are.
@Bee people tend to love or hate my posts. I don't get a "meh" reaction, EVER, LOL!
@Bee Human pettiness has never ceased to amaze me. Personally, if I could make 10 dollars, and my worst enemy made 20, I'd take the 10 and wish him well.
I would never give anyone enough power to make me hate them.
@Richard absolutely, cutting off ones nose to spite ones face is never a good idea
I try to not be petty either
I've always wanted to learn Python, I missed out on sign ups to the course in my final year of uni. Stuck only knowing R & MatLab until I taught myself a couple of others
@Bee so far, I've found python to be easy, but annoying.
@Magisch With the kinds of hell I've been through in this life, it takes quite a bit for me to get offended or to hold a grudge, I'd rather be done with people I don't like
@Bee My anger takes the form of what is called a "dry rage", which means, I just don't care anymore, and the person is dead to me.
Anyone here particularly familiar with DB technologies?
I'm trying to decide which technology to use for a personal project that I'd like to take commercial. I'm most familiar with SQL Server, and it has great integration with the .NET stack, is integrated with Docker, but it's expensive.
I once had a white van man overtake me when I was on my bike despite me having moved into the centre of the road and singled in plenty of time. It was only that last "save your life" check over my right shoulder (UK) which... saved my life
I'm already using Mongo for some unstructured storage data; should I just use that? It too is free.
@Bee Must've been scary. That's one of my biggest fears as a driver--having a motorcycle do that to me.
Where I check my mirrors, they move up next to me, on my side of their lane, and I don't see them when I check my blindspot over my shoulder because they aren't far enough up.
I didn't do anything wrong, he just was in too much of a rush to wait until I had turned off, as I said, I pulled into the centre of the road and was signalling to turn off
I know horses are dangerous just because they are big and fast, but they are (usually) pretty lazy and sedate, and there's an accident, it's almost always the person's fault.
If I were to try, I'd work on first building trust so she'd trust me, then gradually exposing her from a bit of a distance and moving closer, like you would with plastic bags/cars/etc.
My trainer is working with a gelding who was abused at the racetrack.
He's a very high-strung horse; he's had him for several years now, and he's still scared of plastic bags.
If you go out to catch him in the herd, he still moves away the first time you try to approach him.
He's probably the most dangerous horse I've been around, since he's so skittish.
He doesn't mean any harm, but he's so big (compared to us), and he can't control himself.
He also loves to trot/run.
He has no idea of a fast walk. Either he's half-asleep or he moves into a trot.
So he's been trained to move at a slow trot at the other horses' walking pace.
Once I get my girl doing good on the trails (good as in being able to completely control her with my legs--no hands), I'll probably teach her barrels and some jumping and maybe cutting.
@Bee Not too much. No horn on the English saddle, and a lot of the commands are backward.
Like, English will ask them to move into the cue, while Western will usually ask them to move away from the cue.
e.g. neckreining. English (from what I've read--no practical knowledge here) will turn toward the side you touch with the neck, while western will turn away from that side.
Western has the horn on the saddle to tie a rope too, so you can rope an animal. It originates from the cowhands in the western US. English originates more from fancy riding by the nobility in Europe.
There's also a lesser known style from the south american cowboys. I don't know much about that, other than it exists and is somewhat similar to Western because of the nature of the job.
@Magisch Thank you. I like SQL Server because it is just basically the best DB out there (info from an IBM employee who didn't really like MS products), but it's also super expensive.
I'm leaning towards Postgres or Maria ATM since they are cheap/free, which is pretty important for a startup to cut costs.
some SAAS products like datev (a german payroll processing software) deliver mssql server with their products, but these are expensive pieces of software
My current plan is hosted on Azure or AWS with docker.
My plan is 1+ of each microservice website, and N+ of each microservice DBs, and they use unique tokens to know which DB to access.
So, I might have 3 clients, and 1 web instance of microservice A would handle requests from all three but use 3 different DBs, depending on the request's client.
@motosubatsu Just because you're passing the licensing cost on, you still want to low for a lower cost solution. Especially with a start up, a lot of clients will be initially signing up to use that product because it's lower cost than the high profile competitors
@Hosch250 yeah that way things would get real expensive real fast if you were having multiple containers per client, an explicit license on a VM would work out quite a bit cheaper
I mean they are all along the same lines (we all submitted at pretty much the same time) so I can only assume one person went on and just didn't like all three
@MisterPositive @RichardSaysReinstateMonica @motosubatsu After being sent an e-commerse link to a dell laptop that could become my work laptop I sent a text to my new employer asking if the dell xps was available (i.e. could be my new work laptop). He hasn't yet responded to this text. Does my request for a top range laptop come across in a bad light? And should I send a follow up text asking again whether the dell xps was an option for my work laptop?
First. I wouldn't ask for an upgrade unless you can provide argue that it explicitly will benefit the business. For example, a 10" with 4GB of RAM is going to be much more difficult to work with than a 15" with 8GB+. BTDT.
But don't just ask for a "newer" computer with the same specs--it just costs money for basically no value.
On the other hand, it's not too bad that you asked, either--he may be asking if that computer will work with their systems before he responds to you, and it's really not that much more expensive.
I see. May be he just wanted to show me what the laptop I may be getting looks like, because I remember him saying that they are standardizing dell laptops due to easier management of technical support
I'm just saying this because I got a glimpse of what it takes to get a new computer myself. We were running old, slow, small Dell laptops at my last job, and the entire IT department asked for better ones.
And management was like "a computer is a computer" and we had to explicitly point out how ours were suboptimal for developers to work with.
And yes, that was part of it--all the computers in the company were the same, and when one broke, they'd send it back to their supplier and get a replacement.
And they all had the same specs so they knew their basic image would work, not be surprised by wrong driver versions, etc.
After several years and we needed virtualization support. We had encryption software that wouldn't let it enable it anyway, so they needed to buy new computers either way.
They ended up spending just over $1k on each computer with the upgrade. My personal computer, on the other hand, cost over $2k. It's a much nicer computer, especially since I actually do use it as a laptop, but I honestly can't say it can do anything my work computer couldn't--so work was right to not spend that extra money.
The laptop he linked is an 8 GB mid range dell laptop with powerful specs. It's perfectly fine, I was just a bit curious because I assumed they had a batch of dell laptops available with different models and I could just select the top range dell.
Oh I almost forgot, I even asked if the laptop I would be receiving was available in black, but I made sure to mention that I'm fine with whatever colour I get
So basically, don't be picky, as long as the computer isn't hindering you from doing your job. Especially since you are new to the company and have virtually no credibility yet.
@MyWrathAcademia I've only seen black (Dell) and silver (HP) work laptops.
So, you'll probably get black :)
Actually, my XPS is silver on the outside, but black on the inside, which basically comes to being black--it's supposed to be open when you are at work :D
Note also that work computers need to be sturdier. People tend to be careless with property that they didn't buy. I knew several people at my last job who dropped their computer or spilled coffee on it.
@Hosch250 Yeah I know that. That's the same reason I'm cautious about eating out at restaurants/ takeaways because people also tend to be careless preparing food that they won't eat themselves
You always have to read it. They really aren't that bad.
They are usually about 5 pages, but a lot of it is just definitions and stuff. Like pieces that basically say "Whenever we use the term EMPLOYER it means Company X and any successors (e.g. anyone who buys us out)."
And they usually cover stuff like expected dress code, hours of business (i.e. you can't work from 6PM to 4AM), and ownership of code created on the job.
There might be a non-complete clause in there. If there is, make sure it's not ridiculous. 1 year in the same industry (not IT, but the company's industry) is reasonable (at least in my area). Make sure they don't have anything like you can't work as a web developer for a period, etc.
Non-compete clauses are a really touchy issue. I don't find it an issue because there's so much in IT, it would be harder for me to get a job in a specific industry than just looking for something good...
This one is 11 pages :0 I've not seen anything about dress code which is good or hours of buiness, but I've seen terms and conditions about ownership of code created on the job
Check for the clause that says who owns what code. Two of the contracts I've signed were just "we own any code you produce on this machine and on work time, and any code you write on your own time that directly competes with our product while you are an employee."
A third one I refused to sign without modification was "We own all code you write on a work machine or on work time and any code you write on your own machine or your own time."
That one I got modified into "I'll give you right of refusal, but if you refuse, then I can develop it on my own; if you want to develop a competing product, you can buy me out or build it from scratch based on the proposal I gave you."
Because I really don't want to deal with running a business so much as developing nice, functional software. If they wanted to handle the business side, that was fine with me.
For example: they own work made by me during working hours, in the normal course of my duties or in the normal course of my duties falling outside of my normal duties but assigned to me, or with the company's materials and/or facilities which relate to their business or in which the company is interested in.
Basically saying "anything you do for us as a software developer, or in a non-software developer role that we assign you (e.g. writing a sales doc), or with our equipment, or in our building"
True but I guess they expect your salary to be enough to cover your living expenses so earning some extra cash on the side delivering pizza is not necessary
I knew a lot of of my professors in University who owned their own companies. Some were even never in office hours because they preferred spending time at their company's office
So I don't even think company's that enforce that clause
I've just opened up the contract in google docs. Is it okay to sign the contract in google docs by typing my name or is it better to print and sign it?
You need to print it, sign it, and bring in to your first day at work. Keep a copy for yourself too.
Typing your name isn't legal because the company could just do that.
Remember with all this advice--I'm not your lawyer.
And, I'm especially not a UK lawyer.
I have basic knowledge of the US law system (a class in college going over the basic system). And the UK uses a different system.
I've looked at contract law some.
In the US, an contract dispute is ruled to be what a reasonable person would expect the contract to read given the terms.
So, you can't put a vague term in, then demand the other party do something really costly to them when a reasonable person would read that phrase in a different way.
But if there is evidence that both parties actually knew what the expensive thing was before they signed, then it's still the expensive thing even given the vague language.
Another thing is that the commencement date on the contract says 1st February but I start on Monday which is I think the 3rd of February. Sure that commencement date can't be a mistake, can it?
The email I'm responding to starts with Dear and ends with Kind regards. Is it best to mimic the senders greeting and closing by also ending my email with Kind regards or can I just use Sincerely
On most SE sites general users tend to leave an explanation explaining the reason for the down vote.
Does that not happen here?
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