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 Discussion on question by T. Sar: How…

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HorusKol
Sep 9, 2022 22:20
Can he pair up with the other devs?
 

 Discussion on question by einpoklum: …

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HorusKol
Mar 14, 2022 12:33
There's also space to allow the ship to transport colonists and evacuate casualties from major disasters.
HorusKol
Mar 14, 2022 12:33
@Adamant there's about 1000 crew and their family members. But there's hallways, community spaces (10-Forward), holodecks, cargo storage, service ducts, and engineering spaces to fit in, too.
 

 Discussion on answer by HorusKol: Wha…

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HorusKol
Oct 11, 2020 21:36
@Will as for the fact that people have moved - that's based on actual conversations with developers that have moved from Western and Eastern Europe, South East Asia, and the Indian Subcontinent. They even bring their families with them. In fact, I'm an immigrant myself (UK to Aus). People move, and it's neither facetious nor stupid to say that they do.
HorusKol
Oct 11, 2020 21:36
@Will "are either happily working for more money OR have moved"... The OR is important and doesn't imply that you have to move to make better money than 20% of SV.
HorusKol
Oct 11, 2020 21:36
@KateGregory I wouldn't move to California either - but I'm also in a place with decent pay and quality of life already. That's why I said "anywhere else". In fact, I'm pretty sure that very good developers are paid pretty well even in places stereotyped as "poor".
HorusKol
Oct 11, 2020 21:36
@BernhardDöbler I'm not so sure about that - some companies have done well with remote workers when they've paid similar our equal rates. Again, (good) cheap workers are going to quickly move to where they can make more money.
 

 Discussion on question by Антон: How …

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HorusKol
Sep 17, 2020 11:47
This really is nothing to do with their age - plenty of developers in their 40s are entirely capable of doing what you need this person to do. And plenty of developers in their 20s are capable of being set in their ways.
 

 Discussion on answer by HorusKol: Eti…

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HorusKol
Jun 2, 2020 11:40
Even some men with trousers on might not be comfortable with a desk neighbour rummaging under the desk.
 

 Discussion on question by IDontKnowSo…

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HorusKol
May 4, 2020 07:58
Could you edit the question to clarify if the team is responsible for one or more projects simultaneously? Your question seems to imply this is but one project of many the team is involved in, but sometimes seems to imply it's the only one.
HorusKol
May 4, 2020 07:58
A team lead that is hiding from social interaction and coding in the dark is not a team lead.
 

 Discussion on question by JBF: How to…

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HorusKol
Mar 15, 2020 16:10
"Like many in his generation, he is not accustomed to this style of communication." That is a stereotype... It's also probably wrong - bulletin boards and instant messaging have been around 30 years or more, so lots of people of that age are probably familiar with it. And I see plenty of young people (20s and 30s) who do the same as this guy in Teams environments.
 

 Discussion on question by boredatwork…

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HorusKol
Mar 2, 2020 11:54
Is that 2 hours on your phone at work? Or in a 24 hour period?
 

 Discussion on question by c36: When I…

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HorusKol
Feb 24, 2020 15:27
The big lesson here is to offer help earlier rather than later so that you have the time to do the things you feel you don't right now
 

 Discussion on question by non union u…

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HorusKol
Nov 20, 2019 12:37
"In my company, company emails are generally seen as one's own property." By whom? At the end of the day, the company owns company emails, regardless of the "common" view of the employees who use them.
 

 Discussion on question by Green Baloo…

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HorusKol
Oct 4, 2019 21:15
Possible duplicate of How do I be more visible at work?
 

 Discussion on question by Hong: How t…

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HorusKol
Sep 30, 2019 12:29
@morbo - well, all they've got now is staff working-to-rule and risk of missing deadlines - I certainly wouldn't resign if I could recoup $700k in severance
HorusKol
Sep 30, 2019 12:29
If your business is relying on your engineers regularly putting in 15 hours of overtime each week to meet deadlines - then you need to talk to your project managers and ask them how they're underestimating the work so badly; and then hire an engineer for every 3 you already have working there.
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 Discussion on question by chrono_tach…

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HorusKol
Sep 17, 2019 11:19
Another aspect I've not seen considered in the comments and answers - HR may end up seeing these patterns of a sick day after a period of annual leave and flag the activity as suspicious.
 

 Discussion on question by AJFaraday: …

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HorusKol
Aug 9, 2019 13:27
@ThunderForge extortion is such a dirty word... it quite fits with Sir Pterry's own writings that the Guild would phrase it as a subscription
 

 Discussion on question by StingyPossi…

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HorusKol
Apr 8, 2019 08:25
I'm voting to close this question as off-topic because this seems more of a freelancing question.
 

 Discussion on question by Nyakouai: E…

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HorusKol
Mar 19, 2019 13:51
@ShadowRanger that's true, but the OP is also posting from an account linked to other other .SE sites - so this is not entirely anonymous, either. In any event, I'm not sure the details are relevant to the core question.
HorusKol
Mar 19, 2019 13:51
"I'm worried a Glassdoor review will be linked back to me and will then affect my own reputation in a tight industry." But you're not worried that this question might do the same?
 

 Discussion on answer by HorusKol: Why…

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HorusKol
Mar 11, 2019 19:39
I drew the parallel between the US Civil War and the Clone Wars because the secessionist did have representation, but did not like the majority rule
HorusKol
Mar 11, 2019 19:38
This is more fit for politics or history, but wars for colonial independence are a type of secession, but a bit different. Typically, colonies have no representation in the colonial powers government (although, a typical colonist in Philadelphia in 1770 had the same representation as a worker in Lancashire - ie, none).
HorusKol
Mar 11, 2019 19:19
@Seamusthedog the EU is also somewhat less than a federated nation-state, despite the worst rhetoric of the Brexiteers.
HorusKol
Mar 11, 2019 19:19
@slebetman there's a reason my answer says "almost all"
HorusKol
Mar 11, 2019 19:19
@Ben that one's a wee bit complicated. Wasn't so much a secession as a regime change. The various SSRs that formed the Soviet Union were also technically autonomous states in alliance. You could also argue that the subsequent combat in Chechnya, Georgia, and Ukraine points to the fact that secession is usually not bloodless (the collapse of Yugoslavia is another modem example).
 

 Discussion on question by Lura: How t…

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HorusKol
Mar 11, 2019 13:00
Are you his boss? Does your company have a policy? Otherwise, as long as it's just YouTube and banking sites, what's the actual problem? 99 out of 100 won't even notice.
 

 Discussion on question by Tétef: Can …

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HorusKol
Mar 11, 2019 12:59
If it's really that good an idea, find a backer and lodge the patents yourself. Then licence them for much more than any raise can earn you. However, beware of the caveat that RobFos points out.
 

 Discussion on question by Graviton: P…

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HorusKol
Jan 12, 2019 22:20
It's you (and other reasonably proficient developers) that doesn't need Google or SO to answer those questions. But my comment was more of a tongue in cheek point about not knowing how he developed those solutions when he was alone.
HorusKol
Jan 12, 2019 22:20
Some people code really well when they have access to Google and Stack Overflow.
 

 Discussion on question by Indu: How d…

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HorusKol
Dec 30, 2018 04:26
@Kevin the OP may mean they are someone who works in a company and recruits/hires their own team members. Especially given their last paragraph about seeing them "in the real world".
 

 Discussion on question by Alex: Did S…

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HorusKol
Nov 23, 2017 23:20
@jamseqf St George is the patron saint of England, but is not English or even British en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Saint_George
 

 Discussion on question by Mathew Fosc…

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HorusKol
Nov 7, 2017 21:53
@MathewFoscarini the correct response to a close vote is to fix the question guided by the close vote reason and comments.
 

 Discussion on question by Arman Malek…

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HorusKol
Oct 17, 2017 21:52
@iain on the other hand, everyone in the UK does have a unique NHS number - they just might not know it... (mine was printed on my vaccination schedule when I was a kid).
 

 Discussion on answer by HorusKol: Co-…

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HorusKol
Oct 17, 2017 14:09
@S.R. unfortunately, all the jerks at school ending up getting jobs like everyone else, so you're going to come across jerks wherever you go...
HorusKol
Oct 17, 2017 14:09
@AffableAmbler if the OP is reacting uncomfortably, even if the guy was just "trying to be funny" the first time, the guy is still a jerk for continuing...
 

 Discussion on question by Vorac: Why …

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HorusKol
Oct 5, 2017 08:54
Considering that Scientific American and National Geographic continue to use US Imperial units, it's not surprising that a fiction writer would also do so
 

 Discussion on question by GreenOwl: H…

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HorusKol
Oct 3, 2017 14:29
Do you want a trash bin, or a sanitary bin? This distinction is important in some locales. Make sure you clearly ask your boss for exactly what you want. You and your boss are grownups.
 

 Discussion on answer by Robert Harvey…

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HorusKol
Sep 22, 2017 08:50
@JörgWMittag I don't see that Robert's definition (one that I happen to agree with) is really at odds with Ward's article - there's good debt: low-interest, repaid with little fuss because the code is clean and easily refactored when necessary - and there's bad debt: high-interest, and baseball-bat-to-the-knees penalties when it comes time to refactor or modify behaviour - Ward (and all developers) may want to see only good debt, but there is plenty of bad debt out there caused by bad decisions and short-term thinking
 

 Discussion on question by Charlie: Is…

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HorusKol
Sep 8, 2017 11:48
@charlie physics on a computer is maths...
HorusKol
Sep 8, 2017 11:48
@Charlie it's still not equivalent to US high school...
HorusKol
Sep 8, 2017 11:48
@JoeStrazzere - the GCSE taken at year 11 is equivalent to the US high school certificate. Year 12 and 13 are optional usually taken as a prerequisite for a university degree.
 

 Discussion on question by Charlie: Wh…

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HorusKol
Sep 1, 2017 20:05
No TV or cinemas, so there wasn't a lot to do on Saturday nights...
 

 Discussion on question by Charles: Ho…

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HorusKol
Aug 29, 2017 15:27
@Jack - even if FTL/hyperspace breaks relativity - there's plenty of sub-light flight, too.
HorusKol
Aug 29, 2017 15:27
@Jack - I don't there's anything in the movies to suggest either way on time dilation... it may be there, it may not - hyperspace might limit the effect somehow, but there's other high-speed travel without hyperspace (orbit, etc)
 

 Discussion on question by The Quantum…

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HorusKol
Jul 24, 2017 19:06
Work like your job is in the balance - eventually it will be...
 

 Discussion on answer by Joe Strazzere…

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HorusKol
Jul 24, 2017 08:28
@CDahn you don't delegate jobs to the wrong person just because you don't want to deal with it and you "can" - it's not up to a colleague to discipline another colleague.
HorusKol
Jul 24, 2017 08:28
@evilsnack Or company policy, or lack of training, or relevant skills...