They're half way there. They've got the first part down to a fine art.
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Fentanyl is the kind of strength where a difference in dose the size of a grain of salt could be the difference between life and death.
Of course, it could also work against you, but either way, it's one less thing that's open for discussion.
That gives you a strange situation where, if your vehicle is available in both a car and a van form factor, the speed limit applied to your vehicle is based not on weight, load capacity or number of passengers, but on which came first - if the car was first, the car speed limit applies to the van. If the van came first, the van speed limit applies to the car.
Your problem is that you don't currently have any tools to track what your devs are doing. Your proof that you are "orders of magnitude superior" is nothing if you don't have the metrics to back it up.
If you accept that the larger company is going to want metrics on what your devs are doing (and that's an inevitability) then unless you have an alternative in mind and a compelling reason to use it instead of Jira, your best bet is to get on board, and do so with enthusiasm. If you're earnestly trying to use it, people will listen to the problems you run into and workflow changes you ask for. If you're complaining because you just don't want big brother watching you, you'll be ignored.
Major providers like Gmail and ICloud will have a longer and more convoluted process to provide your data to state actors, but analysing that data is going to be far easier since it will come in a standard format.
If your goal is to make your data difficult to seize, a better option is probably to self-host on either a cheap VPS or a corporate-grade cloud service. That keeps the data out of reach of a warrant on your home, and keeps it unreadable after they've actually jumped through the hoops to seize it from your provider.
> I’ve been trying to get Facebook to disclose shadow contact information to users for almost a year now. But it has even refused to disclose these shadow details to users in Europe, where privacy law is stronger and explicitly requires companies to tell users what data it has on them. A UK resident named Rob Blackie has been asking Facebook to hand over his shadow contact information for months, but Facebook told him it’s part of “confidential” algorithms, and “we are not in a position to provide you the precise details of our algorithms.”
- The "sign up for free" button takes me to an inescapable box which demands my phone number. Why can't I sign up using email?
- The cancel button on the sign up screen doesn't work.
- The Terms of Service and Privacy Policy links on the sign up screen don't go anywhere useful.
- I'd like to know more about the "optional extra services" and how much they cost before I sign up. I always suspect the worst when I'm pricing info is hidden behind a paywall.
Most of the people you're attracted to won't feel the same about you, or be in a position to act on it if they are. That's just how it is, and for the most part, there's nothing you can do about it. Sure, being friendly and personable won't hurt, but what they find attractive is one of their attributes, not yours. If you're going to base your definition of success or failure on how a stranger feels about you, you're going to find yourself very disappointed a lot of the time.
A conversation with another human being isn't a failure just because it didn't end with a sexual encounter or you getting their number. It's perfectly acceptable to just shoot the shit with a stranger for 5 minutes and both go on with your day without even exchanging names if that's how it feels like it's going. That's still a step up from spending that 5 minutes furtively glancing at them from across the room, and you've actually had some social interaction with another human being.
Also, can we just quit with this "friendzone" thing? It's not some heinous insult for a woman to consider you a friend. Great, you're attracted to her. I'm happy for you. But if she doesn't feel the same way, then you establish communication at the lowest common protocol. She's proposed friends. If you can communicate as friends, you have a new friend - is that really so bad? If you can't communicate as friends, you negotiate further down to the next available protocol, and now you're just an acquaintance who says hi when you happen to be in the same room.
We're talking about having a conversation with another human being. You don't need to interview them or manipulate them towards some goal - just have a conversation without an ulterior motive. You might be surprised at what you see when you stop looking so hard.
Kids are always lazy. This generation always have their heads in their phones, but we had video games and before us it was TV, music, and dancing that was rotting our kids brains. There's a quote floating around on social media claiming to be from the early 1900s, complaining about how kids spend all their time reading books.
There's always the ones who were born in the wrong generation. That's a growing demographic just because there's been such a huge explosion of culture and art in the last 80 or so years. Your parents basically had 50s rock'n'roll or the free-loving 60s as their missed generations. You've got 90s rave culture, 80s punk and 70s disco as well, and all of them and more will continue to have their own subcultures for years to come. Your own kids will reminisce fondly of a time they never saw, when everybody drove their own cars which had powerful internal combustion engines and 00's indie or 10's K-pop was the pinnacle of music.
And you'll always get the ones who choose not to join in with whatever this generation's thing is. Those who didn't watch Doctor Who last night, the ones who refuse to collect stickers for the World Cup, and now those have no interest in getting Instagram followers.
One noticeable difference is that this generation are the first to see the consequences of social media. They're the first to experience facebook stalking as an everyday thing, the first to see people fired for things they did at the weekend, the first to see people having their entire life history investigated as part of a job application. Little wonder they're starting to be a little more concerned about their privacy.
It applies to a lot of business areas. If you want to introduce new processes or fix any problems, you need to justify why you want to do that, and "This isn't very pretty" isn't generally considered a good enough reason. If something works, nobody ever got into trouble for leaving it alone.
If it's really a rewrite job, you'll end up with a lot of entries in there of varying size and complexity. You can start moving those issues across to whatever issue tracker your boss does keep an eye on as you get to them.
That way, you're not just walking in, announcing that the entire lot is garbage, and wasting time rewriting it all (which is what the business will think you're doing if the current implementation is at least vaguely functional), but you're gaining familiarity with the code and compiling a decent sized todo list that you can present at the appropriate time, as well as a list of fairly quick wins that you can get done when you have some downtime.
2. You may also need an audience. You need people to use your product, and that might mean you need some kind of free tier to lure them in. In my case, an events guide which doesn't list all the events people want to see is useless to my audience, and if the audience don't use it it's useless to my potential clients. That means I have to provide the basic service for free - any monetised features are worthless without it.
3. For any skills you're lacking, learn them. If you outsource your front end work, you've got to pay somebody every time you want to change it and you can't reuse it anywhere. Once you know what you want to do, learn how to do it by actually doing it.
You're absolutely right that any money earned from your own pet project will be far more satisfying than your day job, but that's because it's that much harder to earn. If you start down the road with the specific intention of earning, that road will be paved with frustration. Get an idea, develop it into a prototype, get some feedback, and then you can start looking at outsourcing some of the more polished parts that are still outside your capabilities.