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Have I been in these situations? All the time. I care about the software we produce, so I have strong opinions about the development of it.

How do I handle it? I say my piece, I listen to the response from my boss. If he disagrees with my analysis, then I accept it, sit down and do the work to the best of my ability.

I think one of the main problems would be that the loud and angry forum types wouldn't care about know why disabling addons (by the entire raid) would fix the issue.

They would still see it as a problem with "the devs" and not a problem with the addon.

Communicating it clearly to addon developers, that may have helped I think. You know, use the com channels sparingly and for short, targeted messages only, because "lag".

From what I remember there was quite a bit of pride surrounding having the most used addon. And the ability to say "my raid addon doesn't cause lag like the old favourite" would have spurred on some devs to get even more creative with limited resources.

> 5. Be relentlessly positive. No mention of anything bad going on in your non-work life.

This helps in many situations. There are the times, bad times, when a team is put in a terrible situation. Admitting this can let people stop dwelling on the pain individually, and pull together as a team to make the best of the situation.

person A uses a computer for 6 hours a day, person B uses a computer for 30 minutes a day, ergo person B is healthier.

This logic doesn't seem to be very "logical"

wow, I can imagine that's pretty difficult to deal with, respect wise.

Not everyone, and I'm hoping not even the majority, will have to deal with this from their SO/OH/spouse, however. (I don't, thankfully. We both wfh to differing schedules, and work time is work time.)

I think it might be the fact that it's a rather large concrete box with very few areas that signal can pass through.

ahh, I remember the day my boss told me the exact amount of happiness and motivation I was to come into work with every day (gestures and happy faces were made to show me the exact amount). (and this was after they missed payroll)

I believe that if you buy in tax-free (Salem) New Hamsphire but bring the goods back into Massachusetts, you are supposed to fill out a MA tax form. Assuming you are a Mass resident

Indeed. The FBAR and FATCA are terrible.

The incredibly heavy handed penalties for making a mistake can be quite frightening.

The seeming assumption that anyone who has a foreign bank account or property must be a tax dodger is insane.

I've seen c#, Ruby, and the odd PhP with a decent salary up North.

C and C++ also has a calling up here, but more specialized to the particular company (think Ubisoft).

Recently saw a posting for a Linux kernel dev.

I haven't really seen calling for more niche languages, but I'm also only looking at the postings that come into my email.

Re the comment about management salary, I have been given that as a reason during salary negotiation as to why they can't pay what I'm asking.

The salaries I've been seeing have risen quite a bit in the past 2 years (after dropping suddenly, recession and all).

totally, I call my GP for a non-emergency and I may have to wait until the next day to get seen.

Nothing like the states, where, in a similar part of the country (city/rural wise) I needed to make non-emergency appointments 4 months in advance.

and not everyone likes premium microbrews either.

sometimes I wish I had the gif "stop liking what I don't like" on a hotkey.

"a million-to-one chance succeeds nine times out of ten" - Terry Pratchett

aside from the 80% mark. 10 years is too long to assume a kettle lasting.

Just bought our 3rd kettle in 7 years after the previous one developed a leak (and the one before that, the on switch liked to fall off)

> to the constant assumptions that they are in marketing at meetups

I often get "so, you're a designer?"

Include the Uk in cheap unlimited data.

£15 a month, sim only, on 3. Also a £12.90 option, but with less inclusive texts and minutes.

The area of Darlington behind the stadium.

(Darlo itself has many perfectly nice neighborhoods, but where we were, in a new estate mind, was really not nice)

I completely agree.

I know it's easier for the gov to publish new laws than it is to actually figure out what the underlying problem is and tackle that.

I think it's quite rare that the underlying problem is "not enough laws"

When kids were breaking into our power box and shutting off the power, trying to enter the house after I walked in the door (meaning I learned to be very, very quick in locking the door), and finally threw a brick through our window, the cops greeted my complaints with "what did you do to provoke them?"

(truthfully, I think my existing was the provocation. We signed a new lease somewhere else 2 days after the brick)

None of these laws are going to fix the problem which I think lies more with policing and with community than with not having enough laws.

Just got the email yesterday.

Going to spend Saturday transferring DNS records and migrating name servers.

The only reason I had set up with zerigo to start with was because my friend's registrar only allows name server access, and zerigo was free and easy to use with Heroku.

I'm a bit miffed at the short notice before an essential service is terminated. I would have appreciated having until the end of Feb to make DNS management decisions and ensure the name server migration goes well.

I've been dealing with this for what seems like ages now. At my last job I actually had to go a get a new service shut down because the people who provisioned it didn't realise or understand that it was a problem that all the PID was being stored in the US.

I've read the Safe Harbor rules and audit information and I don't trust it one bit. I really can't blame corporations, especially EU ones, from stating very plainly that they don't want their data stored in the US.

I was on the phone to British Gas complaining that I suddenly stopped receiving paper statements. The agent on the phone got really helpful all of a sudden when I told him I needed the paper bills for proof of identity.

Turns out he had just gone through the whole debacle himself. He had to show a bank statement, but he only has an online account. Went to the bank to get a statement printed and stamped, and whoever he went to turn it in to still refused it because it hadn't been mailed.

Personally, I don't want to give the BA any easy reason to reject my visa applications, I get all the mailed proof of address I can.

I'm just waiting for Lloyds and Barclays to figure out I'm a US citizen and then close out my accounts due to FATCA.

I think the easiest way to get a UK bank account as a foreign national is to be a student.

It's ended up that I treat my line manager as a normal co-worker who happens to sign off on my leave.

I go to his boss when I need to discuss technical implications of decisions I'm making for the products. Next layer up is more of a filter between the CEO and the company.

Who works on what comes down directly from CEO.

It's tons of fun.

Edit: my last salary review, 6 people were invited to it (including me).

There are degrees. The company I'm with as a senior dev, has less than 25 people, yet I've got 4 layers of management above me.

If everyone is as professional and as dedicated as everyone else, and if conflict resolution and communication is easy between all people at the company, I can see the "no management" approach working.

I've found quite good reason to fake it.

It actually has made me a happier person. I talk much less about myself and learn much more about other people. Whether I'm really truly, deeply interested is not the point.

When it comes to working with people, I find it easier to get consensus and motivate people when I know what it is they want. By getting truly interested in other people, it's much easier for me to know what motivates them.

It's the same with proper windows. You install and you pick your location and keyboard set up. There will be very very few people in the UK, for example, with en-US windows because the keyboard set up is different (mac's that's another story)

IMO, browsers should pick up your OS language settings by default OR make it very simple to both see what your browser default is and to change it. (without an add on)

I live in the UK, but I'm a US ex-pat so I get snared with i18n problems quite a bit when it comes to addresses on my US accounts.

It gets worse because I forget to change my browser to en-GB, and I come across US run .co.uk sites that rely on accept-languages to assume the format of my postcode. sigh...

From my experience, Chrome installs default to en-US without trying to pick up language settings from your computer. (I'm probably doing it wrong)

Not an excuse, but it sounds like they don't trust accept-language to be correct.

a few, and they'll be in London so your living costs can be truly massive.

Sometimes the rates you see advertised are also 3 month contract jobs where someone is looking for attention by stating the contract amount as if the job was 12 months salaried.

Saying the program was scrapped is a bit off. It makes it sound like nothing has come out of the project at all.

Choose and Book is widely in use, the Spine exists, as well as the N3 network.

Data format and transfer standards are coming into play now. So instead of one system to rule them all, it's working towards interop. Which probably should have been the overall goal to begin with.

People like to think of the NHS as a monolith, but it's really hundreds of tiny fiefdoms.