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I love how the mug is on a wooden table. Nice touch!
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I want one of those mugs, but not enough to go to a con for it.
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I want to go to this con, but not enough to go to Ohio for it.
(The fact that I'd already heard of it, though, means it's clearly a pretty nifty event. If it were in LA, I would totally consider going. (Says the guy who drives from LA to Phoenix every year for the con of a silly web game.))
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If I lived in a hellhole like LA I'd take any excuse to go somewhere like Ohio.
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25% of my bootcamp platoon was from Ohio.
So what was that you were saying about hellholes?
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Wow, I wouldn't go to Notacon simply because their wiki is a FPOS stuffed with spam links
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I know what David St Hubbins had to say about hellholes:
It's better in a hellhole! You know where you stand in a hellhole! Folks lend a hand in a hellhole!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e4cQMI2Lnxo
But seriously, Cleveland is pretty nice in the spring.
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jump ship before getting thrown overboard
Wow, wish I'd had enough guts to jump before I got booted... but the boot was just what I needed. Being out of work for a while sucked, but actually not nearly as much as it sucked working for the place I was at. Now, I'm employed, having a good time, and now I'm stress free.
Alex, great post. Have fun at Notacon.
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Not Ohio, TRWTF is Cleveland.
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If you have slides for your presentation, please post them!
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CAPTCHA: uxor - that would actually be "||"!
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Hey,at least we're not Detroit!
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You think LA-Ohio is a long way...
For the Australians amoung us (and other international TDWTF readers) will your talk be posted someplace?
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Since I live about 120 degrees to the east, I won't be able to attend. :( Is there any chance your talk will be recorded and made publicly available?
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I totally grok this. I also totally grok not wanting to go to ohio to go to a con. But ohio > La
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This statement is TRWTF. Cleveland is a terrible place to be any time of year. I used to travel there twice a month for 4 years. That town sucked the life out of me every time I went there. If I were choosing places to eliminate from the US, Cleveland would be an easy #1 (and I've been to Detroit). I am, however, willing to listen to arguments in favor of removing Washington, DC.
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The work ethic described at the top of this article sounds like a segment I just finished watching on "60 Minutes on CNBC". That segment described the "work ethic", or "lack of work ethic" in France.
According to the segment, in France they have legally mandated 35 hour work weeks, no overtime, legally mandated 5 weeks of vacation every year, at least a dozen legally proscribed holidays, almost free education, and almost free health care.
So the work ethic described in this article sounds much like the work ethic in France...if you call it a "work ethic".
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I don't know about "no overtime"; I think there is a legal limit to how much overtime you are allowed to do, in order to protect weaker groups, not neccessarely it-workers. Yet.
In most parts ov Europe, its 40 hour work week though.
The only ethics thats involved is; You are doing a job, and are paid accordingly (inc benefits) to do it. The europeans have managed to fight for a decent deal.
Both US and Europe are right now competing with chinese slave factories and underpaid indian workers, but it's clear whats ethical or not. At least to me.
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My experience over the last two years of the French work ethic is that it does not live down to your low expectations. Sure, the law says this, that, and the other thing about hours worked per week. That doesn't mean that developers rush off home as soon as the 7 hours per day is up.
Actually, the weirdest thing about living in France is rudeness, or rather the lack of it. All the world, including the French themselves, thinks the French are rude to one and all, especially to foreigners. It isn't true, but my colleagues were surprised to hear me say so.
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Also, will there be a video of your talk available online?
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"My Talk: Hacking the Workplace... How to Make the Most with the Least"
I love the agenda. As a non-slacker who does work hard every day (and is paid and recognised for this), I'd be interested in hearing the other side of the fence of slackerville.
Please post the video of the not-a-presentation for us all to watch
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"I've made more money at each job than the last" Is that through EMBEZZLEMENT?
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I am an EX-CON.
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please record a video indeed, i'd love to hear the speech :)
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Interesting that GDP/hours worked in France is so much higher than most other countries, including the US... :)
http://www.businessinsider.com/are-the-french-the-most-productive-people-in-the-world-2009-8
Disclaimer: I'm not anti-US before y'all start shouting. Being a Brit I have no love for the cheese-eating-surrender-monkeys. But I envy their 35 work conditions and general attitude to life.
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On the internet, no one can tell you're a frog.
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This comment should be featured!
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I thought that was Baltimore's city motto.
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Really should move it somewhere nicer. Perhaps Baghdad? Or Kabul?
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"My Talk: Hacking the Workplace... How to Make the Most with the Least"
I can't shake this vision of Wally.
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I commend the subject matter of your presentation but I'm already a seasoned expert in this field.
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No, Baltimore's motto is "Don't stray from the Inner Harbor".
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I'll be the first to admit that sometimes I'm pretty dense, but: work like a lazy, under-zealous sloth, create and deliver believable excuses, master performance reviews, jump ship before getting thrown overboard...
I really hope you're joking!
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Notacon is not your average tech conference. Hence the name.
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S.V.P !Ne défaites pas cette réputation que les Français ont travaillé si fort à bâtir.
KTHXBYE!
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Aarg I want to go! The topics all look so interesting and I'd love to see many of them!
I'm ~14.5 thousand km's away though :(
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It is not run by the feds. We have a city council and a mayor, created under the Home Rule Act. They manage the city. Congress still has the ridiculous ability to hold our budgets up and overrule our laws within the first 90 days though, when they feel like being dicks.
"I don't see how Washington, DC is part of the United States anyway". Read the Constitution, it calls out the creation of DC: To exercise exclusive Legislation in all Cases whatsoever, over such District (not exceeding ten Miles square) as may, by Cession of particular States, and the acceptance of Congress, become the Seat of the Government of the United States, and to exercise like Authority over all Places purchased by the Consent of the Legislature of the State in which the Same shall be, for the Erection of Forts, Magazines, Arsenals, dock-Yards, and other needful Buildings;
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I'm a British national who's been working in France for the last couple of years also.
I completely agree with you. The French are not as rude as everyone portrays them to be. Sure, you get the odd a***hole here who dislikes foreigners etc., but you get them everywhere. Also, I'm contracted to do 37.5 hours a week, but as you have said, this doesn't mean that I do my hours and then just go home as soon as it's 4.30. I will often stay until rather late fixing problems, doing upgrades etc. However, it does depend on which company you're working for.
But yes, France is a lot less stressful than working in the UK. I prefer their balance between work and personal life.
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I love your speech topic. I feel like I'm already a student of your philosophy. I barely work more than 3 hours a day while playing video games during the other 5 hours at work and they keep throwing money at me and telling me how awesome I am. Lazy programmers are productive programmers because we hate to repeat ourselves.