• RBoy (unregistered) in reply to Code Dependent
    Code Dependent:
    RBoy:
    I guess on this account, we'll agree to dignissim.
    Or perhaps dogmism.

    "My karma ran over your dogma"

    Well, you got your Karma in my Dogma!

    (All this cyclical discussion is giving me verto)

  • GMo' (unregistered) in reply to someone else
    someone else:
    OutWithTheTroll:
    Levi:
    If Topcod3r's comments are "cluttering" up the comments, then why doesn't the forum get changed to a threaded version just like slashdot, digg, and pretty much every other comment system out there?

    Topcod3r's thread can even start collapsed by default if people are still worried.

    I don't see the need to make an effort to make it easier for trolls. Alex is doing a great job of protecting the not so frequent visitors from being hooked by them, so all is well.

    TRWTF is considering TopCod3r a troll. The posts are strictly on topic and show a profoud understanding. As has been pointed out, people can learn from them.

    Agreed. Bring back TopCod3r. His comments are the best by far.

  • Bognar (unregistered) in reply to NotASycophant

    "It seemed the only person who ever called Martin was his wife."

    I would assume no.

  • Ken B (unregistered) in reply to snoofle
    snoofle:
    Allen:
    Puleeze! Name one company that gets 8 hours work out of any one employee each day. In IT you are paid for what you know, not what you do.
    In my current position, we are on-call 7x24. As such, to make up for the occasional 3AM sessions, our boss pretty much lets us come and go as we please (within reason).

    My boss' boss once tried to get us to "follow the rules" w.r.t. work hours. We replied to him, in front of our boss, that we would gladly work the standard 9-5:30, but that they should not bother us on OUR time beyond that, and that they'd need to hire some more support folks to work evenings and late nights for 5 days, plus 3 shifts on weekends.

    That ended that.

    Well, your boss' boss was apparently smarter than my boss some 10 years ago. As part of the development team, we used to come in a little late (9:30 rather than 9:00), but stay late (sometimes past 7:00, rather than 5:00). Of course, being salaried, we didn't get paid overtime. Well, apparently some people in tech support ("phone monkies") didn't like us coming in late, and complained to the boss, who chewed us out for this behavior. (Why do we need to be in at 9? Tech support needed to be there to answer phones. We don't talk to clients. Besides, we're actually working unpaid overtime.) Well, he insisted that we come in at 9:00, "just like everyone else". His loss, since we all decided that if we had to be in by 9 "just like everyone else", we would leave at 5, "just like everyone else". (Apparently never noticed, or at least never said anything, about us now working less hours.)
  • (cs) in reply to Rhialto
    Rhialto:
    Levi:
    If Topcod3r's comments are "cluttering" up the comments, then why doesn't the forum get changed to a threaded version just like slashdot, digg, and pretty much every other comment system out there?

    Topcod3r's thread can even start collapsed by default if people are still worried.

    Web-based message boards are a WTF anyway, since there is no way to make them remember which messages you have read and which you haven't. So when you come back later for more, you have to scan everything again. Unless they're not threaded, but that is a WTF on its own, as you point out.
    There are several web-based message boards that pop you straight to your first unread message when you return to a thread. Fark even draws a pretty red line so you can scroll around or read to the end, then find that spot again quickly. However, fark isn't threaded in the usual sense (topics are called threads, but that's different).

  • Squirrel (unregistered) in reply to Rhialto
    Rhialto:
    Web-based message boards are a WTF anyway, since there is no way to make them remember which messages you have read and which you haven't. So when you come back later for more, you have to scan everything again. Unless they're not threaded, but that is a WTF on its own, as you point out.

    I was part of a business which ran a popular message board system in England which maintained server-side records of what messages you had/hadn't read. The hardware scaled well but we never reached a million users so there was no Slashdot-size testing.

  • Orbstart (unregistered) in reply to Carlos92
    Carlos92 :
    The RS-232 interface also suggests this did not happen in the last several years.

    As much as you web boys might find it hard to believe RS-232 still sees a lot of action in embedded systems.

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