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By far the best gift I ever received from an employer was following the completion of a long large project my boss, part owner of the company, gave me round...
Rick
If you do a half-assed job of things, folks will ask 'why did this ass only do half the job?'
November 27, 2020 at 12:01 pm
We used to dread environment rebuilds. Painful, likely to break and time consuming. It hurt.
We are not quite at the stage where it is "click of a button" but...
Rick
If you do a half-assed job of things, folks will ask 'why did this ass only do half the job?'
November 11, 2020 at 6:49 pm
At least in the realm of IT, if you find a task hard or tedious to do, then there is probably a better way of doing it.
Eric, agree with...
Rick
If you do a half-assed job of things, folks will ask 'why did this ass only do half the job?'
November 11, 2020 at 6:46 pm
My background in high school days growing up on the farm taught me that if I couldn't do something either I was too weak or wasn't trying hard enough. I...
Rick
If you do a half-assed job of things, folks will ask 'why did this ass only do half the job?'
November 10, 2020 at 3:05 pm
Hey, you guys still out there doing software are in big trouble now. I read that 'Sleepy Joe' has the solution for all the laid-off retail workers in the economy. ...
Rick
If you do a half-assed job of things, folks will ask 'why did this ass only do half the job?'
November 9, 2020 at 2:14 pm
One sad day years ago early in my IT career, before databases, it turned out I was the clown. We were entering orders into a flat-file open order system from...
Rick
If you do a half-assed job of things, folks will ask 'why did this ass only do half the job?'
October 20, 2020 at 1:40 pm
I never supported data in Excel or ANY application which used and stored data 'offline' that could be lost by local machine failure or lack of regular backups. It was...
Rick
If you do a half-assed job of things, folks will ask 'why did this ass only do half the job?'
October 19, 2020 at 6:03 pm
Some places have an assistant following doctors, which is often a bigger cost than either of the other systems. It's a symptom of the problem, which is requiring lots...
Rick
If you do a half-assed job of things, folks will ask 'why did this ass only do half the job?'
October 15, 2020 at 3:31 pm
I always imagined doctors dictating into a voice recorder, and then other people in the office actually deal with the paperwork. If that's not how it works, then that's...
Rick
If you do a half-assed job of things, folks will ask 'why did this ass only do half the job?'
October 15, 2020 at 11:15 am
As I remarked years ago when I was still working, any time a meeting involves more than three people and/or lasts more than 10 minutes you are wasting someone's time.
Rick
If you do a half-assed job of things, folks will ask 'why did this ass only do half the job?'
October 14, 2020 at 12:00 pm
My only concern would be if I worked for a single employer that after I relocated they might decide to end work-from-home. Then what?
Rick
If you do a half-assed job of things, folks will ask 'why did this ass only do half the job?'
October 5, 2020 at 9:04 pm
Steve, The Pitkin Colorado area is very different from the 'tourist traps' around resort areas. Pitkin is a small mining town of maybe 300 people in summer and about 100...
Rick
If you do a half-assed job of things, folks will ask 'why did this ass only do half the job?'
October 3, 2020 at 3:06 pm
One incentive for relocating now is record low interest. If you're going to have a mortgage, this is the time. I'm 77 and have never seen rates like this.
Rick
If you do a half-assed job of things, folks will ask 'why did this ass only do half the job?'
October 2, 2020 at 6:26 pm
From Donald Knuth & Sir Tony Hoare:
Computer Programming as an Art (1974)
1974 Turing Award Lecture, Communications of the ACM 17 (12), (December 1974), pp. 667–673
The real problem is that programmers have spent far too...
Rick
If you do a half-assed job of things, folks will ask 'why did this ass only do half the job?'
October 2, 2020 at 4:11 pm
Where ever there is an ocean I can get in. Hawaii would be nice, but expensive. USVI, Caribbean Islands, almost any place where it won't snow. I would love...
Rick
If you do a half-assed job of things, folks will ask 'why did this ass only do half the job?'
October 2, 2020 at 3:30 pm
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