What would you think if you clicked on a Wikipedia article about Mozart and instead of the current introduction which says:
> Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart[a][b] (27 January 1756 – 5 December 1791) was a prolific and influential composer of the Classical period. Despite his short life, his rapid pace of composition resulted in more than 800 works of virtually every genre of his time.
it opened with:
> Hello everyone, I studied classical music in college but have been out of the scene for a while and now I'm getting back in, I was wondering about the history of Mozart and I remember that his middle name was Allen or Almond or something? Can anyone help? Thanks for any information. || Hi, I learned about him in middle school and we all joked that his middle name was Armadillo but I think that's wrong, haha. || Greets all, it's in Olivier Hallengrunsch's Classical Composers as 'Amadeus', and that's well regarded. It also says he lived (27 January 1756 – 5 December 1791). I think we can all agree he was prolific, right? Thanks and regards, Jason [xxKiller; AMD Ryzen2 32GB RAM 2TB Western Digital SSD; BMW 330 2l aircooled] || Why's nobody mentioning how short that life was, smh || Good evening all and sundry, m'lady (tips hat), forsooth would anyone speak to how many works he is believed to have composed, all considered? Methinks such knowledge would be a most hearty addition to this esteemed gentleman's biography - Martin, [Fort Lauderdale TX Ren. Faire organiser 1997-1997] || etc.
StackOverflow isn't a forum, it's a collaborative reference work. Meta-chat would be edited out of a wikipedia page and goes on a separate 'talk' page (equivalent: meta stackexchanges or the stackexchange chat). What if you then went to the Wikipedia talk page and said "Is overzealous moderation of questions ruining Wikipedia? I want to be able to edit questions and greetings into pages but there are hoards of awful literal-minded jobsworths cruising the site just looking for the slightest reason to edit a spelling or grammar mistake or revert my changes. It just leaves me feeling unwelcome"?
Why would you expect to feel welcome when you're spoiling what others are trying to build up and insulting them for caring??
Stackoverflow has https://meta.stackoverflow.com/ and https://chat.stackoverflow.com/ (you see it when the comments on a question or answer go on too long, there's an automatic "comments are not for extended discussion, take it to chat" reply, or you can invite people to a chatroom about a question).
The story in the press about this insinuates David Cameron might have done this as it is apparently a Bullingdon Club (which Boris Johnson was also a member of) “thing”.
It would be quite surprising for someone who went into Labour politics to do this:
https://www.mirror.co.uk/news/uk-news/bullingdon-club-initia...
And of course, JM has been responsible for all (OK, most of) the non-arcade ports since the Jaguar version, Tempest 2000 and (un-)official clones (such as space giraffe and T2K)
When I went from contractor to permanent at my last employer the goal-setting really stressed me out as I knew I didn’t want to be held responsible for something that might change.
In the end I just decided to stop thinking about it to avoid the stress and my manager stopped asking. End of the year I filled in suitable goals based on what I had done and explained how well I’d met them.
It worked very well for me and I did the same for every year I was employed there.
Same here. This was at GE, the goal and review structure is elaborate, shifting, and based on a slew of cultural and corporate factors and cult bullshit. A real mess. You better have a cool manager that knows how to deal with it in an optimal way or it is a very very painful waste of time. My manager was brand new and by the book...greatly hastening my exit.
On top of all that it actually did influence your ability to progress (I just told them I had no aspirations of advancement beyond my current position...again, further hastening my exit lol).
As a father of a 6-year-old I suspect that it will get easier and easier for you from here on in. The kids will start to do so much more independently and so so many things to lift your spirits you weren't even imagining.
Have you considered counselling? Just having someone to talk your thoughts through with can be very helpful.
Stick in there.
I've been caught out a couple of times by describing something as trivial (or non-trivial) to people not versed in software-speak. They can either think you are dismissing the whole discussion in some way or just have no idea what you're talking about whatsoever.
