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Fuck off ... (Score:4, Insightful)
We don't want the fucking polls.
We've said many times we don't want the fucking polls.
We used to be able to turn off the fucking polls.
Jesus fucking christ all fucking mighty, timothy, why is it just YOU who posts this annoying shit?
Shut the fuck up, stop posting this shit, and give us the fucking ability to turn this fucking shit off because we don't fucking care you fucking moron.
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The OP is upset because the polls are causing him to be less productive.
Re:Fuck off ... (Score:4, Funny)
Re: Fuck off ... (Score:2)
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If one's typical year involves long stretches spent standing hip deep in stagnant water rich in organic material ...
...SlashDot still sucks. (Score:3)
>> Halfway through 2015
SlashDot still sucks. I said it last week and I'll say it again: you have the valuable eyeballs of a geeky audience, and the best polls you can post are "hey fireworks" and "year is half over."
Dice, I hate to cramp anyone's career, but it might be time to fire the "summer poll intern."
Project Cancelled & Restarted (Score:3)
Ever had 6 months of application work flushed down the toilet, only to be restarted with a new manager who want's to do it "his way?" Yep. That's me.
Net progress in 1040+ man-hours? Nothing. Nada. But that's the engineering game, it happens to everyone.
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It sucks, for sure. But having seen failed projects that no one will cancel because it would hurt someone's ego, I can say that sometimes cancelling or restarting a project is the right thing to do.
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Net progress in 1040+ man-hours? Nothing. Nada.
So you didn't get paid?
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Ever had 6 months of application work flushed down the toilet, only to be restarted with a new manager who want's to do it "his way?" Yep. That's me.
Net progress in 1040+ man-hours? Nothing. Nada. But that's the engineering game, it happens to everyone.
Hey, it just happened to me too! Here's how you move past it, emotionally: recite the following magic words to yourself until they sink in: "I get paid the same either way".
My great disappointment for the past six months is that I was slacking on hobbies, and on working out. Don't let the important non-work stuff slide in your life while getting paid the same either way. I upgraded and further overclocked my gaming box over the long weekend, and already I feel better about having made some progress this
No (Score:4, Informative)
Unpopular opinion, get your pitchforks ready (Score:3)
I *like* the polls in the story stream. When it was off to the side, it was random and easily missed. I missed polls never noticed them regularly, even though I like seeing how others respond to polls and their comments. Its smushed down into one line unless you click on it, so its not even a screen real estate issue.
Explain to me how its the end of the world to have a poll every few days in the news feed. Explain to me how having it randomly stuffed into a completely useless side panel area with ads an
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If they're in the stories stream and you're a day without reading Slashdot, you'll miss the poll.
Granted the polls never were extremely interesting in the past and they're certainly boring and pointless now, but I'd like to see them back to the right column, just in case there's one interesting enough someday.
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That's a good point, something I hadn't thought about. I'm a daily reader and never made it a habit to look over there so I commonly missed polls, but from the perspective of a non-daily reader having it over there made it more readily accessible.
Based on your comment, its possible that poll participation could drop even in direct story view because it only has daily exposure instead of weekly exposure.
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Based on your comment, its possible that poll participation could drop even in direct story view because it only has daily exposure instead of weekly exposure.
This is exactly true, the participation has tanked since they introduced the polls into the feeds -- see here for the recent poll stats [slashdot.org]. The USB ports one was the last one I distinctly remember being in the sidebar.
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Don't worry ... be happy!
less usual (Score:1)
Title (Score:5, Insightful)
In the future, please add the word "Poll" in the post title.
That way, if the post collapses and only its header is still present on the front page, we can still tell it's a poll without clicking it.
Thanks.
Immaterial (Score:2)
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Any tips?
Try regularly working 80 hour weeks, pulling all nighters to pull the companies butt out of the fire, designing and building the product that pulled the company from being investor funded to being profitable, and not getting involved in office politics. Worked for me.
Turns out the people involved in office politics convinced the CEO that they could do my job and I never got a say, so they let me go. Then when I started talking to a competitor they got nervous and started issuing legal threats, claiming ow
I've gotten far less usual than usual this year (Score:2)
So guess that means I am even more unusual this year...
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I wanted to make this same comment, so I'd like to upmod you, but I also want to post my own comment so here, have a virtual +1.
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I live in WA. And it's been WAY too hot for anything here.
Walla Walla Washington was only 113 F this week.
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Ahhh, I miss living in Milton-Freewater. Good to hear that the summer weather hasn't changed much :)
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Missing Option: Busy p0wning HackingTeam (Score:1)
Check!
Where's my Hoverboard? (Score:2)
2015? (Score:2)
I don't know (Score:2)
I had big plans for this year. This was supposed to be the first thoroughly good year for me in a long time. I had all of my shit straightened out and was about to get back to doing things with my life again. I was going to do all the little home improvement things that I've been waiting two years since I moved in here to have the money to do. I was finally starting to resume a bunch of creative personal projects I mostly set aside around seven years ago. But in January right as I was finally beginning both
huh (Score:2)
I still hate this new polling method (Score:2)
What the title says.
Need an "Unsual" category (Score:2)
It's been an unusual year. I'm a PhD in AI/Data Mining who decided to help out a start-up by doing some Javascript and now I'm doing Java development ... and what I originally intended to accomplish for the year was to do fundamental research in my field from a boat in a nearby canal. Life is nonlinear.