HK → UK → US → ?
If you want to see how an atheist rationally (and I may say, restrained at times) responds to an organised attempts by religious students to hi-jack the Q&A session, read this post and watch part 2 of the video. It is rather long, 69 minutes, but it is well worth your time I promise!
(For some reason, Vox's YouTube search does not find the video even though I can find it easily on YouTube site. Here is a short clip below.)
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All the talks about moving to Chicago have really been just that so far, talks. Eiron and I discussed a fair amount about it but we decided (rather I am) to be sensible and won't make any decision until we pay the city a visit during my birthday weekend in December. If we like the city and can tolerate the cold, bitter winter than we will start planning our move next year. If not, we stay put and find another city to move to.
But it is increasingly difficult not to think about moving there now because of job like this one. An Agile/TDD/.Net software shop looking for senior software engineer to work with actual web site/products and machines? Products that I can point people (such as my parents) to and say, "This is what I do." I haven't been able to do that since my first job out of college. I think some of my code still lives on in China and Thailand. Just be careful when you take the light rail/train in Canton or Bangkok…
What's your method for calculating a tip?
I calculate the tip based on the time-honoured tradition in NYC, which is double the tax (7.5%) to make the tip 15%. Then I generally round the total amount up to multiple of five. So sometimes it would be close to 15%, other times it would be closer to 20%. Of course if the service had been exceptional, extra tips will be added on top of that.
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In the office, the development team are all very informed and, shall we say, like to express our opinions. Not that it is a bad thing, I like to encourage debates and lively arguments as long as it is civilized and constructive. However,
there a couple of people who sometimes would ignore the facts and would not accept that their dearly held beliefs are just plain wrong. No amount of Googling or Wikipedia would convinced them and we are talking about scientific fact here (I don't even want to go into our political debates, they are the 'third rail'). For example, covering three sides of the large fish tank with form boards will help keep the water temperature from rising/dropping through insulation. Wrong! Being a science graduate I can't stand people that ignore facts but I am also polite (sometimes) so I bite my tongue and just roll my eyes instead.
This week I have enough of their idiocy so I started mocking either of them indirectly by saying "Oh, you and your fact-based argument" (in the satirical tone of current U.S. administration's Faith-based Initiative) to the person(s) who is in the right. I am sure one of these days I would push my luck too far and have to deal with the consequence. But for now, it is funny to see how that kills their argumentative mood.
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Lost in Colonisation 