No, I don’t get paid extra for staying at work later. I make up for it by leaving earlier so I can use up my hours. I’ve got over a week of overtime, but my boss told me I should leave on time so I don’t build up any more hours. But I still have the 1 hour 20 minute bike ride to and from work, and then it doesn’t matter to me when I leave. I usually don’t do anything else after work because I work in the trades.
And you don’t have a car or moped? It would prolly take me 45mins by bike, but the car is much easier and I don’t arrive sweaty in the office. After work I have to get home to look after the kids when my wife goes to work. Yesterday I signed up at a fitness centre, so from August I can drive to the centre for an hour training before going home.
No, I’ll never be able to drive a car or ride a moped due to health reasons. The bicycle is the fastest way for me to get to work. It takes me over two hours on public transport, one way, to get to my job. I didn’t choose either. I could either earn some money and have a long commute, or be unemployed and earn even less money and have nothing in life. I’d rather choose to work.
That sounds like a hard life. Good for you to take control. And work also comes with collegues, to have a chat with.
I couldn’t work from home all day, even though my team is back in Denmark, that I chose to leave behind and go back to NL. Here in the Dutch office are the peeps that use the software my team develops. So it is a good way to understand their needs.
Your work sounds very nice too, at least nicer than mine. But I’ve achieved what I wanted at the company, and now I have to do what I need to do to earn more money in a year or more, and that’s an incentive to complete my training successfully, even if it will be difficult. I know why I worked so much overtime—to show that I’m the right person for the company’s training. There were internal competitors.
I always thought you were from Germany because of your forum name.
How does Setonix sound German? It is the scientific name for a Quokka, a small kangaroo.
What do you work with?
It was just a thought that it sounded German. Some names don’t sound German, but the people behind them are from Germany. Kangaroos are my favorite animals. I always think they’re so cute and have such beautiful fur.
There was some discussion about whether I was suited for the training or not. But luckily, my boss said yes. Otherwise, I would have tried again in a few years and gained more experience. I really appreciate my boss giving me this opportunity.
what kind of work do you do? My boss always stimulates me to do trainings, but I’ve now been in the same team for 17 years and things are always changing. I figure I just pick it up while having new projects to work on. As long as I can do the tasks I’ve been given, I don’t see the need for trainings. But did buy programming books over the years. Im old-fashioned that way 
Yeah this is counter-intuitive.
10000 is a low limit tho, a topic could go beyond that without affecting performance in a meaningful way. But 10000 is the default limit. There’s also another setting that stops showing the date on the timeline on the right topics with many replies.
Loading a post in a large topic not only queries X posts from this topic, it also needs data from other tables, like the one that stores how long a user has read, which post they have read last. Probably other stuff too.
I don’t have all the details. It’s just more complicated and subtle than “get 20 posts from this topic”.
A user showed 5 years ago that querying a post from a 100000 posts topic was 20 times more resource-intensive than in a “regular” topic (hundreds to few thousands posts).
I’m pretty sure some optimization has been done since, but they still are a technical challenge, hence the set limitation. I don’t think it will ever change.
But you have something in place that will automatically continue the topic into a new thread, when that happens?
Yes 
this might have been mentioned before but can we have a smiley sticking out his tongue in these quick-smileys:
The fist isn’t a positive smiley either, if it lands on ur nose
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Yes, we need some insulting emojis on that board for sure
A smiley with its tongue out is not necessarily insulting. It is mostly a reaction to people who say something insulting and by using the smiley you jokingly accept what they said. (Not using that smiley here, because I am serious)
hmmm…
I still think the board needs a scowley emojii
What about the Face punch?
What about it?
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I just did it to you, that’s what.
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