Mitja Hmeljak
Mitja Hmeljak portrait - by Anna Sangawa Senior Lecturer Courses
"The only thing they don't know about is non-violence and humor."
"The thing is to protest, but protest non-violently --
-- 'cuz violence begets violence, y'know,
and if you run around wild you get smacked.
And that's it, y'know? That's the law of the universe.
And they've got all the weapons, they've got all the money,
and they know how to fight violence because they've been
doing it throughout the years
, suppressing us.
And the only thing they don't know about is
non-violence and humor
." -- John Lennon
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"La vita e` perfetta a condizione / che tu non chieda alcuna spiegazione" -- Freak Antoni (Skiantos)
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Mitja Hmeljak portrait - by Niki Hmeljak when he was 5 and 1/2  teaching & courses & classes   insegnamento & corsi   poučevanje & predavanja 
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 VR (virtual reality)   realtà virtuale   navidezna resničnost 
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MMVW
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ed ambienti interattivi 3D
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Suggestion for current Computer Science students: if you are a student hired to write some software for a research project, make sure to stand up for yourself.

A personal anecdote: I wrote a software application used for conducting research studies, on hourly pay as a graduate student (translation: not paid much), back in 2005/2006. If you read the related paper, you will notice that my name is not mentioned anywhere, not even a "thank you" in a footer where the "custom-made program" I wrote is shown in the paper.
Almost two decades later, without even mentioning having failed to provide recognition for the software development work I've done, as used in the research project that led to publication, I've been asked by some of the paper's authors if I could provide my own utility libraries from back then in 2005/2006 (those were software libraries I had written even earlier, independently from this project) as used by the application's source code, since they wanted to recompile and reuse the application I wrote at the time. Again, no recognition - and even if it were to come now, almost 20 years later, it would be way overdue, and it would require a public apology at the same level of the original publication. I'm not holding my breath.

So, if you're a Computer Science student, beware: don't implicitly trust anyone that's not your advisor. Way too often you'll be offered a wage that's too low, and not given any recognition or credit for your work. Politely and firmly: charge what you're worth, ask in advance to be publicly recognized for your contributions, don't accept to be exploited, not recognized, underpaid, even if it seems that you should accept any job because you need income. Something better will become available: you're a Computer Science practitioner, believe in your strengths and skills!

"it's a lot easier [with a Ph.D.]. It's a union card; that's all it is. Just get the stupid union card."
- Mary Lou Jepsen, One Laptop Per Child


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