I kinda liked the idea of naming after local sports heroes (payton, butkus, jordan), etc, but we settled on other sports related terms: pigskin, divot, etc.
When I have a meeting that involves whiteboarding,
I get big 2'x3' sheets of paper, usually from a flipchart pad, and tape 'em to the walls. We write on the paper and when we're done, we take 'em back to our cubes where we can tape 'em to the walls and have them right there.
Even in the most text-heavy discussions, it takes only about 2-4 minutes per page to type up what was written, and the graphics are clear because they're not moved anywhere.
Sure, it's not netmeetingable, and you can't get a nice little graphics file out of it, but how often do you really need that anyway?
Besides, usually what comes out of those meetings are either very rough screen prototypes, or to-do items that have to get put into a project plan and retyped anyway.
The other beautiful thing about paper is the built-in revision control. Crossing out items and using multi-color pens makes it simple.
This should have been fixed before it was announced, and a period of time waited for people to upgrade.
If it's fixed, then that in itself announces what the fix is. Just do a diff between vN and vN+1 and see what changed. "Hey, look, it's a buffer overrun they fixed."
The CD player is the only component that needs a display, and it only needs a
very simple one. So why do mp3-players have junkloads of eye candy crap all over the place?
The only reason a man asks a woman to marry him in front of a crowd is because he is a sniveling, little coward that is afraid of rejection.
Not in my case. I proposed at Ed Debevic's (a 50s diner place) over the PA in front of a dining room full of people, but the waiter kinda tried to talk me out of it. "Last guy who tried this, she said 'No'." I told him I wasn't worried.
Only downside was that Amy was a bit flustered, and her response was "OK".
The hardpart is adding a third vairable that most geeks want intelligence != null.
Actually, to be valid SQL, you should have that as intelligence is not null. NULL has
no value and therefore never matches an equality test, even NULL == NULL.
Of course, the Microsoft SQL implementations (SQL Server and Access) allow it, but it's bad practice.
(Guess who just submitted his first draft of the SQL quick reference chart he was working on.)
Since PHP doesn't really allow you to do anything interesting that a normal IDE would allow (like, say, DEBUGGING!), we just use Vim and migrate to Perl.
with the
economic downturn, more and more companies will move to where they can survive.
You make it sound like working for the CIA is some odious move of last resort. Perhaps the management and staff of Northern Light is excited about working with the intelligence agency. Perhaps they see it as a way to help their country. Perhaps the processing of terabytes of data is a thrilling prospect from a purely intellectual point of view.
The standard/. dislike of all things governmental is not necessarily mirrored through all geeks.
I'm not sure I can answer this yet, since I've only had since October 18th, 2001 for the clinical trial. Still, the experiment in 4am feedings while watching "Cops" and informercials continues....
Well, think of HR as a beauracracy of 6 year olds.
I often do.
It's called office politics, and there isn't a company in the world with more than a dozen employees that doesn't have it.
Then perhaps one may want to find a company with fewer than a dozen employees.
If you try bullying in on HR's turf (handling hiring without them), you're asking for a conflict.
There are worse things in the world than having a little conflict where you say to the HR people "Hey, I've got something here, and I don't need the assistance this time around." Example: Losing an excellent employee because he/she didn't want to screw around with your territorial HR department.
Dave points out something, probably accidentally, that
Alan Cooper rails about in
About Face: The users don't care about the specifics of how the computer works:
You just know that if it finds any errors, it's going to blame me, even though I don't even know where its disks ARE.
Dave doesn't know that there are these spinning platters inside his computer, NOR SHOULD HE NEED TO.
The changes we need to make in software are far greater than just having "the most reliable Windows experience ever".
But some companies have policies which low / middle level managers cannot circumvent.
Or what? What if the manager does circumvent (or in this case, ignore) the policy that says all candidates have to go through HR first? Is the company going to penalize him for finding an excellent candidate on his own? And if so, is that a company you want to work for?
There are so few times when the word "can't" is actually appropriate, especially in business, and especially in larger, moss-covered companies. Prob'ly 2/3rds of any given policy manual is extraneous CYA crap.
Don't go along with the stupid stuff. Your job is to do good, efficient, profitable work, NOT to follow rules, and if the company you're in doesn't understand that, then get the hell out.
Don't just say "You wouldn't want to work for him if he acts like that", becuase
there is a good chance he is just the initial $25K-a-year
door-stop interviewer that you have to get past before you actually get to the smart folks, and for him, common sense does not weigh nearly as
heavily as "following procedure".
So don't interview with that guy. Don't waste your time. Deal only with hiring managers. Any manager who wastes his company's time/money by having HR do initial screenings for him isn't worth working for.
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Will plot be discussed? But not the ending?
And you thought "video game tester" was a cool job to have.
Gary Gygax invented the infomercial?
Surely he's not responsible for feeding one's infant daughter.
I kinda liked the idea of naming after local sports heroes (payton, butkus, jordan), etc, but we settled on other sports related terms: pigskin, divot, etc.
Even in the most text-heavy discussions, it takes only about 2-4 minutes per page to type up what was written, and the graphics are clear because they're not moved anywhere.
Sure, it's not netmeetingable, and you can't get a nice little graphics file out of it, but how often do you really need that anyway?
Besides, usually what comes out of those meetings are either very rough screen prototypes, or to-do items that have to get put into a project plan and retyped anyway.
The other beautiful thing about paper is the built-in revision control. Crossing out items and using multi-color pens makes it simple.
I'm sure the guys in Grand Moff Tarkin will be retrofitting their gear with 'em.
If it's fixed, then that in itself announces what the fix is. Just do a diff between vN and vN+1 and see what changed. "Hey, look, it's a buffer overrun they fixed."
Security through obscurity is no security.
Ask Robert Wagner about water being harmless.
Visit dhmo.org for more information on the dangers of this all-too-common substance.
No, they're crows, after Brian "Krow" Akers and, perhaps, crow-matic.
Get the Kleenex and click to asciipr0n.com
It was years before I found out that girls didn't have green and white horizontal stripes every half-inch.
Why do dogs lick their balls?
Because they can.
Not in my case. I proposed at Ed Debevic's (a 50s diner place) over the PA in front of a dining room full of people, but the waiter kinda tried to talk me out of it. "Last guy who tried this, she said 'No'." I told him I wasn't worried.
Only downside was that Amy was a bit flustered, and her response was "OK".
You mean this?
Actually, to be valid SQL, you should have that as intelligence is not null. NULL has no value and therefore never matches an equality test, even NULL == NULL.
Of course, the Microsoft SQL implementations (SQL Server and Access) allow it, but it's bad practice.
(Guess who just submitted his first draft of the SQL quick reference chart he was working on.)
That's easy enough.
printf( "Your query found %d results.", 0 );
Since PHP doesn't really allow you to do anything interesting that a normal IDE would allow (like, say, DEBUGGING!), we just use Vim and migrate to Perl.
First, multitple embedded carriage returns are evil. Better to write using here documents.
Worse, what programer would hardcode the number of elements in an array? Far better to write as:
You make it sound like working for the CIA is some odious move of last resort. Perhaps the management and staff of Northern Light is excited about working with the intelligence agency. Perhaps they see it as a way to help their country. Perhaps the processing of terabytes of data is a thrilling prospect from a purely intellectual point of view.
The standard /. dislike of all things governmental is not necessarily mirrored through all geeks.
I'm not sure I can answer this yet, since I've only had since October 18th, 2001 for the clinical trial. Still, the experiment in 4am feedings while watching "Cops" and informercials continues....
I often do.
It's called office politics, and there isn't a company in the world with more than a dozen employees that doesn't have it.
Then perhaps one may want to find a company with fewer than a dozen employees.
If you try bullying in on HR's turf (handling hiring without them), you're asking for a conflict.
There are worse things in the world than having a little conflict where you say to the HR people "Hey, I've got something here, and I don't need the assistance this time around." Example: Losing an excellent employee because he/she didn't want to screw around with your territorial HR department.
Unfortunately, the cooling benefits of the slot are diminished when you try to shred sensitive paperwork with it.
Like, say, Ferrarris[sic] share of the car market?
Of course, Ferrarris have about as much reliability as Windows.
The changes we need to make in software are far greater than just having "the most reliable Windows experience ever".
Or what? What if the manager does circumvent (or in this case, ignore) the policy that says all candidates have to go through HR first? Is the company going to penalize him for finding an excellent candidate on his own? And if so, is that a company you want to work for?
There are so few times when the word "can't" is actually appropriate, especially in business, and especially in larger, moss-covered companies. Prob'ly 2/3rds of any given policy manual is extraneous CYA crap.
Don't go along with the stupid stuff. Your job is to do good, efficient, profitable work, NOT to follow rules, and if the company you're in doesn't understand that, then get the hell out.
So don't interview with that guy. Don't waste your time. Deal only with hiring managers. Any manager who wastes his company's time/money by having HR do initial screenings for him isn't worth working for.