My Audi S5 makes an adorable sound when it changes gear. It's the result of a device that spits gas on the exhaust for that exact purpose.
I must say I dont care if it's fake - I always have a (fake) orgasm when I hear it.
Here's Top Gear UK's take on it:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?...
Bonuses are to KEEP employees, especially developers, not to motivate them.
See for example Activision vs Infinity Ward, where the plan was to pay less bonus so employees would feel like leaving for the new formed company.
Interesting I was reading "Drive" from Daniel Pink, which talks exactly about it. One of the examples was the SOMA experiment where people would eventually actually work LESS after receiving a "bonus". http://www.laymanpsych.com/2009/06/money-as-a-counter-productive-motivating-factor/
In Clinton's equivalent words, "It's the KICK, stupid!".
So most if not all open places owned by private companies (eg check IBM Plaza in Chicago) forbid skateboards and bicycles in its premises.
Reason? Liability. If someone gets hurt the company is fully liable. How can this argument be fully accepted for physical spaces and fully denied for virtual ones?
Maybe just because it fits very well someone's rhetoric agenda.
Maybe it's because there are basically ZERO jobs in most places for real hard-core CS. What few jobs DO exist require the ability to produce actual usable products...applications programming, especially web where the ability to hand-code a balanced search tree won't help at all. Ask a Flash "developer" about registers and instructions on the stack.
My college changed the first 3 CS classes to Python instead of C++ because it's easier. Then when they get to Data Structures, they've gotta learn C++ for the first time, at the same time.
Now queue the arguments about the logic skills that HR doesn't care about. Colleges all over the nation (and other nations I'm sure) already crank out degrees no job market asked for....I'm not sure I can blame the CS depts for trying to stay relevant.
OMG I have tons of jobs **in my company alone** for hardcore folks, all at 100k+ and HR would find nobody.
I recently hired one person after 4 months searching in Chicago & NY. The phrase "knowledge of C library/glibc" would promptly disqualify most.
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My Audi S5 makes an adorable sound when it changes gear. It's the result of a device that spits gas on the exhaust for that exact purpose. I must say I dont care if it's fake - I always have a (fake) orgasm when I hear it. Here's Top Gear UK's take on it: https://www.youtube.com/watch?...
Bonuses are to KEEP employees, especially developers, not to motivate them.
See for example Activision vs Infinity Ward, where the plan was to pay less bonus so employees would feel like leaving for the new formed company.
Interesting I was reading "Drive" from Daniel Pink, which talks exactly about it. One of the examples was the SOMA experiment where people would eventually actually work LESS after receiving a "bonus".
http://www.laymanpsych.com/2009/06/money-as-a-counter-productive-motivating-factor/
In Clinton's equivalent words, "It's the KICK, stupid!".
All of you please email me. I'm sure to find a place to all of you immediately if you know what glibc is.
hyboucher [at] gmail.com
So most if not all open places owned by private companies (eg check IBM Plaza in Chicago) forbid skateboards and bicycles in its premises.
Reason? Liability. If someone gets hurt the company is fully liable. How can this argument be fully accepted for physical spaces and fully denied for virtual ones?
Maybe just because it fits very well someone's rhetoric agenda.
Maybe it's because there are basically ZERO jobs in most places for real hard-core CS. What few jobs DO exist require the ability to produce actual usable products...applications programming, especially web where the ability to hand-code a balanced search tree won't help at all. Ask a Flash "developer" about registers and instructions on the stack.
My college changed the first 3 CS classes to Python instead of C++ because it's easier. Then when they get to Data Structures, they've gotta learn C++ for the first time, at the same time.
Now queue the arguments about the logic skills that HR doesn't care about. Colleges all over the nation (and other nations I'm sure) already crank out degrees no job market asked for....I'm not sure I can blame the CS depts for trying to stay relevant.
OMG I have tons of jobs **in my company alone** for hardcore folks, all at 100k+ and HR would find nobody. I recently hired one person after 4 months searching in Chicago & NY. The phrase "knowledge of C library/glibc" would promptly disqualify most.