The best thing to do is not to find a US company with a satelite office abroad, but the other way round : try to get hired by a US office of a company whose head office is abroad. My experience is that it works better (I've done the trip the other way round, to the US)
As for going to France, forget it right now : the economy is in major trouble right now with strikes countrywide and the recent passing of the mandatory 35 hrs/week.
I suggest you look at finding a company located in the Thames valley in the UK (east of London, between the M3 and the M4 motorways, in cities such as Reading, Basingstoke, Andover,...). The Thames valley is nicknamed the Silicon Valley of England. As for quality of life over there, your workplace won't be gorgeous, but the beautiful coast of southern England is not far away, nor is Wales. You can also try to find a company south of London (Brighton) where many hi-tech companies are.
Of course, you can also go to Ireland : it's easier to go there, but the salaries are less.
Good luck:)
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A door is what a door is perpetually the wrong side of - Ogden Nash
Being from a country (France) where there are around 50 parties, ranging from extreme right to ultra-communist, and even a "natural law party" (new age bozos) and a "hunt, nature and traditions party", I draw two conclusions when I see Al Gore and Georges W. Bush debate :
- I'm convinced they belong to the same party
- I won't lend my wallet to any of them
I'm glad I can't vote, I'd be sad to have to chose.
It's got to be a faulty memory chip : I know only 2 pieces of software big enough to use up all your memory (therefore testing it) : GCC compiling something like the kernel, and Mozilla.
(this is actually a serious response BTW, been there and done that : Communicator or Mozilla are excellent memory tests)
... and thank goodness for that.
If you're doing a closed-source, or semi closed-source product, then yes, release when it's releasable, or you'll annoy and insult your customers (Cf. Microsoft). If your project is purely open-source, then involve the community in it and release as soon as you have something that compiles. Involvement of the community is always beneficial to an open-source project.
Doesn't it strike this guy that for each of those 99 NT bugs documented, there are 999 more that will never be found before they bite some sysadmin because NT is closed-source ? Doesn't it also strikes him that NT users have to wait, and sometimes pay, for Microsofts service packs to get the problem fixed, where Linux users enjoy (or create themselves) the fix straightaway ?
Navigator is a pile of garbage, and always has been for as long as I can remember it. It's bloated and buggy, partly thanks to AOL, and everybody agrees on this. Unfortunately, it also happened to be the only decent desktop browser around under Linux. Well, I think the Mozilla people should wake up : No, Gecko is not faster. No, Mozilla is not smaller or less buggy. No, there is nothing to throw a party every year for : Mozilla is a textbook example of Microsoft-style bloatware. Worse than Microsoft-style actually : as much as I hate to admit it, IE is WAY better. Now, I do have a choice though : crappy Navigator 4.7 or crappier Mozilla.
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How strange, I too have tiles that look burnt and charred in my bathroom, but I can't recall having done a atmospheric reentry in my shower stall.
"A door is what a dog is perpetually the wrong side of" - Ogden Nash
There are a lot of dot-com employees who have gone through real crisis weeks recently where everything in their company failed, especially finances.
The best thing to do is not to find a US company with a satelite office abroad, but the other way round : try to get hired by a US office of a company whose head office is abroad. My experience is that it works better (I've done the trip the other way round, to the US)
...). The Thames valley is nicknamed the Silicon Valley of England. As for quality of life over there, your workplace won't be gorgeous, but the beautiful coast of southern England is not far away, nor is Wales. You can also try to find a company south of London (Brighton) where many hi-tech companies are.
:)
As for going to France, forget it right now : the economy is in major trouble right now with strikes countrywide and the recent passing of the mandatory 35 hrs/week.
I suggest you look at finding a company located in the Thames valley in the UK (east of London, between the M3 and the M4 motorways, in cities such as Reading, Basingstoke, Andover,
Of course, you can also go to Ireland : it's easier to go there, but the salaries are less.
Good luck
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A door is what a door is perpetually the wrong side of - Ogden Nash
Does the phrase "go buy an Alpha" come to mind ? How about finishing off the x86 architecture once and for all ?
Being from a country (France) where there are around 50 parties, ranging from extreme right to ultra-communist, and even a "natural law party" (new age bozos) and a "hunt, nature and traditions party", I draw two conclusions when I see Al Gore and Georges W. Bush debate :
- I'm convinced they belong to the same party
- I won't lend my wallet to any of them
I'm glad I can't vote, I'd be sad to have to chose.
I just wanted to thank you all for your responses and support.
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Email : pierre@lineo.com
Phone : (801) 426-5001 x 208
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How long do you reckon it's gonna be before the L33t surfer guys get sued for copyright infringement (rewritting other people's pages) ?
It's got to be a faulty memory chip : I know only 2 pieces of software big enough to use up all your memory (therefore testing it) : GCC compiling something like the kernel, and Mozilla. (this is actually a serious response BTW, been there and done that : Communicator or Mozilla are excellent memory tests)
and it's already more bloated than the M25. (British-only reference ;)
... and thank goodness for that. If you're doing a closed-source, or semi closed-source product, then yes, release when it's releasable, or you'll annoy and insult your customers (Cf. Microsoft). If your project is purely open-source, then involve the community in it and release as soon as you have something that compiles. Involvement of the community is always beneficial to an open-source project.
Well yeah, I guess you're right, Linux hasn't moved forward thanks to journalists :-)
Doesn't it strike this guy that for each of those 99 NT bugs documented, there are 999 more that will never be found before they bite some sysadmin because NT is closed-source ? Doesn't it also strikes him that NT users have to wait, and sometimes pay, for Microsofts service packs to get the problem fixed, where Linux users enjoy (or create themselves) the fix straightaway ?
Navigator is a pile of garbage, and always has been for as long as I can remember it. It's bloated and buggy, partly thanks to AOL, and everybody agrees on this. Unfortunately, it also happened to be the only decent desktop browser around under Linux. Well, I think the Mozilla people should wake up : No, Gecko is not faster. No, Mozilla is not smaller or less buggy. No, there is nothing to throw a party every year for : Mozilla is a textbook example of Microsoft-style bloatware. Worse than Microsoft-style actually : as much as I hate to admit it, IE is WAY better. Now, I do have a choice though : crappy Navigator 4.7 or crappier Mozilla.