Liquor laws aren't an issue for me when choosing a job, but social life is. I like a place to have pleanty to do, movies, arts, theater, etc. But more importantly is proximity to friends and family, is it going to be a 2-4 hour drive, a flight what when I want to visit.
I disagree on several accounts. First my company does consulting,mentoring, and education. The people who teach the classes also program and mentor. And the teaching pays better, so those who can teach at my company. Also the loss of productivity for mentoring may be like you described for a short period of time, but the person being mentored improves his effieiency, so there is an upfront hit in productivity but over the long run you gain as the student learns and no longer needs mentored.
We have had a great deal of success with our mentoring program. We have gone in to many companies, helped design architecture, mentor the team on OO methods and Java, and help with the first iteration. Those companies usually have us back when the have new products because the projects we started were successful
Of course with most free software, since there is no one promised a product that withdraw their money if it doesn't happen there aren't many deadlines.
Suckfactor in free software is often due to inexperience or people not putting enough effort into it because they aren't getting paid.
I get paid to program all day and I sometimes teach classes in programming in the evenings, when I get home I am not motivated to do program anylonger. Especially not for free.
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Actually I knew that the shoe store killed West End, and I have a friend who wrote a good bit of the Star Wars stuff, and never got compensated for it. I have another friend who finished his project for Blood Shadows but since his wife was leaving to work for TSR they canned his project. Yes they are the worst kind of scum, too bad I liked their games.
As for the free release, I don't know what your terms were in licence, ask some lawer, of course that would cost you too. Good luck
It seems to me this is the trend in RPG now, TSR/Wizards/Ha$borg, West End bought by Yeti, Pinnacle being sold to Cybergames and then being bought back.
More money behind the games may do some good for the quality of the products made, but it may make it hard for new game ideas to make it into the industry.
The laws of thermodynamics do not prevent the useful collection of waste heat. What they prevent is achieving 100% efficiency by doing so because your collection and transformation system will loose some heat, not create necessarily create heat
Much of this article seems to be OOA, Out Of Ass. The author states many figures such as designing takes 3 times as long with no backup. There are some points but most of the apply to missused OOA&D.
Object reuse only coming after years. Well, I work for a company that is a big user of object technologies. We have our own data access, mapping, and server objects that are our bread and butter, we can go in and have an application up in little time because we don't have to write most of the functionality, just abstract the business logic.
Buy in. That is true, if not everyone buys in the programmers will be pulling their hair out, however this is true in the development contract of many methodology.
Not everything is abstractable/in a hiearchy, true but I find in most of the work I do, it is. There are cases where some of what needs to be done doesn't make pretty objects, but that is the exception
I can't get to the article either, but I would imagine they would blast it into space using the traditional launch mechansims then once it got safely our of our air turn on the nukes.
I have long thought that vast awards of "Punative" damages to plaintifs has hurt the legal system and driven up insurance and medical costs, as well as many other areas.
The logic behind punative damages is that the fee has to be large enough to make the transgressor not do it again out of fear of another penalty. But theses huge punative damage awards just encourage people to file suit over stupid stuff
My idea on what would work right is that the people filing only get the "real" damages. For example in the microsoft case, give them 10 year salary or something, good but not stupid. Then make microsoft pay the remaining 4.75 billion in punative damages but have it go somewhere else, not the plantifs. Where the somewhere else is I don't know and is a can of worms in itslef
I think this would preserve the punishment without painting a target on anyone with money
How long until some small or new music labels decide to distribute music on the non-fee based Napster service as a matter of business, like distributing to radio stations? If someone can show more profits by using napsters free music distribution as adds for cd how long until money hungry RIAA lables join in.
It needs to be said. There is nothing in science today that precludes the existance of a or any god(s). Nor will anything in science ever confirm or deny the existance of god(s). Science explains how things work. They could work that way because they always worked that way, or they could work that way because that's how some divinity wrote the rules. Science cannot know which is true, it can only uncover and apply the rules.
A company actually wants to give credit for work they could have for free. Cool. I would say definately add some extra credits in the source code that they contributed. The cards are a great idea, above and beyond expectations. Also a credits page on the website is good. What else could work you ask? If they are repeated contributors you may want to contract with them for upcoming products.
I saw it as a young one, don't quite remember how young, but it really boosted my interest in science. I won't say it made me a geek for life, but it was a contributing factor.
Do I ever disagree. A lot of places only want to hire someone with experience or are reluctant to hire someone without experience. Then throw on there that some companies have mandatory pay scale differences based on degree and they won't want to hire a masters without any experience
I would say you are probably right about getting hired for the same possitions at the same salary. I think where the difference will come in is what you do after that. If at your school the comp sci degree is 10 times harder, it may be a 10 times better program. Therefore enabling you to advance into better programming jobs. If want to head for tech management, then get the CIS degree and schmooze when you get hired.
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Liquor laws aren't an issue for me when choosing a job, but social life is. I like a place to have pleanty to do, movies, arts, theater, etc. But more importantly is proximity to friends and family, is it going to be a 2-4 hour drive, a flight what when I want to visit.
I disagree on several accounts. First my company does consulting,mentoring, and education. The people who teach the classes also program and mentor. And the teaching pays better, so those who can teach at my company. Also the loss of productivity for mentoring may be like you described for a short period of time, but the person being mentored improves his effieiency, so there is an upfront hit in productivity but over the long run you gain as the student learns and no longer needs mentored.
We have had a great deal of success with our mentoring program. We have gone in to many companies, helped design architecture, mentor the team on OO methods and Java, and help with the first iteration. Those companies usually have us back when the have new products because the projects we started were successful
Of course with most free software, since there is no one promised a product that withdraw their money if it doesn't happen there aren't many deadlines.
Suckfactor in free software is often due to inexperience or people not putting enough effort into it because they aren't getting paid.
I get paid to program all day and I sometimes teach classes in programming in the evenings, when I get home I am not motivated to do program anylonger. Especially not for free.
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So I had to throw in the 0 for effect.
Actually I knew that the shoe store killed West End, and I have a friend who wrote a good bit of the Star Wars stuff, and never got compensated for it. I have another friend who finished his project for Blood Shadows but since his wife was leaving to work for TSR they canned his project. Yes they are the worst kind of scum, too bad I liked their games.
As for the free release, I don't know what your terms were in licence, ask some lawer, of course that would cost you too. Good luck
It seems to me this is the trend in RPG now, TSR/Wizards/Ha$borg, West End bought by Yeti, Pinnacle being sold to Cybergames and then being bought back.
More money behind the games may do some good for the quality of the products made, but it may make it hard for new game ideas to make it into the industry.
The laws of thermodynamics do not prevent the useful collection of waste heat. What they prevent is achieving 100% efficiency by doing so because your collection and transformation system will loose some heat, not create necessarily create heat
I like Phasetech speakers and Denon reciever/tuner
I guess clicking no is an error now.
Much of this article seems to be OOA, Out Of Ass. The author states many figures such as designing takes 3 times as long with no backup. There are some points but most of the apply to missused OOA&D.
Object reuse only coming after years. Well, I work for a company that is a big user of object technologies. We have our own data access, mapping, and server objects that are our bread and butter, we can go in and have an application up in little time because we don't have to write most of the functionality, just abstract the business logic.
Buy in. That is true, if not everyone buys in the programmers will be pulling their hair out, however this is true in the development contract of many methodology.
Not everything is abstractable/in a hiearchy, true but I find in most of the work I do, it is. There are cases where some of what needs to be done doesn't make pretty objects, but that is the exception
I can't get to the article either, but I would imagine they would blast it into space using the traditional launch mechansims then once it got safely our of our air turn on the nukes.
Only if you are color blind :) /P?
I have long thought that vast awards of "Punative" damages to plaintifs has hurt the legal system and driven up insurance and medical costs, as well as many other areas.
The logic behind punative damages is that the fee has to be large enough to make the transgressor not do it again out of fear of another penalty. But theses huge punative damage awards just encourage people to file suit over stupid stuff
My idea on what would work right is that the people filing only get the "real" damages. For example in the microsoft case, give them 10 year salary or something, good but not stupid. Then make microsoft pay the remaining 4.75 billion in punative damages but have it go somewhere else, not the plantifs. Where the somewhere else is I don't know and is a can of worms in itslef
I think this would preserve the punishment without painting a target on anyone with money
How long until some small or new music labels decide to distribute music on the non-fee based Napster service as a matter of business, like distributing to radio stations? If someone can show more profits by using napsters free music distribution as adds for cd how long until money hungry RIAA lables join in.
It needs to be said. There is nothing in science today that precludes the existance of a or any god(s). Nor will anything in science ever confirm or deny the existance of god(s). Science explains how things work. They could work that way because they always worked that way, or they could work that way because that's how some divinity wrote the rules. Science cannot know which is true, it can only uncover and apply the rules.
If you are scared by the trend of medicating for negative emotions perhapse this pill will make you feel better
But maybe it should lead in a shift of money from bad dot com business plans to sciences in general
No cure yet but there is a vaccine to help prevent it
A company actually wants to give credit for work they could have for free. Cool. I would say definately add some extra credits in the source code that they contributed. The cards are a great idea, above and beyond expectations. Also a credits page on the website is good. What else could work you ask? If they are repeated contributors you may want to contract with them for upcoming products.
Long multipart over dramatized stories make me rething using this virtual community
I saw it as a young one, don't quite remember how young, but it really boosted my interest in science. I won't say it made me a geek for life, but it was a contributing factor.
Do I ever disagree. A lot of places only want to hire someone with experience or are reluctant to hire someone without experience. Then throw on there that some companies have mandatory pay scale differences based on degree and they won't want to hire a masters without any experience
I would say you are probably right about getting hired for the same possitions at the same salary. I think where the difference will come in is what you do after that. If at your school the comp sci degree is 10 times harder, it may be a 10 times better program. Therefore enabling you to advance into better programming jobs. If want to head for tech management, then get the CIS degree and schmooze when you get hired.
Goat Sex link above.
Who the hell modded this ad insightful, I wish I could metamod
Gotcha, since the original post was a sub 1 post, I didnt' see it.