I wonder if I could get it read by non-programmers
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The Bug by Ellen Ullman
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· Score: 2, Interesting
I wonder if I could get it read by non-programmers in my company. Just in order to make them feel the psycological consequences of them changing their specs two weeks before commercial release...
I'm a french guy... and I left my country, despite I love France
I'm working now in Switzerland and I went there for at least two reasons:
1. Taxes are lower here than in France
2. Despite prices are two times higher, you may get paid 4 times more...
Provided you come to "Suisse romande" everybody speak french (if you want to learn french it's ok) and at least in the IT community quite everyone speak english (there is about 23% of foreigners in switzerland).
There is a LOT of job opportunities here...
concerning work permit, any IT company can get you a 1 year permit (B permit) in 4 to 6 weeks
IT companies do provide stock options and taxes come when you receive them, not when you realize them (like in France, and this makes a BIG difference)
It's a healthy country, more than France and certainly much more than Paris. There's a wonderfull landscape but you will have to stand living in the Alpes, and having cold winters.
However, you will be able to ski almost all the year long, while having a good swim in lakes during summer.
I worked with two US guys that came to my company directly from the states, and now they left...
They did not adapt to the living standards, it seems this is the main challenge for an american guy who comes to Europe
May be one day there will be some kind of advertisement like banners or intersticials with the SPVR, but it will stay free for the end user.
Singularis aims to sell its technology to DTV operators, not to Internet users. The SPVR is a kind of "proof of concept" for TIVO-like Set-Top-Boxes that will be distributed by digital cable operators.
Finally TV users will get a cable STB with browsing, time shifting and smart recording capabilities...
Much more integrated than TIVO or ReplayTV that need a lot of tuning to work with a STB
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I wonder if I could get it read by non-programmers in my company.
Just in order to make them feel the psycological consequences of them changing their specs two weeks before commercial release...
I'm a french guy... and I left my country, despite I love France
I'm working now in Switzerland and I went there for at least two reasons:
1. Taxes are lower here than in France
2. Despite prices are two times higher, you may get paid 4 times more...
Provided you come to "Suisse romande" everybody speak french (if you want to learn french it's ok) and at least in the IT community quite everyone speak english (there is about 23% of foreigners in switzerland).
There is a LOT of job opportunities here...
concerning work permit, any IT company can get you a 1 year permit (B permit) in 4 to 6 weeks
IT companies do provide stock options and taxes come when you receive them, not when you realize them (like in France, and this makes a BIG difference)
It's a healthy country, more than France and certainly much more than Paris. There's a wonderfull landscape but you will have to stand living in the Alpes, and having cold winters.
However, you will be able to ski almost all the year long, while having a good swim in lakes during summer.
I worked with two US guys that came to my company directly from the states, and now they left...
They did not adapt to the living standards, it seems this is the main challenge for an american guy who comes to Europe
YES IT IS really free...
May be one day there will be some kind of advertisement like banners or intersticials with the SPVR, but it will stay free for the end user.
Singularis aims to sell its technology to DTV operators, not to Internet users. The SPVR is a kind of "proof of concept" for TIVO-like Set-Top-Boxes that will be distributed by digital cable operators.
Finally TV users will get a cable STB with browsing, time shifting and smart recording capabilities...
Much more integrated than TIVO or ReplayTV that need a lot of tuning to work with a STB
The SPVR dev team :-)