>Remember, these guys who are making all this money are the first > to get fired when sales slump...
Ha. Ha. Ha. Ha ha ha. Ha ha ha ha ha.
Someone has never worked in corporate America.
In my experience (and I suspect that of most here) the sales people are the _last_ to get fired. Sales are slumping? Well, let's get rid of all that deadwood in product development and support; we need to pay the sales department even more because now we need them more than ever.
Not any of the first three. "Colour" is amusing, but more as a parody of Fritz Leiber, Anne McCaffrey, and Lovecraft than as Terry's own voice. "Light Fantastic" is like that, too; and "Equal Rites" just isn't very good.
I'd start with "Mort", "Wyrd Sisters", or "Guards Guards". Perhaps "Guards" would be best as most of Terry's new books seem to be about the City Watch.
Well, she made herself "financially independent". She's walking away from this with at least $20 million in severance, added to the millions of severance she got from Lucent.
(a) Manager that pushed the "off" button gets promoted. (b) Engineers that spent their weekends getting the system back up: off to India with your jobs!
It was obvious to them that you didn't care whether or not the product worked, so they had no incentive to produce anything. They already have your money.
Just yesterday I was talking about a similar situation with an ex-coworker. No publishing house would issue a manuscript without copyediting, fact-checking, and running it by the legal department. That would be a firing offense. But in software everything is expected to work the first time without error or even any communication with the contractor about specifying what the product is actually supposed to do. If those managing even bother to look at the product, it's exceptional.
If you still have your job after this debacle consider actually hiring someone in America that has experience developing software and will have the professional stature to tell you when things aren't working and when the specifications aren't clear. Yes, you may end up paying more. But if you're actually concerned about a working product you need to take the responsibility of what's necessary in personnel and resources to produce it.
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>It's nearly impossible to flunk out of an Ivy League school
This may be true of Harvard (90% honors graduation rate), but certainly isn't true of my alma mater, Cornell. 15% honors graduation rate, a large percentage of flunk-outs and "academic leaves" freshman and sophomore years (I personally know many who never returned) and, unlike many of the other "competive schools", there's no forgiveness for freshman grades. If you don't get on dean's list freshman year you might as well transfer, because you aren't going to get honors and will be competing against those grade-inflated Harvard kids for grad and professional school admissions.
Oh, and the engineering school there has a pretty good reputation, too. And the CS department, even though I think it's too theoretically oriented.
Slashdot Mirror
Demonstrating the workings of market economics combined with the Slashdot effect, the price of CL/DM suddenly dropped to $5.
For all those who say that "running a government like a business" is so great ...
Would you like the CEO, upper management, and marketing department of your company running the country? Come on, would you, really?
>Remember, these guys who are making all this money are the first
> to get fired when sales slump...
Ha. Ha. Ha. Ha ha ha. Ha ha ha ha ha.
Someone has never worked in corporate America.
In my experience (and I suspect that of most here) the sales people are the _last_ to get fired. Sales are slumping? Well, let's get rid of all that deadwood in product development and support; we need to pay the sales department even more because now we need them more than ever.
Well, I see why you're a "former employee". If you hadn't been wasting time drilling away with the customers you'd still be making the big bucks.
My kid sister would have no trouble with that thing.
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My boss, on the other hand
Uranus is Saturn's father and Jupiter's grandfather.
Tinyurl is your friend.
Not any of the first three. "Colour" is amusing, but more as a parody of Fritz Leiber, Anne McCaffrey, and Lovecraft than as Terry's own voice. "Light Fantastic" is like that, too; and "Equal Rites" just isn't very good.
I'd start with "Mort", "Wyrd Sisters", or "Guards Guards". Perhaps "Guards" would be best as most of Terry's new books seem to be about the City Watch.
Learn Hindi.
Why couldn't they have used sneakernet like everyone else?
in Access.
I once worked in a place with a large testing lab. The computers and other electronics were on a UPS. The air conditioning wasn't.
Power failed one Friday evening.
What was found Monday morning is left as an exercise to the reader.
You left out a few lines:
boolean isBarSelected = bar.isSelected();
boolean returnValue;
boolean result;
if (isBarSelected) {
result = true;
}
if (!isBarSelected){
result = false;
}
if (isBarSelected && !isBarSelected) {
result = false;
}
returnValue = result;
return returnValue;
I actually saw code like this in a production system only it was far worse. Said code was framed on my office wall.
software engineers are rapidly updating their resumes.
Programmers. In America.
And this is Slashdot front-page news.
I want it to be the way it was before the dotcom boom, when people could actually get jobs in this industry.
If an American programmer quits a job these days, he's out of the business ...
Even the Indians are asking too much now; we now have to recruit for jobs in outer space.
an Amiga?
Well, she made herself "financially independent". She's walking away from this with at least $20 million in severance, added to the millions of severance she got from Lucent.
(a) Manager that pushed the "off" button gets promoted.
(b) Engineers that spent their weekends getting the system back up: off to India with your jobs!
It was obvious to them that you didn't care whether or not the product worked, so they had no incentive to produce anything. They already have your money.
Just yesterday I was talking about a similar situation with an ex-coworker. No publishing house would issue a manuscript without copyediting, fact-checking, and running it by the legal department. That would be a firing offense. But in software everything is expected to work the first time without error or even any communication with the contractor about specifying what the product is actually supposed to do. If those managing even bother to look at the product, it's exceptional.
If you still have your job after this debacle consider actually hiring someone in America that has experience developing software and will have the professional stature to tell you when things aren't working and when the specifications aren't clear. Yes, you may end up paying more. But if you're actually concerned about a working product you need to take the responsibility of what's necessary in personnel and resources to produce it.
test environment: well, none.
>It's nearly impossible to flunk out of an Ivy League school
This may be true of Harvard (90% honors graduation rate), but certainly isn't true of my alma mater, Cornell. 15% honors graduation rate, a large percentage of flunk-outs and "academic leaves" freshman and sophomore years (I personally know many who never returned) and, unlike many of the other "competive schools", there's no forgiveness for freshman grades. If you don't get on dean's list freshman year you might as well transfer, because you aren't going to get honors and will be competing against those grade-inflated Harvard kids for grad and professional school admissions.
Oh, and the engineering school there has a pretty good reputation, too. And the CS department, even though I think it's too theoretically oriented.
as a main reason to replace all one's hardware to "get it into compliance".
Gee, wasn't it coincidental that the tech market crashed three months after 1/1/00? And that management had cashed out long before?
Follow the money.