There was this psychological experiment on young children where the adult in the room said, "Here's a cookie. You can have it now. But, if you wait until I get back I'll give you two cookies." (They taped it. It was funny watching 6 year olds struggle with temptation.)
Real-world dotcom example: "Here's a salary. You can have it now. But if you take options instead you will make twice as much when we go public".
The smart kid these days would take the real cookie and not the promise.
If you wish to ship projects offshore make sure you have incentive program, that will pace developer across the ocean to deliver goods at paced rate - see eXtreme Programming.
At my ex-employer, the programming staff was busy tearing up their Extreme Programming user story cards while the management was running the company into bankruptcy.
Some of us would be happy to just get a cheap holiday
Cheap is right. You won't be paid. And it will hardly be a holiday: you'll be working 18 hours a day and will have no chance to do this "web log" and "photography" you envision. Do you think that this is for your benefit?
Amazing. Even now, Greenspun continues to find suckers.
There are apparently conspiracy theorists who believe that the lineup of these planets will put enough gravitational pull on the Earth that the crust will loosen from the mantel and be able to shift around very easily, causing massive tital waves like in the movie "Deep Impact"
Oh, come on. These "explanations" are the kind of crap every failing company puts out as PR as they try to convince customers and investors that they are viable:
- We're going to make a profit Real Soon Now. Really, really, really. Cross my heart. - Everything that went wrong is the fault of the guy that left. He's the screwup. Not us. Really, really, really. Cross my heart.
No investor is going to believe explanations like that in a recessionary market. No way.
Slashdot Mirror
The mono mix of Pet Sounds is Brian Wilson's original mix. He was unable to create a stereo mix because he has significant hearing loss in one ear.
What happens when the next critical security bug is discovered and no patch is available?
And Detritus was enlightened.
If the famous Microsoft deal had been leaked back when Jobs took over, there would have been financial mayhem if someone acquired the inside info.
Also, someone would have found a young woman in a track suit to run up the aisle and throw a hammer through the screen during Gates' speech.
Buckley's been after the Randians for years ...
Oh, come on. We expected that response.
From the Fortune article:
"Last year Gates made $666,520 in salary and bonus"
This will be bigger than pets.com ...
XML? That's being outsourced to India.
Free speech is the right to yell "theatre!" in a crowded fire - Abbie Hoffman
Right now it doesn't seem to mean a lot to employers if you're certified or not. All they want is experience.
Not true. Experience doesn't matter. They don't want anyone.
Stuck in a cube. Dead end job. Talking to AOL users all day.
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Putting customers on hold so that he can get back to reading Slashdot.
And then someone calls and says he's "Jon Katz"
02: The food on campus rocks!
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That should be:
The food on campus tastes like rocks
Gates had a million-dollar trust fund and a mother who knew the chairman of IBM personally. That's how he got the PC operating system contract.
There was this psychological experiment on young children where the adult in the room said, "Here's a cookie. You can have it now. But, if you wait until I get back I'll give you two cookies." (They taped it. It was funny watching 6 year olds struggle with temptation.)
Real-world dotcom example: "Here's a salary. You can have it now. But if you take options instead you will make twice as much when we go public".
The smart kid these days would take the real cookie and not the promise.
If you wish to ship projects offshore make sure you have incentive program, that will pace developer across the ocean to deliver goods at paced rate - see eXtreme Programming.
At my ex-employer, the programming staff was busy tearing up their Extreme Programming user story cards while the management was running the company into bankruptcy.
I've never known a manager who actually achieved anything of significance during their coding career. It's really only a career path for the mediocre.
Yeah, but these "mediocre" people:
- make the decisions about what you do at your job
- make far more money than you
- fire you
There are three people that you used to work with that now want to kill you.
I'm a pathetic coward.
No, you're not.
No response ... does a mirror site exist?
Some of us would be happy to just get a cheap holiday
Cheap is right. You won't be paid. And it will hardly be a holiday: you'll be working 18 hours a day and will have no chance to do this "web log" and "photography" you envision. Do you think that this is for your benefit?
Amazing. Even now, Greenspun continues to find suckers.
There are apparently conspiracy theorists who believe that the lineup of these planets will put enough gravitational pull on the Earth that the crust will loosen from the mantel and be able to shift around very easily, causing massive tital waves like in the movie "Deep Impact"
Isn't that Ed Yourdon's new book?
Little things have all been cut off over the past year or so. Things like free soda, the office plant rental service, annual raises...
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Salaries
Heh, and now that MS has a stable OS, the apps have all gone down the shitter.
What apps? Just about every commercial application on the market five years ago has been replaced by a Microsoft clone.
Developing for Windows is corporate suicide.
Oh, come on. These "explanations" are the kind of crap every failing company puts out as PR as they try to convince customers and investors that they are viable:
- We're going to make a profit Real Soon Now. Really, really, really. Cross my heart.
- Everything that went wrong is the fault of the guy that left. He's the screwup. Not us. Really, really, really. Cross my heart.
No investor is going to believe explanations like that in a recessionary market. No way.
You should be taking care of your own business. Think IRAs and 401ks.
Enron.