Robert Vincent Electronics Technician Maintaining all the electronic equipment in the department and assist the professors and students in research activities at the Physics Department.
Personal Interests: Bike riding, saltwater fly fishing, Amatuer Radio, and restoring and fixing up old radios.
Also, the original press release. http://www.uri.edu/news/releases/?id=2659
Set a high watermark for incoming developers. The question for your interview team is: "Would I really like to personally work with that person on any project"? Even if you aren't "stuck" with them on your particular part of the project, don't "stick" them to another team, you will end up working together sooner or later. Just drop them, and keep searching.
Grow slowly, at most 1-2 developers a quarter. That way, you can teach them about the existing procedures and culture, and also take in what they bring.
Always interview (1-2 a week), you will never know when a gem becomes available. Why would you think that it always cooincides with your needs?
Keep an open door. Let programmers feel comfortable that they can call you and the other partners total complete nit-wits. Why? Storming is part team building. And also, what makes you so special, just because you started a company doesn't make you Gods choosen ruler. Listen to those developers, they know shit(if you hired the right ones)...
Oh, yea, and make it a point to hire women and minorities. There is nothing worse then a 40-person software company with only 4 women, and no minorites. Diversity rules!
At the least, the mens bathroom would stink from 36 asses, and the 4 women would have personally assigned stalls. How fair is that?
...Freenet is primarily used for the distribution of noncopyrighted material at this time. It is actively being used in countries like China by dissidents to distribute censored information...
...and offer superior anonymity in the process...
I though that it was anonymous. How do we know that Chinese rebels are using it???
1) Pre-Nup. Get prearranged severance packages with 6-12 months of salary. That will make them think twice about letting you go. 2) You retain hire/fire power to grow YOUR team. 3) Get a budget that you control. 4) Start looking for another job anyway, because you blew it...
According to Zubrin, the Delta-V needed to get to Mars is less then getting to the moon. China should go to Mars, skip the moon, nothing to see there, move on...
1. Change the SMTP standards. 2. Wait for business owners to squirm as they consider upgrading their M$Exchange boxen. 3. Convince them to install Chandler 1.0 instead. 4.... 5. Profit?!
Well then you shouldn't have made life so difficult for your CTO. I mean, everyone has their price, PAY IT!
Oh wait, you want team players. Well then who's idea was it to cut his pay, deny funding to the latest project, or take photos at his last "business trip". Certainly not his...
0. Talked with EVERY developer I had known and asked about job leads. 1. Spent 2-3 hours a day targeting resumes for the job(s) listed on about 10 different sites. What a waste of time... Over 300 hiring gits that never responded to me. I mean _NO_ response. 2. Found a short term contract. 3. After 10 weeks, ended up taking an internship @ $10/hr. It was easy to get a job against others that had no experience vs. my 5 years. 4. Worked so DAMN hard at the internship, it has now evolved into a real job with decent pay. 5. Paid off ALL of my debt, so the next time I am unemployed, I won't have so many bills to worry about. Read: cut up ccs, stopped buying gadgets, paid off car. 6. ??? 7. Profit and retire at 70?
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Couldn't find a pic
He is not a prof, but a tech.
http://www.phys.uri.edu/people/rob.html
Robert Vincent
Electronics Technician
Maintaining all the electronic equipment in the department and assist the professors and students in research activities at the Physics Department.
Personal Interests: Bike riding, saltwater fly fishing, Amatuer Radio, and restoring and fixing up old radios.
Also, the original press release. http://www.uri.edu/news/releases/?id=2659
Used mathcad also...
ee
The real trick is take lots of pictures.
Improve your odds through the power of statistics. Some are bound to be good through sheer luck, so take more.
It may not up your % of good pictures, but it can up your # of them...
ee
The reality is...
Nobody cares about your data. They just want your money, which is easy enough to find.
After reading through GiBs of your old mail, they will see that you have a secret swiss bank account with some cash????
Yeah sure...
Don't overestimate your importance in this world.
--
ee
Cafe Colon
Worth every, every penny.
--ee
Set a high watermark for incoming developers. The question for your interview team is: "Would I really like to personally work with that person on any project"? Even if you aren't "stuck" with them on your particular part of the project, don't "stick" them to another team, you will end up working together sooner or later. Just drop them, and keep searching.
Grow slowly, at most 1-2 developers a quarter. That way, you can teach them about the existing procedures and culture, and also take in what they bring.
Always interview (1-2 a week), you will never know when a gem becomes available. Why would you think that it always cooincides with your needs?
Keep an open door. Let programmers feel comfortable that they can call you and the other partners total complete nit-wits. Why? Storming is part team building. And also, what makes you so special, just because you started a company doesn't make you Gods choosen ruler. Listen to those developers, they know shit(if you hired the right ones)...
Oh, yea, and make it a point to hire women and minorities. There is nothing worse then a 40-person software company with only 4 women, and no minorites. Diversity rules!
At the least, the mens bathroom would stink from 36 asses, and the 4 women would have personally assigned stalls. How fair is that?
--ee
It is bad enough that my 10 year old Usenet posts are available to my potential employers.
Now they can download what I did in Kindergarten?
--ee
8 percent!
That means that 92% of us will still be around.
Yippee!!
ee
I though that it was anonymous. How do we know that Chinese rebels are using it???
1) Pre-Nup. Get prearranged severance packages with 6-12 months of salary. That will make them think twice about letting you go.
2) You retain hire/fire power to grow YOUR team.
3) Get a budget that you control.
4) Start looking for another job anyway, because you blew it...
--ee
PHB = pointy haired boss. PHBs = Plural of PHB. Read Dilbert! -- ee
A book that I actually read.
The mood is dark, but not too cypherpunk. I can almost hear the florescent lights buzzing through the whole book. Very harsh and simplified.
The descriptions of the team meetings and the QA vs. DEV rants rival Dilbert's distopia.
Buy it for the few sex scenes, and watch out, the PHBs are in their too, not just the 'jester'.
Also, there net admin is so raw. Bring her on!
try {
...
;
} catch (VeryBadException e) {
if (DateTime.Now.year > 2003) {
MessageBox.Show("ee WAS here. Not anymore! Nelson: ha-ha ");
} else {
}
}
According to Zubrin, the Delta-V needed to get to Mars is less then getting to the moon. China should go to Mars, skip the moon, nothing to see there, move on...
--ee
So a thief will add 10 seconds to his "lift-a-car-time" by spray painting the plate before driving off...
Next...
I just grabbed my knees, and boy is that comfortable!
1. Change the SMTP standards. ...
2. Wait for business owners to squirm as they consider upgrading their M$Exchange boxen.
3. Convince them to install Chandler 1.0 instead.
4.
5. Profit?!
while (1) {
}
> just keeps getting more and more interesting!
Uhh, no it's not.
We don't expect any malicious action
Well then you shouldn't have made life so difficult for your CTO. I mean, everyone has their price, PAY IT!
Oh wait, you want team players. Well then who's idea was it to cut his pay, deny funding to the latest project, or take photos at his last "business trip". Certainly not his...
0. Talked with EVERY developer I had known and asked about job leads.
1. Spent 2-3 hours a day targeting resumes for the job(s) listed on about 10 different sites. What a waste of time... Over 300 hiring gits that never responded to me. I mean _NO_ response.
2. Found a short term contract.
3. After 10 weeks, ended up taking an internship @ $10/hr. It was easy to get a job against others that had no experience vs. my 5 years.
4. Worked so DAMN hard at the internship, it has now evolved into a real job with decent pay.
5. Paid off ALL of my debt, so the next time I am unemployed, I won't have so many bills to worry about. Read: cut up ccs, stopped buying gadgets, paid off car.
6. ???
7. Profit and retire at 70?
Kill me now!
What's a book?