For real, I know a really bright dude who got his start programming when he was a janitor at the Cyclotron at Indiana University. He was curious about what the programmers were doing, learned to program himself, and eventually he ended up working as a programmer there. Since it was the academic world, this didn't translate into a big pay raise, but in later jobs he made out considerably better.
Nice urban legend, but Microsoft (while they may be evil), is smart enough to understand that working a lot of overtime is a bad idea because your productivity nosedives.
Not to mention, wouldn't it be kind of stupid to hire two people for the same job with that sort of agreement? Besides the inevitable duplication of effort, they'd be bending over backward trying to sabotage each other. It would be good for reality TV, maybe, but a terrible idea for any other business.
During the 90's there was a 'twee pop' fad in the UK (and to a lesser degree in the US) which seemed to involve nerdy people singing/playing nerdy songs, and the uniform of the movement was the anorak, which the nerdy musicians wore. Hence the anorak became a symbol of the whole thing and 'anorak' turned into a synonym for geek, I guess.
Opinion DOES count, but you have to make sure you're speaking the same opinions as those around you.
Hmm, that reminds me of Miss America's testimony from the Woody Allen movie 'Bananas':
"I believe Mr. Macabre is a traitor to our country because his views are different from those of the President and others of his kind. Differences of opinion should be tolerated, but not if they're too different. That makes him a subversive mother."
Actually, what led to the Black Monday crash was the newly created FEDERAL RESERVE trying to manage interest rates and keeping them artificially deflated to try to spur an "eternal boom cycle".
Please write them a letter about this or something, they don't seem to have figured that out themselves based on their recent behavior.
Personally I feel I get more recognition and appreciation when programming for a larger audience like the Internet.
I dunno, as part of a huge team consisting of marketeers, graphic design folks, and server-side Java kids, I felt like a cog in the machine more than anything.
At another job, when I developed an app with a very small group of programmers to help some scientists run raw data through a pipeline and then display the results on a website only this small group ever used, I felt something like 50 times the job satisfaction and recognition.
My experience of UML was also abysmal. Some kids used it to design what could only be described as 'comedy diagrams', total gibberish that looked pretty, and after the meeting management was spraining their arms from patting themselves on the back for bringing us to this new level of sophistication.
So, not a bad idea in and of itself, but horribly misused 99% of the time.
They'd better hurry up with that one, thanks to keyboards and such I know my handwriting skills are deteriorating beyond recognition even by humans with decent eyesight.
Sun has no history of doing _anything_ at all interesting in terms of UI work.
Well, that's an American tradition, esp. in politics. Watch the ads: 'I have no experience working with other people to create and get bills passed. I am teh Washington outsider! Vote for me!'
Sun is just applying this winning formula to technology.
DFW Interview in 'the Believer' mentions Aczel
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He mentions it in the most roundabout way, referring to Aczel as 'a guy with the same initials as an airline', and publisher 4 walls 8 windows as 'sounds like an autistic's description of a house'. He seems to share your view especially re: the 'mad Icarus' bit, which he has no patience for. In general he has nothing good to say about that book.
We also find out in the interview DFW has a crippling dependence on chaw. Who knew?
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Is this going to be like that DARPA road race, where Wired did a 50-page color article on it, and then on race day none of the robots are able to make it as far as a stray shopping cart in a windy parking lot?
His family might be upset as well. Curly's family went after the guys that came up with the 'Curl' language, I think. Also several Calculus and Physics textbook publishers were sued.
A friend's kid turned in a report on General Lee full of references to a 'Boss Hogg', a guy named 'Roscoe P. Coltrane', and some woman named 'Daisy', and it turns out that wasn't what the teacher had in mind.
Give the guy a break, he may not be able to open his mouth without a lie coming out, but I have it on good authority Darl NEVER drinks caffeinated beverages.
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Looks like nobody else has given you the 'you're new here, aren't you?' response, so I guess I will.
Let's settle this so we can all go Ohm.
For real, I know a really bright dude who got his start programming when he was a janitor at the Cyclotron at Indiana University. He was curious about what the programmers were doing, learned to program himself, and eventually he ended up working as a programmer there. Since it was the academic world, this didn't translate into a big pay raise, but in later jobs he made out considerably better.
Occasionally they post stories here quoting 'Analyst' Rob Enderle.
Not to mention, wouldn't it be kind of stupid to hire two people for the same job with that sort of agreement? Besides the inevitable duplication of effort, they'd be bending over backward trying to sabotage each other. It would be good for reality TV, maybe, but a terrible idea for any other business.
During the 90's there was a 'twee pop' fad in the UK (and to a lesser degree in the US) which seemed to involve nerdy people singing/playing nerdy songs, and the uniform of the movement was the anorak, which the nerdy musicians wore. Hence the anorak became a symbol of the whole thing and 'anorak' turned into a synonym for geek, I guess.
Then you call the book 'Finnegan's Wake'.
We call that the 'Tarantino Effect'.
Hmm, that reminds me of Miss America's testimony from the Woody Allen movie 'Bananas':
"I believe Mr. Macabre is a traitor to our country because his views are different from those of the President and others of his kind. Differences of opinion should be tolerated, but not if they're too different. That makes him a subversive mother."
When I see the news story where they've found lots of cat skeletons behind the wall of a building, I'm telling them your name.
Please write them a letter about this or something, they don't seem to have figured that out themselves based on their recent behavior.
And, in the words of John Maynard Keynes: In the long run, we are all dead.
I dunno, as part of a huge team consisting of marketeers, graphic design folks, and server-side Java kids, I felt like a cog in the machine more than anything.
At another job, when I developed an app with a very small group of programmers to help some scientists run raw data through a pipeline and then display the results on a website only this small group ever used, I felt something like 50 times the job satisfaction and recognition.
Actually at Citizen Ball Park, if you buy a $3 beer, the vendor notifies you of a $2 transaction fee, and asks if you want to continue.
So, not a bad idea in and of itself, but horribly misused 99% of the time.
UML - the biggest joke played on management since the 'be just like Japan!' fad of the 80's.
They'd better hurry up with that one, thanks to keyboards and such I know my handwriting skills are deteriorating beyond recognition even by humans with decent eyesight.
Nobody told me Men At Work had re-united. No wonder they had such a good year.
Well, that's an American tradition, esp. in politics. Watch the ads: 'I have no experience working with other people to create and get bills passed. I am teh Washington outsider! Vote for me!'
Sun is just applying this winning formula to technology.
We also find out in the interview DFW has a crippling dependence on chaw. Who knew?
Is this going to be like that DARPA road race, where Wired did a 50-page color article on it, and then on race day none of the robots are able to make it as far as a stray shopping cart in a windy parking lot?
His family might be upset as well. Curly's family went after the guys that came up with the 'Curl' language, I think. Also several Calculus and Physics textbook publishers were sued.
Of course he doesn't mention his grandma is Admiral Grace Hopper.
A friend's kid turned in a report on General Lee full of references to a 'Boss Hogg', a guy named 'Roscoe P. Coltrane', and some woman named 'Daisy', and it turns out that wasn't what the teacher had in mind.
Give the guy a break, he may not be able to open his mouth without a lie coming out, but I have it on good authority Darl NEVER drinks caffeinated beverages.