I usually just crash a truck into the lobby, unload about 3 tons of high grade manure, shout incoherently in Farsi and give the receptionist an indian burn.
We had a small contest years ago where employees could create a company poster. I found a great closeup of Conan's angry face (from Savage Sword Of Conan- the cool black and white comic), and put that quote underneath in bloody flaming letters.
I didn't win, of course, but MY poster was the one that started appearing on cubicle and office walls.:-)
Is there a tech company that doesn't do this? And don't bring people in unless you have a position to fill. I once when through 13 hours of interviews, and then another 12 as a followup, only to find out the company didn't actually have any openings for my type of engineer. They just liked to talk to people with good resumes for future reference. I cursed their name thoroughly and darkly on the drive home, and then tech bubble burst the next week (true story), dragging their stock down 98%. Ha! Don't fuck with the Desperation clan! We have fricken' powers.
Cater to their every need Let's face it: programmers want to program, they don't want to do their laundry. So we make it easy for them to do both.
Treat them like OCD babies who cannot function and accomplish normal chores. Great. I find this creepy for some reason. I can do my own chores, thank you. Bought a house all by my lonesome. Signed my own name and everything. I'm a *big* boy now.:-\
Pack them in. Almost every project at Google is a team project, and teams have to communicate. The best way to make communication easy is to put team members within a few feet of each other.
Piffle. "Colocation" is pointy-haired boss-think. We're engineering. Occasional info transfers between team members, and a the odd brainstorm session is more than enough. We don't sit around in prayer circles and chant out code or schematics. "Pack them in" is code for "pay for less floor space".
Even the CEO shared an office at Google for several months after he arrived. Sitting next to a knowledgeable employee was an incredibly effective educational experience.
The CEO learned how annoying it can be to share an office.:-D
Eat your own dog food.
Man, how little are they paying people? Ha! I tease.:)
Strive to reach consensus. Modern corporate mythology has the unique decision maker as hero. We adhere to the view that the "many are smarter than the few," and solicit a broad base of views before reaching any decision.
There other slogan is "History? Nothing to learn there."
Ah, I'm just picking on them. If I were a software weenie instead of a hardware weenie I'd send them a resume.
I have the same "colocation" attitude where I work that I fight endlessly.
"We're networked!" says I. "You can instantly contact another person with any of five different methods. If they are out of touch for some reason, then they probably wouldn't have been in whatever densely packed cubicle farm into which you want to stuff eneryone. The occasional brainstorm/info sharing meeting is sufficient. We don't sit and hold hands and sing as we design. Grrrrrr!" At that point I usually start frothing and someone calls the company nurse for a sedative.
I have said, in no uncertain terms, I *will* barricade myself in my office with the South facing windows and lovely view if they try to move me, and I will start tossing out dead laptops until my demands are met.
So you support the title "Caffiene *PREVENTS* liver disease"?
Cripes, I never said do no further research. That's called a "straw man fallacy". I was addressing the common tendency of the media to present correlation as causation. A simple correlation should not even be news outside journals for the field in question.
C'mon, people. Will you never learn? What happened was a lawyer needed a new 12 person hot tub in his winter palace^H^H^H^H^H^H home, so he found a mark ("a man" in this story). If the case is won, the lawyer gets his hot tub and the man gets a $5 off coupon for an MSCE manual or something.
That's why I moved on to higher level stuff like VB, or RealBasic now that VB has been sucked into the.Net singularity. I don't write 3D games or supercomuter simulations of galactic collisions. Most of what I write is toolware or interfaces to my own hardware designs- very GUI oriented stuff that needs to go from idea to working application in, like, one day. But I still get the "serious coders" asking "why aren't you doing that in C?" Or the message board trolls with "Dur! You couldn't write a FPS in RB! Dur!" Yeah, no shit, Sherlock.
At this point, I just laugh at them and put dirt in their hair.
Agree with on just about everything, but oil is not a poor source of energy from and pourely energy based POV. That's the reason it's so good. There's so much energy already bundled up inside of it, and it takes relatively little processing (refining) to get it to a nicely usable state. So many of these alternatives require us to put too much energy *into* the them. Some of them are good *storage* medium, but as sources...
I do love all these people, though, who are now clamoring "peak oil" with zero understanding. The activist world has its buzzwords just like the business world.
I mean, the rendering plant is going to be there anyway. I thought you only include things that exist specifically to create the fuel you are after. If I live next to an office building with a big ventalation port, and I put a little windmill in front of that vent to power my Playstation, my costs are the windmill and the wires. I don't include the office building because it's already there anyway. From the POV of my system, it's a natural resource.;-)
I send in every rebate over $40, and they all worked fine. My cell phone cost *minus* $100 thanks to a double whammy of Motorola and Amazon rebates. Basically a free phone and three free months of service.
I prefer to get a free accessory, though, and preferably selected from a list. For example, my Powerbook came with a free HP color printer, and I needed a new color printer at the time. The HP works great, *AND* I got a big rebate on the 'book on top of that (end of model clearout that I was lying in wait for).
I'll give France one thing, the whores in some of the Parisian bars are as good looking as high end private escorts here in the USA, and not as expensive (there were good exchange rates).
I really have to get my employer to send me to another conference there.
So everyone is ignorant. Big newsflash. People suck, dude. Doesn't matter where they are. *shrug* I'll be safely retired in Costa Rica with a villa and whores by the time SE Asia takes over anything. More power to them. Can they produce an OS that doesn't hang every nine seconds? I'll buy *two* copies.
Wait... you mean the world is hypocritical when it picks on the USA?
The deuce you say!
I simply cannot imagine such a thing as the world outside the USA being a faultless, perfect, holy and unblemished paradise of higher beings who have no faults at all.
Wow. I just broke my *own* sarcasm meter, and it's a top of the line Agilent.
Slashdot Mirror
(blank stare)
Your local zoo has an infinite number of monkeys?
Can I see?
I usually just crash a truck into the lobby, unload about 3 tons of high grade manure, shout incoherently in Farsi and give the receptionist an indian burn.
We had a small contest years ago where employees could create a company poster. I found a great closeup of Conan's angry face (from Savage Sword Of Conan- the cool black and white comic), and put that quote underneath in bloody flaming letters.
I didn't win, of course, but MY poster was the one that started appearing on cubicle and office walls. :-)
Free Viagra in the cafeteria?
I always preferred "Henchman Resources" myself.
Is there a tech company that doesn't do this? And don't bring people in unless you have a position to fill. I once when through 13 hours of interviews, and then another 12 as a followup, only to find out the company didn't actually have any openings for my type of engineer. They just liked to talk to people with good resumes for future reference. I cursed their name thoroughly and darkly on the drive home, and then tech bubble burst the next week (true story), dragging their stock down 98%. Ha! Don't fuck with the Desperation clan! We have fricken' powers.
Cater to their every need Let's face it: programmers want to program, they don't want to do their laundry. So we make it easy for them to do both.
Treat them like OCD babies who cannot function and accomplish normal chores. Great. I find this creepy for some reason. I can do my own chores, thank you. Bought a house all by my lonesome. Signed my own name and everything. I'm a *big* boy now. :-\
Pack them in. Almost every project at Google is a team project, and teams have to communicate. The best way to make communication easy is to put team members within a few feet of each other.
Piffle. "Colocation" is pointy-haired boss-think. We're engineering. Occasional info transfers between team members, and a the odd brainstorm session is more than enough. We don't sit around in prayer circles and chant out code or schematics. "Pack them in" is code for "pay for less floor space".
Even the CEO shared an office at Google for several months after he arrived. Sitting next to a knowledgeable employee was an incredibly effective educational experience.
The CEO learned how annoying it can be to share an office. :-D
Eat your own dog food.
Man, how little are they paying people? Ha! I tease. :)
Strive to reach consensus. Modern corporate mythology has the unique decision maker as hero. We adhere to the view that the "many are smarter than the few," and solicit a broad base of views before reaching any decision.
There other slogan is "History? Nothing to learn there."
Ah, I'm just picking on them. If I were a software weenie instead of a hardware weenie I'd send them a resume.
I have the same "colocation" attitude where I work that I fight endlessly.
"We're networked!" says I. "You can instantly contact another person with any of five different methods. If they are out of touch for some reason, then they probably wouldn't have been in whatever densely packed cubicle farm into which you want to stuff eneryone. The occasional brainstorm/info sharing meeting is sufficient. We don't sit and hold hands and sing as we design. Grrrrrr!" At that point I usually start frothing and someone calls the company nurse for a sedative.
I have said, in no uncertain terms, I *will* barricade myself in my office with the South facing windows and lovely view if they try to move me, and I will start tossing out dead laptops until my demands are met.
Piffle. Causation works fine.
Cripes, I never said do no further research. That's called a "straw man fallacy". I was addressing the common tendency of the media to present correlation as causation. A simple correlation should not even be news outside journals for the field in question.
This link might help.
C'mon, people. Will you never learn? What happened was a lawyer needed a new 12 person hot tub in his winter palace^H^H^H^H^H^H home, so he found a mark ("a man" in this story). If the case is won, the lawyer gets his hot tub and the man gets a $5 off coupon for an MSCE manual or something.
I meant trolls who go to RB message boards and troll about RB. I'm not asking any questions at all.
Toy languages? Huh? Every language has its place and use. That's all I say.
Repeat as necessary.
For example, "Lines of code" / "Lines of commenting" will always produce "Inf"
At this point, I just laugh at them and put dirt in their hair.
Yes. Everyone in the world is a hypocrite. Even me. Even you. I never suggested otherwise.
I'd get the same effect if I tried driving my car on the freeway with three wheels.
Just a pointless observation. I'm good at those.
Or at least the giant turtle they are standing on.
I do love all these people, though, who are now clamoring "peak oil" with zero understanding. The activist world has its buzzwords just like the business world.
I mean, the rendering plant is going to be there anyway. I thought you only include things that exist specifically to create the fuel you are after. If I live next to an office building with a big ventalation port, and I put a little windmill in front of that vent to power my Playstation, my costs are the windmill and the wires. I don't include the office building because it's already there anyway. From the POV of my system, it's a natural resource. ;-)
First, you build this giant wall...
I prefer to get a free accessory, though, and preferably selected from a list. For example, my Powerbook came with a free HP color printer, and I needed a new color printer at the time. The HP works great, *AND* I got a big rebate on the 'book on top of that (end of model clearout that I was lying in wait for).
I really have to get my employer to send me to another conference there.
So everyone is ignorant. Big newsflash. People suck, dude. Doesn't matter where they are. *shrug* I'll be safely retired in Costa Rica with a villa and whores by the time SE Asia takes over anything. More power to them. Can they produce an OS that doesn't hang every nine seconds? I'll buy *two* copies.
As it should. Damn those French racists! :)
The deuce you say!
I simply cannot imagine such a thing as the world outside the USA being a faultless, perfect, holy and unblemished paradise of higher beings who have no faults at all.
Wow. I just broke my *own* sarcasm meter, and it's a top of the line Agilent.