Being cynical here, but maybe we have to consider whether alienating the US military-industrial complex (and their coterie of owned congresspersons) by purchasing a non-US warplane would be _worse_ for Australia's…
At the 71% schedule point, one day after coding on the perfectly designed spec has commenced: Programmer: "@%*#! We didn't think of that, the design will have to change."
The main takeaway here is that large companies have large-company pathologies. If you don't like that, work at smaller companies.
>> ...One example of this is Solaris SVR4 packages... I wonder what Google are using Solaris for, and if it's just legacy stuff.
I think the danger is that you might displace intrinsic motivation (pride in good work) with extrinsic motivation (doin' it for the Woos). It's the same problem as with employee of the month awards, Dance Mom pyramids…
I want my company to use this just so I can write scripts to game the metrics. For bonus points, can it integrate with WooBoard (http://www.wooboard.com/) so we can do ridiculous tracking and ridiculous recognition in…
>> Seriously, whitelist only the domains necessary for the job Ok. How _exactly_ do you plan to whitelist the domain of every search result for every query of the form "How do I do [technical task] in…
Isn't it great that stuff like this isn't getting getting built in Flash anymore.
There is another theory that states that this has already happened...
I am uncomfortable with the implied support for out of date hardware copy protection practices.
Precisely. It's a bozo-filter. _You_ know you're not a bozo but the interviewer doesn't (yet). I ask questions like this in interviews because experience shows that a significant percentage of supposedly experienced…
Two monitor stories: 1. In my last job I calculated the price of a nice monitor as a percentage of my salary and told my boss that it would only have to make me 0.4% more productive for it to be a good investment. Did I…
Summit is a verb now?
Traditionally, by leaving it on the train tracks.
"solutions tab" - that's almost an anti-pattern right there
Being cynical here, but maybe we have to consider whether alienating the US military-industrial complex (and their coterie of owned congresspersons) by purchasing a non-US warplane would be _worse_ for Australia's…
At the 71% schedule point, one day after coding on the perfectly designed spec has commenced: Programmer: "@%*#! We didn't think of that, the design will have to change."
The main takeaway here is that large companies have large-company pathologies. If you don't like that, work at smaller companies.
>> ...One example of this is Solaris SVR4 packages... I wonder what Google are using Solaris for, and if it's just legacy stuff.
I think the danger is that you might displace intrinsic motivation (pride in good work) with extrinsic motivation (doin' it for the Woos). It's the same problem as with employee of the month awards, Dance Mom pyramids…
I want my company to use this just so I can write scripts to game the metrics. For bonus points, can it integrate with WooBoard (http://www.wooboard.com/) so we can do ridiculous tracking and ridiculous recognition in…
>> Seriously, whitelist only the domains necessary for the job Ok. How _exactly_ do you plan to whitelist the domain of every search result for every query of the form "How do I do [technical task] in…
Isn't it great that stuff like this isn't getting getting built in Flash anymore.
There is another theory that states that this has already happened...
I am uncomfortable with the implied support for out of date hardware copy protection practices.
Precisely. It's a bozo-filter. _You_ know you're not a bozo but the interviewer doesn't (yet). I ask questions like this in interviews because experience shows that a significant percentage of supposedly experienced…
Two monitor stories: 1. In my last job I calculated the price of a nice monitor as a percentage of my salary and told my boss that it would only have to make me 0.4% more productive for it to be a good investment. Did I…
Summit is a verb now?
Traditionally, by leaving it on the train tracks.
"solutions tab" - that's almost an anti-pattern right there