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Still, nice touch throwing yourself under the bus to make a point. I always appreciate self-deprecating humor. ;)
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Asperger's? He wasn't being literal there.
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What no bad teeth reference? You disappoint me...
btw - it's spelt 'Iliad' (Your not to smart our you?)
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'mate' == 'buddy'
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we call them 'mockneys'
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Fun bookmarklet to see the comments without using 'View Source':
Just paste that in your location bar when viewing the article :-) Tested and working under FF 5,IE 9 and Chrome 12
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Re: Michael Bolton sucks but he doesn't blow.
I've found this distinction to be important. People think just because they can do the job of a sucker means they can do the job of a blower. Tsk. Tsk.
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Yeah, you like being called a piece of shit you dirty fuck, don't you? Wanna be my human toilet?
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And Mobile Safari :D
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You might get to meet and elephant.
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...and get him to squirt a trunkful...
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BTW - you wouldn't happen to drive a big white, windowless van, would you?
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I may be a pervert, a porn star, a freemason, a child molester... but I am NOT a communist!
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Is this a scene that you can vaguely recall...
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"Tamborine Man" is by far Shatner & Nimoy's best duet!
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What happened to the overzealous mods everyone used to complain about?
We always hate oppression until it's gone.
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I've noticed this. In fact it only usually takes one person to say "this smells" for the shit to be formally noticed. But until somebody has the guts / stupidity / inability to dissemble to actually call it as he sees it, everyone pretends it's roses.
It can go two ways if you call the stink: you either galvanise everyone into action and get the stink cleared, or you find yourself more-or-less ceremoniously and obviously canned. It all depends on the language in which you couch your evaluation.
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I mentally read that page in the best British accent my imagination could devise. From the fact that I can't call it anything more specific than "British," you can probably make a reasonable guess as to its level of quality.
As a result, I must thank you for the hours of entertainment you have provided me.
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Probably in a straitjacket somewhere.
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Sigh...
apparently, not just anyone can be me.
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So in order to be me, you'd have to let anyone do you. Nice work, me.
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^ A sample of my work
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"He's eating your head, but I'm still talking!"
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I lived near Louth, once. It has many, many pubs, not just one.
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100,000Pounds for 6 months work in the software industry sounds cheap to me.
Let's call it $250,000 (we'll assume 2.5 dollars to the pound, for now). Even knowing that this bloke is hiring Ukranians at about $125 a day (x2 = $250). Probably not giving them holidays, so 182 days = approx $50K, and as manager he pockets $200K.
Now suppose (before we learnt about the developers) we have a real company, paying real people. Ignoring everyday overheads, you probably need some sort of designer/overseer (let's call him an architect {although more likely a Tech Lead in situations I've seen}). We have this Roger chappy, and presumably we need at least 1 developer.
Even in a shonky shop: Whether we like it or not, Roger would take at least $80K for his six month involvement, a reasonable developer would probably take around $50K for 6 months, and an architect/senior developer/team lead would probably be able to take about $70K. This leaves $50K to cover expenses such as management, Human Resourcing etc that would actually be used in a real firm, not to mention any application of any significance would probably have more than 1 techo working on it.
When I read 100,000 pound, Alarm bells were ringing Willy!! You pay peanuts, you get monkeys.
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leans back in chair Life is good.
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It was not intended as a toll, not as sarcasm or as humor; indeed, I was quite serious.
One question I challenge everybody with: "If a writer from (fill in a technical magazine you value)sohwed up at your desk, and was going to spend the next week watching you work, and writing a feature article on it - would you be happy to see him/her, and would you be glad that your current activities were going to be published where every potential future employeer would see them?"
If the answer to either of these is not a solid "yes", then what does that say about you?
The second thing I regularly do during an interview is to ask potential candidates when was the last time they felt things were going "bad", and how they reacted. The best answer is they were able to lead an effort that resolved the situation. The second best answer is that they tried to get it resolved, realized they could not, and moved on to another job/position. The worst answer is that they "lived with it" and stayed in that position.
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That's a very generous assumption when the exchange rate is about 0.63 GBP to 1 USD (1.6 USD to 1 GBP.)