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At my place, you get name.surname@mycompany.com and can have as many aliases as you want, I don't care - I'll always send you mail to name.surname@mycompany.com

At my place, you get name.surname@mycompany.com and can have as many aliases as you want, I don't care - I'll always send you mail to name.surname@mycompany.com. How is it NOT geeky to have local mail parts in friggin' order? Also, even if I had money to provide some hardware to people working for me, I'd call them whining b....s they are. We'll organically upgrade on neccesity and keep it lean at all times.

mh- 14y ago
congrats, you found the most effective way to ensure that you only hire candidates who couldn't get on at more enjoyable places to work.
- dsirijus 14y ago
  No, I attract hard working, no nonsense people who take joy in getting things done with least amount of friction, and who don't need masseuse to write code.
  - illumen 14y ago
    Smart working people can just go elsewhere. The hardworking people can make use of recycled computers scavenged off the street. If you can't wait 10 minutes for the test suite to run, things to compile or files to finish transferring - then you're just a wining bitch. Using old hard drives is fine, an SSD will just make the work easier. Work should be hard, and painful - otherwise it's just play. Why would you want to see multiple views of your data, when you can just flip between windows all the time and scroll a lot?
  - jiggy2011 14y ago
    You don't need chairs either, or central heating or even colour screens for that matter.
  - chrisbennet 14y ago
    Think of all the joy they'd have, less friction and money saved if they got rid of their manager. ;-)
chrisbennet 14y ago
"Money goes where it’s wanted, and stays where it’s well treated." The same goes for developers. There are a lot of clueless companies and managers out there. My wife interviewed with a company that was trying to hire a developer to commercialize their in house printing software. The hiring manager was surprised that developers aren't interested in working in a place with NO vacation the first year. He was also surprised that she was used to coming in and leaving at something besides 8:30 to 5:00 or (gasp!) leave the building for lunch at her previous job. I don't think the manager was a bad guy, just clueless. The manager who calls his reports "whining..b" and would make them less productive to save a few bucks probably won't realize why he has a high churn rate or why candidates give his company a pass after the interview.

mh- 14y ago

congrats, you found the most effective way to ensure that you only hire candidates who couldn't get on at more enjoyable places to work.

dsirijus 14y ago
No, I attract hard working, no nonsense people who take joy in getting things done with least amount of friction, and who don't need masseuse to write code.
- illumen 14y ago
  Smart working people can just go elsewhere. The hardworking people can make use of recycled computers scavenged off the street. If you can't wait 10 minutes for the test suite to run, things to compile or files to finish transferring - then you're just a wining bitch. Using old hard drives is fine, an SSD will just make the work easier. Work should be hard, and painful - otherwise it's just play. Why would you want to see multiple views of your data, when you can just flip between windows all the time and scroll a lot?
- jiggy2011 14y ago
  You don't need chairs either, or central heating or even colour screens for that matter.
- chrisbennet 14y ago
  Think of all the joy they'd have, less friction and money saved if they got rid of their manager. ;-)

chrisbennet 14y ago

"Money goes where it’s wanted, and stays where it’s well treated." The same goes for developers. There are a lot of clueless companies and managers out there. My wife interviewed with a company that was trying to hire a developer to commercialize their in house printing software. The hiring manager was surprised that developers aren't interested in working in a place with NO vacation the first year. He was also surprised that she was used to coming in and leaving at something besides 8:30 to 5:00 or (gasp!) leave the building for lunch at her previous job. I don't think the manager was a bad guy, just clueless. The manager who calls his reports "whining..b" and would make them less productive to save a few bucks probably won't realize why he has a high churn rate or why candidates give his company a pass after the interview.