usedtolurk

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by usedtolurk 16y ago
The value you bring to the organisation is often beyond your control. You may be allocated to a profitable project or "on the bench" if the work has temporarily dried up. Not many employees would be happy taking a salary cut if their skills
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by usedtolurk 16y ago
Except that it probably equates to around 5% of the total remuneration package. Not a huge monetary incentive, but you can bet that social ideas will get all the backup they need from infrastructure, marketing, etc.
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by usedtolurk 16y ago
Jason's right. I cut back my weekly hours from around 55 to 45 when my daughter was born. I was surprised that my productivity didn't drop and nobody even noticed. I wish I had done that years ago.
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by usedtolurk 16y ago
Based solely on their decision to buy an expensive domain name, the OP concludes that: "when a problem arises, they're going to attack it with the blunt instrument of more capital, instead of the creative labor" That's quite a stretch - reg
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by usedtolurk 16y ago
We don't know the full scope of the project so it's impossible to tell. Other costs may have included: market research (predicting uptake pricing and income), several failed experiments, fallback plans, advertising budget, internal rest
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by usedtolurk 16y ago
I agree it's important to practise a bit of both for personal development. But why would you continually fight against the grain if you could be playing to your natural strengths and delivering more value?
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by usedtolurk 16y ago
I'm thrilled with my Wave and the Bada OS.
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by usedtolurk 16y ago
Even if the average salary is the same - the two schemes will benefit different people depending on their personality type. What kind of person do you want to attract?
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by usedtolurk 16y ago
If everybody's level is visible then your pay tier is more likely to reflect your value.
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by usedtolurk 16y ago
(I'm nearly 40) Sometimes "thinking more slowly" is just "thinking more" before diving in. And often, past experience makes it a lot easier to grasp similar new ideas. But ignorance can also be an asset sometimes - it can allow you to evalu
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by usedtolurk 16y ago
I half agree with you. We are working at a much higher level of abstraction these days and the skills required have changed, but I don't think its any easier. Part of my electronics degree (in the early 90's) involved programming a controll
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by usedtolurk 16y ago
Hey ComputerGuru, just so you know: I get it. On behalf of your millions of users who don't say very much but rely on it daily, I'd like to say a heartfelt thank you and reaffirm that you're perfectly entitled to do exactly as you please wi
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by usedtolurk 16y ago
There must be thousands of jobs that want just that.
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by usedtolurk 16y ago
Pick your signals carefully - many turn out to be a different-sounding noise.
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by usedtolurk 16y ago
Gee people - this is so petty and doesn't do anyone any favours. Surely there are more important things for us to discuss?
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by usedtolurk 16y ago
This reminds me of a old story... The residents in an apartment block kept complaining that the elevator was too slow. The building's owners got several quotes to upgrade the elevator but they were all too expensive and ran into many thousa
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by usedtolurk 16y ago
@hugh3 - Did you actually watch the whole clip? This illustrates the need for video evidence perfectly. Without the footage many people would instinctively agree with you, but faced with the footage it's clear that the inspectors are in the
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by usedtolurk 16y ago
There's no need for that tone. You misunderstood the question - flashgorden was just asking why macs were so popular among developers.
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by usedtolurk 16y ago
Thank you! I haven't seen a better explanation of what music labels' do and how they add value... it's not all about just counting the money and stroking the cat. :)
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by usedtolurk 16y ago
Part of me loves this kind of inspiring advice ("you too can grow up to be president"). And it certainly is true for some people. But the truth is that most people who try this will fail. Very few people have the right combination of aptitu
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by usedtolurk 16y ago
I'll bet that if any Iridium engineers are reading this they are shaking their heads in disbelief. Once the hardware decisions were made they were locked in. The lead times in aerospace are nothing like software or consumer electronics. You
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by usedtolurk 16y ago
That would result in a relatively small panel of generalists and censor specialists who might otherwise make the occasional invaluable contributions.
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by usedtolurk 16y ago
I'll try to answer your questions directly and avoid the temptation of giving advice or writing about how awesome fatherhood is. For context, I have a 4 month old baby girl, a full time corporate software job and I just started my "project"
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by usedtolurk 16y ago
The game has great physics and fun game play, but it fails socially. It really needs a few learner slopes to start with that introduce the concepts. Crowd-sourcing of track design is a great idea, but the game needs a better way to filter o
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by usedtolurk 16y ago
Two things: 1) In Outlook, please stop turning email addresses into annoying underlined names that can't be edited. 2) If history is any guide the trend will swing back towards client-side apps at some point. If you want to make the OS rele