vampirechicken

Is there a special lane for billy goats?

> The web won because it has the least barriers to entry for a new developer and solves a lot of difficult problems > that the old-school application stack had. This is all from my history and point of view so I'm sure a lot of people will disagree.

In my hindsight, the web won in the enterprise because deployment was free. When the web was developed, in the early 1990s, vendors charged per seat for PC runtimes (Powerbuilder, Unify Vision, etc.). You got zero-cost runtimes, free client distribution (IE on windows) and application version control (server-sode managed code). The low barriers to entry probably exacerbated the hodge podge, but I'm happy to bill hours cleaning up after people.

It must be ironic.

Why else would they poke so much fun at other people's design choices and then center every line of text?

centeredtextcriminal.com

Get a whiteboard marker form Montblanc. You're worth it.

The entire american telecom infrastructure is rife with spyware. Why should chinese telecom be any different?

Since the majority of non-menial jobs now REQUIRE a degree (often any degree), if you want to be in the middle class, you need a college degree.

One explanation I can think of to require a degree for everything is that it proves that you can commit to a long term goal and achieve it.

The cynic in my thinks it's just a ploy to have a debt-riddle workforce who will be scared to make waves because they're always one check away form insolvency.

I never understand the apparent glee with which people perform premature post-mortems on Perl.

You never really see people declaring any other language moribund, and then kicking it a couple of times for fun.

I don't see the point?

Two questions: 1) Do you think the Democrats will not filibuster this bill in the Senate? 2) Do you think the President will sign it or veto it if it makes it to his desk?

90k is not much in NYC when you take into account how much a driver will need to spend to maintain a car that does livery all day long in NYC.

"The youngest publicly traded U.S. automaker has tapped debt markets without a ranking from any of the major ratings companies, according to data compiled by Bloomberg."

So they didn't pay for a rating, and got an unsolicited poor rating from one of them?

Go figure...

Remember how pissy the investment banks got when Google didn't use them for their IPO?

So Yahoo wants to the the modern equivalent of AOL.

At least they can articulate a strategy.

TL;DR: Market Research - customer interviews.

He's a people person. He talked to the end-users so the engineers didn't have to. Then the engineers could focus on what those people told him they wanted.

There was a run of undercover Boss in the USA. For me, the most enlightening thing about the entire run of the show was how few front-line employees know what the CEO of their company looks like.

They have found the perverse solution to the innovators dilemma. Having seen the new market developing, and having decided on its inevitability, instead of joining it, they're fighting it legislatively. I would love to hear Clay Christiansen's take on this.

I myself own one of the few works Van Gogh ever did in ballpoint. Cost me nearly thirty dollars.

Arbitration is not about justice, it is about the appearance of justice, while being incredibly stacked against one party. Arbitrators are paid by the party that demands arbitration (the corporation eg. cable, wireless, etc). If the arbitrator does not side with the party that is paying their fees, they get called on to arbitrate less and less, until they are no longer employed as an arbitrator. That is a perverse disincentive to ever find against the party paying your fees. It is much cheaper than going to court, and and you win 90% of the time. What's not to love?

Where there is arbitration, there is seldom justice.

The shock is in the short term costs, rather than those costs being amortized across the long miserable sickly term of the patients lives.

So it's not a show to the health care system, it's a shock to the system of companies who sit between the health care system and the patients, and siphon out money.

I don't knoe about your health insurance, but mine would just declare this drug to be 'not on the formulary' and refuse to pay for it, like they did with the newer anti-clotting meds that were more effecting and safer for patients.

I just also want to add, that giving you a pool of paid time off that you can choose for whatever reason, allows them to deftly avoid the issue of the celebration of holidays that are of (possibly religious) significance to an employee, but not to the company - for example Passover or Yom Kipur.

Locked in a cycle of hate until the end of time. Just how it should be.

How does the support login have the privileges to delete all of the activity log files, and why is a login with enough privilege to delete logs allowed to perform SQL queries?

10 Critic Hater: Culture critics who criticize other culture critics?

the 12 day PTO is applicable to sick time, or vacation, or what ever. The fact that they've split the two of them, make me think you'll need to read the employee handbook very carefully to determine if either, or both, are subject to use-or-lose, accumulation, and/or payout on separation. Otherwise That's not a terrible deal in general.

PTO is paid time off, it is your vacation and sick time (and sometimes some of your holidays) in one pool.

It is typically a way to give you less time off.

The last time I was in NJ, the full-service gas there was the same price as the self-serve in suburban NY. Maybe that's changed, but given the hug number of commuters in NJ, I conclude it likely that holy hell would have been raised of full-serve was significantly more expensive.

Microsoft and Salesforce are in, you nobody else in that space is allowed?

Smells fishy to me.

Shame about the mystery meat navigation on the main menu.

Programming jobs are designed to make programmers miserable.

Apparently it still is not a better business proposition for Big Content to buy their own network.

At some point, Big Network's disinterest in being a network provider) will force Big Content or (heaven forfend) Big Government to move into the network space.

Notice that Compuserve was in Columbus, not in SanFran.

We ruled the internet even when it was dial-up via rotary phones.