Boss Bitch
Simon
– December 18, 2007 02:38PM
For all your work woes.
johnny k
– March 07, 2011 11:02AM
Well, they are if one of them is lime and the other is peach.
porruka
(Admin)
– March 07, 2011 11:35AM
J.E.LL.O...my... god! It's full of scars!
John Willoughby
– March 07, 2011 11:37AM
Homo Sapiens Sedentarius
What about lime and plutonium?
(Hello, visiting Department of Homeland Security investigators!)
YDD
– March 07, 2011 04:12PM
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just internal stuff developed years apart by teams that didn't communicate with each other
Could be worse - try 'same stuff' developed by teams which didn't communicate with each other....
John Willoughby
– March 07, 2011 04:55PM
Homo Sapiens Sedentarius
It worked out pretty well. A quick and skanky hack got things working correctly for the short term, and the wheels are turning for a more robust long term solution. But it took cost a lot of people a day, and highlighted the poor communication which is all too common here.
Robert Taylor
– March 15, 2011 01:56AM
This isn't a bitch per se, but...
it's back to the House of Mud for me. My former lead fairly jumped at the chance to give me a big raise from my MS contract jobs, as a contractor.
Bruce Robertson
– March 15, 2011 03:25AM
Will you be working in Fremont? My office is there, a block away.
John Willoughby
– March 15, 2011 07:26AM
Homo Sapiens Sedentarius
Grats, Robert!
Jeff Cooper
– March 15, 2011 01:44PM
New contract=good, big raise=good. Congratulations!
Tony Leggett
(Moderator)
– March 15, 2011 03:30PM
May you be a positive influence there, RT.
PS Can you get 'em to fix flash - or failing that - to knife the baby?
porruka
(Admin)
– March 16, 2011 12:21PM
Tip: If you put yourself out for a programming position, you better remember everything you've ever learned and be able to recall it immediately without external sources, or you're not likely to get a chance to demonstrate what you can do when it comes to actually synthesizing and using information.
johnny k
– March 16, 2011 12:32PM
Tip to employers: a real-world test would be open-book.
El Jeffe
– March 16, 2011 12:35PM
What a journey.
Open-web?
John Willoughby
– March 16, 2011 05:06PM
Homo Sapiens Sedentarius
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porruka
Tip: If you put yourself out for a programming position, you better remember everything you've ever learned and be able to recall it immediately without external sources, or you're not likely to get a chance to demonstrate what you can do when it comes to actually synthesizing and using information.
Yeah, people suck that way. Especially since, if they actually hire you, they immediately require you to learn their own poorly designed, poorly documented and buggy API.
porruka
(Admin)
– March 16, 2011 06:11PM
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John Willoughby
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porruka
Tip: If you put yourself out for a programming position, you better remember everything you've ever learned and be able to recall it immediately without external sources, or you're not likely to get a chance to demonstrate what you can do when it comes to actually synthesizing and using information.
Yeah, people suck that way. Especially since, if they actually hire you, they immediately require you to learn their own poorly designed, poorly documented and buggy API.
That does suck. But it sucks worse that you don't even get the chance to learn about (and improve, since you've written APIs in the past) the situation because you weren't able to "appropriately" answer an algorithmic question about something that you probably haven't had to care about for more years than the questioner has been able to talk.
porruka
(Admin)
– March 16, 2011 06:18PM
Intentionally double-posted, to segregate messages (damn me for that if you like ;-) )
Needless to say, I'm still looking for work (managerial, apparently, since I can't seem to satisfy the interviewing needs of coders these days), or for my other ventures to become smash hits. Along those lines, feel free to buy me a beer (drinking these days? Why would you think that?) or better yet, connect me with businesses that would take advantage of the FB app I wrote.
Conservation of spork employment? Watch out if I ever get a job again. 10 of you are likely to be out of luck if that happens.
John Willoughby
– March 16, 2011 08:02PM
Homo Sapiens Sedentarius
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porruka
(damn me for that if you like ;-) )
Damn you!
Edited 1 time(s). Last edit at 03/16/2011 08:02PM by John Willoughby.
El Jeffe
– March 17, 2011 12:52AM
What a journey.
Here is how I see that with the Cuss Off safari browser extension
Mokers
(Moderator)
– March 17, 2011 11:01AM
Formerly Remy Martin
My company is still looking for one mac and one windows admin. I believe most of the work will be in East Bay (oakland/berkeley) and SF.
Bruce, I did not know you were in Fremont. Once of my clients is running a shit ton of their business on FileMaker 4. I want to get them on FileMaker server for many various reasons. If you are not available, would you know some people with competence in that sort of transition? E-mail me if you get a chance mail is
myusername@myusername.org
Robert Taylor
– March 18, 2011 09:58AM
Bruce: oh yes.
Tony: not bloody likely on the "knifing" part, fixing it is the job of folks in San Jose, not me. Though there are interesting nuances of my job...
Porruka: well, I do have a shedload of people I've been chatting with about jobs. Catch is they are mostly in my neck of the woods. Not really yours.
Edited 1 time(s). Last edit at 03/18/2011 10:12AM by Robert Taylor.
