Since nobody voiced an objection, I wanted to record this here where the pictures would survive. Chris wrote on the jed mailing list that he applied the CBrief patch to create a pretty good Brief clone under Linux, the xjed display didn’t look right. Personally, I have horrible memories of Brief, but, I must admit, it did have fans back in the day. Back in the DOS and OS/2 days I was more a fan … XJed LooksRead more
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Elementary Isn’t Free Anymore
The other evening I came into the office and noticed one of my older BOINC machines had the hard drive light seemingly stuck on. I switched the KVM over to that machine and saw it was tossing I/O errors. This happened once before several weeks ago and a reboot seemed to fix everything. Now that it happened again, I decided to toss the drive. I have a stack of older drives waiting their turn in … Elementary Isn’t Free AnymoreRead more
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Another Shining Example of AGILE
Facebook (FB) is one of the most notorious proponents of AGILE. “Move quickly and break things.” AGILE – hacking on the fly without any design or road map while committing accounting fraud. Hacking on the fly gets you stories like these. The Declaration of Independence flagged as hate speech. When it comes to the Facebook development team, I can’t help but think of this movie. Definitely the kind of people you want working on a … Another Shining Example of AGILERead more
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Never Do a Friday Interview
I have one policy which, every time I break it, ends in tragedy. Never do a Friday Interview. I started this policy over twenty years ago while under contract at Waste Management. While I had done a lot of software development before that, I hadn’t really learned the ins and outs of corporate culture. I learned it there. Corporate policy meant everyone had to come into work on Friday, but, nobody actually had to work. … Never Do a Friday InterviewRead more
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The Standard Rate Trap
Quite some time ago I wrote a three part series on how to calculate your billing rate. Not enough of you appear to have learned from it given various conversations I’ve had. It appears the majority of people who actually read it were bottom feeding pimps because now they’ve reverted to asking consultants for their “standard rate.” Most of you knee jerk an answer for what would be a good rate with you able to … The Standard Rate TrapRead more