December 2009 Archives

says Laird, 'where another researcher concludes that only "boys" are stupid enough to go into a field that's globally-fungible, where entry-level salaries are declining, and it's common to think that staying up all night for a company-paid pizza is a good deal.'"
--tech.slashdot.org
The reality is that you just took the toilet I set out on the curb with a "FREE" sign, installed it in your house, discovered it's stopped up, and now you've come back and asked me to fix it like I owe you something.
--Dear User of My Open Source Project
Unfortunately, managing assholes is even harder and more time-consuming than it sounds.
--http://diveintomark.org/archives/2004/08/16/specs

our children's lives

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We spend the first twelve months of our children's lives teaching them to walk and talk and the next twelve telling them to sit down and shut up.
--Phyllis Diller

OUR VISION:

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Leon Askin

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"But [the engineer] stopped me and said: 'These people are actually important to have outside of Google. They're very Google people that have the right philosophies around these things, and it's important that we not hire these guys. It's better for the ecosystem to have an honest industry, as opposed to aggregating all this talent at Google.'"
--google_hiring_practrices

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