You really need to take good care of yourself physically. I had a part time hospital job while in college and I cannot begin to tell you the horrors...

People are free to donate where they wish, but as far as I am concerned, any relief organization that works against voluntary population control or against the distribution of condoms...

If anyone wants to make a difference, then I cannot suggest a better way to help humanity than to contribute to CRS. Catholic Relief Services is the single largest...

sturner (11/16/2011)

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I despise poorly written code and the reasons are many:

It really doesn't take any longer to put a well designed product into production that it does to put a...

I have a couple of degrees, one in biochemistry and the other in computer science. I got the CS degree after becoming fascinated with computers and reading an article...

I have to agree with you Phil that humility and tact are very important when dealing with someone else's code. Constructive criticism, properly applied, can work wonders. There...

Another great story SSC Veteran.

It points out another thing to be wary of: the word "simple".

Anytime someone uses the word "simple" you have to assume that they haven't thought...

My quote from Dr. Deming can apply to any person who tries to "manage" a project poorly-- that includes an IT person who has "just one (more) little tweak"...

I can sum up that little parable by quoting Dr. Deming: "The present style of management is the biggest producer of waste, causing huge losses, whose magnitudes can not...

My dream job is to be a consulting engineer. I want to move from project to project, bestowing all the hard-won lessons I've acquired over the years to those...

Where I work, raises are between 1 and 3%, so the delta between the high and low end employees doing the same work is roughly 2%. You might get...

Steve, you finally pulled back the curtain to show that the great and powerful "Cloud" is really a marketing humbug (at least the way they are pitching it).

Some companies may...

There is too much hype about the cloud these days but the PAAS definition is pretty much how I look at it. However, it isn't worth it if you...

Sometimes I think that I was dropped off on this planet by an alien spacecraft.

Never have I judged a person in the work place on their gender, race, religion or...

Yeah, the sleeping in the office stuff is hard. I was in a start up for 10 years (they were bought after 4 years) and I remember the guys...