Mental notes to myself

Joel has a nice article about recruiting programmers

How to attract people to your business:

1. Make the workplace attractive
2. Eliminate obstacles
3. Provide benefits which are more valuable than the money they cost

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I love these hints!!!
Some of are :

• That won’t scale.
• That’s been proven to be O(N^2) and we need a solution that’s O(NlogN).
• There are, of course, various export limitations on that technology.
• If we go with that idea, we’re going to have Don Marti camped out in the front lobby with 300 angry software jihad supporters. (this gave me a good laugh)
• No, that would break object encapsulation.
• I don’t think that’s altogether clear. Please write it up in UML for me.

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What does it mean to be “the best programmer” and are there really such major variations between the quality of software produced by different programmers?

Joel Spolsky answers this question on his website

from Open Loops

Traipsing around the Internet is the most popular form of loafing on the job. The insurance industry is particularly rife with goofing off, and Missouri is the top state for time-wasters.

from Cnet News