... here.

(Similarly: "The Consititution isn't perfect, but it's better than what we have now.")

I swear I'm going to add this to the next bit of code I write:

/* This comment was put in one part of the code. If I ever find it copied and pasted into another part of the code, I'm going to yell at you. Then I'm going to subjection to serious enough burnination to reduce you to a pile of ash. And then I'm going to kick your ash. */

[There are no CMM methodologies, and the very notion is pretty much exactly the opposite of Extreme Programming. I've seen (and posted) a lot like this. Another, not worth its own entry: "Specific skills should include many of the following: ... the Rational toolset, UML, RUP, CMM, CMMI, TogetherJ, MS Framework, Agile Methods and startup environments...."]

Salary: From 70.00 to 100.00 USD per year

The reasonable man is willing to compromise. The unreasonable man is not. Therefore all arguments are won by the unreasonable man.

Some parts of my job I like, some parts I don't. Earlier this week, I was able to do one of the parts I've really come to like: reply to a few people and say, got your resume, yes, we're interested. (Northern New Jersey, C++; I read the Job Center journal and we've got ads on at least one of the big job boards, so I'm likely to find you.)

TechBookReport.com has some very good book reviews.

According to an article titled "Silicon Valley must outsource to survive," offshore outsourcing is:

I stumbled across this article, which loads slowly, so I'm going to quote few choice bits.

Backlash: What scares US of A?

Backlash will soon be passe, but what scares the outsourced community is the ripple effect. Here is a run down on what fuels the backlash fire!

Overnight I got twenty six e-mail messages. Twenty one were (correctly) caught by Yahoo's "bulk mail" filter. Four were spam not caught by the filter. One ...

... was a "there are openings here that match your dream job, are you interested?" message from a friend who heard about a position about to be created.

Do you have any idea how close I came to, just by habit, marking all my new messages as "spam" and never seeing them again?

Wow.

Poll Guy writes, "One of you slashdotters called WNYC's Brian Lehrer show this morning as he was talking about outsourcing."

The interview is available here (RealAudio).

This will get some people to open the message. Will anyone so tricked ever follow the link?

Here's my version of The List everyone (starting here) is doing.

You must not

be anyone but my wife.

Have I mentioned recently I'm an old married guy?

Here:

Yes, C++ is easy to program once you know the syntax. Unfortunately, even Bjarne only knows about 60% of the syntax.

I got two of these, very similar:

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