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Unless you have an 8 hour a day meeting in mind, it's counterproductive.
Developers like to share ideas and get direction periodically and then go work in solitude.
Unless you have an 8 hour a day meeting in mind, it's counterproductive.
Developers like to share ideas and get direction periodically and then go work in solitude.
I agree. AVG was awesome up until 8.5. 9.0 is the buggiest resource-hogging, system-locking piece of shit I've seen since Norton and Mcafee. Problem is 9.0 came out about ten minutes after I renewed our company's license for 2 years.
Err, doesn't the sun already do that?
That's a pretty crappy business model.
This bodes well for the possibility of finding alien life.
...are Fark and Digg considered 'technical culture' sites. Seriously, this isn't 2001. Last time I checked, the Internet had sort of entered the mainstream and 'slacking off at work' isn't really considered exclusively IT.
This is why we can't have nice things.
My wife is an OR (operating room) nurse who is paid to be on call, which I would consider to be roughly analogous to this topic. However, there are a couple of major differences:
1. She has to go to a specific location (the hospital) when called in. It's not like she can do her job from home.
2. She's paid hourly.
3. Usually if she gets called in, someone is dying. I would rarely, if ever, classify an IT emergency anywhere near as important as that.
IT is more akin to a boring ubiquitous commodity than a gee-whiz technological marvel.
These days we're more like car mechanics and plumbers than 'gurus'.
Trying to be happy is like trying to build a machine for which the only specification is that it should run noiselessly.