Just worked on a project using LEAN. What we would do is let all developers deliver the same prototype. At the end we evaluate each one, pick the best and move on. In diverse projects, different developers will excel in different areas. This was one way we could quickly see who is strong in which areas making later task assignments easier - especially when you are done with prototyping and now need to add all the other functional requirements. This sounds very similar...

I would say that you should be able to release all your independent work done PRIOR to them hiring you, as that you own.

But then again, can you survive a law suit? Do you want to fight them if they just fire you? Probably not - and most of these corporate types know it.

If you paid for it, you might as well use it...

A little while ago, but still interesting I think.

I was learning and coding on my own steam for about 15+ years. Then I joined the ACM (two years now) and my eyes opened. I am now about 1/3 though a B.Sc in CS (part time) and I'm also following a CPD program at another University. I have also joined the IEEE as I required access to more material for my studies. What I realized was that I should have done it from the start. So my advice is simply this: start to follow some part time programs and get the theory as well. I have learned in the last two odd years a lot on subjects like modelling, quality assurance, frameworks and architectures which I otherwise would not have known. I also found that the quality of my code has greatly improved since I now work in a much more structured way.

Experience helps, but the real killer deal is experience backed by a CS/Eng. degree.

On that line of thought, if they have a subscription it means they can lower the purchase price of the games, since it no longer needs to pay for the PSN network.

That was exactly my first thought as well.

How about the so called "enterprise" software you buy for an arm and a leg. When there are serious bugs, can you not also apply the same logic, specifically "collecting revenues for digital goods and services which were not provided" - assuming your expectation was "working" and "secure" software as promised... Mmmm...

Reading the comments on the page leads me to believe that they will eventually fix it, so it will be just a little inconvenient in the beginning.

I see this as the real example of where Open Source development shines - these things would be thrashed out in discussions long before a final release.

On the flip side - no matter what happens in any project, there will always be people who don't like certain features. The only thing that makes this case "special" is that they took away peoples option to set preferences the way they like it.

Will work for me too! Where do we place orders?

"For me, the sheer fear factor of looking down from 9000 meters (30,000 feet) in not much more than my flight suit would be more than I'd be ready for."

As a skydiver with HALO experience I can tell you that there is nothing to fear. You do not really have depth (or is that height) perception at that altitude. Yes, everything does look tiny and as a skydiver I sometimes wonder if I will make the target (a football field looks like a tiny dot or button below). However, since this is powered flight, that's not really an issue.

I put more then a million purely because I've been at it for more then 20 years. But then this is a silly measure as I do in Perl/Python these days in less than a third of lines that were previously required in C (sometimes it's even much much more less then that).

Everybody should start tweeting similar messages. What are they going to do? Arrest 100 million people? I think not...

Not sure how US law work but I can think of several countries where they would be breaking the law by recycling the cash like that. The cash is supposed to go to a branch or some sort of cash handling center and there is a lot of accounting that need to happen before cash can just be placed back into the machine. Also, the process of handling money at the machine itself is rather an involved process with various checks and balances and as far as I know can (or should) only be done by bank employees - which I assume is not the case here.

Perhaps some one else that knows a little more about banking can comment?