Comment Re:Customer service (Score 1) 576
And having worked in customer service you undoubtedly know the one of the main elements of "Call control" is to control yourself.. you lose that and its all over.
Comment Re:Are You Telling Me ... (Score 1) 149
Who's lawn... I remember Slashdot before they had this new fanged UID login thing..
Comment Re:Not what hearing aid processors need (Score 1) 127
Do you actually use all 5 modes ? If not just have them reprogrammed so ever other mode is t-coil. Hearing aids seem to be continuously improving but over the years they have removed two things I miss 1) the volume knob, 2) an actual off switch.
When Rewriting an App Actually Makes Sense 289
vlangber writes "Joel Spolsky wrote a famous blog post back in 2000 called 'Things You Should Never Do, Part I,' where he wrote the following: '[T]he single worst strategic mistake that any software company can make: They decided to rewrite the code from scratch.' Here is a story about a software company that decided to rewrite their application from scratch, and their experiences from that process."
Writer Peter Watts Sentenced; No Jail Time 299
shadowbearer writes "SF writer Peter Watts, a Canadian citizen, whose story we have read about before in these pages, was sentenced three days ago in a Port Huron, MI court. There's not a lot of detail in the story, and although he is still being treated like a terrorist (cannot enter or pass through the US, DNA samples) he was not ordered to do any time in jail, was freed, and has returned home to his family. The judge in the case was, I believe, as sympathetic as the legal system would allow him to be."
