I envy you then. Our Alamo's food is less than stellar. (West Oaks, Houston.) The special features are very good but the normal menu is straight out of cans and the freezer. Just a touch more effort on their part would go a long way. I'm not expecting miracles but I'd rather not have to stick to the two things on the menu I've found to be... hard to do wrong.

With that mini-rant out of the way I totally agree with you that, in general, they are the way to go for a good evening at the movies. (Other of their locations I've been very happy with the food so I suspect it's a kitchen issue.)

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Joel also runs Fog Creek Software. Tell your boss you want this sort of environment http://www.fogcreek.com/about.html since Joel recommends it.

10-11 hour days can be done. I aim for 65 hours a week. They can't be done without extenuating circumstances though when you can just walk on over to the next shop and get the same pay for a standard 8 hour day. Update your resume. It might work out but I'd bet against.

    -CZ

Just encrypt your email. You'll get the noticed desired when the warrant is served for your encryption keys.

    -CZ

When this happens to me I just imagine my wife and children living under a bridge. It's amazing how motivated I get to grind out the code. Hmm. If you don't like your wife and kids you might check the next post.

    -CZ

Fine. No null references. So I create the same thing by having a reference to some unique structure (probably named Null) and I still *fail to check for it*.

Null references don't kill programs. Programmers do.

    -CZ

I also am forced in to clearcase. Here's the workflow I use:

        ct mkview ...
        cd /view/VIEW/vob/blah/dir
        git init
        git add .
        git commit -m 'Init'
        cd /somewhere/else
        git clone /view/VIEW/vob/blah/dir
        # do real work rather than fight clearcase

Git plays quite nicely with other systems.

        -CZ

PS - Easy enough to write a small script to sync difference back to clearcase or update your clearcase master and merge into your workspace.