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Congrats to Doug on his new job! Can’t help but be surprised though that all these staunch advocates of freelancing/small companies seem to increasingly be going to work at the Googles and Yahoo!s of the world…
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“Are marketers training an entire generation that there’s never a limit? That free music and free wifi and free ebooks and free lobby space isn’t just an inducement to pay attention, but is, in fact, a right?”
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“You see, the realization to which I’ve come is that – in the realm of recreational programming, at least – I could be best described as a serial enthusiast.”
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I love this poem that MJ has written. Sometimes I really miss poetry being an everyday experience. Something I should try and remedy
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“…no money to take that swank internship that paid nothing and required $1,000+/month in rent in an actual city.”
The unpaid internship model has ALWAYS bothered me for just this reason — surely it limits your pool horribly to obnoxiously rich kids? -
This is absolutely HILARIOUS
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Fantastic article, with some great practical tips
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This stuff is COOL … some really beautiful visualisations too
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“Management, in a software company, is primarily responsible for creating abstractions for programmers. We build the yacht, we service the yacht, we are the yacht, but we don’t steer the yacht.”
Posted by delicious @ 7:18 PM on May 30, 2006
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May 30th, 2006 at 9:17 PM
re: serial enthusiasm: in programming, as in writing, I have several big ideas that I chew on very, very, very slowly.
re: poetry: not that I’m one to give advice (see “very, very, very slowly”), but carry a notebook & write a little every day (or whatever). also, have you seen Sunday Scribbling?
re: internships. at our college it counts as credit, so theoretically takes the place of a class, time-wise. (of course, it also means paying to work, which strikes me as odd.) I would love to offer a paid internship, but it’s just not in our budget. ðŸ™
May 31st, 2006 at 7:15 PM
hear hear.
I spend pretty much my whole life bouncing from project to project and idea to idea. The latest one is in fact going to see me entering the realms of recreational programming, so expect it to take a while!
June 1st, 2006 at 2:17 PM
@Elaine: I don’t really have a problem with unpaid internships which are educational or more work experience kind of things. The real issue for me is when big corporations or governments, which relaly need to make more an effort to reflect the diversity of the population, choose that as a primary recruitment mechanism. It precludes the involvement of the majority of the population and that I have fundamental problems with.