Phasor Burn

Warning: Do not look into phasor with remaining eye.

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Yet another collection of random links and rantings of a greying unix geek with a photography bent. Pass the Guinness and Grecian Formula.

Archive for the 'Work' Category

There is a growing body of research that shows that companies that limit their high-low wage ratios and distribute generous option plans consistently outperform more traditional, inegalitarian firms. Companies that flatten hierarchies and distribute rewards more fairly are actually more profitable, and not just nicer places to work. They don’t need high-flying IPOs to do this; simply flattening the ratio of executive-to-average-worker-pay creates similar benefits.

https://medium.com/the-peer-society/410c644cebe4

Modern Luddites

Thursday, January 31st, 2013

No matter how hard you might try, there will always be people who insist on doing processes by hand, resisting automation. Modern Luddites.

Career is a dirty word

Saturday, November 17th, 2012
“Career” sounds like a dirty word to many of us. It has a corporate, sleazy, back stabbing connotation. When I hear it, I picture a cliché stock photography of a bunch of smiling people wearing 80’s suits.

Engineers suck at finding the right jobs

Paging the sysadmin . . .

Monday, August 6th, 2012

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Lazy ass developers

Tuesday, December 13th, 2011

So, what school of laziness did you not attend to come up with this wonderful method of using a database?

This is almost, but not quite, as bad as storing it as blobs.

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Hmm, what else… oh yeah, it doesn’t appear that they close the xml tag. Double plus goodness.