I was listening to a guy who
was really angry because garage-developed software was competing in
his "space".
That guy also seemed to think that folks could develop better software
if they wore socks while developing it.
I happen to think that garage developed software is a good thing, especially since the women in my life evicted me from the spare bedroom. Software is occasionally coded up in this garage; without socks, of course.
Speaking of software companies, headhunters and others of that ilk...
I was in a place the other day where they had about three hundred programmers sitting in waist-high cubicles in a room about the size of a football field. They were piping in white noise to cover the noise. The silence was really wierd.
Things that scare me about some head hunter's web sites:
- They frequently have a picture of an impressive looking office building where one assumes their offices are.
- They have pictures of diverse looking folks hanging around looking intelligent, being well dressed and apparently doing computeresque stuff like meeting and staring at each other's laptops.
- They tend to use a small undecypherable font. I think that they are trying to cram more stuff on each page. Do they think that web server space is rented by the square foot?
- They use lots of techno-babble terms like space, passionate, best-of-breed and thought leader.
By the way, Here are some reassuring pictures of actual people that will make you want to do business with us.