Subj : Re: How much should I charge for fixed-price software contract? To : comp.programming,comp.lang.java.programmer,comp.lang.lisp From : Phlip Date : Mon Aug 15 2005 04:15 pm Ulrich, before we start, please oggle this legendary list: http://redwing.hutman.net/~mreed/warriorshtm/target.htm The target provides elaborate arguments that everyone knows to be incredibly wrong. The target generates endless and complex double-speak to lead us around why their position is right, when their position is commonly dismissed as trivially wrong for the simplest reasons. An example is posting to news:comp.object endless screeds why OO programming is wrong. 'When Warriors unleash their collective fury upon him his usual reaction is "Hey, what did I do?" or "Why do you all hate me?"' This activity must be identified for what it is, before we have fun with it. So here we go... Ulrich Hobelmann wrote: > Five years ago I ran a laptop with 32MB memory and it ran Mozilla on Linux > just fine (slow, but it looked good), so I know it works. Me too. It worked great in both Mozilla and Konqueror. And the DHTML in my resume is still compliant. >>> http://flea.sourceforge.net/resume.html >>> See resume.doc >> >> I can't read that online. Please provide a plain-text version. Irrelevant. Those who can read DOC get DOC. Those who can see this resume don't need text. And hirers should request a format before I submit, so this isn't really a showstopper. > That's weird. It looks like ok HTML. Read the source if you have to. He means the outlink to resume.doc. >> I support high quality and responsive process. >> >> That's not grammatically correct English. If "process" is plural, it >> needs to be spelled "processes", but if it's singular, then you need >> the word "a" before the word "high". > > Great! Nitpick about others' SPELLING, but ignore the crap in your own > yard. Making me laugh right now :D Grammar. In this case, it's a literary tension. From my point of view, there is One Process, flowing through all my projects. (_Not_ One True Process for everyone, either...) >> I keep you in the driver's seat >> >> Bullshit, unless your profession is driving instructor where your >> student is literally in the driver's seat while you sit on the >> passenger side with your foot ready to hit the emergency brake if >> needed. I would toss this in the trash can at this point if I were >> screening resumes. So far you've beat around the bush with metaphor but >> you haven't given me the slightest idea what kinds of projects you have >> done (landscaping/gardening, driving instructor, DMV person who >> administers driving tests, astronaut trainer, etc.). > > Raaaant. It's a wink to Kent Beck's driving metaphor in XPX. When you give me feature requests, I return them rapidly, giving you visibility into the project's current state. That allows you to deliver a right-sized stream of requests that steer the project towards a goal. You steer, I work the engine. >> and give you a system that you can steer accurately >> towards business goals. >> >> More stupid metaphor. Maintenance had a laugh when they were emptying >> the trash can and your resume happened to blow out of the catcher so >> they had to retrieve it and they happened to glance at it. > > Who gives a ...? Well, when someone devolves to empty flaming it generally shows they have no point. >> I have worked in many industries and solved >> every kind of technical problem imaginable >> >> Fucking liar. It's unlikely you solved more than one percent of all the >> technical problems imaginable. > > Well, I don't think he's stupid, his resume looks > well-formatted/structured, even if it uses tables, and he doesn't keep > bitching about the whole, bad, world all the time. I rescued our server from a fire in the server room once. Everyone else just ran away. I didn't want to admit I was qualified due to prior experience in .... pyromania ;-) >> Programming >> ( click any item:) >> >> You've mixed together in a single menu, as if they were somehow >> brothers in concept, all of: programming languages, text formatting >> languages, Web browsers, operating systems, serverside frameworks, >> software application suites, data communication protocols, admin tools, >> software development frameworks, software development methodologies, >> and qualatitive aspects of work. Furthermore you've run them down one >> very tall and skinny vertical column, wasting an awful lot of paper if >> anyone were to print this as offline familiarization and then handy >> reference when online to browse the links more fully. > > Maybe he formatted it badly (but I like it). Or your browser does. You > know you can just read the raw HTML instead? If you want, there's tools > that strip the HTML tags as well. I formatted it with a table, hence it is correct HTML, and easy on the eyes. If someone needs a given acronym, they find it in alpha order. I don't make them play Easter Eggs with it. Ohh, if you Really Loved Me, you would Find my Acronym Needle in this Haystack of Mixed Metaphors! Oh, I'm going to list irrelevancies at the top, so you have to Prove you really Deserve to Hire me!! > I believe in Karma. That means I can do bad things to people > all day long and I assume they deserve it. > Dogbert >Sigh< - my role model! -- Phlip http://www.greencheese.org/ZeekLand <-- NOT a blog!!! .