RE: OT: Working from home

[JOE TESTA]

so then if you use a REAL SMALL Font(like this msg),   then you can get more word with less pages per book and make more?   Joe >>> [EMAIL PROTECTED] 06/15/01 11:51AM >>> well, there are different rules for different things... it's not the number of pages, it's the number of words :) back in the early days of pulp fiction, writers were paid by the word, not the story... the more words, the more money. Made for very very detailed stories :) >From: "Toepke, Kevin M" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] >To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >Subject: RE: OT: Working from home >Date: Fri, 15 Jun 2001 07:05:52 -0800 > >Come on Rachel. You mean that lines of code is not a good measure of a >programmer's productivity? Next thing you'll tell me the its not the number >of pages that makes a book good? :-> > >(fleeing for my life) > >-----Original Message----- >Sent: Friday, June 15, 2001 9:01 AM >To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L > > >Nuno, you are preaching to the choir here I think :) > >There was a manager in that same shop who measured her programmers >abilities > >by the number of lines of code they wrote in a day. She also said to me >once > >"I don't like to waste time on design" > >Truly.   And they wondered why people kept quitting on her. > > > > >From: "Nuno Souto" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > >Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > >To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > >Subject: Re: OT: Working from home > >Date: Fri, 15 Jun 2001 02:45:53 -0800 > > > >----- Original Message ----- > > > > > > So we all lied a lot. And this was "sitting at our desks" > > > > > > ><rant> > >That IMHO is the main flaw of all these new management techniques > >and "metrics" being pushed by methodology reps.  They are > >very good when dealing with coal face workers.  They haven't got > >a chance in hell of accurately representing working patterns when > >dealing with a technical job.  Most of them are extrapolated > >from factory environments, where the amount of work is easy to > >measure in terms of units/hour.  Since none of them even make > >an effort at defining what's a unit of work for a DBA or a designer > >or an "architect" or even an analyst, they fail miserably in > >properly tracking this type of job. > > > >Result?   Totally incorrect project metrics and cost extrapolations. > >Corollary?  Make these jobs disappear because of their "inconvenience" > >in fitting a flawed model.  Not fix the model. > > > >And they wonder why projects can easily "fail"?  They can't even > >accurately define "failure" nowadays! > ></rant> > > > >Cheers > >Nuno Souto > >[EMAIL PROTECTED] > >http://www.users.bigpond.net.au/the_Den > > > > > >-- > >Please see the official ORACLE-L FAQ: http://www.orafaq.com > >-- > >Author: Nuno Souto > >   INET: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > >Fat City Network Services    -- (858) 538-5051  FAX: (858) 538-5051 > >San Diego, California        -- Public Internet access / Mailing Lists > >-------------------------------------------------------------------- > >To REMOVE yourself from this mailing list, send an E-Mail message > >to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (note EXACT spelling of 'ListGuru') and in > >the message BODY, include a line containing: UNSUB ORACLE-L > >(or the name of mailing list you want to be removed from).  You may > >also send the HELP command for other information (like subscribing). > >_________________________________________________________________ >Get your FREE download of MSN Explorer at http://explorer.msn.com > >-- >Please see the official ORACLE-L FAQ: http://www.orafaq.com >-- >Author: Rachel Carmichael >   INET: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > >Fat City Network Services    -- (858) 538-5051  FAX: (858) 538-5051 >San Diego, California        -- Public Internet access / Mailing Lists >-------------------------------------------------------------------- >To REMOVE yourself from this mailing list, send an E-Mail message >to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (note EXACT spelling of 'ListGuru') and in >the message BODY, include a line containing: UNSUB ORACLE-L >(or the name of mailing list you want to be removed from).  You may >also send the HELP command for other information (like subscribing). >-- >Please see the official ORACLE-L FAQ: http://www.orafaq.com >-- >Author: Toepke, Kevin M >   INET: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > >Fat City Network Services    -- (858) 538-5051  FAX: (858) 538-5051 >San Diego, California        -- Public Internet access / Mailing Lists >-------------------------------------------------------------------- >To REMOVE yourself from this mailing list, send an E-Mail message >to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (note EXACT spelling of 'ListGuru') and in >the message BODY, include a line containing: UNSUB ORACLE-L >(or the name of mailing list you want to be removed from).  You may >also send the HELP command for other information (like subscribing). _________________________________________________________________ Get your FREE download of MSN Explorer at http://explorer.msn.com -- Please see the official ORACLE-L FAQ: http://www.orafaq.com -- Author: Rachel Carmichael   INET: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Fat City Network Services    -- (858) 538-5051  FAX: (858) 538-5051 San Diego, California        -- Public Internet access / Mailing Lists -------------------------------------------------------------------- To REMOVE yourself from this mailing list, send an E-Mail message to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (note EXACT spelling of 'ListGuru') and in the message BODY, include a line containing: UNSUB ORACLE-L (or the name of mailing list you want to be removed from).  You may also send the HELP command for other information (like subscribing).