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I recall reading a study on here that said that productivity linked pay only works with people who do piece work.

It makes me furious that this is considered under US jurisdiction for a crime that should really be a civil matter, if anything at all. We should only allow extradition of our citi…

With JIRA, I find that entering tasks takes far too long, it's quite jarring to my workflow. When I notice bugs, I want to enter them as quick as possible and then continue with my…

I use Trello all day, every day, the simplicity of it is such a strong feature, it's hard to turn working with Trello into busy work where you're spending more time managing it tha…

I don't believe so, because GCHQ is still part of the civil service, so to quite an extent, their hands are tied by the pay scales. I know they offer a performance based monthly bo…

Really? But how did they avoid learning something so basic?

The problem they're going to face is that not enough people are going to need over 512GB of online storage space to want to pay. Only the most dedicated of digitisers are going to …

Something similar to this was actually attempted in the UK as a programme called the future jobs fund. It didn't really work and the jobs that were created disappeared when they st…

I understand the implications but what would it take for the USA to get AAA back from S&P?

I think there could be, if the price was right, my initial instinct is that $7 per image is pretty steep. Uniqueness also may become a factor. Who wants to have games that look exa…

From a brief look through my checkout account, web based orders make up ~1% of my total orders and I seem to have been paid for them as normal, although the shipped light is not li…

This is really cool. I find it immensely disappointing that many years on and I'm still rubbish at Mario though!

I've found FF5 to be far worse on memory than FF4 and FF3. At the end of a Hopefully this will change it.

Fokken' Prawns.

No, but if you work at a company where even the janitors get free lunch, you should get free lunch.

I always find the emphasis put on algorithms 99.9% of developers will probably never have to implement after the interview totally astonishing.

I think a far more interesting thing to know would be profits. Revenue is essentially a vanity measure. A company with $10m in monthly revenues with a 50% profit margin is making t…

As a current uni student, I have access to both DreamSpark and academic alliance, I probably wouldn't even have windows on my dev computer otherwise, let alone any of the dev tools…

Repeatedly crashes on Windows 7.

You might be, but then, if you're here, you're probably trying to keep your skills up to date, so avoid the problems expressed in the article.