humans.txt already exists. http://humanstxt.org/
Publicly credit your employees
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Re: Publicly credit your employees
#12humans.txt already exists. http://humanstxt.org/
i was going to mention this. +1
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#13Possible Problem: My dad was a structural engineer and made some very nice brochures with photos of all his awesome employees on it. His competitors used the information to poach them.
Poaching is rarely a problem if the employee feels valued and doesn't feel like they're being ripped off by their employer. Just saying.
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#15How many people here actually read the credits for a movie? I mean, I've worked on movies and I don't read the credits. Would anyone even read credits for software if they existed?
I guess if it's just a token of appreciation for employees and it only matters to them, sure. From the company's perspective, I don't see it being much of anything more than a poach list of their best employees though.
If individuals want public exposure, they should be allowed to write about their work for a company blog.
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#16How many people here actually read the credits for a movie? I mean, I've worked on movies and I don't read the credits. Would anyone even read credits for software if they existed? I guess if it's just a token of appreciation for employees and it only matters to them, sure. From the company's perspective, I don't see it being much of anything more than a poach list of their best employees though. If individuals want…
Huh, I tend to read them. At least in the sense of "I wonder if John Smith of production assistants #2 was the funny guy, or if Sarah on animation #12 helped make the second scene". And sometimes you get fun post credit scenes. But feels like a way to give a props to people I may never even meet.
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#17Microsoft and a lot of other developers used to add "credits" or easter eggs to their programs. At least for Microsoft it was the customers that complained about them. In retrospect they likely went too far incorporating full fledged games complete with DOOM style 3D engines [1], but it was a good morale booster for the developers and a chance to add some culture to their work. [1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nwg…
As far as I know, they've since banned such easter eggs because of compliance rules (US federal laws require that all features of a product must be documented for a product to be considered for government use)
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#18How many people here actually read the credits for a movie? I mean, I've worked on movies and I don't read the credits. Would anyone even read credits for software if they existed? I guess if it's just a token of appreciation for employees and it only matters to them, sure. From the company's perspective, I don't see it being much of anything more than a poach list of their best employees though. If individuals want…
Adobe products used to run the credits during application startup.
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#19Microsoft and a lot of other developers used to add "credits" or easter eggs to their programs. At least for Microsoft it was the customers that complained about them. In retrospect they likely went too far incorporating full fledged games complete with DOOM style 3D engines [1], but it was a good morale booster for the developers and a chance to add some culture to their work. [1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nwg…
As far as I know, they've since banned such easter eggs because of compliance rules (US federal laws require that all features of a product must be documented for a product to be considered for government use)
They could have documented the Easter egg as a workaround. But the real issue was in places where things like Solitaire were removed from the computers employees were playing these games in Excel and other apps which couldn't be removed.
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#20This becomes useless if you have a common name. Was it me, or the famous author with my name, or the person who worked on visual studio Google recruiters think they're emailing when they email me?
The screen actors guild fixes this problem by requiring all members to adopt unique names, but there is no such organization in our field.