Interesting Links for 8-6-2011

[andrewducker]

• Why You Can’t Get My Book in [Insert Country Here] (Scalzi on regionalisation)
  (tags: books publishing)
• Women warriors show psychological resilience similar to men
  (tags: psychology trauma military war gender)
• Frankenstein Superstar - a rather spiffy webcomic. Not suitable for reading in work, but well worth reading at home.
  (tags: frankenstein webcomic comic funny)
• A warning to Scottish separatists. If you're not careful you'll end up like Norway!
  (tags: norway scotland independence)
• Dr Who renewed for another 14 episodes with Matt Smith.
  (tags: DrWho StevenMoffat)
• Samsung Delivers Galaxy S II to CyanogenMod Dev, Says Get to Work
  (tags: android samsung opensource awesome)
• Russian President Proposes Creative Commons-Style Rules Baked Directly Into Copyright
  (tags: copyright russia)
• Jilted ex-boyfriend puts up abortion billboard.
  (tags: privacy freespeech abortion)
• Okay. Now I want a pirate cinema. Arrrrr!
  (tags: cinema design awesome)
• 12 Unusual and Creative Home Theaters. I want the Batman one.
  (tags: design movies awesome)

Comments

[andrewducker]

The graduate thing, I agree, is ridiculous. I've seen people locked out of jobs that they were perfectly capable of doing because of it. Because some people think a degree is a perfect filter, rather than just an indicator.

Amd pf cpirse companies have expectations about what people will earn. But those opinions are based on real market conditions. If you look at someone's experience, abilities, etc. and know that out there there are jobs paying X then you're not going to offer them significantly less than that, because you know s significant number of them will go elsewhere and take it.

[eatsoylentgreen.livejournal.com]

pf cpirse!

how's your programming skills, mister?

[andrewducker]

Me? I'm mediocre at best. Which puts me in the mid-range for coders (about £33k). I'm good compared to a lot of corporate coders, but nothing like the people at the top end.