more ...This has to be one of the more interesting "help wanted" ads to surface of late -- Entertainment Liaison for the US Department of Homeland Security. Up to \$136K:
The Entertainment Liaison Office supports the Office of Public Affairs by influencing how the Department of Homeland Security is portrayed in mass …
more ...Claris sez, "A collection of cool geeky companies located in the greater San Francisco Bay Area, from anime/manga publishers to videogame companies to special effects shops. Best of all? Direct links to the job opening pages of each site, whenever I can find 'em. Might as well work somewhere …
Code by Perry Lee. Useful.
more ...This is a little odd thing for people who don't want to touch toilet seats. via [Boing Boing]
more ..."Design the data structures first" is a practice that has dramatically faded over the past decade. Today, when structural design is done at all, it is done in an object-oriented manner, which has different goals than traditional data-structure design. In C++ code, you'll still see complex data structures, but most …
more ...Dan Bricklin posts about the "Programmers at Work Reunion" that happened at SD. "Programmers at Work" is a classic book from the mid-80s that interviewed several of the most influential PC programmers of the time, from Bill Gates to Gary Kildall. Many of the profilees were on a panel the …
more ...Of course, it's big news that Tim Bray has taken a job with a major software company. But it's bigger news because he chose to join Sun and not Microsoft (I'm not saying Bray chose between competing offers, just that Microsoft has hired a lot of luminaries recently). I wonder …
more ...It's not a very good mnemonic but it's not every day we get a new planet.
more ...In an anachronistic bit of dot-commery, a Bay Area America's Cup syndicate is auctioning it's sponsorship rights on Ebay. Starting bid is \$30,000,000. No word if PayPal will be used for payment.
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