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The customer-service obsessed company calls its executives "monkeys," has staffers ring cowbells to greet guests, and offers new employees cash to quit as a way to test their loyalty. The Las Vegas-based retailer is now going even more radical, introducing a new approach to organizing the company. It will eliminate traditional managers, do away with the typical corporate hierarchy and get rid of job titles, at least internally.

I do a lot of work on open source, but my most valuable contributions haven't been code. Writing a patch is the easiest part of open source. The truly hard stuff is all of the rest: bug trackers, mailing lists, documentation, and other management tasks. Here's some things I've learned along the way...

I prefer to write happy posts...I really do. But tonight I'm completely defeated by the JDK's implementation of subprocess launching, and I need to tell the world why. JRuby has always strived to mimic MRI's behavior as much as possible, which in many cases has meant we need to route around the JDK to get at true POSIX APIs and behaviors.

The longer an engineer remains at a company, the harder it is to find a few hours of isolation, free from interruption, to get work done.

My colleague and friend Clinton told me once about himself (I'm paraphrasing): "I'm a stack, not a queue". This is not a post about queue and stack data structures, but about people and their behavior biases toward task management.

narazil som na toto hodinove video, a napriek tomu ze neznasam videa, toto povazujem za velmi prinosne. pre mna to je zhrnutie pocitov a nazorov ktore som intuitivne "tusil", ale v tom videu ich ten chlapik povie nahlas a je to pekne explicitne vyslovene a presvedcive.

- "...it seems most office workers would rather be in an office..." - "...89% -- said they are most productive when working alone"

gemalto uz uspesne rebrandovalo riesenia od avalonu

volne dostupna knizka. povazujem knizku za prinosnu pre tych ktoria komunikuju so zakaznikmi (tech support). Dealing With Disrespect is a short, simple to read, free book that provides a straight-forward guide for handling this kind of challenging feedback, picking out the legitimate criticism to learn from, and how to not just ignore the haters, but how to manage them. The book helps put all communication, whether on or offline, into perspective and helps you to become a better communicator yourself.

vysvetlenie preco nie je velmi vhodne, aby office-management a programatori boli v jednej miestnosti a zvonenie telefonov a postarka vyrusovali tych, ktorych naplnou prace je najma programovat: top performers overwhelmingly worked for companies that gave their workers the most privacy, personal space, control over their physical environments, and freedom from interruption. Sixty-two percent of the best performers said that their workspace was acceptably private, compared to only 19 percent of the worst performers

Ako celit problemom v rastucej firme.