Re: Beware: NET-A-PORTER

2011-12-10 Thread Steve Mynott
On Fri, Dec 09, 2011 at 09:11:14AM -0500, Avleen Vig typed: US salaries (use payroll expense) is much higher than in the UK. Where in London I would pay a programmer or sysadmin about £45k - £55k, in New York I would pay at least $125k - $150k (about £78k - £93k). This sounds really great!

Re: Beware: NET-A-PORTER

2011-12-10 Thread Paul Makepeace
On Sat, Dec 10, 2011 at 12:46, Steve Mynott st...@gruntling.com wrote: Until you realise that it's pretty much a wash. What does the final line mean? Six of one, half a dozen of the other. http://www.usingenglish.com/forum/english-idioms-sayings/25582-call-wash.html Paul

Re: Telecommuting

2011-12-10 Thread Adrian Howard
On 9 Dec 2011, at 19:09, Zbigniew Łukasiak wrote: Recently I was surprised by the following (from a talk by Greg Wilson): Physical distance doesn’t affect post-release fault rates but Distance in the organisational chart does. Nagappan et all (2007) and Bird et al (2009) Based on all

Re: Telecommuting

2011-12-10 Thread Peter Edwards
2011/12/9 Zbigniew Łukasiak zzb...@gmail.com Recently I was surprised by the following (from a talk by Greg Wilson): Physical distance doesn’t affect post-release fault rates but Distance in the organisational chart does. Nagappan et all (2007) and Bird et al (2009) Very interesting! And

Re: Beware: NET-A-PORTER

2011-12-10 Thread Avleen Vig
On Sat, Dec 10, 2011 at 7:46 AM, Steve Mynott st...@gruntling.com wrote: On Fri, Dec 09, 2011 at 09:11:14AM -0500, Avleen Vig typed: US salaries (use payroll expense) is much higher than in the UK. Where in London I would pay a programmer or sysadmin about £45k - £55k, in New York I

Re: Worst Recruitment Experience

2011-12-10 Thread Paul Makepeace
On Fri, Dec 9, 2011 at 12:53, Smylers smyl...@stripey.com wrote: My worst recruitment experience ... This is a pretty entertaining story, http://www.thesun.co.uk/sol/homepage/news/3990329/20-exec-axed-after-telling-jobseeker-off.html Paul