At 08:22 PM 12/18/2002 -0600 Adam C. Lipscomb wrote:
According to labor statistics, productivity for American workers
continues to climb. I can understand how that is measured for
industries in which there is a measurable *thing* produced, such as
cars or toasters, but how do those statistics get
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Onderwerp: Re: Question for JDG (or anyone else with a good answer)
Thereby confirming what everybody knows: that government employees
don't
Erik wrote:
working towards it). That thing is money = revenue = sales. Everything
is fungible to an economist or a finance guy. So, to first order, I
Forget all that other technical stuff! What does 'fungible' mean?!
Lal
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From: Julia Thompson [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Other than that, lines of code per coder per month might tell you
something, maybe. Of course, you have to average that over the
lifetime
It's something very close to ~ 3 lines code / Day.
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Subject: Re: Question for JDG (or anyone else with a good answer)
Date: Thu, 19 Dec 2002 14:13:02 -0500
On Thu, Dec 19, 2002 at 06:46:55PM -, Lalith Vipulananthan wrote:
Erik wrote:
working towards
On Thu, 19 Dec 2002, Jon Gabriel wrote:
Forget all that other technical stuff! What does 'fungible' mean?!
Interchangeable. Is it easier for you to post a question like that
rather than surf to something like http://dictionary.com/ and find the
answer?
Well, he might not know about it?
Jon wrote:
Forget all that other technical stuff! What does 'fungible' mean?!
Interchangeable. Is it easier for you to post a question like that
rather than surf to something like http://dictionary.com/ and find the
answer?
Well, he might not know about it?
Lal, you can also try
Ronn! Blankenship wrote:
At 09:36 PM 12/18/02 -0500, Erik Reuter wrote:
Everything is fungible to an economist or a finance guy.
Please! Watch your language!
OK, what was the problem word, fungible or economist? ;)
Julia
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Lalith Vipulananthan wrote:
Embarassingly enough, I knew about both of those already, but the word looked
made up. Silly me for such a strange assumption.
Lal
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And not your Xompitor?
Doug
Or however you spell it.
On Wed, Dec 18, 2002 at 08:22:30PM -0600, Adam C. Lipscomb wrote:
According to labor statistics, productivity for American workers
continues to climb. I can understand how that is measured for
industries in which there is a measurable *thing* produced, such as
cars or toasters, but how do
Adam C. Lipscomb wrote:
According to labor statistics, productivity for American workers
continues to climb. I can understand how that is measured for
industries in which there is a measurable *thing* produced, such as
cars or toasters, but how do those statistics get determined for
Adam C. Lipscomb wrote:
According to labor statistics, productivity for American
workers continues to climb. I can understand how that
is measured for industries in which there is a measurable
*thing* produced, such as cars or toasters, but how do
those statistics get determined for
On Wed, Dec 18, 2002 at 09:36:16PM -0500, Erik Reuter wrote:
My first reaction is -- every company produces a measurable thing (or is
working towards it). That thing is money = revenue = sales. Everything
is fungible to an economist or a finance guy. So, to first order, I
would think
On Wed, Dec 18, 2002 at 09:19:07PM -0600, Steve Sloan II wrote:
Adam C. Lipscomb wrote:
According to labor statistics, productivity for American
workers continues to climb. I can understand how that
is measured for industries in which there is a measurable
*thing* produced, such as cars or
At 09:36 PM 12/18/02 -0500, Erik Reuter wrote:
Everything is fungible to an economist or a finance guy.
Please! Watch your language!
--Ronn! :)
I always knew that I would see the first man on the Moon.
I never dreamed that I would see the last.
--Dr. Jerry Pournelle
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