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so then if you use a REAL SMALL Font(like this msg),
then you can get more word with less pages per book and make
more?
Joe
>>> carmichr_at_hotmail.com 06/15/01 11:51AM
>>>well, there are different rules for different things... it's not
the number of pages, it's the number of words :)back in the early
days of pulp fiction, writers were paid by the word, not the story... the
more words, the more money. Made for very very detailed stories
:)>From: "Toepke, Kevin M"
<ktoepke_at_cms.cendant.com>>Reply-To: ORACLE-L_at_fatcity.com>To:
Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L
<ORACLE-L_at_fatcity.com>>Subject: RE: OT: Working from
home>Date: Fri, 15 Jun 2001 07:05:52 -0800>>Come on Rachel.
You mean that lines of code is not a good measure of a>programmer's
productivity? Next thing you'll tell me the its not the number>of pages
that makes a book good? :->>>(fleeing for my
life)>>-----Original Message----->Sent: Friday, June 15,
2001 9:01 AM>To: Multiple recipients of list
ORACLE-L>>>Nuno, you are preaching to the choir here I
think :)>>There was a manager in that same shop who measured her
programmers >abilities>>by the number of lines of code they
wrote in a day. She also said to me >once>>"I don't like to
waste time on design">>Truly. And they wondered why
people kept quitting on her.>>>> >From: "Nuno
Souto" <nsouto_at_nsw.bigpond.net.au>> >Reply-To:
ORACLE-L_at_fatcity.com> >To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L
<ORACLE-L_at_fatcity.com>> >Subject: Re: OT: Working from
home> >Date: Fri, 15 Jun 2001 02:45:53 -0800> >>
>----- Original Message -----> > >> > > So we all
lied a lot. And this was "sitting at our desks"> > >>
>> ><rant>> >That IMHO is the main flaw of all
these new management techniques> >and "metrics" being pushed by
methodology reps. They are> >very good when dealing with coal
face workers. They haven't got> >a chance in hell of accurately
representing working patterns when> >dealing with a technical
job. Most of them are extrapolated> >from factory environments,
where the amount of work is easy to> >measure in terms of
units/hour. Since none of them even make> >an effort at defining
what's a unit of work for a DBA or a designer> >or an "architect" or
even an analyst, they fail miserably in> >properly tracking this type
of job.> >> >Result? Totally incorrect project
metrics and cost extrapolations.> >Corollary? Make these jobs
disappear because of their "inconvenience"> >in fitting a flawed
model. Not fix the model.> >> >And they wonder why
projects can easily "fail"? They can't even> >accurately define
"failure" nowadays!> ></rant>> >>
>Cheers> >Nuno Souto> >nsouto_at_nsw.bigpond.net.au>
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