Archive for: May, 2010

QA Jobs and Coelacanths.

May 25 2010 Published by under Related To Work I'm Doing

The two are not related. The job is a QA job on an upcoming game, and while you will not grow rich doing this job, you will make some useful connections and make a little money without having to relocate or even put on pants. And guys, you know I love you, but “I did this open beta” is not actually job experience. However, something like a team lead position is, if you can shore that up by having at least sort of related professional experience. The posting is here: http://sacramento.craigslist.org/sof/1736581596.html

As for the ancient fish: I did my Metaverse Mod Squad post yesterday and I was maybe a little punchy. The seven of you who have been reading my stuff for… a decade… know that I sometimes torture analogies until they scream and break loose their chains to flee into the night. (See what I did there?) At any rate, I compared developers who post on message boards to coelacanths.

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Must Not Snicker

May 12 2010 Published by under Just Thinking, Related To Work I'm Doing

I started to write an anecdote in my post for ModSquad today (a brief run down on multiple feedback channels) to explain exactly how I knew some of these things and decided… nah.

But I couldn’t not snicker about it. The four of you who have been reading my ramblings for ten years (HOLY CRAP, TEN YEARS) will join me in a hearty laugh at this one particular bit:

Forum posters aren’t just telling you what you need to know. They’re also performing for an audience and getting feedback of their own. You don’t have time to filter out the nugget of truth in both the rant and the feedback letter.

Oh, the irony. It burns.

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