Re:Joblint: test tech jobs for sexism, culture, expectations...
by temphn on Monday September 30, 2013 @09:05PM
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Huh? Nature Publishing Group, where Rowan Manning works, makes its profit margins from extorting scientific libraries rather than superior code.
http://golem.ph.utexas.edu/category/2010/06/boycotting_the_n...
Boycotting the Nature Publishing Group
The Nature Publishing Group publishes not only the
prestigious journal Nature, but also many others. When this
company bought Scientific American, it raised the
institutional subscription price seven-fold. Now they are
insisting on quadrupling the fees for 67 journals to which
the University of California subscribes.
Right now, we pay them an average of $4,465 per year for
each journal we subscribe to. After the increase, this
would soar to $17,479 per year. In response, the University
of California is considering a system-wide boycott of the
Nature Publishing Group — for example, cancelling
subscriptions to all their journals.
https://github.com/rowanmanning/joblint/blob/master/lib/rule...
Re:Joblint: test tech jobs for sexism, culture, expectations...
by aclevernickname on Wednesday October 02, 2013 @06:19AM
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Beautiful. Thank you for this reply.
I have worked in an environment with one rowanmanning in it. It was awesome.
A more open-minded, funny, smart and generous guy you couldn't hope to meet. More to the point, he was one of the best coders any of us had ever worked with.
A company full of rowanmannings would therefore be a chilled out place where we'd learn from each other while having a laugh and turning out enough quality code to crush an army of pizza-fuelled dinosaur brogrammers waving their false-victimhood like a banner.