On Tue, Sep 15, 2009 at 5:00 PM, Domas Mituzas <midom.lists(a)gmail.com>wrote;wrote:
Hi!
Correct me if I'm wrong, but here's what
I can gather: Total
spending was
$1.7 million less than budgeted. Tech spending was $1.7 million
less than
budgeted. And $1.7 million was sitting in the bank accounts at the
end of
the fiscal year.
We did not spend on hardware, because, well, I explained already in
some other email.
We did not reallocate the money to hire lots of developers because we
didn't know how the hardware spending will look like.
And that has proven to be a huge misjudgment.
I'll fix the dumps for minimum wage plus daycare
for my two kids.
;-) Are you for these conditions for other projects too?
For tech projects that I find interesting, and can do from home, sure.
Daycare alone is $80/day, though.
I don't know about that. It's a pretty cool
problem, it's just a
difficult
one to solve. Or maybe it's a cool problem because it's difficult
to solve.
I find it very boring problem myself. Probably thats because I'm
spoiled by really cool problems at work, or maybe somewhat cooler
problems at Wikimedia ;-)
Could be. But then, I'm probably interested in different types of problems
than you. And I'm not sure you've considered this problem in the same way
that I have (I'd like to modify the compressed files "in place", though
that
short description doesn't really capture the solution).