Sep 24
Fairy tales for sleepy children. You will find on this website all the classic fairy tales to read online or to download in the form of ebooks (free and easy to print). They have a different fairy tale on the front page every day. They just added a wallpaper section and started to add illustrations made by some of my favorite artists: Gustave Dore, Arthur Rackham, etc… Have a look, it’s a beautiful website: www.TonightsBedtimeStory.com.
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Jul 15
I was talking with one of my friends recently and he was telling me about a problem he was having. He is trying to recruit a very talented programmer for his team and, while the position was approved and everybody gave that candidate a thumb up during the interview process, he still has to fight with the human resource department to get this hire approved.
The proposed compensation wasn’t outrageous, market level at best but that was the first problem for the human resource department. The second one was the title: the candidate didn’t fit snugly in one of their standard categories.
That strikes me as a classic example of a company where business goals are not aligned. On one side, we have a production team that has for mission to deliver exceptional products and, on the other side, we have human resource team that has for mission to keep employee cost as low as possible.
While both goals are valid and make sense individually, in the software business they are not aligned and therefor are preventing the company to reach an overall goal of maximizing profits. To maximize profits, the company needs to deliver exceptional products as those products sell a magnitude more than average products.
To deliver exceptional products in such a competitive environment as the software business, you have to attract talent. Talented programmers are rare and the contribution programmers make function of their talent is not a linear progression: It is a geometrical progression. A superstar programmer may earn 1.5 time more than a normal programmer but is not 1.5 time more productive. He usually is 4, 6 and sometimes 10 times more productive.
Talent needs to be compensated. If you only offers below market compensation, you depriving your company from the talent and productivity needed to deliver exceptional products and maximize your profit. The business goals of your different department need to be aligned. If your production team goal is to deliver exceptional products, your human resource team goal should be to find exceptional peoples.
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May 30
Creating safe and secure passwords is a very difficult exercise. Try using the high security password generator. Using the passwords from that site is actually not that important. What is important is learning the method presented to create easy to remember strong passwords. Have a look and improve your computer security skills: http://www.HighSecurityPasswordGenerator.com/
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Apr 11
I added my “resume in pictures” here:
http://www.PhilippePaquet.com/resume/
Of course, I’m hoping to add a few more pictures very soon.
To get a full copy of my resume, send me an email at philippe@paquet.net.
You can see my LinkedIn profile here.
You can see my MobyGames profile here.
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Mar 16
Parking is a problem in Los Angeles and that’s a major understatement. Sometimes peoples don’t care. Sometimes they are stupid and a lot of time they shouldn’t have a driver license. It’s all over the city. If that was fatal, the population of Los Angeles would have been decimated a long time ago. You’ll find pictures and stories about bad parking in the Los Angeles area on www.LACantPark.com.
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Feb 01
Want to get honest restaurant reviews? Find out where to go with www.MyRestaurantTips.com. In this blog, you will find comprehemsive restaurant reviews with photos, dates and prices. Most of the reviews are about restaurants in the Los Angeles but there are national and international reviews.
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Feb 01
I created a new page for ppXml on this domain. ppXml is now available here: http://www.philippepaquet.com/ppxml/
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Jan 30
I created a new page for Sinople on this domain. Sinople is now available here: http://www.philippepaquet.com/sinople/
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Jan 29
When you have a secret project or when you simply have a project that doesn’t have his final name, what do you do? You use a codename. If you’re running out of ideas, you can create your own code name, code word, operation name or project name using the code name generator. It’s available online: http://www.CodeNameGenerator.com/
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