Wednesday February 27, 2002

Some fascinating reading in the Stripper FAQ (frequently asked questions).  Kind of like the Joel on Software for the stripper world.

StripperFAQJoelOnSoftware
The six dumbest words that can leave a woman's mouth are "I can take care of myself". No you can't, and get any notion that you're some kind of tough girl out of your head. Men are bigger, stronger and meaner. They've been beating and raping women for thousands of years now and have pretty much got it down pat.

 You might be able to get 20% more raw code out of people by begging everybody to work super hard, no matter how tired they get. Boom, debugging time doubles. An idiotic move that backfires in a splendidly karmic way.
But you can never get 3n from n, ever, and if you think you can, please email me the stock ticker of your company so I can short it.

Heels are your first purchase. Minimum height is 3 inches- anything shorter and your gut will stick out and your legs will look like tree trunks.

 A software company has to think of recruiting the right people as its number one problem. If you are successful, this can solve any other problem.

There are two kinds of dancers, subsistence and capital dancers. A subsistence dancer just works enough to get by. Maybe a few days a week, saves little and is always in a financial crisis. ... A capital dancer dances as an investment. In my opinion this is the only reason to dance. Dancing is just too hard a way to earn a living to do it for just enough to "get by". You can get by on a McDonalds salary.

 If your team doesn't have dedicated testers, at least one for every two or three programmers, you are either shipping buggy products, or you're wasting money by having 0/hour programmers do work that can be done by /hour testers. Skimping on testers is such an outrageous false economy that I'm simply blown away that more people don't recognize it.

As a dancer you're looking to invest for the long term- at least 5 years and probably 10. Mutual funds are low maintenance and are well suited for this. I strongly advise agianst investing in individual stocks.

 Stock options are not intended to replace salary. I hate companies that say "we're only going to pay you half what you're worth, but the stock options will make you a zillionaire when we go public!" Fog Creek might not go public. You might not become a zillionaire.