*** Disclaimer for those willing to analyse this poll ***
Most of users voting here are users with issues.
Users with painless experience are not likely to come here.
If you want to compare Karmic release with other releases based on this poll anyway here are the previous polls :
I had a friend who was running for a local political office.
He got various questionnaires from the various political parties.
This is the same question on both parties questionnaires, but notice the difference in how its worded -
* Do you believe in the killing of unborn children? * Do you believe you have the right to tell a women whos been raped that she has to carry to term the resulting fetus?
You don't think that the questions they ask about violence in video games might be just a little skewed?
So if I had to choose between you, the retailer that calls less-experienced people "idiots", and says they "deserve to lose their money" for not doing research, vs. HP while, while they may ignore you, don't call you idiots and don't use profanity to describe me as the customer, who do you think I'm going to choose?
I ran the IT gambit. Ben there, done that. I liked programming the best.
My current job promoted me to a manager, I figured why not?
You win and lose. I grew from just me to a dozen working for me.
At first it was fun, I got to program still (what I enjoyed) and got to have the power to make decisions.
But as time goes on and the team grows, things change.
First thing with being a manager - You represent the company.
When your a programmer you can bitch with the rest of the team. Complain about things, and not worry about the details.
As a manager, that all changes. It doesn't matter if you agree with the decision or not, but when it comes to explaining it to your team, as you represent the company, your expected to back the companies decisions.
You have to find reasons to get your team to agree to things you may hate. At the same time, your expected to bring up issues your team wants delt with. So you have to represent them. And if your boss says "Its not something we can deal with right now", you have to find a polite way to explain to your team without hurting their motivation - As if they are late, you answer for it.
And what about budget issues? Do you have to keep a budget? And prioritizing projects? As a programmer, you may not want to cut corners. But as a manager you have to balance all the issues.
If you make it bullet-proof, it'll be late. Leave a bug or two in, it'll be on time. The programmer says do it right - But your the manager, people yell at you when it late, you have a decision to make.
Are you prepared to argue your case up the chain? Say you wanna make it bullet proof, how many battles do you have to fight to get it? What value does it add to the customer? What percentage of users are going to see the bug, does it justify the delay for the other customers?
And then there is the politics. Hard to avoid in most companies. As a manager you have to argue the politics you may have blissfully avoided as a programmer.
All of these are now things you get to deal with.
Then there is - Are you friends with those who work for you? What if you have to fire that person?
What if two people don't get along? How do you handle the situation? Your the one in charge - You have to make it work.
Being a manager puts a line between you, regardless if you want it to or not - You have to represent your team and shield them from any issues so they can focus on their jobs. But you also have to represent the company when it comes to pushing decisions back down.
Being a good programmer doesn't automatically make a good manager. More often then not I've seen bad managers then good.
Don't expect to remain programming either. As the team grows that part goes away with it.
The pay is usually better, but it always comes with a price.
If you can do all that without issues, then maybe you can be a manager.:)
Me? I'd personally preferred to be paid less and deal with code issues then get paid more and deal with people and political issues that I might not like myself for. I split my team, so I get to program more now, and less politics.
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Sun Buys MySQL
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PostgreSQL has 7 -core developers, one of those works at Sun.
While Sun didn't buy any of the PostgreSQL companies, they do provide support and developers - the same as the others. I doubt their support of PostgreSQL will lessen any.
The two database communities are not comparable.
MySQL is run by a central company. PostgreSQL is run by the community, with companies growing up around it offering additional features and support (of which Sun is one of them).
What will happen is MySQL, the company, is shut down? This I don't know.
I do know what will happen if the companies around PostgreSQL go away? Its happened before. - PostgreSQL continues.
If anything from my point of view this is better for MySQL. It stops companies like Oracle from being able to control the only company that truly controls MySQL.
Its basically just C with some generic structures thrown on top of it.
Also, it was created in 2000. Its intent, as some have mentioned, was marketing. Basically it does what Google Analytics or WebTrends does for the web.
It actually seems like a nice language, for those who want to quickly run through gigs of data.
I see nothing evil about the language itself. It, like C, perl, PHP, or any other language you chose to use - Can be used for whatever purpose the programmer chooses. Its intent was marketing, and almost every company in existence wants to know more about their customers.
Its different because you can change the TrueCrypt password all you want.
As a company admin, you create the TrueCrypt volume for your employees. You backup the header file - That header file contains the real key used across the whole volume.
When you change your password, it doesn't have to re-encrypt the whole disk, right? Thats because the header contains the real key it used across the volume. And the password you provided is only used to provide access to the information contained in the header.
If you change your password, you only change the header.
What this means is that, as an admin - You can allow your users to reset their own passwords, as many times as they want, as frequently as they want.
Should they forget the password, you simply restore the original header, giving yourself back access to the volume, and then you can change the password again for the user.
ALSO - If you need to access the users data, you backup the users volume, and restore yours. Then you now have access to the volume.
When done, restore the users header back, and its back to whatever password he had. You don't need to know his password to do this.
Its basically a second key to the volume.
Now if the user creates a new volume though, all bets are off.
This problem of key recovery is easily solved in TrueCrypt.
Create your encrypted volume, set only a file as the passphrase - Yes, skip a password. Now, backup the volume header using the --backup-headers option.
Store the header, and the file you used as a password in a safe place somewhere else.
Change the password on your volume to whatever you want.
In the event that you ever lose or forget your password, use the --restore-header option and restore the original encryption header.
That will allow you to open the volume with the file and header that you've got tucked away somewhere else. No matter how many times the password is changed, the original header will always work to open that volume.
There is nothing in the header itself that can be used to identify it as a header backup. And the file you used as the password can be anything. Just use a random html page so it doesn't look suspicious if anyone ever finds it.
As an employer of programmers, admins, and basically all-around geek jobs, I deal with a lot of resumes.
Maybe one resume in 30 or 40 is a women. This to me is actually a large improvement.
When I first started years ago, if I got one women in 100 resumes it was considered amazing.
To me, the rate of women entering the IT section has very much improved from where it used to be.
I don't see any discrimination, I see lack of interest.
We hire both designers and IT. The rate of good male resumes applying to be designers has actually dropped in my company.
We hire less women for IT positions because less women apply. We hire less men for design positions because less men apply.
With that said though, as noted above, the ratio of women applying for IT positions has, at least in terms of my company, significantly increased. I don't see there being any problems, I see it getting better.
And on a personal note, I couldn't be happier -
Uber-nerds here are not the most hygienic, and we have a lot of programmers that could really learn a thing or two in that area. Having women around, the office actually smells nicer.
Not because of any female perfume, but because the men are actually taking showers now.
As an employer, you pay extra money to get access to peoples resumes directly.
To me this looks like nothing more then someone automating the employer "Resume Search", which btw, gives all the information the article mentioned.
So as far as I can tell, from the article and what I've read here - No breech happened at Monster, rather a stolen account that paid for the resume search feature was used to harvest resumes.
No linux on those PS3s.
If you read the article, you'll notice that the game ships with a server mode.
I'm guessing they just load a modified version of the game that ships (one that skips the graphics and runs in only dedicated mode), and just let it run.
Slashdot Mirror
My company only has ~200 IT workers, but as a manager I can tell you F/OSS project work counts more then college.
Stealing from OpenArena - which is also GPL.
So, stealing meaning use their resources, but not stealing as in copyright theft.
On the very poll you linked to it says this -
*** Disclaimer for those willing to analyse this poll ***
Most of users voting here are users with issues.
Users with painless experience are not likely to come here.
If you want to compare Karmic release with other releases based on this poll anyway here are the previous polls :
I think it goes back and fourth.
My company hired Sr people who knew what they were doing, but were all expensive.
Then the saw things like "PHP programmer", you can get half a dozen for cheap.
So they saw "Programming language" + "Cheap programmers" and thought - Great, lets get it!
Then we needed twice as many servers, and had twice as many issues, and suddenly security issues we've never had before existed.
Whatever money was saved on people was lost in additional servers, power, cooling, bandwidth, security, training, managing, etc.
You get what you pay for.
Its a cycle.
Servers get faster - And all that speed is used for is slower programs written by newer programmers.
Then they go back and hire a Sr again, and suddenly things are twice as fast, and then we hire experienced people again.
I've been here long enough that it was "perl", then "java", now "PHP". I figure Ruby will be the next crazy.
Meanwhile my team is still using perl and C and our applications are getting faster, not slower.
I had a friend who was running for a local political office.
He got various questionnaires from the various political parties.
This is the same question on both parties questionnaires, but notice the difference in how its worded -
* Do you believe in the killing of unborn children?
* Do you believe you have the right to tell a women whos been raped that she has to carry to term the resulting fetus?
You don't think that the questions they ask about violence in video games might be just a little skewed?
Hmm ..
So if I had to choose between you, the retailer that calls less-experienced people "idiots", and says they "deserve to lose their money" for not doing research, vs. HP while, while they may ignore you, don't call you idiots and don't use profanity to describe me as the customer, who do you think I'm going to choose?
I ran the IT gambit. Ben there, done that.
:)
I liked programming the best.
My current job promoted me to a manager, I figured why not?
You win and lose.
I grew from just me to a dozen working for me.
At first it was fun, I got to program still (what I enjoyed) and got to have the power to make decisions.
But as time goes on and the team grows, things change.
First thing with being a manager - You represent the company.
When your a programmer you can bitch with the rest of the team. Complain about things, and not worry about the details.
As a manager, that all changes. It doesn't matter if you agree with the decision or not, but when it comes to explaining it to your team, as you represent the company, your expected to back the companies decisions.
You have to find reasons to get your team to agree to things you may hate.
At the same time, your expected to bring up issues your team wants delt with. So you have to represent them.
And if your boss says "Its not something we can deal with right now", you have to find a polite way to explain to your team without hurting their motivation - As if they are late, you answer for it.
And what about budget issues? Do you have to keep a budget? And prioritizing projects?
As a programmer, you may not want to cut corners. But as a manager you have to balance all the issues.
If you make it bullet-proof, it'll be late. Leave a bug or two in, it'll be on time.
The programmer says do it right - But your the manager, people yell at you when it late, you have a decision to make.
Are you prepared to argue your case up the chain? Say you wanna make it bullet proof, how many battles do you have to fight to get it?
What value does it add to the customer? What percentage of users are going to see the bug, does it justify the delay for the other customers?
And then there is the politics. Hard to avoid in most companies.
As a manager you have to argue the politics you may have blissfully avoided as a programmer.
All of these are now things you get to deal with.
Then there is - Are you friends with those who work for you?
What if you have to fire that person?
What if two people don't get along? How do you handle the situation?
Your the one in charge - You have to make it work.
Being a manager puts a line between you, regardless if you want it to or not - You have to represent your team and shield them from any issues so they can focus on their jobs.
But you also have to represent the company when it comes to pushing decisions back down.
Being a good programmer doesn't automatically make a good manager.
More often then not I've seen bad managers then good.
Don't expect to remain programming either.
As the team grows that part goes away with it.
The pay is usually better, but it always comes with a price.
If you can do all that without issues, then maybe you can be a manager.
Me? I'd personally preferred to be paid less and deal with code issues then get paid more and deal with people and political issues that I might not like myself for.
I split my team, so I get to program more now, and less politics.
PostgreSQL has 7 -core developers, one of those works at Sun.
While Sun didn't buy any of the PostgreSQL companies, they do provide support and developers - the same as the others.
I doubt their support of PostgreSQL will lessen any.
The two database communities are not comparable.
MySQL is run by a central company.
PostgreSQL is run by the community, with companies growing up around it offering additional features and support (of which Sun is one of them).
What will happen is MySQL, the company, is shut down?
This I don't know.
I do know what will happen if the companies around PostgreSQL go away?
Its happened before. - PostgreSQL continues.
If anything from my point of view this is better for MySQL.
It stops companies like Oracle from being able to control the only company that truly controls MySQL.
Its basically just C with some generic structures thrown on top of it.
Also, it was created in 2000.
Its intent, as some have mentioned, was marketing.
Basically it does what Google Analytics or WebTrends does for the web.
It actually seems like a nice language, for those who want to quickly run through gigs of data.
I see nothing evil about the language itself.
It, like C, perl, PHP, or any other language you chose to use - Can be used for whatever purpose the programmer chooses.
Its intent was marketing, and almost every company in existence wants to know more about their customers.
Its different because you can change the TrueCrypt password all you want.
As a company admin, you create the TrueCrypt volume for your employees.
You backup the header file - That header file contains the real key used across the whole volume.
When you change your password, it doesn't have to re-encrypt the whole disk, right?
Thats because the header contains the real key it used across the volume.
And the password you provided is only used to provide access to the information contained in the header.
If you change your password, you only change the header.
http://www.truecrypt.org/docs/encryption-scheme.php
What this means is that, as an admin - You can allow your users to reset their own passwords, as many
times as they want, as frequently as they want.
Should they forget the password, you simply restore the original header, giving yourself back access to the volume,
and then you can change the password again for the user.
ALSO - If you need to access the users data, you backup the users volume, and restore yours.
Then you now have access to the volume.
When done, restore the users header back, and its back to whatever password he had.
You don't need to know his password to do this.
Its basically a second key to the volume.
Now if the user creates a new volume though, all bets are off.
This problem of key recovery is easily solved in TrueCrypt.
Create your encrypted volume, set only a file as the passphrase - Yes, skip a password.
Now, backup the volume header using the --backup-headers option.
Store the header, and the file you used as a password in a safe place somewhere else.
Change the password on your volume to whatever you want.
In the event that you ever lose or forget your password, use the --restore-header option
and restore the original encryption header.
That will allow you to open the volume with the file and header that you've got tucked away somewhere else.
No matter how many times the password is changed, the original header will always work to open that volume.
There is nothing in the header itself that can be used to identify it as a header backup.
And the file you used as the password can be anything. Just use a random html page so it doesn't look suspicious if anyone ever finds it.
As an employer of programmers, admins, and basically all-around geek jobs, I deal with a lot of resumes.
Maybe one resume in 30 or 40 is a women.
This to me is actually a large improvement.
When I first started years ago, if I got one women in 100 resumes it was considered amazing.
To me, the rate of women entering the IT section has very much improved from where it used to be.
I don't see any discrimination, I see lack of interest.
We hire both designers and IT.
The rate of good male resumes applying to be designers has actually dropped in my company.
We hire less women for IT positions because less women apply.
We hire less men for design positions because less men apply.
With that said though, as noted above, the ratio of women applying for IT positions has, at least in terms of my company, significantly increased.
I don't see there being any problems, I see it getting better.
And on a personal note, I couldn't be happier -
Uber-nerds here are not the most hygienic, and we have a lot of programmers that could really learn a thing or two in that area.
Having women around, the office actually smells nicer.
Not because of any female perfume, but because the men are actually taking showers now.
It costs billions to put those guys on Mars.
Heck, it costs NASA billions to put them on the moon.
The point is to have private industry be able to do it for millions, or less.
Its not "Its been done before", its to make it possible to do it again, and again, and again.
Do it without putting the whole country into a deficit.
Make that possible, and then maybe the impossible that costs trillions can use the same technology.
A hand-made car, only a few can afford.
Mass-produced cars, we all can afford.
Get the space technology to that level, and finally we'll be able to really explore outside our planet.
I personally don't see this as as big an issue.
As an employer, you pay extra money to get access to peoples resumes directly.
To me this looks like nothing more then someone automating the employer "Resume Search", which btw, gives all the information the article mentioned.
So as far as I can tell, from the article and what I've read here - No breech happened at Monster, rather a stolen account that paid for the resume search feature was used to harvest resumes.
No linux on those PS3s. If you read the article, you'll notice that the game ships with a server mode. I'm guessing they just load a modified version of the game that ships (one that skips the graphics and runs in only dedicated mode), and just let it run.
From the link in the article you can find the results, or just look here.
Hardware, kernel changes, PostgreSQL configuration, etc.
Its all on that page.