As the example of Apple clearly shows, it's impossible for a closed platform company to reinvent itself and become a market leader in a new tech segment.
The company is actually surprisingly honest. Promoting tech guys to management from within is a huge risk. There's simply no predicting how it turns out. In the ideal case, the new supervisor will be able to make up for his lack of experience in personnel management by contributing technically due to his knowledge of the infrastructure. On the opposite end of the spectrum, your new supervisor will micromanage his techs due to his perceived superior knowledge for years on end, even when the technology has long passed his level of expertise. Plus a whole lot of chances for personality conflicts with former coworkers who resent the promotion or time for payback to those that might have slighted him.
The OP is probably in the mid-40s, so this is his one chance to make the jump into the management track. Without supervisory experience, he won't get outside offers to manage later, and his company is unlikely to offer him a second chance. This whole discussion about pay is FUD, if he wants to manage and go on to higher levels (of responsibility or pay) he should take it even with a pay cut. If he wants to stay a tech guy, turn it down because of that, don't try to make yourself comfortable about it by griping about the lack of a raise.
It's not only a brain drain, it's a huge drain on the original country's economy. Typically you siphon off someone with a bachelor's degree, who's gotten 13 years of primary education and 4 years of college paid by the economy of the original country. The US throws in a couple of years of grad school and gets a highly productive part of the economy at lowest cost.
Spoken as a guy who came to the US for a one year post-doc and somehow got stuck...
I'm in the same position in a small business (so we're no longer a start-up after 10+ years), and after trying the "free" software route for a while I went back to all MS. 90% of the people you hire come "pre-trained" in your typical Office applications, and the savings in training cost (my time and their time) easily pays for the licenses.
make that -200, their "we don't repair your $1000 piece of hardware unless you sign up for our software services" business model makes Apple or MS look like outstanding corporate citizens.
Even so, it comes out to a kilo of absorber per shot glass of gasoline burned; this has a long way to go to become meaningful on a large scale. Fascinating from a scientific point so, and more energy efficient than cooling to collect the CO2.
Actually EQ cut back to one expansion a year some years back - they just switched to a "must do all the group quests and then get to raid" scheme to keep you busy.
Sure you can insulate, but are you going to wrap every exposed tool on your system in insulation? This company is planing a mining operation, how long do you think that foil is going to last while digging in dirt (which happens to be extremely abrasive). And sure it's easy to maintain the desired operating temperature if you're connected via cable to an operating nuclear reactor, but your excavator moving in the field will be draining its batteries just trying to keep the joints and hydraulics warm without that 1.3 kW/m^2 solar assist (and no solar panels to recharge them either).
And here NASA thinks that it will take 10 years until there's a mature enough technology to remotely build reusable landing fields on the moon, followed by another couple of years to actually build them. And that's for something in the warm areas, not the -220C cold permanently shadowed craters. There guys probably plan on ordering their equipment from Caterpillar and let the engines run overnight to make sure they stay warm (works in Alaska).
I'm aware of that, just not why that's relevant to the subject at hand. Unless of course that it is physically impossible that after 10 years of additional data collection Webb is on more solid footing, or might have shown that the 2004 and 2008 experiments are not relevant to his observations. The fact that after quite obviously many discussions with reviewers the paper got published in a decent journal usually indicates that the author has made a good argument why his data is not in contradiction to published experiments (I lack the understanding why a paper on the accuracy of time measurements by atomic frequency precludes the variability of a cosmic constant).
No need to put me on your foe list, I'm not deep enough into that to make a worthy adversary. I'm just someone who gets tired of the argument that if the experiment contradicts the theory the experiment is wrong. The last three times the measurements turned out to be right we ended up with inflation, dark matter and dark energy. They all make the model fit just nicely - and the theorists don't give a damn if we have a clue what the physical processes/particles driving these phenomenons are. The model predicts them, so it's the fault of the experimentalists that they are not seen.
In other words, if those experimentalists would just stop publishing data that contradict our beautiful theories we could stop having to add layers of invisible darkness to our models. What will it be called this time?
They bundle drivers with the distro that are not free (in his mind, they don't cost anything, but that's not free). Which is why you can use your wireless on Ubuntu, and RMS can not.
Sorry, asking for people to go to your hotel and check out the air conditioning and the availability of wired internet connection not requiring a browser handshake falls under "demanding ass", not as reasonable requests. Plus a complete lack of understanding of the technical capabilities of the NSA, in case they're really after him.
I only wonder what kind of mental handstand one has to perform to not wanting "Big Brother" to know where he's staying when he travels from advertised (the more the merrier) speech to advertised (and don't exclude anyone) speech. I'm sure if anyone wanted to know what RMS is up to they first tack his credit card spending, and not his calendar of events on the internet.
Unfortunately the postulated Ni+H -> Cu reaction is endothermic, you have to put energy in to make it happen. I wouldn't sell my copper mine shares yet.
Wisconsin dropped its prohibition against concealed carry on campus this summer, so the campus police is probably truly afraid of anyone wearing a long trench coat right now. And as they presumably always facing people while awake and armed, the poster could be taken as directly applying to them (and we can't have that, we're the authority, don't you know).
I guess a lot are missing out on the "just started a research group" part. Beginning academic researches (what would be tenure track assistant prof in the US) plan for a 5 year run or research, not cranking out results in 90 days of high power cloud computing. Infrastructure is provided, labor is free or fixed, and typical data needs to be looked at, algorithms rewritten etc so preventing an optimal use of the high power capacity anyway. Plus 5 years from now the cluster will probably become desktops for grad students, and 10 years from now part of the beginners lab.
Everyone assumes this is a government funded project. I see an administrator at a start-up, running a bunch of promising biochemical/medical simulations stuff on a 20 machine cluster using some linux-based code. Now they got some serious venture capital investments, and venture capital wants fast scale-up for fast flipping. If the researchers say they can do their work in 3 years on the 20 machines or in 1 year with a couple million in new hardware, the couple million will not even cause a blink to a major investor.
So the hardware gets ordered, and someone runs the numbers and finds out they don't have enough stuff to run on their machines, the machines not only cost a couple million but also serious dollars in maintenance/cooling etc, lets find something commercial to do with them (also generating a nice non-project bound income stream). And now the admin realizes that while their code runs mostly on the local nodes since was written and optimized 15 years ago on Redhead 5.0, that won't impress people who pay the big bucks for extra cycles. And since they told everyone "the OS is free, it's Linux" they don't have money and don't have time to get someone to explain all the little details of running a HPC for profit.
Voila, your slashdot post of "Help, I'm in an airplane, how do you land this thing".
While that is true, it also means he's past the "if you cancel now you have to pay us $$$ for early termination" limit. So when the Darth Vader 9000, with Anakin's pictures from the honeymoon preloaded, comes out he can switch instead being bound by the dark side.
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As the example of Apple clearly shows, it's impossible for a closed platform company to reinvent itself and become a market leader in a new tech segment.
The company is actually surprisingly honest. Promoting tech guys to management from within is a huge risk. There's simply no predicting how it turns out. In the ideal case, the new supervisor will be able to make up for his lack of experience in personnel management by contributing technically due to his knowledge of the infrastructure. On the opposite end of the spectrum, your new supervisor will micromanage his techs due to his perceived superior knowledge for years on end, even when the technology has long passed his level of expertise. Plus a whole lot of chances for personality conflicts with former coworkers who resent the promotion or time for payback to those that might have slighted him. The OP is probably in the mid-40s, so this is his one chance to make the jump into the management track. Without supervisory experience, he won't get outside offers to manage later, and his company is unlikely to offer him a second chance. This whole discussion about pay is FUD, if he wants to manage and go on to higher levels (of responsibility or pay) he should take it even with a pay cut. If he wants to stay a tech guy, turn it down because of that, don't try to make yourself comfortable about it by griping about the lack of a raise.
It's not only a brain drain, it's a huge drain on the original country's economy. Typically you siphon off someone with a bachelor's degree, who's gotten 13 years of primary education and 4 years of college paid by the economy of the original country. The US throws in a couple of years of grad school and gets a highly productive part of the economy at lowest cost. Spoken as a guy who came to the US for a one year post-doc and somehow got stuck...
I'm in the same position in a small business (so we're no longer a start-up after 10+ years), and after trying the "free" software route for a while I went back to all MS. 90% of the people you hire come "pre-trained" in your typical Office applications, and the savings in training cost (my time and their time) easily pays for the licenses.
make that -200, their "we don't repair your $1000 piece of hardware unless you sign up for our software services" business model makes Apple or MS look like outstanding corporate citizens.
Even so, it comes out to a kilo of absorber per shot glass of gasoline burned; this has a long way to go to become meaningful on a large scale. Fascinating from a scientific point so, and more energy efficient than cooling to collect the CO2.
Actually EQ cut back to one expansion a year some years back - they just switched to a "must do all the group quests and then get to raid" scheme to keep you busy.
So, what you're saying is Linux, so easy even a Windows user could do it?
Sure you can insulate, but are you going to wrap every exposed tool on your system in insulation? This company is planing a mining operation, how long do you think that foil is going to last while digging in dirt (which happens to be extremely abrasive). And sure it's easy to maintain the desired operating temperature if you're connected via cable to an operating nuclear reactor, but your excavator moving in the field will be draining its batteries just trying to keep the joints and hydraulics warm without that 1.3 kW/m^2 solar assist (and no solar panels to recharge them either).
And here NASA thinks that it will take 10 years until there's a mature enough technology to remotely build reusable landing fields on the moon, followed by another couple of years to actually build them. And that's for something in the warm areas, not the -220C cold permanently shadowed craters. There guys probably plan on ordering their equipment from Caterpillar and let the engines run overnight to make sure they stay warm (works in Alaska).
I'm aware of that, just not why that's relevant to the subject at hand. Unless of course that it is physically impossible that after 10 years of additional data collection Webb is on more solid footing, or might have shown that the 2004 and 2008 experiments are not relevant to his observations. The fact that after quite obviously many discussions with reviewers the paper got published in a decent journal usually indicates that the author has made a good argument why his data is not in contradiction to published experiments (I lack the understanding why a paper on the accuracy of time measurements by atomic frequency precludes the variability of a cosmic constant).
No need to put me on your foe list, I'm not deep enough into that to make a worthy adversary. I'm just someone who gets tired of the argument that if the experiment contradicts the theory the experiment is wrong. The last three times the measurements turned out to be right we ended up with inflation, dark matter and dark energy. They all make the model fit just nicely - and the theorists don't give a damn if we have a clue what the physical processes/particles driving these phenomenons are. The model predicts them, so it's the fault of the experimentalists that they are not seen.
Fantastic, you just disproved Einstein. These guys managed to not reproduce data from 2010 in 2004 and 2008, respectively. Time travel has arrived.
Nope, didn't miss that, because it won't matter. The standard model theorists will just explain their way around it if it is.
In other words, if those experimentalists would just stop publishing data that contradict our beautiful theories we could stop having to add layers of invisible darkness to our models. What will it be called this time?
They bundle drivers with the distro that are not free (in his mind, they don't cost anything, but that's not free). Which is why you can use your wireless on Ubuntu, and RMS can not.
Sorry, asking for people to go to your hotel and check out the air conditioning and the availability of wired internet connection not requiring a browser handshake falls under "demanding ass", not as reasonable requests. Plus a complete lack of understanding of the technical capabilities of the NSA, in case they're really after him.
I only wonder what kind of mental handstand one has to perform to not wanting "Big Brother" to know where he's staying when he travels from advertised (the more the merrier) speech to advertised (and don't exclude anyone) speech. I'm sure if anyone wanted to know what RMS is up to they first tack his credit card spending, and not his calendar of events on the internet.
Unfortunately the postulated Ni+H -> Cu reaction is endothermic, you have to put energy in to make it happen. I wouldn't sell my copper mine shares yet.
I can't wait for them trying to enforce that on 4chan ...
Wisconsin dropped its prohibition against concealed carry on campus this summer, so the campus police is probably truly afraid of anyone wearing a long trench coat right now. And as they presumably always facing people while awake and armed, the poster could be taken as directly applying to them (and we can't have that, we're the authority, don't you know).
I guess a lot are missing out on the "just started a research group" part. Beginning academic researches (what would be tenure track assistant prof in the US) plan for a 5 year run or research, not cranking out results in 90 days of high power cloud computing. Infrastructure is provided, labor is free or fixed, and typical data needs to be looked at, algorithms rewritten etc so preventing an optimal use of the high power capacity anyway. Plus 5 years from now the cluster will probably become desktops for grad students, and 10 years from now part of the beginners lab.
Everyone assumes this is a government funded project. I see an administrator at a start-up, running a bunch of promising biochemical/medical simulations stuff on a 20 machine cluster using some linux-based code. Now they got some serious venture capital investments, and venture capital wants fast scale-up for fast flipping. If the researchers say they can do their work in 3 years on the 20 machines or in 1 year with a couple million in new hardware, the couple million will not even cause a blink to a major investor. So the hardware gets ordered, and someone runs the numbers and finds out they don't have enough stuff to run on their machines, the machines not only cost a couple million but also serious dollars in maintenance/cooling etc, lets find something commercial to do with them (also generating a nice non-project bound income stream). And now the admin realizes that while their code runs mostly on the local nodes since was written and optimized 15 years ago on Redhead 5.0, that won't impress people who pay the big bucks for extra cycles. And since they told everyone "the OS is free, it's Linux" they don't have money and don't have time to get someone to explain all the little details of running a HPC for profit. Voila, your slashdot post of "Help, I'm in an airplane, how do you land this thing".
It's a badly put together Rumpler Taube model, you can even see the wooden interior in one of the pictures.
While that is true, it also means he's past the "if you cancel now you have to pay us $$$ for early termination" limit. So when the Darth Vader 9000, with Anakin's pictures from the honeymoon preloaded, comes out he can switch instead being bound by the dark side.