They aren't things I expect them to handle when they get back. It's more along the lines of "X broke while you were gone. We did Y to fix it. Here's the status on Y." Otherwise, they're going to encounter Y a month from now and go "wtf is this Y thing?" and we'll have to explain that Y happened while they were skiing in the Swiss Alps but we didn't bother CCing them on the plans for it.
Email's strength is that it is asynchronous. I send CC emails to people that I know are not available because I want them to read it when they get back, so they aren't totally clueless as to what happened while they were out scuba diving or whatever.
I actually have to do just that a lot of the time. Also, music helps a bunch - background noise that isn't random allows me to keep my mind on the task at hand instead of bouncing all over the place.
We also a problem of celebrating the ability to multi-task as an adult, and yet getting on the case of any child who exhibits those abilities because they're not "focused" enough.
I can stay focused just fine (*flicks eyes to where Outlook just refreshed*) and concentrate for long periods of time (*glances outside - cute squirrel!*) and I can assure you my eyes stay glued firmly to the screen. (*twitches and changes tabs because the title bar just changed on one*)
It also ignores the real reason many students opt for online only classes, which is asynchronous learning. Prof answers emails in the morning, goes to a committee meeting. One student eats lunch at work and does the homework during the rbeak. Another student starts during the afternoon while her baby is asleep. Yet another one doesn't get to dig into the assignment until after he's returned from working in an area with no Internet access. Prof can answer all their emails and questions in the evening, grades assignments, and the cycle repeats day after day.
The problem is that isn't taught as part of most project management courses - sure, the theory is, but the actual HOW is something you have to learn on your own. And that's the hard part.
Microsoft won't and can't test all of the hundreds of thousands of applications out there. It's not a problem with the OS, it's a problem with the in-house apps that interaction with the OS or whatever component of it that Microsoft updated. For example, my company is finally going to Office 2013, and I've spent some quality time this week verifying that an application we build that reads Word doc templates and spits them out as PDFs didn't choke on Word 2013. There's no way Microsoft could have tested that application, because maybe 15 computers in the world have it installed.
Yup, back when I did the patches for about a thousand computers, I'd always roll them out sloooooowly. First my test system, then my system, then the rest of my office (we know not to panic), then our smallest clients, and then snowballing up to a final massive push to 500 or so systems at our biggest client just before the next round of patches came out. If there was ever a problem anywhere along the line, we could halt before too much damage happened.
A friend of mine wrote a little tutorial thing called 2K to 10K about increasing your word count as a writer. It's about properly planning what you intend to write, maximizing the output during your prime writing time, and getting excited about your writing. ("Drunk on writing" is a phrase in there that makes me giggle every time.)
Nowhere in the entire thing does she mention typing speed, at least not that I remember.
And legal battles across international borders means international lawyers, which means more and more money. I'm surprised they didn't also keep up the fight in Korea, though - assuming they had any fights going on there at all.
Some of them are trying to get booted up. Atlanta Web Design Group recently organized a bit more strongly and even considered filing as a 501(c) group. (Didn't quite raise enough money in their last Kickstarter for that.)
I think that IT as an umbrella is too broad, but an American Association of Developers might be a great start.
There is also a quality guarantee depending on the industry. I know that plumbing unions, for example, hold their members to a higher standard of work and require more thorough training than just "took a class at a comprehensive high school." Hiring a union member isn't an automatic guarantee of quality, but the odds of getting quality work are higher than you would have hiring Random Guy Off Craigslist.
For example, I adore the Web Afternoon conferences I've attended, but unless you work on websites, then there might not be a lot of useful content there for you.
A lot of tech conferences can also be sorted by industry. Medical tech is huge, for example, and has its own set of regular gatherings.
I've heard that real estate in Fremont is as horrific as downtown San Fran. A friend's parents sold a house they had pay $200K for back in the 90s for about two million in 2006. (They retired to Livermore off the proceeds.)
The CDC accidentally sent a batch of H1N1 bird flu to a research lab in my town. No reported cases of the illness from that "oops" yet, except for the unfortunate chickens that received it.
As the summary says, their market, the casual gamer, can get their fix on their cell phones. Candy Crush did more damage to Wii U sales than the PS4 or Xbone could do.
Most people I know are still holding out until the next Zelda game, which might finally be the killer app Nintendo so desperately needs.
Chances are if someone is from an impoverished country and is trying to get a job in the American tech sector, they were either educated in America or another first world country at some point. India and China's tech education sectors are no joke, but part of the core of the HB1 visa problem is that they complete their education at home, head to the US to get some experience, then head back and take all that experience with them. Hiring American workers first would ensure all that industry experience stays here.
So if they gave you the software that can be used on any computer, why force people to travel? And if you are going to be forced to travel, why not use one of the hundreds of existing test centers around the country? I took every major test since I started college at the same Prometric test center on campus, because they were licensed to handle almost anything.
Last time I took a test (CAPM), the testing place gave me a temporary locker to put my stuff, and also requested that I turn my pockets inside out to show I didn't have a tiny cell phone or something hidden in them. They take it pretty seriously.
I noticed that the exam software we used was running on XP and appeared to have been originally programmed for Windows 98. I wonder if they ever upgraded those boxes to Win7...?
I'd bet a dollar that the offices of tech companies outside of Silicon valley are a bit more diverse. What are the stats on offices in Atlanta, NYC, or Chicago?
Not everyone is willing to move to the valley in pursuit of a six figure paycheck and 100 hour work week.
I'm in that boat. I've gotten so used to my 2 week disposable contacts that they're barely noticeable any more. (I give em a good cleaning once a week when I give my eyes a break and stretch each pair out to a month.)
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They aren't things I expect them to handle when they get back. It's more along the lines of "X broke while you were gone. We did Y to fix it. Here's the status on Y." Otherwise, they're going to encounter Y a month from now and go "wtf is this Y thing?" and we'll have to explain that Y happened while they were skiing in the Swiss Alps but we didn't bother CCing them on the plans for it.
Email's strength is that it is asynchronous. I send CC emails to people that I know are not available because I want them to read it when they get back, so they aren't totally clueless as to what happened while they were out scuba diving or whatever.
I actually have to do just that a lot of the time. Also, music helps a bunch - background noise that isn't random allows me to keep my mind on the task at hand instead of bouncing all over the place.
We also a problem of celebrating the ability to multi-task as an adult, and yet getting on the case of any child who exhibits those abilities because they're not "focused" enough.
I can stay focused just fine (*flicks eyes to where Outlook just refreshed*) and concentrate for long periods of time (*glances outside - cute squirrel!*) and I can assure you my eyes stay glued firmly to the screen. (*twitches and changes tabs because the title bar just changed on one*)
It also ignores the real reason many students opt for online only classes, which is asynchronous learning. Prof answers emails in the morning, goes to a committee meeting. One student eats lunch at work and does the homework during the rbeak. Another student starts during the afternoon while her baby is asleep. Yet another one doesn't get to dig into the assignment until after he's returned from working in an area with no Internet access. Prof can answer all their emails and questions in the evening, grades assignments, and the cycle repeats day after day.
The problem is that isn't taught as part of most project management courses - sure, the theory is, but the actual HOW is something you have to learn on your own. And that's the hard part.
Microsoft won't and can't test all of the hundreds of thousands of applications out there. It's not a problem with the OS, it's a problem with the in-house apps that interaction with the OS or whatever component of it that Microsoft updated. For example, my company is finally going to Office 2013, and I've spent some quality time this week verifying that an application we build that reads Word doc templates and spits them out as PDFs didn't choke on Word 2013. There's no way Microsoft could have tested that application, because maybe 15 computers in the world have it installed.
Yup, back when I did the patches for about a thousand computers, I'd always roll them out sloooooowly. First my test system, then my system, then the rest of my office (we know not to panic), then our smallest clients, and then snowballing up to a final massive push to 500 or so systems at our biggest client just before the next round of patches came out. If there was ever a problem anywhere along the line, we could halt before too much damage happened.
A friend of mine wrote a little tutorial thing called 2K to 10K about increasing your word count as a writer. It's about properly planning what you intend to write, maximizing the output during your prime writing time, and getting excited about your writing. ("Drunk on writing" is a phrase in there that makes me giggle every time.)
Nowhere in the entire thing does she mention typing speed, at least not that I remember.
And legal battles across international borders means international lawyers, which means more and more money. I'm surprised they didn't also keep up the fight in Korea, though - assuming they had any fights going on there at all.
Yeah, I recall hearing about the Condition 1 or whatever it is down in the Antarctic where they cannot go outside because it is so damn windy.
Some of them are trying to get booted up. Atlanta Web Design Group recently organized a bit more strongly and even considered filing as a 501(c) group. (Didn't quite raise enough money in their last Kickstarter for that.)
I think that IT as an umbrella is too broad, but an American Association of Developers might be a great start.
There is also a quality guarantee depending on the industry. I know that plumbing unions, for example, hold their members to a higher standard of work and require more thorough training than just "took a class at a comprehensive high school." Hiring a union member isn't an automatic guarantee of quality, but the odds of getting quality work are higher than you would have hiring Random Guy Off Craigslist.
For example, I adore the Web Afternoon conferences I've attended, but unless you work on websites, then there might not be a lot of useful content there for you.
A lot of tech conferences can also be sorted by industry. Medical tech is huge, for example, and has its own set of regular gatherings.
I've heard that real estate in Fremont is as horrific as downtown San Fran. A friend's parents sold a house they had pay $200K for back in the 90s for about two million in 2006. (They retired to Livermore off the proceeds.)
At this rate you guys are going to be out of water forever. Unless Tesla invest a rain-making machine.
The CDC accidentally sent a batch of H1N1 bird flu to a research lab in my town. No reported cases of the illness from that "oops" yet, except for the unfortunate chickens that received it.
As the summary says, their market, the casual gamer, can get their fix on their cell phones. Candy Crush did more damage to Wii U sales than the PS4 or Xbone could do.
Most people I know are still holding out until the next Zelda game, which might finally be the killer app Nintendo so desperately needs.
Yeah, that's my question as well.
Chances are if someone is from an impoverished country and is trying to get a job in the American tech sector, they were either educated in America or another first world country at some point. India and China's tech education sectors are no joke, but part of the core of the HB1 visa problem is that they complete their education at home, head to the US to get some experience, then head back and take all that experience with them. Hiring American workers first would ensure all that industry experience stays here.
So if they gave you the software that can be used on any computer, why force people to travel? And if you are going to be forced to travel, why not use one of the hundreds of existing test centers around the country? I took every major test since I started college at the same Prometric test center on campus, because they were licensed to handle almost anything.
Last time I took a test (CAPM), the testing place gave me a temporary locker to put my stuff, and also requested that I turn my pockets inside out to show I didn't have a tiny cell phone or something hidden in them. They take it pretty seriously.
I noticed that the exam software we used was running on XP and appeared to have been originally programmed for Windows 98. I wonder if they ever upgraded those boxes to Win7...?
I'd bet a dollar that the offices of tech companies outside of Silicon valley are a bit more diverse. What are the stats on offices in Atlanta, NYC, or Chicago? Not everyone is willing to move to the valley in pursuit of a six figure paycheck and 100 hour work week.
I thought he was arguing against HB1 visas that import foreign workers instead of trying to hire more diverse American workers.
I'm in that boat. I've gotten so used to my 2 week disposable contacts that they're barely noticeable any more. (I give em a good cleaning once a week when I give my eyes a break and stretch each pair out to a month.)