The trick is to be an opportunist. As an independent Java contractor, I exist outside the system. I'm currently working with a major developer in Austin, and once they gave me an office, I kept finding ways to skip up the food chain. First my project manager left for a long vacation, so I moved into his office and had a lake view for awhile. Then I shuffled down the hall a few doors and worked with another team member, still with a lake view. Now I'm back where I started, but I'm now the only occupant of a two-person office (no view, though). It's pure gold - I get a shelf, whiteboard, two desks, and a phone that never rings. This week I brought up a cd tower and a boombox from home, and between that and the free food, I'm in heaven. I am, of course, bragging, but the basic point is that my grandfather's maxim was correct: "Forgiveness is easier to come by than permission." If you hate your environment, change it; you'd be surprised at how accommodating people will be if you don't act like a jerk.
Apparently nobody read all the way to the end of the NYT article before they scrambled to post a comment. Here's a neat bit:
Compaq is also planning to announce that it will make a version of its hand-held iPaq computer available with the Gnome Linux operating system on Tuesday.
Tune in tomorrow, I suppose....
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I despise Katz and his poorly-considered rants. What gives me hope is the sheer number of people who flame him. So long as every Katz post is met with the criticism it so richly deserves, that means good taste is alive somewhere in the world, and I can sleep easily. And wtf did he mean by asserting that kernel programming is a mere mechanical skill, implying that it has no more creativity involved than fixing a faucet? I think it is an open question at this point if the man has ever written a line of code in his whole life, which would be sort of rich considering how he's trying to claim to understand "geeks" so perfectly. There's art in coding, Jon - go read "The Mythical Man-Month" and flip to the part where programming is described as "building castles in air." That is the best description of the intrinsic beauty of programming that I've ever seen. -Patrick Hearon
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Who says Linux can't scale? Look at those bogomips!!!
The trick is to be an opportunist. As an independent Java contractor, I exist outside the system. I'm currently working with a major developer in Austin, and once they gave me an office, I kept finding ways to skip up the food chain. First my project manager left for a long vacation, so I moved into his office and had a lake view for awhile. Then I shuffled down the hall a few doors and worked with another team member, still with a lake view. Now I'm back where I started, but I'm now the only occupant of a two-person office (no view, though). It's pure gold - I get a shelf, whiteboard, two desks, and a phone that never rings. This week I brought up a cd tower and a boombox from home, and between that and the free food, I'm in heaven. I am, of course, bragging, but the basic point is that my grandfather's maxim was correct: "Forgiveness is easier to come by than permission." If you hate your environment, change it; you'd be surprised at how accommodating people will be if you don't act like a jerk.
Tune in tomorrow, I suppose....
I despise Katz and his poorly-considered rants. What gives me hope is the sheer number of people who flame him. So long as every Katz post is met with the criticism it so richly deserves, that means good taste is alive somewhere in the world, and I can sleep easily. And wtf did he mean by asserting that kernel programming is a mere mechanical skill, implying that it has no more creativity involved than fixing a faucet? I think it is an open question at this point if the man has ever written a line of code in his whole life, which would be sort of rich considering how he's trying to claim to understand "geeks" so perfectly. There's art in coding, Jon - go read "The Mythical Man-Month" and flip to the part where programming is described as "building castles in air." That is the best description of the intrinsic beauty of programming that I've ever seen. -Patrick Hearon