How could you possibly view switching from a culture of abuse of women in the workplace to a culture of alienation and fear of women in the workplace as moving in the right direction?
Men have always been aliented from and fearful of women. Creating a workplace that is no longer abusive to women is a good thing.
That America has overcorrected the problem of harassment is unsurprising.
Now we are slowly heading toward the middle. It's always a bumpy ride.
Not true. Bush inherited an economy that was tanking before he even took office. I'm not saying it was Clinton's fault, just a natural cycle after one of the biggest bubbles we have ever had. In addition, 9/11 happened within one year of his office. He has not had an easy time.
To my eyes, the economy was doing pretty well until Bush "won" the election. It was during the legal battles over who's votes got to count, and the charges of election rigging that I witnessted the morale of the country take a nose dive, and with it, the economy. So I think that the economy tanked as a result of his impending presidency. At least, that's how it looked and felt to me.
If the editors won't actually edit articles (to keep Slashdot "more real", apparently), how about just not posting articles that are incomprehensible gibberish?
And while I'm getting everything in life I casually ask for, where's the SW that automatically swaps out a MySQL install and replaces it with Postgres, including revising source code that calls/queries the DB, or just uses a MySQL installation as a proxy replica for Postgres nodes in a mixed cluster?
My suggestion would be rather obvious, but is there anything that they are better at than you, or something you are weak on? For example, you could give your partner the GUI and you do all the back end stuff (which may be much more complex). They do programing, they help you out, they learn about the system, and you don't do it all.
In this case, give your partner most of the gui and you take most of the backend. That way you each learn more about the areas in which you're week. You'll have plenty of time during your career to do the same damn thing, over and over and over.
"The Peter Principle" states that a person will be promoted until they are put into a job they cannot handle (their level on incompetence). You might be a competent tech lead, but an incomepent PM. you might be a competent PM but an incompetent Asst. Director.
IMO, "The Peter Principle" shows a failure of management. Anybody, promoted into a new position, requires some guidance, and mentoring. Failure to provide such is negligence, it's bad for morale, and bad for the bottom line.
It's an interesting read, and not all that long of a book. Check it out.
Remonds me of when AOL wouldn't allow anybod living in Scunthorpe to register their with their correct addresses due to unfortunate filtering, and the second through fifth letters of the town's name.
Often when people see a GUI mock-up, or a complete GUI without full functionality, they assume that the code behind it is working.
Not often. Every time!
Never use the real GUI to demo a prototype or even to demo a GUI mock-up.
Your customer will assume that those screens are complete. When you come
back to demo the screen in its comleted state, they will not be impressed
because they've seen it already, and they'll wonder what you've been doing
for the last couple of weeks. Nothing you say to the contrary will make a
difference.
Use screen shots, displayed via presentation softwares, or print them out
and mount them on big cards. Or use the Napkin GUI mentioned in a previous
post.
Never show the actual GUI, executing in real-time, unless you are giving the product
demo.
The fact that google is releasing so many products does not mean they have stopped thinking about search. In fact PageRank was tweaked once again just a few days ago. They probably still have a hugs number of employees devoted entirely to search.
Google Hugs(tm) will enter beta soon, and is scheduled to be production ready by Valentines Day 2006.
Your points about Consumer Reports objectivity are well received; they would almost certainly lose subscribers if any ads showed up at all.
Sorry, Consumer Reports is full of ads. They're just ads for products [books and other publications] and services [car pricing] of the Consumers Union, who publish Consumer Reports.
In other words, stop being so damned critical, just because the big, bad government made a new law that doesn't actually affect any of us, unless we're 12.
If you find a way to make a buck at software, or with a platform that might make people give their money to a company other than Microsoft, they will find out about it. You will soon find that MS does not like for people to give money to other businesses, and they will enter (or annoiunce plans to enter) your product space and bring their resources to bear in competition against you.
That's the marketplace. If people want financial SW, MS sells them MS Money. If they want hand-helds you get PocketPC.
Now, telling Andy Grove not to invest in Go is pretty naughty. But having a pen-computing unit to compete with (and crush) Go is the nature of business when the stakes are that high.
There's never enough money to share. We all want all of it.
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How could you possibly view switching from a culture of abuse of women in the workplace to a culture of alienation and fear of women in the workplace as moving in the right direction?
Men have always been aliented from and fearful of women. Creating a workplace that is no longer abusive to women is a good thing.
That America has overcorrected the problem of harassment is unsurprising.
Now we are slowly heading toward the middle. It's always a bumpy ride.
As an experiment, try correlating your feelings about the economy tanking with the Stock Market Bubble. Your feelings are misleading you.
My point is that the end of our economic boom correlates with the end of the Clinton administration and the beginning of the Bush administration.
The Onion's headline when W became president was snarky, but unusually prescient:
"Our long national nightmare of peace and prosperity is over"
If they only had any idea when they wrote that...
Not true. Bush inherited an economy that was tanking before he even took office. I'm not saying it was Clinton's fault, just a natural cycle after one of the biggest bubbles we have ever had. In addition, 9/11 happened within one year of his office. He has not had an easy time.
To my eyes, the economy was doing pretty well until Bush "won" the election. It was during the legal battles over who's votes got to count, and the charges of election rigging that I witnessted the morale of the country take a nose dive, and with it, the economy. So I think that the economy tanked as a result of his impending presidency. At least, that's how it looked and felt to me.
Beacuse some people appreciate the sublety of the joke, and don't
need to have the joke hurled at them and two of their friends in
order to get it.
Wait. nevermind.
If the editors won't actually edit articles (to keep Slashdot "more real", apparently), how about just not posting articles that are incomprehensible gibberish?
You must be new here...
It can be recognized as such when readers isolate their analytical mind from their moral repugnance.
This is Slashdot.
-1 - forgetting your audience.
Smart Bombs a la Defender.
The Dual Joystick controls of Robotron.
And while I'm getting everything in life I casually ask for, where's the SW that automatically swaps out a MySQL install and replaces it with Postgres, including revising source code that calls/queries the DB, or just uses a MySQL installation as a proxy replica for Postgres nodes in a mixed cluster?
Burried with Jimmy Hoffa.
When he heard that 78% of all injury accidents occur within 5 miles of the home,
he moved.
My suggestion would be rather obvious, but is there anything that they are better at than you, or something you are weak on? For example, you could give your partner the GUI and you do all the back end stuff (which may be much more complex). They do programing, they help you out, they learn about the system, and you don't do it all.
In this case, give your partner most of the gui and you take most of the backend. That way you each learn more about the areas in which you're week.
You'll have plenty of time during your career to do the same damn thing, over and over
and over.
"The Peter Principle" states that a person will be promoted until they are put into a job they cannot handle (their level on incompetence). You might be a competent tech lead, but an incomepent PM. you might be a competent PM but an incompetent Asst. Director.
IMO, "The Peter Principle" shows a failure of management. Anybody, promoted into a new position, requires some guidance, and mentoring. Failure to provide such is negligence, it's bad for morale, and bad for the bottom line.
It's an interesting read, and not all that long of a book. Check it out.
Remonds me of when AOL wouldn't allow anybod living in Scunthorpe to register their with their correct addresses due to unfortunate filtering, and the second through fifth letters of the town's name.
Eventually they came to their senses.
You're right. It's no wonder I got modded offtopic. Too many /. readers were still diapers when Telebit ruled the datacomm world.
Cheers.
Where's Telebit when you need them?
He's the guy who helped Terrell Owens when he said dumb stuff
about his team.
Wait. Nevermind.
We will all become generation colon.
It will happen around the time you turn 40.
Don't piss off your doctor.
There is nothing wrong with comparing apples to oranges.
Please see: Apples and Oranges -- A Comparison [www.improbably.com - Annals of Improbable Research]
Not often. Every time!
Never use the real GUI to demo a prototype or even to demo a GUI mock-up. Your customer will assume that those screens are complete. When you come back to demo the screen in its comleted state, they will not be impressed because they've seen it already, and they'll wonder what you've been doing for the last couple of weeks. Nothing you say to the contrary will make a difference.
Use screen shots, displayed via presentation softwares, or print them out and mount them on big cards. Or use the Napkin GUI mentioned in a previous post.
Never show the actual GUI, executing in real-time, unless you are giving the product demo.
Follow this rule, for health and happiness.
The fact that google is releasing so many products does not mean they have stopped thinking about search. In fact PageRank was tweaked once again just a few days ago. They probably still have a hugs number of employees devoted entirely to search.
Google Hugs(tm) will enter beta soon, and is scheduled to be production ready by Valentines Day 2006.
NAT the gadgets!
Sorry, Consumer Reports is full of ads. They're just ads for products [books and other publications] and services [car pricing] of the Consumers Union, who publish Consumer Reports.
In other words, stop being so damned critical, just because the big, bad government made a new law that doesn't actually affect any of us, unless we're 12.
This is Slashdot, right?
In my day, interns didn't get paid. If you got paid, it was called "a job."
If you find a way to make a buck at software, or with a platform that might make people give their money to a company other than Microsoft, they will find out about it. You will soon find that MS does not like for people to give money to other businesses, and they will enter (or annoiunce plans to enter) your product space and bring their resources to bear in competition against you.
That's the marketplace. If people want financial SW, MS sells them MS Money. If they want hand-helds you get PocketPC.
Now, telling Andy Grove not to invest in Go is pretty naughty. But having a pen-computing unit to compete with (and crush) Go is the nature of business when the stakes are that high.
There's never enough money to share. We all want all of it.
F.
I'd rather sit in silence then have to listen to that crap you call music!