>> position themselves as highly effective business-value >> generators
Yeah, just like our bosses, let's talk about how "highly effective" we are and how much "business value" we generate. Let's do it INSTEAD of work, because that's what management seems to have been doing very successfully for the last decade.
How about BETTER MANAGEMENT? How about managers who, in fact, know what the fuck they're doing and have come from the very bottom, not straight from some stupid MBA program. Where the heck are you going to get them if all your "very bottom" is in India? Do you seriously think that folks who have no idea how software is built can successfully manage Indian technies? Think again then, "highly effective business value generator".
Hey, it's not an obstacle for India
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No running water for 95% of the population, and look at them - they're all over the place in IT.
Certainly, this doesn't stop MSFT from building their campus there.
While they are huge and a lot of money is no doubt wasted internally, they're doing "one of a kind" and "state of the art" stuff, and this is always expensive.
It's not exactly easy to quantify their impact on our daily lives, but if you watch TV, use cell phone and/or pager, or GPS you see your tax dollars at work pretty much. None of these things would be easy or even possible without NASA.
Saying that NASA is too expensive is like saying that Wright brothers had wasted too much money on their first crappy airplane. Sure they did, but it was the FIRST working airplane. These days any fool can build a working airplane out of readily available parts. Back then it was state of the art.
It sure did cost billions to send rovers to Mars, too. And it's not something anyone else will be able to achieve within the next decade.
This costs a lot. Can NASA be improved? No doubt. Is the cost justified even given the current inefficiencies? It sure as heck is.
If these folks built this thing for peanuts (compared to NASA budgets), NASA will seem ridiculously ineffective. Like a giant corporation where no one gives a crap about what they're doing and comes to work every day not to do something to change the world, but to collect the paycheck every two weeks.
It's not like they deserve this kind of treatment, but the question will be raised for sure.
About where he started in his career. If he comes from the very bottom and understands the job of his direct and indirect reports a little bit he will not drive you guys crazy with unreasonable expectations.
Also, ask about his education. It is my firm belief that non-technical people simply can't effectively manage technical people, and the best managers grow from the very bottom.
If he STARTED as a manager and/or he does NOT have technical education at all, the decision is "no hire".
If I were to interview my own manager I would come up with half a dozen realistic scenarios (some of them are modified versions of scenarios described in The Mythical Man Month) and see if the guy finds a sensible way out.
Like for example, you see that your project runs right over its due date, what do you do: 1. Hire more people 2. Cut non-critical features 3. Argue with your boss to extend the deadline 4. Ask the team to pull together and work overtime for a little while
Order the answers by priority, if you think any of the answers are unacceptable, remove them. If the guy doesn't remove 1 (which means that he doesn't know what the heck he's doing) or does remove 4 (which means he's a hypocrite and doesn't have confidence in his own leadership), the decision is "no hire".
The insight contained in this (very old) book is still 100% applicable today. I've worked in software for 6 years now, and re-reading the book from time to time I get more and more help from it.
I wish my management read it, too. They seem to think they're gods and they can solve everything by hiring more contractors (as opposed to managing existing programmers/testers better).
or a tremendous PR disaster. If they fail, you can bet your ass MSFT will not get tired pointing this out. If they succeed, Novel/IBM/RHAT and everyone else will be touting the precedent.
irrelevant. No one really needs more than 100M of email space. Now they will have to compete on convenience, features, etc. They (they being Google) are still in a strong position, but not as strong as before. If I were to choose between email providers I'd use the one that has POP3 (or IMAP) available and better spam filtering.
I actually thing Google screwed themselves by announcing this service too early in the game. If they announced a full blown, stable version they'd have a GIANT market lead.
No one wants to pay $400 for something that has 320x240 screen. I can't comfortably read from this thing at this resolution, and this makes it utterly useless. How about a hi-rez display, say 800x600 or something like that. A display that's actually readable and looks smooth.
I would also appreciate more tablet-like interface (i.e. more accurate stylus tracking, and not having to touch the screen to move the pointer) and more ram/flash built in, at least 256MB.
Wake me up when they put out something with the specs I described.
Actually there's always a threat of physical (and other retaliation). You can excercise your free speech rights by showing porn on public TV or smoking pot or rallying folks to kill the President of the US. Yes, you can do this on public television. BUT, this does not mean that the first ammendment will cover your ass after you do or say things.
Just like it won't prevent you from getting beaten up in Harlem after calling people names.
who owns the fruits of their research. Most employment contracts in high-tech companies are pretty anal about that. No matter when and how you develop the code, even if your own spare time and using solely your own hardware and software, the company 0wnz0rz the code. And there are also provisions about conflict of interest...
It would be interesting to know how google manages all this mess.
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>> position themselves as highly effective business-value
>> generators
Yeah, just like our bosses, let's talk about how "highly effective" we are and how much "business value" we generate. Let's do it INSTEAD of work, because that's what management seems to have been doing very successfully for the last decade.
How about BETTER MANAGEMENT? How about managers who, in fact, know what the fuck they're doing and have come from the very bottom, not straight from some stupid MBA program. Where the heck are you going to get them if all your "very bottom" is in India? Do you seriously think that folks who have no idea how software is built can successfully manage Indian technies? Think again then, "highly effective business value generator".
No running water for 95% of the population, and look at them - they're all over the place in IT.
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Certainly, this doesn't stop MSFT from building their campus there.
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While they are huge and a lot of money is no doubt wasted internally, they're doing "one of a kind" and "state of the art" stuff, and this is always expensive.
It's not exactly easy to quantify their impact on our daily lives, but if you watch TV, use cell phone and/or pager, or GPS you see your tax dollars at work pretty much. None of these things would be easy or even possible without NASA.
Saying that NASA is too expensive is like saying that Wright brothers had wasted too much money on their first crappy airplane. Sure they did, but it was the FIRST working airplane. These days any fool can build a working airplane out of readily available parts. Back then it was state of the art.
It sure did cost billions to send rovers to Mars, too. And it's not something anyone else will be able to achieve within the next decade.
This costs a lot. Can NASA be improved? No doubt. Is the cost justified even given the current inefficiencies? It sure as heck is.
If these folks built this thing for peanuts (compared to NASA budgets), NASA will seem ridiculously ineffective. Like a giant corporation where no one gives a crap about what they're doing and comes to work every day not to do something to change the world, but to collect the paycheck every two weeks.
It's not like they deserve this kind of treatment, but the question will be raised for sure.
It was leaked from one of "shared source" licensees I believe. If it was a break in Win 2K3 source would be stolen, not 3 years old W2K.
And Linux kernel developers will improve standards support by using the stolen source code of Windows 2000. :0)
This opens a giant can of worms, my friend. They wouldn't do this even if they wanted to.
after doing copy & paste.
It's not that hard, you can do it. Better yet, write a script and run it on your friends' computers, too. Be proactive about this shit.
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Oh, and not buying CDs from bands that have no respect for you would be a good idea, too.
About where he started in his career. If he comes from the very bottom and understands the job of his direct and indirect reports a little bit he will not drive you guys crazy with unreasonable expectations.
Also, ask about his education. It is my firm belief that non-technical people simply can't effectively manage technical people, and the best managers grow from the very bottom.
If he STARTED as a manager and/or he does NOT have technical education at all, the decision is "no hire".
If I were to interview my own manager I would come up with half a dozen realistic scenarios (some of them are modified versions of scenarios described in The Mythical Man Month) and see if the guy finds a sensible way out.
Like for example, you see that your project runs right over its due date, what do you do:
1. Hire more people
2. Cut non-critical features
3. Argue with your boss to extend the deadline
4. Ask the team to pull together and work overtime for a little while
Order the answers by priority, if you think any of the answers are unacceptable, remove them. If the guy doesn't remove 1 (which means that he doesn't know what the heck he's doing) or does remove 4 (which means he's a hypocrite and doesn't have confidence in his own leadership), the decision is "no hire".
See what I mean?
The insight contained in this (very old) book is still 100% applicable today. I've worked in software for 6 years now, and re-reading the book from time to time I get more and more help from it.
I wish my management read it, too. They seem to think they're gods and they can solve everything by hiring more contractors (as opposed to managing existing programmers/testers better).
or a tremendous PR disaster. If they fail, you can bet your ass MSFT will not get tired pointing this out. If they succeed, Novel/IBM/RHAT and everyone else will be touting the precedent.
irrelevant. No one really needs more than 100M of email space. Now they will have to compete on convenience, features, etc. They (they being Google) are still in a strong position, but not as strong as before. If I were to choose between email providers I'd use the one that has POP3 (or IMAP) available and better spam filtering.
I actually thing Google screwed themselves by announcing this service too early in the game. If they announced a full blown, stable version they'd have a GIANT market lead.
Screw a company that provides you with world-class service for free. Now that would be fair, right?
If you want to use something as evidence you have to have the real thing. You can still use the hash for quick lookup, though.
No one wants to pay $400 for something that has 320x240 screen. I can't comfortably read from this thing at this resolution, and this makes it utterly useless. How about a hi-rez display, say 800x600 or something like that. A display that's actually readable and looks smooth.
I would also appreciate more tablet-like interface (i.e. more accurate stylus tracking, and not having to touch the screen to move the pointer) and more ram/flash built in, at least 256MB.
Wake me up when they put out something with the specs I described.
Well, when they go against someone they call it Jihad, too. There were numerous jihads in the history of MSFT, and guess who won.
Actually there's always a threat of physical (and other retaliation). You can excercise your free speech rights by showing porn on public TV or smoking pot or rallying folks to kill the President of the US. Yes, you can do this on public television. BUT, this does not mean that the first ammendment will cover your ass after you do or say things.
Just like it won't prevent you from getting beaten up in Harlem after calling people names.
What's next? Novell will announce that I switched my home router from FreeBSD to Linux?
>> Steve fucking Balmer: a man whose wobbling, flabby, sweating body is a testament to corporate greed.
Come on, dude. The man makes a measly $800K a year. That's nothing compared to what other CEOs give themselves.
Are two different things. MS CRM has their own product, named CRM Server. It merely integrates with GP products, but does not replace them.
In China you can buy FULL DVDs, Audio CDs and software CDs for about a buck. So you're saying they will pay a buck for every song? Get outta here!
who owns the fruits of their research. Most employment contracts in high-tech companies are pretty anal about that. No matter when and how you develop the code, even if your own spare time and using solely your own hardware and software, the company 0wnz0rz the code. And there are also provisions about conflict of interest...
It would be interesting to know how google manages all this mess.
Please explain everyone how you replaced Exchange (a groupware server) with Sendmail (e-mail server).
YOU INSENSITIVE CLOD!