This a hundred times. Frigging hate trying to bounce ideas off other engineers who are just like "Meh" and suggest the simplest most obvious approach which is full of flaws and say "It'll probably be good enough" rather than trying to look for ways of making the flaws go away. It's nice to talk to someone who helps you come up with new approaches that increase the code quality and stop you from writing flawed systems that are going to cause serious problems with a "It'll probably be good enough" approach.
My wife had an atrix for six months so I got used to android, I got a windows phone just so I could play with both. I hated it for 2 weeks, then couldn't stand my wife's android. With a much faster processor the android device just feels so much slower and though it has more *stuff* on the screen, it feels like it isn't portraying as much info at once. I'm getting my wife a windows phone next upgrade, it's a lot easier to use and harder for her to screw up, and probably an android for me. I love the metro UI for a phone, but the android can just do so much more because of the app space. I also appreciate that the windows phone has a fraction of the mobile market so has less people trying to create malware for it, which is again a bonus for the non-power user like my wife. And before you say "get her an iphone" let me just say, apple can stuff it where the sun don't shine. MS may be a bad player sometimes, but apple is just a bloody cult.
I keep a very clear definition of rock star on hand by spending lots of time on StackOverflow and seeing the likes of Henk Holterman, Marc Gravell, Jon Skeet, and countless others who while in my job I am found to be on of if not the best engineer they have and they refer to me as a rock star here, but I know 10 years of hardcore study and I still wouldn't be able to touch any of those guys I listed with a ten foot pole. *or countless others*. I've always found it valuable to find people who are clearly stupifyingly better than me at any given thing, really drives me to keep trying regardless of the praise I get from those who aren't, because I know there's a huge gap in front of me still left to cover.
I'm a dev not an admin, so I likely don't fit the bill, but regardless of that I would think it will take less time to write a batch script to do simple things than a powershell script, and it will take less time to write a powershell script to do complex things than a batch script.
I was merely suggesting the batch scripting be a minimum barrier, I would find it very hard to believe someone comfortable with powershell wouldn't know how to peruse the command line and write batch scripts if it was the rightly stupid simple task.
I was going to post to make sure they're comfortable in a command shell otherwise they'll never write a batch script, which is the quickest easiest way to automate stupid simple admin stuff; but you're right, screw the technology specifics. Perhaps just throwing at them software configuration scenarios and seeing how well they can troubleshoot through a piece of misbehaving software they're unfamiliar with would be good. Perhaps give them some UI controlled *nix software they're completely unfamiliar with which you broke the configuration of and see how they go about trying to correct it. Can't put them in the *nix shell though, that would just be way too unfamiliar and take too long (unless you do *correct* interviews, which means 1-2 hours per problem scope to accurately identify their technical accumen)
I must say, and take a deep breath before reading this so your don't laugh yourself hoarse, but after you're done laughing listen to me. I'm an ardent C# developer for years, but I have found another extremely high level modern language that I would use in place of C# in a non-microsoft shop... Haskell. I know I know.. "academic bla bla bla" whatever, seriously, it's garbage collected, strongly typed, loaded with type inference to help you develop faster, has tons of packages for most things you may want to do, has *nix and windows compilers which will build the same code (you'll just have to swap out the modules you use for FFI to librarys if the dependent libs like UI you use are different).
Though I preface that with, while people have done UI's in Haskell, the idea to me is mindboggling, and I would just stick with UI in HTML using Haskell to serve web-pages in a non-microsoft shop. I wouldn't use java for UI in a non-microsoft shop anyway, java UI is absolutely gnarly bad and we all know it. If forced to do a desktop UI app in non-microsoft I would immediately be looking at tcl/tk, yes- ugly, but no one can argue with the fact that it always performed very well.
Depends on what a "lot" of missing mass is, that's relative to the amount of mass there is. We can't know how much mass there is, that might be a missing spec in the grand scheme of things.
No, the possibilities end at getting a wife not to make something up and claim their husband didn't do it and should have known they were supposed to. That's way beyond genes, from my personal experiments a wife exhibits the following characteristics during said complaint time:
She grows slightly between 15% and 20% of her normal body size
She may speak a language foreign to her to ensure you understand her disdain
She will not be interrupted by anything less than 4000dB loud or less than 3500lbs of weight landing on her
She is invulnerable to all forms of damage including slashing and burning
She temporarily imbues deaf people with hearing to ensure her complaint is known.
She glows in the dark so you may not ignore her
I'm no true believer, but the generation a developer comes from I've found to be a key indicator as to whether they quit learning after college or not. I was presuming you were of the older generation where this behavior was prevalent. The newer generation has to fight tooth and nail for our jobs as their world is different than the one you exited college to find, so we know full well we must continue learning and researching. Committing to this constant learning you would know Agile and Scrum are 2 separate things, though your comments made clear you think them to be the same. Keep calling everything a fad to avoid studying anything from the past 2 decades, it's ok, you can just claim age bias when no one hires you in the future.
He thinks agile means scrum... So many people never actually research the important parts of their industry enough to have any idea what they're talking about. It's like people get out of college and assume they now have all the knowledge they need and are permanently done looking for new information.
Completely agree. I've loved both mentoring in pair and pairing with experienced engineers, I find pair coding with another experienced engineer the best way to sketch up the beginnings of new work, or untangle the guts of somewhere dragons be. However I find it definitely slows you down when you have 2 experienced guys crunching out the boilerplate after the guts have been neatly piled together for the new or old bits. As soon as this part is complete, I find it best we each take a pile of guts, go to our respective desks and start working out the boiler plate that uses it.
No, this is a magnificent technique for mentoring, but this is *not* pair programming. I can't stress how great it is for mentoring though. Turn a Junior into a mid-level engineer real fast.
This. The memory of the public is sooo short, apparently *nobody* remembers that this wasn't in the first draft and it was only added to get agreement from a few republicans to not fillibuster (fillibuster.. another busted ass piece of legislation..). Everyone should have known this was just very deliberate republican sabotage...
Too many people think recycling is some kind of commie plot over here, first we'll be *forced* to recycle, next we're *forced* to live where we're told, and *forced* to do the job we're told, then *forced* to stab every third neighbor and live on rationing...
Recycling is seen as somehow work different than just not littering by people here.. Don't know why, the counties that have done away with garbage altogether and gone to just everything being picked up and sent to recycling have seen profits from the raw materials that pays for the recycling process plus having extra for some of the dumps where the sifted out actual garbage goes.
This all sounds great but I would temper your last statement there with the control:
most people
have an average typing rate significantly below that of a developer, so I would presume it would take significantly longer to get to choord typing at the >100wpm of a developer in qwerty. Sounds like a great idea though.
Does anybody else think the sheer volume of "I H8 WINDOWS 8!" articles flowing around the internet like this one might just be Apple or other competitors trying to foment discord against the upcoming OS? I wouldn't think this if it weren't for the fact that there are tons of these meanwhile windows 8 hasn't even been *released*. Granted betas and other such have, but how many of these articles speak of features from the spec sheet vs illucidating the users experience with the betas.
I'm no shill for microsoft and hated vista because I used it after it was released, and learned it was garbage. But I have a hard time buying all the windows 8 is awful from people before they've actually used it after release for a couple weeks... Which seems like a reasonable idea to most people, so again, why this VOLUME of windows 8 hate articles if it's not all being driven by MS competitors propaganda machines?
This. I hardly ever respond or deal with e-mails outside of work, but the once a month when someone does a dumbs, knowing the night before that I'm going to have to be prepared the next day for triage mode is worth it's weight in gold. Makes me less stressed during release times because I have foresight into my days and helps my career a great deal by just knowing to appear highly available the following day so whenever these things happen people know I'll be ready for them.
Again, I really practically never respond to those e-mails, just the foresight of seeing them when these things happen (reading my e-mail on the can or during commercials) is invaluable. Sure call this time work because if the right e-mail comes in I will take action, but only a horribly organized company will have that e-mail coming in more than once every month or two at most.
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This a hundred times. Frigging hate trying to bounce ideas off other engineers who are just like "Meh" and suggest the simplest most obvious approach which is full of flaws and say "It'll probably be good enough" rather than trying to look for ways of making the flaws go away. It's nice to talk to someone who helps you come up with new approaches that increase the code quality and stop you from writing flawed systems that are going to cause serious problems with a "It'll probably be good enough" approach.
My wife had an atrix for six months so I got used to android, I got a windows phone just so I could play with both. I hated it for 2 weeks, then couldn't stand my wife's android. With a much faster processor the android device just feels so much slower and though it has more *stuff* on the screen, it feels like it isn't portraying as much info at once. I'm getting my wife a windows phone next upgrade, it's a lot easier to use and harder for her to screw up, and probably an android for me. I love the metro UI for a phone, but the android can just do so much more because of the app space. I also appreciate that the windows phone has a fraction of the mobile market so has less people trying to create malware for it, which is again a bonus for the non-power user like my wife. And before you say "get her an iphone" let me just say, apple can stuff it where the sun don't shine. MS may be a bad player sometimes, but apple is just a bloody cult.
non-twitter location for these please?
I keep a very clear definition of rock star on hand by spending lots of time on StackOverflow and seeing the likes of Henk Holterman, Marc Gravell, Jon Skeet, and countless others who while in my job I am found to be on of if not the best engineer they have and they refer to me as a rock star here, but I know 10 years of hardcore study and I still wouldn't be able to touch any of those guys I listed with a ten foot pole. *or countless others*. I've always found it valuable to find people who are clearly stupifyingly better than me at any given thing, really drives me to keep trying regardless of the praise I get from those who aren't, because I know there's a huge gap in front of me still left to cover.
I'm a dev not an admin, so I likely don't fit the bill, but regardless of that I would think it will take less time to write a batch script to do simple things than a powershell script, and it will take less time to write a powershell script to do complex things than a batch script.
I was merely suggesting the batch scripting be a minimum barrier, I would find it very hard to believe someone comfortable with powershell wouldn't know how to peruse the command line and write batch scripts if it was the rightly stupid simple task.
I was going to post to make sure they're comfortable in a command shell otherwise they'll never write a batch script, which is the quickest easiest way to automate stupid simple admin stuff; but you're right, screw the technology specifics. Perhaps just throwing at them software configuration scenarios and seeing how well they can troubleshoot through a piece of misbehaving software they're unfamiliar with would be good. Perhaps give them some UI controlled *nix software they're completely unfamiliar with which you broke the configuration of and see how they go about trying to correct it. Can't put them in the *nix shell though, that would just be way too unfamiliar and take too long (unless you do *correct* interviews, which means 1-2 hours per problem scope to accurately identify their technical accumen)
bloody taco shill.
I must say, and take a deep breath before reading this so your don't laugh yourself hoarse, but after you're done laughing listen to me. I'm an ardent C# developer for years, but I have found another extremely high level modern language that I would use in place of C# in a non-microsoft shop... Haskell. I know I know.. "academic bla bla bla" whatever, seriously, it's garbage collected, strongly typed, loaded with type inference to help you develop faster, has tons of packages for most things you may want to do, has *nix and windows compilers which will build the same code (you'll just have to swap out the modules you use for FFI to librarys if the dependent libs like UI you use are different).
Though I preface that with, while people have done UI's in Haskell, the idea to me is mindboggling, and I would just stick with UI in HTML using Haskell to serve web-pages in a non-microsoft shop. I wouldn't use java for UI in a non-microsoft shop anyway, java UI is absolutely gnarly bad and we all know it. If forced to do a desktop UI app in non-microsoft I would immediately be looking at tcl/tk, yes- ugly, but no one can argue with the fact that it always performed very well.
No.. I think his business model is: .NET one of assuredly many other available VMs
1) Ditch Java
2) Use mono or LLVM or
3) Profit!
Not too extreme really..
Let it go already, you know we can never find the sock gnome's dimension.
Depends on what a "lot" of missing mass is, that's relative to the amount of mass there is. We can't know how much mass there is, that might be a missing spec in the grand scheme of things.
Speak for yourself.
No, the possibilities end at getting a wife not to make something up and claim their husband didn't do it and should have known they were supposed to. That's way beyond genes, from my personal experiments a wife exhibits the following characteristics during said complaint time:
She grows slightly between 15% and 20% of her normal body size
She may speak a language foreign to her to ensure you understand her disdain
She will not be interrupted by anything less than 4000dB loud or less than 3500lbs of weight landing on her
She is invulnerable to all forms of damage including slashing and burning
She temporarily imbues deaf people with hearing to ensure her complaint is known.
She glows in the dark so you may not ignore her
I'm no true believer, but the generation a developer comes from I've found to be a key indicator as to whether they quit learning after college or not. I was presuming you were of the older generation where this behavior was prevalent. The newer generation has to fight tooth and nail for our jobs as their world is different than the one you exited college to find, so we know full well we must continue learning and researching. Committing to this constant learning you would know Agile and Scrum are 2 separate things, though your comments made clear you think them to be the same. Keep calling everything a fad to avoid studying anything from the past 2 decades, it's ok, you can just claim age bias when no one hires you in the future.
He thinks agile means scrum... So many people never actually research the important parts of their industry enough to have any idea what they're talking about. It's like people get out of college and assume they now have all the knowledge they need and are permanently done looking for new information.
Completely agree. I've loved both mentoring in pair and pairing with experienced engineers, I find pair coding with another experienced engineer the best way to sketch up the beginnings of new work, or untangle the guts of somewhere dragons be. However I find it definitely slows you down when you have 2 experienced guys crunching out the boilerplate after the guts have been neatly piled together for the new or old bits. As soon as this part is complete, I find it best we each take a pile of guts, go to our respective desks and start working out the boiler plate that uses it.
No, this is a magnificent technique for mentoring, but this is *not* pair programming. I can't stress how great it is for mentoring though. Turn a Junior into a mid-level engineer real fast.
Recent? Kind of.
Heh, fanboy. Normal people don't need to upgrade their devices every 6 months just because what they have is suddenly so passe...
I own "Hello World", you owe me $20 or I will sue!
This. The memory of the public is sooo short, apparently *nobody* remembers that this wasn't in the first draft and it was only added to get agreement from a few republicans to not fillibuster (fillibuster.. another busted ass piece of legislation..). Everyone should have known this was just very deliberate republican sabotage...
Too many people think recycling is some kind of commie plot over here, first we'll be *forced* to recycle, next we're *forced* to live where we're told, and *forced* to do the job we're told, then *forced* to stab every third neighbor and live on rationing...
Recycling is seen as somehow work different than just not littering by people here.. Don't know why, the counties that have done away with garbage altogether and gone to just everything being picked up and sent to recycling have seen profits from the raw materials that pays for the recycling process plus having extra for some of the dumps where the sifted out actual garbage goes.
Yeah about the trench.. Sorry about that guys, the garbage can on my 60' yacht was full.. My bad.
most people
have an average typing rate significantly below that of a developer, so I would presume it would take significantly longer to get to choord typing at the >100wpm of a developer in qwerty. Sounds like a great idea though.
Does anybody else think the sheer volume of "I H8 WINDOWS 8!" articles flowing around the internet like this one might just be Apple or other competitors trying to foment discord against the upcoming OS? I wouldn't think this if it weren't for the fact that there are tons of these meanwhile windows 8 hasn't even been *released*. Granted betas and other such have, but how many of these articles speak of features from the spec sheet vs illucidating the users experience with the betas.
I'm no shill for microsoft and hated vista because I used it after it was released, and learned it was garbage. But I have a hard time buying all the windows 8 is awful from people before they've actually used it after release for a couple weeks... Which seems like a reasonable idea to most people, so again, why this VOLUME of windows 8 hate articles if it's not all being driven by MS competitors propaganda machines?
This. I hardly ever respond or deal with e-mails outside of work, but the once a month when someone does a dumbs, knowing the night before that I'm going to have to be prepared the next day for triage mode is worth it's weight in gold. Makes me less stressed during release times because I have foresight into my days and helps my career a great deal by just knowing to appear highly available the following day so whenever these things happen people know I'll be ready for them.
Again, I really practically never respond to those e-mails, just the foresight of seeing them when these things happen (reading my e-mail on the can or during commercials) is invaluable. Sure call this time work because if the right e-mail comes in I will take action, but only a horribly organized company will have that e-mail coming in more than once every month or two at most.