Back in college, a group of us SF fans were trying to explain to our dorm's resident director (an English major grad student) what science fiction was.
After a while, he responded: "Let me see if I grok this".
He didn't understand why everyone started laughing.
For Gates, the crappy hairdo and the bad suit are part of the act - you underestimate him because he's deliberately trying to make you do that. Then he'll kill you.
In this economy anyone that "avoids management stuff" and "sticks with technical work" is going to have their job outsourced to India. Managers prefer having someone that works cheap and that they do not have to see to someone that's relatively expensive and geeks up their office experience. Managers have all the power now; if you don't convince them that you're their bud then your job is gone.
No. When executive management has this type of meeting with the entire department, it means that the entire department's work is about to be outsourced to India. If you're lucky you might actually get severance and not have to train your replacements.
Make sure all of your personal files are off the corporate network, and bring plenty of boxes.
In this economy, no American programmer that wants to keep working will want to criticise of management specs or make suggestions for "improvement". The offshore programmers will do what they are told, and any ideas they come up with in the process will go to their own competing products, not American management.
cMarket's CEO is an ex dotcom guy who had the smarts to sell his previous company to a multinational before the bubble burst, and now he's sitting on a few hundred million. He's not doing Boston programmers any favors by hiring them at burger flip rates.
For example, any Western (by birth or just by experience) programmer has a finely-honed instinct for spotting inconsistencies or contradictions in a spec - and has enough attitude to point them out. An Indian - on a whole 'nother continent - is probably just going to go ahead and code it regardless.
So, managers get programmers that they don't have to see and won't talk back to them. The ideal workplace.
Make that the tons of vacant office buildings scattered around 128 (and 495, and Kendall Square). There are very few IT startups left and the big guys are shipping off their labor to India.
As to bookstores, Pandemonium is still there; but the two tech bookstores, Quantum and SoftPro, are hurting. SoftPro has moved its Burlington store to a Lexington one half the size; the Marlboro store now has little stock and I expect it will go as soon as the lease comes due. Quantum still has tech books and general reference material for the non-CS parts of MIT, but lots of their CS books were marked way down for clearance.
And MMAA will say over and over again that there is a desperate shortage of nanotechnology engineers and scientists, and that the only solution is a massive raise in the H1B quota.
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Jeez, no wonder IBM is outsourcing its engineering staff to India.
Remove the computer workers from your office, you remove the germs.
Back in college, a group of us SF fans were trying to explain to our dorm's resident director (an English major grad student) what science fiction was.
After a while, he responded: "Let me see if I grok this".
He didn't understand why everyone started laughing.
For Gates, the crappy hairdo and the bad suit are part of the act - you underestimate him because he's deliberately trying to make you do that. Then he'll kill you.
Furry fandom?
Even geek culture looks down on furry fandom. Even D&D players look down on furry fandom. Good God, have him do anything else.
In this economy anyone that "avoids management stuff" and "sticks with technical work" is going to have their job outsourced to India. Managers prefer having someone that works cheap and that they do not have to see to someone that's relatively expensive and geeks up their office experience. Managers have all the power now; if you don't convince them that you're their bud then your job is gone.
Call or email her. Now. :-)
4) Make sure the kid knows that eventually the nerds win. Big time.
Yeah. Look at George W. Bush. Look at corporate CEOs. Look at how many programming, engineering, and scientific jobs have been outsourced to India.
The nerds are getting killed out there.
Isn't that the book I saw on the remainder table at Books for a Buck, alongside "Dow 36000" and "Become an E-Commerce Millionaire in 24 Hours"?
Didn't we see this story in 2000?
- Amateur radio.
- Model railroading.
- Knitting.
Agreed. This is the stupidest article I've ever seen on Slashdot.
No. When executive management has this type of meeting with the entire department, it means that the entire department's work is about to be outsourced to India. If you're lucky you might actually get severance and not have to train your replacements.
Make sure all of your personal files are off the corporate network, and bring plenty of boxes.
In this economy, no American programmer that wants to keep working will want to criticise of management specs or make suggestions for "improvement". The offshore programmers will do what they are told, and any ideas they come up with in the process will go to their own competing products, not American management.
cMarket's CEO is an ex dotcom guy who had the smarts to sell his previous company to a multinational before the bubble burst, and now he's sitting on a few hundred million. He's not doing Boston programmers any favors by hiring them at burger flip rates.
For example, any Western (by birth or just by experience) programmer has a finely-honed instinct for spotting inconsistencies or contradictions in a spec - and has enough attitude to point them out. An Indian - on a whole 'nother continent - is probably just going to go ahead and code it regardless.
So, managers get programmers that they don't have to see and won't talk back to them. The ideal workplace.
Don't worry. He'll hire a ghost singer.
We keep sending them, and the Martians keep shooting them down.
The few that were allowed to land were carefully directed to desolate areas, well away from the Martian civilization.
I'll just go get one at ComputerWorld and then head on to Egghead for the Lotus 1-2-3, dBase III, and MultiMate software.
Make that the tons of vacant office buildings scattered around 128 (and 495, and Kendall Square). There are very few IT startups left and the big guys are shipping off their labor to India.
As to bookstores, Pandemonium is still there; but the two tech bookstores, Quantum and SoftPro, are hurting. SoftPro has moved its Burlington store to a Lexington one half the size; the Marlboro store now has little stock and I expect it will go as soon as the lease comes due. Quantum still has tech books and general reference material for the non-CS parts of MIT, but lots of their CS books were marked way down for clearance.
Search technology. Hmmm. Wasn't that outsourced to India last month? Or was that last year? I just can't keep up with IT today.
that has been "six months away" for the last three years.
No, but he did look like some sysadmins I've known ...
It's just text. Where are the PowerPoint slides?
And MMAA will say over and over again that there is a desperate shortage of nanotechnology engineers and scientists, and that the only solution is a massive raise in the H1B quota.