Correct, I know what you mean, having the same credentials myself.
However, having both is what enables you to enable your team to work pure magic in projects, a shame it is invisible to all but the ones that take the credit for it, when you yourself is looking the other way being stuck with some technical detail.
Being technical, which requires quite a bit of IQ, also comes with a high sense of right and wrong, that makes you somewhat backstabbing impaired, and every time you get screwed over you loose a little bit of willpower to try again.
That's why you don't see any good engineering managers, they just gave up at some point along the road.
-H
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No, your wife deserves better, check out Linux Mint instead, the 13 edition with mate esp. Everything works out of the box, and it's supported to 2017.
The name "Gandalf" was lifted by Tolkien from Norse mythology(along with a shitload of other stuff), and was actually the name of a dwarf.
Norse mythology is worshiped as Asetro today, and is a legit faith in Scandinavia, so if you try to trademark a name like that, you'd be violating human rights.
It would be like trying to trademark a name from the Christian Bible, which I don't think is possible, even in USA.
If so, I think I'll write a novel with this guy, lets call him Jesus, and sue for rights infringement!
You're right, though there are some extra considerations.
Almost always, the idea guy has no or little knowledge of the technology required to realize the idea, so what he really needs is a translator that can translate and architect his idea to a language and understanding that can be processed by a programmer, where as the actual programming, can be done in India or any other popular outsourcing country. Many idea makers tend try to skip this step, which gives them a lot of grief and misery, many fine ideas died because of this.
You also need the translator to take management of the application into account, I've seen many projects that require huge amounts of manpower due to bad design, which steals the overall profit, making TCO go insane. Sure, if you launch a start-up and hope for a quick buy-out, this would be a valid strategy, it's often seen that the buyers of start-ups have to invest money to optimize, stabilize and rationalize the systems in order to make a profit.
Question is, if you're a programmer, do you sit and wait for more cheese hoping that your job isn't going to be outsourced, or do you hop up a level in the food-chain?
Thecus are selling NAS that use Linux software RAID, and it bloddy well suck!
Sure it's fast, but it corrupts the data, I've lost 1TB data, and a friend of mine who bought one also, recently lost about the same. The forums are full of people who lost data, so now Thecus include a disclaimer in their firmware that they are not accountable for any dataloss, how secure does that make you feel?
It can be that Thecus fucked up the embedded Linux they run on it(n5200), but my next NAS is going to be a server pc with internal disks, running ZFS and OpenSolaris or Windows with NTFS.
I can't believe you're not being marked either troll, flamebait or at least offtopic on that, but hey, this is Slashdot, a place where the blind are leading the blind, and real world experience doesn't count.
I wonder why I even post anything in the first place.
So just stick to your "neverland" theme park, I'll get out of here and get some work done instead.
In some companies, yes, but one of my top programmers is 58!!
Older people is generally better for your company than younger, more stable, grown up kids, less sickdayes, you just have to weed out the ones that got tired at some point and stopped developing themselves.
Young people tend to require much more micromanaging, are sick all the time if a little stressed, got sick small kids etc.
Fortunately, most management people believe the constant crap they are told by consultants that promotes getting young and hip people, so the experienced "no-nonsense" people can get to work in a company that values their assets:-)
Problem with being a good manager, is that the rest of the organization expect you to promise deadlines like the crappy manager.
If you give them a realistic deadline, they will have a fit, and your job will be on the line, because they can get 10 other guys who can promise them an ealier deadline.
So you have to promise unrealistic deadlines, and then get extension after extension after exstension... Only to end up with the date that you knew in the first place.
This is because of the political behavior of upper management, which isn't quite logical, and that's the hardest thing to grasp for techies going management, letting go of logical thought, and start thinking in politics.
Having made the transition successfully myself some time ago, I know exactly what I'm talking about, even though I still keep up to date because computers always been a hobby of mine, and doesn't mind rolling up my sleeves and help some of my programmers solve a hard problem from time to time.
Many things can be said about Bill Gates, but he was originally also a techie, but that didn't stop him from keeping up to date as he moved into management, I've meet him from time to time at conferences, and He sure does know his tech stuff, prob. mainly because every techie had a wet dream about outsmarting him:-)
The reason many Scandinavians(And I'll point out to our American readers that's Denmark, Norway and Sweeden) are pretty good at English, is because we had a huge influence on the language some 1000 years ago, when we occupied England.
Quite some of the words in the english language are actually derived from old norse language, which was the language that was spoken in Scandinavia through the iron age and viking age, which later turned into Danish, Norwegian and Swedish.
The reason some people think that people from Finland is good at English, is either because they only heard the very few that actually can speak understandable English, or lack of knowledge about the fact that Finnish is of a complete different origin than other Scandinavian languages.
Also, here in Denmark, they up until recently always had tv/movies for children texted and in the original language, but the German and French way of voiceovering are slowly creeping into our contry for some reason, damn lazy youth!
So in the future you'll probably see people with poorer English language skills from here, sad but true.
Problem is, most Netbooks are bought by companies, that use them for transport and showing PowerPoint presentations at meetings, so for that purpose, you need Windows.
Also, 3G mobile modems are almost impossible to get to work under Linux, and most business have neither the time or the knowledge to get it working. With windows, you just plug it in the USB port and the driver installs itself.
So basically, for business use, you just need Windows XP.
That actually works, quite bulky, but it somewhat works. Then another problem hits the fan. When trying to make a partition on the disk, it says "Can't have the end before the start" and the disk is totally blank, not a single partition on it, tried everything.
A quick google shows that this is some kind of issue with 250GB drives, wtf? Ready for desktop, I think not.
Oh, and FreeBSD 6.2 dosen't work either, some bright person decided to update everything in ports to Xorg 7.2, but the newest Nvidia driver for FreeBSD dosen't work with FreeBSD's version of 7.2 and GeForce 6150 LE dosen't work with the native nv driver.
Solaris 10 dosen't show a mousepointer, so thats also out of the question... I'm running out of alternatives, I'll bet Windows works like a charm on this machine, though. Sad but true:(
Tried to install Ubuntu 7.04 last night on my new low end desktop machine, but alas I can't install it because it boots in 800x600 and the install dialog can't be moved or scrolled, so I can't use the buttons.
Ok, np, I thought, I can just force it to load the Nvidia driver, that shouldn't be a problem, find the dialog with other drivers and click enable, it then says it needs to restart in order to load the driver. Fine with me, it restarts and looks exactly the same as before!!
Ok, I've worked with X before, so if I just make it enable the driver, and then press CTRL-ALT-BACKSPACE for X to reload there might be a chance it would load the Nvidia driver, and correct, it does!! So far so good, but where is my mousepointer? The mouse works, but there is no pointer, and it's pretty damn hard to press a button when you have to guess where the pointer is pointed!
Finally, I gave up, and installed it with FreeBSD 6.2, at least they don't pretend it is supposed to be easy to install and configure a system.
How on earth is normal people supposed to be able to reinstall their system?
I hope DeLL provides restore CD's with their system's...
Just run Windows 2000 Professional on that machine, it works like a charm and the preinstalled Windows Media Player 6.4 was the best version they ever made, if you provide it with some decent codecs.
I run that on an old Dell Laptop 166MHz Pentium(No MMX) with 96MB of ram, if I only use it for viewing movies, Office 2000 work, and webbrowsing using Internet Explorer 5, it is pretty damn decent.
Linux is turning into the same kind of bloatware like games from Firaxis games!!!
Sounds exactly like my last job!!! Funny thing is, that upper management is typically not aware of this, and suffers from the delution that their great managment abilities were the reason for the project success, not the fact that you did 120+ hours a week trying to clean up the mess from those half-brained peons!
With that kind of typical work environment, no wonder there is a shortage.
Daily Apple users are not going to commit themselves to a platform that is just one software update away from suddenly not functioning...
Ohh, you mean Linux? Tried that many times with x.org updates that garbages your video so only terminal is available. Sure, it's usally fixed in 24hours, but if I used it for a production system, it would cost much more than I pay for Microsoft Licenses in lost work ability.
Besides that, Apple has made quite a few blunders themselves, especially in poorly engineered hardware.
What a whiner! 70 days in one year? Thats only around 4 1/2 hours a day, hell, many even play CounterStrike much longer each day!
Back in 1998 when I was nr. 61 on NGWORLDSTAT in Unreal Tournament, I played 8 hours/day while working in a.com company with very long work hours.
When I was at Collage in 1994, we had this student group with a lot of hardcore MUDDERS. Many of us were playing from 3PM to 7AM each day, only to go back to school same day when class mates left just to pick up what notes etc. was given during the day, and then start playing again. And at weekends we were playing at 43+ hours straight.
He just don't have what it takes to become a hardcore gamer, 70 days is NOTHING, especially when he had nothing else to do that year.
That being said, it is all about priorities, he obviously don't value other activities higher than playing some videogame.
Also, he should consider himself lucky, he just might, even though he played for a relatively short amount of time, have gained better resistance against MMORPGS, I know I did from my old MUD days.
Besides, modern MMORPGS although graphical, are so very primitive compared to a mid 90's Text MUD, especially the LP ones, that they quickly feel mundane and tiresome to play.
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Please, don't wine about that...
-H
Correct, I know what you mean, having the same credentials myself.
However, having both is what enables you to enable your team to work pure magic in projects, a shame it is invisible to all but the ones that take the credit for it, when you yourself is looking the other way being stuck with some technical detail.
Being technical, which requires quite a bit of IQ, also comes with a high sense of right and wrong, that makes you somewhat backstabbing impaired, and every time you get screwed over you loose a little bit of willpower to try again.
That's why you don't see any good engineering managers, they just gave up at some point along the road.
-H
No, your wife deserves better, check out Linux Mint instead, the 13 edition with mate esp. Everything works out of the box, and it's supported to 2017.
The name "Gandalf" was lifted by Tolkien from Norse mythology(along with a shitload of other stuff), and was actually the name of a dwarf.
Norse mythology is worshiped as Asetro today, and is a legit faith in Scandinavia, so if you try to trademark a name like that, you'd be violating human rights.
It would be like trying to trademark a name from the Christian Bible, which I don't think is possible, even in USA.
If so, I think I'll write a novel with this guy, lets call him Jesus, and sue for rights infringement!
-H
You're right, though there are some extra considerations.
Almost always, the idea guy has no or little knowledge of the technology required to realize the idea, so what he really needs is a translator that can translate and architect his idea to a language and understanding that can be processed by a programmer, where as the actual programming, can be done in India or any other popular outsourcing country. Many idea makers tend try to skip this step, which gives them a lot of grief and misery, many fine ideas died because of this.
You also need the translator to take management of the application into account, I've seen many projects that require huge amounts of manpower due to bad design, which steals the overall profit, making TCO go insane. Sure, if you launch a start-up and hope for a quick buy-out, this would be a valid strategy, it's often seen that the buyers of start-ups have to invest money to optimize, stabilize and rationalize the systems in order to make a profit.
Question is, if you're a programmer, do you sit and wait for more cheese hoping that your job isn't going to be outsourced, or do you
hop up a level in the food-chain?
-H
Thecus are selling NAS that use Linux software RAID, and it bloddy well suck!
Sure it's fast, but it corrupts the data, I've lost 1TB data, and a friend of mine who bought one also, recently lost about the same. The forums are full of people who lost data, so now Thecus include a disclaimer in their firmware that they are not accountable for any dataloss, how secure does that make you feel?
It can be that Thecus fucked up the embedded Linux they run on it(n5200), but my next NAS is going to be a server pc with internal disks, running ZFS and OpenSolaris or Windows with NTFS.
-H
Regarding the flowers, you'd be able to smell them if you didn't have your head so far up your ass :-)
-H
I can't believe you're not being marked either troll, flamebait or at least offtopic on that, but hey, this is Slashdot, a place where the blind are leading the blind, and real world experience doesn't count.
I wonder why I even post anything in the first place.
So just stick to your "neverland" theme park, I'll get out of here and get some work done instead.
-H
Wake up and smell the flowers :-)
You obviously don't know what you're talking about, but argue from some sort of idealistic picture of the world.
In theory, theory is the same as practice, but not in practice.
-H
In some companies, yes, but one of my top programmers is 58!!
:-)
Older people is generally better for your company than younger, more stable, grown up kids, less sickdayes, you just have to weed out the ones that got tired at some point and stopped developing themselves.
Young people tend to require much more micromanaging, are sick all the time if a little stressed, got sick small kids etc.
Fortunately, most management people believe the constant crap they are told by consultants that promotes getting young and hip people, so the experienced "no-nonsense" people can get to work in a company that values their assets
-H
Problem with being a good manager, is that the rest of the organization expect you to promise deadlines like the crappy manager.
:-)
If you give them a realistic deadline, they will have a fit, and your job will be on the line, because they can get 10 other guys who can promise them an ealier deadline.
So you have to promise unrealistic deadlines, and then get extension after extension after exstension... Only to end up with the date that you knew in the first place.
This is because of the political behavior of upper management, which isn't quite logical, and that's the hardest thing to grasp for techies going management, letting go of logical thought, and start thinking in politics.
Having made the transition successfully myself some time ago, I know exactly what I'm talking about, even though I still keep up to date because computers always been a hobby of mine, and doesn't mind rolling up my sleeves and help some of my programmers solve a hard problem from time to time.
Many things can be said about Bill Gates, but he was originally also a techie, but that didn't stop him from keeping up to date as he moved into management, I've meet him from time to time at conferences, and He sure does know his tech stuff, prob. mainly because every techie had a wet dream about outsmarting him
-H
This is excactly why people buy Microsoft software, pure and simple.
-H
"Frame Dragging" is because of low fps in the Matrix due to poor hardware.
Don't worry, I've talked to some guy named Smith about it, they'll upgrade shortly.
-H
The reason many Scandinavians(And I'll point out to our American readers that's Denmark, Norway and Sweeden) are pretty good at English, is because we had a huge influence on the language some 1000 years ago, when we occupied England.
Quite some of the words in the english language are actually derived from old norse language, which was the language that was spoken in Scandinavia through the iron age and viking age, which later turned into Danish, Norwegian and Swedish.
The reason some people think that people from Finland is good at English, is either because they only heard the very few that actually can speak understandable English, or lack of knowledge about the fact that Finnish is of a complete different origin than other Scandinavian languages.
Also, here in Denmark, they up until recently always had tv/movies for children texted and in the original language, but the German and French way of voiceovering are slowly creeping into our contry for some reason, damn lazy youth!
So in the future you'll probably see people with poorer English language skills from here, sad but true.
-H
Problem is, most Netbooks are bought by companies, that use them for transport and showing PowerPoint presentations at meetings, so for that purpose, you need Windows.
Also, 3G mobile modems are almost impossible to get to work under Linux, and most business have neither the time or the knowledge to get it working. With windows, you just plug it in the USB port and the driver installs itself.
So basically, for business use, you just need Windows XP.
Sad, but very much true.
-H
That actually works, quite bulky, but it somewhat works. Then another problem hits the fan. When trying to make a partition on the disk, it says "Can't have the end before the start" and the disk is totally blank, not a single partition on it, tried everything.
:(
A quick google shows that this is some kind of issue with 250GB drives, wtf? Ready for desktop, I think not.
Oh, and FreeBSD 6.2 dosen't work either, some bright person decided to update everything in ports to Xorg 7.2, but the newest Nvidia driver for FreeBSD dosen't work with FreeBSD's version of 7.2 and GeForce 6150 LE dosen't work with the native nv driver.
Solaris 10 dosen't show a mousepointer, so thats also out of the question... I'm running out of alternatives, I'll bet Windows works like a charm on this machine, though. Sad but true
Tried to install Ubuntu 7.04 last night on my new low end desktop machine, but alas I can't install it because it boots in 800x600 and the install dialog can't be moved or scrolled, so I can't use the buttons.
Ok, np, I thought, I can just force it to load the Nvidia driver, that shouldn't be a problem, find the dialog with other drivers and click enable, it then says it needs to restart in order to load the driver. Fine with me, it restarts and looks exactly the same as before!!
Ok, I've worked with X before, so if I just make it enable the driver, and then press CTRL-ALT-BACKSPACE for X to reload there might be a chance it would load the Nvidia driver, and correct, it does!! So far so good, but where is my mousepointer? The mouse works, but there is no pointer, and it's pretty damn hard to press a button when you have to guess where the pointer is pointed!
Finally, I gave up, and installed it with FreeBSD 6.2, at least they don't pretend it is supposed to be easy to install and configure a system.
How on earth is normal people supposed to be able to reinstall their system?
I hope DeLL provides restore CD's with their system's...
-H
Except that only BSD is free software, GPL isen't.
-H
Because, Flash DOSEN'T work on several other platforms than Windows/Linux/OSX.
If that's your argument, why not say: Windows works, why use anything else?
-H
Just run Windows 2000 Professional on that machine, it works like a charm and the preinstalled Windows Media Player 6.4 was the best version they ever made, if you provide it with some decent codecs.
I run that on an old Dell Laptop 166MHz Pentium(No MMX) with 96MB of ram, if I only use it for viewing movies, Office 2000 work, and webbrowsing using Internet Explorer 5, it is pretty damn decent.
Linux is turning into the same kind of bloatware like games from Firaxis games!!!
-H
Ohh, so thats why there are no API-docs available?!?
-H
Which reminds me, "How much cock, could Paris Hilton suck, if Paris Hilton could suck cock"?
-H
Sounds exactly like my last job!!! Funny thing is, that upper management is typically not aware of this, and suffers from the delution that their great managment abilities were the reason for the project success, not the fact that you did 120+ hours a week trying to clean up the mess from those half-brained peons!
With that kind of typical work environment, no wonder there is a shortage.
-H
Daily Apple users are not going to commit themselves to a platform that is just one software update away from suddenly not functioning...
Ohh, you mean Linux? Tried that many times with x.org updates that garbages your video so only terminal is available. Sure, it's usally fixed in 24hours, but if I used it for a production system, it would cost much more than I pay for Microsoft Licenses in lost work ability.
Besides that, Apple has made quite a few blunders themselves, especially in poorly engineered hardware.
-H
What a whiner! 70 days in one year? Thats only around 4 1/2 hours a day, hell, many even play CounterStrike much longer each day!
.com company with very long work hours.
Back in 1998 when I was nr. 61 on NGWORLDSTAT in Unreal Tournament, I played 8 hours/day while working in a
When I was at Collage in 1994, we had this student group with a lot of hardcore MUDDERS. Many of us were playing from 3PM to 7AM each day, only to go back to school same day when class mates left just to pick up what notes etc. was given during the day, and then start playing again. And at weekends we were playing at 43+ hours straight.
He just don't have what it takes to become a hardcore gamer, 70 days is NOTHING, especially when he had nothing else to do that year.
That being said, it is all about priorities, he obviously don't value other activities higher than playing some videogame.
Also, he should consider himself lucky, he just might, even though he played for a relatively short amount of time, have gained better resistance against MMORPGS, I know I did from my old MUD days.
Besides, modern MMORPGS although graphical, are so very primitive compared to a mid 90's Text MUD, especially the LP ones, that they quickly feel mundane and tiresome to play.
-H