I agree that all-nighters are almost never productive, but this question was about staying late, not about working all-nighters.
I'd like to believe that all work could get done within business hours and on my team it usually does. But there will always be times that the team needs to stay late, because things always come up.
I manage developers and they can count on me to be here if they're here (and when they're not). But I'm also *not* a useless lackey. I'm a developer myself and I'm here because I add something to the process. In addition to going to get the food (which I always do), I can actually participate in the process of making decisions and solving problems.
In my opinion, if you can't do that, you shouldn't be in the position. And you certainly shouldn't be looking over anybody's shoulder if you're not needed. Give them the space. Surely you have some of your own work you can do while you wait.
But yes, be there -- unless you can't be there without getting in the way, in which case you should leave.
The degree requirement is there for a couple of reasons. It weeds out the people who are truly and completely unqualified and it demonstrates a minimum requirement for someone with little or no experience in the actual work force.
Every job I've had for the past decade "required" a degree that I don't have. If you bring the experience to the table, the degree requirement isn't even discussed.
Now, having said that, I do wish I had a degree and I encourage anyone who has the time and wherewithal to get one -- not necessarily in CS or engineering -- even history or literature. Because I do feel like I have missed out by not having gone through that experience. Every now and then I'll hear somebody mention something and I have to go wiki it and get a quick primer and then, if it sounds interesting enough, I can learn more about it on my own. A solid university education gives you a nice broad exposure to a lot of things that you don't have time to get to in the work force.
I did the military instead and I swear I don't know how anybody grows up without either college or the military.
Just "enhance" it like they do in the movies. Draw a rectangle around the area and click the "enhance" button, I guess, and it will clear it right up. At least, that's the way I've always seen it happen:)
When I was younger (late teens), I had feelings about leaving the country to live in Europe or somewhere. Then I joined the Air Force and had the good fortune to visit 14 countries and to live in one of them for 3 years. Nothing made this American prouder of his own country than visiting others. I'll take America, thanks.
Dude, you're coming FROM the elegant platform TO the popular platform. You're plugging a VHS tape into your betamax. You have found that the tuxedo vest is reversable and on the other side is potato sack. That doesn't mean that it's not useful at times to run Windows. There are some nice games that run only on Windows, but that's not because Windows is elegant -- it's because it's popular. The Microsoft Internet Explorer web browser experience is well supported but, again, only because it's popular.
The Windows world will surely be a disappointment to the Mac users who venture to that side out of curiosity alone. There will be those who are familiar with the platform and need it to run natively from time to time, and for those people it will be useful -- but in some cases, not as useful as Virtual PC. The dual-booting Mac is most useful for those Windows users who have been wanting to try OS X (there's a lot more draw coming that way than going the other) but who need the security blanket of knowing it can also run Windows if they don't like OS X. This is what makes this story so interesting... it's Apple using Microsoft's own OS against them.
I don't think turning off fear in general is ever a good idea. I find it hard to believe this could ever be used to treat human phobias, since those are isolated fears of things that are often irrational. But most fears that we have every day are completely rational and actually critical to survival. The fear of falling down the stairs, for example. And the fear of a crash on the interstate, which causes us to look before we do it.
I was surprised to see in this story that "The Apple Blog" was revealing such information. Actually, it's some guy who has a blog and he calls it The Apple Blog. This is just personal speculation -- HOWEVER, it's interesting and it wouldn't surprise me. And it would have actually been a good idea, as long as they could protect themselves legally against Motorola and didn't mind burning a bridge.
I hadn't even heard of lulu.com, I'm ashamed to say. This is probably good exposure for that company, citing it as a main reason for his resignation. lulu.com is cool, by the way.
And no, I don't think he did it for PR. I believe that he's genuinely too busy for Red Hat.
Dr Penney, of the School of Earth, Atmospheric and Environmental Sciences, said he had used the blood droplets to trace how, when and where the spider died.
Was there a question about how the spider died? I could have saved you some time and money. I could have made a good guess on the "where" also if you told me where you found him.
Hey, to each his own. I'm glad homeslice raved about Yahoo Mail. I just logged in for the first time in AGES and took a look at it and it's lovely. Really, it is. It has ads in the mail body, as always, which sucks. And the interface is a bit busy, with ads and offers and this and that.
But I like the Bulk folder and this interface is clean and nice and all. And I can understand people who don't like the archive, conversation and label metaphors being pissed about Gmail. Like I said, to each his own.
Oh, and let's not forget what else Google did. They went to 1 GB of storage when that was unheard of. And now Yahoo Mail has that, too.
So life is good on the free, web-based e-mail front:)
Come on, some people could find something bad about anything. Preference engines, suggestive selling tools, whatever you want to call them. They're awesome. And it doesn't take away anybody's ability to see things that don't match their interests.... all the have to do is browse. I can go to Wikipedia, for example, and click "Random Page" or take a look at the home page, and get presented with something I never would have thought to look for. But the desire to do that doesn't mean that they shouldn't also have "See Also" links in the story I'm reading, with the assumption that my interest in one story suggests a potential interest in other stories.
Poor, poor, 21st century consumers... surrounded by so much technology that we can't even go looking for new stuff anymore? Hogwash!
That damn president of ours. Idiot! He's such a moron that his policies are even changing the climate of MARS. Buffoon! If he would just go ahead and sign Kyoto all this would be over.:)
When you really need to get something accomplished, I've found that there's nothing like a rehash of the organization. All the changes to letterhead and nameplates and email sigs and public address books and subdomains and website data really get the team on the same page and really get a project that last mile.
"OK, kids... let's go over the rules! Let's see here. It says that we start on Start. Well heck, that's easy enough, isn't it, kids? OK, we're gonna ski down a mountain. I can almost feel the cold air now, can't you?"
"OK, everybody on Start and ready to go. OK, let's see here. Now the directions say Keyword int creates integer variable x."
Let's not underrate Charlie Rose by saying that, just because this is an interview show, it's like Charlie Rose. Charlie is a fantastic interviewer, one of the very best on TV. Also the production is very good. Multiple cameras around that round table and you don't even notice it.
I agree with a previous poster about how this is barely worth the video -- the audio would be good enough.
I'm glad this exists, but I was looking forward to seeing Robert ask the questions. I haven't seen him do any video since the Nerd documentary.
I'm a father and, like many of you, a child of the original video game revolution. I played the arcade version of Galaga just yesterday, in fact (a coin operated one, not the MAME version I have on my computer).
Anyway, I have a boy (9) and a girl (5). The boy is the main video game player and game selector, and he knows that games have to be rated E (everyone) in order for him to play it. There are exceptions to this, but they are on a case-by-case basis and they are extremely rare. He might have been allowed to play a T (teen) game once or twice.
Of course, I'm the exception. I'm one of those fathers who pays attention to what his children are doing and I don't use video games as a babysitter. OK, in the spirit of full disclosure, maybe I do just a little bit, as I know that the kids will be entertained while playing games and watching TV. But I'm never far away and I always know what they're watching and playing. Heck, I've turned into such a prude that I'm considering banning Nickelodeon and the Disney channel (the latter having turned into nothing but an advertising vehicle for Disney properties).
My point is that it's no surprise that parents don't pay attention to ratings, since so many of them don't even pay attention to their children. The decline of the quality of the family is THE biggest issue that we face as a nation and it's very often the answer to other national issues that we face.
I guess I'm just tired, but when I first saw this I thought it said "Do we really need space wagons?" My answer took practically no contemplation cycles: "Uh, no?" But I did enjoy the brief visual and I thought I'd share it.
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I agree that all-nighters are almost never productive, but this question was about staying late, not about working all-nighters.
I'd like to believe that all work could get done within business hours and on my team it usually does. But there will always be times that the team needs to stay late, because things always come up.
I manage developers and they can count on me to be here if they're here (and when they're not). But I'm also *not* a useless lackey. I'm a developer myself and I'm here because I add something to the process. In addition to going to get the food (which I always do), I can actually participate in the process of making decisions and solving problems.
In my opinion, if you can't do that, you shouldn't be in the position. And you certainly shouldn't be looking over anybody's shoulder if you're not needed. Give them the space. Surely you have some of your own work you can do while you wait.
But yes, be there -- unless you can't be there without getting in the way, in which case you should leave.
I would certainly hope they have good WiFi
Gotta get people using it somehow :)
The degree requirement is there for a couple of reasons. It weeds out the people who are truly and completely unqualified and it demonstrates a minimum requirement for someone with little or no experience in the actual work force.
Every job I've had for the past decade "required" a degree that I don't have. If you bring the experience to the table, the degree requirement isn't even discussed.
Now, having said that, I do wish I had a degree and I encourage anyone who has the time and wherewithal to get one -- not necessarily in CS or engineering -- even history or literature. Because I do feel like I have missed out by not having gone through that experience. Every now and then I'll hear somebody mention something and I have to go wiki it and get a quick primer and then, if it sounds interesting enough, I can learn more about it on my own. A solid university education gives you a nice broad exposure to a lot of things that you don't have time to get to in the work force.
I did the military instead and I swear I don't know how anybody grows up without either college or the military.
Just "enhance" it like they do in the movies. Draw a rectangle around the area and click the "enhance" button, I guess, and it will clear it right up. At least, that's the way I've always seen it happen :)
RP
When I was younger (late teens), I had feelings about leaving the country to live in Europe or somewhere. Then I joined the Air Force and had the good fortune to visit 14 countries and to live in one of them for 3 years. Nothing made this American prouder of his own country than visiting others. I'll take America, thanks.
Moderate me as patriotic troll, I guess.
Dude, you're coming FROM the elegant platform TO the popular platform. You're plugging a VHS tape into your betamax. You have found that the tuxedo vest is reversable and on the other side is potato sack. That doesn't mean that it's not useful at times to run Windows. There are some nice games that run only on Windows, but that's not because Windows is elegant -- it's because it's popular. The Microsoft Internet Explorer web browser experience is well supported but, again, only because it's popular.
The Windows world will surely be a disappointment to the Mac users who venture to that side out of curiosity alone. There will be those who are familiar with the platform and need it to run natively from time to time, and for those people it will be useful -- but in some cases, not as useful as Virtual PC. The dual-booting Mac is most useful for those Windows users who have been wanting to try OS X (there's a lot more draw coming that way than going the other) but who need the security blanket of knowing it can also run Windows if they don't like OS X. This is what makes this story so interesting... it's Apple using Microsoft's own OS against them.
RP
Nike vs Reebok
Actually Adidas is buying Reebok, so it's Nike vs Adidas.
RP
I don't think turning off fear in general is ever a good idea. I find it hard to believe this could ever be used to treat human phobias, since those are isolated fears of things that are often irrational. But most fears that we have every day are completely rational and actually critical to survival. The fear of falling down the stairs, for example. And the fear of a crash on the interstate, which causes us to look before we do it.
RP
I was surprised to see in this story that "The Apple Blog" was revealing such information. Actually, it's some guy who has a blog and he calls it The Apple Blog. This is just personal speculation -- HOWEVER, it's interesting and it wouldn't surprise me. And it would have actually been a good idea, as long as they could protect themselves legally against Motorola and didn't mind burning a bridge.
Ah, suddenly Universal Serial Bus makes sense.
I think this is friggin' great. When you have a new device you want to plug into the USB port, you just... uh...
RP
I hadn't even heard of lulu.com, I'm ashamed to say. This is probably good exposure for that company, citing it as a main reason for his resignation. lulu.com is cool, by the way.
And no, I don't think he did it for PR. I believe that he's genuinely too busy for Red Hat.
RP
That's what I'm Tolkien 'bout!
RP
Dr Penney, of the School of Earth, Atmospheric and Environmental Sciences, said he had used the blood droplets to trace how, when and where the spider died.
Was there a question about how the spider died? I could have saved you some time and money. I could have made a good guess on the "where" also if you told me where you found him.
RP
Hey, to each his own. I'm glad homeslice raved about Yahoo Mail. I just logged in for the first time in AGES and took a look at it and it's lovely. Really, it is. It has ads in the mail body, as always, which sucks. And the interface is a bit busy, with ads and offers and this and that.
:)
But I like the Bulk folder and this interface is clean and nice and all. And I can understand people who don't like the archive, conversation and label metaphors being pissed about Gmail. Like I said, to each his own.
Oh, and let's not forget what else Google did. They went to 1 GB of storage when that was unheard of. And now Yahoo Mail has that, too.
So life is good on the free, web-based e-mail front
RP
Come on, some people could find something bad about anything. Preference engines, suggestive selling tools, whatever you want to call them. They're awesome. And it doesn't take away anybody's ability to see things that don't match their interests.... all the have to do is browse. I can go to Wikipedia, for example, and click "Random Page" or take a look at the home page, and get presented with something I never would have thought to look for. But the desire to do that doesn't mean that they shouldn't also have "See Also" links in the story I'm reading, with the assumption that my interest in one story suggests a potential interest in other stories.
Poor, poor, 21st century consumers... surrounded by so much technology that we can't even go looking for new stuff anymore? Hogwash!
RP
That damn president of ours. Idiot! He's such a moron that his policies are even changing the climate of MARS. Buffoon! If he would just go ahead and sign Kyoto all this would be over. :)
RP
When you really need to get something accomplished, I've found that there's nothing like a rehash of the organization. All the changes to letterhead and nameplates and email sigs and public address books and subdomains and website data really get the team on the same page and really get a project that last mile.
Idiots.
RP
"OK, kids... let's go over the rules! Let's see here. It says that we start on Start. Well heck, that's easy enough, isn't it, kids? OK, we're gonna ski down a mountain. I can almost feel the cold air now, can't you?"
"OK, everybody on Start and ready to go. OK, let's see here. Now the directions say Keyword int creates integer variable x."
"Hey, kids? KIDS?!?!? Are you coming back?'
Let's not underrate Charlie Rose by saying that, just because this is an interview show, it's like Charlie Rose. Charlie is a fantastic interviewer, one of the very best on TV. Also the production is very good. Multiple cameras around that round table and you don't even notice it.
I agree with a previous poster about how this is barely worth the video -- the audio would be good enough.
I'm glad this exists, but I was looking forward to seeing Robert ask the questions. I haven't seen him do any video since the Nerd documentary.
RP
Why didn't he just wear a robe? Was he trying to make some kind of statement with the iPod suit?
Oh, and what kind of case was it? I realize that's irrelevant, since this story is about the judge's clothes... just wondering
RP
I'm a father and, like many of you, a child of the original video game revolution. I played the arcade version of Galaga just yesterday, in fact (a coin operated one, not the MAME version I have on my computer).
Anyway, I have a boy (9) and a girl (5). The boy is the main video game player and game selector, and he knows that games have to be rated E (everyone) in order for him to play it. There are exceptions to this, but they are on a case-by-case basis and they are extremely rare. He might have been allowed to play a T (teen) game once or twice.
Of course, I'm the exception. I'm one of those fathers who pays attention to what his children are doing and I don't use video games as a babysitter. OK, in the spirit of full disclosure, maybe I do just a little bit, as I know that the kids will be entertained while playing games and watching TV. But I'm never far away and I always know what they're watching and playing. Heck, I've turned into such a prude that I'm considering banning Nickelodeon and the Disney channel (the latter having turned into nothing but an advertising vehicle for Disney properties).
My point is that it's no surprise that parents don't pay attention to ratings, since so many of them don't even pay attention to their children. The decline of the quality of the family is THE biggest issue that we face as a nation and it's very often the answer to other national issues that we face.
RP
That's the joke folks, nothing more to see. Moderate away :)
RP
I guess I'm just tired, but when I first saw this I thought it said "Do we really need space wagons?" My answer took practically no contemplation cycles: "Uh, no?" But I did enjoy the brief visual and I thought I'd share it.
RP