Here's an excerpt. leaving plenty out to protect my privacy....
Technical Management:
Managing developers is an exceptional challenge because the essence of the job is to increase the team synergy, so that the productivity of the team is greater than the sum of the individual parts. This synergy is rarely achieved. Too often, the approach of throwing more developers at a project to shorten deliverable dates is not backed up by a manager that really knows how tasks can get done without the developers getting in each other's way.
With that said, managers struggling to achieve a team synergy lose sight of an even more important aspect of their job. Quality is a management decision. I bring to a team the experience necessary to recognize how to best ensure developer quality. I look forward to discussing with you how quality controls will be implemented under my management.
The technical manager must be a servant to his team, not a master. He leads by example. The day-to-day job will include running from developer to developer making sure they have the information they need to get the job done. A good manager looks at every line of source code his developers write, however, he knows how to approach developers when problems are found. It is too easy to stifle a developer's creativity by seeming too nosy....... Just some quick notes on the type of company and position I am looking for:
I want a company of any size that runs as if it needs to win its customers every single day.
I want a position that requires unusually high developer productivity and quality that must be engineered through the automation of unit testing and good software development practices. This is best accomplished with leadership from a serious, and seasoned professional who knows that quality is a passion; performance is a must; reliability is a science; and maintainability is a good night's sleep.... This was obviously for a development mgr position..
Wrote the parent message having a little bit of wine, as I'm also currently trouble-shooting some issues with a software upgrade that took place last night. I am having a few glasses of St. Frances Cabernet Sauv.
With regards to my comments on drinking/smoking...
These are tools. Very powerful tools when used sparingly and infrequently. Do not use these tools as an escape. Though, I must say. You are probably very stressed out. Drinking to help you get some sleep is a good thing. But there's one thing you need to not neglect in stressful times...
Exercise... Do it. Or the stress will take years from your life.
From the time to time that I look for new jobs. One thing has become more and more important than anything else.
Conver Letters Count More Than You Think. Especially Applying Online!!!!
It gets boring writing a different one for each position, but you have to. If the advertise position doesn't give enough info, then you need to get crazy!.
I think if you took my 4 boldest cover letters (typically written after then 5th Sam Adams) during job hunts, I got responses on 3 out of 4.
Anything else, just wouldn't do.
And I mean it. Drink some beers, smoke some weed. Do whatever it takes to lift yourself up into a different state of being with the Universe, and bang out some sh$%t story as to how the company can't afford not to hire you!
Because of this, I now realize why all my "Natalie Portman Squirming Nude in Hot Grits" dreams abruptly end with a Light Bulb Over her head, and just below that, a Do Loop, an equation, or the name of some obscure (.jar) file that has a utility for the previous day's problem.
I had a programming gig on-site at one of the largest sewage treatment plants in the world (at the time). To make matters worse, the contract lasted through three very hot summers.
Imagine the smell of your worst dump, then, throw in all sorts of fowl chemicals. God I felt sorry for the full-time govt. workers going there everyday at pitiful salaries.
Funniest thing I learned was that tomato plants would grow really well in the solid waste holding.
People swallow them, but, they would go through sewage and eventually sprout into plants. The soil was so right, the tomatoes were quite tempting.
I never really appreciated the "poor quality on purpose" production of Star Trak Enterprise, until I watched Sci-Fi's Battlestar Galactica remake.
B.G.'s figthers were pathetically "old school". They used real missiles, and bullets it seemed like.
But, this made the series much more real!
Also, in B.G., going over speed of light was a really "weird" feeling for travelers.
All this reminding us that nobody has figured out how to break Einsteins T.O.R. That it's truly impossible to go the speed of light without collapsing the entire universe.
---- I hope this doesn't cancel the concept of "Old School" reality.
I concede it actually was more towards winter, but not quite winter.
Nonetheless, this strengthens the argument. Mid/Late summer is often a bad time to fly in the afternoon in Minnesota. T-Storms and Tornado's are common. Fall is fairly tame in comparison.
Some say its gotten much worse during the past decade due to massive irrigation in the Nation's breadbasket.
This is actually a simple, yet intelligent thing to ask. Don't worry about the negative moderators, they're just not into Hip-Hop cuzz.
P2P. What's it all about? Is it good, or is it whack?
Well. P2P is "good", but it is something that gets "whacked" around quite a bit, from all angles, such as, RIAA Nazis, Client/Servers behind Firewalls, Poison Pills, and especially, old IP technology.
I think the fields are generated by the track, and they move at the rate the train moves. I don't think they are high frequency.
I would worry more about them affecting Ferro-Magnetic devices like Hard Drives. But intensity of field decreases with the square of distance. So just hold your laptops up over your head.
So, I actually thing the EM radiation will be low powered because it is low frequency.
Throughout literature, classics such as those from Dostoevsky, these two words were used to describe sort of, how, a wealthy man of leisure deserves to live this way.
Well... It's hard to explain. But it's all we (well to do third, 4th, plus generation Americans) to fall back on.
Well, this providence isn't just for the men of leisure.
Here's why I deserve my job, even though someone in India is willing to do it for 1/2.
200+ years ago, one of my forefather shed his freaken blood so that I, not and Indian, could live this life.
Throughout my lineage, there have been men that fought and died for this country, not India.
They turn in their graves when jobs go to another country.
In a way, it is a divine gift. Do I deserve it? It's not for me to decide. It was given to me, regarless.
I'm doing the same for my children by sending them to the best private school I can afford. I drive around in a cheap heap of metal. I take a bag lunch to work every day. My kids are going to have it good because of this my supposed suffering.
I don't think J2EE sucks. What sucks, is the implementation to date. You're onto something with "Magic Reflection Proxies".
I don't know if that's the same as java.lang.reflect. And the new java Proxies.
The name of the game here is code re-use, extended out to application flow, not just the "Model" part of MVC. I'm trying to tackle the "C" part of MVC to automate development as much as possible. We're not there yet.
I not very familiar with xCode's distributed builds.
But it sounds like what I'm on to. However, building, as in compiling (.java)'s to (.class)'s isn't really that slow under Eclipse. Plus, there's no linking in (.java).
What's really slow is all the gymnastics going on in the background with you simply change a file. At a minimum, all that is necessary is that the (.java) file needs to be compiled to a (.class) file. Something that takes less than 500 miliseconds per 1000 lines.
But... What's going on in eclipse is that you've got a tasks window showing you all your compile errors and warnings. You may have an item for a (.java) file in a different project. What Eclipse does each time you recompile something, is go out and figure out if you've broken something else, or, fixed something else.
Then, there's Deployed and RMIC Code-generation. This currently takes about 20 minutes for a project of about 40 Entities. It's mind-boggling, for 40 tables (entites) we're looking at about 800 (.java) files of various purposes. No kidding!
Right now, I'm using multiple installations. A "thin" installation with fewer plugins. Because the plugins typically register themselves as "Observers" for certain file types. The fewer observers you have to inform of changes, the better.
What's on my long term wish list is some sort of Distributed version of Eclipse that breaks up the work that one PC has to perform. Wouldn't that be cool? Maybe too complicated.
What M$oft doesn't wanna admit is that they are scared s'less of what IBM is doing with th Eclipse project. It's a bit of an Enigma.
Microsoft wanted it easy for developers to get its tools. They were never free, however. Eclipse is free. But IBM's version (Websphere AppDev) for the enterprise is basically Eclipse, with additional plugins.
I can run Eclipse on Linuz, etc. Same engine. IBM is or has overaken WebLogic in the AppServer market.
---- The idea that MS wants a better OS, so it's looking at Linux is an understatement. Basically, now its... "Okay, we bodged up our OS to justify violating Monopoly laws. Now that we've won.... We just need to undo the code intermingling of End User Applications with the kernel."
Eclipse is the next "killer" app, by going back to the fundamentals of how to build a huge software business.
Democrats invented Gerrymandering. That's how they had such a huge stranglehold on the house for so long. Computers have been around much longer than the Republican party.
Basically, it's only since this past census that there's been a huge shift in Statewide Legislatures being taken from Democrats by Republicans. To the victors go the spoils.
Districts that Republicans are re-drawing were already Gerry Mandered.
No, this wasn't your typical I.D.10.T error. The fellow working the booth tried to figure it out as well. It was pretty plain and simple.
Look, I've done my time in tech support. This wasn't rocket science. The scary thing to the politicians was... What was going on with this machine while it was taken away to be fixed. Any hac&0r could've overwritten whatever data file keeps track of the votes.
Wow. This guy's blog was the first mentioned in a Wallstreet Journal article today. This blog and several others were mentioned.
My comment is...
How is analysing nanotechnology's economic consequences any different than what miniaturization has done over the past 30 years.
----- The really funny thing to me is that these economists seem to think there is a problem to be solved. It's as if they believe their job is to solve the problem: "How do we assure equality with all the changes going on"?
Really man, this isn't a problem. The solution to that problem is simple... Freedom.
I have two basic theories that stand up way better:
1. You take an education, it doesn't come to you for free.
and experience the problem/controversy. You can do a google on this controversy for more info.
My experience went as follows. I stepped in the voting booth. It was a very nice touch screen layout.
1/2 way through making my selections.. Up popped a message that my laptop battery was about to die, and that I'd better plug the machine in, etc. Well, I looked, and it was plugged in.
It turned out that these were not very secure systems at all. The basic platform was Windows on a laptop running non-networked. Storing the data on each machine, to later be combined / counted.
We're a long way from having anything better than punching a card, and eating chads. A hacker could easily do way more damage.
In the above case.... I was at the voting place early. I was #14 in my precinct to vote.
I for one feel comforted by the fact that if, God forbid, the day comes that I can't get it up for my wife, and I feel so bad and depressed, and my mortgage interest rates are so high.....
I feel comforted that everyday, there is veritable kornikovia(sic) of options.
RIAA isn't suing unless it actually connects and downloads at lease enough of the file to determine it. Merely saying you have a file doesn't mean you have successfuly shared it.
Also, the reason for setting the IP is that you may have your router/firewall port forwarding
Not my definition, it Websters dictionary. I bet if you check Oxford, it's even more stringent.
Look man, what started as a simple "What's the big deal over this paper, it's nothing new", it turns in to a flame war.
They do a paper, that really man, just reiterates several other studies (probably all citing eachother in some incestuous manner). The paper throws in a few extra metrics, and cites a few examples, but really, there's nothing original at all, one iota, in this paper. You "flamers of my supposed troll" are so emotional you can't really see this. I really didn't mean this to be a troll.
Papers passed off like this, really man, ought to be original thought.
Then, funny thing is, I look further into it, and within 5 minutes I come pretty darn close to finding an article that is 5 years older with the same premise. Of, the idea that Microsoft's dominance is a security threat because it is a monopoly er uh Ubiquitous, and it's code is just to damn complex. ---- Let's get the f^%k over this and move on to the 21st century. I work in a shop that is becoming more and more Sun,IBM, and Oracle centric (can you name the software tools I develop with?). Microsoft is a laugh, and it's great sport to go to the meeting every 6 months from some MS Evangelist plant that wants to tell us how stupid we are for not using Exchange for everything, including brewing our coffee and picking our noses. ----
I have no original thoughts. Except maybe this one... Where the fuck do we go from here. Money talks, and bullshit walks, windoze is here to stay. I work for an IT department to provide excellence too. We've never had any of these major virus problems because we're a Notes shop off all things We feel we've done well by steering clear of MS NT for everything within spitting distance of a DMZ.
Win NT, etc. isn't in realtime weapon systems, and it won't be for some time if ever. Once that happens, then, let the floodgates of "WIN NT is a threat to freedon" articles rain free. Otherwise, this is hippy brooding over some rich nerd that's maybe not quite as smart others, but know how to make a mint. By the way, my wife's legs are longer than his wife, and her ass is extremely perky. You don't have to be rich, to have a hotter piece of ass at home than Will Gates'...;->
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Here's an excerpt. leaving plenty out to protect my privacy....
... ...
...
Technical Management:
Managing developers is an exceptional challenge because the essence of the job is to increase the team synergy, so that the productivity of the team is greater than the sum of the individual parts. This synergy is rarely achieved. Too often, the approach of throwing more developers at a project to shorten deliverable dates is not backed up by a manager that really knows how tasks can get done without the developers getting in each other's way.
With that said, managers struggling to achieve a team synergy lose sight of an even more important aspect of their job. Quality is a management decision. I bring to a team the experience necessary to recognize how to best ensure developer quality. I look forward to discussing with you how quality controls will be implemented under my management.
The technical manager must be a servant to his team, not a master. He leads by example. The day-to-day job will include running from developer to developer making sure they have the information they need to get the job done. A good manager looks at every line of source code his developers write, however, he knows how to approach developers when problems are found. It is too easy to stifle a developer's creativity by seeming too nosy.
Just some quick notes on the type of company and position I am looking for:
I want a company of any size that runs as if it needs to win its customers every single day.
I want a position that requires unusually high developer productivity and quality that must be engineered through the automation of unit testing and good software development practices. This is best accomplished with leadership from a serious, and seasoned professional who knows that quality is a passion; performance is a must; reliability is a science; and maintainability is a good night's sleep.
This was obviously for a development mgr position..
Wrote the parent message having a little bit of wine, as I'm also currently trouble-shooting some issues with a software upgrade that took place last night. I am having a few glasses of St. Frances Cabernet Sauv.
With regards to my comments on drinking/smoking...
These are tools. Very powerful tools when used sparingly and infrequently. Do not use these tools as an escape. Though, I must say. You are probably very stressed out. Drinking to help you get some sleep is a good thing. But there's one thing you need to not neglect in stressful times...
Exercise... Do it. Or the stress will take years from your life.
From the time to time that I look for new jobs. One thing has become more and more important than anything else.
Conver Letters Count More Than You Think. Especially Applying Online!!!!
It gets boring writing a different one for each position, but you have to. If the advertise position doesn't give enough info, then you need to get crazy!.
I think if you took my 4 boldest cover letters (typically written after then 5th Sam Adams) during job hunts, I got responses on 3 out of 4.
Anything else, just wouldn't do.
And I mean it. Drink some beers, smoke some weed. Do whatever it takes to lift yourself up into a different state of being with the Universe, and bang out some sh$%t story as to how the company can't afford not to hire you!
Expose a little passion!
Because of this, I now realize why all my "Natalie Portman Squirming Nude in Hot Grits" dreams abruptly end with a Light Bulb Over her head, and just below that, a Do Loop, an equation, or the name of some obscure (.jar) file that has a utility for the previous day's problem.
I had a programming gig on-site at one of the largest sewage treatment plants in the world (at the time). To make matters worse, the contract lasted through three very hot summers.
Imagine the smell of your worst dump, then, throw in all sorts of fowl chemicals. God I felt sorry for the full-time govt. workers going there everyday at pitiful salaries.
Funniest thing I learned was that tomato plants would grow really well in the solid waste holding.
People swallow them, but, they would go through sewage and eventually sprout into plants. The soil was so right, the tomatoes were quite tempting.
I didn't say we can't dream. But, the first dreaming needs to be specifically about how we're even near the speed of light without becoming plasma.
Otherwise, we've been following the Underwear Gnomes methodology.
1. Approach the speed of light...
2. ???
3. Multi-Warp Speed
I never really appreciated the "poor quality on purpose" production of Star Trak Enterprise, until I watched Sci-Fi's Battlestar Galactica remake.
B.G.'s figthers were pathetically "old school". They used real missiles, and bullets it seemed like.
But, this made the series much more real!
Also, in B.G., going over speed of light was a really "weird" feeling for travelers.
All this reminding us that nobody has figured out how to break Einsteins T.O.R. That it's truly impossible to go the speed of light without collapsing the entire universe.
----
I hope this doesn't cancel the concept of "Old School" reality.
I concede it actually was more towards winter, but not quite winter.
Nonetheless, this strengthens the argument. Mid/Late summer is often a bad time to fly in the afternoon in Minnesota. T-Storms and Tornado's are common. Fall is fairly tame in comparison.
Some say its gotten much worse during the past decade due to massive irrigation in the Nation's breadbasket.
Sorry if I sound like a troll.
Maybe I seem a bit irrational in this case, buy I can assure your, it's because of close ties with the PW campaign.
MPA / RIAA are trying all sorts of approaches.
From Two-Fisted, to Pragmatic. They've got the resources to come at us from all side.
That Coleman knocked off Wellstone, because he's bought and sold by the RIAA and MPCA.
He whored himself out after being whooped by "The Body".
If you're from my parts, you still feel there's a little more to the conspiracy theories than meets the eye.
Plane crashes typically happen in Winter. This was late summer. Pretty good flying conditions up here.
This is actually a simple, yet intelligent thing to ask. Don't worry about the negative moderators, they're just not into Hip-Hop cuzz.
P2P. What's it all about? Is it good, or is it whack?
Well. P2P is "good", but it is something that gets "whacked" around quite a bit, from all angles, such as, RIAA Nazis, Client/Servers behind Firewalls, Poison Pills, and especially, old IP technology.
I think the fields are generated by the track, and they move at the rate the train moves. I don't think they are high frequency.
I would worry more about them affecting Ferro-Magnetic devices like Hard Drives. But intensity of field decreases with the square of distance. So just hold your laptops up over your head.
So, I actually thing the EM radiation will be low powered because it is low frequency.
Throughout literature, classics such as those from Dostoevsky, these two words were used to describe sort of, how, a wealthy man of leisure deserves to live this way.
Well... It's hard to explain. But it's all we (well to do third, 4th, plus generation Americans) to fall back on.
Well, this providence isn't just for the men of leisure.
Here's why I deserve my job, even though someone in India is willing to do it for 1/2.
200+ years ago, one of my forefather shed his freaken blood so that I, not and Indian, could live this life.
Throughout my lineage, there have been men that fought and died for this country, not India.
They turn in their graves when jobs go to another country.
In a way, it is a divine gift. Do I deserve it? It's not for me to decide. It was given to me, regarless.
I'm doing the same for my children by sending them to the best private school I can afford. I drive around in a cheap heap of metal. I take a bag lunch to work every day. My kids are going to have it good because of this my supposed suffering.
yes! Thanks gnutella!
I'm going Japanese!
I don't think J2EE sucks. What sucks, is the implementation to date. You're onto something with "Magic Reflection Proxies".
I don't know if that's the same as java.lang.reflect. And the new java Proxies.
The name of the game here is code re-use, extended out to application flow, not just the "Model" part of MVC. I'm trying to tackle the "C" part of MVC to automate development as much as possible. We're not there yet.
I not very familiar with xCode's distributed builds.
But it sounds like what I'm on to. However, building, as in compiling (.java)'s to (.class)'s isn't really that slow under Eclipse. Plus, there's no linking in (.java).
What's really slow is all the gymnastics going on in the background with you simply change a file. At a minimum, all that is necessary is that the (.java) file needs to be compiled to a (.class) file. Something that takes less than 500 miliseconds per 1000 lines.
But... What's going on in eclipse is that you've got a tasks window showing you all your compile errors and warnings. You may have an item for a (.java) file in a different project. What Eclipse does each time you recompile something, is go out and figure out if you've broken something else, or, fixed something else.
Then, there's Deployed and RMIC Code-generation. This currently takes about 20 minutes for a project of about 40 Entities. It's mind-boggling, for 40 tables (entites) we're looking at about 800 (.java) files of various purposes. No kidding!
In due time.
Right now, I'm using multiple installations. A "thin" installation with fewer plugins. Because the plugins typically register themselves as "Observers" for certain file types. The fewer observers you have to inform of changes, the better.
What's on my long term wish list is some sort of Distributed version of Eclipse that breaks up the work that one PC has to perform. Wouldn't that be cool? Maybe too complicated.
What M$oft doesn't wanna admit is that they are scared s'less of what IBM is doing with th Eclipse project. It's a bit of an Enigma.
Microsoft wanted it easy for developers to get its tools. They were never free, however. Eclipse is free. But IBM's version (Websphere AppDev) for the enterprise is basically Eclipse, with additional plugins.
I can run Eclipse on Linuz, etc. Same engine. IBM is or has overaken WebLogic in the AppServer market.
----
The idea that MS wants a better OS, so it's looking at Linux is an understatement. Basically, now its... "Okay, we bodged up our OS to justify violating Monopoly laws. Now that we've won.... We just need to undo the code intermingling of End User Applications with the kernel."
Eclipse is the next "killer" app, by going back to the fundamentals of how to build a huge software business.
Democrats invented Gerrymandering. That's how they had such a huge stranglehold on the house for so long. Computers have been around much longer than the Republican party.
Basically, it's only since this past census that there's been a huge shift in Statewide Legislatures being taken from Democrats by Republicans. To the victors go the spoils.
Districts that Republicans are re-drawing were already Gerry Mandered.
Oh, now you go cryign crocodile tears...
No, this wasn't your typical I.D.10.T error. The fellow working the booth tried to figure it out as well. It was pretty plain and simple.
Look, I've done my time in tech support. This wasn't rocket science. The scary thing to the politicians was... What was going on with this machine while it was taken away to be fixed. Any hac&0r could've overwritten whatever data file keeps track of the votes.
Wow. This guy's blog was the first mentioned in a Wallstreet Journal article today. This blog and several others were mentioned.
....
My comment is...
How is analysing nanotechnology's economic consequences any different than what miniaturization has done over the past 30 years.
-----
The really funny thing to me is that these economists seem to think there is a problem to be solved. It's as if they believe their job is to solve the problem: "How do we assure equality with all the changes going on"?
Really man, this isn't a problem. The solution to that problem is simple... Freedom.
I have two basic theories that stand up way better:
1. You take an education, it doesn't come to you for free.
2. Education is everything.
3. ?
4. Profit
and experience the problem/controversy. You can do a google on this controversy for more info.
My experience went as follows. I stepped in the voting booth. It was a very nice touch screen layout.
1/2 way through making my selections.. Up popped a message that my laptop battery was about to die, and that I'd better plug the machine in, etc. Well, I looked, and it was plugged in.
It turned out that these were not very secure systems at all. The basic platform was Windows on a laptop running non-networked. Storing the data on each machine, to later be combined / counted.
We're a long way from having anything better than punching a card, and eating chads. A hacker could easily do way more damage.
In the above case.... I was at the voting place early. I was #14 in my precinct to vote.
I for one feel comforted by the fact that if, God forbid, the day comes that I can't get it up for my wife, and I feel so bad and depressed, and my mortgage interest rates are so high.....
I feel comforted that everyday, there is veritable kornikovia(sic) of options.
This paper is weak, at best.
RIAA isn't suing unless it actually connects and downloads at lease enough of the file to determine it. Merely saying you have a file doesn't mean you have successfuly shared it.
Also, the reason for setting the IP is that you may have your router/firewall port forwarding
Not my definition, it Websters dictionary. I bet if you check Oxford, it's even more stringent.
;->
Look man, what started as a simple "What's the big deal over this paper, it's nothing new", it turns in to a flame war.
They do a paper, that really man, just reiterates several other studies (probably all citing eachother in some incestuous manner). The paper throws in a few extra metrics, and cites a few examples, but really, there's nothing original at all, one iota, in this paper. You "flamers of my supposed troll" are so emotional you can't really see this. I really didn't mean this to be a troll.
Papers passed off like this, really man, ought to be original thought.
Then, funny thing is, I look further into it, and within 5 minutes I come pretty darn close to finding an article that is 5 years older with the same premise. Of, the idea that Microsoft's dominance is a security threat because it is a monopoly er uh Ubiquitous, and it's code is just to damn complex.
----
Let's get the f^%k over this and move on to the 21st century. I work in a shop that is becoming more and more Sun,IBM, and Oracle centric (can you name the software tools I develop with?). Microsoft is a laugh, and it's great sport to go to the meeting every 6 months from some MS Evangelist plant that wants to tell us how stupid we are for not using Exchange for everything, including brewing our coffee and picking our noses.
----
I have no original thoughts. Except maybe this one... Where the fuck do we go from here. Money talks, and bullshit walks, windoze is here to stay. I work for an IT department to provide excellence too. We've never had any of these major virus problems because we're a Notes shop off all things We feel we've done well by steering clear of MS NT for everything within spitting distance of a DMZ.
Win NT, etc. isn't in realtime weapon systems, and it won't be for some time if ever. Once that happens, then, let the floodgates of "WIN NT is a threat to freedon" articles rain free. Otherwise, this is hippy brooding over some rich nerd that's maybe not quite as smart others, but know how to make a mint. By the way, my wife's legs are longer than his wife, and her ass is extremely perky. You don't have to be rich, to have a hotter piece of ass at home than Will Gates'...