I think this is really unethical. If you take the job, then do the work. Doing a lousy job not only going to hurt you, it's going to hurt your reputation.
Pointing out the "best" course of action can be worse than neutral. Your job is to point out the "winning" course of action. If it is a MS shop, then.NET is the answer. If it is a Java shop then J2EE is the answer. If it is a PHP shop then PHP is the answer. You can figure out the rest.
yeah. If you've been paid to off someone then it is the right thing. The hardest part is that you often are the last to know why you've really been hired.
Your job is to look pretty and keep you mouth shut. Don't start thinking about "what is good for the client", they don't think about it why should you? Stepping on anybody's toes is going to get your butt kicked out of there sooner so start thinking about what is good for you.
(did I get the first post??)
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I'm sick of these "it's either this way, or that way" people. The computing field is full of a ton of smart people who have more than one ability. I can code with the best of 'em but still am confident that, if necessary and so desired, I could run a group of a dozen or two programmers, system administrators, etc.
Hey you're young, smart and multi-talented right and you can do anything right? Perhaps, but you are in a distinct minority. VERY few people will actually be happy writing code OR managing coders. I've worked with a LARGE number of people over 18 years in this business and I've met virtually no one who is both a good engineer and a good manager. The personalities that do well in these two different roles are VERY different (for one, engineers tend to be introverted and managers extroverted).
I'm with the original post - it is a fairly accurate generalization. There are those who make and there are those who shuffle papers, go to meetings and play politics. Believe it.
The interesting part of the story in the NYT was that these jokers specifically said that they wouldn't be delivering services to neighborhoods. That's because they have their terrible, overpriced, underserviced cable services there already and wouldn't want to compete with themselves. The jerks.
I'm not a lawyer, nor a network engineer. But from what I understand (misunderstand?) about patents is that they have to describe something that would not be obvious to practitioners of the art.
Personally I can't think of anything more obvious than what seems to be described here.
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I think this is really unethical. If you take the job, then do the work. Doing a lousy job not only going to hurt you, it's going to hurt your reputation.
Pointing out the "best" course of action can be worse than neutral. Your job is to point out the "winning" course of action. If it is a MS shop, then .NET is the answer. If it is a Java shop then J2EE is the answer. If it is a PHP shop then PHP is the answer. You can figure out the rest.
yeah. If you've been paid to off someone then it is the right thing. The hardest part is that you often are the last to know why you've really been hired.
Your job is to look pretty and keep you mouth shut. Don't start thinking about "what is good for the client", they don't think about it why should you? Stepping on anybody's toes is going to get your butt kicked out of there sooner so start thinking about what is good for you.
(did I get the first post??)
Hey you're young, smart and multi-talented right and you can do anything right? Perhaps, but you are in a distinct minority. VERY few people will actually be happy writing code OR managing coders. I've worked with a LARGE number of people over 18 years in this business and I've met virtually no one who is both a good engineer and a good manager. The personalities that do well in these two different roles are VERY different (for one, engineers tend to be introverted and managers extroverted).
I'm with the original post - it is a fairly accurate generalization. There are those who make and there are those who shuffle papers, go to meetings and play politics. Believe it.
The interesting part of the story in the NYT was that these jokers specifically said that they wouldn't be delivering services to neighborhoods. That's because they have their terrible, overpriced, underserviced cable services there already and wouldn't want to compete with themselves. The jerks.
Personally I can't think of anything more obvious than what seems to be described here.