Most marketing people are not technical professionals. That's not the case at Apple. Phil Schiller doesn't mention it very often, but he started his career writing code.
Well, it's easy to be enthusiastic, but there's rather more to the job than that. Evangelists at Apple do a lot of traveling, easily spending 20-30% of their time on the road. They manage WWDC presentations, very often giving presentations or teaching classes themselves. Management of all of the content of the WWDC sessions outside of the keynote sessions is done by WWDR, mostly the Evangelists and Developer Technical Services.
They visit developers to try to convince them to adopt new technologies as they're added to the platform, they communicate the developers' needs back to engineering, particularly when it comes to prioritizing new feature requests, they review documentation and third-party books on the technology they're responsible for, they advise developers on the best ways to get things done on the platform, they evaluate and recommend which developers should get early access to particular information that's not ready to be made public, and so on.
First of all, any job with the word 'evangelist' directly implies 'highly paid fanboy.'
I worked with the Evangelists in Apple Developer Relations, and my direct personal experience tells me that you're full of shit.
Apple's Technology Evangelists are some of the most talented technical marketing professionals I've ever met, and now that I'm an outside developer, they do a great job for me pulling the levers and turning the gears that I need to get my products out the door, connecting our company with customer prospects, and finding and introducing us to other companies that we can collaborate with. I'd hire any of those guys in a heartbeat for either a development or a marketing position, if I could get them out of Apple.
Similar reports came out during 1989's Tiananmen Square Massacre, only to be proved untrue later.
No, there were PLA units marching with the protestors in 1989, which is a large part of why the kleptocrats panicked, brought in troops from way out in the countryside, and ordered a massacre.
No, its triviality is independent of my observation. He complains about gold as money, on the grounds that gold cannot then be valued separately from a currency. DUH! That's the whole point of a commodity-backed currency.
People who've never managed others tend to underestimate the importance of the "plays well with others" criterion. A single person who's abrasive to the members of his team can cost far more than he contributes, no matter how much of a god of coding he may be.
Better still to simply repeal the legal tender statutes, and let people trade in whatever currencies they chose, be it krugerrand, contracts redeemable for kilowatt-hours, or private gold warehouse receipts.
The chief benefit of a gold standard is that it makes it more difficult for a government to tax us on the sly by debasing the currency.
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Most marketing people are not technical professionals. That's not the case at Apple. Phil Schiller doesn't mention it very often, but he started his career writing code.
-jcr
It's easy to be an Apple Evangelists.
Well, it's easy to be enthusiastic, but there's rather more to the job than that. Evangelists at Apple do a lot of traveling, easily spending 20-30% of their time on the road. They manage WWDC presentations, very often giving presentations or teaching classes themselves. Management of all of the content of the WWDC sessions outside of the keynote sessions is done by WWDR, mostly the Evangelists and Developer Technical Services.
They visit developers to try to convince them to adopt new technologies as they're added to the platform, they communicate the developers' needs back to engineering, particularly when it comes to prioritizing new feature requests, they review documentation and third-party books on the technology they're responsible for, they advise developers on the best ways to get things done on the platform, they evaluate and recommend which developers should get early access to particular information that's not ready to be made public, and so on.
-jcr
First of all, any job with the word 'evangelist' directly implies 'highly paid fanboy.'
I worked with the Evangelists in Apple Developer Relations, and my direct personal experience tells me that you're full of shit.
Apple's Technology Evangelists are some of the most talented technical marketing professionals I've ever met, and now that I'm an outside developer, they do a great job for me pulling the levers and turning the gears that I need to get my products out the door, connecting our company with customer prospects, and finding and introducing us to other companies that we can collaborate with. I'd hire any of those guys in a heartbeat for either a development or a marketing position, if I could get them out of Apple.
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at least there is a human rights commission
So what? There are elections in Cuba. Both are examples of form over substance.
-jcr
Let's hope it's Ceaucescu time for the Burmese kleptocrats. If the soldiers are loyal to Burma, then it's game over for the thugs.
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Similar reports came out during 1989's Tiananmen Square Massacre, only to be proved untrue later.
No, there were PLA units marching with the protestors in 1989, which is a large part of why the kleptocrats panicked, brought in troops from way out in the countryside, and ordered a massacre.
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Why is it that the Americans generally think that the UN is pointless?
Oh, maybe because of little things like Libya being on the UN human rights commission?
-jcr
"high powered recruiter"?
Not too familiar with employment outside of the fast food industry, are you? Recruiters aren't the ones who make the offers, sunshine.
-jcr
No, its triviality is independent of my observation. He complains about gold as money, on the grounds that gold cannot then be valued separately from a currency. DUH! That's the whole point of a commodity-backed currency.
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If so, I would have far more respect for their management than I do today. ;-)
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Looks like someone in the design department was having a joke at their employers' expense.
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There is 0% chance of Microsoft abandoning Vista.
Actually, it's a small but non-zero chance. At any rate, the author of TFA didn't say that MS would do it, only that they should do it.
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Come on moderators, you know that was funny.
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Oh say whatever you like about the Hebrew god, but his rules are my rules.
That being the case, you must not be a Christian. Jahweh was quite explicit about the "no other gods before me" thing.
Not that it matters, it's all just another bundle of mythology.
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Dude, you're just pulling this out of your ass. Do you even realize that?
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Well, that's about the level of discourse I expect from an AC.
-jcr
Bingo.
People who've never managed others tend to underestimate the importance of the "plays well with others" criterion. A single person who's abrasive to the members of his team can cost far more than he contributes, no matter how much of a god of coding he may be.
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e supported his arguments with the things following that.
Really? In what post was that? All I saw was a bit of trivial blather that insisted without any support that gold would be "artificially" valued.
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peg the currency to a basket of commodities
Better still to simply repeal the legal tender statutes, and let people trade in whatever currencies they chose, be it krugerrand, contracts redeemable for kilowatt-hours, or private gold warehouse receipts.
The chief benefit of a gold standard is that it makes it more difficult for a government to tax us on the sly by debasing the currency.
-jcr
That makes it viable. Good luck to Amazon, and I hope they can help to show the RIAA the pointlessness of DRM.
-jcr
Give them a fake address. A friend of mine in Brazil just told me that they're not checking.
-jcr
The only people who argue for reinstatement of the gold standard are those who do not have a fundamental grasp of macroeconomics.
Oh, please. You do not support your position by proclaiming that your opponents are ignorant.
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And I, in turn, would not hire YOU
My days of working for other people are about two years behind me now.
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How do you think he sounded during the interview
Not much better, evidently.
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Would you hire me?
/. trolls aren't likely to be worth much.
I hope not. Anonymous
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