No, what creates terrorist (at least Al-Queda recruits) is a middle class or better lifestyle, good education, and isolation brought on by being in a new place. Terrorists are normal people, by and large.
So says the junior developer who has yet to discover one of these mythical, unicorn-like "good managers" who is neither stupid nor incompetent.
Good managers do exist, they're just fairly uncommon. I'm currently trying to change teams to one. In the meantime, watch your bosses for signs of what not to do and what to do so you can be one of the good ones when you go start a company.
Unfortunately for most techies, good project management means bringing the right resources to bear on the right tasks at the right time, which argues against bringing tech staff into the requirements gathering activity (which is often where the rocks get lifted and you see just how ugly the business really is).
I love how this works - managers refuse to tell you how things work (so I hear), then complain that you don't know the business side. Odd thing is, most every place I've been has been more than happy to tell me about the biz. In fact, where I currently am, we are intimately connected to the biz and are making progress on things like getting bizdev people to talk to us before promising features we can't support (the specific example involves charging fees based on things we don't track in software - our response to the last minute request was to tell them to hire accountants). I don't work IT - I do software, and that almost always requires me to know the business.
What it takes are open minded managers (yes, they are out there) who are willing to open a seat at the table to techies on a regular basis.
Simple education helps too - if your manager tells you about what's coming down the pipe, you get an idea of how things work. The next step is to ask questions and find out who you need to talk to, then go talk to them.
So there's the problem. Nobody is going to hire a troublemaker, someone who will go over their head.
If someone isn't willing to hire someone with their own brain, who puts the needs of the corp ahead of their manager's petty concerns, then fuck them, right up the ass. Smart companies actively seek out troublemakers, so long as they work for the good of the company. In my last job, one of the consultants I knew told me that his role on the project was to voice unpleasant truths, and he did.
As to the resume, don't claim communication - communicate. Tell them what you did and how it improved things. Tell them how you avoided a serious landmine or reduced costs, or something. Smart managers value people that can make money and think past the next 10-Q. You don't want to work for stupid managers.
So you take 2 years writing specs, another two years developing and guess what, when the project is out it is based on obsolete technology and business rules.
What are you smoking? The biz processes should be separate from code as a matter of course, while technology doesn't go obsolete in two years, or even four.
We don't have run-once applications. Instead, we have run-in-reaction-to-problem scripts. Spending 3 hours to write and debug an app means that the next time you need to run the thing once, it'll take 5 seconds and be done right.
Why can't you be a fabless company? IBM will build chips for anyone, and this is probably enough to drop your startup costs to several tens of millions, at least until you're established.
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So what? escalate_to_root is an exploit, so it doesn't need suid privs
You mean building rollercoasters that'd be universally fatal, right?
racing Formula 1 cars around Nurburgring
You can rent time on the Nurburgring if you find yourself living in.de. If you buy a new BMW or porsche, take the euro option and do that. Before you go, spend $1000 on racing lessons so you know what you're doing.
Step 4: Game DOESN'T become obsolete due to graphics, etc, company stops profiting ANYWAY, because everyone would already own a copy, go to step 1
Counterexample 1: HalfLife has been a solid seller for several years due to its extensibility, and some mods have ben resold as complete games. Counterexample 2: Starcraft. Counterexample 3: GTA. In all cases, gameplay was compelling enough that eye candy wasn't the driving force. Hell, go look at anything from Nintendo.
If you're referring to Thor, you do realize that Thor is really just a little gray guy who's getting his ass kicked by the Replicators?
Hey! You got your Skiffy in my religion! Oh, and for the record, the all father spent 9 days stuck to a tree with his own sword and didn't die. Beat that, Jesus!
And the new economy stuff is mostly about making new processes (with a healthy dose of existing processes to support it), so yes, there is a difference, and 6 sig or whatever needs to accomodate that. That or not hew strictly to something that doesn't match what you need.
My kids love the movie "Twister", but I wish it had a few less "goddamns". Am I really "religious frek" and a "moron" because I'd prefer not to hear gratuitous bad language?
No, but you can't redact the dvd and resell it. That's what this is all about.
See, i disagree. If you got into IT for creativity, you should have looked into marketing. IT is about standards, best practices, and things 'just working' for your customers (ie the company's internal people). Yes, there are places where creativity is good, but no more than any other 'office job' at the same company.
I went into software, so creativity is important. How else do you come up with stuff that people want and that make their lives easier?
What? Six Sigma is the name of a specific approach to management of a company.
It's great for process oriented manufacturing concerns. It's crap for an engineering company. You need the freedom to fuck up in order to make the really good things that cause growth, which means that you must occasionally thrash the black belts. There are good ideas in the approach, but it looks like the sort of thing a weak manager would latch on to dogmatically.
"Black Belts," "Green Belts," "Champions," etc. are the titles of specific roles within the program. It's not a generic (which is a mistake in TFA, they should have capitalized it) term, it's a proper term.
It's a bastardization of a bastardization, so no it isn't. a Black belt means that you are no longer merely a student. White belt means that you are - you don't want white belts in your org except as FOB college hires.
Your ill-advised rant
You mean ill conceived, and no, it isn't. It's perfectly legitimate to complain when some suit coopts a phrase to make himself look cool. When we were in high school, these were the posers, and they got their deserved ass kicking.
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Um, Life, Liberty, Pursuit of happiness? C'mon, blowing someone up is a clear violation of the most basic human right - the right to be left alone.
No, what creates terrorist (at least Al-Queda recruits) is a middle class or better lifestyle, good education, and isolation brought on by being in a new place. Terrorists are normal people, by and large.
So says the junior developer who has yet to discover one of these mythical, unicorn-like "good managers" who is neither stupid nor incompetent.
Good managers do exist, they're just fairly uncommon. I'm currently trying to change teams to one. In the meantime, watch your bosses for signs of what not to do and what to do so you can be one of the good ones when you go start a company.
Actually, we were all contractors there, even the project managers.
Duh, That;s why you separate them - so it's easy to change.
Unfortunately for most techies, good project management means bringing the right resources to bear on the right tasks at the right time, which argues against bringing tech staff into the requirements gathering activity (which is often where the rocks get lifted and you see just how ugly the business really is).
I love how this works - managers refuse to tell you how things work (so I hear), then complain that you don't know the business side. Odd thing is, most every place I've been has been more than happy to tell me about the biz. In fact, where I currently am, we are intimately connected to the biz and are making progress on things like getting bizdev people to talk to us before promising features we can't support (the specific example involves charging fees based on things we don't track in software - our response to the last minute request was to tell them to hire accountants). I don't work IT - I do software, and that almost always requires me to know the business.
What it takes are open minded managers (yes, they are out there) who are willing to open a seat at the table to techies on a regular basis.
Simple education helps too - if your manager tells you about what's coming down the pipe, you get an idea of how things work. The next step is to ask questions and find out who you need to talk to, then go talk to them.
So there's the problem. Nobody is going to hire a troublemaker, someone who will go over their head.
If someone isn't willing to hire someone with their own brain, who puts the needs of the corp ahead of their manager's petty concerns, then fuck them, right up the ass. Smart companies actively seek out troublemakers, so long as they work for the good of the company. In my last job, one of the consultants I knew told me that his role on the project was to voice unpleasant truths, and he did.
As to the resume, don't claim communication - communicate. Tell them what you did and how it improved things. Tell them how you avoided a serious landmine or reduced costs, or something. Smart managers value people that can make money and think past the next 10-Q. You don't want to work for stupid managers.
I hate to brake it to you but communication tends to be the most important problem on most projects.
Now that's irony right there.
So you take 2 years writing specs, another two years developing and guess what, when the project is out it is based on obsolete technology and business rules.
What are you smoking? The biz processes should be separate from code as a matter of course, while technology doesn't go obsolete in two years, or even four.
We don't have run-once applications. Instead, we have run-in-reaction-to-problem scripts. Spending 3 hours to write and debug an app means that the next time you need to run the thing once, it'll take 5 seconds and be done right.
Why can't you be a fabless company? IBM will build chips for anyone, and this is probably enough to drop your startup costs to several tens of millions, at least until you're established.
So what? escalate_to_root is an exploit, so it doesn't need suid privs
Yeah, I already paid for the software - the right to use it is implicit in the thing.
I don't buy a license to games or CDs, I buy a copy, so I can resell that crap if I want to.
building insane rollercoasters
You mean building rollercoasters that'd be universally fatal, right?
racing Formula 1 cars around Nurburgring
You can rent time on the Nurburgring if you find yourself living in .de. If you buy a new BMW or porsche, take the euro option and do that. Before you go, spend $1000 on racing lessons so you know what you're doing.
Step 4: Game DOESN'T become obsolete due to graphics, etc, company stops profiting ANYWAY, because everyone would already own a copy, go to step 1
Counterexample 1: HalfLife has been a solid seller for several years due to its extensibility, and some mods have ben resold as complete games. Counterexample 2: Starcraft. Counterexample 3: GTA. In all cases, gameplay was compelling enough that eye candy wasn't the driving force. Hell, go look at anything from Nintendo.
If you're referring to Thor, you do realize that Thor is really just a little gray guy who's getting his ass kicked by the Replicators?
Hey! You got your Skiffy in my religion! Oh, and for the record, the all father spent 9 days stuck to a tree with his own sword and didn't die. Beat that, Jesus!
Let's get back to the proper business of killing orcs and zombies.
screw that - go shadowrun and stick the Orcs and Elves in a bar in seattle working for some Megacorp based in Chiba city.
Probably. Is reediting a DVD and burning it to a disc the same thing, or is it more like reprinting a book and rebinding it?
Sure you can - I'm changing G over here because it helps me out. Too bad about your moon over there.
No, doesn't make sense, seeing how it's a constant, but then he *is* Q.
What you're forgetting is taht Q is an asshole - he just doesn't care.
And the new economy stuff is mostly about making new processes (with a healthy dose of existing processes to support it), so yes, there is a difference, and 6 sig or whatever needs to accomodate that. That or not hew strictly to something that doesn't match what you need.
My kids love the movie "Twister", but I wish it had a few less "goddamns". Am I really "religious frek" and a "moron" because I'd prefer not to hear gratuitous bad language?
No, but you can't redact the dvd and resell it. That's what this is all about.
See, i disagree. If you got into IT for creativity, you should have looked into marketing. IT is about standards, best practices, and things 'just working' for your customers (ie the company's internal people). Yes, there are places where creativity is good, but no more than any other 'office job' at the same company.
I went into software, so creativity is important. How else do you come up with stuff that people want and that make their lives easier?
What? Six Sigma is the name of a specific approach to management of a company.
It's great for process oriented manufacturing concerns. It's crap for an engineering company. You need the freedom to fuck up in order to make the really good things that cause growth, which means that you must occasionally thrash the black belts. There are good ideas in the approach, but it looks like the sort of thing a weak manager would latch on to dogmatically.
"Black Belts," "Green Belts," "Champions," etc. are the titles of specific roles within the program. It's not a generic (which is a mistake in TFA, they should have capitalized it) term, it's a proper term.
It's a bastardization of a bastardization, so no it isn't. a Black belt means that you are no longer merely a student. White belt means that you are - you don't want white belts in your org except as FOB college hires.
Your ill-advised rant
You mean ill conceived, and no, it isn't. It's perfectly legitimate to complain when some suit coopts a phrase to make himself look cool. When we were in high school, these were the posers, and they got their deserved ass kicking.