I know, it sounds crazy, but it works. It shows you're keen, and willing to make a personal investment to get ahead. Many important people in companies got there by first volunteering. It's a little known secret, now you know.
If there's anything people underestimate in software projects it's face2face communication between software developers. It's all fine and nice to send off an email when someone's made a bad checkin, but when your coworker is sitting right beside you, it's pretty tacky.
I found people who can communicate fine over IRC or email are often completely hopeless at expressing even the simplest of messages in person.
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We need to get *something* beneficial out of all the Jar Jar Binks doll sales.
My prediction: they make some more "extensions" to the Kerberos protocol, implement them in the next version of windows, and keep them proprietary.
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I call this concession is just to keep people temporarily quiet while they do more nastiness with
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I know, it sounds crazy, but it works. It shows you're keen, and willing to make a personal investment to get ahead. Many important people in companies got there by first volunteering. It's a little known secret, now you know.
If there's anything people underestimate in software projects it's face2face communication between software developers. It's all fine and nice to send off an email when someone's made a bad checkin, but when your coworker is sitting right beside you, it's pretty tacky.
I found people who can communicate fine over IRC or email are often completely hopeless at expressing even the simplest of messages in person.
For this, you need real-world experience.