I have to agree that management is more likely to want to dress better because they have less substantial actual skills, but a skilled person that also dresses and presents well is a pretty formidable figure. I think as geeks we dismiss that too often.
People who are formidiable don't get my business normally because I don't like to be intimidated. Buyer Beware is my watchword these days- after the crap pulled in the corporate and retail world in the last 10 years, it's pretty much a stupid idea to trust anybody anymore.
I haven't been through airport security with it yet- but boy, the courts sure hated it when I went to pay a speeding fine- they couldn't tell with the jumble of wires going through the x-ray machine what was in it, and apparently they had some problem with recording devices.
I believe that people who don't understand IT have lower IQs and don't deserve the positions that they are in at all. Cutting costs is a stupid thing to make IT judgements on- because for every cost you cut now, will come back in a few years at twice the price. Cutting business costs is what gave us the stupidity of offshore outsourcing.
In a sense, yes, I suppose I do. Personally, I feel a little more "professional" if I'm more smartly dressed, which I find helps me to focus on doing a professional job (and to stop feeling like I'm at work when I go home and change). YMMV; I'm certainly not arguing that everyone will feel this way.
That would be a down side for me- I get my best ideas about coding for work while I'm sleeping and/or in the shower after sleeping. I would actually do a WORSE job if I was being "professional" and separating home vs work. Not to mention the energy waste of having to wash twice as much clothing!
Close- but that's what the INSIDE looks like. The outside matches the colors of the zippers to the jacket (mine is pure black) or uses velcro for some pockets/wire channels/liquid channels (this jacket has a pocket for a Camelback and a channel for the tube).
I've solved the most harry computer code problems in the shower. That 10-15 minutes in the morning right after I wake up is easily the most productive period in my day.
No- I can honestly say I don't know any crooks in khakis. However, beyond that you're absolutely right. It is a judgement based entirely on appearance and therefore likely to be wrong. And management types are people we expect to base their judgements on appearance- and be wrong 99% of the time.
I miss those- would never dream of wearing one more than six months old, but it used to be a nice outing I could charge to the "training" account and get a nice t-shirt for attending. Never did miss a Microsoft TechNet in those days...I think my last T-shirt though is Windows 2000; so all that would say today is "this guy is outdated".
I think that this is what Technology Enabled Clothing is attempting to do- I hope their 4.0 version is better than the 2.0 version, I don't fit in the seats on the train due to all the stuff in my pockets....
In my 10 year career as a techie, I've noticed something about technical people: Those who are the most honest, the least hype driven, have horrid dress sense; where those with the best dress sense are the.bomb millionaires who will leave the country still owing you unpaid paychecks.
This seems to hold true in insurance, real estate, used car salesmen, etc. If somebody is wearing a suit, it's because they're trying to distract you from some other deeper, more important character flaw.
While I'm certain this statement is factually correct (it can't help but be), I nevertheless find myself wondering just what multiple Romney is alluding to here. Three? Ten? Two-fiths? i?
That's what I initially thought, just from the summary- I actually know that number is approximately 6 or 7 (based on my current close-enough-for-government-work guess of 1.9 billion in greater Asia, vs 300,000,000 here). This actually means our 4400 graduates are a slightly greater percentage of our population than their 24000 graduates are of theirs.
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Depending on how close you are to a big city, the current list includes China, North Korea, Saudi Arabia, Iran, Syria, and various small Islamic groups.
Are you 20 years behind the times? Cost cutting is supreme in corporate environment these days- and techs who don't understand that get fired rather quickly, and replaced with some college student from Bangalore.
Klamath Falls suffered an earthquake a while back, and there was a theory that *part* of the cause may have been some older wells that didn't reinject.
You don't do it with a single person- the physics caclulations are correct to a point, even if they're doing it with some pretty silly assumptions about weights. 2-6 people are neccessary to tip a cow; 1-2 people are neccessary to throw one (because twisting the head puts the cow off balance and shifts the weight), and 3 people with a block and tackle can put one in the air.....
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I've done it with 4 weak nerds- and I'm willing to post without using Anonymous Coward.
Not just any image- a MetaFile. Other than when I'm on a Windows Machine using the Clipboard, I stay away from those suckers. They can, and do, contain just about anything.
Agreed on that- but given the recent discovery of Sony DRM software, suddenly this opens up a huge hole for reverse engineering DRM software- especially when said software doesn't work under say, Linux....
Real ID- like the Catholic Church's version above? Exactly the same way as evolution......after all, evolution is the method that God used to create the world, not the book of Genesis- RTFA.
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I have to agree that management is more likely to want to dress better because they have less substantial actual skills, but a skilled person that also dresses and presents well is a pretty formidable figure. I think as geeks we dismiss that too often.
People who are formidiable don't get my business normally because I don't like to be intimidated. Buyer Beware is my watchword these days- after the crap pulled in the corporate and retail world in the last 10 years, it's pretty much a stupid idea to trust anybody anymore.
I haven't been through airport security with it yet- but boy, the courts sure hated it when I went to pay a speeding fine- they couldn't tell with the jumble of wires going through the x-ray machine what was in it, and apparently they had some problem with recording devices.
I believe that people who don't understand IT have lower IQs and don't deserve the positions that they are in at all. Cutting costs is a stupid thing to make IT judgements on- because for every cost you cut now, will come back in a few years at twice the price. Cutting business costs is what gave us the stupidity of offshore outsourcing.
In a sense, yes, I suppose I do. Personally, I feel a little more "professional" if I'm more smartly dressed, which I find helps me to focus on doing a professional job (and to stop feeling like I'm at work when I go home and change). YMMV; I'm certainly not arguing that everyone will feel this way.
That would be a down side for me- I get my best ideas about coding for work while I'm sleeping and/or in the shower after sleeping. I would actually do a WORSE job if I was being "professional" and separating home vs work. Not to mention the energy waste of having to wash twice as much clothing!
Close- but that's what the INSIDE looks like. The outside matches the colors of the zippers to the jacket (mine is pure black) or uses velcro for some pockets/wire channels/liquid channels (this jacket has a pocket for a Camelback and a channel for the tube).
I've solved the most harry computer code problems in the shower. That 10-15 minutes in the morning right after I wake up is easily the most productive period in my day.
No- I can honestly say I don't know any crooks in khakis. However, beyond that you're absolutely right. It is a judgement based entirely on appearance and therefore likely to be wrong. And management types are people we expect to base their judgements on appearance- and be wrong 99% of the time.
I miss those- would never dream of wearing one more than six months old, but it used to be a nice outing I could charge to the "training" account and get a nice t-shirt for attending. Never did miss a Microsoft TechNet in those days...I think my last T-shirt though is Windows 2000; so all that would say today is "this guy is outdated".
I think that this is what Technology Enabled Clothing is attempting to do- I hope their 4.0 version is better than the 2.0 version, I don't fit in the seats on the train due to all the stuff in my pockets....
Now that's interesting- it might be a *part* of the reason I interview badly, but work well. I always wear my *only* suit to interviews.....
Which way are you going? I said I noticed the inverse porportion law- not that the rest of society did!
In my 10 year career as a techie, I've noticed something about technical people: Those who are the most honest, the least hype driven, have horrid dress sense; where those with the best dress sense are the .bomb millionaires who will leave the country still owing you unpaid paychecks.
This seems to hold true in insurance, real estate, used car salesmen, etc. If somebody is wearing a suit, it's because they're trying to distract you from some other deeper, more important character flaw.
While I'm certain this statement is factually correct (it can't help but be), I nevertheless find myself wondering just what multiple Romney is alluding to here. Three? Ten? Two-fiths? i?
That's what I initially thought, just from the summary- I actually know that number is approximately 6 or 7 (based on my current close-enough-for-government-work guess of 1.9 billion in greater Asia, vs 300,000,000 here). This actually means our 4400 graduates are a slightly greater percentage of our population than their 24000 graduates are of theirs.
Depending on how close you are to a big city, the current list includes China, North Korea, Saudi Arabia, Iran, Syria, and various small Islamic groups.
Has several excellent articles on the subject This is about as good of a starting place as any.
Are you 20 years behind the times? Cost cutting is supreme in corporate environment these days- and techs who don't understand that get fired rather quickly, and replaced with some college student from Bangalore.
Klamath Falls suffered an earthquake a while back, and there was a theory that *part* of the cause may have been some older wells that didn't reinject.
I'm sure they could approximate it with a dead cow, ballistics gel, and leather, without actually being cruel to a live cow.
You don't do it with a single person- the physics caclulations are correct to a point, even if they're doing it with some pretty silly assumptions about weights. 2-6 people are neccessary to tip a cow; 1-2 people are neccessary to throw one (because twisting the head puts the cow off balance and shifts the weight), and 3 people with a block and tackle can put one in the air.....
I've done it with 4 weak nerds- and I'm willing to post without using Anonymous Coward.
Not just any image- a MetaFile. Other than when I'm on a Windows Machine using the Clipboard, I stay away from those suckers. They can, and do, contain just about anything.
Agreed on that- but given the recent discovery of Sony DRM software, suddenly this opens up a huge hole for reverse engineering DRM software- especially when said software doesn't work under say, Linux....
In that case, you did learn *some* history from computers. Not much but some.
Real ID- like the Catholic Church's version above? Exactly the same way as evolution......after all, evolution is the method that God used to create the world, not the book of Genesis- RTFA.