WE never thought they were immortal How can something be 'less immortal' anyway? You either is or you ain't, no middle ground. Sort of like 'less dead', 'less unborn', or 'less unemployed'
One of the few, the immortal names, That were not born to die. Fitz-Greene Halleck (1790-1867)
I work with a fair number of contract employees and the majority of them are Indian (uh, major outsourcee). As a group they are more motivated, better educated, and generally more productive than their full-time salaried counterparts.
One import that I work with on a daily basis arrived with a bachelor's degree a few years ago. Instead of going home and flicking on the TV he is working on his masters and driving 3 hours one-way to a university on the weekends.
While as unappealing as taking your work home with you sounds the majority of Slashdot readers already participate in computer related pastimes. Why not take the time spent playing games or modding cases and put it towards more productive goals?
A basic understanding of businesses practices wouldn't hurt either. The time when you could get away with simply writing sloppy apps and telling the finance or HR people to 'just leave me alone, I'm a technical guy' are long gone. A solid understanding of requirement gathering and the full system development life cycle will be more of an asset to an up-and-coming programmer than knowing all the bits of the latest C/D/J language. Being able to add value to the actual business outside the sphere of technology is what those people who land the jobs will bring to the table.
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so, like what, i need a 2.4GHz whistle for that?
WE never thought they were immortal
How can something be 'less immortal' anyway? You either is or you ain't, no middle ground. Sort of like 'less dead', 'less unborn', or 'less unemployed'
One of the few, the immortal names, That were not born to die. Fitz-Greene Halleck (1790-1867)
I work with a fair number of contract employees and the majority of them are Indian (uh, major outsourcee). As a group they are more motivated, better educated, and generally more productive than their full-time salaried counterparts.
One import that I work with on a daily basis arrived with a bachelor's degree a few years ago. Instead of going home and flicking on the TV he is working on his masters and driving 3 hours one-way to a university on the weekends.
While as unappealing as taking your work home with you sounds the majority of Slashdot readers already participate in computer related pastimes. Why not take the time spent playing games or modding cases and put it towards more productive goals?
A basic understanding of businesses practices wouldn't hurt either. The time when you could get away with simply writing sloppy apps and telling the finance or HR people to 'just leave me alone, I'm a technical guy' are long gone. A solid understanding of requirement gathering and the full system development life cycle will be more of an asset to an up-and-coming programmer than knowing all the bits of the latest C/D/J language. Being able to add value to the actual business outside the sphere of technology is what those people who land the jobs will bring to the table.
Anyone read those books back in elementary school? Protect your veggies...
Eat my shorts! Hope Red Hat gets us some relief...
...now you get obscene frame rates on quake III while searching for those pesky pockets of natural gas!
...hello nurse!
was supposed to be directed at the bRa2Il1An... http://www.reir0m.hpg.ig.com.br/index.html
...slashdot this joker ;-)
...now I can try this at the massive state gvmt where I work!
...like from a horse. Probably still stinks... but i do want one of the 1u servers!
...came with a TKL and a python interpreter pre-installed. Hmmm...
copper mountain dslams are nice and cheap on sleazebay, and the modems are straight out of 3compton...
fo' scheezy...