Came here to say this. And your experience pretty much mirrors my experience. I was just getting ready to go to college when the news came through. At the time I started checking CNN site was melting while Slashdot was still up and running providing news and help. It was indeed one of the finest hours of Slashdot.
With both engadget and Gizmodo getting their hands on the "next iPhone" in different bars in different cities, it is difficult to believe that somebody actually lost the phones. Either both engadget and Gizmodo got fooled or this is more a marketing campaign than lost phones. I would bet on latter.
Solaris, Java, NetBeans, OpenOffice.org, everything is staying according to Thomas Kurian and Ed Screven. Only thing I didn't hear about was OpenSolaris.
There is also going to be an Oracle Cloud Office, online docs like Google Docs.
Where I work, managers are mostly promoted from their engineering positions than hired. And it is usually the good ones who get promoted. So whether they end up being good managers or not, they do continue to be good technically. Ours is a big company, so we do have our chaff. We have managers who were good technically, but wanted to have the "easy" life of management or managers who were promoted to management where they shouldn't have been promoted. This group is a minority though and the members of this group usually get sidelined from the people who do actual work.
Also, at least in my company, management life is not completely easy life. Tech is the better life and higher you get in tech, the more you get to go home at a regular time. For many of the managers, they need to work with teams in different countries. There are managers with teams in India and China, having conference calls managing their teams during nights and meetings during the days with their bosses and peers. There is flexibility on when and how you work, but that flexibility works both ways. As a manager you are expected to be available at mornings and evenings beyond the working hours.
You have to know tech either way, whether you continue to be in tech or go in to management, you have to know the tech and update yourself continuously if you want to hold your own. With that in mind, if management does make you happy, go for it.
Pretty much all the Big Companies will have operations in all the countries in the report. I can tell for a fact that my company does. So I don't think the big companies argument holds water. Btw, the report has the criteria for measurement and the criteria are fairly objective.
VPN is mainly used by employees to connect to the company network. The network between office campuses is over dedicated lines. They allow VPN connection over wired networks, its the wireless networks they are afraid of (I don't know why).
How is Google going to make money out of this? By "charging" people?
Sure I can get some work done in-flight, but what with the Captain asking you to switch off all electronic equipment, 3 hour battery life of my laptop and my company prohibiting VPN access over unsecure wifi network, that work will be very little to matter. I am not sure I would shell out money for that. The work won't be worth even the reimbursement request.
That ought to be fun to work with. What will this stack do?
However what is not understandable is how virtualization will be helpful. Sure, you can make a virtual machine run only one process (services), but these services need to interact with each other through some mechanism to do useful work. Will the Windows kernel just do this interaction?
This seems to be oversolving the problem. Service isolation is good, but do you have to go overboard on that?
Thanks! I can use this in every meeting from now on. Nobody would even remember and best of all, whatever you said can be used at any place regardless of context.
People are paid to do work, not engage in a social event, regardless of what it is.
Work is a social event. You have to be working in a gulag to think otherwise. Hell, even a gulag is a social place.
While devices used during work may at the discretion of the employer it makes sense for the employer to actually treat people like adults and allow employees to use company resources for personal use.
If you think that work time is work time and life happens only during social time, then may be you just need to live a little longer. You may have to pick your mom at 3.30 in the afternoon or you may have to call your wife at 4.30 to tell her that you will be late. That is why companies with a clue have flexible work hours, allow VPN access, working from home and use of telephone for personal use.
This cluefulness is what makes me proud of my employer, may be that's why I am working right now from my home even though the time now is 12.45am.
How is the VMware Server? We have been using VMware workstation for many of our tests. It is a fine piece of software. Our testing is basically installing operating systems repeatedly in a hosted environment. If I had tried on a physical machine I would have been hosed long time ago.
I am planning to move to VMware Server now that it is available for free. Let me see how that gambit goes.
From the article: They would happily trade some to get their hands on the source code and a better deal.
How many are there who would actually look at the source code of a database, work on it rather than develop new applications based on it? If database A works, then they are going to stick with database A until conditions change drastically. It hasn't happened now and doesn't seem like it will happen in the near future.
Yes, the competition is tough. But if you are skilled, you have a better chance of getting hired here. There is a dearth of talented/skilled people here too.
People have cut their teeth in assembly language and C. Perl is much more easy (easy as in getting your job done quickly). Besides, in Perl there are many ways of doing things. If a beginner is not comfortable thinking in one way, he can always choose another. He might end up being a better programmer. Except he might be eternally corrupted by Perl and keep asking for Perlish features in other languages (can I have split and join in Java, please?)
No, definitely not. Whenever I tried, I fall into the dependency hell again, this time for libraries which are not the latest, greatest version. Now if autoconf can change to get the missing library's source and compile that too, that is great !
Thanks for pointing it out. I get tired of typing in root password everytime I want to install something. Why isn't it okay to put it in/usr/local or/opt anyway?
Distros should give permissions for users to install in/usr/local, if they don't want users to pollute their home directories.
"We are not trying to 'copy a cockroach.' This would be impractical. And besides, who would want one?"
Lots of people? Firefighters/military/...? Has good antennae, detects movement quickly, is quick to respond, is small to go into lots of crevices, who wouldn't want one?
What is your name? What is your granma's middlename? Where can I get potato burrito are not the questions to answer in FAQ.
Put only "What is the $product/$process?", "Where can I get $product/$product doc/$process doc?". Remaining should be "How do I..." and "Why is $this happening?" questions.
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Came here to say this. And your experience pretty much mirrors my experience. I was just getting ready to go to college when the news came through. At the time I started checking CNN site was melting while Slashdot was still up and running providing news and help. It was indeed one of the finest hours of Slashdot.
With both engadget and Gizmodo getting their hands on the "next iPhone" in different bars in different cities, it is difficult to believe that somebody actually lost the phones. Either both engadget and Gizmodo got fooled or this is more a marketing campaign than lost phones. I would bet on latter.
Solaris, Java, NetBeans, OpenOffice.org, everything is staying according to Thomas Kurian and Ed Screven. Only thing I didn't hear about was OpenSolaris. There is also going to be an Oracle Cloud Office, online docs like Google Docs.
Thanks for summing up the situation quite well.
Where I work, managers are mostly promoted from their engineering positions than hired. And it is usually the good ones who get promoted. So whether they end up being good managers or not, they do continue to be good technically. Ours is a big company, so we do have our chaff. We have managers who were good technically, but wanted to have the "easy" life of management or managers who were promoted to management where they shouldn't have been promoted. This group is a minority though and the members of this group usually get sidelined from the people who do actual work.
Also, at least in my company, management life is not completely easy life. Tech is the better life and higher you get in tech, the more you get to go home at a regular time. For many of the managers, they need to work with teams in different countries. There are managers with teams in India and China, having conference calls managing their teams during nights and meetings during the days with their bosses and peers. There is flexibility on when and how you work, but that flexibility works both ways. As a manager you are expected to be available at mornings and evenings beyond the working hours.
You have to know tech either way, whether you continue to be in tech or go in to management, you have to know the tech and update yourself continuously if you want to hold your own. With that in mind, if management does make you happy, go for it.
Pretty much all the Big Companies will have operations in all the countries in the report. I can tell for a fact that my company does. So I don't think the big companies argument holds water. Btw, the report has the criteria for measurement and the criteria are fairly objective.
Now how many want to bet that some idiot will commit a crime just to get on the billboard?
Next up - Some Newfoundlander will propose "lasers - with frigging sharks on their heads, boy!"
Boy! Those lasers are mighty tough. The sharks rip through all flesh wherever the laser strikes!
Thats insightful mods, not just funny.
VPN is mainly used by employees to connect to the company network. The network between office campuses is over dedicated lines. They allow VPN connection over wired networks, its the wireless networks they are afraid of (I don't know why).
How is Google going to make money out of this? By "charging" people?
Sure I can get some work done in-flight, but what with the Captain asking you to switch off all electronic equipment, 3 hour battery life of my laptop and my company prohibiting VPN access over unsecure wifi network, that work will be very little to matter. I am not sure I would shell out money for that. The work won't be worth even the reimbursement request.
That ought to be fun to work with. What will this stack do?
However what is not understandable is how virtualization will be helpful. Sure, you can make a virtual machine run only one process (services), but these services need to interact with each other through some mechanism to do useful work. Will the Windows kernel just do this interaction?
This seems to be oversolving the problem. Service isolation is good, but do you have to go overboard on that?
Thanks! I can use this in every meeting from now on. Nobody would even remember and best of all, whatever you said can be used at any place regardless of context.
Work is a social event. You have to be working in a gulag to think otherwise. Hell, even a gulag is a social place.
While devices used during work may at the discretion of the employer it makes sense for the employer to actually treat people like adults and allow employees to use company resources for personal use.
If you think that work time is work time and life happens only during social time, then may be you just need to live a little longer. You may have to pick your mom at 3.30 in the afternoon or you may have to call your wife at 4.30 to tell her that you will be late. That is why companies with a clue have flexible work hours, allow VPN access, working from home and use of telephone for personal use.
This cluefulness is what makes me proud of my employer, may be that's why I am working right now from my home even though the time now is 12.45am.
How is the VMware Server? We have been using VMware workstation for many of our tests. It is a fine piece of software. Our testing is basically installing operating systems repeatedly in a hosted environment. If I had tried on a physical machine I would have been hosed long time ago.
I am planning to move to VMware Server now that it is available for free. Let me see how that gambit goes.
From the article: They would happily trade some to get their hands on the source code and a better deal.
How many are there who would actually look at the source code of a database, work on it rather than develop new applications based on it? If database A works, then they are going to stick with database A until conditions change drastically. It hasn't happened now and doesn't seem like it will happen in the near future.
Indian Standard Time.
Yes, the competition is tough. But if you are skilled, you have a better chance of getting hired here. There is a dearth of talented/skilled people here too.
People have cut their teeth in assembly language and C. Perl is much more easy (easy as in getting your job done quickly). Besides, in Perl there are many ways of doing things. If a beginner is not comfortable thinking in one way, he can always choose another. He might end up being a better programmer. Except he might be eternally corrupted by Perl and keep asking for Perlish features in other languages (can I have split and join in Java, please?)
Or make women understand me.
No, definitely not. Whenever I tried, I fall into the dependency hell again, this time for libraries which are not the latest, greatest version. Now if autoconf can change to get the missing library's source and compile that too, that is great !
Thanks for pointing it out. I get tired of typing in root password everytime I want to install something. Why isn't it okay to put it in /usr/local or /opt anyway?
/usr/local, if they don't want users to pollute their home directories.
Distros should give permissions for users to install in
"We are not trying to 'copy a cockroach.' This would be impractical. And besides, who would want one?"
Lots of people? Firefighters/military/...? Has good antennae, detects movement quickly, is quick to respond, is small to go into lots of crevices, who wouldn't want one?
What is your name? What is your granma's middlename? Where can I get potato burrito are not the questions to answer in FAQ.
Put only "What is the $product/$process?", "Where can I get $product/$product doc/$process doc?". Remaining should be "How do I..." and "Why is $this happening?" questions.