Take out your phone. Look at person you is bothering you. Pretend to speak into the phone, "Hello? Hello? Hello? Hello? Hello?" They will soon run away if they can.
From TFA: "Their victory is so complete that I'm now surprised when I come across a computer running Windows. Nearly all the people we fund at Y Combinator use Apple laptops. It was the same in the audience at startup school. All the computer people use Macs or Linux now. Windows is for grandmas, like Macs used to be in the 90s. So not only does the desktop no longer matter, no one who cares about computers uses Microsoft's anyway."
This guy needs a dose of reality. If he is "surprised" running across Windows computers, he needs to visit a business, any business. I'd say...99.9% of them use Windows. Perhaps he is just surrounding himself with counterculture hippies, or perhaps he wants to ignore reality.
From TFA: "Nearly all the people we fund at Y Combinator use Apple laptops" well perhaps they need to fund more broadly. Cool is cool, but not always profitable.
From TFA: "Windows is for grandmas"...and 99.9% of corporate users, and most home users, and many students.
We have this problem on the NYC subways too. My favorite part is when the subway is underground (deep underground, say, under the East River) and some idiot tries to speak on his cell phone. "Hello? Hello? HALLLLO? CAN YOU HEAR ME?" No they cant. Mobile phones dont work down here. Atleast you dont have *that* problem on airplanes!
Fundamentalists in the South are also adept at the political process. They start right from the school boards. So while scientists think that the truth will convince people, they are running for school boards, winning, and chocking off opposition to Intelligent Design. Face it, the truth doesnt work these days. The Religious Right has hijacked the political system and its paying dividends.
The argument I constantly hear from those on the far right -- if there actually was a conspiracy, someone would have spoken out. Well, if that is the case, how come such a national "conspiracy," if you would call it, took 3 years to come out?
Skewing coverage and results? Imagine if the US News Media had to abide by such rules -- we wouldnt have 24hr coverage of the latest girl being kidnapped. Perhaps we could actually get news on world events, aside from that "World in 30 seconds" segment.
For larger companies, and depending on the system, this can make a lot of sense. However, this should not always be the solution. I know from personal experience --
I worked at a small company for about 22 months. We had designers/developers and we had operations. Operations was responsible for staying late to babysit EOD processes and for being oncall to monitor batch jobs. If errors arose, they would need to fix them, sometimes with the help of developers.
Two MAJOR problems:
1. Unless you designed the process/software, you didnt know how to handle exception scenarios, especially when an application is first rolled out. *Dont* say anything about documentation, we all know that documentation is fluff or a year old in 95% of cases. So basically, the only viable solution was to hunt-and-peck for solutions that developers could have zeroed into within minutes.
2. Unless you had to get up at 1am and fix your process, you (as a developer) had little incentive to create robust processes/software with proper logging and exception handling. Naturally, software quality issues would result since they would be someone elses' problem.
So with that, I would say that in many cases, expecially for smaller groups/organizations, engineering and operations should be handled by the same person. Of course, the person should be given less work seeing that they are now split across two roles.
Guido von Guido --
Obviously, if you compare a well-run creative solution to a poorly-run noncreative solution, the latter will not seem as good. But all else being equal, the creative solution, by virtue of a change taking place, will be more risky. Financial institutions would rather stick with COBOL systems built in the 1980s than take on risk. In fact, they DO stick w/ COBOL systems built in the 1980s, rather than using the latest spiffy Java-based reporting solution.
While this seems like a very limited solution, I would agree. I worked for a Big-5 and noticed month after month that propz went to people who could RESOLVE issues (usually issues created by their own bad coding.) Little propz went to people who simply didnt create issues (by designing properly, testing well, etc.) I reduced my testing one quarter and spend less overtime at work. Naturally bugs resulted. I was promoted for resolving these issues.
I quit tech work and became a business analyst. I couldnt work in a position where people were rewarded for being idiots. Though i'm sure this was very particular for this group in a particular Big5, just some food for thought.
Basically, what are management's expectations?
Frankly, we have no one to blame but ourselves. We continue to purchased $21 CDs with two good tracks because we dont have the principles to really boycott the industry.
Who cares about evidence? The damage has already been done. Large corporations avoided Linux for years now hoping to avoid useless litigation. The damage has already been done. Hope MSFT is happy.
Because people must realize now that the Legal system is a rigged game highly favouring those with money for expensive lawyers. The way to fight RIAA's abuse of the legal system is with Law, not by rantings on tech boards (preaching to the choir.)
I used to work for a company that had combination sick/vacation days. The downside was that when people were slightly to moderately sick, they still came to work, hoping not to lose a day of vacation. Their productivity wasnt great and they got other people sick. On the positive side, they usually ended up with 25 vacation days a year, which was great, esp if you can cash out some of it.
wytcld -- your response is classic Joseph Goebbels propaganda, and shows clearly how Muslims are indeed the New Jews. "Some have misbehaved, lets kill all of them."
Second, what makes you think Muslims in general "tolerate" suicide bombers? Do Americans "tolerate" George Bush's widespread plundering of the middle east? Do Americans "tolerate" Foreign Affairs' call that a civil war in Iraq could be "good"? Do Jews tolerate that 6 year kids are shot in the back and killed after protesting their house being demolished? NO -- I just dont think the majority of people can do anything about these war crimes, just as the majority of Americans and Jews have not done anything about their own ranks committing war crimes.
And of course, this puts aside the fact that far more killing, stealing, and plundering is done by non-Muslims (think Vietnam and Iraq war 2003, two of 40 examples that come to mind.)
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It's the spikes you have to be careful of. Just look for your high-water-marks. If the box spikes to 90% or 100% (though the load average doesn't reflect it) it will have some issues.
I think the analysis is a bit more complicated. Certainly, there are things I just wouldnt virtualize, like a database server. But other things, even if they do have spikes, should be fine to virtualize. A reporting server is a great example. Throughout the day, there are few hits as users occasionally pull up a pre-generated or dynamic report. This is great since usage is spread out. During the night, the server is on full capacity, as millions of reports are generated. High usage, but all during the night. I would feel comfortable virtualizing this with another server that, say, runs a lot of batch processes during the daytime. The spikes dont co-incide, so its OK.
Whether average salaries are $49839 or $69120, neither of those salaries buys you even a closet in California. Now, I suppose you can live in the mountains somewhere and commute 2.5 hrs each way, but few people love teaching THAT much.
MSFT has a lot of smart coders, and yet things like this keep happenning. There are probably even many MSFT coders on this message board, dont they absorb some best practices? How is it they never learn?
Let me guess -- the Pentagon now has everything it needs to proceed with the Death Star?
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How interesting that the book discusses "the media's strange reluctance to report on any of these problems" This is what bothers me most -- because a true democracy is automatically kept in check by the free press. However, I am convinced that that big media is afraid of *someone* and thus not reporting on the likely stolen election.
If this sounds like a "conspiracy theory" someone please explain "the media's strange reluctance to report on any of these problems"
>> In the end, offshoring was a net loss for everyone involved:
>> There are our customers, who lost potential revenue.
>> There is the American engineer who didn't get hired.
>> There are the overseas engineers, who were paid substandard wages.
Actually they usually get paid quite well given the living wage in their countries. Certainly far better than most minimum wage workers in the US (or more, in New York or LA for example, you can barely live for under $15/hr.)
I've had a manager make fun of my accent (in very bad ways) several times. It was the first and only manager to do this in my life. This was at a Fortune 10 company with a stellar reputation for "culture."
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Take out your phone. Look at person you is bothering you. Pretend to speak into the phone, "Hello? Hello? Hello? Hello? Hello?" They will soon run away if they can.
From TFA: "Their victory is so complete that I'm now surprised when I come across a computer running Windows. Nearly all the people we fund at Y Combinator use Apple laptops. It was the same in the audience at startup school. All the computer people use Macs or Linux now. Windows is for grandmas, like Macs used to be in the 90s. So not only does the desktop no longer matter, no one who cares about computers uses Microsoft's anyway."
This guy needs a dose of reality. If he is "surprised" running across Windows computers, he needs to visit a business, any business. I'd say...99.9% of them use Windows. Perhaps he is just surrounding himself with counterculture hippies, or perhaps he wants to ignore reality.
From TFA: "Nearly all the people we fund at Y Combinator use Apple laptops" well perhaps they need to fund more broadly. Cool is cool, but not always profitable.
From TFA: "Windows is for grandmas"...and 99.9% of corporate users, and most home users, and many students.
We have this problem on the NYC subways too. My favorite part is when the subway is underground (deep underground, say, under the East River) and some idiot tries to speak on his cell phone. "Hello? Hello? HALLLLO? CAN YOU HEAR ME?" No they cant. Mobile phones dont work down here. Atleast you dont have *that* problem on airplanes!
Fundamentalists in the South are also adept at the political process. They start right from the school boards. So while scientists think that the truth will convince people, they are running for school boards, winning, and chocking off opposition to Intelligent Design. Face it, the truth doesnt work these days. The Religious Right has hijacked the political system and its paying dividends.
Umm...unless all the major manufacturers executed this change together.
The argument I constantly hear from those on the far right -- if there actually was a conspiracy, someone would have spoken out. Well, if that is the case, how come such a national "conspiracy," if you would call it, took 3 years to come out?
Skewing coverage and results? Imagine if the US News Media had to abide by such rules -- we wouldnt have 24hr coverage of the latest girl being kidnapped. Perhaps we could actually get news on world events, aside from that "World in 30 seconds" segment.
For larger companies, and depending on the system, this can make a lot of sense. However, this should not always be the solution. I know from personal experience -- I worked at a small company for about 22 months. We had designers/developers and we had operations. Operations was responsible for staying late to babysit EOD processes and for being oncall to monitor batch jobs. If errors arose, they would need to fix them, sometimes with the help of developers. Two MAJOR problems: 1. Unless you designed the process/software, you didnt know how to handle exception scenarios, especially when an application is first rolled out. *Dont* say anything about documentation, we all know that documentation is fluff or a year old in 95% of cases. So basically, the only viable solution was to hunt-and-peck for solutions that developers could have zeroed into within minutes. 2. Unless you had to get up at 1am and fix your process, you (as a developer) had little incentive to create robust processes/software with proper logging and exception handling. Naturally, software quality issues would result since they would be someone elses' problem. So with that, I would say that in many cases, expecially for smaller groups/organizations, engineering and operations should be handled by the same person. Of course, the person should be given less work seeing that they are now split across two roles.
Guido von Guido -- Obviously, if you compare a well-run creative solution to a poorly-run noncreative solution, the latter will not seem as good. But all else being equal, the creative solution, by virtue of a change taking place, will be more risky. Financial institutions would rather stick with COBOL systems built in the 1980s than take on risk. In fact, they DO stick w/ COBOL systems built in the 1980s, rather than using the latest spiffy Java-based reporting solution.
While this seems like a very limited solution, I would agree. I worked for a Big-5 and noticed month after month that propz went to people who could RESOLVE issues (usually issues created by their own bad coding.) Little propz went to people who simply didnt create issues (by designing properly, testing well, etc.) I reduced my testing one quarter and spend less overtime at work. Naturally bugs resulted. I was promoted for resolving these issues. I quit tech work and became a business analyst. I couldnt work in a position where people were rewarded for being idiots. Though i'm sure this was very particular for this group in a particular Big5, just some food for thought. Basically, what are management's expectations?
Frankly, we have no one to blame but ourselves. We continue to purchased $21 CDs with two good tracks because we dont have the principles to really boycott the industry.
Who cares about evidence? The damage has already been done. Large corporations avoided Linux for years now hoping to avoid useless litigation. The damage has already been done. Hope MSFT is happy.
Thanks for the clarification. Apparently the parent doesnt realize that failure is a possibility, not the goal.
Because people must realize now that the Legal system is a rigged game highly favouring those with money for expensive lawyers. The way to fight RIAA's abuse of the legal system is with Law, not by rantings on tech boards (preaching to the choir.)
I used to work for a company that had combination sick/vacation days. The downside was that when people were slightly to moderately sick, they still came to work, hoping not to lose a day of vacation. Their productivity wasnt great and they got other people sick. On the positive side, they usually ended up with 25 vacation days a year, which was great, esp if you can cash out some of it.
wytcld -- your response is classic Joseph Goebbels propaganda, and shows clearly how Muslims are indeed the New Jews. "Some have misbehaved, lets kill all of them." Second, what makes you think Muslims in general "tolerate" suicide bombers? Do Americans "tolerate" George Bush's widespread plundering of the middle east? Do Americans "tolerate" Foreign Affairs' call that a civil war in Iraq could be "good"? Do Jews tolerate that 6 year kids are shot in the back and killed after protesting their house being demolished? NO -- I just dont think the majority of people can do anything about these war crimes, just as the majority of Americans and Jews have not done anything about their own ranks committing war crimes. And of course, this puts aside the fact that far more killing, stealing, and plundering is done by non-Muslims (think Vietnam and Iraq war 2003, two of 40 examples that come to mind.)
>> It's the spikes you have to be careful of. Just look for your high-water-marks. If the box spikes to 90% or 100% (though the load average doesn't reflect it) it will have some issues. I think the analysis is a bit more complicated. Certainly, there are things I just wouldnt virtualize, like a database server. But other things, even if they do have spikes, should be fine to virtualize. A reporting server is a great example. Throughout the day, there are few hits as users occasionally pull up a pre-generated or dynamic report. This is great since usage is spread out. During the night, the server is on full capacity, as millions of reports are generated. High usage, but all during the night. I would feel comfortable virtualizing this with another server that, say, runs a lot of batch processes during the daytime. The spikes dont co-incide, so its OK.
Whether average salaries are $49839 or $69120, neither of those salaries buys you even a closet in California. Now, I suppose you can live in the mountains somewhere and commute 2.5 hrs each way, but few people love teaching THAT much.
MSFT has a lot of smart coders, and yet things like this keep happenning. There are probably even many MSFT coders on this message board, dont they absorb some best practices? How is it they never learn?
Let me guess -- the Pentagon now has everything it needs to proceed with the Death Star?
How interesting that the book discusses "the media's strange reluctance to report on any of these problems" This is what bothers me most -- because a true democracy is automatically kept in check by the free press. However, I am convinced that that big media is afraid of *someone* and thus not reporting on the likely stolen election.
If this sounds like a "conspiracy theory" someone please explain "the media's strange reluctance to report on any of these problems"
>> In the end, offshoring was a net loss for everyone involved: >> There are our customers, who lost potential revenue. >> There is the American engineer who didn't get hired. >> There are the overseas engineers, who were paid substandard wages. Actually they usually get paid quite well given the living wage in their countries. Certainly far better than most minimum wage workers in the US (or more, in New York or LA for example, you can barely live for under $15/hr.)
...For Corporate Work
Reminds me of Ice-9 from Cat's Cradle, except biological.
I've had a manager make fun of my accent (in very bad ways) several times. It was the first and only manager to do this in my life. This was at a Fortune 10 company with a stellar reputation for "culture."