I work for a medium sized non-technological global company in an Analyst Programmer/Systems Analyst position. At present we're re-doing the websites which should be completely re-written. Unfortunately we are sticking with this "polish the turd hard enough and you've got gold" philosophy.
The problem is because IT development is seen as needless expense (besides the fact that it holds the company together). We are the "plumbers" of the company, just fixing the "internets tubes" and computers which "dump stuff on to them, like a truck".
Because of this devalued position within the company, a lot of usual IT jobs (such as website design) is handled by Marketing, who have no idea about website development and give us these seemingly impossible pages to create, which aren't intuitive, and come up with "brillant" (see http://thedailywtf.com/forums/40043/ShowPost.aspxP aula's Birllant Bean) idea's like an entirely Flash Website with movies and graphics (Our primary task is a online store).
Then I read about Google, getting their programmers to spend 20% of their time creating something they want, and looking for innovative people. Perhaps this is only in companies which are technology based companies, or at least understand what technology can do and how best to use it.
Whenever life get you down, Mrs. Brown, And things seem hard or tough. And people are stupid, obnoxious or daft, And you feel that you've had quite enu-hu-hu-huuuuff! Just - re-member that you're standing on a planet that's evolving and revolving at 900 miles an hour, It's orbiting at 19 miles a second, so it's reckoned, the sun that is the source of all our power. The Sun and you and me, and all the stars that we can see, are moving at a million miles a day, In the outer spiral arm, at 40,000 miles an hour, of the Galaxy we call the Milky Way. Our Galaxy itself contains 100 billion stars, it's 100,000 light-years side-to-side, It bulges in the middle, 16,000 light-years thick, but out by us it's just 3000 light-years wide. We're 30,000 light-years from galactic central point, we go round every 200 million years, And our galaxy is only one of millions of billions in this amazing and expanding universe. The universe itself keeps on expanding and expanding, in all of the directions it can whizz, As fast as it can go, at the speed of light you know, twelve million miles a minute, and that's the fastest speed there is. So remember, when you're feeling very small and insecure, how amazingly unlikely is your birth, And pray that there's intelligent life somewhere up in space, because there's bugger all down here on Earth.
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CAPTCHA: summoner -- Seems these are somewhat randomly contextually relevant these days
When we can develop a Johnny 5. He was just too cool! And had a cool catch phrase... "Johnny 5 is alive!" Unfotunately he wasn't intelligent enough to understand pig latin.
I believe this will be the quintessential question of our era, which will bring about a new synergy of science and religion, allowing market forces to institute ajax open source policies for government around a ruby development environment, allowing you to change your dog's into your cash cows, thereby decreasing your countries purchasing price parity against the people of Uganda's.
Yeah... I didn't actually have anything else to say besides what was in the subject. I just wanted to be cool.
Guys who can touch us in multiple places probably matter more than guys who can touch us in any one place.
Is Balmer running a brothel or Microsoft? I think he has gone a little bit off topic here. Although, I know where he's coming from. I love it when my girlfriend touches me in multiple places too.
Disclaimer: Please note that since I am an avid slashdot reader, I do not actually have a girlfriend besides in WoW.
Well lets see, gaming does teach you...
Teamwork... especially since the more popular ones are multi-player
Leadership... see above comment
Commitment... it is very hard to get to the level of professional gamers
Get you laid... did you actually read TFA?
Basically you need to understand that America != Korea
In fact Professional Gaming is identical to our Western Gaming in that it becomes more about reflex and stamina, the only other differences are in culture however if you compare the Korean Pro Gaming culture to the American Athletic Gaming culture, you'll probably find that they are extremely similar, especially if you had RTFA!
the fact is that varsity collegiate athletes make more money than non-athletes after they graduate college
That is an excellent arbitrary non-factual fact you have there... proof?
it's the only way to achieve grace
Oh well, I guess I'll just have to live without grace. What ever shall I do?
No offence, but I find the worst people to teach math to people studying a subject other than pure math, are math's teachers. When I had a math's problem in Uni or High School, if I went to the math's lecturers I'd have no idea in no time flat, and the problem with the culture in some of those subjects, it isn't cool to not know the answers, so I'd either be forced to figure it out my self, or I'd go to the people who were good at teaching me math's, the Physics and CS lecturers.
In High School my Physics teacher was continually picking up the slack that my math's teacher wasn't, I think it was also due to him being a very visual teacher and I was a very good visual learner, and he was also good at programming, he wrote the schools timetable/student management software.
Now that we have a robotic musician, we're ever more closer to a Robot Devil and then one step away from Robot Hell. Then we're going to have fidling contests and sing excellent songs. I can picture it now... *wanders off singing and dancing*
Fencing diamonds, fixing cock fights
Publishing indecent magazines,
You'll pay for every crime,
Knee deep in electric slime,
You'll suffer til the end of time,
Enduring tortures most of which rhyme,
Trapped forever here in robot hell!
If Microsoft wants to lock it's product from other vendors, it should be allowed to do so. If it is bad to lock out these vendors, that will be reflected in it's market share, sales, etc.
If it is bad and they are still locking out these vendors and it's market share, sales, etc. aren't dropping then it can't be that bad, the overall goodness of the product is greater than the overall badness of the product.
So, leave this to the economists, or more specifically the Free Market Economists (The other ones suck).
Who has the MBTI type which more closely represents the needs and wants of this position?
If you've studied programming and have a deep interest in economics/business then you might be better for this position. A lot of programmers go this way. They get into programming initially, until they learn they want more. You seem reasonably entrepreneurial, so you might fit this build. Generally these people have an MBTI type of ENTJ. Where is real programmers and science types are usually INTJ. But this doesn't mean you can't be out of the norm and not work well.
Overall for a business you need to know more about business/economics (and maybe some politics for fun?), not finance, not technology. Whom ever has the best skill set and want for this, should have the position.
If you have left it to asking for people on/. for whether or not, perhaps you don't want it that much, or don't have the forcefulness for that kind of position.
Although remember what happened with Paul Allen and always stay firm with what's in your best needs! After all that's what business is, interacting entities all striving for what's best for them, and coming to a medium.
Excellent! This is the best news I could get. After finishing my degree I jumped straight into doing my MBA whilst I work. Hopefully this will work out well.
Am I to assume stealing a packet of chewing gum carries a sentence of 2 years jail time? That's fucking ridiculous. This is the worst law to date. If it costs too much or is too heavily regulated, it will create a nice black market, no matter what.
These politicians should stop fighting the average man, and instead create laws based on the average man.
I knew the Logitech MX1000 was good, and the wireless is essential for me. But they don't package it with a keyboard like the MX Duo. Whats a good wireless keyboard? That could go with the MX1000, that I want to get. Any ideas?
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I work for a medium sized non-technological global company in an Analyst Programmer/Systems Analyst position. At present we're re-doing the websites which should be completely re-written. Unfortunately we are sticking with this "polish the turd hard enough and you've got gold" philosophy.
P aula's Birllant Bean) idea's like an entirely Flash Website with movies and graphics (Our primary task is a online store).
The problem is because IT development is seen as needless expense (besides the fact that it holds the company together). We are the "plumbers" of the company, just fixing the "internets tubes" and computers which "dump stuff on to them, like a truck".
Because of this devalued position within the company, a lot of usual IT jobs (such as website design) is handled by Marketing, who have no idea about website development and give us these seemingly impossible pages to create, which aren't intuitive, and come up with "brillant" (see http://thedailywtf.com/forums/40043/ShowPost.aspx
Then I read about Google, getting their programmers to spend 20% of their time creating something they want, and looking for innovative people. Perhaps this is only in companies which are technology based companies, or at least understand what technology can do and how best to use it.
All righty then... time to clam down...
I for one welcome our new Marketing overlord's.
Actually you're wrong. It goes...
Whenever life get you down, Mrs. Brown,
And things seem hard or tough.
And people are stupid, obnoxious or daft,
And you feel that you've had quite enu-hu-hu-huuuuff!
Just - re-member that you're standing on a planet that's evolving
and revolving at 900 miles an hour,
It's orbiting at 19 miles a second, so it's reckoned,
the sun that is the source of all our power.
The Sun and you and me, and all the stars that we can see,
are moving at a million miles a day,
In the outer spiral arm, at 40,000 miles an hour,
of the Galaxy we call the Milky Way.
Our Galaxy itself contains 100 billion stars,
it's 100,000 light-years side-to-side,
It bulges in the middle, 16,000 light-years thick,
but out by us it's just 3000 light-years wide.
We're 30,000 light-years from galactic central point,
we go round every 200 million years,
And our galaxy is only one of millions of billions
in this amazing and expanding universe.
The universe itself keeps on expanding and expanding,
in all of the directions it can whizz,
As fast as it can go, at the speed of light you know,
twelve million miles a minute, and that's the fastest speed there is.
So remember, when you're feeling very small and insecure,
how amazingly unlikely is your birth,
And pray that there's intelligent life somewhere up in space,
because there's bugger all down here on Earth.
This parent has the BEST MOD EVER (INFORMATIVE)! So everyone on slashdot is lieing about their girlfriends, that's informative. UBER ROFLC0PTERz!!!1111oneoneoneoneleveneleveneleven
CAPTCHA: summoner -- Seems these are somewhat randomly contextually relevant these days
...how does this help me find pr0n?
When we can develop a Johnny 5. He was just too cool! And had a cool catch phrase... "Johnny 5 is alive!" Unfotunately he wasn't intelligent enough to understand pig latin.
I believe this will be the quintessential question of our era, which will bring about a new synergy of science and religion, allowing market forces to institute ajax open source policies for government around a ruby development environment, allowing you to change your dog's into your cash cows, thereby decreasing your countries purchasing price parity against the people of Uganda's.
Yeah... I didn't actually have anything else to say besides what was in the subject. I just wanted to be cool.
How was this moderated "Insightful" that's ridiculous! It's a Seinfeld quote, and besides that, it's still not insightful.
Is Balmer running a brothel or Microsoft? I think he has gone a little bit off topic here. Although, I know where he's coming from. I love it when my girlfriend touches me in multiple places too.
Disclaimer: Please note that since I am an avid slashdot reader, I do not actually have a girlfriend besides in WoW.
Teamwork... especially since the more popular ones are multi-player
Leadership... see above comment
Commitment... it is very hard to get to the level of professional gamers
Get you laid... did you actually read TFA?
Basically you need to understand that America != Korea
In fact Professional Gaming is identical to our Western Gaming in that it becomes more about reflex and stamina, the only other differences are in culture however if you compare the Korean Pro Gaming culture to the American Athletic Gaming culture, you'll probably find that they are extremely similar, especially if you had RTFA!
That is an excellent arbitrary non-factual fact you have there... proof?
Oh well, I guess I'll just have to live without grace. What ever shall I do?
No offence, but I find the worst people to teach math to people studying a subject other than pure math, are math's teachers. When I had a math's problem in Uni or High School, if I went to the math's lecturers I'd have no idea in no time flat, and the problem with the culture in some of those subjects, it isn't cool to not know the answers, so I'd either be forced to figure it out my self, or I'd go to the people who were good at teaching me math's, the Physics and CS lecturers.
In High School my Physics teacher was continually picking up the slack that my math's teacher wasn't, I think it was also due to him being a very visual teacher and I was a very good visual learner, and he was also good at programming, he wrote the schools timetable/student management software.
If Microsoft wants to lock it's product from other vendors, it should be allowed to do so. If it is bad to lock out these vendors, that will be reflected in it's market share, sales, etc.
If it is bad and they are still locking out these vendors and it's market share, sales, etc. aren't dropping then it can't be that bad, the overall goodness of the product is greater than the overall badness of the product.
So, leave this to the economists, or more specifically the Free Market Economists (The other ones suck).
These loud speakers will be cranking out "Pink Floyd - Another Brick In The Wall"? Sweet!
And here I was thinking it was a bad thing, I hope they also do "Wish You Were Here", and perhaps change it up with some Bowie!
I believe you're mistaking MATLAB for Matlock.
I'm hairy, does this mean I can join their gang? I'm not much with lawyering, but I can swing a sack of door knobs! Oh, I can program to.
He gave up CEO to protect Microsoft when there were talks of Microsoft being split up due to it's impending (at the time) monopoly status.
Who has the MBTI type which more closely represents the needs and wants of this position?
/. for whether or not, perhaps you don't want it that much, or don't have the forcefulness for that kind of position.
If you've studied programming and have a deep interest in economics/business then you might be better for this position. A lot of programmers go this way. They get into programming initially, until they learn they want more. You seem reasonably entrepreneurial, so you might fit this build. Generally these people have an MBTI type of ENTJ. Where is real programmers and science types are usually INTJ. But this doesn't mean you can't be out of the norm and not work well.
Do the Jung Typology Test and find out more about yourself at Portrait of an ENTJ and here The Portrait of the FieldMarshal Rational
Overall for a business you need to know more about business/economics (and maybe some politics for fun?), not finance, not technology. Whom ever has the best skill set and want for this, should have the position.
If you have left it to asking for people on
Although remember what happened with Paul Allen and always stay firm with what's in your best needs! After all that's what business is, interacting entities all striving for what's best for them, and coming to a medium.
Excellent! This is the best news I could get. After finishing my degree I jumped straight into doing my MBA whilst I work. Hopefully this will work out well.
Am I to assume stealing a packet of chewing gum carries a sentence of 2 years jail time? That's fucking ridiculous. This is the worst law to date. If it costs too much or is too heavily regulated, it will create a nice black market, no matter what.
These politicians should stop fighting the average man, and instead create laws based on the average man.
Mess with the best, die like the rest.
I knew the Logitech MX1000 was good, and the wireless is essential for me. But they don't package it with a keyboard like the MX Duo. Whats a good wireless keyboard? That could go with the MX1000, that I want to get. Any ideas?