Common control questions are things like "Have you ever cheated on a test?" and "Have you ever underpaid your taxes?". These are things that nearly everyone has done.
Hahahah, nice! I have never found it necessary to cheat on any test, preparation was always a better investment. And where I live, you cannot underpay your taxes. Sounds like they would have some trouble "calibrating" on me.
O.k. then. Actual management and business skills are beneficial to have. For example, I do mostly technical work, but I run frequently into situations where I have to decide whether something is cost-effective or not and that universally has business-aspects. Or I have to take over and drag meetings along because nobody else does and I am the external person that can do this without stepping on people's toes (this has to be done always politely, of course). Or I have to suggest management things to managers, because they seem lost. There are countless other things.
Engineering and scientific skills are critical for me, but some understanding of management and business provides huge benefits.
I just do not think that the usual MBA programs give you management and business skills that are worthwhile to have and often teach destructive ones.
And there you are wrong about me, on several counts. But you had to fit my statement somehow into your simplified world-view...
I have met quite a few good managers. None of them went the MBA-route. In fact, most of the MBA-managers I know are bean-counters that do not know how to do their job and what it actually entails. Still does not make me "hate" them, that is just a transparent attempt by you to slander me.
Most people are not good teachers. Those that are have learned how to be over a long time and brought specific talent to the table in the first place. There is no reason to believe software engineers can do any better. But hey, it is Microsoft. Doing things badly is what they excel at.
Well, as most people are idiots (and that unfortunately includes kids), MBAs would be perfect. The MBA is the reliable mark of anybody that cannot understand things but is still willing to attribute numbers and "manage" them. There is really no more reliable way to identify an idiot with a business-leaning.
Full agree on Firefox. I mean, how stupid can you be? This must be at the very top of the stupidity ever displayed by a popular FOSS project. Well, there is Gnome, of course.
As Jobs never had any engineering skills and never built any electronics, but was into marketing and design, the comparison may not be so far off. Still stupid.
Strong typing can only prevent a small minority of dumb mistakes. Really, strong typing was seen as a "silver bullet" 10-20 years ago, but that time is past. And back then people should have known better, as Brooks is still right that there is "No Silver Bullet".
I would actually not blame you, because most coders out there are abysmally bad. Bringing them up to "fair" is quite an accomplishment. They will still be nowhere near "exceptional".
Simple: You see it far to rarely to make the effort worthwhile. With Windows, it was frequently enough before Win7 to deserve special consideration. In fact, the only kernel panics I have had on Linux in the last 10 years where when I told the kernel a wrong amount of memory (instead of letting it detect it) and a wrong root device.
Short term, you are certainly right. If you still want to have a business in 5 or 10 years and hiring the cheapest, dumbest IT staff available does not cut it, not so much.
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And thereby this piece of junk-science decreases the quality of the people working for them. Fits. May actually be beneficial in the long run.
Common control questions are things like "Have you ever cheated on a test?" and "Have you ever underpaid your taxes?". These are things that nearly everyone has done.
Hahahah, nice! I have never found it necessary to cheat on any test, preparation was always a better investment. And where I live, you cannot underpay your taxes. Sounds like they would have some trouble "calibrating" on me.
You know that they will not be coming for you, right?
In other words, its primary use is to intimidate people.
The FBI does not believe in pesky Science. It does believe in the Law! (... well, it does believe the law applies to others, but not itself....)
O.k. then. Actual management and business skills are beneficial to have. For example, I do mostly technical work, but I run frequently into situations where I have to decide whether something is cost-effective or not and that universally has business-aspects. Or I have to take over and drag meetings along because nobody else does and I am the external person that can do this without stepping on people's toes (this has to be done always politely, of course). Or I have to suggest management things to managers, because they seem lost. There are countless other things.
Engineering and scientific skills are critical for me, but some understanding of management and business provides huge benefits.
I just do not think that the usual MBA programs give you management and business skills that are worthwhile to have and often teach destructive ones.
All demented fanatics ignore valid criticism.
And there you are wrong about me, on several counts. But you had to fit my statement somehow into your simplified world-view...
I have met quite a few good managers. None of them went the MBA-route. In fact, most of the MBA-managers I know are bean-counters that do not know how to do their job and what it actually entails. Still does not make me "hate" them, that is just a transparent attempt by you to slander me.
Most people are not good teachers. Those that are have learned how to be over a long time and brought specific talent to the table in the first place. There is no reason to believe software engineers can do any better. But hey, it is Microsoft. Doing things badly is what they excel at.
Well, as most people are idiots (and that unfortunately includes kids), MBAs would be perfect. The MBA is the reliable mark of anybody that cannot understand things but is still willing to attribute numbers and "manage" them. There is really no more reliable way to identify an idiot with a business-leaning.
Rust cannot fix stupidity. It can add to it though, and from what I have seen of it, it does.
Incompetence. The reason is that too many coders have big egos and small skills.
Full agree on Firefox. I mean, how stupid can you be? This must be at the very top of the stupidity ever displayed by a popular FOSS project. Well, there is Gnome, of course.
Alternatively, said teacher just knew how utterly stupid the other teachers are...
Sorry, but a clock in a box is a clock and not a "fake bomb" unless you are utterly clueless and demented. Your statement has no merit.
As Jobs never had any engineering skills and never built any electronics, but was into marketing and design, the comparison may not be so far off. Still stupid.
Strong typing can only prevent a small minority of dumb mistakes. Really, strong typing was seen as a "silver bullet" 10-20 years ago, but that time is past. And back then people should have known better, as Brooks is still right that there is "No Silver Bullet".
Actually, the joke is not a joke, but with current thinking by "managers" the plain, sad truth.
Maybe your standards are just too low...
I would actually not blame you, because most coders out there are abysmally bad. Bringing them up to "fair" is quite an accomplishment. They will still be nowhere near "exceptional".
Simple: You see it far to rarely to make the effort worthwhile. With Windows, it was frequently enough before Win7 to deserve special consideration. In fact, the only kernel panics I have had on Linux in the last 10 years where when I told the kernel a wrong amount of memory (instead of letting it detect it) and a wrong root device.
Now that would be pretty fascinating: MS going for quality instead of hype.
Short term, you are certainly right. If you still want to have a business in 5 or 10 years and hiring the cheapest, dumbest IT staff available does not cut it, not so much.
Little quote currently at the bottom of the Slashdot page: "Tell the truth and run."
Hehehehe, nice!
I agree. What makes Linux nice is the ton of supported hardware. For an excellent Network Stack, go FreeBSD. Linux is just acceptable in that field.
Indeed. They used to run microsoft.com on Apache/FreeBSD. Now they (fake?) it running on IIS.