Personally, I want the resolution increase so that getting a monitor with that resolution becomes affordable. 1920x1080 is great for TV as TV, but I want more from a monitor, and if the higher resolution TVs catch on it won't be so hard to find a reasonable cost higher resolution monitor.
I find that taking very sparse notes, or none, depending on the subject, I will get more out of a lecture. As long as there is a good textbook or other reference I can use it to clarify confusions later. I find generally that when writing or typing, the info isn't being stored in my brain as well.
Of course, I often also find it helpful to have a book on an unrelated subject and to split my attention back and forth to it and the lecture to control my short attention span, so I'm weird.
One reason I had so many patents relatively early in my career is I wound up doing hardware design in a much different area than I had planned on in school. I did not know the normal way to do things. So I figured out ways to do things. Sometimes I wound up doing stuff normally but it took longer, this was OK as a bit of a learning curve was expected (they hired me knowing I didn't know the area yet). Sometimes I did things a bit less efficiently than ideal, though this was usually fixed in design reviews. But sometimes I came up with something novel, and after checking with more experienced folks to make sure it was novel, patented it.
A decade later, I know how a way to do pretty much everything I need to do, and get a lot less patents. But I finish my designs a lot faster:).
You need people who don't know that something isn't possible to advance the state of the art, but you also need people who know the lessons of the past to get things done quickly.
Child labor- depending on some variables, children are sometimes better off doing child labor than starving. Slave labor I would be willing to boycott, voluntary labor (including where the parent is making the call instead of the child doing the work) is a much more gray area for me, and I'd want a better understanding of a given situation than that children were involved in the manufacture of a product to make a call there.
Diamonds- personally, I believe that synthetic are just as good as dug-from-the-ground, so stating that I am boycotting diamonds would be rather misleading.
Incidentally, I find it more offensive to demonize people (i.e. calling them homophobic because they disagree with you on whether the English language needs to be changed by government fiat), than anything I've seen Card say in the snippets I've seen people quote from him on the subject.
Well, I'm going to vote with my dollars that I think voting against this movie is not a net good. I am capable of enjoying products made by people that I disagree with, and don't want to discourage them from producing more. I felt the same way about Armikrog and contributed significantly more to the kickstarter than I would have if people hadn't tried to make creating a good game a political issue.
With Chick-Fil-A, enough people felt the same way that their profits increased rather than decreased from the boycott, and they managed that without my involvement one way or the other (my use of Chick-Fil-A did not increase or decrease).
I will go to the theatre and watch this one. I don't want to see good books not be turned into movies because someone disagrees with the politics of someone involved in the project. Art should be judged on its merits. If the movie is good, I will encourage friends to go see it as well. If it turns out to suck, well then I won't mind so much if it does poorly at the box office.
The point of the Kindle line is to make people buy stuff from Amazon. Any sale to someone who won't do that that they avoid is not a "hurt", as they are likely still selling at a loss. Razor & blades model.
Of course the guy doesn't know marketing, that's why he is asking about it.
But to not mention the product in the question is not a problem- if he had, everyone and their brother would be complaining about slashvertising and critiquing the product. That's not what he's looking for. He chose to include only the relevant information- it's aimed at the mass-market and is a software product, and he wants to know about how to get marketing expertise involved without screwing up.
Unfortunately, I haven't been in his position so I can't give much help. I work with some great technical marketing people, but AFAIK they are all happy and I'd prefer to keep working with them. I can say that for each person out there who can do good technical marketing, there seem to be many that suck at it, and many more who think that they are in sales. Until you have a start at a good marketing group it will be difficult to get started, because interviewing people out of your area of expertise is very difficult.
Your post is an excellent example of how a bad culture encourages bad decisions by developers. The company culture rewards the just mash out the code with known bugs for QC to find approach, then sliding the fix in when someone else "catches" it. A better culture would be to enter the bug in tracking yourself if the code is needed immediately and you don't have time to fix it before a drop dead deadline.
Indeed, their problem is that enough people have decided that they did get one to work well enough, and only buy a new OS when they buy a new computer, that they are concerned about future OS sales. Computers are not getting 'better' as quickly as in the past to the view of the average user, and so there is less reason to buy a new one every few years. The ego upgrades are going for phones instead. To combat these factors, a strategy of convincing people somehow that upgrading their OS is something they do regularly for a nominal fee is indeed probably a good way to keep sucking blood from the users.
> They were thinking they would rather work with a new company who has a product consumers want to buy instead of going down with a sinking ship that would bleed them dry on the way down.
Then why not quit and go work for another company?
They want unemployment benefits until they find a job they like.
Too bad there isn't a "poster can't read" mod option.
The summary said "corporate massage day" not "corporate message day".
As someone who works at a place where they do have someone come in to do massage once a month, I think this is a great perk.
That said, if the place is small enough that folks will feel their individual contributions make a difference for the company then options are a good long term incentive.
Identifying slackers properly only works if that is what actually happens. But most layoffs seem to do things in the wrong order- you have to start with thinning management layers down which is very very hard to do right, since the very people you need to get rid of are usually the ones with the skills to do office politics well without contributing to company success. There are two reasons to start with management- first, it's much better for employee morale. Secondly, the folks you need to get rid of in management will tend to keep the wrong employees.
Everyone screws up sometimes. I'd say that if you feel you DON'T ever have to apologize for anything that's a lot worse. That sort of view is part of why we so often get only psychotics who never admit to doing anything wrong in positions of power. The decent folks admit it when they screw up, try to fix it, are attacked for having displayed a weakness, and so tend not to prosper.
Of course, to apologize is only part of making things right when you screw up. But it is an important first step.
It seems to me that being faster than necessary on one piece of hardware means that, all else equal, it will be noticably better on some slower piece of hardware.
As long as the benchmark is not done with minimum system that is capable of running the game.
Most don't fit into the easy listening category, and are worth checking out as well done christian music in their various styles:
Daniel Amos/DA, The Lost Dogs, The Choir, The 77s/Seventy-Sevens, Rez/Ressurection Band, Glass Harp, early Sixpence None The Richer
Because they did a good job artistically (IMHO) they didn't achieve the # mentions of Jesus per song quota to get as much radio play as many of artists that wound up defining the genre for most people.
Note that in DA's case, they change musical styles (well) with the times, so pick an album from a time period you are happy with.
My various degrees were EE and Computer Engineering, but I have a CS minor. My first semester undergrad I took the CS Assemblers course before I could even take the EE courses (pre-reqs), since it looked interesting and was part of the minor.
The course was excellent. The material was good. The professor was good. The TA was (IMHO) even better than the professor. The projects were cumulative and built on other in such a way that if you wrote crappy code that was hard to re-use you'd experience why that was bad during the next project.
Most of the students were CS 3rd years. There were a few other engineering students.
A lot of people failed the class. I don't believe any were the few engineering students. Some of us blew the curve.
That was the last semester the CS department let non-CS majors take the class, and the class was removed from the minor requirements and replaced with something much easier.
This is just one data point. But if other EEs experienced similar things when taking classes on the EE/CS boundary, I can see why they would get such an attitude toward CS.
I've also had experiences of helping engineers having trouble with CS- there are plenty of people on each side who have trouble thinking like the other side. I've found being able to do both (and to borrow techniques from one side to improve designs on the other) very helpful and would prefer if there were more useful communication between the camps. But often enough the "solution" taken is like that CS department, where a wall is built instead.
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Personally, I want the resolution increase so that getting a monitor with that resolution becomes affordable. 1920x1080 is great for TV as TV, but I want more from a monitor, and if the higher resolution TVs catch on it won't be so hard to find a reasonable cost higher resolution monitor.
I find that taking very sparse notes, or none, depending on the subject, I will get more out of a lecture. As long as there is a good textbook or other reference I can use it to clarify confusions later. I find generally that when writing or typing, the info isn't being stored in my brain as well.
Of course, I often also find it helpful to have a book on an unrelated subject and to split my attention back and forth to it and the lecture to control my short attention span, so I'm weird.
One reason I had so many patents relatively early in my career is I wound up doing hardware design in a much different area than I had planned on in school. I did not know the normal way to do things. So I figured out ways to do things.
Sometimes I wound up doing stuff normally but it took longer, this was OK as a bit of a learning curve was expected (they hired me knowing I didn't know the area yet).
Sometimes I did things a bit less efficiently than ideal, though this was usually fixed in design reviews.
But sometimes I came up with something novel, and after checking with more experienced folks to make sure it was novel, patented it.
A decade later, I know how a way to do pretty much everything I need to do, and get a lot less patents. But I finish my designs a lot faster:).
You need people who don't know that something isn't possible to advance the state of the art, but you also need people who know the lessons of the past to get things done quickly.
Child labor- depending on some variables, children are sometimes better off doing child labor than starving. Slave labor I would be willing to boycott, voluntary labor (including where the parent is making the call instead of the child doing the work) is a much more gray area for me, and I'd want a better understanding of a given situation than that children were involved in the manufacture of a product to make a call there.
Diamonds- personally, I believe that synthetic are just as good as dug-from-the-ground, so stating that I am boycotting diamonds would be rather misleading.
Incidentally, I find it more offensive to demonize people (i.e. calling them homophobic because they disagree with you on whether the English language needs to be changed by government fiat), than anything I've seen Card say in the snippets I've seen people quote from him on the subject.
Well, I'm going to vote with my dollars that I think voting against this movie is not a net good. I am capable of enjoying products made by people that I disagree with, and don't want to discourage them from producing more. I felt the same way about Armikrog and contributed significantly more to the kickstarter than I would have if people hadn't tried to make creating a good game a political issue.
With Chick-Fil-A, enough people felt the same way that their profits increased rather than decreased from the boycott, and they managed that without my involvement one way or the other (my use of Chick-Fil-A did not increase or decrease).
I will go to the theatre and watch this one. I don't want to see good books not be turned into movies because someone disagrees with the politics of someone involved in the project. Art should be judged on its merits. If the movie is good, I will encourage friends to go see it as well. If it turns out to suck, well then I won't mind so much if it does poorly at the box office.
The point of the Kindle line is to make people buy stuff from Amazon. Any sale to someone who won't do that that they avoid is not a "hurt", as they are likely still selling at a loss. Razor & blades model.
I wish I had some mod points; I laughed so hard I almost spilled my drink. Someone mod this one Funny.
Is it possible the OP is already the junior developer hired for this purpose? :)
Of course the guy doesn't know marketing, that's why he is asking about it.
But to not mention the product in the question is not a problem- if he had, everyone and their brother would be complaining about slashvertising and critiquing the product. That's not what he's looking for. He chose to include only the relevant information- it's aimed at the mass-market and is a software product, and he wants to know about how to get marketing expertise involved without screwing up.
Unfortunately, I haven't been in his position so I can't give much help. I work with some great technical marketing people, but AFAIK they are all happy and I'd prefer to keep working with them. I can say that for each person out there who can do good technical marketing, there seem to be many that suck at it, and many more who think that they are in sales. Until you have a start at a good marketing group it will be difficult to get started, because interviewing people out of your area of expertise is very difficult.
Your post is an excellent example of how a bad culture encourages bad decisions by developers. The company culture rewards the just mash out the code with known bugs for QC to find approach, then sliding the fix in when someone else "catches" it. A better culture would be to enter the bug in tracking yourself if the code is needed immediately and you don't have time to fix it before a drop dead deadline.
Indeed, their problem is that enough people have decided that they did get one to work well enough, and only buy a new OS when they buy a new computer, that they are concerned about future OS sales. Computers are not getting 'better' as quickly as in the past to the view of the average user, and so there is less reason to buy a new one every few years. The ego upgrades are going for phones instead. To combat these factors, a strategy of convincing people somehow that upgrading their OS is something they do regularly for a nominal fee is indeed probably a good way to keep sucking blood from the users.
>> I wonder what these idiots were thinking.
> They were thinking they would rather work with a new company who has a product consumers want to buy instead of going down with a sinking ship that would bleed them dry on the way down.
Then why not quit and go work for another company?
They want unemployment benefits until they find a job they like.
The programs are short, but can instill some much-needed paranoia about how things can go wrong interacting with even a simple environment:).
"SHARON PROST, Circuit Judge
SHARON PROST was appointed by President George W. Bush in 2001."
http://www.cafc.uscourts.gov/judges/sharon-prost-circuit-judge.html
"KIMBERLY A. MOORE, Circuit Judge
KIMBERLY A. MOORE was appointed by President George W. Bush in 2006."
http://www.cafc.uscourts.gov/judges/kimberly-a-moore-circuit-judge.html
"JIMMIE V. REYNA, Circuit Judge
Jimmie V. Reyna was appointed to the United States Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit by President Barack Obama in 2011."
http://www.cafc.uscourts.gov/judges/jimmie-v-reyna-circuit-judge.html
Too bad there isn't a "poster can't read" mod option.
The summary said "corporate massage day" not "corporate message day".
As someone who works at a place where they do have someone come in to do massage once a month, I think this is a great perk.
That said, if the place is small enough that folks will feel their individual contributions make a difference for the company then options are a good long term incentive.
Identifying slackers properly only works if that is what actually happens. But most layoffs seem to do things in the wrong order- you have to start with thinning management layers down which is very very hard to do right, since the very people you need to get rid of are usually the ones with the skills to do office politics well without contributing to company success. There are two reasons to start with management- first, it's much better for employee morale. Secondly, the folks you need to get rid of in management will tend to keep the wrong employees.
Everyone screws up sometimes. I'd say that if you feel you DON'T ever have to apologize for anything that's a lot worse. That sort of view is part of why we so often get only psychotics who never admit to doing anything wrong in positions of power. The decent folks admit it when they screw up, try to fix it, are attacked for having displayed a weakness, and so tend not to prosper.
Of course, to apologize is only part of making things right when you screw up. But it is an important first step.
This could also be the magic app that leads to the govt to start trying to control access to replicators.
There's a reason that I don't use the Start menu to get things done, and it's not that I'm using some other part of Windows.
Austin has a great local economy, plenty of tech, a decent state university, and plenty of things to do.
It seems to me that being faster than necessary on one piece of hardware means that, all else equal, it will be noticably better on some slower piece of hardware.
As long as the benchmark is not done with minimum system that is capable of running the game.
Some highlights I caught this year:
77s & The Violet Burning had great sets
Steve Taylor screening Blue Like Jazz and doing a Q&A.
The Choir doing all of Chase The Kangaroo for the very last show
I'm going to miss that place.
Most don't fit into the easy listening category, and are worth checking out as well done christian music in their various styles:
Daniel Amos/DA, The Lost Dogs, The Choir, The 77s/Seventy-Sevens, Rez/Ressurection Band, Glass Harp, early Sixpence None The Richer
Because they did a good job artistically (IMHO) they didn't achieve the # mentions of Jesus per song quota to get as much radio play as many of artists that wound up defining the genre for most people.
Note that in DA's case, they change musical styles (well) with the times, so pick an album from a time period you are happy with.
My various degrees were EE and Computer Engineering, but I have a CS minor. My first semester undergrad I took the CS Assemblers course before I could even take the EE courses (pre-reqs), since it looked interesting and was part of the minor.
The course was excellent. The material was good. The professor was good. The TA was (IMHO) even better than the professor. The projects were cumulative and built on other in such a way that if you wrote crappy code that was hard to re-use you'd experience why that was bad during the next project.
Most of the students were CS 3rd years. There were a few other engineering students.
A lot of people failed the class. I don't believe any were the few engineering students. Some of us blew the curve.
That was the last semester the CS department let non-CS majors take the class, and the class was removed from the minor requirements and replaced with something much easier.
This is just one data point. But if other EEs experienced similar things when taking classes on the EE/CS boundary, I can see why they would get such an attitude toward CS.
I've also had experiences of helping engineers having trouble with CS- there are plenty of people on each side who have trouble thinking like the other side. I've found being able to do both (and to borrow techniques from one side to improve designs on the other) very helpful and would prefer if there were more useful communication between the camps. But often enough the "solution" taken is like that CS department, where a wall is built instead.
"what's the point in not conforming
if it changes you"
- Five Iron Frenzy, "Marty"
I was listening to that this morning, and I think it is apropos.
Listen to what you like. Don't listen to what you don't like. Support the folks you listen to.