Hate to break it too you, but job hunting _should_ be a 9-5 job. If your serious about getting a job, why should it not be.

People seem to assume that if they put 5 hours a week into job hunting (the average from studies) they will magically land a job, consider the result of a 30 hour week in contrast.

Scrum master = Project manager!!!!!

Scrum master is a fancy word for project manager! If people start realizing this you wouldnâ(TM)t have the shit that the poster mentioned going on. Who in their right mind would make their technical lead or an intern a project manager...

And this only works for small teams you will notice. Scale the team up for a big project, add some junior people and the whole pony show falls apart, fast.

Don't buy such a cheap ass power supply I think would be the standard reply.

For a long time now I only get quality ones, my logic is that if I'm spending a lot of money, why cheap out on that, and usually they are the quiet models which works for me.

Not running as Admin will stop most malware/viruses dead in there tracks.

Combined with using on-demand scanners for the odd suspicious file and you'll be fine.

The detection rate on popular AV software is shockingly bad from what I have seen when using Virustotal.

Or it could be that peoples expectations have changed.

Technology progresses, there is constant advancement. After Windows 95, there was 98, which was better, but 2000 was the real deal, stabled, rock solid as long as you didn't poke it too much. XP was initially a step back, heaps of issues, slower, but new features, over time the issues got resolved and turned it into a solid reliable OS. I've been using XP as non-admin for a long time now, and time between reinstalls is in years for me.

Vista on the other hand, is a step back, heaps of issues, but no significant features! That final part is the real issue, if Vista had shipped with all the features that were initially promised, the performance hit might have been justifiable.

Maybe think outside the box for a second and really look at what you are asking...

You plan to transfer _mission critical files_ over an unreliable link. Maybe you should provide a _mission critical link_? You know, a leased line with a backup? If you can't justify the cost, it probably isn't mission critical.

The right tools for the job people... Jez!

From my experience the experienced tech employees from developing economies are unwilling to implement, let alone master the 'boring' details of tech process and methodology' let alone their less experienced colleagues.

America doesn't hold a monopoly on incompetence you know.

All I have to say is 'Citation Needed' Mr Nayar.

I've been in the same situation, except I also LIVED underground... now THAT sucked, only managed that for 6 months.

Advice for anybody else stuck in that shit, I had a permanent feed from the local web cams, only thing that kept me sane.

Try 'open plan' offices (a bunch of desks shoved together) for the last 3 years, and no place to go to take cellphone calls (outside was not an option, very noisy main road). That truly sucks...

Oddly one one has raised the most simple of issues at the heart of all software development, the reality that the majority of software development is with the resolution of a wicked problem (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wicked_problem, problem where you can only get the input parameters by solving the problem first), this is in stark contrast of other engineering disciplines, with System Engineering being the only one that comes at all close.

When you look at the various engineering disciplines, they problems they are trying to solve may be complex and difficulty, but fundamentally the input parameters and expected output are known. Not to be trite but there are only so many ways to build a bridge.