It is called capitalism.

This summer a team of 2 greeks, 1 swiss and 1 spanish (all devs) was having an afternoon swim in the sea after a long day hacking some code in a close mountain.

http://pic.twitter.com/I7mLKZXf

We thought that if we could bring more people, that would be a nice income for the country: sell Greece's weather not for tourism but for remote workers.

Renting a 2 floors flat is 500-600 euro. Internet around 20-30 euro for ADSL or 25 euro for a 30GB 4G contract. Today's lunch in a restaurant for 4, 35 euro. Of course there are some things a bit expensive: coffee in a trendy cafeteria 4 euro, or 1,5L of fresh milk 2,1 euro.

Still a nice place to stay.

You cannot get accurate information of today's problems for X, from people that today the don't work on X. You will get yesterday's problems on X or today's problems on Z. That's the basic rule of "asking the people that do the job about their job".

I understand is simply speculation. Also I can point companies that do not follow that rule and they do well. But that's the difference between just doing, and doing very well.

I'm saying that if the people having a problem are not asked for that problem, if the same people do not think on solutions... you are going to create two worlds: the world of people having a problem, and the world of people that believe they have a solution. Like politics in modern countries were politicians seem to live in a parallel world.

Again there are many countries like that, and it doesn't mean that they cannot be governed. But the quality of their job is very different from countries that allow people do their thinking and vote on that.

So you're asking the same people that created/allowed that problem to fix it. That is usually a problem by itself. It is good that a new CEO is there to give some light, and thinking again on that.... It seems natural that Yahoo did what it did.

I mean, you have a bunch of managers that cannot manage something, don't let them fix it. Just remove it, they won't fix it anyway. Yes, it seems the best option to take.

Also it's true that we didn't know exactly what happened and we're talking over some hints and news. I'm sure they had their reason. Just a pity they weren't able to fix those problems.

Let's explore some factual errors.

- Senior devs and dev managers do a different job than a dev. So what you're going to get instead of a reality check is a "my usage" or "what I'd like"
- Carefully considered, means that somehow someone did some thinking and pulled a metric from his ... :?
- Also are you asking the same managers that haven't detected the lack of productivity till now? Are you the European Union that believes that the same politicians that stole Greece money are going to fix the problem? +1 to this one.

After that, anything else seems quite irrational to me. Of course consistent with what they say (they can promise you the moon), and it doesn't require you to be an idiot. Analysing it in first place is a good start.

Many stupid things are public, and in mass media you'll find more stupid things and lies that you can imagine. That doesn't make any point, but using this as a base for a theory might be a good -1.

Agree :)

- Coder = Programmer
- Programmer: writes programs. Painters paint, fire burns and so on and so forth.
- Developer: a nice word to say programmer.
- Software Engineer: someone that applies engineering principles to software
- Software Architect: someone that is neither an engineer nor a programmer, but usually ends up as a programmer doing an horrendous job.

Of course a programmer writes code, but if you only do that, there is no engineering linked to that process.

As humans we usually agree on what a word means in order to be able to understand each other.

Are mechanical engineers "line painters"?: "Oh! you are 'all' day drawing lines in your screen" I know some 2 year degrees (if you can call that a degree) that focus only in understanding engineering specifications and drawing things in Autocad. You can call them programmers. They just draw/write lines/code.

But in the other hand, if the line of code is the result of something else you do in your work. As you said "involves engineering", then you're an engineer. Why hide it?

Usually programs are software, therefore Software Engineer.

It is not important if you got your knowledge in the university or by yourself or.... The point here is the work you, want to do, and how to name it.

Doesn't "engineering" means applied science?

In my university there were "Chemistry" and "Chemistry Engineering" degrees.

There are a lot of engineer titles and they're all "applied".

Unfortunately it is.

I'd recommend you a "not so old" song called "Good morning Greece" (Kalhmera Ellada). Where the author (in 2006) charges against politicians saying that they "put what is left in Switzerland".

It is something that everybody knows. But for some reason, even you reject it. Whenever there is a scandal in Greece, there is a Swiss account there. Stolen money? Bribes? Only offshore companies are not all Swiss.

Anyway, why would a "normal citizen" like "a politician" would open a bank account outside of the reach of the European union? There is no need.

The list also contains amounts, that weren't published to avoid "problems". That list was to be used, not to be published, but after almost 3 years with no use. There you have the list of names.

Nothing will happen. They will get their revenge from the journalist, will make his life hell. The IRS won't investigate anything: they didn't do it before, they won't do it now. Ant the country will continue its free fall.

"The summary is definitely a troll" - Love that strategy of repeating non-sense till people believe it. Keep repeating.

The Greek IRS has published other "name lists" and nobody has detained anyone in the government. It's a game used by the IRS to "make you pay", because "perhaps" your name wasn't in the names published but will be in the next batch.

Nothing happened, no detentions.

At the same time, there was a person guilty of tax evasion. He had to go to jail, but he was living in a high class hotel in Athens during "5 years" because the police couldn't locate him. Till a newspaper published the case. So 5 years to catch a convict living in a hotel in the center of Athens, 11 hours to detain someone for something legal. Or at least in the border of legal/illegal. (Think a bit about it)

And do not forget some politicians bragged of having that list and "not looking at the contents". No detentions there too.

Perhaps it sounds strange but... Would it be a good idea to give it back to the people that "worked" it? I mean, many engineers, assembly lines, etc, worked hard to make that money. It seems Apple was giving them back a small part of the earnings.

#6 Listen, think, and then speak. But be ready to do what you're told to do.

Beware.

People should do their job in order to make them look good. Do not lie just to make everyone happy.

And if you lead a team, you cannot ignore when someone is doing something wrong, saying something that is wrong, and making the same mistake again and again.

Yes, offer advice, but real world can be dirty. Get ready to get your hands dirty and make someone not look so good.

Also the lady understood that a flash "far away" was something unusual for that webcam. This means that our lady was an "addict" of that video feed and was able to understand in a blink what is usual and what is not usual.