Comment SOP (Score 1) 276
Too many people, and most managers, feel that once they take a piss in projects they like the smell better.
Too many people, and most managers, feel that once they take a piss in projects they like the smell better.
There are no words. So I won't be posting any for awhile.
1) Does the interviewee have a good chance to win in a game of 'Buzzword Bingo'?
2) Describe your management style?
2a) Do you manage upwards or downwards?
3) Describe what you did when 'shit hit the fan in a previous position.
4) Describe what you did when your team excelled in a situation.
5) Describe the hardest thing you have ever had to do as a manager.
Crack the code to open President Skroob's luggage?
"If I Did It"
I've been in IT for 33+ years, mostly as a zOS Systems Programmer. A little assembler language programming now and then though. There are several programmers in my age bracket still programming full time though, but they've had to reinvent themselves several times over the years.
So when Government bans something I'm for, it's bad and must be stopped. But when Government bans something I'm against they're doing their job.
Now I understand, you're a hypocrite.
Francis Lewis HS, a Queens (NYC) high school had a computer lab, in my sophomore year, 1972, we used what were Basically glorified calculators with a few hundred bytes of memory available for programs. The computer used marked sense cards to read in the program.
The next year we were given access to our RJE station which connected to a S/370 at CCNY. Fortran and PL/1 were used with punch cards. My final year, 1974-1975 we programed on a PDP-8E, fortran and assembler.
In short, yes. IBM's virtualization environment, zVM has over 40 years of production use, with enhancements being added all the time. A zEC12 processor with 3TB of memory and 32 engines can efficiently manage several thousand zLinux virtual guests without breaking a sweat.
I'm a mainframe professional, and basically they never fail. They're over engineered, no cheap off the shelf parts for them, because if you're a Fortune 500 company running your most profitable computing infrastructure on mainframes, where downtime measured in seconds can result in billions of dollars in losses or fines, the money spent is well worth it.
If they're smart enough not to enable network connectivity to the scanning computers.
Nothing to see here, move along.
What shape best describes the Earth?
Obama: Oblate spheroid
Romney: Flat
As an IT professional with 33 years experience you're 100% right. Another fine example of management by magazine, or in this case web site.
And the world cares, why?
Would the Federalist Papers ever seen the light of day if Alexander Hamilton, James Madison, and John Jay were required to identify themselves instead of using the pseudonym "Publius"?
Anonymous speech, whether in print or electrons is vital to our freedoms.
Life is a healthy respect for mother nature laced with greed.