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Comment: Re:Would anyone care if it crashed? (Score 1) 124

Fill the plane with Engineers, Computer Scientists, Scientists, Technicians, and the other people who actually make the world work, and you might have something. The only problem is that these people are actually too busy making a living rather than leeching off their employees and customers.

The bigger problem is that shortly before landing, the then-tweaked plane would enter a trans-dimensional rift in search of research funds, and then get caught in an infinite time loop due to an array indexing error.

Comment: Several things (Score 4, Insightful) 329

by DoofusOfDeath (#43959833) Attached to: Ask Slashdot: How Do You Prove an IT Manager Is Incompetent?

#1 - Figure out what convinced you that the head of IT is the problem. If you're thoroughly convinced, present those reasons to the business. If you have any reservations about your conclusion, then ask yourself if you really should be as convinced as you are about your conclusion.

#2 - Are you an employee, or a consultant brought in to investigate? Your fear of reprisal might temper how much you say.

#3 - Consider presenting some solutions at the same time you present your analysis. It might soften the blow. It also might leave a better taste in peoples' mouths if you find some nice things to say about the head/department as well.

Comment: Re:$130k a year?! (Score 5, Insightful) 144

by DoofusOfDeath (#43845113) Attached to: A Commencement Speech For 2013 CS Majors

See if you don't care about salary when you have a spouse and four kids to feed. And medical bills. And a mortgage. I'd say the majority of us in the software development and/or computer science would work different jobs if we didn't have these practical considerations. O'Reilly's speech was probably directed at the majority of people like us/you, not the rare few who can afford to go decades without balancing a desire for interesting work with a need to provide for one's family.

Also, you may find that unchallenging implies uninteresting. So, unless you want to be bored, you probably can't avoid challenge.

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