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Comment I came at this a little differently (Score 1) 162

So, I started out my career with software. I've been getting paid to build things out of bricks made of C++, Erlang, Ruby, PHP and a few other languages since about 2003. Over the years, I've risen to a level where my day is spent managing people and direction for a large enterprise. I recently enrolled in an MBA program. What I've learned so far has been immediately, and immensely valuable.

If you've ever seen two people arguing about the same thing, because they both used words that meant something diffferent to each of them, that has been me increasingly less. Being able to speak the language of business, and more importantly understand said language and be able to translate that to your engineering brethren is damn near priceless.

Further, I've seen several comments speaking to how MBA programs teach shortsightedness and a ruthless focus on bad business concepts like money over people, etc. I might just be in a "good" program, but it couldn't be further from the truth for me. We've interwoven very human topics like bias and ethics into every class I've had so far, even things like accounting.

From my perception, acquiring an MBA is probably better as a mid-career assist than a valuable base. It would be very hard to remember everything taught and apply it meaningfully years later, having the knowledge atrophy in an entry position where you could care less about the strategic direction of the business or the budgets.

My vote it pro-MBA, but you have to know what you'll get from it.

Comment Some things not thought of... (Score 2) 453

Lets assume they establish a viable colony on Mars, which is so successful it outlives the parent company. Whose responsibility is it then? The Dutch government?
Will they have a virtual seat at the UN?
What about laws with clear legal language that specify the "earth". "globally", etc... will those laws apply to Mars?
If a martian worker wants to telework in the US, will they require a visa or some sort of space permit?

Comment What the OP (Score 1) 313

It's implied that they have userland software that for some reason won't work in 64 bit windows. The asker then goes on to suggest using 6 different OS's as well, as if their finicky software has no problem with linux or windows from XP to 8. Is the real question about PAE? I feel like we are missing something here.

Comment Re:Fascist bloodlust (Score 4, Insightful) 380

What other feedback mechanism is in place to prevent secrecy being used to just cover up rather than protect legitimately secret documents?

I'm of the opinion that if you give anyone the power to declare information secret if will be abused to some degree X. What can be done to keep X as small as possible while still protecting real secrets?

I don't think there is a simple answer. While Bradley Manning's alleged actions are illegal and there should be punishment, the secrecy system has no practical safeguards right now - so in general I have a hard time saying that those actions had an overall negative effect for my country.

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