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The clue in your description is that you are a software engineer in management. I would guess that most if not all the other managers are from non-technical backgrounds. Thus they …

Which room? Why do you ask?

Sadly that is a very common situation. Thus even more fitting to celebrate those who are still working, learning and enjoying their programming careers.

The only Power based supercomputers I can think of are all from IBM. Does any other vendor use them? Power CPUs tend to power either iSeries (latest iteration of AS/400 - System38 …

I have worked for companies that used both. Based on those experiences: Use Power RISC with AIX in established IBM user organisation that wanted to run Unix software so we ported e…

It's many years since I last saw or worked on a PDP-11. The only operational ones I know of are as embedded systems, that includes LSI-11 variants. That is, industrial and niche sc…

I'm struggling with your question, yet intrigued by the problem. When you are new in an organisation, it is very common to feel awkward in making smalltalk and being remote would m…

They should be paying you more, because they are saving on office space rental when you work remotely. So they are not only saving on salaries, but on rents as well. Cheeky bastard…

Yet another example of how clueless managements are. They are incapable of actually assessing value of the actual work performed. So they use proxy metrics like LoC, hours worked, …

Selling the vision is both an in-house as well as marketing aspect. When you have hundreds of people working on the product design and realisation, the CEO has to figure out how to…

I did some work with SWI-Prolog. It is useful when the problem can be effectively translated into Prolog's preferred form of terms and rules. But the solver mechanism only solves a…

Your questions are well answered by Paul Graham in http://www.paulgraham.com/avg.html . There are many Common Lisp and Scheme environments. Many have excellent JIT compilers. They …

United Nations has 193 member countries. Of those only a handful can lay claim to having one or more big open-source projects/libraries/languages. So the question does not relate s…

In financial capitals, actuaries are amongst the top earners on par with lawyers.

I know several very successful actuaries who also write a fair bit of advanced code. Insurance companies are always looking for quantitative improvements and it is far more expedie…

One of my friends got his PhD in math a couple of years ago. He has since been working for various merchant banks and investment managers as a consultant. I have come across severa…

Not exactly the answer you are looking, but in my view: Academic research is focused on extending / expanding the knowledge in a very specific and often narrow field. The papers ar…

What? and deprive the managers of being able to lord over their domain? They get the fits if they don't see hundreds bent over in servitude.

It's far more than a nickel difference. Any useful private office is about 100 sq ft. In an open office you can do with about 20 sq ft per person. So you cram the workers into bull…

My preference is to go to the pub to brainstorm over burgers and beer. I did work for a small biz where the owner would take us all out on Friday for that purpose. Most productive …

I find the worst interrupters are not co-workers but impatient, micromanaging managers. Yup, the Dilbertian PHB's -- there just are too many of them out in the wild.

I think the term "open plan office" is too generic. The example @jlengrand provides is the form of torture that drives people who need to think and concentrate to distraction. The …

Congratulations! Perhaps you could share with us, how you brought about being promoted on the basis that even yourself recognise you were not ready for it. Surely your certificatio…

The definition of "good developer" depends greatly on the context and environment. Based on my experiences in many different teams, I would suggest two critical attributes: 1. Stro…

That is the core difference between academia and business. Any engineer who sits back and stares out the window thinking is reprimanded or even fired by the managers for not workin…