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Interesting that they want to move into cloud & software products so aggressively. What large hardware companies have done similar moves successfully in the past? (honest question)
Notice the following "AMD says it maintains a start-up mentality even though it's a large company". This is becoming a trend now, hardly the only company touting this. My current company is doing the same. My old company approached me recently and told me are going to start working in start-up mode in California, and this is an old and rigid company. I'm holding Paul Graham, Joel Spolsky and others accountable for th…
This is such an annoying new trend to claim one's company is in "startup mode" when it is all just superficial or even straight out bullshit; it has become quite the trend in NYC now. One place I declined to work at claimed to be in startup mode yet their offices looked like those of a financial company (which they were not), everyone seriously dressed up, and the code base and infrastructure was pretty big and inher…
Notice the following "AMD says it maintains a start-up mentality even though it's a large company". This is becoming a trend now, hardly the only company touting this. My current company is doing the same. My old company approached me recently and told me are going to start working in start-up mode in California, and this is an old and rigid company. I'm holding Paul Graham, Joel Spolsky and others accountable for th…
This is such an annoying new trend to claim one's company is in "startup mode" when it is all just superficial or even straight out bullshit; it has become quite the trend in NYC now. One place I declined to work at claimed to be in startup mode yet their offices looked like those of a financial company (which they were not), everyone seriously dressed up, and the code base and infrastructure was pretty big and inher…
Interesting that they want to move into cloud & software products so aggressively. What large hardware companies have done similar moves successfully in the past? (honest question)
Notice the following "AMD says it maintains a start-up mentality even though it's a large company". This is becoming a trend now, hardly the only company touting this. My current company is doing the same. My old company approached me recently and told me are going to start working in start-up mode in California, and this is an old and rigid company. I'm holding Paul Graham, Joel Spolsky and others accountable for th…
Someone I knew interviewed a candidate and asked what he knows about Agile. He responded by telling a story of what happened in his previous workplace: "We have a 1 hour status meeting everyday, the management decided to apply Agile/Scrum. The easy way to do this is to change the name of that 1 hour status meeting everyday to become Scrum Meeting".
Notice the following "AMD says it maintains a start-up mentality even though it's a large company". This is becoming a trend now, hardly the only company touting this. My current company is doing the same. My old company approached me recently and told me are going to start working in start-up mode in California, and this is an old and rigid company. I'm holding Paul Graham, Joel Spolsky and others accountable for th…
Someone I knew interviewed a candidate and asked what he knows about Agile. He responded by telling a story of what happened in his previous workplace: "We have a 1 hour status meeting everyday, the management decided to apply Agile/Scrum. The easy way to do this is to change the name of that 1 hour status meeting everyday to become Scrum Meeting".
Notice the following "AMD says it maintains a start-up mentality even though it's a large company". This is becoming a trend now, hardly the only company touting this. My current company is doing the same. My old company approached me recently and told me are going to start working in start-up mode in California, and this is an old and rigid company. I'm holding Paul Graham, Joel Spolsky and others accountable for th…
Though, the companies established like AMD, Amazon and Netflix, for example, do require the insane hours (if not blatantly then tacitly).
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Check for Java, standups, JIRA, snacks, etc. But only free espresso -- I should forward your comment to my boss, so we get more drink options. :-) (A Python guy just started and makes predictable noises about rewriting thousands of pages of working code from a scripting language with very similar capabilities... That will probably happen simultaneously with free Coca Cola being introduced.)
that scripting language is Perl or PHP?
I've pointed the Python guy to Moose, "Perl Best Practices", etc. Didn't help. Sigh... It is sad when people don't stop the language wars garbage after turning 20. :-(
At least he didn't argue to replace the toilet paper with bills...
In my anecdotal experience, this seems to be a not totally unusual Python thing. (One True Way, etc.)
(And before someone starts arguing about that it might be motivated with a rewrite in some cases -- they guy is so new, he doesn't know the particulars for that area.)
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This is such an annoying new trend to claim one's company is in "startup mode" when it is all just superficial or even straight out bullshit; it has become quite the trend in NYC now. One place I declined to work at claimed to be in startup mode yet their offices looked like those of a financial company (which they were not), everyone seriously dressed up, and the code base and infrastructure was pretty big and inher…
What does jira have to do with it? It's just an issue tracker like any other.