Everything's Made Up and The Points Don't Matter - raganwald's posterous
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Everything's Made Up and The Points Don't Matter - raganwald's posterous
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Re: Everything's Made Up and The Points Don't Matter - raganwald's posterous
#2I feel like there's an American Spring going on. Before 2012, people have been very reluctant to blow whistles on unethical activities in their own companies, for fear of losing their jobs (likely) and damaging their career in the long term (unlikely, but much scarier). That seems to be changing, with the NYT Goldman Sachs article and various revelations coming out in Silicon Valley. People are finally speaking out about ethical violations (such as the gross violation of policy inherent in a Facebook walk-through in a job interview process) that, a few years ago, people would have been terrified to disclose.
People keep silent about all kinds of scummy things that are happening because of fear, but it's the silence that allows bad actors to have as much success as they do.
In light of this, I think a lot of people, who have nothing to do with raganwald and don't know who he is, wanted the resignation letter to be real, not fictional.
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#3My takeaway from this post is that raganwald drastically underestimates the complexity of Enterprise Java FizzBuzz.
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#4I got a laugh from the FizzBuzz team part. Actually from what I know of Corporate IT I think it might actually take a team "several months" to implement. I was once told by corporate IT guys that it would take "Three Months" to move one of our machines into the DMZ, I got another Internet Connection and set it up myself in 30 minutes. As you can guess they were VERY unhappy about that as it made them look like ... well.
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#5Team Fizz Buzz is not an unreasonable team name! Or is the norm out there for teams to name themselves to whatever they are working on?
Our current teams are named: "Team America 2", "Kill Kenny" and "Etablissemanget" ("The Establishment" in swedish)
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#6My takeaway from this post is that raganwald drastically underestimates the complexity of Enterprise Java FizzBuzz.
I snorted!
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#7I just assumed that Team FizzBuzz was him anonymising the actual team involved.
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#8Team Fizz Buzz is not an unreasonable team name! Or is the norm out there for teams to name themselves to whatever they are working on? Our current teams are named: "Team America 2", "Kill Kenny" and "Etablissemanget" ("The Establishment" in swedish)
Previous company I worked with once ended up with Project Erick, after a CEO brain fart led to a meeting where he kept referring to (present and accounted for) John Erickson as 'Erick Johnson'.
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#9You know, some time ago I decided it's much more important that a story is interesting, then that it,s true.
And your story was just brilliant.
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#10I got a laugh from the FizzBuzz team part. Actually from what I know of Corporate IT I think it might actually take a team "several months" to implement. I was once told by corporate IT guys that it would take "Three Months" to move one of our machines into the DMZ, I got another Internet Connection and set it up myself in 30 minutes. As you can guess they were VERY unhappy about that as it made them look like ... we…
Somehow, I would guess that they were trying to "encourage" you to find a way to do what you wanted inside the firewall.