Is Mr. Braithwaite a technical lead or a director? Did he resign or is he just at the pub? Now I don't know what to believe.
Wouldn't it be great if there was a quick way to find the answers to these questions.
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
#12I 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…
Did that thirty minutes include a the appropriate security audit?
Re: Everything's Made Up and The Points Don't Matter - raganwald's posterous
#13Fake activism hurts real activism. Please label your fiction as such.
Re: Everything's Made Up and The Points Don't Matter - raganwald's posterous
#14Team 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)
Typically a team would be "named" for its location, general responsibilities, and/or the codename of the project they're working on, particularly if they're large enough to have an actual COO and a "Director of Development".
A project codenamed FizzBuzz is not out of the realm of possibility, but it would strike me as a very unusual choice to name a project after a programmer interview test....
Re: Everything's Made Up and The Points Don't Matter - raganwald's posterous
#15Fake activism hurts real activism. Please label your fiction as such. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amina_Abdallah_Arraf_al_Omari
I don't intend to minimize your point, rather I want to point out that if you are saying "don't write unless it's real" you are really truly stepping over what value creative writing provides. Even to disclaimer is to say ignore what was written because it isn't real.
Creative writing for satire or parody are critical aspects of humanity. It is unfortunate when lives are at stake as a result. But there are so many writings in human history that do this - what is your proposition for those?
Re: Everything's Made Up and The Points Don't Matter - raganwald's posterous
#16Fake activism hurts real activism. Please label your fiction as such. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amina_Abdallah_Arraf_al_Omari
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Re: Everything's Made Up and The Points Don't Matter - raganwald's posterous
#17Is Mr. Braithwaite a technical lead or a director? Did he resign or is he just at the pub? Now I don't know what to believe. Wouldn't it be great if there was a quick way to find the answers to these questions.
Re: Everything's Made Up and The Points Don't Matter - raganwald's posterous
#18Team 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)
You may have something there, I do recall meeting a member of Apple’s System Seven team, and his business card read:
Omniscient Thaumaturge, Blue Meanies Group
Re: Everything's Made Up and The Points Don't Matter - raganwald's posterous
#19You 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.
What's your take on Mike Daisey's Chinese Apple factories controversy?
Re: Everything's Made Up and The Points Don't Matter - raganwald's posterous
#20I 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…
Did that thirty minutes include a the appropriate security audit?
Some context: The connection was for an appliance provided by a trusted vendor that only needed access from specific outside IP addresses and would not need to be exposed to any internal systems, it could be locked down.
There was no way around needing external access and we only had two weeks to finish the project (it was requested by the President of the company because it was requested by a large client) however we were still faced with "it will take so much work, that it will be 3 months" In the end we were able to implement what was requested on time and the customer was happy. Roadblocks like these are why startups are able to run circles around large companies, unless there is someone inside to bulldoze through the red tape things just don't get done.