My thoughts on Vista Whiners

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You miss my point. I am not denying that Linuz is used for software
projects all over this country. What I am saying is that if tomorrow,
Monday morning, you and I were to pick 100 random mid size to large
companies in this country at random and walk into their premises over
80% of the staff would be running Windows apps on their computers. My
customers are running 100% Windows apps so I program for Windows apps.
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If you picked those companies, your statement is true if you walk into
the front door and talk to non-technical users.

If you walked into the datacenter the picture would change dramatically.
No larger company is going to put SAP, Peoplesoft and others on MS-
Windows. You will see OSes like Solaris, AIX, HP-UX and Linux right
beside the less demanding tasks of MS file and print. Even then, it is
possible Linux is the Samba file and print because it can do NFS to where
the ERP system is.

Mom and pop business, also you would be correct.
 
The culture has really changed and not for the better. In the past
programmers took pride is writing well documented, tight bullet proof
code to the extent humanly possible. Microsoft seems to have set the
standard for bigger is better resulting is very bloated, sluggish often
bug riddled code that not even the guy that wrote it remembers what the
heck it's suppose to do six months later and the guy sitting next to him
has no idea at all what the tangled web leads or interacts with what the
guy in the next building is working on.
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Actually, programmers were forced to because management was more
disciplined. Today, it is the microwave generation running the shops and
what a mess. Add in that programmers tend to be paid like toilet
cleaners. But did we write some good code...
 
I agree, we reject more than 98% of all applicants because they can't
even make a proper resume or even spell everything correctly.
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First, yes, a resume needs to be ace. It is your calling card. And with
today's computers, not much excuses and it does show attention to
detail. As most of use do not spell perfectly. Since you have time to
prep a resume, it should be close to perfect.

But I would not look for grammatical flaws so quick. Having interviewed
a few myself, I always look for the BS factor first. The resume that has
all the right words but the person obviously was just exposed at best as
opposed to knowing it. Quite a few resumes today are exaggerated, and if
I can't trust their statement of skills, why should I hire a problem? I
reduce the pile by about 90-95% in a 5-10 minute phone call.

Hey, but we need allow some latitude here once hired. Not all of us come
with a masters degree in English. Had one manager once like that, she
was more interested in my grammar than the point of keeping a $3B/yr
system up and running. She didn't care I was into the kernel of HP-UX
with the cause of the systems crashes, in my excitement of finding a 6
month old issue just 3 months after being hired drowned my spirits. I
put many hard hours into nailing that one.

Needless to say, I moved on. If management priorities are wrong, no need
to waste time.
 
The culture has really changed and not for the better. In the past
programmers took pride is writing well documented, tight bullet proof
code to the extent humanly possible. Microsoft seems to have set the
standard for bigger is better resulting is very bloated, sluggish
often bug riddled code that not even the guy that wrote it remembers
what the heck it's suppose to do six months later and the guy sitting
next to him has no idea at all what the tangled web leads or interacts
with what the guy in the next building is working on.
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Microsoft has become so big that different parts of the organisation do not
coordinate their products. Look at LiveOneCare and Vista for example - the
two products duplicate a lot of functionality and the user ends up with two
confusing interfaces to do the same tasks (eg backups). Vista's DEP also
thinks my WM5 portable device is a virus and prevents me donwloading jpeg
files using activesynch. Microsoft fingerprint reader clashes with Vista
sidebar. Vista is delivered with a load of unremovable junk programs that
duplicate Microsoft Outlook. There seems to be a lack of product leadership
at Microsoft, partiuclarly in regards to Vista.
 
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