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You haven't made a case that they're incapable, just that they're not comfortable coming to you for direction.

"Protect, direct and eject." You need to protect your top performers from the political conflicts that high performance attracts. You need to direct the people in the middle or those who haven't found a way to shine yet. We won't talk about ejecting, because you haven't made a case for that yet.

Middle management presents a weird conflict of interest. You're still judged on deliverables rather than intangibles (like an actual executive) but you're going to have to take interest in your reports' careers if you want to have credibility with them. You have to be a product manager (to get X done for some "X" that is larger than you can do yourself) and a people manager, and to manage up.

There's no silver bullet, but I think you need to humanize yourself and the relationship. You don't want your developers to see you as "The Boss", and you have to take interest in their careers and help them get where they're trying to go (which may be off your team, for the two who don't seem engaged). The difficulty of this depends both on your interpersonal skills and your credibility within the organization. Ultimately, if your managers (up the chain into the executive suite) don't care about your reports' careers and advancement, it's going to be a struggle to get for your reports the support and resources that they'll need to be motivated again. If your managers are bad, it's just a losing battle for you.

Ultimately, you're going to have to figure out what your reports (all 4 of them; don't just focus on the 2 who seem to be lagging) want and make sure they get it, and that they know they will have your support as long as they don't betray your trust. Then you need to come up with a strategy that meets your project-management targets but also engages them. That's not an easy thing to do and it's impossible to come up with a general-purpose solution.
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More like 8 or 10. There are costs beside that: hardware, hosting, office, internet, etc. etc. The math doesn't work that way ;)
The phone doesn't have a USB 3.1 type C port, either.
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Impossible: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Muphry%27s_law
It would be terrible to design it that way, but I think it's fine as a compiler optimization. Most of that datastructure is constant anyway, think of the memory savings!
The one that makes me want to gouge my eyes is "performant", the word that isn't.
As mrj and kyllo said, Vagrant.

It takes care of the VM setup (including memory and disk allocations, shared folders, and basic access), and provides hooks for scripts to set up the rest.

In my case, I favor Ansible for setting up the rest of the VM, as opposed to shell scripts. It automates package installs, configuration changes, and managing services. Once these two bits are configured properly (about a day's task, for a moderately complex system) Vagrant can re-build a development VM from scratch in about 10 minutes.

Best part? Once you have the CM scripts nailed down, you can use them to build your staging and production environments in the same way your local VM was built.
Oh come on. It's an interesting article.
this article didn't even address by far the biggest issue with PHP: there is a massive and divided community that is split between real professionals (the guys who build Facebook, for example) and total amateurs who don't know what they're doing.

critiques centered on the weaknesses of the language itself are missing the most important problem with PHP as a technology ecosystem. the technically rigorous, experienced, professional part of the PHP ecosystem is a minority and the signal:noise ratio is horrifically bad.

Do you know what happens if you put up an ad on a job board looking for PHP developers? You get flooded with hundreds of amateurs or lackluster freelancers (many of whom have no idea how far away from "good" they are) and a very small amount of responses from good developers.

Do you know what happens if you google search technical questions about how to do stuff in PHP? Flooded with blogposts and forum threads filled with actively harmful information instructing you on the wrong way to do things, without having any idea about why its wrong.

Other languages don't suffer from these problems to nearly the same degree. There are issues in the Python, Ruby, Javascript, Perl, Java, C#, etc. communities as well. Those problems are not nearly as intractable and damaging though. The communities of other languages have better signal:noise ratios and its really evident as soon as you try to do any hiring. It makes a difference.
So how open will it really be? Will I be able to compile whatever proprietary blobs that are bound to be using and install debian instead?
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But you aren't hiring Apple's process, you are hiring someone who used to be there. Why do you assume he value you seek is particular to that person, and not to the Apple environment?

Witness the massive number of startup teams that get acquired and assimilated and then do nothing of note after.
You seem to be mistaking me for an atheist.
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SEEKING FREELANCER - Django Developer - Remote okay (within 4 hours of London time preferable)

Wildfish - http://wildfish.com

We're a London based consulting collective looking for a Django developer to help us out on some ongoing projects, typically building web apps for startups or client sites. Ideally we're hoping to build up relationships with people who may like to dip in and out of things as needed, so it's fine if you can't commit full time right now (although also fine if you can!).

We're looking for a Django specialist who's also comfortable enough with some front end too. We mostly all work remotely these days and keep in touch via Slack. Ideally we'd like someone who can set their working day to roughly 4 hours within that of London time.

Some of the things we use:

- Python/Django [Essential]

- HTML/CSS/Javascript

- Twitter Bootstrap

- PostgreSQL

- Ubuntu Linux Server Administration

- TDD, django-webtest

- Ember, Angular

- Docker

You'll be working autonomously a fair bit, so it's important that you're the sort of person who has attention to detail and can read requirements carefully.

Please email work@wildfish.com, including 3 of your favourite Django apps and the rate you're looking for.

Thanks!
> I wear them in the car

Hopefully not while driving though :)
If you pay SV-scale salaries in Texas or Michigan you'll find people willing to put in 170 hours a week for you.
Except if you read the experiences of people who get the sinus surgery, it's not a permanent fix and it can go horribly wrong. It just buys one a few years of relief while the creeping crud finds another way to make your life miserable again. You're right that both approaches assumed there was a mechanical/stuctural fix to the problem. It's just that mine was less invasive and IMO the correct first step.

As for the root cause being viral versus bacterial, I suspect it was pneumonia bacteria. There was a frequent peroxide smell to my mucus and said bacteria were cultured repeatedly from the crud.
At the very least California has a minimum wage requirement to be OT exempt.

British Columbia imported the laws, but dropped the minimum. I know people who make less than they would at a call center.

Of course they're living at home, socially stunted, and don't understand the value they provide.
This is the best advice in the thread. $5 will get you 20 pairs (they're required to put the noise reduction on the package, so check that to be sure you're getting good ones) and just take them with you everywhere.
I think the status is "not yet, but soon."

See https://plus.google.com/108554416426692294217/posts/cokrihiE... for desktop-style window management in Unity 8 (Unity 8 is the Ubuntu Phone shell).
When I first heard about an Ubuntu smart phone I got excited because I thought it would mean that finally after all this talk of having a computer in my pocket, I would actually get a proper computer (read laptop replacement) in my pocket. By that I mean something where I can install whatever software I want.. any linux executable.. and it would run fine. I had dreams of running XMonad and firing up Emacs and doing a bit of node development, or perhaps spending a bit of time learning Rust, all while waiting for the bus. Stick it on some hardware that had a physical keyboard and I would be sold.

It seems it was not to be, and the Ubuntu phone is going to be another device that can only run programs created specifically for it and running in some sandboxed environment.
>> I wonder if the data takes into account the companies that incorporate in DE.

Yes, in fact they use it as a data point.

So if you have a short techie name, an office in Menlo Park, and incorporate in DE, you are practically assured of success.
Relatedly, does anyone know why so many bars with live acts crank the volume up so high that it becomes extremely loud white noise with thumping bass under it? It really sucks if you want to hear the music, and the point at which it's ears-ringing-the-next-day and clothes-vibrating loud but you can still at least tell when a key change happens is usually well under where they set it.

I love small venues, but I hate how bad the music sounds at so many of them. Does anyone actually prefer this?
I had these posts bookmarked because I was curious myself. You may have already googled these, but thought I'd share. I'm a web developer myself but would love to work here someday :)

http://www.quora.com/Can-I-get-a-job-at-SpaceX-after-graduat...

http://www.quora.com/How-did-you-get-an-internship-at-SpaceX...
The reality is that you need to micromanage the shitty ones. They need to be kept on track so that they were productive.

I'm a lead as well and one of our developers is a smart but scatterbrained programmer. She is a mess in terms of running a project and communicating with the rest of the company but if I give her a specific task, she does well.

So what I did was insert myself in any meeting she was a part of, and talked with her several times a day to check in. When I see her going off course in a meeting, I will correct it, and if she says anything incomprehensible in a meeting, I will translate for the others.

The good thing about this programmer is that she really wants to improve, so I give her very frank feedback. The feedbsck I orovide is along the lines of "you need to increase people's confidence in you, because right now it is low, we don't know if you can run a project on your own". She has gotten much better and a lot more productive, which I honestly believe is due to me. I don't take any credit for the work she does, and I constantly praise her in front of others, but I do know that without my micromanagement, she would not be nearly as productive as she is right now.

If her productivity didn't imorove with my micromanagement, I would have fired her because the last thing we need is a drag on the team due to an unproductive member.
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London City, and even Heathrow have major issues with neighbours.
I agree it's not intuitive and obviously bars taking advantage of this trick need to actually have the foot traffic. Volume (as in volume of business) based bars are specifically designed to get more people closer together. Next time you are at one ask yourself if they are being the most efficient with the space.
People keep on suggesting Mint and Xubuntu, but I don't feel like LXDE or XFCE are really effective replacements for openbox.

A quick distrowatch search led me to wattOS[0] - anyone have experience with it? The blog has no updates since May of last year - maybe they're waiting for Jessie to go stable before rolling out their next version?

I think I'm going to give it a try tonight.

[0] http://distrowatch.com/table.php?distribution=wattos
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The filiment could have been wider as you suggest. The filiment on the $600 printer could have been wider too.

My internet connection to the omniscience is down. I was just going with what's described in the article.

There's a reason that the $22,000 model costs $22,000. Margin is only one of them.
How would union bureaucracy affect changes in the environments. From changes in hardware, software and organizational? Unions seem to typically act very protectively and hence allow change very slowly. I think while this would make for a more comfortable labor market for engineers in terms of labor, in terms of dynamism I suspect it would slow things down. After all automation (efficiency) is at odds with membership numbers.
Personally I (and a few others on my team) have found mindfulness meditation to be enormously helpful in developing focus and not being 'carried along' by thoughts. It's really helpful to observe your thoughts, which begins to allow you to classify, organize, and prioritize them. They become a toolset rather than a slavedriver. My manager started relatively recently and the difference has already been very noticeable in true productivity, not just excitability without any real traction.
That was a neat investigation and use of omniref.

I just posted a question: https://www.omniref.com/ruby/gems/activerecord/4.2.0/symbols...

I see that it popped up under recent questions on the home page. Once a question gets bumped off that list, is there an easy way to find it (e.g. through search) or can one only find it if they happen to be viewing the Q&A tab under the same file?

Since this is my first question there, I'm not sure if I have to check back repeatedly for answers or if I'll get notified somehow.
Why would people who are being offered $250k signing bonuses and don't find it enticing enough (according to the OP) need a union?
Sounds like there be dragons that I would like to avoid. I'm curious what your environment is:

* VM host machine OS (Windows/linux/OSX)?

* Virtual machine (HyperV/VMware/KVM/...)?

* Guest OS (Windows/linux/OSX)?

Thanks!
It's a very interesting topic.

"Instead of blogging, people are posting to Tumblr, tweeting, pinning things to their board, posting to Reddit, Snapchatting, updating Facebook statuses, Instagramming, and publishing on Medium…"

From my perspective, what was really interesting and novel about the "blogosphere(s)" was the dimension that I'll call textual collaboration.

The ideal of the blog resonates with ideals like "civic engagement," "the public sphere," and other such somewhat high-minded stuff—in a way that seems rather neutered by those other media.

From that list, Medium and reddit seem closest. But when I use Medium, I feel like what I am doing is providing free content to a startup. I don't feel like I am just sharing text with friends and strangers.

On reddit, I do often feel like I am simply sharing words with others in a collaborative and open way, because there is less of a focus on the author as an individual "brand;" there are fewer swanky photos of Moleskines and espressos; there is more vivid discussion and real conversation.

Blogging, I think, was (and to some degree is) a balance act between public and private. Also a balance between publishing and drafting. A balance between permanence and ephemerality. A balance between monologue and dialogue. And so on.

From my perspective, given that I focus on "textual collaboration," it's quite interesting to look at, e.g., GitHub. Yes, people are mostly working on code together, but it's done in an interesting and quite fresh way.

Wikis, too. That never really took off, did it? Could it?
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I don't think the geography should matter. The reversed toilet direction is a myth, the north pole is the same.
Getting to and from his factory job 23 miles away in Rochester Hills, he'll take a bus partway there and partway home. And he'll also walk an astounding 21 miles

He walks about 3.5 miles, takes a bus to the edge of its service area, and then walks another 7 miles to the job.
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> What matters is being able to get things done, and that's something PHP developers are fantastic at - even if some of them output the worst code imaginable.

I had a car, once, where the driver's side seatbelt would pop out if I put on the brake, or leaned forward.

But hey, what mattered was that the car got me from point A to point B, therefore it was a perfectly great car!
I think a lot of companies heard about "that agile thing" and implemented stand-ups because that's the stand-out thing they can emulate from whatever blog article they read. Or they don't even associate it with agile.

I don't think any of the places I've worked that did stand-ups were trying to do agile, it's just an attempt by the manager to know what's up without devoting much time to it. I haven't seen it work well in that context.
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definitely true on the inaccuracy.

however, in the absence of anything else it is an indication.
> There could be many reasons for this. People have limited time, especially those with GF's/wives and families. Adding new people to their social circle may just seem like something they don't have time for right now, and if that is the case it isn't a slight against you personally.

This is a critical point. My dear dead grandmother had a supremely wise rule of thumb: "If people are being weird or cruel, it's probably due to something that's up with them, and not something you did." People are so wrapped up in their own problems. They can't help it, none of us can, we're trapped inside ourselves and our own perspective, everything we do and feel seems so important to us that we naturally assume it's a primary cause for other people's actions and reactions, too. Humans sometimes take this really, really far... They think that if they are bad, they'll offend the god(s) and get struck by lightning. Nowadays many people mock belief like this---any notion that nature or the universe somehow care what you do---but even the staunchest atheist can still be caught assuming that everyone else's bad moods, cruelty, indifference, and poor behavior are primarily due to STUFF THEY DID. This rule of thumb can seem depressing---nobody cares about me!---or you can view it as freeing, consoling, calming. Which is how my grandmother (and now I) mean it. Someone being cranky? Someone doesn't want to hang out? Don't jump to the conclusion it's because you did something. Maybe they are just worried about bills. Maybe they just really have to poop. Rejoice that your own bowels are fine and look for someone less grouchy to hang out with.
... dude, it's a company blog post. they're writing about what they do in their noc. it's basic SEO and marketing, not some telco conspiracy.
Sort of off-topic, but maybe somebody commenting on audio acoustics and decibels will know -- When you call a business and they pipe their automated music into the call while you're on-hold, why is the audio quality of that music frequently horrible? You'll get fuzzy music, or drop-outs of the music track - but when a human picks up the phone, it tends to sound just like most other phone calls. It seems like such a basic solvable problem, but I don't know where to attribute the blame.
Sorry, that was another error that I got!
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It was for LBJ.
I was chatting with an operator of a Cat excavator who was building retaining walls with large rocks. His machine is chipped to produce more HP, the hydraulic pump is tweaked to allow a higher pressure, hoses and seals are upgraded as they fail.

According to Cat there is no reason for him to do this, it will only cause seals, hoses, etc to wear out faster.

According to him, the owner of the machine who has to live with it each day there is a reason - because he wants to and it is his machine. He knows the downsides, but he also knows he can lift larger rocks higher and faster than he can with a stock machine - so it is worth it to him.

If the owner of a machine wants to ruin it or improve it, I think that is their right to do so - at the risk of the warranty.

On a different note - I can easily change the fuel filter on my car. The problem is I don't have the software to tell it that I've done so and to prime the fuel system before starting. I'm left in the same boat, gray market cables to talk to the car or pay through the nose for the dealer to push a few buttons. I've had thoughts of ditching "modern" cars for an awesome restored classic that can be worked on. The price is about the same.
Introduce them to Pomodoro techniques [1]. I've seen this same problem with junior devs and they're not fully aware of it themselves. When you get them to track themselves using a tool like Vitamin-R [2], they'll be more aware of it and also want to fix it.

1. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pomodoro_Technique

2. http://www.publicspace.net/Vitamin-R/
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we've also developed an early version of this. Still very early stages and we aren't making use of all the data yet:

http://noise.1self.co

disclosure: I'm a founder
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"Excellent answer up until paragraph three. Nothing will drive your developers (good and bad) away quicker than an a "quick morning standup", aka daily interrogation."

While it's far from the worst thing to drive developers away, I do agree a standup/scrum meeting every day is stupid, counterproductive, and just plain useless.

For the managers, they should be able to look at your ticketing/project system and know instantly what everyone is working on. Keeping tickets up to date is part of the job and really, it's not that hard.

For the programmers, they are now tasked with figuring out what to say in the standup and how to make sure that they are not perceived as not working when they really are. Programmers who need to know what other people are working on in the team can also look at the ticketing/project system and when they need more information (as in cases where their work depends on someone else), they will ask directly.

I've been to standup meetings in close to a dozen different companies, ranging from the smallest startup to some of the biggest tech companies and never have I ever seen a standup meeting end on time. NEVER. I don't think it actually happens. What I have seen is the meeting go on for half an hour to an hour, boring everyone out of their minds. Sometimes this even involved multiple teams whose work barely intersected at all. The other team's work status was a pure waste of time for anyone not on that team.

Yes, it is absolutely an interrogation. A daily standup shows that the manager doesn't trust his employees. He doesn't trust them to keep the ticketing/project system updated. He doesn't trust them to do work without the threat of being shamed and/or seen as lazy if the work done doesn't sound impressive in a standup. He doesn't trust them to seek help on their own. Basically, a daily standup is the sign of an incompetent manager.

Scrum is for rugby.
I'm not an expert, but I believe the reason comes down to cost: call center lines can be configured either to have a few high quality calls, or more lower quality calls (think of how many more audio files you could stream simultaneously at a lower bitrate). Of course, having lower quality calls lets them handle the same number of calls at the lowest cost, and most businesses consider customer service to be a huge cost center, so they go for the cheapest thing.