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You appear to be confused about the difference between a good book on programming management and a good thing to do with a program management book.
Did you ever see history portrayed as an old man with a wise brow and pulseless heart, waging all things in the balance of reason?
Is not rather the genius of history like an eternal, imploring maiden, full of fire, with a burning heart and flaming soul, humanly warm and humanly beautiful?
--Zachris Topelius
Training a telescope on one’s own belly button will only reveal lint. You like that? You go right on staring at it. I prefer looking at galaxies.
-- Sarah Hoyt
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A good thing to do with a program management book is to fold it until it's all sharp corners and have them sho...
Software Zen: delete this;
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To me, PM departments aren't as bad as marketing departments, but they still make me think of a cross between the X-Files and The Sixth Sense.
I want to see dead people.
I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!
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I'm asked to write a jquery plugin this morning. It's to implement some functionality we already have but would be cool to have in a plugin.
It's not that I mind writing the plugin at all. It's just that we have a demo for our tablet program on the 27th and I'm out Thursday and Friday next week, and the intention of the conversation was to get more of those items to work on (because I have finished the other stuff).
There was mention of the weekend, but I'm not doing that. That other chump keeps saying he's goina "focus on this" all weekend, but still hasn't written any code on the project.
I think he should write the plugin and I should work on more tablet stuff.
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My first interview with a promising company went pretty well.
I have an interview with another on the 5th, since they do meetings on thursdays and I'm weighing in next week in Missouri. It's a pretty awesome company an old coworker buddy works at. They know my old boss and all that.
Elephant elephant elephant, sunshine sunshine sunshine
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Good luck on your interviews. I hope they will ask you only things you know 
Microsoft ... the only place where VARIANT_TRUE != true
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I'm in US and right now getting to CodeProject is off and on.
Anyone know what is up? Just curious.
tracert looks like:
5 11 ms 12 ms 11 ms peer1-gw.peer1.net [206.223.119.30]
6 22 ms 22 ms 22 ms 10ge.xe-1-0-0.tor-1yg-cor-1.peer1.net [216.187.1
4.142]
7 22 ms 22 ms 22 ms 10ge.xe-0-1-1.tor-20p1ops-dis-1.peer1.net [216.1
7.88.34]
8 31 ms 24 ms 23 ms tor-20p1a-xe3-1.ne.peer1.net [216.187.113.68]
9 * * * Request timed out.
10 23 ms 23 ms 22 ms 65.39.148.34
Looks like a TOR router...(see bold above)
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I'm having loads of problems, assumed it was just our crappy connection though.
Time outs, waiting ages, some elements not fully loading (currently getting text saying "downvoting not available in the lounge" underneath the upvote arrow.
Some men are born mediocre, some men achieve mediocrity, and some men have mediocrity thrust upon them.
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Thanks for chiming in. I was wondering if it was just me, but tried from a couple different devices too.
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Yeah, maybe it was just a routing thing. It was just odd and didn't know if the info would help.
thanks,
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Experiencing similar issues here in NY as well. Not all the time, and already mentioned performance issues to Chris, a week or so ago.
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That's what I was curious about too...if others were experiencing this intermittent issues with CP. Thanks for chiming in on this so I can see that it isn't just me.
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Or Torronto. Which one do you think it is?
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Onion Router fer shur. Nothing goes into Canada except those big geese. 
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Been given the go ahead to order a new desktop at work, I can put in recommendations for some of the specs, but no say on make and model, we have a supplier we use.
I'm getting this because my current machine (4 years old) can no longer cope.
Generally speaking I have an instance of eclipse open, several java applications running, as well as SQL Server Management Studio, several browser tabs, Outlook, at times Visual Studio, various documents and so on, as well as a dev windows service or two running.
Currently I have 4GB of RAM, what should be the minimum I ask for? Also anything else to request?
Some men are born mediocre, some men achieve mediocrity, and some men have mediocrity thrust upon them.
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Have at least 16gig ram and a ssd primary drive
I'd rather be phishing!
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640K of RAM: because "640K ought to be enough for anybody" 
Bad command or file name. Bad, bad command! Sit! Stay! Staaaay...
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Second Max on at least 16G of memory.
On my work laptop (Win 7, 64bit), I have 16G and a 120G SSD.
Regularly have multiple spreadsheets, Word, IE, Chrome, vendor tools, and a couple of Visual Studio sessions open.
So, far, no issues to speak of...
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Agree with the 16GB of RAM and SSD comments, and if you have anything left over in your budget would highly recommend a 2K monitor. You can get a good one for < £300, totally worth it.
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1 terabyte of RAM, 16 gig of L1 cache, a quad core quad processor. Might be enough for java...
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chriselst wrote: Also anything else to request?
snickers candy bars. 
There are only 10 types of people in the world, those who understand binary and those who don't.
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chriselst wrote: Also anything else to request?
Bacon
Mongo: Mongo only pawn... in game of life.
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AMD FX 8350
Asus M7A99Evo // M7A99 is a good choice too
16 or 32 GB of ram 1866 clock or 1600 it doesn't matter much
Asus R9 290 or R9 290x your choice :drool:
You can throw one cooler master cpu cooler and you're done
Microsoft ... the only place where VARIANT_TRUE != true
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Like everyone else said, 16GB RAM, try and get a good sized SSD as well. My desktop has an 8 core AMD processor.
Odd though, my laptop (granted, 8GB, not 4) is about that old and it's a really reliable workhorse running SQL Server, Postgres, often several VS instances, I don't use Eclipse but I do a lot of RoR development in RubyMine, often enough I have an Ubuntu VM running at the same time. The laptop keeps up quite well.
Marc
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Marc Clifton wrote: Odd though, my laptop (granted, 8GB, not 4) is about that old and it's a really reliable workhorse
This machine was doing OK until I installed Eclipse with some specific plugins and a few other java applications to support the work I'm currently doing. I think it is the Java that is killing it.
I've put the request in, not holding out much hope, last time I requested a new machine (this one) it was because my old was struggling under the burden of what it was up to, the new one when it turned up had less RAM than the old one and I had to get some more put in.
I also left the Eclipse stuff on the old machine back then (Win XP, 8 years old now), and split my development across both machines, the old one isn't really viable anymore, might see if I can do something similar with this one and the new one.
Some men are born mediocre, some men achieve mediocrity, and some men have mediocrity thrust upon them.
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