I use emacs running in terminator, or WingIde as my preferred editors. I tried out PyCharm but it gathers dust. IntelliJ tried, but could not eliminate the Java smell completely.
I asked for paper ballot this morning. Many volunteers are cheerful and apathetic, for them its just another gig. Lost on them is the fact this is something fundamental. Scary !!
Current landscape in the industry provides an out for this. Its become easy to blog, contribute code socially, or simply run your own startup on the side, while you slog in your mundane day-job. All this empowerment will only make you hate your employment all the more... so either you will quit or become apathetic.
In my personal experience, resisting the urge/pressure to get into management (vs. staying in engineering). Management in a larger setup invariably involves having political skills of some sort.
2 months back my 13-year old nephew flew from USA to India as an unaccompanied minor in Lufthansa, with a flight changeover in Frankfurt. This is a 21 hour journey. It went off without a hitch. In fact, Lufthansa staff took good care of him, and he had a great time.
Wiping windows off, and replacing the HD with a clean Ubuntu install would be the first order of business. To me Keyboard, battery, and lack of fan noise are important in an Ultrabook.
Non-conformance, and non-compliance against authority runs the risk of being separated out from the pack, and being treated differently... Does this have any relevance to the debate over ADHD - i.e. there are some that believe a 'good old-fashioned spanking' would set things right.
There are companies out there still sloshing thru waterfalls. They don't know any other way.
But really can you teach me how to breath if I am not already stressed out.? Agile is overkill. Its like teaching Object orientation. How many people still consult the GoF book or talk about patterns? The Java guys are already spent, exhausted.
The buzz industry and book industry are good at making companies and teams feel guilty of ignorance, and help lower their self-esteem.
If you can develop and bolster your common sense, and especially surround yourself with a community that resists bull-shit, buzz-words and fluff-talk, you will be in good shape without needs of all sorts of gurus.
I've been agile all along, my style was agile - but I don't need a brand or a buzzword ninja to help me come to that realization.
Drown out the noise and be more self-aware, and reflective. Buzzwords will only slow you down. "People just love to play with words"...
I use this book as a barometer (scale) of how bad a person's business sense or money sense is. If he/she considers the Rich Dad series book of any value - that's a measure of their ignorance and gullibility.
