Comments on: Welcome Brazen Careerist Readers!

By: admin

admin — Wed, 27 May 2009 05:23:30 +0000

Laura,

Come out to the Valley, and I’ll be happy to meet with you.

By: Laura

Laura — Tue, 26 May 2009 04:08:26 +0000

Chris,

I am a woman in her 30s and want to move to Sillicon Valley from Canada (with family) within same company but changing careers (from development lead to product management). I have been pondering the decision for some time and now am extremely motivated to make both changes - looking forward to getting out for new learning opps and good networking. I hope I can meet you sometime there as well.

Laura

By: admin

admin — Mon, 16 Jun 2008 23:56:48 +0000

Wannabe,

I can’t promise anything until I meet you, but if you’re worth initiating, I’ll be happy to apply the paddle.

By: Web 3.0 Wannabe

Web 3.0 Wannabe — Mon, 16 Jun 2008 06:56:51 +0000

Chris,

Will you initiate me in to the Valley Network too if I give it all up and move out West?

By: Amiel

Amiel — Tue, 20 May 2008 22:51:22 +0000

No question really, just a comment. Best advice you gave (at least that reflects with me) is telling the job looker to quit and move out to California.

Follow your dreams (which is what I’m in the process of doing, leaving the Canadian government to work as an environmental/climate change consultant…I hope successfully).

It’s too easy to wait and wait and wait… and you never know (I speak from experience.. a year ago I was in a hospital, and people did not know if I would live the week. I was 29). Take the chance: heck, let’s do it together!

By: admin

admin — Tue, 20 May 2008 21:38:33 +0000

Rian,

My main beef with Vista is that Microsoft did exactly the wrong thing. Rather than focusing on performance and stability, they focused on changing the UI in an ill-advised attempt to ape Apple.

What’s worse, they completely changed the layout and controls of their main apps like PowerPoint, and made all the file formats incompatible to boot.

MSFT will definitely offer a direct upgrade path from XP to Windows 7, so that’s not a concern of mine.

By: Rian

Rian — Tue, 20 May 2008 02:06:33 +0000

Without turning this post into a platform war, Vista really isn’t that bad. Most of the hate you see directed at Vista is by people who have never used Vista. (And there are several studies that corroborate my anecdotal experience, but alas I can’t find the particular one I’m looking for.)

..and I happen to say this as a 3+ year Mac user, who recently sold both his MacBook Pro and iMac Core 2 Duo machines to go back to the Windows world for various reasons.

I’d really rather not go back to Windows XP. Every time I sit down at an XP machine, I feel like I am taking a step backward. At the same time, I wouldn’t necessarily upgrade *from* XP either, if it were going to cost me money. However if I were buying a new machine, I would certainly go with Vista, because XP, at some point in the future, will not be supported by Microsoft any longer. Vista’s long-term support lifespan is better than XP’s. With the release of SP1, Vista is incredibly stable.

Dare I say it? I’ve had fewer crashes with Vista than I did with Leopard…