[crouton] Nathaniel Trost: Sharks, only with resumes, not remoras

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Posted by Nathaniel Trost:
Sharks, only with resumes, not remoras
http://crouton.powerblogs.com/archives/archive_2006_09_10-2006_09_16.shtml#1157935544


   While this wasnât a three-day weekend, it was a four-day workweek.
   Sometimes thatâs just as important. Itâs rather depressing to see a
   round of lay-offs go by with some of those affected lacking any
   immediate prospects while youâre getting three unneeded calls from
   recruiters within a matter of hours.
   Also this past week, I (hopefully) finished the rigmarole of putting
   the now-canceled project to bed. Like weeds on a tarmac, all the brain
   cells devoted to the minutiae, processes, and holistic knowledge of
   the ecosystem that is a large project will now succumb to entropy. All
   the arcane lore will be forgotten, and considering how much of my mind
   it occupied for the past eighteen months, this process too is a bit
   depressing.
   As an aside, one of the biggest lessons learned working with the
   custom development tools for that project was that you canât really
   live without [1]Filemon. Robust error handling is rarely a feature of
   internal development software. Sometimes, when you run into say, a
   silent failure, you really need to be able to know that a file open
   for write failed on a temporary file that some artist inadvertently
   checked into source control.
   I was searching technical blogs for motivational inspiration when I
   stumbled across [2]Randsinrepose. Iâm really not sure how I missed it.
   At any rate, I did get a good chuckle out of [3]N.A.D.D. Surrounded by
   no fewer than five screens at this precise moment in time, I am most
   certainly afflicted.
   As a space geek afflicted with N.A.D.D., I found a sweet sweet
   firehose of aerospace information crack recently:
   [4]NASASpaceFlight.com and most specifically, itâs paid L2 section.
   How long does it take me to decide to download an 892 page PDF on the
   Shuttle EGIL (Electrical Generation and Integrated Lighing) systems?
   About 0.01 seconds, ka-leech! This actually came in handy when the
   news about the issues with fuel cell 1 broke.
   Now if I can just get myself out of this indeterminate hold at T-minus
   9 minutes.

References

   1. http://www.sysinternals.com/Utilities/Filemon.html
   2. http://www.randsinrepose.com/
   3. http://www.randsinrepose.com/archives/2003/07/10/nadd.html
   4. http://www.nasaspaceflight.com/