Most of the time, people get treated as disposable assets. On Thu, Dec 10, 2009 at 1:45 PM, Sasha Pachev <[email protected]> wrote:
> >I am self trained in Free Software and > > Open Source products. > > So am I. I knew nothing about Linux other than that it was some weird > operating system until I was done with my schooling (BYU CS program). > > That is the nature of the beast. To succeed you have to be > self-trainable because you will see a new type of challenge on a daily > basis, and you will have to do some on the spot learning to solve it. > > If you are struggling with open source products, I think it is a > mistake to attribute the difficulties to the lack of schooling in the > area. Instead, I would look into something deeper, possibly of a > learning habit/psychological nature. How comfortable are you when > thrown into the midst of a new problem and being told to figure it > out? If you are not, then I would focus on developing the confidence > that with the help of man, README/docs, Google, logs, gdb, strace, > pstack, snort/tcpdump/ethreal and other friends you will be able to > figure it out even initially you seem to have hopelessly no clue. > > You also need a little bit of "what the heck" quality that permits you > to reason in an unstructured environment full of surprises in such a > way that when you see a surprise you get excited and shout for joy > even if (or maybe especially if) the surprise is something most people > would consider unpleasant such as a coredump, kernel panic, compiler > error, deleted file, trashed disk, bad RAM, or fried motherboard. > > I do agree, though, that people are important and should be nurtured > rather than treated as a disposable asset. > > -- > Sasha Pachev > AskSasha Linux Consulting > http://asksasha.com > > Fast Running Blog. > http://fastrunningblog.com > Run. Blog. Improve. Repeat. > > /* > PLUG: http://plug.org, #utah on irc.freenode.net > Unsubscribe: http://plug.org/mailman/options/plug > Don't fear the penguin. > */ > /* PLUG: http://plug.org, #utah on irc.freenode.net Unsubscribe: http://plug.org/mailman/options/plug Don't fear the penguin. */
