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The sensor got plugged up I wonder what the problem could be?
I may not be that good looking, or athletic, or funny, or talented, or smart
I forgot where I was going with this but I do know I love bacon!
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Sh*t, how would I know?
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You need to do the exploratory finger test...if it comes out brown || green I'm outta here and you're on your own!
I may not be that good looking, or athletic, or funny, or talented, or smart
I forgot where I was going with this but I do know I love bacon!
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I'll use a British Standard Finger[^] then.
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Never throw anything away, Griff
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Give me the £372.00 and I'll wear a latex glove and do it, but I ain't changing!
I may not be that good looking, or athletic, or funny, or talented, or smart
I forgot where I was going with this but I do know I love bacon!
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Great. Like I would want to put a low power GHz transmitter right next to my baby's privates. 
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That trumps my WiFi-controlled crockpot! 
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I called it PIoT. Poop IoT. 
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Sure I’m going to trust them with this when they totally lie about their product right on their boxes. The first ones we tried said 8-12lbs. They don’t hold anywhere near that much!
Socialism is the Axe Body Spray of political ideologies: It never does what it claims to do, but people too young to know better keep buying it anyway. (Glenn Reynolds)
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Useless, true, but damn that is funny. 
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That would be funny if:
- it would not cost us resources to build and process this IoT device.
- it would not cost us resources to manage all the notifications on servers and electricity and ...
 
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As a technical person, do you prefer to report to a technical or non-technical manager?
I have had good and bad experiences with both.
On the up, I appreciate the freedom and trust extended by good non-technical managers, as well as the guidance from good technical managers.
On the down, some non-technical managers try too hard to be involved in the detail and often make bad calls based on their insufficient understanding of a problem or situation. I found that technical managers, on the other hand, can be very authoritarian, really just giving commands, these are often the ones who have the highest staff turnover (among coders) as well.
From my experience, I prefer reporting to non-technical managers. I found that the technical know-how and guidance I used to seek from technical seniors is mostly available from any diverse group of peers and juniors, each with unique interests and strengths.
Whichever you prefer, I'd like to share this snippet:
SARS gives clarity on e-filing collapse - YouTube[^] (forwarded to the best part)
...and ask for a moment of silence for the IT people who work for this company. It's a month-old interview with the "Chief Officer for Digital and IT" of SARS (South Africa's revenue collection services).
Enjoy!
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worst are the managers that believe they are technical by preceived right or/and rite....
- previously technical themselves (once were programmers) but not kept themselves updated,
- those that come from a different side (i.e once were operators now in charge of software dev)
- those that were never technical but have been in the job so long believe they know it all/seen it before
the last far too often in small companies - they are a part owner or relative / best friend of an owner... these are the jobs that sound good "warm, friendly company" but 100% dead ends. i.e. if your boss is the owner how can you ever get promoted or even a good increment/bonus [short of marrying the bosses daughter/son].
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Here, as the company's gone through some changes in the last year or so, we don't have a non-technical manager making IT decisions . . .
. . . we have a gaggle of them that meet and reinforce one-another's decision making ineptitude.
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I've worked for some managers who knew programming, but not enough (anymore) to actually participate with the team.
Luckily, they understood their knowledge was outdated and they respected my technical superiority.
The plus is that they understood that a "small" change could take hours or even days.
They also knew how important it was to keep code maintainable and technical debt to a minimum, so you'd get some time to fix that now and then.
On occasion I could even ask them for their opinion on some technical problem and they'd come up with good ideas (or at least ideas that sparked the good ideas in me  )
One of those managers also maintained legacy apps that he once wrote, which was cool, except...
He developed and tested on production environments, which wasn't such a big deal as you'd expect, except that I was in charge of keeping databases in sync, which is pretty much impossible if both are ahead of each other 
Of course he kept doing that because he'd "always done it like that."
I currently have a non-technical manager (and a non-common sense manager at that) who just threw three extra developers in the team because we had to work faster (I've never got less work done than the past few weeks)...
The problem, however, was not that we had too few developers, but the constantly changing specs and priorities that he sets
So yeah, technical managers all the way!
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Sander Rossel wrote: who just threw three extra developers in the team because we had to work faster
Been there, work is not getting done fast enough, so they add more developers, juniors at that. Though I don't mind taking-on and onboarding new people, it had the opposite effect and made the team even less productive in the short run.
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This is where having a technical manager pays off. Having been promoted from a Senior Engineer position into management I know enough to ask the team what they need to hit a deadline rather than assuming I know. I am also a vocal advocate for the guys that work with me as I know what having a useless manager is like.
One of the best things from my point of view though is that the teams that I work with are using a technology stack I am unfamiliar with, so while I can give broad direction or listen to technical discussions and make intelligent comments, I do not feel the need to put my oversized management paws into the code.
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Sander Rossel wrote: On occasion I could even ask them for their opinion on some technical problem and they'd come up with good ideas (or at least ideas that sparked the good ideas in me )
I agree. Even if they are not up to speed on the latest tech, once a developer, always a developer. They still possess the basic skills to understand a problem, break it into steps.
I work for a Manager who is also a developer on our team, so he is involved in the day to day.
I think it's great!
The difficult we do right away...
...the impossible takes slightly longer.
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The manager must be technical enough to understand the product. Other than that, I am happy with any decent person who shields the team from politics and process, so they can get the job done. You'd think this would be easy, but its remarkable how infrequently it occurs
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I don't care if techie or not techie manager. I just like one realistic manager with common sense that knows my technical value, gives me enough freedom to do things the way I consider the best option, feeds me with the relevant information I need to do my job and keeps me free of non sense meetings or moronic people that waste my time.
M.D.V. 
If something has a solution... Why do we have to worry about?. If it has no solution... For what reason do we have to worry about?
Help me to understand what I'm saying, and I'll explain it better to you
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MatthysDT wrote: From my experience, I prefer reporting to non-technical managers. I found that the technical know-how and guidance I used to seek from technical seniors is mostly available from any diverse group of peers and juniors, each with unique interests and strengths.
Exactly. Managers should facilitate communication between the people that are actually doing the work and as Eric said, keep the politics and bean counters at arms length.
In my opinion, anyone can be a manager if they have communication skills and the ability to get the problem solvers together. Certainly demands from higher up the food chain (or, if you prefer, lower down in the sewer of the C-level people) need to be communicated to the team, but again, it comes down to communication and letting the people that know the work solve the problems with the given constraints.
In other words, a good manager, in my opinion, is a facilitator and a buffer and little else.
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Non-technical managers cannot distinguish a database diagram from their sandwich recipe and therefore whenever a decision has to be made with conflicting opinions about a technical issue, they either don't make it or defer to the technical person with the most brown nose.
That's a fact.
My current job though has a manager that has enough knowledge to make competent decisions.
BTW the chaos that non-techie managers create is the major reason for the wave of outsourcing, not the cost.
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After being a developer for almost 10 years I became a manager in a different company. I let the team decide on best course of action to achieve a business objective without getting too involved in minute technical details. At the end of the day business doesn't care if you have used X or Y as long as it functions the way that serves the purpose. Only time I had to intervene was when someone try to over engineer a solution that is going to be irrelevant in next few weeks. Keep the deadline in sight and keep the team happy.
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