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Managing a Dead Horse

Posted by: Nathaniel Schutta on February 27, 2007

I’m pretty sure that Scott Adams has some kind of super sniffer that gives him direct access to all emails, IMs, or search records of anyone in software or engineering. I say that partially because last Friday’s Dilbert hit pretty close to home - you see a couple of months back my buddy Charles IMed me this link to a bunch of jokes and I about fell off my chair laughing at the bit about riding a dead horse (scroll down - it’s there, trust me). I’m sure we’ve all experienced a few of those over the years… Coincidence? I think not!

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About Nathaniel Schutta

Nathaniel T. Schutta is a software architect and Java Champion focused on cloud computing, developer happiness and building usable applications. A proponent of polyglot programming, Nate has written multiple books, appeared in countless videos and many podcasts. He’s also a seasoned speaker who regularly presents at worldwide conferences, No Fluff Just Stuff symposia, meetups, universities, and user groups. In addition to his day job, Nate is an adjunct professor at the University of Minnesota, where he teaches students to embrace (and evaluate) technical change. Driven to rid the world of bad presentations, he coauthored the book Presentation Patterns with Neal Ford and Matthew McCullough, and he also published Thinking Architecturally and Responsible Microservices available from O’Reilly. His latest book, Fundamentals of Software Engineering, is currently available in early release.

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