Category Archives: Comment

“A beszédes változónevek egy idő után elhallgatnak.” “Descriptive variable names become silent after a while. “

“This should have been mentioned in the school” – said by a colleague, sitting enervated after a giant failure in a demo. Theory often fails in real environment.

Last week spouse had a brilliant idea: she attends to a course to learn child caring, and pass the exam enabling her to found a day-care. Such day-cares are supported by the government to extend the capacity of state kindergardens. Recent government has expressed their support many times encouraging people to invest on this area.Continue reading “Ba1 – negative outlook”

I decided to post more, but normally I have no time to log in to the interface, therefore I have activated post by e-mail feature. Hopefully you will see more but shorter posts from me. I hate twitter, but sometimes I have to tell my impressions in short messages, they will appear here, through e-mails.Continue reading “Post by e-mail”

My friend applied for a job in one of the biggest telecom provider of Hungary. As the first step of the interview process she was invited to fill a personality test. She arrived in time, but there was a crowd of hundreds.  At the door she was informed that she needed to pay EUR 2.5,-Continue reading “First step of the hiring process”

I must react on a post of Tamás Cservenyák, author of “Tudatos vezetés” (Deliberate Leadership) blog. He introduces a book of Mintzberg: the Managers not MBAs. Mintzberg made sharp criticism against MBA courses saying that the attendees were not mature enough, they haven’t had several years of leadership behind, and the MBA classes gave too much analytical skillsContinue reading “Managers not MBAs”

…I have learned two things: Never send legal concerns in e-mail. If you do that, that mail will be the first evidence of your intentionality. Especially do not copy people living in “less democratic” countries. Enemy is always listening. People from Japan may arrive at any time. It is very likely that your phone ringsContinue reading “Today…”

I am registered in Linkedin, so it weekly sends me recent activities of my connections. Sometimes it’s interesting to see when all members of a certain group of a company update their profile on the same day. It is an excellent primary indicator to predict unwanted turnovers, or send them an offer. I normally ignoreContinue reading “Nightfall to Rambos in IT sector”

Yesterday I went to GE Hungary again to introduce the industry to my brother attending to mechanic engineer course (that will be a separate post as soon as censorship done). During the visit we had several technical discussions, and we talked about the “Emergency Stop” button among many other topics. A colleague we met inContinue reading “The Function to be Tested First”