links for 2008-07-03

• 9 Reasons Why Application Developers Think Their CIO Is Clueless
  (tags: projectmanagement leadership)
• On not going to Google
  (tags: google hiring)
• Getting things smart
  Smart people who can do stuff is one thing. But, getting people who constantly push everyone to learn and improve, who help build the culture, who make people do more than they ever thought possible, there lies the gold.
  (tags: business hiring)
• Reconnoiter and another platform
  Multiple datacentres with thousands of machines, mmmmm.
  (tags: monitoring sysadmin)
• Do Java 6 threading optimizations actually work?
  (tags: java concurrency jvm performance)