I've never hired or seen anyone hired in the past 5 years at least that did not have a LinkedIn account. I don't think it's a prerequisite but pretty much everyone has one. I worked with a U.S. company with an office in Poland all of the devs there had LinkedIn accounts if that's any indication.
I would be interested in seeing this also emphasize skills beyond "languages". For me, I know a lot of my skills are more around design and soft skills -- I would love to be able to advice a developer on how to handle a problematic product manager, or how to design a system. I tried to put that in my profile, I'll see if I get a bite ;]
I agree with the other commenters. PM is not a promotion. PM is a very hard, thankless job that is hard to get right. Trust me --- you don't want it. The PM clearly needs help and it seems like you can fill some gaps he has. I do not know the org structure in your company, but I would lobby for you to become the "Lead" developer -- and you can work hand in hand with the PM to make sure the project is organized correctly, that the requirements are being gathered and met, that the tools the developers need are in place. The PM should be able to take the brunt of the "external" networking for the team, and you can take the brunt of the "internal" networking to the team. You can help and learn from each other, as I am sure he has some skills that you do not (they may be soft skills).
I agree. This article seems to be aimed at frat houses playing GTA. In fact, I betcha you could replace the word "gamers" in this article with anything and it would still work. In my gaming experiences, fellow gamers (even hyper competitive ones) are for the most part intelligent, inclusive, nice people. If anything, this article is a gross over-generalization of a population.
This puts too much burden on the sending user. I think a better idea would be something that reads the email, categorizes it, and provides a short one or two sentence summary of what it's about.
Google sometimes appears to be from the future, but I wonder what the truth is. I suspect they are ahead in some of these use cases, but in the open source Hadoop ecosystem that tech like YARN, Tez, Spark, etc do not have equivalents in Google and ahead of Google. I was thinking about adding Storm to the list, but I reminded myself that Google has MillWheel which seems super awesome. So maybe they are from the future.