Only been at a few job interviews, directly or with recruitment companies. The one killer skill is problem solving skills. There are so many out there working with IT that really sucks at problem solving (or don't have the experience to do it reasonable fast). Another of their problem is their narrow area of skills.
There are lots of programmers (and other IT ppl) out there, just writing boring code, and who tries not to get any interesting / challenging tasks.If you are looing for the interesting tasks, and can solve them, it elevates you to a level where you should always be able to get a job.
Learning a programming language is no big deal, I have programmed in a multiple of languages, and it does not take more than 2 days to be able to program and read sample code in a new language. Learning the API is the slow process. Getting used to the IDE takes some weeks. Takes years to master something like the iOS API. But you can get experienced in parts of it quickly.
If you are intelligent and have the problem solving skills, and human interaction skills, go to the recruitment companies, and they should be able to find a company that can't let a person like you pass.
He can probably not sell his seeds to Europe, we do not like genetically modified foods here. We let the americans be the Guinea Pigs of their own products. It seems like the US Government has the same slogan like "The Body Shop" when it comes to food: "Product not tested on animals". There is enough humans to test on.
Since God used the first crop of seeds to produce new plants, I think the whole patent issue boils down to this infrigement made by nature or God. Since Monsanto can't sure nature, they will have go for the big man himself. I think Monsanto needs to sue God or in his absence his nearest representative, the Pope, for making illegal copies of their seed.
They don't. Since in most cases they will not know who used the IP address, but only who paid for it, there should be no way they could get the name/address.
As an example, if both me, my wife and my son denies any knowledge of copyright infringement, how will they get a search warrant ? Whose computer will they search ? Can they get permission to search two innocent peoples computer just because those computers sometimes are at the address in question ? How about my sons friends computers who are used on our WLAN ? How about hackers ?
In Denmark we have had a few cases where the police just let people walk without a search as soon as they see there is an open WLAN. And open WLAN means that there is no evidence that anybody living at the address used the IP at the given time.
You should not expect much speedup from using a 10Mbyte/s memory card in front of a standard 150 MByte/s sustained transfer drive.
If the small files are stored in your cache, you might save some seek time. But you can't compare some ultra-slow USB / SDHC card to a 2-300 Mbyte/s SSD.
I tried the SDHC, did not work well. A fast USB 3.0 stick in a USB 2.0 port was way better, but still does not compare to SSD.
My C code works fine in C, C++, Objective C etc. C is the base for all portable code, unless you want something like Java, which I am skilled in, but never really liked. I prefer Perl og java any day. But yet, much of the syntax is the same, no matter which one of these languages you use. They are all C-like to some degree.
Animal testing is there to avoid testing on humans. Would you rather have poor humans as victims ? That is what I consider inhumane. Banks gives money to help people in need, and to help build companies providing jobs. Basicly they are doing good as well. Without banks, society would stop working, and everybody would live in hos own small 20 mile circle, not getting anything from outside. Defence industry I can understand you don't like. But if you write code for a missile defense system, or a terrorist detection unit, would that really be that bad ?
Of course there is also the option of becoming an independent contractor, then you can pick contracts after your ethics, and write iOS apps to make a living when there are no clients.
If the machine to virtualize on is more expensive than than the hardware things are coming from, you might not weant to virtualise. There is a little overhead, most important for I/O and bandwidth, so these you should look at. Our experience is, that in many cases SAN allocation is handled with a forklift, giving you first available space, instead of analysing disk load, and allocate spindles to the purpose. So SAN often will give a negative impact to your performance due to the SAN people not being up to the job.
The whole idea is to make it traceable. In Denmark, where most transaction are chip&pin, and more or less everybody has a bank account, it is illegal for shops to accept cash payments for anything above the value of about $3000. This is to fight black money (non-taxed income), that many people gets from criminal activities, or from jobs they forgets to tell the tax service about.
This is part of the current ongoing crusade against the people cheating the system. People now report to the tax service more than before when they suspect people abusing the system. Like using a company car for private purposes (very expensive. People using a large SUV often ends up paying $100.000+ in tax and fines for the abuse).
The iPad is the solution to your prayers. Lightweight, Soon to be Quad-core, unix, and apps for many things. Or if you don't care for apps, security and patches, get a cheaper Android.
In Europe, people buy their phone at true market prices. iPhone 4s is starting at 629 euros = 833 US$ in Germany. Telecoms gives little discount on longer contracts. But contracts are cheaper. In Europe you only pay for outgoing calls.
6 hours talk, 6GB data, unlimited SMS/MMS, free calls to the same providers subscribers: Typical price is $26/mo on most prepaid providers. 3 hours, 3GB data, unlimited SMS/MMS, free calls to same providers subscribers is around $18/mo.
After hitting data max, speed will be throttled from 4Mb/s (limit on theese small packages) to 128 kbit/s. No extra charge.
Samsung was not made unavailable because of anything related to patents.
This is purely design copy rulings. We do not have software patents in Europe.
So if Samsung made their device ugly, they could put all their software patent infringing technology inside, as long as it did not look and feel too much like an iDevice.
Fisher Technik has long ago been surpassed by Lego. When I was a child Fisher was big, but Lego Technic has completely replaced them in the retail space.
I would rather recommend starting out with Lego Technic, so they can learn the basic mechanics, and then add PF (Power Functions), and maybe end up with Mindstorm. But starting with Technic sets, you can see if they will have an interest.
Android is not outselling iOS. Android is free, and nobody pays for software on the platform.
9 out of 10 buying an Android does it because they want a touchscreen telephone that is good at mail, and does not completely suck at Internet. They do not care if it runs Android or something else. They care about price. Some of them have heard somebody say Android before they buy.
My mother bought an Android against my advice, she is not using it, and is afraid to do so after being charged (but later refunded) for some services she never ordered.
You can run any software you want an all IOS devices. In worst case (no jailbreak), you need to pay $100/year per 100 devices to sign all you warez with your own key.
It can't be signed by the EU before they change many EU laws, human rights laws etc. Disconnecting people from the Internet is not an option, as that is becoming the only way to communicate with the government, report taxes, sales/purchases of houses etc. Paranoid Americans without a working business model for their old tech can't stop all development in this world. The reason they don't sell that much music anymore is not because people copy it, it is because people do not have time for music, they spend the time on games, TV, Internet etc. And most music worth buying was made more than 10 years ago. They do not produce much good music these days. It will be difficult to make a "100 best hits from 2000-2010".
Italy makes lots of designer stuff. Stuff of same or lower value than competing products, but sold solely because how it looks. So it is important for the EU to protect designs.
EU does not recognize software patents.
BTW: Multitouch is a patent that Apple holds. So just prevent all competition from recognizing more than 1 finger would kill the competition.
Samsung is a company that had inside knowledge, producing to Apple, which is why they are in front of the competition.
It is you that do not follow how things are working. Phones and other devices (computers ?) actually uses the MAC address of wireless access points to do geolocation. You do not need to associate, but the SSID being broadcast in the open does comes with a MAC address, which is what most wifi databases actually use. This database is built through wardriving, and probably updated with client software on a multitude of devices.
A place like Copenhagen Airport tracks smartphones moving around with WiFi enabled, by the way of monitoring MAC addresses. They can anonymously follow you from arrival until you leave the airport. But it is used for congestion discovery and stuff like that, and to see where people are waiting or spending their time while waiting. MAC addresses is the hottest thing in WiFi location these days.
Bubblesort is a good way to show it to children. You can show it on the blackboard. Then assign each child a number, shuffle them, and then let them move around, and do the comparison.
If many children, you can make smaller groups, and finish with a merge sort (lowest number of the 3-4 rows steps forward).
Another simple one is making a maze. Then ask them how to get thru, given that you have breadcrumbs at your disposal. The algorithm might be turn right at every opportunity. Backtrack if cul-de-sac, and turn left, then stick to turn right. You need to make some special case, like a loop in the labyrinth (So you will get back to your breadcrumbs). Development is figuring out how to describe it in a way a computer will understand. It does only what it is told.
These are two examples of different difficulties. But gives a view into development. And the maze is a bit game like.
In most countries, a law like this would never be approved. I think there is a higher law that says you can not be convicted for crime you have not done. So if you are not downloading warez, they can not be penalized for that.
This is a law waiting for high court to throw it out.
Spent 100 hours writing a new "fart" app, put it on the app store, see 10+ mio downloads, and you can use that to get to an interview. Get a degree. Or just sell your experience the right way. And believe in your self.
Do not try to be too modest when writing the job application form. I have been sitting through many interviews where all the listed skills where actually areas of interests that the applicant thought sounded interesting, and would like to learn about. It is better the exaggerate a bit than being too modest, as long as it is within safety limits (i.e. you know enough to quickly become proficient).
A degree might help in some areas. But experience beats education for most jobs. Then you can always get something like a CISSP certification, which people has great respect for, but really is a trivial test, testing little knowledge in many areas (Non-IT folks find it hard though)
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Only been at a few job interviews, directly or with recruitment companies.
The one killer skill is problem solving skills. There are so many out there working with IT that really sucks at problem solving (or don't have the experience to do it reasonable fast). Another of their problem is their narrow area of skills.
There are lots of programmers (and other IT ppl) out there, just writing boring code, and who tries not to get any interesting / challenging tasks.If you are looing for the interesting tasks, and can solve them, it elevates you to a level where you should always be able to get a job.
Learning a programming language is no big deal, I have programmed in a multiple of languages, and it does not take more than 2 days to be able to program and read sample code in a new language. Learning the API is the slow process. Getting used to the IDE takes some weeks. Takes years to master something like the iOS API. But you can get experienced in parts of it quickly.
If you are intelligent and have the problem solving skills, and human interaction skills, go to the recruitment companies, and they should be able to find a company that can't let a person like you pass.
He can probably not sell his seeds to Europe, we do not like genetically modified foods here. We let the americans be the Guinea Pigs of their own products.
It seems like the US Government has the same slogan like "The Body Shop" when it comes to food: "Product not tested on animals". There is enough humans to test on.
Since God used the first crop of seeds to produce new plants, I think the whole patent issue boils down to this infrigement made by nature or God. Since Monsanto can't sure nature, they will have go for the big man himself.
I think Monsanto needs to sue God or in his absence his nearest representative, the Pope, for making illegal copies of their seed.
They don't. Since in most cases they will not know who used the IP address, but only who paid for it, there should be no way they could get the name/address.
As an example, if both me, my wife and my son denies any knowledge of copyright infringement, how will they get a search warrant ? Whose computer will they search ? Can they get permission to search two innocent peoples computer just because those computers sometimes are at the address in question ? How about my sons friends computers who are used on our WLAN ? How about hackers ?
In Denmark we have had a few cases where the police just let people walk without a search as soon as they see there is an open WLAN. And open WLAN means that there is no evidence that anybody living at the address used the IP at the given time.
You should not expect much speedup from using a 10Mbyte/s memory card in front of a standard 150 MByte/s sustained transfer drive.
If the small files are stored in your cache, you might save some seek time. But you can't compare some ultra-slow USB / SDHC card to a 2-300 Mbyte/s SSD.
I tried the SDHC, did not work well. A fast USB 3.0 stick in a USB 2.0 port was way better, but still does not compare to SSD.
Politicians knows that money is something they just borrow.
Inflation is the way God makes sure old debt are getting worthless and disappearing over time.
That is a fact of nature, and still compatible with creationism.
My C code works fine in C, C++, Objective C etc.
C is the base for all portable code, unless you want something like Java, which I am skilled in, but never really liked. I prefer Perl og java any day. But yet, much of the syntax is the same, no matter which one of these languages you use. They are all C-like to some degree.
Animal testing is there to avoid testing on humans. Would you rather have poor humans as victims ? That is what I consider inhumane.
Banks gives money to help people in need, and to help build companies providing jobs. Basicly they are doing good as well. Without banks, society would stop working, and everybody would live in hos own small 20 mile circle, not getting anything from outside.
Defence industry I can understand you don't like. But if you write code for a missile defense system, or a terrorist detection unit, would that really be that bad ?
Of course there is also the option of becoming an independent contractor, then you can pick contracts after your ethics, and write iOS apps to make a living when there are no clients.
If the machine to virtualize on is more expensive than than the hardware things are coming from, you might not weant to virtualise. There is a little overhead, most important for I/O and bandwidth, so these you should look at.
Our experience is, that in many cases SAN allocation is handled with a forklift, giving you first available space, instead of analysing disk load, and allocate spindles to the purpose. So SAN often will give a negative impact to your performance due to the SAN people not being up to the job.
The whole idea is to make it traceable.
In Denmark, where most transaction are chip&pin, and more or less everybody has a bank account, it is illegal for shops to accept cash payments for anything above the value of about $3000.
This is to fight black money (non-taxed income), that many people gets from criminal activities, or from jobs they forgets to tell the tax service about.
This is part of the current ongoing crusade against the people cheating the system. People now report to the tax service more than before when they suspect people abusing the system. Like using a company car for private purposes (very expensive. People using a large SUV often ends up paying $100.000+ in tax and fines for the abuse).
The iPad is the solution to your prayers.
Lightweight, Soon to be Quad-core, unix, and apps for many things.
Or if you don't care for apps, security and patches, get a cheaper Android.
OpenVPN on an openVZ virtual server. A 128k server to $2-3/months should be fine.
And OpenVPN is VPN over HTTP/HTTPS.
But organize a protest. It should be easy to get huge support for it. Start it up on facebook.
In Europe, people buy their phone at true market prices. iPhone 4s is starting at 629 euros = 833 US$ in Germany.
Telecoms gives little discount on longer contracts. But contracts are cheaper. In Europe you only pay for outgoing calls.
6 hours talk, 6GB data, unlimited SMS/MMS, free calls to the same providers subscribers: Typical price is $26/mo on most prepaid providers.
3 hours, 3GB data, unlimited SMS/MMS, free calls to same providers subscribers is around $18/mo.
After hitting data max, speed will be throttled from 4Mb/s (limit on theese small packages) to 128 kbit/s. No extra charge.
Samsung was not made unavailable because of anything related to patents.
This is purely design copy rulings. We do not have software patents in Europe.
So if Samsung made their device ugly, they could put all their software patent infringing technology inside, as long as it did not look and feel too much like an iDevice.
Fisher Technik has long ago been surpassed by Lego.
When I was a child Fisher was big, but Lego Technic has completely replaced them in the retail space.
I would rather recommend starting out with Lego Technic, so they can learn the basic mechanics, and then add PF (Power Functions), and maybe end up with Mindstorm. But starting with Technic sets, you can see if they will have an interest.
Android is not outselling iOS.
Android is free, and nobody pays for software on the platform.
9 out of 10 buying an Android does it because they want a touchscreen telephone that is good at mail, and does not completely suck at Internet. They do not care if it runs Android or something else. They care about price. Some of them have heard somebody say Android before they buy.
My mother bought an Android against my advice, she is not using it, and is afraid to do so after being charged (but later refunded) for some services she never ordered.
You can run any software you want an all IOS devices.
In worst case (no jailbreak), you need to pay $100/year per 100 devices to sign all you warez with your own key.
It can't be signed by the EU before they change many EU laws, human rights laws etc.
Disconnecting people from the Internet is not an option, as that is becoming the only way to communicate with the government, report taxes, sales/purchases of houses etc.
Paranoid Americans without a working business model for their old tech can't stop all development in this world. The reason they don't sell that much music anymore is not because people copy it, it is because people do not have time for music, they spend the time on games, TV, Internet etc. And most music worth buying was made more than 10 years ago. They do not produce much good music these days. It will be difficult to make a "100 best hits from 2000-2010".
Italy makes lots of designer stuff. Stuff of same or lower value than competing products, but sold solely because how it looks. So it is important for the EU to protect designs.
EU does not recognize software patents.
BTW: Multitouch is a patent that Apple holds. So just prevent all competition from recognizing more than 1 finger would kill the competition.
Samsung is a company that had inside knowledge, producing to Apple, which is why they are in front of the competition.
It is you that do not follow how things are working.
Phones and other devices (computers ?) actually uses the MAC address of wireless access points to do geolocation. You do not need to associate, but the SSID being broadcast in the open does comes with a MAC address, which is what most wifi databases actually use. This database is built through wardriving, and probably updated with client software on a multitude of devices.
A place like Copenhagen Airport tracks smartphones moving around with WiFi enabled, by the way of monitoring MAC addresses. They can anonymously follow you from arrival until you leave the airport. But it is used for congestion discovery and stuff like that, and to see where people are waiting or spending their time while waiting. MAC addresses is the hottest thing in WiFi location these days.
Bubblesort is a good way to show it to children.
You can show it on the blackboard. Then assign each child a number, shuffle them, and then let them move around, and do the comparison.
If many children, you can make smaller groups, and finish with a merge sort (lowest number of the 3-4 rows steps forward).
Another simple one is making a maze. Then ask them how to get thru, given that you have breadcrumbs at your disposal. The algorithm might be turn right at every opportunity. Backtrack if cul-de-sac, and turn left, then stick to turn right. You need to make some special case, like a loop in the labyrinth (So you will get back to your breadcrumbs). Development is figuring out how to describe it in a way a computer will understand. It does only what it is told.
These are two examples of different difficulties. But gives a view into development. And the maze is a bit game like.
In most countries, a law like this would never be approved.
I think there is a higher law that says you can not be convicted for crime you have not done.
So if you are not downloading warez, they can not be penalized for that.
This is a law waiting for high court to throw it out.
Would like an invite as well.
pope (at) my.terminal.dk
Apple's App Store allows you to pause and resume downloads. So that would be fine. Not sure if you can script it though.
Spent 100 hours writing a new "fart" app, put it on the app store, see 10+ mio downloads, and you can use that to get to an interview.
Get a degree. Or just sell your experience the right way. And believe in your self.
Do not try to be too modest when writing the job application form. I have been sitting through many interviews where all the listed skills where actually areas of interests that the applicant thought sounded interesting, and would like to learn about. It is better the exaggerate a bit than being too modest, as long as it is within safety limits (i.e. you know enough to quickly become proficient).
A degree might help in some areas. But experience beats education for most jobs. Then you can always get something like a CISSP certification, which people has great respect for, but really is a trivial test, testing little knowledge in many areas (Non-IT folks find it hard though)