Coding isn't a high speed typing jobs. I actually learned to touch type fairly well... However because I am a software developer I rarely if ever type at my full speed. That and combined with the fact that I am a horible speller that means I need to type slower to think about what the heck I am spelling. However every once in a while when I have a book in front of me I can type rather fast. But that is not very often as I am a Software Developer not a data entry person. But touch typing is useful, Even though when you start it is slower then your first method. I know I rarely ever look at the keyboard when I am typing only perhaps when I need to use some of the less common symbols eg. "!@#$%^&*()_+=-`~/;':[]\{}|" Or when I switch to a new keyboard that doesn't have indents under the f & j keys.
That said. I don't think touch typing is an extremely important class though. Perhaps 1 semester In like 6th grade, when you are expected to write more. Also the future is hard to tell. Watching teenagers type text messages on non-QWERTY keyboards makes me wonder what will happen in the future.
These are educated scholars. They are not expected to be able to think for themselves or find new and interesting things to take advantage. If it is old tried and true and just as long as someone else said it in the past then it is insightful.
After World War I and World War II the victors split up countries. Including countries in the Middle East. After World War II the Major Victors are USA, UK, and the USSR. Now USA and UK for the most part have Excellent Relations (Sure we make fun of each others funny accents and the adding and removal of vowels in our spellings) but for the most part we are on the same page. USSR wasn't they had their own agenda which we didn't care about. So when we setup these nations we did so for political reasons not for what is necessarily best for the countries. Now bordering the USSR is a country called Turkey. They are influential enough to more or less keep their own borders but they had issues with the people to the south of them. So the USA and UK who didn't want turkey to go to the USSR and the USSR who didn't want the USA and UK have full control of the region. Especially a nice little water inlet to the Black Sea that bordered the USSR. So these huge countries sucked up to Turkey, and for the Most part Turkey profited from both sides. Now Turkey had a bit of trouble with those People south of them. So when we rearranged all the borders we created a nice little country called Iraq, to make sure the people causing those problems for Turkey are part of a minority. Now this new country called Iraq needed unity. So they could have gone to Communism however the USA and UK didn't want that so they supported dictators to take control of these countries (as it was not Communism), and they figure it was the least of 2 evils. We also did this with many other countries. When the USSR invaded a little know country called Afghanistan. To prevent the spread of Communism we gave weapons to them to fight them off. After the Afghanis won we more or less just left and leaved them alone as they didn't have much resources we cared about (which left a bitter taste in their mouth). Now Iraq on the other hand we didn't leave as much alone they had Oil which we needed. So we around looking for their resources however ignoring their living conditions so they got a bad taste in their mouth too) after a few years of being bitter it becomes more of an excess grasping at straws in religious texts they finally turn to violence. And as you should know we are now in War with both countries.
Second. During World War II in order to calculate where to aim our cannons we created a computer. Then later we used such systems to help create the A-Bomb and after showing that it works and that we would use it. Created our good old Friend the USSR to get scared of the USA and make their own bombs. Hence the cold war. Now the USA figured the USSR being a bit more militaristic would bomb the USA. So we figured we need a way to keep communications up even after a huge infrastructure hit. So we Made the Arpanet which then became the Internet.
Every generation is considered worse then the previous...
20's Jazz Music and dancing will corrupt the Generation and make them dumb. 30's Cinema will corrupt the Generation and make them dumb. 40's Umm Historically I am not to sure. They just kinda went to world war II 50's Comic Book will corrupt the Generation and make them dumb. 60's Rock And Roll will corrupt the Generation and make them dumb. 70's Disco will corrupt the Generation and make them dumb. 80's TV will corrupt the Generation and make them dumb. 90's Web/Instant Messages will corrupt the Generation and make them dumb. 00's Texting will corrupt the Generation and make them dumb.
Or you can hire people to interview and get jobs at different companies have them go to their local systems on their first day/week and get such data and bring it back for data analysis later, then quit after a couple of week because they "didn't think the job was a good fit for them." SaaS and Cloud computing isn't really that scary. And post like your make it seem that the Evil that could come from it. Will outweigh the good that it currently offers. A lot of the complaints about SaaS are the same ones that started 50 years ago about people loosing their jobs when computers started coming in. What happened a new industry came up out of it. The same thing with SaaS. SaaS is more efficient, then the traditional method. New Efficiencies cause change. People hate change and will make excuses to stop it. Yes SaaS will probably cause a lot of Local System Administrator jobs. However some of them will then in turn work for a SaaS company. However what will probably really happen is just less demand for System Administrators means less people entering that position. Meaning there won't be a huge layoff of all System Administration Jobs. But as companies slowly migrate to SaaS there will be some people going to do the same work at the SaaS and others will be retiring and not getting replaced. Some may find a new real passion in life (not all System Administrators really care to be such). So all in all things will work themselves out. Sorry the computer industry is no longer the hip and trendy industry.
Next ownership of data and protection. Having worked in different SaaS shops, and I am not talking about the freebees or the ultra cheap stuff (that make their money from leveraging all the data the collect) but actually charge monthly fees to do the work. And guess what The Data belongs to the owners. If they want it we give it to them. We work hard to make sure there is no cross contamination of data and any data analyitics of their data is done with their permission. Like any other business decision working with a different company you need to make sure your license does what you want. You hear about security breaches. However statistically you are better off. Sure there is a chance it may go out in the open by mistake. However for the most part with professionals working on your data and others to make sure it is safe. for the most part it is better off then most companies IT shop with one Administrator who is in the middle of fixing everyones PC while their servers get hacked. Is SaaS 100% no can you honestly say your business is?
RMS rant. RMS is always looking for the next big thing to say is evil. He is a real downer most of the time. The only way he sees people to make money with software is to pay for support and consulting services. He doesn't realize that a lot of the SaaS is operated with Open Source Software and there is little preventing you to run such software locally. However the SaaS advantage isn't the source code but the internal infrastructure.
I don't see it locking out Microsoft. But for the most part Microsoft doesn't really want to make Mac Software, but they do, as it is profitable, and prevents the Full Switch.
Dropping Office will hurt Microsoft More then it will hurt Apple (and it will hurt both) If you dropped Office then there will be a bunch of people with Macs who will email people back and say I need this in a different format. So people will become more use to converting documents. So when people get into the habit of say saving their Docs as PDF etc... They will find that other tools will work just as well.
Dropping Remote Desktop will hurt Microsoft Too. RDP keeps the Mac User Pacified while he is working on remote windows systems. So they will keep the windows terminal servers knowing that they won't get to much hassle from the Mac users.
Dropping Microsoft Messager is kinda a stupid idea. So much competiton if there was to many people say hey I cant do that. They will just switch.
If you realized Microsoft did Drop IE for Mac. Why well it wasn't updated and second IE is no longer a key to Microsoft Business as Web Developers started to make more browser compatible sites. And relied much less on Microsoft only tools. So when Safari came out there was no point in fighting it. It is just an expense with no gain.
Exchange is only really useful for corporate use hindering such functionality to the Mac would cause people to switch to such oddities such as Gasp LDAP and other tools.
Mac is the second largest OS for personal use out there. There is enough vocal to cause change if it spoke loud about it. Linux users you are still around 1% so your cry goes to deaf ears.
I don't see to many big companies Pressing to keep A.M. going. I think there will be more pressure to go with FM Digital and Satellite. Sometimes research takes a wile to come with good results. And sometimes it is not what you expect and there is no conspiracy it is just someones theory didn't pan out.
I really wish that these colleges and universities would get off their high horse and realize they are running a for profit institution. This semester I am paying $2500 (rounded down) for 2 3 credit classes. So there are about 30 students per class, on average and most in my program are also taking 2 classes a semester. So... Per class the college is netting in $37,500.00 per 3 credit class. Now the professor will teach on average 3 classes a semester. So that is $112,500.00 per professor a semester. So double that to $225,000.00 a year. Now a good professor will probably make 80k a year (if you add up benefits) leaving $145,000.00. Then the college brings in more money from grants and other funds too. Now after everything is said and done where is the rest of your money going to? I can't see all that going into operational costs. Where does it go into... Profit or what they call it Excess Revenue and they will try find ways to spend it.
If the college realize that they were running a for profit institution and made no false pretense about it. I think they will put more focus on making it more focused on doing what it is supposed to be doing educating people, and research. And find a way to keep costs down to the customer so they can get more students, to add to the revenue.
Life in America has gotten so easy that most people will grasp at straws so they can be outraged about something. You know... To keep them busy and feel like they are actually doing something important... And to um... Keep themselves out of trouble.
I think these people can do more good other then trying to destroy them and pointless protesting (having done work in Albany, Up in the towers 20th floor where all the big decision makers are located, You can have a huge protest of thousands of people and people up there will have no idea what it is about. Heck they could probably do more good by doing things like say organizing a towns recycling policy and get more people to participate. Help setup a socal network where you can increase car pooling by finding people who go to like locations and work similar hours.
Well I know I would stumble on why is #define foo(x) x*x worse then #define foo(x) (x)*(x). But that is because I don't have much C/C++ experience outside of college. And college never really went deep into #define other then for enumeration. However Giving a problem to solve a square should be fairly basic across most languages. int squre(int x) { return x*x } I would have actually gone a little more complex and have them make a power function int power(int x, int tothe) { if (tothe == 0) return 0; else if (tothe == 1) return x; else return x*power(x, tothe-1); }
Of course for a job interview I would actually make the code a bit more readable. But I think we should check on how they solve problems and less on what they can google later. The trick is to see if they know how to google the right questions.
But you do now know who you competition is though. Especially in a world wide recession. You may be the top dog but world wide... Perhaps not. ANd perhaps you are too focused on one area/technology that you are not a good fit.
References Even good ones from high people may not mean much. As you may be the only tech in your department or your references exposure to good workers is limited. Or just the fact that your work was sufficiently different then what you are applying for that we need to see if you can think on your feet and not just add an other year to the drop box to choose a year.
There are a lot of geeks who can talk the talk. I remember a kid in high school who knew all the buzzwords who read the entire PKZip manual for fun... However failed out of CS when he went to college because he had 0 problem solving skills.
References and recommendations are good for checking up on your character. If you are punctual attend meetings good contributor etc... Speaking about your subject intelligently shows that you have a some semi-formal understanding of the material, so you can understand the requirements given to you and respond back with ideas and questions at an OK level.
Taking a test is to check your problem solving skills.
So your electrician test wouldn't be about Ohm's law but more how would you arrange the wires for best efficiency. Now the applicant may use Ohm's law or he may just use his experience but seeing the results. I don't see this insulting it is a method for him to really attempt to shine above the rest.
If my prospective boss isn't sharp enough to know that I know my stuff after a brief conversation and a look at my credentials, then I'll happily work for his competition. You are forgetting my original concern This is a world wide search. People have different values of truth and embellishment. In the US there is more straight talk, Say... Reality your job was telephone support for a Fortune 100 company. In the USA you would say you were doing telephone support and explain your customer skills and able to adapt to customs varying questions and how you learned the app and know when to send a bug report in.
Now in an other country With the same Job you may have said you were Part of the software development team for this Fortune 100 company (as you placed bug reports which makes you part of the team) Your coding skills are still rather weak but you have some and you can talk the talk. So with a short interview and a look at your credentials you may look like a good match. Where in reality you weren't
Microsoft SQL server it is then. If you ware willing to put Anti-Microsoft Zealousness aside It really is a decent Database Server. Not quite as heavy duty as Oracle, but good enough for most real world applications. The SQL coding is fairly portable across other Database servers (about the same amount of differences that are across them) So you are really just as stuck with MS SQL as you are with any other solution. There are PHP and other Language drivers that work well with it too.
Well the interviewee was kinda tactless. But for the most part fitting into the company culture is more important then skills. Skills (espctially technical skills) can be easily learned, really it isn't that tough if you are willing to try (sorry to dash all you geeks out there who think you have superior intellect because you can read C code) but being able to fit into a culture is important. Some companies work with Yes Man activity where you are just the extra arms for a single tough process, which in some cases does work. Other times they want someone who can be completely independent and do all their work without intervention. Sometimes they need people who are more team players who can speak their mind but once a final decision is made do the work whether they like it or not.
Also you realize every spot on earth has an average of 12 hours of sunlight a year. Just distributed differently depending on your latitude.
So you may get 3 months where it is to sunny to do real work. (time to write you papers) but you also get 3 months of 24 hours of operation during the winter. Between that you can ramp up and down. Yea it is bit crazy for HR but still you get the same amount of functionally as any other earth telescope.
When you look back in history say your Grandmothers life. You have historical blinders (We look at advancements in periods of decades, and get to see things by choosing select locations). Electricity took roughly 50-75 years to be deployed and common across all american households espectially in rural areas. The Telephone the same thing. Not until the late 50's were the inventions made 50 years ago become commonplace even in rural areas. How long did we just have the 3 main TV stations CBS, ABC, NBC. I remember having and being able to buy B&W TVs well into the 90's.
We are less interested in Mechanical advances and more into information advances.
And any problems with such rockets will be blamed on newbees who did it wrong or rather snobbishly add that you needed to add a customized component to work at different latitudes. As it is clearly written in the middle of the 10,000 manual under stuff you probably don't need to know, and written in greek for good measure.
Why would you fire the guy who caused it. He would probably be the most carful employee after that. People learn from mistakes firing people even for big mistakes isn't a solid business model and bad HR.
is to not use Microsoft Technologies. Seems to make sense to me. Using Microsoft Technologies you get canned solutions that do things that have been done over and over before. Breaking from them allow you to make wonderful apps.
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Coding isn't a high speed typing jobs. I actually learned to touch type fairly well... However because I am a software developer I rarely if ever type at my full speed. That and combined with the fact that I am a horible speller that means I need to type slower to think about what the heck I am spelling. However every once in a while when I have a book in front of me I can type rather fast. But that is not very often as I am a Software Developer not a data entry person. But touch typing is useful, Even though when you start it is slower then your first method. I know I rarely ever look at the keyboard when I am typing only perhaps when I need to use some of the less common symbols eg. "!@#$%^&*()_+=-`~/;':[]\{}|" Or when I switch to a new keyboard that doesn't have indents under the f & j keys.
That said. I don't think touch typing is an extremely important class though. Perhaps 1 semester In like 6th grade, when you are expected to write more. Also the future is hard to tell. Watching teenagers type text messages on non-QWERTY keyboards makes me wonder what will happen in the future.
These are educated scholars. They are not expected to be able to think for themselves or find new and interesting things to take advantage. If it is old tried and true and just as long as someone else said it in the past then it is insightful.
Probably however if Apple was really smart they woudln't have put an Apple Store in New Jersey... What where they thinking.
After World War I and World War II the victors split up countries. Including countries in the Middle East. After World War II the Major Victors are USA, UK, and the USSR. Now USA and UK for the most part have Excellent Relations (Sure we make fun of each others funny accents and the adding and removal of vowels in our spellings) but for the most part we are on the same page. USSR wasn't they had their own agenda which we didn't care about. So when we setup these nations we did so for political reasons not for what is necessarily best for the countries. Now bordering the USSR is a country called Turkey. They are influential enough to more or less keep their own borders but they had issues with the people to the south of them. So the USA and UK who didn't want turkey to go to the USSR and the USSR who didn't want the USA and UK have full control of the region. Especially a nice little water inlet to the Black Sea that bordered the USSR. So these huge countries sucked up to Turkey, and for the Most part Turkey profited from both sides. Now Turkey had a bit of trouble with those People south of them. So when we rearranged all the borders we created a nice little country called Iraq, to make sure the people causing those problems for Turkey are part of a minority. Now this new country called Iraq needed unity. So they could have gone to Communism however the USA and UK didn't want that so they supported dictators to take control of these countries (as it was not Communism), and they figure it was the least of 2 evils. We also did this with many other countries. When the USSR invaded a little know country called Afghanistan. To prevent the spread of Communism we gave weapons to them to fight them off. After the Afghanis won we more or less just left and leaved them alone as they didn't have much resources we cared about (which left a bitter taste in their mouth). Now Iraq on the other hand we didn't leave as much alone they had Oil which we needed. So we around looking for their resources however ignoring their living conditions so they got a bad taste in their mouth too) after a few years of being bitter it becomes more of an excess grasping at straws in religious texts they finally turn to violence. And as you should know we are now in War with both countries.
Second. During World War II in order to calculate where to aim our cannons we created a computer. Then later we used such systems to help create the A-Bomb and after showing that it works and that we would use it. Created our good old Friend the USSR to get scared of the USA and make their own bombs. Hence the cold war. Now the USA figured the USSR being a bit more militaristic would bomb the USA. So we figured we need a way to keep communications up even after a huge infrastructure hit. So we Made the Arpanet which then became the Internet.
Every generation is considered worse then the previous...
20's Jazz Music and dancing will corrupt the Generation and make them dumb.
30's Cinema will corrupt the Generation and make them dumb.
40's Umm Historically I am not to sure. They just kinda went to world war II
50's Comic Book will corrupt the Generation and make them dumb.
60's Rock And Roll will corrupt the Generation and make them dumb.
70's Disco will corrupt the Generation and make them dumb.
80's TV will corrupt the Generation and make them dumb.
90's Web/Instant Messages will corrupt the Generation and make them dumb.
00's Texting will corrupt the Generation and make them dumb.
Or you can hire people to interview and get jobs at different companies have them go to their local systems on their first day/week and get such data and bring it back for data analysis later, then quit after a couple of week because they "didn't think the job was a good fit for them." SaaS and Cloud computing isn't really that scary. And post like your make it seem that the Evil that could come from it. Will outweigh the good that it currently offers. A lot of the complaints about SaaS are the same ones that started 50 years ago about people loosing their jobs when computers started coming in. What happened a new industry came up out of it. The same thing with SaaS. SaaS is more efficient, then the traditional method. New Efficiencies cause change. People hate change and will make excuses to stop it. Yes SaaS will probably cause a lot of Local System Administrator jobs. However some of them will then in turn work for a SaaS company. However what will probably really happen is just less demand for System Administrators means less people entering that position. Meaning there won't be a huge layoff of all System Administration Jobs. But as companies slowly migrate to SaaS there will be some people going to do the same work at the SaaS and others will be retiring and not getting replaced. Some may find a new real passion in life (not all System Administrators really care to be such). So all in all things will work themselves out. Sorry the computer industry is no longer the hip and trendy industry.
Next ownership of data and protection. Having worked in different SaaS shops, and I am not talking about the freebees or the ultra cheap stuff (that make their money from leveraging all the data the collect) but actually charge monthly fees to do the work. And guess what The Data belongs to the owners. If they want it we give it to them. We work hard to make sure there is no cross contamination of data and any data analyitics of their data is done with their permission. Like any other business decision working with a different company you need to make sure your license does what you want. You hear about security breaches. However statistically you are better off. Sure there is a chance it may go out in the open by mistake. However for the most part with professionals working on your data and others to make sure it is safe. for the most part it is better off then most companies IT shop with one Administrator who is in the middle of fixing everyones PC while their servers get hacked. Is SaaS 100% no can you honestly say your business is?
RMS rant. RMS is always looking for the next big thing to say is evil. He is a real downer most of the time. The only way he sees people to make money with software is to pay for support and consulting services. He doesn't realize that a lot of the SaaS is operated with Open Source Software and there is little preventing you to run such software locally. However the SaaS advantage isn't the source code but the internal infrastructure.
I don't see it locking out Microsoft. But for the most part Microsoft doesn't really want to make Mac Software, but they do, as it is profitable, and prevents the Full Switch.
Dropping Office will hurt Microsoft More then it will hurt Apple (and it will hurt both) If you dropped Office then there will be a bunch of people with Macs who will email people back and say I need this in a different format. So people will become more use to converting documents. So when people get into the habit of say saving their Docs as PDF etc... They will find that other tools will work just as well.
Dropping Remote Desktop will hurt Microsoft Too. RDP keeps the Mac User Pacified while he is working on remote windows systems. So they will keep the windows terminal servers knowing that they won't get to much hassle from the Mac users.
Dropping Microsoft Messager is kinda a stupid idea. So much competiton if there was to many people say hey I cant do that. They will just switch.
If you realized Microsoft did Drop IE for Mac. Why well it wasn't updated and second IE is no longer a key to Microsoft Business as Web Developers started to make more browser compatible sites. And relied much less on Microsoft only tools. So when Safari came out there was no point in fighting it. It is just an expense with no gain.
Exchange is only really useful for corporate use hindering such functionality to the Mac would cause people to switch to such oddities such as Gasp LDAP and other tools.
Mac is the second largest OS for personal use out there. There is enough vocal to cause change if it spoke loud about it. Linux users you are still around 1% so your cry goes to deaf ears.
I don't see to many big companies Pressing to keep A.M. going. I think there will be more pressure to go with FM Digital and Satellite. Sometimes research takes a wile to come with good results. And sometimes it is not what you expect and there is no conspiracy it is just someones theory didn't pan out.
I really wish that these colleges and universities would get off their high horse and realize they are running a for profit institution. This semester I am paying $2500 (rounded down) for 2 3 credit classes.
So there are about 30 students per class, on average and most in my program are also taking 2 classes a semester. So... Per class the college is netting in $37,500.00 per 3 credit class.
Now the professor will teach on average 3 classes a semester. So that is $112,500.00 per professor a semester. So double that to $225,000.00 a year. Now a good professor will probably make 80k a year (if you add up benefits) leaving $145,000.00. Then the college brings in more money from grants and other funds too. Now after everything is said and done where is the rest of your money going to? I can't see all that going into operational costs. Where does it go into... Profit or what they call it Excess Revenue and they will try find ways to spend it.
If the college realize that they were running a for profit institution and made no false pretense about it. I think they will put more focus on making it more focused on doing what it is supposed to be doing educating people, and research. And find a way to keep costs down to the customer so they can get more students, to add to the revenue.
Life in America has gotten so easy that most people will grasp at straws so they can be outraged about something. You know... To keep them busy and feel like they are actually doing something important... And to um... Keep themselves out of trouble.
I think these people can do more good other then trying to destroy them and pointless protesting (having done work in Albany, Up in the towers 20th floor where all the big decision makers are located, You can have a huge protest of thousands of people and people up there will have no idea what it is about. Heck they could probably do more good by doing things like say organizing a towns recycling policy and get more people to participate. Help setup a socal network where you can increase car pooling by finding people who go to like locations and work similar hours.
Linux vendor
I agree with your assessment I think there is only 1 Linux vendor out there.
Sales even when done ethically tends to focus on the strengths of your product vs. the competition.
Unless you already have offices world wide. It is a small software development department... Big Company.
Well I know I would stumble on why is #define foo(x) x*x worse then #define foo(x) (x)*(x). But that is because I don't have much C/C++ experience outside of college. And college never really went deep into #define other then for enumeration. However Giving a problem to solve a square should be fairly basic across most languages.
int squre(int x) { return x*x }
I would have actually gone a little more complex and have them make a power function
int power(int x, int tothe) { if (tothe == 0) return 0; else if (tothe == 1) return x; else return x*power(x, tothe-1); }
Of course for a job interview I would actually make the code a bit more readable. But I think we should check on how they solve problems and less on what they can google later. The trick is to see if they know how to google the right questions.
But you do now know who you competition is though. Especially in a world wide recession. You may be the top dog but world wide... Perhaps not. ANd perhaps you are too focused on one area/technology that you are not a good fit.
References Even good ones from high people may not mean much. As you may be the only tech in your department or your references exposure to good workers is limited. Or just the fact that your work was sufficiently different then what you are applying for that we need to see if you can think on your feet and not just add an other year to the drop box to choose a year.
There are a lot of geeks who can talk the talk. I remember a kid in high school who knew all the buzzwords who read the entire PKZip manual for fun... However failed out of CS when he went to college because he had 0 problem solving skills.
References and recommendations are good for checking up on your character. If you are punctual attend meetings good contributor etc...
Speaking about your subject intelligently shows that you have a some semi-formal understanding of the material, so you can understand the requirements given to you and respond back with ideas and questions at an OK level.
Taking a test is to check your problem solving skills.
So your electrician test wouldn't be about Ohm's law but more how would you arrange the wires for best efficiency.
Now the applicant may use Ohm's law or he may just use his experience but seeing the results. I don't see this insulting it is a method for him to really attempt to shine above the rest.
If my prospective boss isn't sharp enough to know that I know my stuff after a brief conversation and a look at my credentials, then I'll happily work for his competition.
You are forgetting my original concern This is a world wide search. People have different values of truth and embellishment. In the US there is more straight talk, Say... Reality your job was telephone support for a Fortune 100 company. In the USA you would say you were doing telephone support and explain your customer skills and able to adapt to customs varying questions and how you learned the app and know when to send a bug report in.
Now in an other country With the same Job you may have said you were Part of the software development team for this Fortune 100 company (as you placed bug reports which makes you part of the team) Your coding skills are still rather weak but you have some and you can talk the talk. So with a short interview and a look at your credentials you may look like a good match. Where in reality you weren't
Microsoft SQL server it is then. If you ware willing to put Anti-Microsoft Zealousness aside It really is a decent Database Server. Not quite as heavy duty as Oracle, but good enough for most real world applications.
The SQL coding is fairly portable across other Database servers (about the same amount of differences that are across them) So you are really just as stuck with MS SQL as you are with any other solution. There are PHP and other Language drivers that work well with it too.
Well the interviewee was kinda tactless. But for the most part fitting into the company culture is more important then skills. Skills (espctially technical skills) can be easily learned, really it isn't that tough if you are willing to try (sorry to dash all you geeks out there who think you have superior intellect because you can read C code) but being able to fit into a culture is important. Some companies work with Yes Man activity where you are just the extra arms for a single tough process, which in some cases does work. Other times they want someone who can be completely independent and do all their work without intervention. Sometimes they need people who are more team players who can speak their mind but once a final decision is made do the work whether they like it or not.
So when there is a mistake there will just be finger pointing. Not fixing the problem.
Also you realize every spot on earth has an average of 12 hours of sunlight a year. Just distributed differently depending on your latitude.
So you may get 3 months where it is to sunny to do real work. (time to write you papers) but you also get 3 months of 24 hours of operation during the winter. Between that you can ramp up and down. Yea it is bit crazy for HR but still you get the same amount of functionally as any other earth telescope.
When you look back in history say your Grandmothers life. You have historical blinders (We look at advancements in periods of decades, and get to see things by choosing select locations).
Electricity took roughly 50-75 years to be deployed and common across all american households espectially in rural areas.
The Telephone the same thing. Not until the late 50's were the inventions made 50 years ago become commonplace even in rural areas.
How long did we just have the 3 main TV stations CBS, ABC, NBC. I remember having and being able to buy B&W TVs well into the 90's.
We are less interested in Mechanical advances and more into information advances.
And any problems with such rockets will be blamed on newbees who did it wrong or rather snobbishly add that you needed to add a customized component to work at different latitudes. As it is clearly written in the middle of the 10,000 manual under stuff you probably don't need to know, and written in greek for good measure.
Why would you fire the guy who caused it. He would probably be the most carful employee after that. People learn from mistakes firing people even for big mistakes isn't a solid business model and bad HR.
is to not use Microsoft Technologies. Seems to make sense to me. Using Microsoft Technologies you get canned solutions that do things that have been done over and over before. Breaking from them allow you to make wonderful apps.
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