Practice behavior-based interview questions out loud. Have a friend ask them and give feedback if possible. They will help you give a great interview. If you still don't get the job, you may not be a fit.
Maybe this is not relevant, but I was amazed out how accurately this hundred year old book described modern society.
No one produces anything but they use screens to share ideas. They share with others who may be near or far but never face to face. The screens give a vague approximation of the person on the other end. Everyone is happy until the machine stops working. When it does, they complain about it on their screens.
seriously, dont bother. I use RHEL at work. It's really cool and has a bash shell that is way better than Cygwin. But i can't play music (you don't get mp3 codec by default and I haven't been able to figure out how to install it). Many YouTube videos don't play (I'm not sure why. They work fine on windows or a Mac). I can't get flash to work in the browser which renders things like rhapsody useless (I followed all the instructions given to me by adobe and google chrome but it still doesn't work).
The fact is that Linux looks better and better each year, gets more and more user-friendly but at the end of the day it doesn't do most of the stuff that non-techies do with their computers (listen to music and watch cat videos). I'm sure it's possible but I'm a reasonably smart dude who is comfortable in a unix environment and I haven't been able to get it to do any "fun" stuff. Your friends are going to hate it.
digital audio, regardless of the bit-depth and sampling rate, will NEVER truly represent the analog wave form. the analog wave form is the music in its purest form. your ears are analog and so is the sound source (the guitar amp or piano). even if you are playing a digital synthesizer, at some point, the sound will get converted to analog (headphones or speakers) so your ears can hear it. digital audio turns that smooth analog wave into a stair-step. again, it will never completely, truly and accurately reproduce the analog wave. we are stuck in a format with the CD that is 16-bit, 44.1KHz. higher bit-depths and sampling rates will create a stair-step that is a closer representation of the analog curve, but it will never be exactly there. there's a point as you approach the limit where it's unlikely that anyone would be able to tell the difference but, given the move toward easily downloadable distribution, no big player is giong to invest in that 48-bit, 192KHz format (or whatever - i just made up those numbers). I think this is why vinyl is the best option (and I'm not a "vinyl guy" - I have maybe a dozen or so records and 10,000+ digital audio files). despite its flaws, it's readily available and produces the full sound of the source material in a way that the CD (or mp3, etc) cannot. it's weird to think that we'd already reached the peak of audio fidelity without even realizing.
OK - first off: you can't turn fat into muscle. you can lost fat and gain muscle but one doesn't turn into the other. second (this one is actually a question) for years and years I've heard people say "muscle weighs more than fat" - can anyone tell me definitely how much more? is it 1% more? 50% more? 600% more? "more" is not a very useful term (in this case) without quantification
you're kidding, right? VLC and WMP have offensive user interfaces - I actually really, REALLY like iTunes - I hated it at first (when I was switching from winamp) but now, it would take a lot to make me switch back.
Frakin' cry babies. Suck it up, wipe off your crocodile tears, and make something awesome.
telling a "cry baby" to wipe off his "crocodile tears" doesn't make any sense - if he's a cry baby, he's crying for real - if it's crocodile tears, then it's fake
give it a rest, bro - you speak as if people would choose linux if they "had a choice" - majority rules and the majority wants something familiar and has no interest in linux despite how much a few hundred slashdot nerds like to tout that it's ready for mainstream desktop acceptance - yawn.
not really, but I do live just a few blocks from the address shown on this dude's blog - there are WAAAAAY worse neighborhoods in chicago - this is hardly sketchy at all
I've been using AT&T now for 10+ years - people complain about them, I've never had an issue - maybe I could pay a little less, or have one or two minor things better, but they've always worked for me - I pay my bill on time and when I hit "send" the call connects - then, the iphone showed up and I wanted one and I got to have it - yay - I stood in line for one june 29, 2007 - they sold out of 8GB ones, so I bought the 4GB - I still have it - I wanted the 3G, but the app store & 2.0 firmware alone last summer were the big sellers, so I skipped that generation - it's now been 2 years and I'm eligible for an upgrade - this is the way it's always been with AT&T - stick around, and you'll get a deal, but you don't get discounts every time you ask for one - is that a huge loss? not really. if you have a 3G already, ask yourself how badly you want the 3GS features - if you want them badly enough, pay for them - if not, then wait - it's only 1 year out of your life in which you'll still have a super cool phone - you'll be fine
it sounds like me like those are run-of-the-mill PCs from 10-15 years ago that still meet his, limited, needs for work. he's not gaming or interwebbing or anything. Just buy him a run-of-the-mill PC from today and he'll still be using it in 15 years. 15 years ago everyone was freaking out that computers are "going to go obsolete as soon as" you buy one - right. it's not really that - it's that needs, and program's requirements change. I've got a friend that has one of those giant, beige desktop computers (before towers were all the rage) that I laugh at when she mentions it, but she's able to check her email on it and she's got a computer at work for doing work. Other than that, she has a social life, so the computer is fine for her. Obsolescence, with computers, is likely more about boredom and shiny new things than it is about technical limitations.
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Personally I just hate the "I know what's good for you" Apple mantra.
I read an article somewhere a few months back - I think it was from someone at apple - maybe even the dude in the turd-el neck - he said something along the lines of "if you ask the user what he wants, you're going to get a slightly tweaked version of what he already has. Yet, if you show him something totally awesome that he would never have thought of but, having seen it, thinks it's really neat, you end up with the user getting something better than what he would have wanted."
I tend to agree with that. I have seen similar occurrences, at a much smaller scale, while working with users on requirements for in-house software. You've got to figure out what they want to do and lead them to a solution (that's why they're the user, and I'm the engineer). What other company offers an integrated solution like this for all your hardware? the computer interacts seamlessly with your portable music player (ipod), connects to your TV (appleTV), and does wireless backups to a hard-drive built into the router (time capsule). It does everything I want it to do, with a few noteable, yet fairly minor, exceptions.
Are you implying that this isn't good enough for you?
the phrase is "for all INTENTS and PURPOSES" - not "for all intensive purposes" - now that you've read the truth, the phrase makes more sense, doesn't it?
I'm only taking the time to correct you because I, like you, at one point didn't know it and I walked around talking like a moron until someone corrected me.
My story is a little different - I have CS degree but got laid of one year after graduating (back in 2001) - I spent 3 years working retail selling guitars for commission - I got my foot in the door at a software company and they "found" a position for me in their test group - familiarity with computers in general and a willingness to learn new things are great attributes to have in an entry level tester position. From there, depending on your interests, you may find yourself doing test tool developer - writing quick and dirty scripts and/or programs to help you do your job - you'll be working with lots of software people, so you'll undoubtedly start to pick up on some things and, after some time, you may be able to make the jump into a full time development field if that's what you want to do.
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^^ that's why the block of text you "quoted" says "easy-to-recycle" and not "can be recycled"
Practice behavior-based interview questions out loud. Have a friend ask them and give feedback if possible. They will help you give a great interview. If you still don't get the job, you may not be a fit.
Maybe this is not relevant, but I was amazed out how accurately this hundred year old book described modern society.
No one produces anything but they use screens to share ideas. They share with others who may be near or far but never face to face. The screens give a vague approximation of the person on the other end. Everyone is happy until the machine stops working. When it does, they complain about it on their screens.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Machine_Stops
seriously, dont bother. I use RHEL at work. It's really cool and has a bash shell that is way better than Cygwin. But i can't play music (you don't get mp3 codec by default and I haven't been able to figure out how to install it). Many YouTube videos don't play (I'm not sure why. They work fine on windows or a Mac). I can't get flash to work in the browser which renders things like rhapsody useless (I followed all the instructions given to me by adobe and google chrome but it still doesn't work).
The fact is that Linux looks better and better each year, gets more and more user-friendly but at the end of the day it doesn't do most of the stuff that non-techies do with their computers (listen to music and watch cat videos). I'm sure it's possible but I'm a reasonably smart dude who is comfortable in a unix environment and I haven't been able to get it to do any "fun" stuff. Your friends are going to hate it.
... and when you have someone replacing the word "arrest" with "kill" you're dealing with horrible exaggeration
maybe you should stop visiting slashdot. you know, because it's a site that you didn't write :)
jealous much?
jar jar was taken
digital audio, regardless of the bit-depth and sampling rate, will NEVER truly represent the analog wave form. the analog wave form is the music in its purest form. your ears are analog and so is the sound source (the guitar amp or piano). even if you are playing a digital synthesizer, at some point, the sound will get converted to analog (headphones or speakers) so your ears can hear it. digital audio turns that smooth analog wave into a stair-step. again, it will never completely, truly and accurately reproduce the analog wave. we are stuck in a format with the CD that is 16-bit, 44.1KHz. higher bit-depths and sampling rates will create a stair-step that is a closer representation of the analog curve, but it will never be exactly there. there's a point as you approach the limit where it's unlikely that anyone would be able to tell the difference but, given the move toward easily downloadable distribution, no big player is giong to invest in that 48-bit, 192KHz format (or whatever - i just made up those numbers). I think this is why vinyl is the best option (and I'm not a "vinyl guy" - I have maybe a dozen or so records and 10,000+ digital audio files). despite its flaws, it's readily available and produces the full sound of the source material in a way that the CD (or mp3, etc) cannot. it's weird to think that we'd already reached the peak of audio fidelity without even realizing.
OK - first off: you can't turn fat into muscle. you can lost fat and gain muscle but one doesn't turn into the other. second (this one is actually a question) for years and years I've heard people say "muscle weighs more than fat" - can anyone tell me definitely how much more? is it 1% more? 50% more? 600% more? "more" is not a very useful term (in this case) without quantification
does the carpet match the pubes?
you're kidding, right? VLC and WMP have offensive user interfaces - I actually really, REALLY like iTunes - I hated it at first (when I was switching from winamp) but now, it would take a lot to make me switch back.
telling a "cry baby" to wipe off his "crocodile tears" doesn't make any sense - if he's a cry baby, he's crying for real - if it's crocodile tears, then it's fake
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crocodile_tears
where is the unintentional pun here?
how is this a "money grab" if battle.net is free?
give it a rest, bro - you speak as if people would choose linux if they "had a choice" - majority rules and the majority wants something familiar and has no interest in linux despite how much a few hundred slashdot nerds like to tout that it's ready for mainstream desktop acceptance - yawn.
not really, but I do live just a few blocks from the address shown on this dude's blog - there are WAAAAAY worse neighborhoods in chicago - this is hardly sketchy at all
I've been using AT&T now for 10+ years - people complain about them, I've never had an issue - maybe I could pay a little less, or have one or two minor things better, but they've always worked for me - I pay my bill on time and when I hit "send" the call connects - then, the iphone showed up and I wanted one and I got to have it - yay - I stood in line for one june 29, 2007 - they sold out of 8GB ones, so I bought the 4GB - I still have it - I wanted the 3G, but the app store & 2.0 firmware alone last summer were the big sellers, so I skipped that generation - it's now been 2 years and I'm eligible for an upgrade - this is the way it's always been with AT&T - stick around, and you'll get a deal, but you don't get discounts every time you ask for one - is that a huge loss? not really. if you have a 3G already, ask yourself how badly you want the 3GS features - if you want them badly enough, pay for them - if not, then wait - it's only 1 year out of your life in which you'll still have a super cool phone - you'll be fine
it sounds like me like those are run-of-the-mill PCs from 10-15 years ago that still meet his, limited, needs for work. he's not gaming or interwebbing or anything. Just buy him a run-of-the-mill PC from today and he'll still be using it in 15 years. 15 years ago everyone was freaking out that computers are "going to go obsolete as soon as" you buy one - right. it's not really that - it's that needs, and program's requirements change. I've got a friend that has one of those giant, beige desktop computers (before towers were all the rage) that I laugh at when she mentions it, but she's able to check her email on it and she's got a computer at work for doing work. Other than that, she has a social life, so the computer is fine for her. Obsolescence, with computers, is likely more about boredom and shiny new things than it is about technical limitations.
I read an article somewhere a few months back - I think it was from someone at apple - maybe even the dude in the turd-el neck - he said something along the lines of "if you ask the user what he wants, you're going to get a slightly tweaked version of what he already has. Yet, if you show him something totally awesome that he would never have thought of but, having seen it, thinks it's really neat, you end up with the user getting something better than what he would have wanted."
I tend to agree with that. I have seen similar occurrences, at a much smaller scale, while working with users on requirements for in-house software. You've got to figure out what they want to do and lead them to a solution (that's why they're the user, and I'm the engineer). What other company offers an integrated solution like this for all your hardware? the computer interacts seamlessly with your portable music player (ipod), connects to your TV (appleTV), and does wireless backups to a hard-drive built into the router (time capsule). It does everything I want it to do, with a few noteable, yet fairly minor, exceptions.
Are you implying that this isn't good enough for you?
one time, i was flirting with this broad and I said "I like your shoes" and she goes "I like your face" - it was awesome
amen, brother.
the phrase is "for all INTENTS and PURPOSES" - not "for all intensive purposes" - now that you've read the truth, the phrase makes more sense, doesn't it?
I'm only taking the time to correct you because I, like you, at one point didn't know it and I walked around talking like a moron until someone corrected me.
My story is a little different - I have CS degree but got laid of one year after graduating (back in 2001) - I spent 3 years working retail selling guitars for commission - I got my foot in the door at a software company and they "found" a position for me in their test group - familiarity with computers in general and a willingness to learn new things are great attributes to have in an entry level tester position. From there, depending on your interests, you may find yourself doing test tool developer - writing quick and dirty scripts and/or programs to help you do your job - you'll be working with lots of software people, so you'll undoubtedly start to pick up on some things and, after some time, you may be able to make the jump into a full time development field if that's what you want to do.