Obama has an agenda? Please let me in on it. I get the sense that he is severely out of his league and defers to advisers. It's like throwing someone into a CEO position without leadership experience, business and management education, and no proven track record of success. Oh yeah, somehow he grabbed onto the Chicago political machine and then got swept up in a whirlwind of opportunistic house democrats and a media frenzy. That's the success we need! Still waiting for an agenda to be articulated in partnership with the American people, instead we get boring-ass deal making and a loss of control in congress. If I hear an agenda, a plan spelled out, you can count me in, but until then....and fuck Romney.
Dude, the WSJ is a newspaper. A fucking newspaper! A rag, which I read every day, that is run by billionaires. Take it with a grain of salt. Anyone with any sophistication that reads it knows there is a finely tuned message in every article. They purposefully participated in over-hyping the facebook IPO, and continue to draw the story out with tons of fluff and repetition about people losing millions and wanting their money back--yawn. Once a week there is a decent and very informative article (What the Chinese Want).
"In other news....a hacker was arrested today after obscuring his identity with a puppy. Animal rights activists are in an uproar and local authorities say this is probably not the first time he has done this. Arraignment is scheduled for Monday morning at 8AM."
Every little bit helps. I'm also usually behind a VPN, and always have Ghostery, Noscript, a tinfoil hat, aluminum wallpaper, and 'do not track' enabled.
It is so nice to use private browsing and see the "relevant" ads and the "customized" search results disappear. I''m all for relevant ads, but lets get the algo right.
Yeah, it is fucked up. I work part time and I share an office with a lady (server administrator). You would think I would get asked to make coffee or run down to the bookstore to get our UPS deliveries, but no. Boss pops his head in the office and says, "Kathy, coffee!" Fuckin blew my mind. The other day he pops his head in, "Kathy, we have some packages in the bookstore, run down and get 'em." Again, I'm sitting there doing nothing but bullshitting with the other guys, a mere part-time underling of sorts--blew my fucking mind. I just sat there with my mouth hanging open. She says it's because she doesn't have the right body parts and she keeps threatening to wear a strap-on.
Yeah, Michael Moore could probably make a video about Microsoft's abysmal attempts at marketing. Remember the Microsoft store videos and the Windows 7 gift packs. I mean Jesus fuck! I'm sure there is more. Easily the worst in the industry. How do they do it? Who is responsible for this garbage?
Uh... No one designed shit about PHP. It is a scary, beautiful hack that one starts out thinking, "wow this is great, it is so easy." Until the project grows and the quick hacking starts to become very uncomfortable. Frameworks like Codeigniter help a lot, mostly to keep you from shooting yourself in the foot when building a large-ish web app. I would be scared to death trying to code a decent web app from scratch though.
Yes, the real bullshit has been in larger businesses and corporate departments using VB. I agree with Access, Excel scripts, and VB being of real value to the small business world where no market exists to build software for a niche, but unfortunately these "tools" have been used in large businesses and the "solutions" have progressively grown into mission critical applications. Cracking open a VB app, one is likely to find something that is not scalable or adaptable, requiring the entire thing to be junked. With Java or.NET there is usually a hope of adaptability and scalability even if it is mangled.
Geesh, this reminds me of a phone screen I had once with a person at GE who's native language was not English. He asked me all sorts of basic stuff, which I could not understand becasue of his broken English. The most aggravating thing was finally peicing together what he said after the phone interview. "Do you know host file?" "Uh.....not familiar with that." Doh, fucking hosts file! Unsmattered English: Do you know what a host file is? Stupid.
I know at least two people who cannot advance in their careers because of the exact problems that you mention. They can hold a job, do the job, but their chances of improving themselves beyond that is nil. To advance, you need to be able to maintain a confident outlook for a long period of time, even through adverse conditions. This is not possible when you have devastating depressive moods that color your thinking and prevent any type of progressive forward thinking.
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Still, it is just reactionary play-book measures. Spin around and do it again.
Obama has an agenda? Please let me in on it. I get the sense that he is severely out of his league and defers to advisers. It's like throwing someone into a CEO position without leadership experience, business and management education, and no proven track record of success. Oh yeah, somehow he grabbed onto the Chicago political machine and then got swept up in a whirlwind of opportunistic house democrats and a media frenzy. That's the success we need! Still waiting for an agenda to be articulated in partnership with the American people, instead we get boring-ass deal making and a loss of control in congress. If I hear an agenda, a plan spelled out, you can count me in, but until then....and fuck Romney.
Dude.....it was a usual 50/50 vote. I didn't see a pummeling. Pummeling is 60/40 or more.
Dude, the WSJ is a newspaper. A fucking newspaper! A rag, which I read every day, that is run by billionaires. Take it with a grain of salt. Anyone with any sophistication that reads it knows there is a finely tuned message in every article. They purposefully participated in over-hyping the facebook IPO, and continue to draw the story out with tons of fluff and repetition about people losing millions and wanting their money back--yawn. Once a week there is a decent and very informative article (What the Chinese Want).
"In other news....a hacker was arrested today after obscuring his identity with a puppy. Animal rights activists are in an uproar and local authorities say this is probably not the first time he has done this. Arraignment is scheduled for Monday morning at 8AM."
Every little bit helps. I'm also usually behind a VPN, and always have Ghostery, Noscript, a tinfoil hat, aluminum wallpaper, and 'do not track' enabled.
There, fixed that for ya.
Sweaty sapien? Damn, I was feeling good about the day until I read that.
Ah yes, Bing. Let me know how that works out.
Google is awesome! Hell yeah I want more and better tracking! If it's not Google then it's just creepy.
Metric? Really!? Fat-ass.
It is so nice to use private browsing and see the "relevant" ads and the "customized" search results disappear. I''m all for relevant ads, but lets get the algo right.
Oh no! Google is tracking me! Yawn....
"accidentally" ??
Yeah, it is fucked up. I work part time and I share an office with a lady (server administrator). You would think I would get asked to make coffee or run down to the bookstore to get our UPS deliveries, but no. Boss pops his head in the office and says, "Kathy, coffee!" Fuckin blew my mind. The other day he pops his head in, "Kathy, we have some packages in the bookstore, run down and get 'em." Again, I'm sitting there doing nothing but bullshitting with the other guys, a mere part-time underling of sorts--blew my fucking mind. I just sat there with my mouth hanging open. She says it's because she doesn't have the right body parts and she keeps threatening to wear a strap-on.
Yeah, Michael Moore could probably make a video about Microsoft's abysmal attempts at marketing. Remember the Microsoft store videos and the Windows 7 gift packs. I mean Jesus fuck! I'm sure there is more. Easily the worst in the industry. How do they do it? Who is responsible for this garbage?
Uh...are the vaginas in Norway particularly large and "hard?" I'm really curious now that you mention this.
Same here, but in my case it was the tip of the iceberg. Ubuntu went from wow to shit in a few years.
Uh... No one designed shit about PHP. It is a scary, beautiful hack that one starts out thinking, "wow this is great, it is so easy." Until the project grows and the quick hacking starts to become very uncomfortable. Frameworks like Codeigniter help a lot, mostly to keep you from shooting yourself in the foot when building a large-ish web app. I would be scared to death trying to code a decent web app from scratch though.
Yes, the real bullshit has been in larger businesses and corporate departments using VB. I agree with Access, Excel scripts, and VB being of real value to the small business world where no market exists to build software for a niche, but unfortunately these "tools" have been used in large businesses and the "solutions" have progressively grown into mission critical applications. Cracking open a VB app, one is likely to find something that is not scalable or adaptable, requiring the entire thing to be junked. With Java or .NET there is usually a hope of adaptability and scalability even if it is mangled.
If your first thought after the interview is "phew... Glad that is over." then you're doing it wrong.
Fuckin A.
Geesh, this reminds me of a phone screen I had once with a person at GE who's native language was not English. He asked me all sorts of basic stuff, which I could not understand becasue of his broken English. The most aggravating thing was finally peicing together what he said after the phone interview. "Do you know host file?" "Uh.....not familiar with that." Doh, fucking hosts file! Unsmattered English: Do you know what a host file is? Stupid.
"Catleap" WTH? Themention of a monitor with the name Catleap on eBay and all of the sudden I have puke in my mouth.
and if you find numerous hashes that are the same and are able to crack it, you then have the password for all of those accounts.
Peter Piper picked a hash of pickled and peppered passwords.
I know at least two people who cannot advance in their careers because of the exact problems that you mention. They can hold a job, do the job, but their chances of improving themselves beyond that is nil. To advance, you need to be able to maintain a confident outlook for a long period of time, even through adverse conditions. This is not possible when you have devastating depressive moods that color your thinking and prevent any type of progressive forward thinking.