The most programming I did when I was in primary and secondary school was using the simplified form of BASIC to write programs for our TI-82 calculators. The best part of that? If we were successful in programming our calculators, we were permitted to use them to crunch equations for our physics and math classes. If we screwed up the programming, we screwed up the tests. But if we were successful in coding the programs, then we'd score well on the tests. The trick was that all programming had to occur within classes just before the test; no transferring or copying programs from calculator to calculator the night before. (We had to leave them in the classrooms overnight before tests.) This served two major functions: It taught us the guts of the equations, and it taught us some of the most essential raw programming skills. One girl did such an amazing job with her physics programs that she scored a one hundred percent on the final exam, a first in the history of the school.
If you're using a combination of things, you aren't choosing one. I love my desktop and I love my laptop and I love my smart phone - but if I was forced to have ONLY ONE of them, it'd have to be the laptop. My desktop is ten times as powerful as the laptop and has dual monitors and all sorts of goodies, but I can't pick it up and take it to the coffee shop. A tablet is great for very basic work related tasks, but forget trying to design a website on it for playing a game more intensive than Angry Birds.
A few recent submissions to Slashdot have been from end users complaining about miserly IT overlords refusing to allow personal devices onto the network, and telling the end users "No you can't." These articles were all written from the manager's standpoint, whereby they figured if their use of their personal devices was going to allow them to be more productive, then there was no reason to say they couldn't use them. Right? Well, the legal issues surrounding them are a very good way to say "wrong." Between all the compliance issues and security risks that personal devices entail, the legal headaches and challenges that could ensue if something goes awry should be enough of a deterrent for most businesses.
We had a collection of random documents for one of our sites that needed to be organized and gathered up and have duplicate information eliminated. I considered a Wiki, but my boss wanted it in more of a book format so we could keep a hardcopy on hand, so I chose a massive Word 2010 document built from scratch with all the appropriate tables of contents, sub-indices, and a keyword based index for rapid searching near the end. Since this "from the ground up" book needed to be written and edited by one person (me), I was able to discover and eliminate a lot of duplicate information. If you use the built in heading functions, you can drag and drop sections to reorganize things instantly. Although it took me almost a week of nothing but editing that thing, the result was a booklet that can be updated and edited in about five minutes when necessary.
I think those kinds of tasks are suited only for the last handful of the most serious candidates - after you'e weeded out all the ones that are clearly not a good fit for the company or obviously lied on their resume. When you're down to three candidates and you want to ensure you get the best of the batch, the task you've just described is probably the best way to do it.
It will depend on the disability as well. I have very mild discalculia (anything longer thana phone number turns into a jumbled mess of numbers if it's missing numerical punctuation) but I do not have any dyslexia to match. So a job that entails accurately transcribing long strings of numbers is probably not a good match for me, no matter how well educated I am.
Reason is, they can be practiced. I did logic problems as a hobby in high school (specifically cross hatch grids) and I've always loved working on brain teasers. Back when the GRE used logic problems instead of writing for testing analytical skills, I scored 790/800. When I applied for a few jobs that used the standard logic problem test, I shocked my interviewer by not only finishing the problem set, but getting almost all of them right.
Does this make me a good programmer? Of course not. I'm just a beginner. Does this make me a good employee? Well, I like to think I'm a good employee and I certainly hope my current boss agrees, but problem solving is only a small part of what I do (whether it's debugging random NTFS errors appearing on a backup server or debugging the company coffee pot.)
I assume since the immune system is trained up together, there aren't issues with tissue rejection? Since scientists have created a way to turn ordinary skin cells into pluripotent stem cells (via a viral gene therapy process), are there any plans to try to reach this totipotent stage as well?
Some of the early educational games from the 80s were fantastic. I learned how to differentiate between "their, there, and they're" partly because of the game Word Munchers back on Windows 3.x and early Macs.
If they had paid LV $10,000 to use a real bag, or obtained genuine LV luggage from other means (like, borrowed it from someone that had the real deal) LV would not have much complaint. However, they have a character claiming out loud that the ripoff luggage is LV, calling it by name, when it is just as much a pirated version as a $3 DVD from Chinatown is of this movie. LV doesn't have much of a chance of winning the lawsuit, but they're proving a point that the Internet isn't the only place copyright infringement occurs, and if WB was serious about battling piracy for everyone they'd take better precautions to avoid violating their own demands.
You're right. I'm not in the habit of bookmarking Wikipedia articles I read, nor keeping a running list of ones I attempted to edit. This incident was about three years ago, and I have no idea what article it was I was trying to edit. All I remember was a fairly annoyed feeling, followed by "that's the last time I offer to help."
That's our situation. Husband and I pull in together $60K a year (I'm still a student but I work part time at my IT shop) which is peanuts compared to what we would make out in CA, but once you run the numbers we'd have to make 200K+ combined in CA to live the same lifestyle.
You know, the only time I've ever heard about the Tides Foundation was from someone arguing against liberals. Us personally? We use Charity Watch and a few other watchdog websites to make sure our donation dollars go to places where they will do the most good. (Doctors Without Borders is a personal favorite of mine.) I also donate platelets every couple of weeks like clockwork.
The thing is, it's only Republican legislaters that are so darn against the millionaire's surtax. The majority of Americans are okay with it, and a great deal of millionaires are also okay with it. The only people fighting it tooth and nail are those who kissed the ring of Grover Norquist, and those whose districts are held hostage by the Tea Party. Oh, and delisional Tea Partiers who are retired or unemployed yet somehow believe they'll be making a million bucks a year ANY DAY NOW.
It wouldn't be so bad if email was entirely passive. However, these days people get email on their phones, and emails marked as urgent can be programmed to ring the phone. Employees emailing something as urgent may not quite recognized that "take care of this first thing tomorrow morning" urgent isn't the same as "the plant is on fire" urgent.
I got the mini tour at Lawrence Livermore National Lab a few years back. They've spent about three billion dollars on a proof of concept system for hot fusion. During the project, they invented a process to extrude entire sheets of solid ruby crystals, and hundreds of other innovations. Yes, three billion dollars is a lot of money. The things they had to create will reverberate throughout the private sector for decades, however, and they plan on selling off the final hot fusion plans to private companies who will profit from it once they've got all the kinks worked out.
That was my thought. It's a dirty trick, but also it's a sign of very poor campaign management on the part of Newt's team. If he can't find people who can think of these things, or think of them himself, then it's a good indication of poor leadership skills.
Treat yourself to Asimov's back catalog. Visit the stars with Heinlen. Tribute the recently deceased grand master Anne McCaffrey with some Pern. Dig in deep with Kim Stanley Robinson's Mars trilogy. Play with viral memes in Neal Stephenson's Snow Crash.
I blame all the holiday food in the office. Starting out with the candy that appears in early October and ending with the foodfest of Thanksgiving. December is more about running around buying stuff than it is eating, so no half-stuffed sleepy coders are missing semi-colons right now.
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The most programming I did when I was in primary and secondary school was using the simplified form of BASIC to write programs for our TI-82 calculators. The best part of that? If we were successful in programming our calculators, we were permitted to use them to crunch equations for our physics and math classes. If we screwed up the programming, we screwed up the tests. But if we were successful in coding the programs, then we'd score well on the tests. The trick was that all programming had to occur within classes just before the test; no transferring or copying programs from calculator to calculator the night before. (We had to leave them in the classrooms overnight before tests.) This served two major functions: It taught us the guts of the equations, and it taught us some of the most essential raw programming skills. One girl did such an amazing job with her physics programs that she scored a one hundred percent on the final exam, a first in the history of the school.
If you're using a combination of things, you aren't choosing one. I love my desktop and I love my laptop and I love my smart phone - but if I was forced to have ONLY ONE of them, it'd have to be the laptop. My desktop is ten times as powerful as the laptop and has dual monitors and all sorts of goodies, but I can't pick it up and take it to the coffee shop. A tablet is great for very basic work related tasks, but forget trying to design a website on it for playing a game more intensive than Angry Birds.
Not a desktop PC.
A few recent submissions to Slashdot have been from end users complaining about miserly IT overlords refusing to allow personal devices onto the network, and telling the end users "No you can't." These articles were all written from the manager's standpoint, whereby they figured if their use of their personal devices was going to allow them to be more productive, then there was no reason to say they couldn't use them. Right? Well, the legal issues surrounding them are a very good way to say "wrong." Between all the compliance issues and security risks that personal devices entail, the legal headaches and challenges that could ensue if something goes awry should be enough of a deterrent for most businesses.
We had a collection of random documents for one of our sites that needed to be organized and gathered up and have duplicate information eliminated. I considered a Wiki, but my boss wanted it in more of a book format so we could keep a hardcopy on hand, so I chose a massive Word 2010 document built from scratch with all the appropriate tables of contents, sub-indices, and a keyword based index for rapid searching near the end. Since this "from the ground up" book needed to be written and edited by one person (me), I was able to discover and eliminate a lot of duplicate information. If you use the built in heading functions, you can drag and drop sections to reorganize things instantly. Although it took me almost a week of nothing but editing that thing, the result was a booklet that can be updated and edited in about five minutes when necessary.
I think those kinds of tasks are suited only for the last handful of the most serious candidates - after you'e weeded out all the ones that are clearly not a good fit for the company or obviously lied on their resume. When you're down to three candidates and you want to ensure you get the best of the batch, the task you've just described is probably the best way to do it.
It will depend on the disability as well. I have very mild discalculia (anything longer thana phone number turns into a jumbled mess of numbers if it's missing numerical punctuation) but I do not have any dyslexia to match. So a job that entails accurately transcribing long strings of numbers is probably not a good match for me, no matter how well educated I am.
Reason is, they can be practiced. I did logic problems as a hobby in high school (specifically cross hatch grids) and I've always loved working on brain teasers. Back when the GRE used logic problems instead of writing for testing analytical skills, I scored 790/800. When I applied for a few jobs that used the standard logic problem test, I shocked my interviewer by not only finishing the problem set, but getting almost all of them right.
Does this make me a good programmer? Of course not. I'm just a beginner. Does this make me a good employee? Well, I like to think I'm a good employee and I certainly hope my current boss agrees, but problem solving is only a small part of what I do (whether it's debugging random NTFS errors appearing on a backup server or debugging the company coffee pot.)
I assume since the immune system is trained up together, there aren't issues with tissue rejection? Since scientists have created a way to turn ordinary skin cells into pluripotent stem cells (via a viral gene therapy process), are there any plans to try to reach this totipotent stage as well?
It has no confidence in its users. Same goes for Apple, but they take a different approach to addressing that problem.
I upgraded from a feature phone to a real smart phone about four months ago. As more users make this migration, this statistic is going to change.
Some of the early educational games from the 80s were fantastic. I learned how to differentiate between "their, there, and they're" partly because of the game Word Munchers back on Windows 3.x and early Macs.
If they had paid LV $10,000 to use a real bag, or obtained genuine LV luggage from other means (like, borrowed it from someone that had the real deal) LV would not have much complaint. However, they have a character claiming out loud that the ripoff luggage is LV, calling it by name, when it is just as much a pirated version as a $3 DVD from Chinatown is of this movie. LV doesn't have much of a chance of winning the lawsuit, but they're proving a point that the Internet isn't the only place copyright infringement occurs, and if WB was serious about battling piracy for everyone they'd take better precautions to avoid violating their own demands.
You're right. I'm not in the habit of bookmarking Wikipedia articles I read, nor keeping a running list of ones I attempted to edit. This incident was about three years ago, and I have no idea what article it was I was trying to edit. All I remember was a fairly annoyed feeling, followed by "that's the last time I offer to help."
That's our situation. Husband and I pull in together $60K a year (I'm still a student but I work part time at my IT shop) which is peanuts compared to what we would make out in CA, but once you run the numbers we'd have to make 200K+ combined in CA to live the same lifestyle.
You know, the only time I've ever heard about the Tides Foundation was from someone arguing against liberals. Us personally? We use Charity Watch and a few other watchdog websites to make sure our donation dollars go to places where they will do the most good. (Doctors Without Borders is a personal favorite of mine.) I also donate platelets every couple of weeks like clockwork.
After the last time I tried to clean up some grammar and spelling in an article and it was immediately reverted with "didn't cite sources" I gave up.
The thing is, it's only Republican legislaters that are so darn against the millionaire's surtax. The majority of Americans are okay with it, and a great deal of millionaires are also okay with it. The only people fighting it tooth and nail are those who kissed the ring of Grover Norquist, and those whose districts are held hostage by the Tea Party. Oh, and delisional Tea Partiers who are retired or unemployed yet somehow believe they'll be making a million bucks a year ANY DAY NOW.
$40 a paycheck, at a paycheck every two weeks, is about $1000 a year. Not everyone is paid weekly.
It wouldn't be so bad if email was entirely passive. However, these days people get email on their phones, and emails marked as urgent can be programmed to ring the phone. Employees emailing something as urgent may not quite recognized that "take care of this first thing tomorrow morning" urgent isn't the same as "the plant is on fire" urgent.
I got the mini tour at Lawrence Livermore National Lab a few years back. They've spent about three billion dollars on a proof of concept system for hot fusion. During the project, they invented a process to extrude entire sheets of solid ruby crystals, and hundreds of other innovations. Yes, three billion dollars is a lot of money. The things they had to create will reverberate throughout the private sector for decades, however, and they plan on selling off the final hot fusion plans to private companies who will profit from it once they've got all the kinks worked out.
That was my thought. It's a dirty trick, but also it's a sign of very poor campaign management on the part of Newt's team. If he can't find people who can think of these things, or think of them himself, then it's a good indication of poor leadership skills.
Treat yourself to Asimov's back catalog. Visit the stars with Heinlen. Tribute the recently deceased grand master Anne McCaffrey with some Pern. Dig in deep with Kim Stanley Robinson's Mars trilogy. Play with viral memes in Neal Stephenson's Snow Crash.
I blame all the holiday food in the office. Starting out with the candy that appears in early October and ending with the foodfest of Thanksgiving. December is more about running around buying stuff than it is eating, so no half-stuffed sleepy coders are missing semi-colons right now.
And IBM's been working on it for twenty years. I had text to type for MS Word on the old 1998 Aptvia I took with me to college.