the manager doesn't want to hire you because he doesn't like "nerds", the problem is THE MANAGER
Oh, I quite concur that the deciding issue should be whether or not you can accomplish the job. But that, in my experience, is not the reality; America has a surplus of problematic managers.
So many, in fact, that they would rather outsource and offshore everything - even if it destroys America - than to be forced to actually manage.
And there is the fact, of course, that paying you detracts from what they can pay themselves; their becoming aware of your playing of D&D (somewhat of a bad example, but you work with what you have) via your Facebook page may provide just the excuse they need to augment and justify - in their minds - the greed that makes them want to dispense with you.
If everybody were good folks, what you have online wouldn't matter...but have you ever heard the phrase "Nice guys finish last."? That is the de facto motto of corporate America; you want to be careful not to provide them with any ammunition, because our corporate chieftains certainly didn't finish last.
I hope succeeding generations manage to change that - but I observe the existence of organizations such as "Young Republicans", and I have my doubts.
lolll...right up until you find out that you weren't employed by Company "A" because their personnel director - a devout Baptist - ran a background check and stumbled across the number of searches that you do for cheerleader-specific porn.
Oh, but I did...and I also have no problem understanding the implications of the prominent use of the word "dissimilar".
For instance, I could have said that I could replace the dating site's methodology - for myself, at least - by considering my own ancestry (an American whose ancestors have lived in this country for a quarter of a millennium) and shopping the "Mail Order Bride" rags and sites for someone who was not of English descent.
But I didn't, obviously. Equally obviously, I wasn't trying to be "interesting" or "insightful"; I was simply trying to be a smartass.
But, now that I think of it...what a wonderful way to add a veneer of science to the chancy game of "Mail Order Brides": Claim some genetic positive for rolling the dice on a sight-unseen relationship.
I think if I ran a company and saw your comment on an application for employment in quality control, I'd hire you...as CTO.
(lolll...I ran out of moderator points and had already commented on this article, so that is the best I can do. Your comment is one of the most insightful I've seen on slashdot regarding the art and science of programming.)
Having worked for startups, I can guarrantee that we never hired people for the personnel department let alone first.
I presumed growth to a size that required a personnel department. A business that has no personnel department is what I would call a consultancy or a "shop".
Why? 'Cuz any organization without a personnel department is much more likely to focus on whether an individual can get the job done, rather using degrees and pedigrees as entry barriers - as in the subject of this slashdot article.
Just out of curiosity, are any of those startups that you were involved with still in business?
'Cuz the first thing a company does upon being formed is hire people for the personnel department...who have four-year degrees, at least.
They don't know squat about what is happening in the company's core business, which feeds their own insecurity and drives them to set a minimum standard - the four-year degree - that they can relate to because it reinforces their own value.
CMW REPORT, Spring 2003
Title: "Court Ruled That Media Can Legally Lie"
Author: Liane Casten
ORGANIC CONSUMER ASSOCIATION, March 7, 2004
Title: "Florida Appeals Court Orders Akre-Wilson Must Pay Trial Costs for $24.3 Billion Fox Television; Couple Warns Journalists of Danger to Free Speech, Whistle Blower Protection"
Author: Al Krebs
Faculty Evaluator: Liz Burch, Ph.D.
Student Researcher: Sara Brunner
In February 2003, a Florida Court of Appeals unanimously agreed with an assertion by FOX News that there is no rule against distorting or falsifying the news in the United States.
By all rights, Beck - as an employee of Fox who was accusing somebody else of make false statements - should have been physically tossed from the courtroom (which, if justice was to be served, should have been on the 5th or higher floor).
IANAL, of course - but I would be remiss if I did not mention that I look upon anything that Fox says with a certain skepticism.
I suggest you check your history. The revolution was driven by a minority action and a significant chunk of that colonial army (as is any army) is just people doing what someone else told them to do. There are far more bullet flingers/catchers than there are leaders in any given military force. The majority of people were too stupid or apathetic to actually do anything.
I'm not one to carry on a fruitless effort, which is what I conclude when someone tells me that I don't know history and attempts to prove that point by saying that the individual members of our military - to include their antecedents among the Colonial Army - are just tools doing what they're told...
It leaves me no choice but to point out - in frustration - that the Colonial Army was formed at a time when we didn't even have a country, let alone a draft. They were all volunteers.
I guess - perhaps because I, too, am a veteran, who likewise voluntarily served for half a dozen years - that being told that the members of our military are "too stupid or apathetic to actually do anything" offended me, because I stopped reading right there.
I would end this conversation by urging you to keep your opinions to yourself, should you ever find yourself in dire need of assistance from your fellow Americans - lest they intentionally decide to fulfill your characterization of them as "too stupid or apathetic to actually do anything".
Fox and Murdoch have a vested interest in ensuring that nobody can quote Fox/Murdoch story version 1a, 1b, 1c, 1d, 1e, 1f, 1g, 1h....1y when they try to sell America story version 1z.
Google makes it way, way too easy to demonstrate Fox's unique addiction to revisionism.
The people that dared to give the finger to the crown.
And guess who are the people who now presume to be America's crown; America's hereditary aristocracy? The people who are hard at work eliminating any possibility that new "trail blazers" will come along and upset the status quo they've spent the last 30 years bringing about? Why do you think they attack anything that can help the common man or woman rise, such as education?
I'll give you a hint: Britain's "crown" also believed that the colonists were - as a rule of thumb - "too stupid or apathetic to actually do anything".
lolll...do you really think that America would be anything without the American people as a whole? Do you think the Colonial Army was made up of only those people who signed the Declaration of Independence?
Why do you think that the Republicans primarily depend upon the tactic of "divide and conquer" to win elections? Why do you think that every other sentence out of a Fox "personality's" mouth - or from the Rushbo to the Rushbots - is designed to instill fear, or anger, or hate of or towards one or another segment of the American population?
Why do you think the Republicans attempt to instill the idea that "liberals" are a threat to America, if this is supposed to be a democracy where the interests of all are represented?
Why? Because when America is given the opportunity to think and act in a cohesive manner, it is impossible for that 5% to control America - and they know it.
Consider America before Reagan: Until OPEC, it was a booming, ever more powerful country. But the rich weren't getting richer fast enough to suit themselves, and when the energy shocks that OPEC created hammered our economy, they saw an opportunity to promulgate a lie - and that lie was flood-up/trickle-down economics.
And they've been lying ever since. They insist that "A rising tide lifts all boats." is the fiction, and instead claim that their taxes should be cut - as if their rising boat will lift the tide.
Slashdot Mirror
They were incompetent; after all, the emails were found, eh?
the manager doesn't want to hire you because he doesn't like "nerds", the problem is THE MANAGER
Oh, I quite concur that the deciding issue should be whether or not you can accomplish the job. But that, in my experience, is not the reality; America has a surplus of problematic managers.
So many, in fact, that they would rather outsource and offshore everything - even if it destroys America - than to be forced to actually manage.
And there is the fact, of course, that paying you detracts from what they can pay themselves; their becoming aware of your playing of D&D (somewhat of a bad example, but you work with what you have) via your Facebook page may provide just the excuse they need to augment and justify - in their minds - the greed that makes them want to dispense with you.
If everybody were good folks, what you have online wouldn't matter...but have you ever heard the phrase "Nice guys finish last."? That is the de facto motto of corporate America; you want to be careful not to provide them with any ammunition, because our corporate chieftains certainly didn't finish last.
I hope succeeding generations manage to change that - but I observe the existence of organizations such as "Young Republicans", and I have my doubts.
lolll...right up until you find out that you weren't employed by Company "A" because their personnel director - a devout Baptist - ran a background check and stumbled across the number of searches that you do for cheerleader-specific porn.
...to find out that it had mount points for a range of weapons - and could be cranked out rapidly...say, a 100 a day...on short notice. If need be.
Microsoft and Lockheed Martin? Greed overload detected...
It's a natural synergy. When the cargo door falls off, there will be a .NET to catch you.
Seems to be a disturbing correlation between decreasing ethical and moral standards and increasing size, too.
Remember when you had to go to Earth and eat brownies out of the sandbox to get worms?
Guess I better find my catcher's mitt on the off chance that the universe throws me a diamond in the rough.
Nah. I think somebody named Susanoo no Mikoto beat me to it.
READ THE ARTICLE.
Oh, but I did...and I also have no problem understanding the implications of the prominent use of the word "dissimilar".
For instance, I could have said that I could replace the dating site's methodology - for myself, at least - by considering my own ancestry (an American whose ancestors have lived in this country for a quarter of a millennium) and shopping the "Mail Order Bride" rags and sites for someone who was not of English descent.
But I didn't, obviously. Equally obviously, I wasn't trying to be "interesting" or "insightful"; I was simply trying to be a smartass.
But, now that I think of it...what a wonderful way to add a veneer of science to the chancy game of "Mail Order Brides": Claim some genetic positive for rolling the dice on a sight-unseen relationship.
Probably the same reason that this article appears on Norway's version of ComputerWorld, but I can't find it with a search of the U.S. version http://www.computerworld.com/action/googleSearch.do?cx=014839440456418836424%3A-khvkt1lc-e&q=china+igf&x=0&y=0&cof=FORID%3A9#223
That doesn't answer your question...or does it?
Yet two dwarfs can sail from two wharves...or two wharfs, for that matter.
English is Britain's revenge for the loss of their empire.
I think if I ran a company and saw your comment on an application for employment in quality control, I'd hire you...as CTO.
(lolll...I ran out of moderator points and had already commented on this article, so that is the best I can do. Your comment is one of the most insightful I've seen on slashdot regarding the art and science of programming.)
...so you marry your long lost sister...
Having worked for startups, I can guarrantee that we never hired people for the personnel department let alone first.
I presumed growth to a size that required a personnel department. A business that has no personnel department is what I would call a consultancy or a "shop".
Why? 'Cuz any organization without a personnel department is much more likely to focus on whether an individual can get the job done, rather using degrees and pedigrees as entry barriers - as in the subject of this slashdot article.
Just out of curiosity, are any of those startups that you were involved with still in business?
'Cuz the first thing a company does upon being formed is hire people for the personnel department...who have four-year degrees, at least.
They don't know squat about what is happening in the company's core business, which feeds their own insecurity and drives them to set a minimum standard - the four-year degree - that they can relate to because it reinforces their own value.
The pictorial record you linked to is truly fascinating, but while looking at it, I realized something:
NASA missed a golden opportunity to draw Kilroy on another planet.
What is science, next to the chance to immortalize Kilroy?
What was it...oh, yeah: The alpha-tester reviews of Vista.
In Texas, nothing is sent, you are expected to contact the court to take care of the matter yourself.
Oh, that's worrisome...is not paying a traffic infraction fine a death penalty crime there, too?
"You need to use sudo to run this program. Would you like to use sudo? y / n"
Oh, you mean like eeebuntu is always pestering me?
Sure, and with all of that new electricity, the terrorists will build a giant TASER and bring America to her knees...
CMW REPORT, Spring 2003
Title: "Court Ruled That Media Can Legally Lie"
Author: Liane Casten
ORGANIC CONSUMER ASSOCIATION, March 7, 2004
Title: "Florida Appeals Court Orders Akre-Wilson Must Pay Trial Costs for $24.3 Billion Fox Television; Couple Warns Journalists of Danger to Free Speech, Whistle Blower Protection"
Author: Al Krebs
Faculty Evaluator: Liz Burch, Ph.D.
Student Researcher: Sara Brunner
In February 2003, a Florida Court of Appeals unanimously agreed with an assertion by FOX News that there is no rule against distorting or falsifying the news in the United States.
By all rights, Beck - as an employee of Fox who was accusing somebody else of make false statements - should have been physically tossed from the courtroom (which, if justice was to be served, should have been on the 5th or higher floor).
IANAL, of course - but I would be remiss if I did not mention that I look upon anything that Fox says with a certain skepticism.
I suggest you check your history. The revolution was driven by a minority action and a significant chunk of that colonial army (as is any army) is just people doing what someone else told them to do. There are far more bullet flingers/catchers than there are leaders in any given military force. The majority of people were too stupid or apathetic to actually do anything.
I'm not one to carry on a fruitless effort, which is what I conclude when someone tells me that I don't know history and attempts to prove that point by saying that the individual members of our military - to include their antecedents among the Colonial Army - are just tools doing what they're told...
It leaves me no choice but to point out - in frustration - that the Colonial Army was formed at a time when we didn't even have a country, let alone a draft . They were all volunteers.
I guess - perhaps because I, too, am a veteran, who likewise voluntarily served for half a dozen years - that being told that the members of our military are "too stupid or apathetic to actually do anything" offended me, because I stopped reading right there.
I would end this conversation by urging you to keep your opinions to yourself, should you ever find yourself in dire need of assistance from your fellow Americans - lest they intentionally decide to fulfill your characterization of them as "too stupid or apathetic to actually do anything".
Doesn't have anything to do with money.
Fox and Murdoch have a vested interest in ensuring that nobody can quote Fox/Murdoch story version 1a, 1b, 1c, 1d, 1e, 1f, 1g, 1h....1y when they try to sell America story version 1z.
Google makes it way, way too easy to demonstrate Fox's unique addiction to revisionism.
The people that dared to give the finger to the crown.
And guess who are the people who now presume to be America's crown; America's hereditary aristocracy? The people who are hard at work eliminating any possibility that new "trail blazers" will come along and upset the status quo they've spent the last 30 years bringing about? Why do you think they attack anything that can help the common man or woman rise, such as education?
I'll give you a hint: Britain's "crown" also believed that the colonists were - as a rule of thumb - "too stupid or apathetic to actually do anything".
lolll...do you really think that America would be anything without the American people as a whole? Do you think the Colonial Army was made up of only those people who signed the Declaration of Independence?
Why do you think that the Republicans primarily depend upon the tactic of "divide and conquer" to win elections? Why do you think that every other sentence out of a Fox "personality's" mouth - or from the Rushbo to the Rushbots - is designed to instill fear, or anger, or hate of or towards one or another segment of the American population?
Why do you think the Republicans attempt to instill the idea that "liberals" are a threat to America, if this is supposed to be a democracy where the interests of all are represented?
Why? Because when America is given the opportunity to think and act in a cohesive manner, it is impossible for that 5% to control America - and they know it.
Consider America before Reagan: Until OPEC, it was a booming, ever more powerful country. But the rich weren't getting richer fast enough to suit themselves, and when the energy shocks that OPEC created hammered our economy, they saw an opportunity to promulgate a lie - and that lie was flood-up/trickle-down economics.
And they've been lying ever since. They insist that "A rising tide lifts all boats." is the fiction, and instead claim that their taxes should be cut - as if their rising boat will lift the tide.