Isn't "assorting tasks" a sort of project management? It may be decisions reached amongst peers without any real leader, but it's still managing something. Unless your camping trip is "everyone provide for themselves," most of the time you do want to spend at least a little time figuring out who's bringing what, cooking which meals, etc. Often that's really easy, and as you note if the individuals involved are interested and engaged it's generally trivial, but if you don't plan at all and wait until you're out in the woods to ask "now who brought the tent?" you're asking for trouble. Maybe there's a semantic divide here where I'd call that management and you're calling that something else like cooperation that you don't consider management?
No. It's a basic lack of manners. Individuals in the real world with a real world physical presence often have special needs but most of those needs are concealed or obfuscated by the internet anyway and few need to be accommodated. What is lacking here is basic manners and enough presence of mind to realize there's a real person on the other end.
It's not *just* manners. I've seen politely phrased comments construed as incendiary by the recipient, either through ambiguous wording, misreading, or just somehow taking the words wrong. This kind of misunderstanding is possible in real life, but it's a lot more likely once you lose body language and tone of voice. It's possible to go to great lengths to be exceedingly polite and the person on the other end still gets upset over something that's not intended to be upsetting.
I'm gonna agree with the AC on this one. The objective is the most worthless, throwaway piece of junk in the entire package. Their objective is to get the job, and that's all there is to it. I can't imagine what you'd be getting out of the objective that would help you decide whether or not to interview somebody.
That's what I came in to ask. Percents are such a useful mechanism, why break it by making up your own scale which is an exact multiple or fraction? Why not 80 in 1000? It's the same number, but simple percents are just a lot more reader friendly.
Yeah, I guess that's weird. For $10/year, I've bought domains on a drunken whim. I've accidentally registered (and kept) typoed domains (Chicago is totally spelled with 3c's, right?). They're so cheap and easy, better half a dozen vanity domains than a single vanity license plate, I figure.
I'm not about to disparage the public for not having their own domain (though both my mom and dad, definitely non-geek laypeople, have also managed to each own a domain at one point for business reasons--either it runs in my family or it's still pretty easy and common), nor do I fault anyone for using what works. And Google accounts, being free and functional, certainly work pretty well. But I can't think I'm the only geek who's provided for himself long before Gmail even hit the scene, and thus never bothered with it.
(you have at least one google account, like the rest of the civilized world, right?)
Am I weird that I don't? I've had my own domain since '98, and set up a backup email at a competing web-based option about that time. Never really felt the need to switch to Gmail. Besides, my wife uses Gmail as her primary account, and it's easier if I don't have one and she can stay logged in.
I like Google well enough in theory, but in practice we've just recently gotten my 90-something grandmother to figure out FaceBook to the point she can see pictures of the great-grandkids, and I can't see trying to teach her another site or moving the whole family over. To that extent I'm not going to even bother opening an account at Google+, because I know I won't use it. Keeping the family updated on FB already feels like obligation enough some days.
Yeah, I kind of feel this way. After picking up my first band game, I couldn't play it enough. Got two expansion packs, played them all the way through. Picked up a music theme I liked, then picked up version #2 of the game for more songs, then tried the competing product... and realized I was pretty much sick of just doing the same thing over and over. Especially putting up with gaming the points or the venues, or jumping through the necessary hoops to unlock the songs I wanted to play, which first required playing songs I didn't like so much over and over again. Even weirder obstacles, like having a character tied to an instrument, so that if you want to switch instruments you've got to unlock everything AGAIN, just became unbearable. That and my friends also got tired of the games around the same time, meaning I'd just be playing by myself, which wasn't nearly as much fun.
Oh, but there's so much more space in a three-dimensional sky than on the two-dimensional road surface -- you don't really think there's any chance cars would hit each other, do you?
I'd better stop now, though. I'm getting modded down for being sarcastic and silly in a way I find humorous, but others apparently can't tolerate.
So, you can see that I was saying drivers are so bad that it doesn't matter if they're on the ground or in the air, but you can't see that there's sarcasm? I don't know what to say to that. I'm willing to accept you simply don't see the comment as funny, that's fine. But if you reread it and come to the conclusion I can't possibly be joking and must simply be unable to comprehend the different physics involved... I'm at a loss.
I find the deconstruction of what is or isn't possibly humor to intelligent, native, literate readers to be a bit limited and condescending, and I don't really accept your inability to see the sarcasm as proof that it's not there.
Shame, too, as the standard MacBook has always been my target model. I don't really need or want to pay for the extra power in the Pro models, and I don't really want to pay for the miniaturization of the Air models (or put up with the 11" screen, and the missing ports and smaller battery life), so the standard MacBook has been my choice. If you count the iBooks as basically being a continuation of the same line I've had 3 of them over the years, all of them good.
I'd just been talking about upgrading, too, and was hopeful for today's update. Now I'm not quite sure where I fit.
And then there's code like PHPbb, where it will let you create an admin password with an @ in it during site setup, but then just mysteriously strips the @ out of the actual password when the site is set up. I rebuilt a site three times before (for some crazy reason, can't recall how I thought of it) deciding to type the password and leave out the special character, and finally getting in.
If you owe $50, it's not because someone looked and evaluated the situation. It's because that's what the computer says you owe. If the computer had said $55 instead--THAT WOULD BE THE REALITY.
No kidding. I remember a day when the startup I was working for had all of our web sites turned off. We called up the hosting provider, and they said we were two months overdue on payments. While on the phone my co-worker pulled up the company's bank account and confirmed the autopayments had been going through consistently, but the agent on the phone just got more and more belligerent, until they were reduced to shouting, "The computer doesn't lie, sir! The computer doesn't lie!" at my co-worker while demanding payment, and also refusing to let us talk to a manager or anyone else who might be willing to talk to us instead of yell at us. Conversation finally ended when the company rep hung up on us. When we called right back and got a different agent, they basically said "Yeah, we can see you paid, and we don't even have any record of your accounts being locked, so we don't even know what you're talking about" and by that point our web sites were working again. We never could get them to admit they'd even turned off our service, or get an explanation for the crazy rep who yelled at us.
I ran into this with math. I liked it, and learned a lot outside of class, and my mom was willing to teach me basic algebra and geometry ahead of schedule, in 5th and 6th grade. Problem was algebra wasn't "officially" taught until 8th grade, and while elementary school let me do my own thing, junior high wanted me to participate in the officially scheduled classes, which meant 80% repetition of what I'd already seen a year or two before. I basically just brought a book with me and read through class as often as the teacher would let me get away with it, which was maybe half the time. It wasn't until high school that I started learning new things again and needed to pay attention. That's a pretty big waste of a couple of years.
So the question is, did you have that quote memorized, or did you have to look it up? And if you looked it up, did you look for the author (hey, I think Einstein said something about memory once) or did you start with a vague sense of the quote (what was that about memorization, and who said that anyway?) to come to that post?
And yet, I have no idea how you can program without memorizing a set of commands and at least most of a working syntax. But I program strictly in C, so. . . I have no idea what the wacky, OOP types are shooting up or snorting these days.
Back when I knew just one language, I remembered a decent number of commands. By the time I'd fiddled with my sixth or seventh, a lot of them are pretty jumbled together. I'll admit in PHP I seem frustratingly unable to recall the precise syntax of rather simple commands like a for() loop, which is definitely in the "you should just have this down" kind of material. However, I've got a fantastic memory for what other page makes use of the for() loop, and the search/copy/paste/edit process is quick enough for my own purposes, and the same memory trick also leads me to a more complicated 20-line chunk I want to modify and re-use.
And perhaps that's a good case of what the article is talking about. You could argue I should take the time to pick up a few dozen of the more common functions and commit them to memory, but there'll always be obscure ones I won't remember. So as it is I don't bother remembering anything more complicated than if(), while() or switch() and instead put my brainpower to remembering where I've used other instances of that code before, however simple or complex.
I don't know about banned passwords, but slashdot has stories quarterly about "most common passwords" -- often released as an analysis of hacked or exposed passwords on one site or another. The common passwords are common everywhere, and the crooks already know them. Publishing the list of most common ones can only help if it convinces a user their password is too simple.
I'll admit that a couple of passwords I thought were 'clever' have shown up on these lists, and it's convinced me to change them to something less common.
I would gladly pay $100 if I could get a setup which let me eat a different famous historical landmark printed in chocolate for dessert every night. Probably $200, even, if it came with the blueprints, because I'm not going to redesign all those things myself.
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Isn't "assorting tasks" a sort of project management? It may be decisions reached amongst peers without any real leader, but it's still managing something. Unless your camping trip is "everyone provide for themselves," most of the time you do want to spend at least a little time figuring out who's bringing what, cooking which meals, etc. Often that's really easy, and as you note if the individuals involved are interested and engaged it's generally trivial, but if you don't plan at all and wait until you're out in the woods to ask "now who brought the tent?" you're asking for trouble. Maybe there's a semantic divide here where I'd call that management and you're calling that something else like cooperation that you don't consider management?
No. It's a basic lack of manners. Individuals in the real world with a real world physical presence often have special needs but most of those needs are concealed or obfuscated by the internet anyway and few need to be accommodated. What is lacking here is basic manners and enough presence of mind to realize there's a real person on the other end.
It's not *just* manners. I've seen politely phrased comments construed as incendiary by the recipient, either through ambiguous wording, misreading, or just somehow taking the words wrong. This kind of misunderstanding is possible in real life, but it's a lot more likely once you lose body language and tone of voice. It's possible to go to great lengths to be exceedingly polite and the person on the other end still gets upset over something that's not intended to be upsetting.
I'm gonna agree with the AC on this one. The objective is the most worthless, throwaway piece of junk in the entire package. Their objective is to get the job, and that's all there is to it. I can't imagine what you'd be getting out of the objective that would help you decide whether or not to interview somebody.
That's what I came in to ask. Percents are such a useful mechanism, why break it by making up your own scale which is an exact multiple or fraction? Why not 80 in 1000? It's the same number, but simple percents are just a lot more reader friendly.
Yeah, I guess that's weird. For $10/year, I've bought domains on a drunken whim. I've accidentally registered (and kept) typoed domains (Chicago is totally spelled with 3c's, right?). They're so cheap and easy, better half a dozen vanity domains than a single vanity license plate, I figure.
I'm not about to disparage the public for not having their own domain (though both my mom and dad, definitely non-geek laypeople, have also managed to each own a domain at one point for business reasons--either it runs in my family or it's still pretty easy and common), nor do I fault anyone for using what works. And Google accounts, being free and functional, certainly work pretty well. But I can't think I'm the only geek who's provided for himself long before Gmail even hit the scene, and thus never bothered with it.
(you have at least one google account, like the rest of the civilized world, right?)
Am I weird that I don't? I've had my own domain since '98, and set up a backup email at a competing web-based option about that time. Never really felt the need to switch to Gmail. Besides, my wife uses Gmail as her primary account, and it's easier if I don't have one and she can stay logged in.
I like Google well enough in theory, but in practice we've just recently gotten my 90-something grandmother to figure out FaceBook to the point she can see pictures of the great-grandkids, and I can't see trying to teach her another site or moving the whole family over. To that extent I'm not going to even bother opening an account at Google+, because I know I won't use it. Keeping the family updated on FB already feels like obligation enough some days.
Yeah, I kind of feel this way. After picking up my first band game, I couldn't play it enough. Got two expansion packs, played them all the way through. Picked up a music theme I liked, then picked up version #2 of the game for more songs, then tried the competing product ... and realized I was pretty much sick of just doing the same thing over and over. Especially putting up with gaming the points or the venues, or jumping through the necessary hoops to unlock the songs I wanted to play, which first required playing songs I didn't like so much over and over again. Even weirder obstacles, like having a character tied to an instrument, so that if you want to switch instruments you've got to unlock everything AGAIN, just became unbearable. That and my friends also got tired of the games around the same time, meaning I'd just be playing by myself, which wasn't nearly as much fun.
Oh, but there's so much more space in a three-dimensional sky than on the two-dimensional road surface -- you don't really think there's any chance cars would hit each other, do you?
I'd better stop now, though. I'm getting modded down for being sarcastic and silly in a way I find humorous, but others apparently can't tolerate.
So, you can see that I was saying drivers are so bad that it doesn't matter if they're on the ground or in the air, but you can't see that there's sarcasm? I don't know what to say to that. I'm willing to accept you simply don't see the comment as funny, that's fine. But if you reread it and come to the conclusion I can't possibly be joking and must simply be unable to comprehend the different physics involved ... I'm at a loss.
I find the deconstruction of what is or isn't possibly humor to intelligent, native, literate readers to be a bit limited and condescending, and I don't really accept your inability to see the sarcasm as proof that it's not there.
Your sense of humor isn't very good. I could go on for four paragraphs, but I'll just leave it at: whoosh. :)
Technically, I think the Air's minimum is $999, but otherwise I agree with your math.
Or you lack enough experience driving in cities, mayhap? :)
I can't imagine it being all that much worse than the thousands of semi-trained drivers we have driving cars around cities, honestly.
Shame, too, as the standard MacBook has always been my target model. I don't really need or want to pay for the extra power in the Pro models, and I don't really want to pay for the miniaturization of the Air models (or put up with the 11" screen, and the missing ports and smaller battery life), so the standard MacBook has been my choice. If you count the iBooks as basically being a continuation of the same line I've had 3 of them over the years, all of them good.
I'd just been talking about upgrading, too, and was hopeful for today's update. Now I'm not quite sure where I fit.
And then there's code like PHPbb, where it will let you create an admin password with an @ in it during site setup, but then just mysteriously strips the @ out of the actual password when the site is set up. I rebuilt a site three times before (for some crazy reason, can't recall how I thought of it) deciding to type the password and leave out the special character, and finally getting in.
... a request which Steve Jobs' head in a jar will absolutely refuse...
If you owe $50, it's not because someone looked and evaluated the situation. It's because that's what the computer says you owe. If the computer had said $55 instead--THAT WOULD BE THE REALITY.
No kidding. I remember a day when the startup I was working for had all of our web sites turned off. We called up the hosting provider, and they said we were two months overdue on payments. While on the phone my co-worker pulled up the company's bank account and confirmed the autopayments had been going through consistently, but the agent on the phone just got more and more belligerent, until they were reduced to shouting, "The computer doesn't lie, sir! The computer doesn't lie!" at my co-worker while demanding payment, and also refusing to let us talk to a manager or anyone else who might be willing to talk to us instead of yell at us. Conversation finally ended when the company rep hung up on us. When we called right back and got a different agent, they basically said "Yeah, we can see you paid, and we don't even have any record of your accounts being locked, so we don't even know what you're talking about" and by that point our web sites were working again. We never could get them to admit they'd even turned off our service, or get an explanation for the crazy rep who yelled at us.
I'd give you mod points if I hadn't already posted. +1 deeply insightful.
I ran into this with math. I liked it, and learned a lot outside of class, and my mom was willing to teach me basic algebra and geometry ahead of schedule, in 5th and 6th grade. Problem was algebra wasn't "officially" taught until 8th grade, and while elementary school let me do my own thing, junior high wanted me to participate in the officially scheduled classes, which meant 80% repetition of what I'd already seen a year or two before. I basically just brought a book with me and read through class as often as the teacher would let me get away with it, which was maybe half the time. It wasn't until high school that I started learning new things again and needed to pay attention. That's a pretty big waste of a couple of years.
Only if you can look it up in a book every time you need to be reminded how.
So the question is, did you have that quote memorized, or did you have to look it up? And if you looked it up, did you look for the author (hey, I think Einstein said something about memory once) or did you start with a vague sense of the quote (what was that about memorization, and who said that anyway?) to come to that post?
And yet, I have no idea how you can program without memorizing a set of commands and at least most of a working syntax. But I program strictly in C, so. . . I have no idea what the wacky, OOP types are shooting up or snorting these days.
Back when I knew just one language, I remembered a decent number of commands. By the time I'd fiddled with my sixth or seventh, a lot of them are pretty jumbled together. I'll admit in PHP I seem frustratingly unable to recall the precise syntax of rather simple commands like a for() loop, which is definitely in the "you should just have this down" kind of material. However, I've got a fantastic memory for what other page makes use of the for() loop, and the search/copy/paste/edit process is quick enough for my own purposes, and the same memory trick also leads me to a more complicated 20-line chunk I want to modify and re-use.
And perhaps that's a good case of what the article is talking about. You could argue I should take the time to pick up a few dozen of the more common functions and commit them to memory, but there'll always be obscure ones I won't remember. So as it is I don't bother remembering anything more complicated than if(), while() or switch() and instead put my brainpower to remembering where I've used other instances of that code before, however simple or complex.
Or change it to: icanhazpassword
I'll admit that a couple of passwords I thought were 'clever' have shown up on these lists, and it's convinced me to change them to something less common.
I would gladly pay $100 if I could get a setup which let me eat a different famous historical landmark printed in chocolate for dessert every night. Probably $200, even, if it came with the blueprints, because I'm not going to redesign all those things myself.