I don't know what the article is going on about but my experience is 100% the opposite.
'If music evolved as a social glue for the species â" as a way to make groups and keep them together â" headphones allow music to be enjoyed friendlessly â" as a way to savor our privacy, in heightened solitude,' concludes Thompson.
I play crap I like to drown out the distractions. If I played crap I did not like then it would be the distraction.
This has nothing to do with "friendlessly". A friend of mine keeps having us synchronize play times and then she types the chorus to me in chat. And how many chat windows does everyone here have open when they have their headphones on? There's nothing about "solitude" there. We're communicating and interacting.
Why aren't the other people on the other projects capable of handling this?
We have a couple who are. They're fully subscribed on other projects and the time stolen to keep this project moving is missed.
You ALREADY have people who fit this profile and you are having trouble finding/making more of them?
That makes no sense at all.
I'm looking for a senior level operations guy who can (A) explain stuff to senior level programmers without operations experience and (B) run some nifty BGP-using networks with interesting architectures.
Again, what you'll end up with is a master-network guy who has to dumb the concepts down to novice level to get it across to the master-programmer people.
But you already know that, right, because you already have TWO people with those skills who step in and look at the project.
And BGP? BGP isn't complicated. It's almost as easy as RIP.
Very few folks here work just one project. Those who do, do so by choice.
So you have more than one project but you don't have the people to staff this project and that is because none of the resumes have the correct qualifications?
That worries me. Why aren't the other people on the other projects capable of handling this?
Big difference between what stuff looks like in the lab and what it looks like on a production network. I need someone who knows the qualitative difference. That takes years of operations experience.
That's another problem. You expect someone who is a master to be able to explain the complex concepts to a novice in such a way that the novice can turn those complex concepts into code.
That does not work. What you end up with is a master-level programmer implementing novice-level network concepts. Because that is the level that the master-network guy has to use to communicate with the master-programmer guy.
And you refuse to bring the master-programmers up to a more advanced network level.
But you're willing to give a phone interview to someone who knows SCRIPTING?
If this was a legitimate job opening I can see why you'd have trouble filling it with anyone qualified.
Yeah. The fact that you're here claiming that you cannot fill that position.
Knock off the cutesy, attempted implication but avoiding directly saying it, bullshit. Either you have an opening for X at $Y or you do not.
The individual skills you're looking for are not uncommon. You can probably find someone with 2 of the 3 easily. And fairly inexpensively.
But getting all 3 of the 3? Those people probably already have jobs doing something similar to what you're pushing and you'd have to hire them away from those jobs.
So either you aren't offering them enough or there is something about the job or company that is scaring away the people with the experience you are looking for.
And even experienced people who don't trust the situation can be hired if you're willing to pay enough up front.
What is this "minor software development"? Scripting? C or C++ or Java?
Anything at all gets you to a phone interview.
Not the answer I was expecting. Scripting is VERY different from C coding.
The position is for the operations guy on a product team building a specialty firewall product.
So a very real possibility of a very limited career there? The firewall market is already fairly busy.
He's the guy who has to keep the devs grounded in both what can actually be maintained in the field and what the packets on deployed networks actually look like.
That would make me even less confident. If the people writing the code for the firewall need someone else to tell them what the packets look like then there is a problem. And that kind of education is a couple weeks at maximum.
I want TS. SCI would be a bonus. I'll consider Secret for someone with an otherwise terrific skill set with the assumption I'll have to find side roles for them until they can get up to TS+SCI.
I wish you luck with that. I don't think you'll find anyone with those skills willing to take a risk on your project at the expense of their current job.
But I'm going to reiterate the part about getting some more education for your coders. Understanding network packets is not difficult. If they can write firewall software then they NEED to understand packets. This is NOT something that someone else can explain to them while they're coding.
I can get them from TS to SCI in time and I would consider someone with secret who had all the other right skills but I can't get someone from zero to TS in time to deliver the product.
What The Fuck?!?
Bullshit.
Shouldn't you be head-hunting the people with those skills and clearances at the other security firms and paying them the 6 figure salaries that they'd demand?
Even then there aren't many.
Sure there are. It's just that they've already got jobs where they're pulling in massive salaries and you'd have to top those salaries / benefits in order to pull them away from that.
If you don't want to say which city, just tell us which state.
What is this "minor software development"? Scripting? Or is it "knowing how to code in C or C++ or Java"?
How much training/education are you willing to pay for for a candidate that has the network skills but not the "software development" skills?
Or "software development" skills but not the network skills?
How intense is the security clearance you're looking for? Credit check? 10 years previous legal problems? Top Secret?
2 of the 3 should be difficult but not impossible for the right price.
3 of the 3, without a willingness to pay for education is going to be VERY difficult. The people writing code for network security ALREADY have good paying jobs.
While you MIGHT get extremely lucky and find one of the few techs who (for whatever reason) needs a job at any salary while having all those skills...
You'll pretty much end up with two situations:
1. That person will be gone as soon as they find a better paying job. And you will have to start over again.
2. That person really does not have those skills and is willing to learn them "on the job" while making all the mistakes a novice would make. And then leaves to find a better paying job.
Either way, you pay slave wages, you get slave labour.
I've found that the ability to talk to non-technical people is more important to most hiring managers simply because it's a lot easier to train someone to be technical than it is to train them to work with people.
I disagree with that.
I think it is easier for the hiring managers to evaluate "interpersonal skills" than it is for them to evaluate "technical skills". And since it is easier for them, they value those skills more.
From the point of these laws, which is to encourage the growth of women (and minority) owned businesses, these would be success stories, driving the intended behavior via regulations and economic incentives.
I don't care how they're counted.
I'm wondering (if the facts in TFA are really factual) why this hasn't happened.
If anything, it should lead to MORE "women owned" small businesses forming that are really owned and run by men with the woman being nothing more than a paper figurehead.
There is a "shortage" of: women small business owners qualified for the government contracts who are bidding on them.
So what is stopping one of the existing women (small business blah blah blah) from getting one of the other women she knows from forming a small business (or branching off of her existing business) to get a slice of the GUARANTEED government contracts?
Alice owns Alice, LLC. Alice employs Betty, Carl, Doug and Ed. So Alice helps Betty form Betty, LLC and take Ed to bid against Alice. Ka-CHING! Lucrative government contracts for both of them!
For example, suppose you needed to order some laptops for your developers, and some compilers as well.
Shouldn't that be handled by the manager or someone?
The actual coders should never have to look up the prices on any of their tools. New hardware should just show up as soon as the manager can complete all the paperwork and the political fights.
I'm pretty sure that any limits are really ageism and not related to whether you have a degree or not. It's all about how many hours-per-week they can get out of you for $X per month. The older you are the fewer those hours are.
Even if the hours you do provide are really worth more in terms of productivity because your experience means that you do not go off on unproductive tangents.
But just in case the limit really is the degree.... get the fastest cheapest degree you can. It does NOT matter what the subject is. As long as it is fast and cheap. It is just the first step and at this point you really aren't concerned about making the correct relationships with the other kids in the frats.
THEN start working on an advanced degree in the subject that you really want. Such as computer science. Or whatever.
There are any number of people (both Americans and immigrants) who take any available job and try to work their way up, but opportunities never appear.
But researching that is too much like work.
And no one wants to read the story of a nice immigrant who gets an okay job working for someone else and raises an okay family and sends his okay kids to an okay college after which they get okay jobs working for someone else.
Instead, let's focus on the few who DO become successful entrepreneurs (at this moment) and extrapolate trends from those.
This may also be the first instance of the project developer (Rich Burlew) being so completely involved with the supporters as the project exceeded the initial goal.
Flip through the updates notifications to see what he added as enticements to get to each new level. And what his progress has been on delivering on those commitments.
100% transparency and thousands of fans eagerly awaiting delivery.
About the only thing I can see is someone else coming along to steal Kickstarter's thunder, but the idea behind Kickstarter isn't going anywhere in the foreseeable future.
I hope it doesn't go anywhere because it is a great idea.
Kickstarter allows the developer to get in direct contact with the people who are willing to commit to his/her project. Which is GREAT in cases like the above example. Things that were abandoned long ago can be revived without having to secure millions of dollars of investment cash.
To use the F-22 correctly we'd have to go to war with Russia or China. If that happens then there are a lot of other issues that are more important than the F-22.
If we fight another proxy war (like Vietnam was or when the Soviet Union invaded Afghanistan) then we'll probably be using drones.
Follow the money. Who's making the profit on the F-22?
While I oppose the kind of tax dodges that Apple and Microsoft are up to... I cannot say that any of the problems in this state would be that much better if Microsoft paid all the taxes possible here.
For this to have any relevance he'd have to show that handedness was somehow genetic (right-handed parents had right-handed children) or determined soon after birth and influenced by the parents (right-handed parents taught their children to be right-handed unconsciously).
Then those right-handed parents were more successful in the cooperative culture than the left-handed people.
Leading to more right-handed children than left-handed children.
But taking the already existing difference of left / right handedness and then using that to determine their "success" in a synthetic system such as sports... that's just stupid!
There are no right-handed footballs. Either US or European.
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I don't know what the article is going on about but my experience is 100% the opposite.
I play crap I like to drown out the distractions. If I played crap I did not like then it would be the distraction.
This has nothing to do with "friendlessly".
A friend of mine keeps having us synchronize play times and then she types the chorus to me in chat.
And how many chat windows does everyone here have open when they have their headphones on? There's nothing about "solitude" there. We're communicating and interacting.
But we're doing it without the background noise.
You ALREADY have people who fit this profile and you are having trouble finding/making more of them?
That makes no sense at all.
Again, what you'll end up with is a master-network guy who has to dumb the concepts down to novice level to get it across to the master-programmer people.
But you already know that, right, because you already have TWO people with those skills who step in and look at the project.
And BGP? BGP isn't complicated. It's almost as easy as RIP.
So you have more than one project but you don't have the people to staff this project and that is because none of the resumes have the correct qualifications?
That worries me. Why aren't the other people on the other projects capable of handling this?
That's another problem. You expect someone who is a master to be able to explain the complex concepts to a novice in such a way that the novice can turn those complex concepts into code.
That does not work.
What you end up with is a master-level programmer implementing novice-level network concepts.
Because that is the level that the master-network guy has to use to communicate with the master-programmer guy.
And you refuse to bring the master-programmers up to a more advanced network level.
But you're willing to give a phone interview to someone who knows SCRIPTING?
If this was a legitimate job opening I can see why you'd have trouble filling it with anyone qualified.
Yeah. The fact that you're here claiming that you cannot fill that position.
Knock off the cutesy, attempted implication but avoiding directly saying it, bullshit. Either you have an opening for X at $Y or you do not.
The individual skills you're looking for are not uncommon. You can probably find someone with 2 of the 3 easily. And fairly inexpensively.
But getting all 3 of the 3?
Those people probably already have jobs doing something similar to what you're pushing and you'd have to hire them away from those jobs.
So either you aren't offering them enough or there is something about the job or company that is scaring away the people with the experience you are looking for.
And even experienced people who don't trust the situation can be hired if you're willing to pay enough up front.
Not the answer I was expecting. Scripting is VERY different from C coding.
So a very real possibility of a very limited career there? The firewall market is already fairly busy.
That would make me even less confident. If the people writing the code for the firewall need someone else to tell them what the packets look like then there is a problem. And that kind of education is a couple weeks at maximum.
I wish you luck with that. I don't think you'll find anyone with those skills willing to take a risk on your project at the expense of their current job.
But I'm going to reiterate the part about getting some more education for your coders. Understanding network packets is not difficult. If they can write firewall software then they NEED to understand packets. This is NOT something that someone else can explain to them while they're coding.
Good luck!
What The Fuck?!?
Bullshit.
Shouldn't you be head-hunting the people with those skills and clearances at the other security firms and paying them the 6 figure salaries that they'd demand?
Sure there are. It's just that they've already got jobs where they're pulling in massive salaries and you'd have to top those salaries / benefits in order to pull them away from that.
If you don't want to say which city, just tell us which state.
What is this "minor software development"?
Scripting?
Or is it "knowing how to code in C or C++ or Java"?
How much training/education are you willing to pay for for a candidate that has the network skills but not the "software development" skills?
Or "software development" skills but not the network skills?
How intense is the security clearance you're looking for? Credit check? 10 years previous legal problems? Top Secret?
2 of the 3 should be difficult but not impossible for the right price.
3 of the 3, without a willingness to pay for education is going to be VERY difficult. The people writing code for network security ALREADY have good paying jobs.
While you MIGHT get extremely lucky and find one of the few techs who (for whatever reason) needs a job at any salary while having all those skills ...
You'll pretty much end up with two situations:
1. That person will be gone as soon as they find a better paying job. And you will have to start over again.
2. That person really does not have those skills and is willing to learn them "on the job" while making all the mistakes a novice would make. And then leaves to find a better paying job.
Either way, you pay slave wages, you get slave labour.
I disagree with that.
I think it is easier for the hiring managers to evaluate "interpersonal skills" than it is for them to evaluate "technical skills". And since it is easier for them, they value those skills more.
http://www.codinghorror.com/blog/
http://thedailywtf.com/
That entire article reads more like a press release with FUD than anything with any facts.
Which chip?
Which manufacturer?
Which US customer?
No facts and LOTS of claims. It's pure FUD.
(Not that this might not be a real concern. But the first step is getting past the FUD and marketing materials and getting to the real facts.)
I don't care how they're counted.
I'm wondering (if the facts in TFA are really factual) why this hasn't happened.
If anything, it should lead to MORE "women owned" small businesses forming that are really owned and run by men with the woman being nothing more than a paper figurehead.
There is a "shortage" of:
women
small business
owners
qualified for the government contracts
who are bidding on them.
So what is stopping one of the existing women (small business blah blah blah) from getting one of the other women she knows from forming a small business (or branching off of her existing business) to get a slice of the GUARANTEED government contracts?
Alice owns Alice, LLC.
Alice employs Betty, Carl, Doug and Ed.
So Alice helps Betty form Betty, LLC and take Ed to bid against Alice. Ka-CHING! Lucrative government contracts for both of them!
Shouldn't that be handled by the manager or someone?
The actual coders should never have to look up the prices on any of their tools. New hardware should just show up as soon as the manager can complete all the paperwork and the political fights.
How, exactly, does he plan on verifying compliance when any USB stick can hold, LITERALLY, an infinite number of "weapons".
And gigabytes worth of different "weapons".
And still be smaller than a thumbnail.
I'm pretty sure that any limits are really ageism and not related to whether you have a degree or not. It's all about how many hours-per-week they can get out of you for $X per month. The older you are the fewer those hours are.
Even if the hours you do provide are really worth more in terms of productivity because your experience means that you do not go off on unproductive tangents.
But just in case the limit really is the degree .... get the fastest cheapest degree you can. It does NOT matter what the subject is. As long as it is fast and cheap. It is just the first step and at this point you really aren't concerned about making the correct relationships with the other kids in the frats.
THEN start working on an advanced degree in the subject that you really want. Such as computer science. Or whatever.
But researching that is too much like work.
And no one wants to read the story of a nice immigrant who gets an okay job working for someone else and raises an okay family and sends his okay kids to an okay college after which they get okay jobs working for someone else.
Instead, let's focus on the few who DO become successful entrepreneurs (at this moment) and extrapolate trends from those.
The Order of The Stick reprint drive.
http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/599092525/the-order-of-the-stick-reprint-drive/posts
This may also be the first instance of the project developer (Rich Burlew) being so completely involved with the supporters as the project exceeded the initial goal.
Flip through the updates notifications to see what he added as enticements to get to each new level. And what his progress has been on delivering on those commitments.
100% transparency and thousands of fans eagerly awaiting delivery.
I hope it doesn't go anywhere because it is a great idea.
http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/847271320/ogre-designers-edition
Kickstarter allows the developer to get in direct contact with the people who are willing to commit to his/her project. Which is GREAT in cases like the above example. Things that were abandoned long ago can be revived without having to secure millions of dollars of investment cash.
To use the F-22 correctly we'd have to go to war with Russia or China. If that happens then there are a lot of other issues that are more important than the F-22.
If we fight another proxy war (like Vietnam was or when the Soviet Union invaded Afghanistan) then we'll probably be using drones.
Follow the money. Who's making the profit on the F-22?
Is Google the new Microsoft that was replaced when Apple became the new Microsoft?
Hold it. Doesn't Google run most of their stuff on Linux?
Is Linux the new Apple?
"Is X the new Y" a way for people without much background or information to fill up a few inches of column space in a hurry?
How about we just ignore any "is X the new Y" from today onwards? Okay?
While I oppose the kind of tax dodges that Apple and Microsoft are up to ... I cannot say that any of the problems in this state would be that much better if Microsoft paid all the taxes possible here.
Our local government seems amazingly incompetent.
For this to have any relevance he'd have to show that handedness was somehow genetic (right-handed parents had right-handed children) or determined soon after birth and influenced by the parents (right-handed parents taught their children to be right-handed unconsciously).
Then those right-handed parents were more successful in the cooperative culture than the left-handed people.
Leading to more right-handed children than left-handed children.
But taking the already existing difference of left / right handedness and then using that to determine their "success" in a synthetic system such as sports ... that's just stupid!
There are no right-handed footballs. Either US or European.
So tell me, when you were "in utero" which sports were you most interested in?
Can a right-handed male and female produce a left-handed child?
Can a left-handed male and female produce a right-handed child?
Is there a percentage?
Right + right = right 90% of the time?
Left + left = left 90% of the time?
Or is it that any combination will result in a right-handed child 90% of the time?
And that only applies:
1. If corporations are people
and
2. If money is speech
I disagree with both of those.
I don't care what the SCOTUS says.
They have been wrong before and they are wrong on those issues.