You sound exactly like the manager who told the coder "just get rid of the setting but don't rip out all the other code behind it. We'll have to retest everything and we don't have budget or schedule for that. This isn't difficult. "
Honestly... does this come as any surprise to anyone on/.?
When I heard about Flame and Stuxnet it was as if every cyberfiction story I read in the 80's had finally come true. Mentally, I'm already prepared.
Bring on the onslaught of Jihadist Erectile Dysfunction Spam!
You may be right on all counts. Currently this summer, our training program has been determining who is "bright enough" and sticking with them. It's working out, now. But it's hardly an easily replicatable thing.
a 20-60 min interview over the phone isn't enough. People can talk a good game and sound intelligent when answering my open ended "How do you solve/approach this asynchronous timing window?" questions. You may have spent 10 years in the industry, but you may not have the right mix of skills to get tasks completed. Then I go and waste months training them up and they just don't work out.
exactly, it's the WaPo, not the Grey Lady. Lower your standards. They let Tracee get away with terrible lapses of judgement, especially around Olympics time when she tries to "blog" humor. Yech.
[looks at the 280 calorie coke bottle at my desk and two crumpled baggies of Cheddar Jalapeno Cheetos]
Yep, That's it. Exposure to antibiotics at an early age. QED.
hey now, currency speculation is a noble, time-honored pursuit, and a perfectly legitimate way to round out your portfolio with some very risky investments.
loaders, linkers, libraries, supervisory mode... a basic 200-level CS book might give him plently of high-level fundamentals once he descends into the world of device-specific drivers.
I can corroborate the above post. And when you add any precipitation to the mix, Marylanders lose their minds (both with respects to automobile driving and computer usage).
I'd have to say that the whole "e-mailing rather sensitive documents to yourself on the way out *and* using it in a competing startup" approach seems to be a foolproof way to get yourself found liable for little things like misappropriation of trade secrets.
this is good stuff! *writes this down*
Hey, do you know how I can un-send e-mail? Oh, No reason, really.
Why did I join Greenpeace in college?
well, it's the same reason why I joined the vegetarian club in college. And the same reason I participated in the Occupy Wall Street protests.
To meet girls with "evolved" morality. Who would let me touch them, without clothing. Basically, for tail.
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Sounds like you do some really cool cyber-stuff and I'd love to join your cyber-group but living in Tulsa for two years? Ehhhhh...
/here's hoping no one from OK has mod points
p>Im no programmer-- but this isnt difficult. .
You sound exactly like the manager who told the coder "just get rid of the setting but don't rip out all the other code behind it. We'll have to retest everything and we don't have budget or schedule for that. This isn't difficult. "
Honestly... does this come as any surprise to anyone on /.?
When I heard about Flame and Stuxnet it was as if every cyberfiction story I read in the 80's had finally come true. Mentally, I'm already prepared.
Bring on the onslaught of Jihadist Erectile Dysfunction Spam!
the Global Internet Censorship Body will ensure equal unrest and humiliation for all.
Considering their web page hasn't been updated since 1997...
...I'm not surprised they're gone forever.
xenononline.com
You may be right on all counts. Currently this summer, our training program has been determining who is "bright enough" and sticking with them. It's working out, now. But it's hardly an easily replicatable thing.
a 20-60 min interview over the phone isn't enough. People can talk a good game and sound intelligent when answering my open ended "How do you solve/approach this asynchronous timing window?" questions. You may have spent 10 years in the industry, but you may not have the right mix of skills to get tasks completed. Then I go and waste months training them up and they just don't work out.
exactly, it's the WaPo, not the Grey Lady. Lower your standards. They let Tracee get away with terrible lapses of judgement, especially around Olympics time when she tries to "blog" humor. Yech.
/still gets weekend delivery... sigh.
As there is ample legal president to support it, law trumps in the face of science every time.
/The tomato is a vegetable.
Since 2006-ish I've eaten nothing but locally raised, grass fed beef/chicken/pork. And lots of it. And I'm still fat.
[looks at the 280 calorie coke bottle at my desk and two crumpled baggies of Cheddar Jalapeno Cheetos] Yep, That's it. Exposure to antibiotics at an early age. QED.
hey now, currency speculation is a noble, time-honored pursuit, and a perfectly legitimate way to round out your portfolio with some very risky investments.
/no risk, no reward!
preferably, by Sir David Attenborough OM, CH, CVO, CBE, FRS, FZS, FSA.
loaders, linkers, libraries, supervisory mode... a basic 200-level CS book might give him plently of high-level fundamentals once he descends into the world of device-specific drivers.
This is totally a bookmark so I can start doing this!!!
/has a few things pinned to the taskbar
the 3615 stuff is absolutely fascinating; sort of like how p0rn blazed a trail for the home video systems of the 80's (VHS, et. al.).
I can corroborate the above post. And when you add any precipitation to the mix, Marylanders lose their minds (both with respects to automobile driving and computer usage).
ahhh, Takoma Park, MD! If you lived in that town, you'd be pretty pissed about the waiver, actually.
ahhhh, I see we have Irony for lunch. /it tastes kind of like goldie or bronzy, except it's made out of iron.
Yes; as a corollary to this, DC public schools are loathe to close on snow days because for some children, that's the only food they get all day.
I'd have to say that the whole "e-mailing rather sensitive documents to yourself on the way out *and* using it in a competing startup" approach seems to be a foolproof way to get yourself found liable for little things like misappropriation of trade secrets.
this is good stuff!
*writes this down*
Hey, do you know how I can un-send e-mail? Oh, No reason, really.
it's the damndest thing. I always thought those guys going "doot doot doo" were complete tools. But the ladies just melted!
Why did I join Greenpeace in college? well, it's the same reason why I joined the vegetarian club in college. And the same reason I participated in the Occupy Wall Street protests.
To meet girls with "evolved" morality. Who would let me touch them, without clothing. Basically, for tail.
settle for tachyon fields.
This was a subtle ploy by data center competitors to use Greenpeace to get Apple to reveal their power consumption strategies... And it worked!