There is a scam going on here. I kid you not on this one. A manager told me this.
They used to give quizzes to test the abilities of the individuals. Well what happened is that they took note of the questions asked. This was then added to some sort of database that could be retrieved at a moments notice.
The manager said that initially they did not find clients, but then they did. Then the manager realized what happened.
When I interview people I never do it with a cookie cutter approach. What I do is ask some random technical questions and then start drilling on those. It is always different.
My interviews are 1) Very difficult because what I want for you to say is, "I don't know this, but if I had to guess it would be x" Once you say that then we can start working through code and examples since I am getting you to think on the spot.
2) How sure you are about yourself. I very often ask, "are you sure about this?" Even if they are right. I want to see how arrogant you are and if you are willing to apply a judgment call.
As one interviewee said, "your interview is tricky because to pass you need to admit that you don't know certain things. Some companies that I interviewed look at that as weakness. But you didn't hold it against me." We hired this guy... His knowledge was ok, but his on the spot thinking was actually pretty good.
If you are level headed and solid in your materials you will pass with flying colors. And because I put people under stress very often they will say things that they in hindsight should not have.
Can you prove to me where Microsoft is not paying fairly?
Because otherwise you are talking slander! And that is illegal.
Read the article and the real problem is that the H1B program is being abused because a few outsourcing companies that are taking the lions share of visas.
Conservative talk radio is consistent? Actually let's put this in context. [fill in the blank] talk radio is consistent?
One thing that people have to remember is that conservatives more likely than not are not going to win awards. And that liberals will...
Think hard about this. What is a conservative? Somebody who believes in their ideals and fundamentals. Thus they are not thinking about the future, but the past.
On the other hand a liberal challenges the notion of today and looks at what could be.
A conservative today is yesterday's liberal.
Go back in history and look at conservative stances, and liberal stances.
Women rights: Conservative of 2000 would say hey yes why not. Liberal of 1800 would say "hey yes why not." Conservative of 1800 would say, "blasphemy"
So you see, a conservative will always be two or three, or four steps behind the real action...
But it goes to show that to learn computing one of the first things you need to get past is the ability to actually figure out the "pyschie" of the computer.
I have been thinking more. Here is a robot exercise.
"We have a class room here. The task is to get that robot over there to pick up the apple and bring it back."
The challenge in this exercise is that while you think it is easy to navigate a room, telling a robot is not. It will involve the students having to understand the concept of "x steps and then turn". AND it will involve the students on having to come up with a language.
After all how does a robot know that steps means to step. A step is a "keyword" that implies a set of actions.
In the second step of the testing, etc routines the objective would be to define what a step is. After all x steps depends on the step size.
So after this the students will understand the following:
1) Language is garbage in garbage out 2) Keywords imply some action and those actions need to be repeatable. 3) Consistency and testing are the names of the game.
1) Teach them to understand that a computer does what a computer is told. So as a class building exercise get them to "program" a robot in pseudo code. You give them a fairly complex assignment that involves decisions. The test in this is that you the teacher are the robot. And the students who thought of this as a joke or simple assignment will quickly realize that garbage in garbage out means something.
2) Do the assignment again, but this time add "testing" routines. Make them write little assignments, that are assembled into bigger tasks. Show how this could be a "test driven" environment. You teach the robot little things, and then those things are assembled into bigger things. This teaches them components, modules and test driven.
3) Take all of that knowledge and apply it to a programming language. I personally would choose something along the lines of python and ruby. They have enough problems and they need a quick turn around.
4) Teach them about OO by introducing them to a programming language like C# or Java.
5) Finally teach them functional
Though I would stress team exercises thus giving them the benefit of XP (Extreme Programming) type training.
>And don't forget the power of geeks. They usually have some money to spare for gadgets, and they won't stop talking about how great some new tech product is.
I am a geek, but sorry geeks have no power to turn a market. What turns the crank on a geek != turn the crank on a consumer.
When the article said, "Oh I want more power to write more powerful applications" I thought, wow what a nerd. Consumers don't ask, "oh I want more power to write more powerful applications." They ask, "you know, gee, I have like 8000 songs and I can't add the latest [insert band here] onto my device."
Notice, no mention of GB, no mention of power. Just the plain and simple, quantity of songs...
>He'll still show signs of stress, though. Just because you think it's right to get into a fight doesn't mean that the adrenaline doesn't start pumping.
Wrong... You assume that there will be adrenaline pumping. This is this crazy extreme sports mentality.
There is a big difference here. Extreme sports people get an adrenaline kick from near-death experiences. The keyword is near-death.
Somebody who goes willing to death is not on an adrenaline rush. They are calm because they made their peace. They have no adrenaline rush because they are patiently waiting to die.
The problem we have here is that you are trying to train a set of people on fake situations. It's like saying, "oh let's try this death-penalty out". Until you actually carry out the death-penalty you will never know what the true action and reactions are.
I happen to believe in Evolution, and believe Evolution is strong enough to withstand the crackpots who believe in Creationism.
Talking about Creationism is about being able to speak openly and being able to discuss things. Of course Creationists will always resort to the bible as proof, which is kind of ironic since the bible is just words that somebody happened to have written. It's like saying, "oh Lead Zeplin in the stairway to heaven meant blah, blah."
Getting back to the point science is about discussion, even if sometimes that discussion is pointless.
I always bring up the following point. Imagine today somebody came up and said, "hey God spoke to me and said we should do x,y, and z." The first reaction is crackpot, and that is not good. Because who knows maybe God did speak to them. Maybe God did say something. We have become so cynical that if something does not fit into a nice neat folder xyz then well it simply cannot exist. And I know that this is not the case since so many things happen that we cannot explain.
Here is an example, why can twins "sense" each other? I am not going to revert, "because God did xyz" What I am saying is that this ability of one twin sensing the other is something that we have just not being able to explain and it does not fit neatly into our standard discussion points. And hence we kind of have to be careful of what is right, and wrong.
Though I am all for a good logical creationist discussion, and I am guessing it will be rather short.
The problem here is that this information is so old that only those that were from that generation remember it.
I only remember it because I was working with a contractor at the time (was still in highschool around 1986) was doing Apple work. He complained to me how he had to sign this that and other form. And how he had to sign each and every executable with his developer token.
Tracking down this information from 1986 is actually very difficult, and I have tried and tried to track it down on the web.
Of course this new generation of Apple folks would NEVER believe information from 22 years ago.
I have seen drivers take down Linux as well. Not as colorful as Vista mind you. I remember my Canon scanner making Linux basically useless. Sure it ran, but no input, no output, no networking...
A driver is special because it is a core part of the operating system. Yes an OS can be written such that it is completely protected, but the versions of Linux I have run are not that. And frankly I don't want it to be because the cost of that robustness is speed. On a server wanted, on a desktop problematic.
I have blogged on this aspect and done the calculations. The reality is that even if we cut emissions by 30% by 2050 from 1990 standards we still almost double the output.
Unless the population issue or DRAMATIC (eg 50% plus) are addressed I really don't shive a git! After all nobody else seems to care...
yes yes yes it is futile, but I have other problems...
First your morals of right or wrong is actually completely social based. Case in point, steal in Islam countries hand is coped. Muslim countries allow multiple wives. I am not saying that Islam and Muslim are wrong since that would be saying I am right and they are wrong. It is my point to illustrate to you that there is no absolute right or wrong.
Ever watch a wolf pack? dog packs? Or how about an elephant herd? They have some pretty amazing morals and right vs wrong.
We keep multiple dogs and there are some very interesting morals...
1) the female in the pack when outside the house typically does not greet the dogs first, the alpha dog does. 2) If the alpha dog disapproves of contact with another dog, then the pack will not greet the dog. 3) One dog will always remain on alert and on noise will start storming around. 4) When one dog of the pack is injured or scared the other dogs will attack or storm the problem - This one actually amazed me...
When you keep a single dog the normal dog behaviors seem "gone". I think most people don't understand the "morals" or socialization of a the dog world. Yet if you raise multiple dogs from pups in a pack with your family they are completely different.
1) how can you say that Alaska does not receive much? It has oil! 2) Look at how much Canadian territories or provinces receive that do not have natural resources. It is an outrageous amount in comparison.
The problem as I see it with Palin is that she is too conservative and comes from a state that lives on exploitation of natural resources. Nothing wrong with it, but she will have extremely biased opinions...
Get a perspective dude! The parent is right. These are German Customs Officers. They are not haphazard security people. In Germany unlike many places when it comes to border issues it is the German Customs Officers that manages it even though it might be miles away from a border.
They are only doing their jobs and enforcing the rules such as patents, copyrights and trademarks.
Yupe who cares if it is effective. It makes us believe that we are effective...
What gets me about this terrorism thing is that the only real combative way to deal with it is to change the public perception.
Look at Northern Ireland, intelligence, cops, and armies to the hilt! Did it stop anything? Nope! What stopped Northern Ireland and the violence? Peace agreements, discussions compromises!
Oh, but I suppose corporations can't sell "peace agreements..."
I have been doing number crunching since 15 years ago (am a mechanical engineer who has written his own CAD program).
Want to know what people said around 1991 when it came to number crunching?
"You want to create an application that uses forms to do some business processing , and send it to database , use C++ . You want an application that has to calculate prime numbers , or some other heavy mathematical issue , use Fortan."
So where is Fortran today? Not used much actually. C# can be used for number crunching, you just have to be careful how you code your algorithm.
Funny the parent is modded 5 as insightful and you are completely ignored. I agree with you completely.
I think the time for "men and macho" languages is over. I quite programming C++ about 5 years ago. Man am I glad. I can actually focus on getting code to work.
A simple thing like integrating source code from other places STILL does not work properly. Components are extremely painful and a piece of cake elsewhere...
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There is a scam going on here. I kid you not on this one. A manager told me this.
They used to give quizzes to test the abilities of the individuals. Well what happened is that they took note of the questions asked. This was then added to some sort of database that could be retrieved at a moments notice.
The manager said that initially they did not find clients, but then they did. Then the manager realized what happened.
When I interview people I never do it with a cookie cutter approach. What I do is ask some random technical questions and then start drilling on those. It is always different.
My interviews are
1) Very difficult because what I want for you to say is, "I don't know this, but if I had to guess it would be x" Once you say that then we can start working through code and examples since I am getting you to think on the spot.
2) How sure you are about yourself. I very often ask, "are you sure about this?" Even if they are right. I want to see how arrogant you are and if you are willing to apply a judgment call.
As one interviewee said, "your interview is tricky because to pass you need to admit that you don't know certain things. Some companies that I interviewed look at that as weakness. But you didn't hold it against me." We hired this guy... His knowledge was ok, but his on the spot thinking was actually pretty good.
If you are level headed and solid in your materials you will pass with flying colors. And because I put people under stress very often they will say things that they in hindsight should not have.
Nice...
Can you prove to me where Microsoft is not paying fairly?
Because otherwise you are talking slander! And that is illegal.
Read the article and the real problem is that the H1B program is being abused because a few outsourcing companies that are taking the lions share of visas.
This is the problem and that needs to be fixed.
Conservative talk radio is consistent? Actually let's put this in context. [fill in the blank] talk radio is consistent?
One thing that people have to remember is that conservatives more likely than not are not going to win awards. And that liberals will...
Think hard about this. What is a conservative? Somebody who believes in their ideals and fundamentals. Thus they are not thinking about the future, but the past.
On the other hand a liberal challenges the notion of today and looks at what could be.
A conservative today is yesterday's liberal.
Go back in history and look at conservative stances, and liberal stances.
Women rights: Conservative of 2000 would say hey yes why not. Liberal of 1800 would say "hey yes why not." Conservative of 1800 would say, "blasphemy"
So you see, a conservative will always be two or three, or four steps behind the real action...
Interesting...
Did you maybe happen to look at what he won his prize on?
It actually is a very interesting theory and idea...
Oh but wait he is a LIBERAL... and thus he can't have good ideas...
Interesting... I did not know that.
But it goes to show that to learn computing one of the first things you need to get past is the ability to actually figure out the "pyschie" of the computer.
I have been thinking more. Here is a robot exercise.
"We have a class room here. The task is to get that robot over there to pick up the apple and bring it back."
The challenge in this exercise is that while you think it is easy to navigate a room, telling a robot is not. It will involve the students having to understand the concept of "x steps and then turn". AND it will involve the students on having to come up with a language.
After all how does a robot know that steps means to step. A step is a "keyword" that implies a set of actions.
In the second step of the testing, etc routines the objective would be to define what a step is. After all x steps depends on the step size.
So after this the students will understand the following:
1) Language is garbage in garbage out
2) Keywords imply some action and those actions need to be repeatable.
3) Consistency and testing are the names of the game.
1) Teach them to understand that a computer does what a computer is told. So as a class building exercise get them to "program" a robot in pseudo code. You give them a fairly complex assignment that involves decisions. The test in this is that you the teacher are the robot. And the students who thought of this as a joke or simple assignment will quickly realize that garbage in garbage out means something.
2) Do the assignment again, but this time add "testing" routines. Make them write little assignments, that are assembled into bigger tasks. Show how this could be a "test driven" environment. You teach the robot little things, and then those things are assembled into bigger things. This teaches them components, modules and test driven.
3) Take all of that knowledge and apply it to a programming language. I personally would choose something along the lines of python and ruby. They have enough problems and they need a quick turn around.
4) Teach them about OO by introducing them to a programming language like C# or Java.
5) Finally teach them functional
Though I would stress team exercises thus giving them the benefit of XP (Extreme Programming) type training.
>And don't forget the power of geeks. They usually have some money to spare for gadgets, and they won't stop talking about how great some new tech product is.
I am a geek, but sorry geeks have no power to turn a market. What turns the crank on a geek != turn the crank on a consumer.
When the article said, "Oh I want more power to write more powerful applications" I thought, wow what a nerd. Consumers don't ask, "oh I want more power to write more powerful applications." They ask, "you know, gee, I have like 8000 songs and I can't add the latest [insert band here] onto my device."
Notice, no mention of GB, no mention of power. Just the plain and simple, quantity of songs...
>He'll still show signs of stress, though. Just because you think it's right to get into a fight doesn't mean that the adrenaline doesn't start pumping.
Wrong... You assume that there will be adrenaline pumping. This is this crazy extreme sports mentality.
There is a big difference here. Extreme sports people get an adrenaline kick from near-death experiences. The keyword is near-death.
Somebody who goes willing to death is not on an adrenaline rush. They are calm because they made their peace. They have no adrenaline rush because they are patiently waiting to die.
The problem we have here is that you are trying to train a set of people on fake situations. It's like saying, "oh let's try this death-penalty out". Until you actually carry out the death-penalty you will never know what the true action and reactions are.
Do a search on:
"The Power of Nightmares..."
Its six hours long, but well worth the time.
I happen to believe in Evolution, and believe Evolution is strong enough to withstand the crackpots who believe in Creationism.
Talking about Creationism is about being able to speak openly and being able to discuss things. Of course Creationists will always resort to the bible as proof, which is kind of ironic since the bible is just words that somebody happened to have written. It's like saying, "oh Lead Zeplin in the stairway to heaven meant blah, blah."
Getting back to the point science is about discussion, even if sometimes that discussion is pointless.
I always bring up the following point. Imagine today somebody came up and said, "hey God spoke to me and said we should do x,y, and z." The first reaction is crackpot, and that is not good. Because who knows maybe God did speak to them. Maybe God did say something. We have become so cynical that if something does not fit into a nice neat folder xyz then well it simply cannot exist. And I know that this is not the case since so many things happen that we cannot explain.
Here is an example, why can twins "sense" each other? I am not going to revert, "because God did xyz" What I am saying is that this ability of one twin sensing the other is something that we have just not being able to explain and it does not fit neatly into our standard discussion points. And hence we kind of have to be careful of what is right, and wrong.
Though I am all for a good logical creationist discussion, and I am guessing it will be rather short.
The problem here is that this information is so old that only those that were from that generation remember it.
I only remember it because I was working with a contractor at the time (was still in highschool around 1986) was doing Apple work. He complained to me how he had to sign this that and other form. And how he had to sign each and every executable with his developer token.
Tracking down this information from 1986 is actually very difficult, and I have tried and tried to track it down on the web.
Of course this new generation of Apple folks would NEVER believe information from 22 years ago.
Look at this link:
http://slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=641743&cid=24554021
This was in response to when Apple was caught with a remote switch. And this entry was modded down to troll.
There is an Apple Fanboys thing...
I have stated multiple times on Slashdot and have multiple times be called a troll...
THIS is EXACTLY the same behavior Apple exhibited with the Apple and their token program!
Ah, but this is so old news (over 20 years ago) that people tend to have forgotten!
Now Apple is all good and dandy! BS!
Oh this is a big pile of BS!
I have seen drivers take down Linux as well. Not as colorful as Vista mind you. I remember my Canon scanner making Linux basically useless. Sure it ran, but no input, no output, no networking...
A driver is special because it is a core part of the operating system. Yes an OS can be written such that it is completely protected, but the versions of Linux I have run are not that. And frankly I don't want it to be because the cost of that robustness is speed. On a server wanted, on a desktop problematic.
I wish I had mod points here...
I have blogged on this aspect and done the calculations. The reality is that even if we cut emissions by 30% by 2050 from 1990 standards we still almost double the output.
Unless the population issue or DRAMATIC (eg 50% plus) are addressed I really don't shive a git! After all nobody else seems to care...
yes yes yes it is futile, but I have other problems...
Dude you are a spaz!
First your morals of right or wrong is actually completely social based. Case in point, steal in Islam countries hand is coped. Muslim countries allow multiple wives. I am not saying that Islam and Muslim are wrong since that would be saying I am right and they are wrong. It is my point to illustrate to you that there is no absolute right or wrong.
Ever watch a wolf pack? dog packs? Or how about an elephant herd? They have some pretty amazing morals and right vs wrong.
We keep multiple dogs and there are some very interesting morals...
1) the female in the pack when outside the house typically does not greet the dogs first, the alpha dog does.
2) If the alpha dog disapproves of contact with another dog, then the pack will not greet the dog.
3) One dog will always remain on alert and on noise will start storming around.
4) When one dog of the pack is injured or scared the other dogs will attack or storm the problem - This one actually amazed me...
When you keep a single dog the normal dog behaviors seem "gone". I think most people don't understand the "morals" or socialization of a the dog world. Yet if you raise multiple dogs from pups in a pack with your family they are completely different.
Christian
Considering that I am from Canada...
1) how can you say that Alaska does not receive much? It has oil!
2) Look at how much Canadian territories or provinces receive that do not have natural resources. It is an outrageous amount in comparison.
The problem as I see it with Palin is that she is too conservative and comes from a state that lives on exploitation of natural resources. Nothing wrong with it, but she will have extremely biased opinions...
http://news.cnet.com/2100-7344-5198117.html
Germany is pretty forward on these issues actually...
Get a perspective dude! The parent is right. These are German Customs Officers. They are not haphazard security people. In Germany unlike many places when it comes to border issues it is the German Customs Officers that manages it even though it might be miles away from a border.
They are only doing their jobs and enforcing the rules such as patents, copyrights and trademarks.
If IE has a better adblocker, why would I use firefox?
I am using FireFox right now... I like Firefox, but if IE had a really good adblock I would be VERY tempted to move to IE.
I think the opposite... If IE8 had some really good anti-advertising stuff then I would be REALLY happy.
I am not against advertising, but I am against adverts that:
1) Suck up 50% of my CPU.
2) Make noise even though I don't want them to.
3) Decide to every now and then pop over my reading or viewing area.
I do click on adverts, and still want adverts, but I want adverts to behave like newspaper adverts!
Yupe who cares if it is effective. It makes us believe that we are effective...
What gets me about this terrorism thing is that the only real combative way to deal with it is to change the public perception.
Look at Northern Ireland, intelligence, cops, and armies to the hilt! Did it stop anything? Nope! What stopped Northern Ireland and the violence? Peace agreements, discussions compromises!
Oh, but I suppose corporations can't sell "peace agreements..."
That is such a BS argument...
I have been doing number crunching since 15 years ago (am a mechanical engineer who has written his own CAD program).
Want to know what people said around 1991 when it came to number crunching?
"You want to create an application that uses forms to do some business processing , and send it to database , use C++ . You want an application that has to calculate prime numbers , or some other heavy mathematical issue , use Fortan."
So where is Fortran today? Not used much actually. C# can be used for number crunching, you just have to be careful how you code your algorithm.
Funny the parent is modded 5 as insightful and you are completely ignored. I agree with you completely.
I think the time for "men and macho" languages is over. I quite programming C++ about 5 years ago. Man am I glad. I can actually focus on getting code to work.
A simple thing like integrating source code from other places STILL does not work properly. Components are extremely painful and a piece of cake elsewhere...