He wants a replacement for the flash client so he can see what others have created, not a replacement for the flash technology so he can create with something else. Such replacements already exists: Silverlight and JavaFX.
They probably do not architect their systems and their programs leap back and forth between fixing high-priority bugs (due to lack of proper design) and adding high-priority minor features (that sales already promised were there), and they really need programmers to do quick work under stress and unrealistically short time frames.
They and you are all glad that they did not hire you.
If I interview with a company that asks me to rate myself and does not attempt to objectively assess my abilities, I politely excuse myself at the next possible opportunity.
People are not accurate in rating themselves. (See the Dunning Kruger Effect.)
I have been the technical person whose insights are always ultimately ignored on several interview panels, and I have seen that managers generally are completely unable to determine which candidates are confident because they are good and which are either confident because they are ignorant or their confidence is completely unrelated to their aptitude. Actually, managers are usually more impressed with those who are over-confident because they are ignorant than those who have aptitude.
I figure if they are not doing a good job assessing my abilities, if I were to take the job I would be working with a bunch of confident but ignorant programmers.
You get about one shot every 2 minutes if you have four guys that know what they are doing, and you burn more than $10 worth of powder for ever shot. And the things are heavy. They will not get far.
With Windows, there are two groups of people looking for bugs: Microsoft employees who do not want to admit to the bug and who will hide the fix in a service pack who knows how many months later, and those looking to exploit.
In Linux, in addition to those being paid to work on it such as RedHat employees and those hoping to exploit it, you have volunteer kernel hackers and users as well, to whom it is beneficial to release a patch immediately.
It is not a loophole. There is just something that people assume would be illegal that is not.
You may put News Corp. in a different category than The Onion, but that is your problem.
The employer told the employee to do something completely legal. The employee refused. The employer fired the employee. Whistleblower protections do not apply - there was no whistle to be blown.
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Fewer memory reads means less time waiting for memory reads, regardless of how much of it you have.
Most complains about X nowadays a really complains about poor support from video card manufacturers.
He wants a replacement for the flash client so he can see what others have created, not a replacement for the flash technology so he can create with something else. Such replacements already exists: Silverlight and JavaFX.
They probably do not architect their systems and their programs leap back and forth between fixing high-priority bugs (due to lack of proper design) and adding high-priority minor features (that sales already promised were there), and they really need programmers to do quick work under stress and unrealistically short time frames.
They and you are all glad that they did not hire you.
If I interview with a company that asks me to rate myself and does not attempt to objectively assess my abilities, I politely excuse myself at the next possible opportunity.
People are not accurate in rating themselves. (See the Dunning Kruger Effect.)
I have been the technical person whose insights are always ultimately ignored on several interview panels, and I have seen that managers generally are completely unable to determine which candidates are confident because they are good and which are either confident because they are ignorant or their confidence is completely unrelated to their aptitude. Actually, managers are usually more impressed with those who are over-confident because they are ignorant than those who have aptitude.
I figure if they are not doing a good job assessing my abilities, if I were to take the job I would be working with a bunch of confident but ignorant programmers.
No, they will pull slightly different crap, like having Windows Update automatically install IE and make it the default.
You get about one shot every 2 minutes if you have four guys that know what they are doing, and you burn more than $10 worth of powder for ever shot. And the things are heavy. They will not get far.
But if Google has the data and the government issues a subpoena. . .
With Windows, there are two groups of people looking for bugs: Microsoft employees who do not want to admit to the bug and who will hide the fix in a service pack who knows how many months later, and those looking to exploit.
In Linux, in addition to those being paid to work on it such as RedHat employees and those hoping to exploit it, you have volunteer kernel hackers and users as well, to whom it is beneficial to release a patch immediately.
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Would whoever modded me Troll please post log out and post anonymously to explain why?
It is not a loophole. There is just something that people assume would be illegal that is not.
You may put News Corp. in a different category than The Onion, but that is your problem.
The employer told the employee to do something completely legal. The employee refused. The employer fired the employee. Whistleblower protections do not apply - there was no whistle to be blown.
That is not irony. It is simply unbiased, objective reporting.
No, they sued and won for the right to fire employees for refusing to lie to you.
He admitted to that in the story. Why he expects to be able to fix it by rearranging a few people is beyond me.
If your fail is getting hit by a train while skateboarding on train tracks, changing your olly technique is not going to solve the problem.
It will at least have the same useful functionality over that Server 2008 has - non-admin users can schedule tasks, and Powershell.
Which cereals and crackers are they?
You "try" to avoid traveling to the USA? You only do it when somebody kidnaps you and brings you in?
That is not ironic.
I would still have a landline if the phone company would sell me DSL without me giving them my social security number.
For one thing, they are saving a lot of space on IRC chat windows.
Midrange for servers?
The "muppet" was right to do so. Information that is not independently verifiable does not belong in an encyclopedia.
Publish the information somewhere else as an authority on the subject, then make the edit and add a citation.
End of discussion. Everybody go rant on a different article.