That was such a rigged process we went through. We even had the governor sign our petition that was submitted to the fed (promising matching funds and loans) to extend broadband to TRULY rural and unserved (not underserved, UNSERVED) areas and lost out to the big boys who went and did stupid stuff like this.
$22k would buy us an entire base-station that will serve 100+ users.
To do this we need to stop the 24/7 news info-tainment cycle, totally agreed. But I don't agree that asking people to vaguely comprehend the scientific method is a case of 'everyone should be at the top'. People can drive cars and do any other number of complex things with minimal education. They can do this.
Increasingly people have been taught to trust only certainty. Science is anything but a certain process and people take that uncertainty as false or, worse, a wasted investment.
Until people are more scientifically literate with the process and the value of failure scientists will be driven towards only success and, ultimately, the positivity bias.
Finally, after years of repression, scammers can come out of the shadows and legally screw you over. With the intrusive government off the back of scammers they can now be realized as the job creators they are and drive our economic engine forward!
At a recent convention some researchers demonstrated a proof of concept hack they developed that allowed them to control many aspects of correctional facilities. Things like, oh you know, opening cell doors but showing them as closed on the guard terminals. Things like that.
Interesting preso : http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C7O7HxHSHE0
This is our methodology as well. We start with a phone screen, usually less then an hour and basically not-technical. Just screening for basic 'Can talk about these topics' 'am I likable' 'am I coherent' and a resume overview.
They then come in for a 1.5 hour interview. We do a single session group interview and find it much more insightful since the interviewers can riff on each other a bit. It also ever so slightly increases the pressure level and forces the candidate out of the 'tell the same story to 4 different people' mentality. Its a real engagement that happens in this longer format. In this interview we assess basic skills by sticking the person in front of an ssh term and doing some basic tasks. This weeds our a LOT of people who don't have our skillset. This is 'open book/open google', life is open book, I don't care if you can't memorize things.
The candidates that get through this get a simple project to solve that is usually some simple CRUD app with a bit of AJAX and are asked to solve a specific business task in our domain with this. Usually no more then 5-10 hours of work. It is obvious that this is not something we would use in production so they know we are not taking advantage of them.
They then come in and present their solution to the entire technical team they will be working on. In this session they demo the software, do a code-review and then discuss/defend/explain their choices.
Overall this process lets us assess our critical skills:
Sociability Technical Skills Referencing Skills Presentation Skills Communication Skills Schedule/Time Management (You can always tell who waited until the night before).. Go The Extra Mile Skills
The devs we hire this way do amazing work and tend to stay for quite some time. It may seem arduous but its really not so bad and its just our requirement. We've lost a few candidates who felt it was too much but that is another part of the hiring process, bouncing bad cultural fits..
I use cari.net for 3 dedicated servers and its been quite reasonable. For around $120 a month I get a Core 2 Duo, a gig of ram and pretty ok service. On this I run VMWARE and 4 instances (3 linux, 1 windows) and there is never really a hiccup.
One of my customers specified their box to be behind Cari's hardware firewall. Turns out in this config Cari charges an extra $50 month for 'multiple MAC' support (ie: VMWARE). We just pulled it from the firewall and all was well with the world.
So, cari is a nice,reasonably costed and reasonably well-supported service. I recommend them.
Was chatting with the local Cingular store manager and he mentioned that the iPhone is only to be sold from the Apple store. The local store franchises will not be allowed to sell these units.
He was a bit peeved, he's fielding 10 calls a day on the damn thing and just feels the dollars flying down the block to the Apple Store.
I read this book awhile back and while it was interesting it is highly focused on the timespan when the author was 'in the industry' and leaves out vast swathes of recent history.
Still, its a good and entertaining read. You also get to pull out some truisms that really can help your day to day life if your in product management, engineering management or deal with marketing folks on a regular basis. I find myself regularly applying some of the lessons I took out of it.
Quick read, you can eat it in a few hours so no huge loss if you don't like it:)
Men and Woman just don't realize how differently we view the world sometimes.
Well, ok, Woman don't understand how Men view the world sometimes. Men on the other hand do have a vague instinctual understanding of how to not piss a woman off and number one on that list is "Keep your distance until you get a signal."
In a thousand years it will be interesting to see what Digital Archealogists make of all of these postings. Most likely the fundmentalists be searching for the remains of one of these unique cross-over classes and arguing against the 'imaginists' who believe that all of this was just a highly ritualized social interaction.
I think consumers are waiting out the iPod upgrade cycle and that has an impact. The market is fairly saturated as you note and there has not been a real upgrade in something like 18 months.
If they ever get a true 6G iPod out the door (and not the 5.5G that is being talked about) I think the market will respond favorably as there is a lot of pent up demand. Its funny how the markets and consumers judge apple's innovation by the latest iPod and that perception has somewhat stalled, particularly as MS makes noise about their new player.
But if a 6G ever comes out and integrates movie rentals, TV shows and music along with a Mac Media PC things could shift. I think Apple is almost in 'quiet' mode as they get ready for the next iteration.
if you read the following threads on the post you will see that the OpenBSD developers threaten to send Hifn the way of adaptec and that they will lose business because of OpenBSD not supporting them bla bla bla.
Theo is the idiot there, Hifn doesn't care, it doesn't hurt them.
My gentoo comment was in jest, I was just pointing out that there are options out there and OpenBSD does not control any fraction of the fate of Hifn.
Does Hifn suck for this? Sure, its typical corporate baloney. Will Theo's removal of their drivers hurt them at all? No.
That was my point, no one cares but OpenBSD developers.
The follow-on to Space Ace and Dragons Lair was some 'Wizards Apprentice' type game with a full membrane keyboard.
It was even more of a gnarly quarter muncher because you had to move from a joystick and an action button to a full 101 key keypad and an unfamiliar user interface. Anyone remember the name of this game?
Anyhow, SPACE ACE ROCKS, DOWN WITH DRAGONS LAIR!!;)
I always felt like players should charge their audience an admission fee.
As we all know from out dotcom 1.0 days a 'post layoff buyout' is basically getting rescued from creditors and being able to sleep at night, secure that they won't come to steal your furniture.
Having been a principle at one of these things I will tell you that their life is more hell then you can imagine and you should actually be happy you got out and could just move on with your life.
Sure, MAYBE they got some cash but I have to date have never seen a post layoff startup get bought out, just acquired for the price of the debt.
Yup, it sucks, but keep taking chances and remember, never trade $$$ for options unless there are 2nd level investors lined up. Besides, they always give more options... This has worked well for me and if they really need you they'll do both.
And what makes us think that most Greeks believed in a geocentric universe? We know precious little about what they knew back then, since we have only a handful of their writings. To insinuate that we have anything like a complete map of the intellectual landscape of the time is sheerest puffery.
I particularly love how we treat these ancient cultures as monolithic and do not make allowances for multiple popular theories. They either 'Are' heliocentric or they 'Are Not' heliocentric. We love to take one finding and paint the entire culture.
It will be interesting when the future discovers writings on Intelligent Design and laughs at all of us.
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F*ck you broadband stimulus.
That was such a rigged process we went through. We even had the governor sign our petition that was submitted to the fed (promising matching funds and loans) to extend broadband to TRULY rural and unserved (not underserved, UNSERVED) areas and lost out to the big boys who went and did stupid stuff like this.
$22k would buy us an entire base-station that will serve 100+ users.
Grrrr..
To do this we need to stop the 24/7 news info-tainment cycle, totally agreed. But I don't agree that asking people to vaguely comprehend the scientific method is a case of 'everyone should be at the top'. People can drive cars and do any other number of complex things with minimal education. They can do this.
Increasingly people have been taught to trust only certainty. Science is anything but a certain process and people take that uncertainty as false or, worse, a wasted investment.
Until people are more scientifically literate with the process and the value of failure scientists will be driven towards only success and, ultimately, the positivity bias.
You thought kickstarter was bad? You will REALLY enjoy the JOBS Act which formalizes into law all the bad things of Kickstarter and MORE.
http://news.cnet.com/8301-19882_3-57409949-250/jobs-act-5-things-to-look-forward-to-and-5-to-dread/
Finally, after years of repression, scammers can come out of the shadows and legally screw you over. With the intrusive government off the back of scammers they can now be realized as the job creators they are and drive our economic engine forward!
Sigh.
Oh is that why AdSense nailed me for $1800?
Charity my ass. It was fraud.
Raise your hand if you had to sign a document stating you were a researcher or a gov employee when you got your first SLIP account.
[raises hand]
At a recent convention some researchers demonstrated a proof of concept hack they developed that allowed them to control many aspects of correctional facilities. Things like, oh you know, opening cell doors but showing them as closed on the guard terminals. Things like that.
Interesting preso : http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C7O7HxHSHE0
This is our methodology as well. We start with a phone screen, usually less then an hour and basically not-technical. Just screening for basic 'Can talk about these topics' 'am I likable' 'am I coherent' and a resume overview.
They then come in for a 1.5 hour interview. We do a single session group interview and find it much more insightful since the interviewers can riff on each other a bit. It also ever so slightly increases the pressure level and forces the candidate out of the 'tell the same story to 4 different people' mentality. Its a real engagement that happens in this longer format. In this interview we assess basic skills by sticking the person in front of an ssh term and doing some basic tasks. This weeds our a LOT of people who don't have our skillset. This is 'open book/open google', life is open book, I don't care if you can't memorize things.
The candidates that get through this get a simple project to solve that is usually some simple CRUD app with a bit of AJAX and are asked to solve a specific business task in our domain with this. Usually no more then 5-10 hours of work. It is obvious that this is not something we would use in production so they know we are not taking advantage of them.
They then come in and present their solution to the entire technical team they will be working on. In this session they demo the software, do a code-review and then discuss/defend/explain their choices.
Overall this process lets us assess our critical skills:
Sociability
Technical Skills
Referencing Skills
Presentation Skills
Communication Skills
Schedule/Time Management (You can always tell who waited until the night before)..
Go The Extra Mile Skills
The devs we hire this way do amazing work and tend to stay for quite some time. It may seem arduous but its really not so bad and its just our requirement. We've lost a few candidates who felt it was too much but that is another part of the hiring process, bouncing bad cultural fits..
I use cari.net for 3 dedicated servers and its been quite reasonable. For around $120 a month I get a Core 2 Duo, a gig of ram and pretty ok service. On this I run VMWARE and 4 instances (3 linux, 1 windows) and there is never really a hiccup.
,reasonably costed and reasonably well-supported service. I recommend them.
One of my customers specified their box to be behind Cari's hardware firewall. Turns out in this config Cari charges an extra $50 month for 'multiple MAC' support (ie: VMWARE). We just pulled it from the firewall and all was well with the world.
So, cari is a nice
Yes, this is why I mention it, conflicting reports.
What may be happening is that Corp Cingular stores will get it but Franchise stores will not.
Just passing along the rumor told to me by the store manager. Talk it with a grain of salt.
Was chatting with the local Cingular store manager and he mentioned that the iPhone is only to be sold from the Apple store. The local store franchises will not be allowed to sell these units.
He was a bit peeved, he's fielding 10 calls a day on the damn thing and just feels the dollars flying down the block to the Apple Store.
In Palo Alto on University Ave.
Might be common knowledge, I was suprised.
I read this book awhile back and while it was interesting it is highly focused on the timespan when the author was 'in the industry' and leaves out vast swathes of recent history.
:)
Still, its a good and entertaining read. You also get to pull out some truisms that really can help your day to day life if your in product management, engineering management or deal with marketing folks on a regular basis. I find myself regularly applying some of the lessons I took out of it.
Quick read, you can eat it in a few hours so no huge loss if you don't like it
If you don't remember that you didn't game on a 64.
Men and Woman just don't realize how differently we view the world sometimes.
Well, ok, Woman don't understand how Men view the world sometimes. Men on the other hand do have a vague instinctual understanding of how to not piss a woman off and number one on that list is "Keep your distance until you get a signal."
In a thousand years it will be interesting to see what Digital Archealogists make of all of these postings. Most likely the fundmentalists be searching for the remains of one of these unique cross-over classes and arguing against the 'imaginists' who believe that all of this was just a highly ritualized social interaction.
I think consumers are waiting out the iPod upgrade cycle and that has an impact. The market is fairly saturated as you note and there has not been a real upgrade in something like 18 months.
If they ever get a true 6G iPod out the door (and not the 5.5G that is being talked about) I think the market will respond favorably as there is a lot of pent up demand. Its funny how the markets and consumers judge apple's innovation by the latest iPod and that perception has somewhat stalled, particularly as MS makes noise about their new player.
But if a 6G ever comes out and integrates movie rentals, TV shows and music along with a Mac Media PC things could shift. I think Apple is almost in 'quiet' mode as they get ready for the next iteration.
This is a crappy link to dailykos but the issue is interesting:
http://www.dailykos.com/story/2005/1/4/1723/98702
Who owns the new passages and land opened up by warming?
Go Canada!
if you read the following threads on the post you will see that the OpenBSD developers threaten to send Hifn the way of adaptec and that they will lose business because of OpenBSD not supporting them bla bla bla.
Theo is the idiot there, Hifn doesn't care, it doesn't hurt them.
My gentoo comment was in jest, I was just pointing out that there are options out there and OpenBSD does not control any fraction of the fate of Hifn.
Does Hifn suck for this? Sure, its typical corporate baloney. Will Theo's removal of their drivers hurt them at all? No.
That was my point, no one cares but OpenBSD developers.
Yes, the flexibility was great.
:)
But my CYOA book was I think $1.95 at the time, that'd get me about 5 minutes of game play on Thayers Quest
otherwise an entire generation of slashdot posters would have to find new and witty lines for their posts.
"Awesome, new hardware! Let me install OpenBSD"
[queue hours of pain and suffering when OpenBSD does not recognize hardware, culminating in a google search and discovery of Theos position]
"Damn, ok, lets go install Gentoo then"
Who gets hurt here? Oh yea, OPENBSD
The follow-on to Space Ace and Dragons Lair was some 'Wizards Apprentice' type game with a full membrane keyboard.
;)
It was even more of a gnarly quarter muncher because you had to move from a joystick and an action button to a full 101 key keypad and an unfamiliar user interface. Anyone remember the name of this game?
Anyhow, SPACE ACE ROCKS, DOWN WITH DRAGONS LAIR!!
I always felt like players should charge their audience an admission fee.
As we all know from out dotcom 1.0 days a 'post layoff buyout' is basically getting rescued from creditors and being able to sleep at night, secure that they won't come to steal your furniture.
Having been a principle at one of these things I will tell you that their life is more hell then you can imagine and you should actually be happy you got out and could just move on with your life.
Sure, MAYBE they got some cash but I have to date have never seen a post layoff startup get bought out, just acquired for the price of the debt.
Yup, it sucks, but keep taking chances and remember, never trade $$$ for options unless there are 2nd level investors lined up. Besides, they always give more options... This has worked well for me and if they really need you they'll do both.
Golden handcuffs help as well.
( As a side note, http://webpages.cs.luc.edu/~gkt/ has a video of a Gentoo install. )
Even at low resolution a video that long must take up a lot of HD space..
And what makes us think that most Greeks believed in a geocentric universe? We know precious little about what they knew back then, since we have only a handful of their writings. To insinuate that we have anything like a complete map of the intellectual landscape of the time is sheerest puffery.
I particularly love how we treat these ancient cultures as monolithic and do not make allowances for multiple popular theories. They either 'Are' heliocentric or they 'Are Not' heliocentric. We love to take one finding and paint the entire culture.
It will be interesting when the future discovers writings on Intelligent Design and laughs at all of us.