OK, the scripted part I get. You've got to pay for folks and scripted languages are traditionally cheaper to hire, fine. But the whole "must be event driven" bit sounds like a buzzword requirement, placed in there for no good reason. But hey, who am I to judge, you may actually have a real requirement. In that case the answer is that almost any scripting language can be "event driven" since it's a design pattern and not a feature. Off the top of my head I know there are multiple existing frameworks for python, perl, and PHP that are all event driven. Given my druthers I'd take python for ease of readability and the community, but really, if scripted and event driven are your only two requirements it's hard to see how node is your only option.
then I don't think Canonical will provide any significant competition any time soon. I've used their preinstalled images on my decently powered Pandaboard and the performance just blows. Best of luck though, it'd be really nice to have a portable device with a touchscreen AND ssh enabled right out of the box.
So, I take it you also don't believe in vaccines or take antibiotics when you get sick, right? After all, vaccines are only good for some of what's out there and once you get sick, you're already hosed. Sarcasm aside, there was an old saying about an ounce of prevention.
Build a city surrounded with the tallest, thickest, and strongest walls you can think of (or afford). It's great security, but only from the outside world. Since its impossible to guarantee every citizen isn't a mass-murderer or kleptomaniac, we also have to have locks on individual houses.
Build a network with the nicest firewall/IPS/IDS/whatever you can thing of (or afford). It's great security, but only from the outside world. Since its impossible to guarantee every guest laptop isn't loaded with viruses or malware, we also have to have firewalls on individual workstations.
Zynga was actually the tipping point for me closing my Facebook account. The privacy issues didn't harm me since I didn't put in any information you couldn't find in a phonebook, but the endless stream of "Alice reamed Bob's mafia in AssWars!" messages killed it for me.
According to my memory monitor, I'm only consuming 15% of the RAM I have available and I'm running Windows 7! Of course it may also be because I have 12GB of RAM...
Maybe, what we really need is for this to become the rule, rather than the exception. I know every single one of you knows at least 1 co-worker who you can't figure out how they got into, or continue to maintain, their position. That one individual who can barely remember to take their next breath let alone do their job adequately. That person who makes your job more difficult than it already is because you have to put up with their simpering incompetence on a daily basis.
I work at a company, located in Washington DC, where we test all incoming developers prior to the interview and again during the interview and it has saved our employees from having the simpering idiots as I've described above sharing an office with them.
The first test is open-web (it says you can look up anything you want) and establishes the applicants general knowledge of their language of choice (Python, Perl, Java, C#, VB, or PHP). On a test like that it's an easy A, right? Most applicants leave the questions they don't know the answer to blank. That says one or two things about your perspective employee-of-the-month: 1. They don't read instructions and didn't know they could use google if they get stuck. 2. They didn't care enough to attempt an answer when it wasn't easy for them. 3. 1 & 2 combined.
Company policy is to immediately eliminate any applicant who doesn't answer all the questions. It only hurts us, and our employees, when we hire people who fit the above.
The second test, done during the interview, tests a person's ability to think on their feet and work in a group environment. As a web company, you'd think people who apply would be able to write a little HTML, right? Well 90% of our applicants who make it to the interview screw up a simple table in HTML! A three-cell HTML table, one red, one green, one blue. One has a rowheight of 2. There's also a simple SQL test and a simple debugging test. AND WE GIVE HINTS! They can ask us any questions they want, up to and including "how do I do it?" We've actually hired a person who asked just that!
Bottom line is that any schmuck can print out a resume and call himself a programmer. College degrees for programming are a joke. Either you need strict guidelines for who can call themselves a programmer (think of the guild system for electricians, plumbers, et al) or you need to have testing to separate the wheat from the chaff.
And on the note of company culture, we were voted the best small business of the year for 2008 in DC, have practically 0 turnover in development, and by far the absolute best company culture I've ever seen. I may sound fanatical at this point and honestly I am because my company does everything they can to keep good people here and bad programmers elsewhere.
God you are right! What was I thinking! I should've broken into Comcast's equipment, and used the special tool (that I don't have) to take the line filter off the line going to my house (which was non-existent at the time)! Thank His Noodliness for Anonymous Cowards like you in the world to set guys like me straight. Ramen!
Let me start off by saying I am in no way a Comcast fan, more like a customer by force since they're the only form of broadband where I live. That being said, you don't have to have Windows for installation. My entire home network runs nothing but Linux, even on the router, and I had no trouble getting my service set up. When the Comcast technician came to unblock the line and perform the install, I told him I did not run Windows and that I would not install their software. He shrugged, then called back to the mothership, giving them the MAC address of my cablemodem and I was good to go. Maybe it's different in other areas...
With that out of the way, I have to agree that their website totally sucks. It's annoying as all hell that I have to enable popups and disable my adblock just so I can pay my damn bill online!
The only thing you're not getting is an *HDMI* cable... the PS3 still comes with a cable to hook up to your high def TV. As for the rest of your reply, I totally agree. I still remember the first time I bought a console that didn't come with a bundled game and how pissed I was. Hopefully no vendor will get as arrogant as to shaft us consumers the one remaining controller anytime soon.
VIA BoingBoing: Update: Dave sez, "Here's a company that sells HDMI cables for $4.49 for 3 foot to $15.49 for 9 foot. Quite affordable, actually, as long as you avoid the overpriced big-box store brands."
And in all actuality, how many people really have screens with HDMI? I don't yet but I don't see a big problem in spending another $10-$20 for an HDMI cable after spending $600 on the console and $1500+ on the screen. Hell, I might even be able to get the cable for cheaper if WallyWorld still has them on the clearance rack.
Sounds like the anti-fanbois just want something else to bitch about with the PS3. It's hilarious to me how the Internet can bring together all those people who just like to whine for the sake of hearing their own moaning.
Oh yeah, tours never make profit. I don't know about you but with $80 million gross, there seems like a little bit of profit to be made in touring to me...
I've read a lot of the proposed solutions but many of them seem to miss the mark because it's hard to visualize exactly how large a mass 30,000 CD/DVDs actually is. Given that the maximum thickness of a DVD is 1.5mm she's asking the equivalent question of "How in the hell do I store a ~147.6 ft. tall stack of media?" That is quite a lot of media and I'm assuming that there's a need to get to it in a reasonable amount of time. By reasonable I mean, find the media before the client standing in the lobby gets pissy. At a place I used to work at in a previous life we had rows of shelves where CDs were in paper jackets. The shelves were about 6 inches deep with a little lip at the front end of the shelf to keep the CDs in place and ran the entire length of a well-lit and wide hallway. Each piece of work we did for a client was given a case number and that number was stuck on a plastic card that stuck out a little farther than the paper jackets so you could walk down the hallway until you found the case number and all the associated media was to follow. The trick was to make sure you left a foot or two at the end of each shelf as a buffer space so you didn't have to move a load of media down to the next row when the top one got full (we were trying to keep them in numerical order)...
While this seems an awful lot like many of the other "put it on a shelf" comments, not many people seem to realize that this method will still take up an awful lot of space. For example, you'd need 8 20 ft. shelves to store all that media by itself and probably another 1 or 2 shelves if they're organized as I've said above because of the extra dimension the jackets and plastic cards adds. If you're using commercially available shelves that are much thicker than 6 inches and with the shelves spaced a lot further apart (you only really need about 7 inches of clearance between shelves) you're wasting more room than you're using.
In any case, the best solution is to just suck it up and move to a bigger office if you don't have the room for "media only" shelf space. The CD spindles idea really won't help you save space in the long run, not to mention having to sift through a spindle of 100 CDs just to find the one or two you need not to mention that you'd be leaving most of them less than full from randomly removing CDs.
I can just hear the makeup laden pouty cheerleader now... "Come on, I know I look like some over-inflated piece of living pop art but it's what's on the inside that counts..."
Seriously though, does any gamer (or anyone at all) really care that the Wii looks like a single slice toaster or that the PS3 looks like a George Foreman grill? I guess this guy is the last one on the planet who still buys the plain beige pizza boxes that used to be all the "rage" because he feels that buying a nice Lian Li would make his computer lose it's sense of identity.
And speaking of identities... can we add any more hyphens to the author's name? Sheesh:) How about Eric-Jon "The Waffle-Iron" Rossel-Waugh?
I'd check out guru.com. It's a good site for finding programming jobs of all sizes and in all fields. I've taken several jobs from the site while in between jobs and on the side.
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OK, the scripted part I get. You've got to pay for folks and scripted languages are traditionally cheaper to hire, fine. But the whole "must be event driven" bit sounds like a buzzword requirement, placed in there for no good reason. But hey, who am I to judge, you may actually have a real requirement. In that case the answer is that almost any scripting language can be "event driven" since it's a design pattern and not a feature. Off the top of my head I know there are multiple existing frameworks for python, perl, and PHP that are all event driven. Given my druthers I'd take python for ease of readability and the community, but really, if scripted and event driven are your only two requirements it's hard to see how node is your only option.
then I don't think Canonical will provide any significant competition any time soon. I've used their preinstalled images on my decently powered Pandaboard and the performance just blows. Best of luck though, it'd be really nice to have a portable device with a touchscreen AND ssh enabled right out of the box.
...very professional, highly sophisticated criminal... /b/tard...
Obviously no one from Sony has ever met a
So, I take it you also don't believe in vaccines or take antibiotics when you get sick, right? After all, vaccines are only good for some of what's out there and once you get sick, you're already hosed. Sarcasm aside, there was an old saying about an ounce of prevention.
Build a city surrounded with the tallest, thickest, and strongest walls you can think of (or afford). It's great security, but only from the outside world. Since its impossible to guarantee every citizen isn't a mass-murderer or kleptomaniac, we also have to have locks on individual houses.
Build a network with the nicest firewall/IPS/IDS/whatever you can thing of (or afford). It's great security, but only from the outside world. Since its impossible to guarantee every guest laptop isn't loaded with viruses or malware, we also have to have firewalls on individual workstations.
True story: http://www.ethicalhacker.net/component/option,com_smf/Itemid,54/topic,5220.msg26559/topicseen,1/
Zynga was actually the tipping point for me closing my Facebook account. The privacy issues didn't harm me since I didn't put in any information you couldn't find in a phonebook, but the endless stream of "Alice reamed Bob's mafia in AssWars!" messages killed it for me.
According to my memory monitor, I'm only consuming 15% of the RAM I have available and I'm running Windows 7! Of course it may also be because I have 12GB of RAM...
Maybe, what we really need is for this to become the rule, rather than the exception. I know every single one of you knows at least 1 co-worker who you can't figure out how they got into, or continue to maintain, their position. That one individual who can barely remember to take their next breath let alone do their job adequately. That person who makes your job more difficult than it already is because you have to put up with their simpering incompetence on a daily basis.
I work at a company, located in Washington DC, where we test all incoming developers prior to the interview and again during the interview and it has saved our employees from having the simpering idiots as I've described above sharing an office with them.
The first test is open-web (it says you can look up anything you want) and establishes the applicants general knowledge of their language of choice (Python, Perl, Java, C#, VB, or PHP). On a test like that it's an easy A, right? Most applicants leave the questions they don't know the answer to blank. That says one or two things about your perspective employee-of-the-month:
1. They don't read instructions and didn't know they could use google if they get stuck.
2. They didn't care enough to attempt an answer when it wasn't easy for them.
3. 1 & 2 combined.
Company policy is to immediately eliminate any applicant who doesn't answer all the questions. It only hurts us, and our employees, when we hire people who fit the above.
The second test, done during the interview, tests a person's ability to think on their feet and work in a group environment. As a web company, you'd think people who apply would be able to write a little HTML, right? Well 90% of our applicants who make it to the interview screw up a simple table in HTML! A three-cell HTML table, one red, one green, one blue. One has a rowheight of 2. There's also a simple SQL test and a simple debugging test. AND WE GIVE HINTS! They can ask us any questions they want, up to and including "how do I do it?" We've actually hired a person who asked just that!
Bottom line is that any schmuck can print out a resume and call himself a programmer. College degrees for programming are a joke. Either you need strict guidelines for who can call themselves a programmer (think of the guild system for electricians, plumbers, et al) or you need to have testing to separate the wheat from the chaff.
And on the note of company culture, we were voted the best small business of the year for 2008 in DC, have practically 0 turnover in development, and by far the absolute best company culture I've ever seen. I may sound fanatical at this point and honestly I am because my company does everything they can to keep good people here and bad programmers elsewhere.
God you are right! What was I thinking! I should've broken into Comcast's equipment, and used the special tool (that I don't have) to take the line filter off the line going to my house (which was non-existent at the time)! Thank His Noodliness for Anonymous Cowards like you in the world to set guys like me straight. Ramen!
Let me start off by saying I am in no way a Comcast fan, more like a customer by force since they're the only form of broadband where I live. That being said, you don't have to have Windows for installation. My entire home network runs nothing but Linux, even on the router, and I had no trouble getting my service set up. When the Comcast technician came to unblock the line and perform the install, I told him I did not run Windows and that I would not install their software. He shrugged, then called back to the mothership, giving them the MAC address of my cablemodem and I was good to go. Maybe it's different in other areas...
With that out of the way, I have to agree that their website totally sucks. It's annoying as all hell that I have to enable popups and disable my adblock just so I can pay my damn bill online!
when you can just keep re-releasing the ones you made 30 years ago multiple times?
I'm pretty sure simply and singly are both acceptable but it's been a while since data structures.
OMFG! I have a security flaw... but you have to be _root_ to execute it! AHHHHH It's the end of the world!
I discovered a new one too... if you run rm -rf / as root you'll bork your system!
We should all go back to windows, where rm doesn't exist ^_^
Thank god! One less source of piss-poor grammar on the PS3's side :)
Holy crap! I looked at that and all I could think of is "Where's Waldo?"
But it costs $600 and doesn't even come with an HDMI cable and looks like a George Foreman Grill!!!!!!one111!
Oh wait, sorry, I just saw PS3 and had a Zonk-attack, my bad.
I only want it if it has volume that goes up to 11 as well.
The only thing you're not getting is an *HDMI* cable... the PS3 still comes with a cable to hook up to your high def TV. As for the rest of your reply, I totally agree. I still remember the first time I bought a console that didn't come with a bundled game and how pissed I was. Hopefully no vendor will get as arrogant as to shaft us consumers the one remaining controller anytime soon.
VIA BoingBoing:
Update: Dave sez, "Here's a company that sells HDMI cables for $4.49 for 3 foot to $15.49 for 9 foot. Quite affordable, actually, as long as you avoid the overpriced big-box store brands."
And in all actuality, how many people really have screens with HDMI? I don't yet but I don't see a big problem in spending another $10-$20 for an HDMI cable after spending $600 on the console and $1500+ on the screen. Hell, I might even be able to get the cable for cheaper if WallyWorld still has them on the clearance rack.
Sounds like the anti-fanbois just want something else to bitch about with the PS3. It's hilarious to me how the Internet can bring together all those people who just like to whine for the sake of hearing their own moaning.
Oh yeah, tours never make profit. I don't know about you but with $80 million gross, there seems like a little bit of profit to be made in touring to me...
I've read a lot of the proposed solutions but many of them seem to miss the mark because it's hard to visualize exactly how large a mass 30,000 CD/DVDs actually is. Given that the maximum thickness of a DVD is 1.5mm she's asking the equivalent question of "How in the hell do I store a ~147.6 ft. tall stack of media?" That is quite a lot of media and I'm assuming that there's a need to get to it in a reasonable amount of time. By reasonable I mean, find the media before the client standing in the lobby gets pissy. At a place I used to work at in a previous life we had rows of shelves where CDs were in paper jackets. The shelves were about 6 inches deep with a little lip at the front end of the shelf to keep the CDs in place and ran the entire length of a well-lit and wide hallway. Each piece of work we did for a client was given a case number and that number was stuck on a plastic card that stuck out a little farther than the paper jackets so you could walk down the hallway until you found the case number and all the associated media was to follow. The trick was to make sure you left a foot or two at the end of each shelf as a buffer space so you didn't have to move a load of media down to the next row when the top one got full (we were trying to keep them in numerical order)...
While this seems an awful lot like many of the other "put it on a shelf" comments, not many people seem to realize that this method will still take up an awful lot of space. For example, you'd need 8 20 ft. shelves to store all that media by itself and probably another 1 or 2 shelves if they're organized as I've said above because of the extra dimension the jackets and plastic cards adds. If you're using commercially available shelves that are much thicker than 6 inches and with the shelves spaced a lot further apart (you only really need about 7 inches of clearance between shelves) you're wasting more room than you're using.
In any case, the best solution is to just suck it up and move to a bigger office if you don't have the room for "media only" shelf space. The CD spindles idea really won't help you save space in the long run, not to mention having to sift through a spindle of 100 CDs just to find the one or two you need not to mention that you'd be leaving most of them less than full from randomly removing CDs.
According to The IEBlog IE7 will not pass Acid2 when it ships.
I can just hear the makeup laden pouty cheerleader now...
:)
"Come on, I know I look like some over-inflated piece of living pop art but it's what's on the inside that counts..."
Seriously though, does any gamer (or anyone at all) really care that the Wii looks like a single slice toaster or that the PS3 looks like a George Foreman grill? I guess this guy is the last one on the planet who still buys the plain beige pizza boxes that used to be all the "rage" because he feels that buying a nice Lian Li would make his computer lose it's sense of identity.
And speaking of identities... can we add any more hyphens to the author's name? Sheesh
How about Eric-Jon "The Waffle-Iron" Rossel-Waugh?
Yahoo! News Turns Over Chinese Exam Cheaters
Hey, why not? They've done it before.
</sarcasm>
I'd check out guru.com. It's a good site for finding programming jobs of all sizes and in all fields. I've taken several jobs from the site while in between jobs and on the side.