No No No. If the interviewer can't ask me about my experience or even offer an intelligent technical question, they go in the moron file. Questions pulled out of "What Color Is Your Parachute" means the interviewer is either so stupid as to think this question is useful, or hasn't even bothered to read over my resume or think about meaningful questions.
Remember, you are interviewing them as much as they are interviewing you - if they can't even ask intelligent questions based on your resume, once again, its time to head for the door.
My answer - I have no tolerance for idiotic canned interview questions and the morons who use them.
Really, this has got to be the worst, most moronic question that can be asked. It really is a red flag that the interviewer doesn't have anything intelligent to discuss - you should head for the door. What's even worse are the moronic answers people give in a hackneyed attempt to make a weakness look like a strength - "I'm a perfectionist!!" or "I work TOO hard!!".
Then again, ask a moronic question and expect a moronic answer.
Battery failure in this case is the as the case of hard drive failure in the nonvolatile model. You either have backups on another media or you are screwed.
Note that hard drive failures are still common and likely to be much more common than a battery failure, as it would be trivial to implement a scheme through which batter recharding would be automatic while the computer was plugged in. The battery would only be directly employed when the system was unplugged or the power was out. Even in that case it would be also trivial to implement a continuous/live backup system to a nonvolatile media like a hard disk, which by that point would be ridiculously cheap.
These "synerigies" rarely pay off. Both AOL and Vivendi had (at one time) deep pcokets (AOL from dial-up fees, Vivendi from utilities), and they were unable to make the confluence of technology and media, largely because there is no huge profit windfall and no pressing need. Music libraries can be licensed. With the value of the record industry dropping in aggregate, these license fees will only go down.
Its shrouded in history now, but Sun was once a huge proponent and supporter of Itanium, with all the smartass "Itanium will rule everything" banter coming from Scott McWindBag.
Now obviously Itanium has been a total disaster, so its understandable and nearly respectable that Sun would backpedal, nonetheless their ability to follow through on platform decisions like this is just another question mark for a company that has too many.
One of the key reasons the Perl 6 project is taking such radical steps in remaking the language is precisely because extending and embedding Perl 5 is HELL.
Investing in this book and this knowledge at this point is practically a dead-end, as most of the annoying kludges will end with Perl 5.
Only invest in this book and this knowledge if there is a project you are working on that requires embedding or exteninding perl now. Otherwise wait for the sane cleaned-up world of Perl 6.
There is a reason they index Y News. It is the fastest updating site for major wire feeds. Also, Yahoo's servers can survive any "slashdotting". Also, they spit out predictable html across a number of feeds, making it easier to parse.
Of course most of the start ups will go under. For what new industry is this not the case? Venture money takes a shotgun approach - they know the odds. Also remember that getting bought out is not failure. Come on people, start thinking like capitalists again.
And even if Schmidt really is in favor of the idea, it's still possible that he'll get ousted before any such move occurs.
Wrong! Google's board is weighted with two of the biggest VCs in the valley. These boys are all about taking companies public. Why do you think they funded Google???
It is too late for Google to be "free" - they are already beholden to the masters of greed - the Bay Area venture capital industry. Rest assured that Kleiner and Sequoia will put this baby on the market when its ripe. This is what they do. They do not feed the poor or care about your search results. They care about making a lot of cash. They need a Google IPO to rebuild the gutted venture market. They are not waiting out of goodwill - they are waiting until the pig is ready to be slaughtered.
Ultimately the owners of the company will decide if it goes public. Venture Capital firms are not in it to make the world a better place. They are in it to make a lot of cash. When the time is right you can be assured that the Venture firms will hold back funding and request Google go public. That is their business model kids. This is where they get the money to go back and fund the company that will kill Google, and the company that will kill that one..etc etc etc.
The previous CEO was gutting the business, gutting employee moral, and gutting the share price.
Lou Gerstner wasn't a tech guy either and he saved IBM.
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The W3 just can't leave a good standard alone. They keep heaping crap upon the good name of XML (e.g. XML Schema) too far ahead of industry demand. Now they are going to end up assenting to multiple DTD alternatives when they start talking about RELAX/TREX etc. What they should have done was waited for industry to determine the best approach (RELAX, not Schemas), and THEN standardize.
They can't help it though, the W3 committees are infested by the same lifers who destroyed SGML. It would be refreshing to see a standards committee for once run by people who are suspicious of standards committees. Right now the XML world is run by the people who live off of the small cred being on a committee lends to their consulting biz, etc. so they have no motivation to ever finish the committee's works.
Those individuals who couldn't quite keep up with Linux for Idiots, Linux for Dummies, Linux in a Nutshell, Beginners Linux, and Linux for the comatose.
I'll tell you why, because downloading some source and changing a file menu is how these guys want to get notariety. Phoenix and Minotaur are pointless forks designed to get someone free cred points on the back of anothers' work.
I am not trying to grit on RH users, but there are many aspects of RH installation that are much much improved over the archaic BSD versions. X configuration is probably the best example - BSD uses the lowest common denominator tools. Forget about auto-guess installs.
BSD systems make great servers, but they make only so-so desktop systems. Most disgruntled RH users are better off trying Mandrake.
I can understand Apple changing vendors, but going with the Itanium seems too risky. First, the price for the Itanium processor is very high. Maybe Apple would get a bulk discount, but it would have to be literally 70% off the list price to make it meaningful. Second, Apple has to show that it can go faster with the Itanium than others can with the P4. Has this been shown by anyone else so far? Third, Apple is already hanging by a thread with ISVs, who are still trying to get OSX ports polished. A move to Itanium would probably check them out for good.
Until the Itanium gets cheaper and demonstrates clear advantages over the P4, I don't see anyone adopting it in a widespread manner.
To 99% of the X audience, X's network transparency is meaningless. Wexelblat is correct to state (in a repsonse in the thread) that the X folks have optimized for the outlier case - the 1% of people who like the transparency features - instead of focusing on the core majority who don't need it now or ever.
Removing network transparency would go a long way to making X (or whatever else replaces it) much more lightweight.
Most of the consumption the author credits (home prices, car sales) have bee ndriven by debt-based consumption. Hardly a positive development. Driving this debt-based consumption is the key initiative of the stimulus package. Bush won't have to deal with the fallout even when he tries to get reelected - most of the debt being loaded up today through refis won't affect the economy drastically in the next two years.
Everyone knows how to improve their code. Peer review, reuse, acutally knowing how to program in their language of choice, etc etc....yet no one does it. Why not just fess up - programmers are lazy because we can get away with it.
Lets face it, msot of us do printf debugging and assume that if it doesn't core dump, it works.
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Remember, you are interviewing them as much as they are interviewing you - if they can't even ask intelligent questions based on your resume, once again, its time to head for the door.
My answer - I have no tolerance for idiotic canned interview questions and the morons who use them.
Really, this has got to be the worst, most moronic question that can be asked. It really is a red flag that the interviewer doesn't have anything intelligent to discuss - you should head for the door. What's even worse are the moronic answers people give in a hackneyed attempt to make a weakness look like a strength - "I'm a perfectionist!!" or "I work TOO hard!!".
Then again, ask a moronic question and expect a moronic answer.
We can't even roll out IPV6. Even Internet2 has some basis in existing standards.
Note that hard drive failures are still common and likely to be much more common than a battery failure, as it would be trivial to implement a scheme through which batter recharding would be automatic while the computer was plugged in. The battery would only be directly employed when the system was unplugged or the power was out. Even in that case it would be also trivial to implement a continuous/live backup system to a nonvolatile media like a hard disk, which by that point would be ridiculously cheap.
These "synerigies" rarely pay off. Both AOL and Vivendi had (at one time) deep pcokets (AOL from dial-up fees, Vivendi from utilities), and they were unable to make the confluence of technology and media, largely because there is no huge profit windfall and no pressing need. Music libraries can be licensed. With the value of the record industry dropping in aggregate, these license fees will only go down.
I can buy a somewhat useable printer at the grocery store for $30. At that price I could see using it once or twice in a pinch and tossing it.
Now obviously Itanium has been a total disaster, so its understandable and nearly respectable that Sun would backpedal, nonetheless their ability to follow through on platform decisions like this is just another question mark for a company that has too many.
Investing in this book and this knowledge at this point is practically a dead-end, as most of the annoying kludges will end with Perl 5.
Only invest in this book and this knowledge if there is a project you are working on that requires embedding or exteninding perl now. Otherwise wait for the sane cleaned-up world of Perl 6.
There is a reason they index Y News. It is the fastest updating site for major wire feeds. Also, Yahoo's servers can survive any "slashdotting". Also, they spit out predictable html across a number of feeds, making it easier to parse.
Of course most of the start ups will go under. For what new industry is this not the case? Venture money takes a shotgun approach - they know the odds. Also remember that getting bought out is not failure. Come on people, start thinking like capitalists again.
Its a food chain. Lock in a technology at a high level of the food chain and the rest will follow.
Wrong! Google's board is weighted with two of the biggest VCs in the valley. These boys are all about taking companies public. Why do you think they funded Google???
It is too late for Google to be "free" - they are already beholden to the masters of greed - the Bay Area venture capital industry. Rest assured that Kleiner and Sequoia will put this baby on the market when its ripe. This is what they do. They do not feed the poor or care about your search results. They care about making a lot of cash. They need a Google IPO to rebuild the gutted venture market. They are not waiting out of goodwill - they are waiting until the pig is ready to be slaughtered.
Ultimately the owners of the company will decide if it goes public. Venture Capital firms are not in it to make the world a better place. They are in it to make a lot of cash. When the time is right you can be assured that the Venture firms will hold back funding and request Google go public. That is their business model kids. This is where they get the money to go back and fund the company that will kill Google, and the company that will kill that one..etc etc etc.
They don't want to go public because they don't have to, period. Their venture funding still has miles to go.
Lou Gerstner wasn't a tech guy either and he saved IBM.
They can't help it though, the W3 committees are infested by the same lifers who destroyed SGML. It would be refreshing to see a standards committee for once run by people who are suspicious of standards committees. Right now the XML world is run by the people who live off of the small cred being on a committee lends to their consulting biz, etc. so they have no motivation to ever finish the committee's works.
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I'll tell you why, because downloading some source and changing a file menu is how these guys want to get notariety. Phoenix and Minotaur are pointless forks designed to get someone free cred points on the back of anothers' work.
BSD systems make great servers, but they make only so-so desktop systems. Most disgruntled RH users are better off trying Mandrake.
Until the Itanium gets cheaper and demonstrates clear advantages over the P4, I don't see anyone adopting it in a widespread manner.
Removing network transparency would go a long way to making X (or whatever else replaces it) much more lightweight.
Most of the consumption the author credits (home prices, car sales) have bee ndriven by debt-based consumption. Hardly a positive development. Driving this debt-based consumption is the key initiative of the stimulus package. Bush won't have to deal with the fallout even when he tries to get reelected - most of the debt being loaded up today through refis won't affect the economy drastically in the next two years.
Former resident: Exodus!
Lets face it, msot of us do printf debugging and assume that if it doesn't core dump, it works.