"This Computer"
or localized
"This Here Computer" for you southern folks.
"The stuff inside the box connected to this TV screen, and that thing you're typing on." in beginner mode.
We have a large database application that relies heavily on Transact-SQL. The biggest system we've ever deployed is fully grown at about 60GB. (Old data gets archived and pruned as fast as new comes in.)
Our typical system would be about a tenth that size. So this "crippled" version of ASE would be usable for our smaller customers.
In Calgary, the municipal waste disposal folks collect old electronics once a year and presumably dispose of it properly. This year, I finally parted with the 8 MB 386 box that ran my first slackware 0.9x linux.
Make sure you couch the questions to draw out his experience. So, do ask "suppose X happened, what would you do?", ask "when X has happened in your previous jobs, what did you do?". If he's making it up, it should become obvious. Make sure to give him time to come up with an answer. A full minute of silence isn't too much.
Good "X" values:
- late on schedule
- over budget
- have taken major wrong turn in design
- customer is asking for impossible
- employee is not performing
If you don't personally like him by the end of the interview, forget it, no matter how exceptional he is on all other fronts.
I don't think its crucial that he is 100% on all the techno-babble. He should have come up through the ranks, i.e. been 100% on some techno-babble at one time in his career. You don't want someone who took an MBA because they couldn't code.
Logitech makes a digital
pen and paper thing, using Anoto paper. A very cool concept, not mature yet.
A colleague has one, its cute. Notebook and paper is still superior, IMHO.
How much weight would be saved if you ditched the transmission, the 50hp electric motor, drive train and axles, and put a 10hp motor inboard of each wheel?
Hi Dave,
In your opinion, does the Internet allow you to be more creative, or does the sheer volume of stuff out there just lead you to rehash existing material? How much surfing do you do?
"I think the whole interracial kiss thing has been overrated. Nichelle Nichols was a beautiful woman and her lips were full. I merely sought to make an impression."
We're commissioning a system at work with Dell 6600 Poweredge (quadruple 1.6GHz Xeon servers with a SCSI disk array). They sound like shopvacs. I should hire this fellow to cool them down.
Slashdot Mirror
"This Computer" or localized "This Here Computer" for you southern folks. "The stuff inside the box connected to this TV screen, and that thing you're typing on." in beginner mode.
I have yet to see the third Matrix movie...
Microcontrollers:
- http://www.rabbitsemiconductor.com/ Rabbit
- http://www.basicmicro.com/ PICs
- http://www.ibutton.com/TINI/hardware/index.html TINI
for example. All you Forth fanatics can come out of the woodwork now:)We have a large database application that relies heavily on Transact-SQL. The biggest system we've ever deployed is fully grown at about 60GB. (Old data gets archived and pruned as fast as new comes in.) Our typical system would be about a tenth that size. So this "crippled" version of ASE would be usable for our smaller customers.
In Calgary, the municipal waste disposal folks collect old electronics once a year and presumably dispose of it properly. This year, I finally parted with the 8 MB 386 box that ran my first slackware 0.9x linux.
Make sure you couch the questions to draw out his experience. So, do ask "suppose X happened, what would you do?", ask "when X has happened in your previous jobs, what did you do?". If he's making it up, it should become obvious. Make sure to give him time to come up with an answer. A full minute of silence isn't too much. Good "X" values: - late on schedule - over budget - have taken major wrong turn in design - customer is asking for impossible - employee is not performing If you don't personally like him by the end of the interview, forget it, no matter how exceptional he is on all other fronts. I don't think its crucial that he is 100% on all the techno-babble. He should have come up through the ranks, i.e. been 100% on some techno-babble at one time in his career. You don't want someone who took an MBA because they couldn't code.
Logitech makes a digital pen and paper thing, using Anoto paper. A very cool concept, not mature yet. A colleague has one, its cute. Notebook and paper is still superior, IMHO.
How much weight would be saved if you ditched the transmission, the 50hp electric motor, drive train and axles, and put a 10hp motor inboard of each wheel?
Hi Dave,
In your opinion, does the Internet allow you to be more creative, or does the sheer volume of stuff out there just lead you to rehash existing material? How much surfing do you do?
"I think the whole interracial kiss thing has been overrated. Nichelle Nichols was a beautiful woman and her lips were full. I merely sought to make an impression."
Bill, you crack me up!
We're commissioning a system at work with Dell 6600 Poweredge (quadruple 1.6GHz Xeon servers with a SCSI disk array). They sound like shopvacs. I should hire this fellow to cool them down.
Begone noisy hardware!
All that EMR, particularily wireless stuff, is going to give the rich folks brain cancer.
If you're throwing around $?0,000, why not get your very own T1? Cable is as high-end as the rich folks get soaked for?
Go over all those responses again. Which ones
make a cogent point, which ones look like they
were written by someone without a clue?
A well rounded education (including how to express
yourself in the written form) goes a long way towards a successful career.
How fast/robust is an ODBC connection going to be
to pump over 14 MB from Access?
Sybase has had their version 11.5 ASE (Adaptive Server Enterprise) for Linux (easiest on Redhat flavors) available for awhile.
Its free.
http://www.redhat.com/tech_partners.phtml