"must be able to obtain a security clearance", your field of candidates will open up
Yeah I know. With most positions I can do that but this particular one has work that's due before they can get through the process. I can get them from TS to SCI in time and I would consider someone with secret who had all the other right skills but I can't get someone from zero to TS in time to deliver the product.
Even then there aren't many. Only three resumes have hit my desk missing only the clearance and one wasn't clearable (non-US citizen). That was folks I would have brought in for an interview, not necessarily hired.
At my company we call them "folks with broad skill sets." That's who we hire. Hard to keep someone with a too-narrow skill set busy doing work that's of actual value.
I have a position that has been open for 6 months. No one has turned us down on salary because no one has presented a skill set strong enough to get an in-person interview let alone an offer.
Apparently strong network security (packet/protocol level) + network operations background + minor software development + security clearance is an impossible combination to find.
I can only tell you about my one *actual* experience where a surge hit. It was wired into a pair of 15 amp breakers. Both they and the main 200 amp breakers tripped. The suppressor blackened.
No wire insulation showed signs of being burned. None of my many computers and other equipment was damaged.
The icon means what the accompanying text says it means. No accompanying text? That's a UI design error because on their own nearly all tiny thumbnail pictures are about as clear as mud.
A whole-house surge suppressor runs $50 to $100 plus installation. It works by shorting hot to common long enough to trip the main breaker when the voltage spikes. Since electricity takes the easiest path, it follows the short instead of destroying your equipment.
For a large surge (nearby lightning strike) it generally burns out the surge suppressor too. Complete with smoke. Seen it happen with one of mine. Pretty much the same a a power strip surge suppresor. So don't install it behind a wall.
I don't like losing data so it sits in a raid and gets backed up. This means I'm not just keeping one copy of primary data, I'm keeping many. And reprocessing/recopying it each time I make a backup.
My files go through descending levels of staleness. First I copy them off the primary drive to a network drive. They sit there for a while. When a couple years have passed without looking at them, they go on an offline drive and I create a file listing which I keep on the network drive. Once a decade has passed without loading the offline drive, they go in the trash.
Files that still have value get caught in the sweep but then migrate back to the primary drive as needed. Saves having to scrutinize everything before hand.
For the OP: restore from your august backup. Add anything on the drive with a more recent mod time. And then deal with the corrupt files as you come across them. If you come across them.
Programming was my favorite hobby growing up, so I turned it into a career. I really enjoy my work. If you enjoy programming as much as I do, I invite you to enjoy it with me. Regardless of your gender. Or age. Or whatever. The more the merrier.
Or not. That's your choice. I've made mine. However you choose, I'm really too busy enjoying my work to be more than mildly disappointed if my fun offends you.
Mrs. Krabappel, your 10 year old daughter's 5th grade English teacher, is accused by a colleague of belonging to a religious cult which advocates forcible "sex training," i.e. rape, of girls as soon as they reach puberty, typically between ages 10 and 12. When confronted by principal Skinner, she responds: "What I do or don't do on my private time is none of my employer's business. I refuse to tell you whether I belong to the cult or whether I have ever attended a sex training."
Should principal Skinner respond:
A. Hey, no problem. Just don't bring it to school. B. For the kids' safety, we presume your refusal to cooperate with the investigation hides the worst plausible outcome. Such views on child sexuality are incompatible with a position of power over children. You're fired.
Hester allegedly posted some pictures on Facebook which raised doubt about whether she should hold a position of power over children. Perhaps they shouldn't have; the pictures described sounded pretty mild to me. Nevertheless, doubts were raised. She then refused to cooperate with the investigation.
When you hold a position of trust, especially over children, what you do in the rest of your life matters. And that's completely reasonable.
Nope. Transmitting programming that your TV can view does not confer on you ownership or even simple possession of a copy. Its display on your television is strictly ephemeral. Hence not a good.
Rewind to 1960. Why did you pay a couple hundred dollars for a television (goods) that's utterly worthless without programming from the local TV stations (services)?
My television is a good. The DVD in my DVD player is a good. The programming sent to my television over the air is a service.
If it runs on my computer, it's a "good." If it runs on somebody else's computer, it's a "service." If part runs on my computer and part elsewhere in order to get the whole experience, the portion that runs on my computer is a "good."
This is the 21st century. Internet access, not web access, is as much a life requirement as a telephone.
Errors in a university's behavior tend to be reflected in the reputation of its degree. An error as outrageous as what you describe is very unlikely to be the only one. Flawed decisions will have been made in every other aspect of university administration. The breadth of those errors is likely to impact the value of any piece of paper you leave there with. If you don't want to waste your time, find a better university and transfer
With low volume high price software, it's easy to tag copies provided to each customer with some unique pattern. Then you can deal with the company that's "losing" the software. Then, remove the copy protection measures entirely so that your above-board customers aren't inconvenienced.
You can deal with the losers with a relatively light touch: "Warning: Your copy of the prior version appeared on software pirate sites. This most likely means that one of your employees stole it from you. If your copy of the current version we're giving you now also slips your control, the next version will cost you double."
Not really. LightSquared got the band cheap because everybody else thought it unusable due to the proximity of GPS. And the FCC warned them: we think you have a problem but if you really think you can pull it off, we'll let you try. Now that "everybody else" has been proven right, LightSquared is crying about their lost investment.
Intel had backed itself into a corner with the asinine idea that you could run fast with the P4's 256k cache, and the same on their multiprocessor Xeons. The fast but high latency memory bus would somehow take care of it. And they pushed hyperthreading at the same time, which puts even more pressure on the cache
AMD's caches were still decent size. No hyperthreading. And the Athlon's had a memory architecture which made each CPU responsible for part of main memory instead of choke-pointing everything through a single path.
Net result: AMD's CPUs spent a far higher percentage of their time doing work instead of waiting on a cache fill.
Then Intel figured it out, ramped up to 12 meg caches, copied AMD's memory per CPU approach and, for a while, ditched hyperthreading. And achieved nice power consumption / heat generation improvements to boot.
Ruby is pretty much only used in conjunction with Rails. Apologies to the folks who really like Ruby for itself, but it's true. The windows version has been on the slow death path for years -- it doesn't work right and nobody cares. So, if they're doing Ruby on Rails, they're doing it in a unix-like environment. Which normally means Linux.
Don't look for an "Open Source" job. Look for a "Linux" job or a "Apache/Mysql" job. Or a "PHP" or "Ruby on Rails" job.
And don't waste your time with the paper version of the newspaper. You won't find the high tech jobs there. Go for Monster, Career Builder, craig's list and other online job sites.
I re-read the guy's post. Where did he say he "quit his job?" All I saw was that he decided to seek other employment. I.e. start looking for a new job.
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"must be able to obtain a security clearance", your field of candidates will open up
Yeah I know. With most positions I can do that but this particular one has work that's due before they can get through the process. I can get them from TS to SCI in time and I would consider someone with secret who had all the other right skills but I can't get someone from zero to TS in time to deliver the product.
Even then there aren't many. Only three resumes have hit my desk missing only the clearance and one wasn't clearable (non-US citizen). That was folks I would have brought in for an interview, not necessarily hired.
At my company we call them "folks with broad skill sets." That's who we hire. Hard to keep someone with a too-narrow skill set busy doing work that's of actual value.
I have a position that has been open for 6 months. No one has turned us down on salary because no one has presented a skill set strong enough to get an in-person interview let alone an offer.
Apparently strong network security (packet/protocol level) + network operations background + minor software development + security clearance is an impossible combination to find.
To be clear: we're not struggling to find *people*, we're struggling to find *talent*.
I can only tell you about my one *actual* experience where a surge hit. It was wired into a pair of 15 amp breakers. Both they and the main 200 amp breakers tripped. The suppressor blackened.
No wire insulation showed signs of being burned. None of my many computers and other equipment was damaged.
The icon means what the accompanying text says it means. No accompanying text? That's a UI design error because on their own nearly all tiny thumbnail pictures are about as clear as mud.
A whole-house surge suppressor runs $50 to $100 plus installation. It works by shorting hot to common long enough to trip the main breaker when the voltage spikes. Since electricity takes the easiest path, it follows the short instead of destroying your equipment.
For a large surge (nearby lightning strike) it generally burns out the surge suppressor too. Complete with smoke. Seen it happen with one of mine. Pretty much the same a a power strip surge suppresor. So don't install it behind a wall.
We've been told for decades to "just say no" to drugs. Is the fact that some folks internalized the concept really so surprising?
Remember, "better living through chemistry" means drug abuse as surely as "gay" means homosexual.
I don't like losing data so it sits in a raid and gets backed up. This means I'm not just keeping one copy of primary data, I'm keeping many. And reprocessing/recopying it each time I make a backup.
My files go through descending levels of staleness. First I copy them off the primary drive to a network drive. They sit there for a while. When a couple years have passed without looking at them, they go on an offline drive and I create a file listing which I keep on the network drive. Once a decade has passed without loading the offline drive, they go in the trash.
Files that still have value get caught in the sweep but then migrate back to the primary drive as needed. Saves having to scrutinize everything before hand.
For the OP: restore from your august backup. Add anything on the drive with a more recent mod time. And then deal with the corrupt files as you come across them. If you come across them.
Programming was my favorite hobby growing up, so I turned it into a career. I really enjoy my work. If you enjoy programming as much as I do, I invite you to enjoy it with me. Regardless of your gender. Or age. Or whatever. The more the merrier.
Or not. That's your choice. I've made mine. However you choose, I'm really too busy enjoying my work to be more than mildly disappointed if my fun offends you.
Pop Quiz:
Mrs. Krabappel, your 10 year old daughter's 5th grade English teacher, is accused by a colleague of belonging to a religious cult which advocates forcible "sex training," i.e. rape, of girls as soon as they reach puberty, typically between ages 10 and 12. When confronted by principal Skinner, she responds: "What I do or don't do on my private time is none of my employer's business. I refuse to tell you whether I belong to the cult or whether I have ever attended a sex training."
Should principal Skinner respond:
A. Hey, no problem. Just don't bring it to school.
B. For the kids' safety, we presume your refusal to cooperate with the investigation hides the worst plausible outcome. Such views on child sexuality are incompatible with a position of power over children. You're fired.
Hester allegedly posted some pictures on Facebook which raised doubt about whether she should hold a position of power over children. Perhaps they shouldn't have; the pictures described sounded pretty mild to me. Nevertheless, doubts were raised. She then refused to cooperate with the investigation.
When you hold a position of trust, especially over children, what you do in the rest of your life matters. And that's completely reasonable.
Fuel is a good too. You buy it, you own it. But what use is a car without -roads-? Roads are a service.
Nope. Transmitting programming that your TV can view does not confer on you ownership or even simple possession of a copy. Its display on your television is strictly ephemeral. Hence not a good.
Rewind to 1960. Why did you pay a couple hundred dollars for a television (goods) that's utterly worthless without programming from the local TV stations (services)?
My television is a good. The DVD in my DVD player is a good. The programming sent to my television over the air is a service.
If it runs on my computer, it's a "good." If it runs on somebody else's computer, it's a "service." If part runs on my computer and part elsewhere in order to get the whole experience, the portion that runs on my computer is a "good."
This is the 21st century. Internet access, not web access, is as much a life requirement as a telephone.
Errors in a university's behavior tend to be reflected in the reputation of its degree. An error as outrageous as what you describe is very unlikely to be the only one. Flawed decisions will have been made in every other aspect of university administration. The breadth of those errors is likely to impact the value of any piece of paper you leave there with. If you don't want to waste your time, find a better university and transfer
You have the same three choices everyone who has ever been in your position has:
1. You can quit.
2. You can blow the whistle.
3. You can do an incompetent job as directed.
What's your pleasure?
With low volume high price software, it's easy to tag copies provided to each customer with some unique pattern. Then you can deal with the company that's "losing" the software. Then, remove the copy protection measures entirely so that your above-board customers aren't inconvenienced.
You can deal with the losers with a relatively light touch: "Warning: Your copy of the prior version appeared on software pirate sites. This most likely means that one of your employees stole it from you. If your copy of the current version we're giving you now also slips your control, the next version will cost you double."
that the FCC does have a degree of culpability
Not really. LightSquared got the band cheap because everybody else thought it unusable due to the proximity of GPS. And the FCC warned them: we think you have a problem but if you really think you can pull it off, we'll let you try. Now that "everybody else" has been proven right, LightSquared is crying about their lost investment.
You roll the dice, you take your chances.
Intel had backed itself into a corner with the asinine idea that you could run fast with the P4's 256k cache, and the same on their multiprocessor Xeons. The fast but high latency memory bus would somehow take care of it. And they pushed hyperthreading at the same time, which puts even more pressure on the cache
AMD's caches were still decent size. No hyperthreading. And the Athlon's had a memory architecture which made each CPU responsible for part of main memory instead of choke-pointing everything through a single path.
Net result: AMD's CPUs spent a far higher percentage of their time doing work instead of waiting on a cache fill.
Then Intel figured it out, ramped up to 12 meg caches, copied AMD's memory per CPU approach and, for a while, ditched hyperthreading. And achieved nice power consumption / heat generation improvements to boot.
AMD's caches weren't that big. And still aren't.
Java has a habit of being Windows or Solaris, neither of which is open source. For the rest, you're right.
Ruby is pretty much only used in conjunction with Rails. Apologies to the folks who really like Ruby for itself, but it's true. The windows version has been on the slow death path for years -- it doesn't work right and nobody cares. So, if they're doing Ruby on Rails, they're doing it in a unix-like environment. Which normally means Linux.
Don't look for an "Open Source" job. Look for a "Linux" job or a "Apache/Mysql" job. Or a "PHP" or "Ruby on Rails" job.
And don't waste your time with the paper version of the newspaper. You won't find the high tech jobs there. Go for Monster, Career Builder, craig's list and other online job sites.
I re-read the guy's post. Where did he say he "quit his job?" All I saw was that he decided to seek other employment. I.e. start looking for a new job.