Beautiful comment. And sometimes you have to lie as much as they do, especially if they're asking for 5 years experience with a technology that was invented 2 years ago. Those bastards are often as guilty at buzzword bingo as we have to be.
Twice recently I've noticed something offering hope. Jobs were posted to two email lists I subscribe to, LILUG and the NY Alt.NET. In both cases the requirements were ripped apart by people not in the job market. in the case of the Alt.NET job, an "updated" posting was soon added to the list. Nothing makes me happier than when people are forced to be brutally honest.
Their not necessarily in cahoots, they just were educated by the same system and cut their teeth on the same hardware.
These are the people that gave us WinRar, 7zip, and Farmanager. They know how to do this kind of low level programming, and a lack of capitalism probably means they did not spend a lot of time learning how to make things pretty.
The irony being that the interstate highway system was designed for commercial traffic and for civil defense (moving military supplies easier across the country in the event of an invasion).
I'm also not sure the "commerce clause" would apply to nationally funded highways that didn't allow commercial traffic. Not that anyone follows that silly little constitution any more.
I've used RDBMS, I've used Mongo, I've used the file system, and I've LDAP.... Each has their own purpose, and I use them all for different things.
Out of curiosity, is there any project that actually requires almost all of these technologies? If so, how many libraries do this project have to import, to make these technologies work?
Well its certainly conceivable. I've built a.NET web service that talked to Microsoft SQL server, Active Directory (via LDAP) and OpenLDAP. This was before MongoDB.
.NET has built in support for SQL server and Microsoft Access. It also has LDAP support, but in my calse I used the Novell library. You need to use NoRM or mongodb-csharp. I'm sure I did some sort of filesystem access a well.
The number of libraries for such an app is probably not a problem. A large app will end up using several external libraries, or internally developed shared libraries.
Of course, if you are building an application big enough to need all these, it should use Service Oriented Architecture (SOA) So different modules that need to store data in different ways will be different services (separate programs).
No-SQL is not a database, it's a file store. Calling them a database is an insult to databasses the world over. Yes, there are times when a "no-sql" solution is better than SQL, and the vector is pretty much that point where you realize that storing files in databases makes sense like hauling bales of hay in sports cars does.
Full disclosure, I am not a 10gen employee, but I've contributed some improvements to windows support in MongoDB.
Mongo is not a relational database. However, its a "real database" and different from the filesystem. They do got that GridFS thing for storing BLOBs that I've not tried. The DB is schemaless, but there are indexes, and you can even do some primitive GeoLocation.
I've used RDBMS, I've used Mongo, I've used the file system, and I've LDAP. I've even toyed enough with xml documents and XSD schemas to call that a special data store (both filesystem backed adn stored in SQL server). Each has theor own purpose, and I use them all for different things.
It's an American controlled company, so yes it would be more accurate to say a subset of Americans should deny a subset of Chinese their service.
Semantics aside, google would be better off threatening the Chinese to remove their search access than to actualyl do it. Nothing is stopping the Chinese from building their own search engine.
If something came across that doubled my salary, I'd be off like a shot and do it. I mean, really...if anyone here was independently wealthy, who would ever work again? Certainly not I.
Plenty of independently wealthy people work by choice. They got rich by earning a lot of money, and continue to do so.
If I became independently wealthy in a short period of time, I'd probably not do what I do now. However, if I earned my wealth over time, I'd probably not stop "because I had enough." Money would enable me to spend 8-12 hours a day doing what I want. Some of that might be charity, some of it would be vacations, but a good portion of it would be coding.
And nurses aren't being laid off anywhere in the US. In fact, there is a significant shortage.
Very true. My girlfriend is a physical therapist from the Philippines. She came to the US on a H1 Visa. Several of her classmates came here on Hi visas. Two of her cousins are nurses. They both got instant green cards. One left for England.
If you want to be able to work anywhere in the world, become a nurse.
People have an average lifespan of less than 80 years. So it's unlikely that a communicable disease would last for more than a couple centuries, right?
Except cocaine particles do eat money fibers and reproduce.
Apparently all those restrictions didn't do much for your critical thinking skills.
In terms of long last benefits, I turn of my cell phone when entering a church, theater, etc, and hand it in when I report to jury duty. I also tend to not make outgoing phone calls during the work day.
Although, I tend to attribute the remembering to turn it off to working as a sysadmin and being on call, therefore expecting to get calls evenings and weekends. I've never been in a theater where a phone went off (that I heard), but I've noticed when someone's phone went off in church it was usually a housewife, retiree, etc, who probably had a phone to make an outgoing call in case of an emergency. Rarely did the person shutting off their phone in embarrassment come across as a professional of some sort whose phone mainly tool incoming calls so they could deal with emergencies other people had.
In terms of immediate benefits, not having a beeper meant the only distractions to learning were those internal to the school. From first period to dismissal, everything preventing me from learning in the school were distractions inside the school. That made managing distractions easier for the administration.
I was young, stupid, in college, and not adjusted to the sudden total freedom.
All that being said, I only use this nick on slashdot, sourceforge, and I think freshmeat. I am known as zippy or zippy1981 most places on the internet.
I will not change my nick name, unless maybe ordered to by an employer. I would rather someone be able to find out my complete public history easily. That means one account per online service. I value my privacy for things I want kept private, but I also value the ability to easily publicly disclose what I want publicly disclosed. So I continue to live with a poorly chosen nick name.
I kept the line open and respectfully, and very politely, said his words to my teacher and offered the phone to him. He did not even consider talking with my dad, as he simply replied that "if you stay here, you are going to detention." Being wiser now, I realise that probably I should have gotten dad to threaten legal action for not seeking consent beforehand. Instead, at the time, I chose to take the matter to the principal myself. I went to detention.
Where do you draw the line?
Without a cell phone, you could have not gone, taken the detention, and gotten your dad to fight it later. If it meant that much to you, a day in detention would have not been so bad.
There are other countries more suited to you. We like freedom here in America.
I like my freedom too. I think everyone should get it at age 18. You can drop out of high school earlier if you want a cell phone. I'm also for completely privatizing education. If you want your children to go to a school that alows cell phones please do so. My children won't. If they want to bring a cell phone to school, they can figure out how to pay the tuition for an institution that will allow that. Freedom has a cost. The cost of freedom for dependent children is subsidized by their parents and or guardians.
I went to an all boys Catholic High School. Graduated in 1999. We were not allowed to use cell phones or beepers. Most infractions involved beepers at the time. The single payphone and 2 vending machines on the school were off limits from first period to dismissal.Naturally some people just didn't get caught, and those of us in honors calsses or sports were usually given a little bit of leeway if we didn't abuse it. I was one of the people that could have gotten away with a beeper shaped buldge in my pocket, but I would not have attempted it if I could afford such a luxury.
In the end, I'm glad for these restrictions on my freedom. I'm a liberterian, and tended to always lean that way, but until graduating high school one should be denied a certain level of freedom and personhood.
Now, dresscodes on the other hand made me not give a crap about how I look. I was more concerned with following the rules than how I looked. Therefore I tend to be one of the worst dressed in a "business casual" envirorment.
In most companies, they just ask a headhunter to find someone to become manager.
Depends. If you can sell yourself as management material, without seeming like a threat to your boss, he might recommend you as a successor.
Anyway, i was in the exact situation you are now, and i got out by never giving up on going to job interviews, not necessarily to directly get a job, but to test out what strategies in "marketing" yourself work best. . ..
That's how in 4 years time i doubled my salary and am now at the same level as someone who has his masters degree.
Just be sure to keep on trying, and keep reading up on everything you're interested in.
I did something similarly. Started out third shift as/400 operator/helldesk and now I am a senior developer in a.NET shop. It was a windy road, but thanks to the breadth of my experience I know can pick up a new language, database, OS, etc very quickly.
Why would they do that when other companies like Google and Adobe pay Dell to preload their software?
Well, they offer it as an option for those requesting it. If they can show Adobe and Google that some people don't want acrobat and picassa, they might be able to charge to give them the privilege of having their software installed on new computers.
There's also using Polaroids as proof shots for large format work.
A photographer I know has special backplates for his Nikon F series for taking Polaroids. He uses them for exactly that purpose when shooting 220 film. I don't think he's done film in years.
But a modern doctor didn't go through 4 years of college, 4 years of medical school, and another three or five years of grueling internships to get paid in chickens. If anyone in our society earns a six figure income, it would be them.
Well nurse practitioners can charge chickens and doctors can charge cows.
Seriously, we shouldn't revert to chickens, being food is so cheap these days, but we can do things to make prices more affordable. I paid $15 dollars at Walmart for a license renewal eye exam. I could have gotten it for free at the DMV, but Walmart keeps better hours. For ~$50 I could have gotten a real eye exam, and for another ~$15 I could get my eye glass prescription.
Of course I bought some lead dust encrusted gum and pretzels from Walmart immediately after the eye exam adding another $7.00 to my bill.
Water is tougher to drink quickly in large quantities than coffee/soda for somebody who's used to the caffeine. Same with beer for somebody who's used to the alcohol. Caffeine & alcohol are diuretics and tend to move through the system more quickly than water.
My body seriously does not like being hydrated. If I drink a pint or more of water, I will pee it out. I've given up caffeine for lent and I only drink water in those quantities at the office when I'm completely sober. I don't think I have excessive sugar intake so I can't blame it on any form of diuretics in my system.
On another note, I generally hit the caffeine hard immediately after easter. I never do 8 cups a day, but I immediately revert to my usual 4 cups. Then again, if my withdrawal sucked that much, I'd consider staying on the wagon permanently.
Everything stayed running... the failures consisted or power cords coming out
So by "running" I think they mean "didn't break"
Redundant power cables? Although to be fair, in a real data center, KVM pushcarts and jewel cases left in partially filled racks would be a big factor in causing wire damage. Not to mention server mounting arms extending.
I'd rather put my faith in the camera, which provides a visual record, than a corrupt man who will lie in order to boost his arrest stats.
Corruption is an issue. Compassion and sensibility are positive traits of the human condition. Granted the "a small child ran into the street" and similar type excuses can be handled by the court level. However, take your argument to the next level. We can automate the lower courts since judges can be corrupt.
Also, cameras can be setup in places where out of towners, minorities, etc tend to drive through.
Personally I wouldn't mind speeding camera;s too much because they might lead to speed limits being raised to sensible (75mph interstate) levels. Red light cameras on the other hand, will lead to tickets going to people that don't regularly use that intersection (no lesson learned) or drunk drivers, drag racers etc.
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Beautiful comment. And sometimes you have to lie as much as they do, especially if they're asking for 5 years experience with a technology that was invented 2 years ago. Those bastards are often as guilty at buzzword bingo as we have to be.
Twice recently I've noticed something offering hope. Jobs were posted to two email lists I subscribe to, LILUG and the NY Alt.NET. In both cases the requirements were ripped apart by people not in the job market. in the case of the Alt.NET job, an "updated" posting was soon added to the list. Nothing makes me happier than when people are forced to be brutally honest.
Their not necessarily in cahoots, they just were educated by the same system and cut their teeth on the same hardware.
These are the people that gave us WinRar, 7zip, and Farmanager. They know how to do this kind of low level programming, and a lack of capitalism probably means they did not spend a lot of time learning how to make things pretty.
The irony being that the interstate highway system was designed for commercial traffic and for civil defense (moving military supplies easier across the country in the event of an invasion).
I'm also not sure the "commerce clause" would apply to nationally funded highways that didn't allow commercial traffic. Not that anyone follows that silly little constitution any more.
It kinda makes me think China should implement moving roadways like Heinlein (and others no doubt) predicted.
I've used RDBMS, I've used Mongo, I've used the file system, and I've LDAP. ... Each has their own purpose, and I use them all for different things.
Out of curiosity, is there any project that actually requires almost all of these technologies? If so, how many libraries do this project have to import, to make these technologies work?
Well its certainly conceivable. I've built a .NET web service that talked to Microsoft SQL server, Active Directory (via LDAP) and OpenLDAP. This was before MongoDB.
.NET has built in support for SQL server and Microsoft Access. It also has LDAP support, but in my calse I used the Novell library. You need to use NoRM or mongodb-csharp. I'm sure I did some sort of filesystem access a well.
The number of libraries for such an app is probably not a problem. A large app will end up using several external libraries, or internally developed shared libraries.
Of course, if you are building an application big enough to need all these, it should use Service Oriented Architecture (SOA) So different modules that need to store data in different ways will be different services (separate programs).
Full disclosure, I am not a 10gen employee, but I've contributed some improvements to windows support in MongoDB.
Mongo is not a relational database. However, its a "real database" and different from the filesystem. They do got that GridFS thing for storing BLOBs that I've not tried. The DB is schemaless, but there are indexes, and you can even do some primitive GeoLocation.
I've used RDBMS, I've used Mongo, I've used the file system, and I've LDAP. I've even toyed enough with xml documents and XSD schemas to call that a special data store (both filesystem backed adn stored in SQL server). Each has theor own purpose, and I use them all for different things.
It's an American controlled company, so yes it would be more accurate to say a subset of Americans should deny a subset of Chinese their service.
Semantics aside, google would be better off threatening the Chinese to remove their search access than to actualyl do it. Nothing is stopping the Chinese from building their own search engine.
The only question is, would this make more sense as an added option in wireshark, or GNU Radio?
Well to keep with the unix philisophy of small reusable components the following should be done:
If something came across that doubled my salary, I'd be off like a shot and do it. I mean, really...if anyone here was independently wealthy, who would ever work again? Certainly not I.
Plenty of independently wealthy people work by choice. They got rich by earning a lot of money, and continue to do so.
If I became independently wealthy in a short period of time, I'd probably not do what I do now. However, if I earned my wealth over time, I'd probably not stop "because I had enough." Money would enable me to spend 8-12 hours a day doing what I want. Some of that might be charity, some of it would be vacations, but a good portion of it would be coding.
And nurses aren't being laid off anywhere in the US. In fact, there is a significant shortage.
Very true. My girlfriend is a physical therapist from the Philippines. She came to the US on a H1 Visa. Several of her classmates came here on Hi visas. Two of her cousins are nurses. They both got instant green cards. One left for England.
If you want to be able to work anywhere in the world, become a nurse.
Then I will check my mail with XMLSpy.
People have an average lifespan of less than 80 years. So it's unlikely that a communicable disease would last for more than a couple centuries, right?
Except cocaine particles do eat money fibers and reproduce.
Apparently all those restrictions didn't do much for your critical thinking skills.
In terms of long last benefits, I turn of my cell phone when entering a church, theater, etc, and hand it in when I report to jury duty. I also tend to not make outgoing phone calls during the work day.
Although, I tend to attribute the remembering to turn it off to working as a sysadmin and being on call, therefore expecting to get calls evenings and weekends. I've never been in a theater where a phone went off (that I heard), but I've noticed when someone's phone went off in church it was usually a housewife, retiree, etc, who probably had a phone to make an outgoing call in case of an emergency. Rarely did the person shutting off their phone in embarrassment come across as a professional of some sort whose phone mainly tool incoming calls so they could deal with emergencies other people had.
In terms of immediate benefits, not having a beeper meant the only distractions to learning were those internal to the school. From first period to dismissal, everything preventing me from learning in the school were distractions inside the school. That made managing distractions easier for the administration.
And then he calls himself 'j-pimp'.
I was young, stupid, in college, and not adjusted to the sudden total freedom.
All that being said, I only use this nick on slashdot, sourceforge, and I think freshmeat. I am known as zippy or zippy1981 most places on the internet.
I will not change my nick name, unless maybe ordered to by an employer. I would rather someone be able to find out my complete public history easily. That means one account per online service. I value my privacy for things I want kept private, but I also value the ability to easily publicly disclose what I want publicly disclosed. So I continue to live with a poorly chosen nick name.
I kept the line open and respectfully, and very politely, said his words to my teacher and offered the phone to him. He did not even consider talking with my dad, as he simply replied that "if you stay here, you are going to detention." Being wiser now, I realise that probably I should have gotten dad to threaten legal action for not seeking consent beforehand. Instead, at the time, I chose to take the matter to the principal myself. I went to detention. Where do you draw the line?
Without a cell phone, you could have not gone, taken the detention, and gotten your dad to fight it later. If it meant that much to you, a day in detention would have not been so bad.
There are other countries more suited to you. We like freedom here in America.
I like my freedom too. I think everyone should get it at age 18. You can drop out of high school earlier if you want a cell phone. I'm also for completely privatizing education. If you want your children to go to a school that alows cell phones please do so. My children won't. If they want to bring a cell phone to school, they can figure out how to pay the tuition for an institution that will allow that. Freedom has a cost. The cost of freedom for dependent children is subsidized by their parents and or guardians.
I went to an all boys Catholic High School. Graduated in 1999. We were not allowed to use cell phones or beepers. Most infractions involved beepers at the time. The single payphone and 2 vending machines on the school were off limits from first period to dismissal.Naturally some people just didn't get caught, and those of us in honors calsses or sports were usually given a little bit of leeway if we didn't abuse it. I was one of the people that could have gotten away with a beeper shaped buldge in my pocket, but I would not have attempted it if I could afford such a luxury.
In the end, I'm glad for these restrictions on my freedom. I'm a liberterian, and tended to always lean that way, but until graduating high school one should be denied a certain level of freedom and personhood.
Now, dresscodes on the other hand made me not give a crap about how I look. I was more concerned with following the rules than how I looked. Therefore I tend to be one of the worst dressed in a "business casual" envirorment.
In most companies, they just ask a headhunter to find someone to become manager.
Depends. If you can sell yourself as management material, without seeming like a threat to your boss, he might recommend you as a successor.
Anyway, i was in the exact situation you are now, and i got out by never giving up on going to job interviews, not necessarily to directly get a job, but to test out what strategies in "marketing" yourself work best. . . .
That's how in 4 years time i doubled my salary and am now at the same level as someone who has his masters degree. Just be sure to keep on trying, and keep reading up on everything you're interested in.
I did something similarly. Started out third shift as/400 operator/helldesk and now I am a senior developer in a .NET shop. It was a windy road, but thanks to the breadth of my experience I know can pick up a new language, database, OS, etc very quickly.
Why would they do that when other companies like Google and Adobe pay Dell to preload their software?
Well, they offer it as an option for those requesting it. If they can show Adobe and Google that some people don't want acrobat and picassa, they might be able to charge to give them the privilege of having their software installed on new computers.
There's also using Polaroids as proof shots for large format work.
A photographer I know has special backplates for his Nikon F series for taking Polaroids. He uses them for exactly that purpose when shooting 220 film. I don't think he's done film in years.
But a modern doctor didn't go through 4 years of college, 4 years of medical school, and another three or five years of grueling internships to get paid in chickens. If anyone in our society earns a six figure income, it would be them.
Well nurse practitioners can charge chickens and doctors can charge cows.
Seriously, we shouldn't revert to chickens, being food is so cheap these days, but we can do things to make prices more affordable. I paid $15 dollars at Walmart for a license renewal eye exam. I could have gotten it for free at the DMV, but Walmart keeps better hours. For ~$50 I could have gotten a real eye exam, and for another ~$15 I could get my eye glass prescription.
Of course I bought some lead dust encrusted gum and pretzels from Walmart immediately after the eye exam adding another $7.00 to my bill.
Water is tougher to drink quickly in large quantities than coffee/soda for somebody who's used to the caffeine. Same with beer for somebody who's used to the alcohol. Caffeine & alcohol are diuretics and tend to move through the system more quickly than water.
My body seriously does not like being hydrated. If I drink a pint or more of water, I will pee it out. I've given up caffeine for lent and I only drink water in those quantities at the office when I'm completely sober. I don't think I have excessive sugar intake so I can't blame it on any form of diuretics in my system.
On another note, I generally hit the caffeine hard immediately after easter. I never do 8 cups a day, but I immediately revert to my usual 4 cups. Then again, if my withdrawal sucked that much, I'd consider staying on the wagon permanently.
End of line.
Everything stayed running... the failures consisted or power cords coming out
So by "running" I think they mean "didn't break"
Redundant power cables? Although to be fair, in a real data center, KVM pushcarts and jewel cases left in partially filled racks would be a big factor in causing wire damage. Not to mention server mounting arms extending.
I'd rather put my faith in the camera, which provides a visual record, than a corrupt man who will lie in order to boost his arrest stats.
Corruption is an issue. Compassion and sensibility are positive traits of the human condition. Granted the "a small child ran into the street" and similar type excuses can be handled by the court level. However, take your argument to the next level. We can automate the lower courts since judges can be corrupt.
Also, cameras can be setup in places where out of towners, minorities, etc tend to drive through.
Personally I wouldn't mind speeding camera;s too much because they might lead to speed limits being raised to sensible (75mph interstate) levels. Red light cameras on the other hand, will lead to tickets going to people that don't regularly use that intersection (no lesson learned) or drunk drivers, drag racers etc.