Mainly because the hit rate is so bloody terrible.
I interview programmers all the time, and hire about 1 in 50. And the ones I do hire are great, but I see some truly unacceptable people who have great CVs.
Or they've worked on something which is really interesting, and smart, and when you dig it turns out that they simply don't understand what the team did, they just 'did their bit'.
You _HAVE_ to trust your developers, even with code reviews, design reviews etc etc in place, or you end up doing all the work yourself.
Frankly, I think it's more a question of 'why don't they test the others harder?';)
The flip side, of course, is that I get interviewed HARD whenever I go for a job. And, frankly, I really enjoy it. Don't you? If you do this sort of thing because you have a passion for it, you'll probably get something out of the interview, not view it as pointless. In fact, I've turned down jobs because the interview was too cursory. I think it says a lot about a place, how high the barriers to entry are.
Someone in the office just opined that if cash (notes) had RFID tags in them, then there would be a good hole in the market for a "how much cash is person X carrying?" scanner - pickpockets would be able to pre-select you for their services!
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I watched it 10 years ago when it was on a random cover cd - all my friends were watching it! They said it was cool!
But I still can't get that damn thing out of my head - it's like the ring! It's always there, haunting me!
Not because we want it, but just because we're taking it! Disrespectin' the folks who are making it!
But I've been in one of Ross Andersons lectures where him and Markus demonstrated tempest working against a laptop. Just using LCD won't protect you, see Here (google cache - page seems to be missing) and
Here
Its bad enough spending 10 hours a day in front of a monitor without having to look at that sort of stuff! I had eyeache within seconds of looking at the screenshot. Lovely idea, but pointless eye candy:)
Went to the optician complaining about eyeache the other day - she said "stop using computers so much". Hmm - and how did she expect I was going to pay her?
This won't be any use for the poster, but might help someone
I became completely fed up with my CompSci degree in the 2nd year - ended up getting a very low 3rd, and a chat with the warden to see if I wanted to carry on at the university; As it happened I had a gap year coming up - and this really changed my perspective - I found that academia really was massively more interesting than being an analyst, and when I read the course books (which only a few months ago, I had been forced to read) for the sheer hell of it, it turned out that I still found them interesting.
After that it was really a case of properly focussing on why I wanted to do the degree in the first case - binning the courses I loathed but had been forcing myself to do (Yeuch) and really spending some quality time with the things I would have done even had I not gone to uni.
So, anyway - focus on the things you enjoy about the course, ditch the courses which you feel obliged to do, but you really hate.
Bit trite, but it worked great for me.
Ok, UK biased answer, but Scan has an own brand player here which I think is pretty nice. Mp3s are limited to 8.3 name display. Also multi region for those of us in the UK who suffer... I just bought one as a christmas prezzie, and ahem, playtesting it hasn't revealed any problems.
It does lack a proper power off button though - stand by mode only for some reason, and doesn't have an integrated dolby decoder.
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Mainly because the hit rate is so bloody terrible.
I interview programmers all the time, and hire about 1 in 50. And the ones I do hire are great, but I see some truly unacceptable people who have great CVs.
Or they've worked on something which is really interesting, and smart, and when you dig it turns out that they simply don't understand what the team did, they just 'did their bit'.
You _HAVE_ to trust your developers, even with code reviews, design reviews etc etc in place, or you end up doing all the work yourself.
Frankly, I think it's more a question of 'why don't they test the others harder?' ;)
The flip side, of course, is that I get interviewed HARD whenever I go for a job. And, frankly, I really enjoy it. Don't you? If you do this sort of thing because you have a passion for it, you'll probably get something out of the interview, not view it as pointless. In fact, I've turned down jobs because the interview was too cursory. I think it says a lot about a place, how high the barriers to entry are.
Someone in the office just opined that if cash (notes) had RFID tags in them, then there would be a good hole in the market for a "how much cash is person X carrying?" scanner - pickpockets would be able to pre-select you for their services!
I watched it 10 years ago when it was on a random cover cd - all my friends were watching it! They said it was cool!
But I still can't get that damn thing out of my head - it's like the ring! It's always there, haunting me!
Not because we want it, but just because we're taking it!
Disrespectin' the folks who are making it!
Why couldn't you put the bunny back in the box?
"....AND a bonefied ROCKET SCIENTIST...."
Hur hur... now there's a double entendre...
But I've been in one of Ross Andersons lectures where him and Markus demonstrated tempest working against a laptop. Just using LCD won't protect you, see Here (google cache - page seems to be missing) and Here
Its bad enough spending 10 hours a day in front of a monitor without having to look at that sort of stuff! I had eyeache within seconds of looking at the screenshot. Lovely idea, but pointless eye candy :)
Went to the optician complaining about eyeache the other day - she said "stop using computers so much". Hmm - and how did she expect I was going to pay her?
This won't be any use for the poster, but might help someone
I became completely fed up with my CompSci degree in the 2nd year - ended up getting a very low 3rd, and a chat with the warden to see if I wanted to carry on at the university; As it happened I had a gap year coming up - and this really changed my perspective - I found that academia really was massively more interesting than being an analyst, and when I read the course books (which only a few months ago, I had been forced to read) for the sheer hell of it, it turned out that I still found them interesting.
After that it was really a case of properly focussing on why I wanted to do the degree in the first case - binning the courses I loathed but had been forcing myself to do (Yeuch) and really spending some quality time with the things I would have done even had I not gone to uni.
So, anyway - focus on the things you enjoy about the course, ditch the courses which you feel obliged to do, but you really hate. Bit trite, but it worked great for me.
Ok, UK biased answer, but Scan has an own brand player here which I think is pretty nice. Mp3s are limited to 8.3 name display. Also multi region for those of us in the UK who suffer... I just bought one as a christmas prezzie, and ahem, playtesting it hasn't revealed any problems.
It does lack a proper power off button though - stand by mode only for some reason, and doesn't have an integrated dolby decoder.
I've used the originally named 'phone' *g*
It works pretty well, but requires a central
'name'server... (yes, you could remove that, it's
GPL).
Author: David Ashley
http://www.xdr.com/dash
Program name: Phone
Program Homepage: http://www.linuxmotors.com/phone
http://djvu.research.att.com/ All the lovely impressive features of jpeg2000, already implemented. Bloody impressive. :)
Ok, brilliant. Anyone want to point the makers of the jazPiper at this? (anyone had ANY luck at snooping the protocol?)
I mean, I read this book over 2 months ago. Couldn't you post a review of something just a teensy bit more up to date? :)