I still presented a lot of energy and enthusiasm (toward the technology) at interviews as well, which makes a huge difference, and tends to erase any thought of age as a factor.
This.
If you do not come off as competent, capable, and somewhat assertive you might as well hang it up. I have a friend of mine who has decades of UNIX programming experience, a decent education (EE and CS combo degree), and is skilled at what he does. The issue at hand is that he weighs 300 pounds, is easily flustered in an interview, and walks into unfamiliar situations with a "deer in the headlights" look as opposed to having his head on a swivel. You look at him and if you don't know him as a person you're thinking stuff like "wonder how much Geritol he has to snort to make it through the day", or "man.. once his knees need to be replaced how long is he going to be out of commission?"
Too often it seems to be the ancillary stuff that torpedoes people. It's not fair, but thems the breaks!
the issue is not the law, its whoever enforces it, though saying cops should die is way over there on the other side of the spectrum, for every bad one how many thousands of decent ones are there?
If that means that with a few statements or a longer statement you get in to the high 90s then that would be quite interesting.
Interesting stuff. I wrote the first revision of my best friend's profile for match.com (I'm a man, she's a woman) simply because she was just awful at putting her best foot forward. She tweaked it, but I wonder how that would have come out under such analysis.
Noooo! She's not a lithe fifty year old target shooting yoga instructor, she's a MAN!;)
Were the Acorns and Sinclairs released in the EU exclusively (with the exception of the TS 1000)?
Never had much hankerin' for a Sinclair since I had an Atari 800, but later on the Acorn Archimedes looked pretty cool.
Worked on a Radio Shack Coco (Dragon for you Euro folks) running OS9 back in the day, and if that wasn't nerd pr0n I don't know what was. Made Spartados on my Atari look lame.
That, was the definite proof that if you let some ideas prosper, some horrible things happen as a result.
I can see where you are coming from, but on this side of the pond, from my USian biased point of view, a lot of Europeans seemingly eschew personal responsibility. Advocate that something horrible should happen to somebody but don't act on it? Fine. If your speech causes somebody else to act on it, then the party committing the crime is guilty.
It's just like the lame "duty to assist" laws that some EU countries have. Why don't you mandate when you have dinner as well?
You can call it a slippery slope all you like, but how long until you start prosecuting thought crimes?
Yes, and a meteor might hit the planet. Whatever.. shit happens. We'll adapt.
The bottom line is the unprofessional behavior from certain entities in the past has warranted moving away from them at my shop, and on my consulting gigs they're not even a blip on the radar. You seem to like them (and if not, I apologize for putting words in your mouth), and if they work for you go with them. One of the reasons I love linux is the freedom of choice.
I didn't follow it too closely but, in short, it's that the maintainers are a small, closed group that doesn't want to let anyone else into the pool.
Without trying to sound too dickish, that's why I've hitched my wagon to Scientific Linux for my "no Redhat support needed" machines. I'll take Fermilab and CERN over "random d00ds that disappear on a whim."
Yes, I know that's probably not fair, but Lance didn't do 'em any favors.
Looking good in a suit? A required "skill" for management? Seriously? No wonder the world is lining up to kick our asses in the marketplace.
By "looking good" I meant having enough social intelligence to know how to dress and when, and maybe enough self-respect to slog out a couple of km on the treadmill whilst denying yourself Cheetohs. If you're managing people you need to have credibility on multiple fronts, and if you can't keep your own shit together then you have none. That's why I love the USMC: poseurs need not apply (wished I'd have served with them instead of the army).
If you're that disconnected with respect to professional dress, go the cheap route and run over to Brooks Brothers and find one of their people on the floor and say "Help! I'm a great engineer but walking-talking business fashion faux-pas!" and they'll generally hook you up. I know engineers who are incredibly talented but yet "can't be bothered" with tying a tie. Guess what: not all of us are geeks, and the people with the purse strings often take note.
In addition, I take it you've never been to Europe or Japan. Try not dressing the part over there as a manager and see where that gets you.
Most engineers know next to nothing about marketing and sales..
You know, I get uncomfortable when people make assertions using words like "most". I've worked with engineers (both brilliant and mediocre) who are the worst of the worst when it comes to social skills, and I've worked with some who made it through engineering school with a paltry 3.0 and are a blast as people. Some of the most well compensated engineers I know of are sales engineers working in areas like biomedical equipment and robotics (before anybody trounces out the IT stereotype). There *are* people who can do both; I know a lot of them. I know one kid in aerospace is who very gregarious, walked into a new job, solved a vibration problem on a jet engine within his first year, and ended up with his masters (aerospace engineering) paid for by the company. He worked as an engineer for five more years, they sent him back for an MBA, and now he runs a department. Bottom line is, he's geeky, smart on both interpersonal and quantitative matters, has walked the walk, and will be CEO material by the time he's 40.
In my line of work (yes, one of the legions of software drones) I'm a generalist who writes code and takes care of some other technical issues. When my organization needs to send out a technical liaison they send me, because I can grok the tech stuff (oh noes, he knows what Big-O is and can profile! LOL), but I know how to look good in a suit (not a good looking lad, but keeping yourself in shape along with a trip to a tailor makes all the difference), can speak publicly without issue, and I know how to generally not piss people off. There are scads of people here on Slashdot (and a few where I work) who can code rings around me, and that's fine. At the end of the day I can play both sides of the card.
The bottom line is: there are people with both skill sets, and it's my hypothesis that they're actively excluded by MBA types from managerial roles in many cases because they are a threat. In addition, boards want profit, so those that show quarter-to-quarter myopia get the nod.
This whole thing reminds me of a video I saw once of a smokin' hot female Phd who said "you know, I can make this widget last four times as long if they'd let me add 10% to the price".. of course that didn't happen. Said company has a mediocre reputation in its sector as a result.
You would pay $5 a Banana or Apple so that "american" workers can do it?
Would you pay $5 for a glass of O.J.?
Just like your cheap Chinese DVD... USians never want to pay the real cost of anything. They'd rather have distorted markets and live in a bubble.
What people fail to realize is that American's don't do so many jobs because you can't live off them. 2 people living together each working 60 hours a week on minimum wage jobs can't afford a cheap apartment in something like 80% of the country(by population, not land area). Separated that way because the majority of minimum wage jobs are located in populated areas. If your earning minimum wage your by definition poor, have no health care at all(medicare won't cover you, minimum wage jobs don't have it, Even if they did you couldn't afford the $1000(average cost of health insurance for those earning under $30,000 a year) a month payments.
Give it enough time and prices will come inline with reality. No government bailouts for realtors, bankers, or anybody else. Once again, market distortions are what got us to this point. Gas *should* be five dollars a gallon, food should be more expensive, etc.
I know quite a few out of work assholes who whine about it while they have both a Dish television description AND cable being piped to their 46" flat panel.
The free ride is up USA. We're in for a hard, long ride. Time to actually do work and earn our keep, and no, we're not special snow flakes above back breaking work or paying what food actually costs at LEGAL wages.
Considering the time scale required to construct a large nuclear power plant the problems of scope creep and short term fads are going to be a problem unless serious long term adult supervision is applied.
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How about dual N-back training instead?
Here's a somewhat platform agnostic version of the game to play with.
And... there's the Dual N-Back FAQ.
Thanks for that. I just finished eating a slightly undercooked cheese, tomato, and onion omelette.
Yeesh!
You don't have to.
This.
If you do not come off as competent, capable, and somewhat assertive you might as well hang it up. I have a friend of mine who has decades of UNIX programming experience, a decent education (EE and CS combo degree), and is skilled at what he does. The issue at hand is that he weighs 300 pounds, is easily flustered in an interview, and walks into unfamiliar situations with a "deer in the headlights" look as opposed to having his head on a swivel. You look at him and if you don't know him as a person you're thinking stuff like "wonder how much Geritol he has to snort to make it through the day", or "man.. once his knees need to be replaced how long is he going to be out of commission?"
Too often it seems to be the ancillary stuff that torpedoes people. It's not fair, but thems the breaks!
And this is true why? Because you think so? Cite? Research?
See the post below about Bash.
In my personal experience the ratio is about 1:1
Now that's just pure gold. :)
Will you be here all week? And should I try the fish?
Am I the only male here irrationally uncomfortable with the term "N00ter"?
Interesting stuff. I wrote the first revision of my best friend's profile for match.com (I'm a man, she's a woman) simply because she was just awful at putting her best foot forward. She tweaked it, but I wonder how that would have come out under such analysis.
;)
Noooo! She's not a lithe fifty year old target shooting yoga instructor, she's a MAN!
Thanks for the information. And yes, I'm aware of that awesome processor known as the ARM. :)
Were the Acorns and Sinclairs released in the EU exclusively (with the exception of the TS 1000)? Never had much hankerin' for a Sinclair since I had an Atari 800, but later on the Acorn Archimedes looked pretty cool. Worked on a Radio Shack Coco (Dragon for you Euro folks) running OS9 back in the day, and if that wasn't nerd pr0n I don't know what was. Made Spartados on my Atari look lame.
I love spotted owls... on rye bread covered with mayo and a side of cheezy poofs.
I can see where you are coming from, but on this side of the pond, from my USian biased point of view, a lot of Europeans seemingly eschew personal responsibility. Advocate that something horrible should happen to somebody but don't act on it? Fine. If your speech causes somebody else to act on it, then the party committing the crime is guilty.
It's just like the lame "duty to assist" laws that some EU countries have. Why don't you mandate when you have dinner as well?
You can call it a slippery slope all you like, but how long until you start prosecuting thought crimes?
Seriously not trying to be an asshole.. but cite? I'm curious.
Indeed. Between MAME and the Vic-20 in my closet with a Megacart plugged into it I'm covered in that respect.
Yes, and a meteor might hit the planet. Whatever.. shit happens. We'll adapt.
The bottom line is the unprofessional behavior from certain entities in the past has warranted moving away from them at my shop, and on my consulting gigs they're not even a blip on the radar. You seem to like them (and if not, I apologize for putting words in your mouth), and if they work for you go with them. One of the reasons I love linux is the freedom of choice.
Without trying to sound too dickish, that's why I've hitched my wagon to Scientific Linux for my "no Redhat support needed" machines. I'll take Fermilab and CERN over "random d00ds that disappear on a whim." Yes, I know that's probably not fair, but Lance didn't do 'em any favors.
Wow! I now consider myself schooled. I honestly didn't know that.
By "looking good" I meant having enough social intelligence to know how to dress and when, and maybe enough self-respect to slog out a couple of km on the treadmill whilst denying yourself Cheetohs. If you're managing people you need to have credibility on multiple fronts, and if you can't keep your own shit together then you have none. That's why I love the USMC: poseurs need not apply (wished I'd have served with them instead of the army).
If you're that disconnected with respect to professional dress, go the cheap route and run over to Brooks Brothers and find one of their people on the floor and say "Help! I'm a great engineer but walking-talking business fashion faux-pas!" and they'll generally hook you up. I know engineers who are incredibly talented but yet "can't be bothered" with tying a tie. Guess what: not all of us are geeks, and the people with the purse strings often take note.
In addition, I take it you've never been to Europe or Japan. Try not dressing the part over there as a manager and see where that gets you.
You know, I get uncomfortable when people make assertions using words like "most". I've worked with engineers (both brilliant and mediocre) who are the worst of the worst when it comes to social skills, and I've worked with some who made it through engineering school with a paltry 3.0 and are a blast as people. Some of the most well compensated engineers I know of are sales engineers working in areas like biomedical equipment and robotics (before anybody trounces out the IT stereotype). There *are* people who can do both; I know a lot of them. I know one kid in aerospace is who very gregarious, walked into a new job, solved a vibration problem on a jet engine within his first year, and ended up with his masters (aerospace engineering) paid for by the company. He worked as an engineer for five more years, they sent him back for an MBA, and now he runs a department. Bottom line is, he's geeky, smart on both interpersonal and quantitative matters, has walked the walk, and will be CEO material by the time he's 40.
In my line of work (yes, one of the legions of software drones) I'm a generalist who writes code and takes care of some other technical issues. When my organization needs to send out a technical liaison they send me, because I can grok the tech stuff (oh noes, he knows what Big-O is and can profile! LOL), but I know how to look good in a suit (not a good looking lad, but keeping yourself in shape along with a trip to a tailor makes all the difference), can speak publicly without issue, and I know how to generally not piss people off. There are scads of people here on Slashdot (and a few where I work) who can code rings around me, and that's fine. At the end of the day I can play both sides of the card.
The bottom line is: there are people with both skill sets, and it's my hypothesis that they're actively excluded by MBA types from managerial roles in many cases because they are a threat. In addition, boards want profit, so those that show quarter-to-quarter myopia get the nod.
This whole thing reminds me of a video I saw once of a smokin' hot female Phd who said "you know, I can make this widget last four times as long if they'd let me add 10% to the price".. of course that didn't happen. Said company has a mediocre reputation in its sector as a result.
That's classified...
Just like your cheap Chinese DVD... USians never want to pay the real cost of anything. They'd rather have distorted markets and live in a bubble.
Give it enough time and prices will come inline with reality. No government bailouts for realtors, bankers, or anybody else. Once again, market distortions are what got us to this point. Gas *should* be five dollars a gallon, food should be more expensive, etc.
I know quite a few out of work assholes who whine about it while they have both a Dish television description AND cable being piped to their 46" flat panel.
The free ride is up USA. We're in for a hard, long ride. Time to actually do work and earn our keep, and no, we're not special snow flakes above back breaking work or paying what food actually costs at LEGAL wages.
As a VMWare workstation and Virtualbox junkie, I can attest to this.
"Youth is wasted on the young." - George Bernard Shaw
I stopped reading right there. Sigh.