Unless she was being required to carry this phone all the time I don't see the issue; when you're off the clock, clock out in the app and turn the phone off. When you start work, turn it on and clock in. What's hard about that?
I lived in Subic for over a year. I didn't find AC (AirCon - lol - always sounds like a knockoff of a movie) to be crucial but I'm pretty tolerant of temperature variations. I did maintain several large dry boxes with desiccant packs to keep electronics not currently powered on and other items dry.
I did have high speed (ish) DSL and a few other things on UPS, as I found the 3G solutions where I was located not good enough. The power outages were seldom more than a nuisance and you're right, it's not as cost effective but if the thing could function as a silent whole house UPS it would qualify as 'nice to have' in my book.
On the other hand, power out meant I could hit the Arizona for some cold beer without regret.;)
From my experience in the PH, just having the battery to keep your power on when the local power fails on a regular basis would be worth something even without solar cells.
Actually the way they did it, when you write to a file you add a byte to a memory buffer and the runtime and/or OS and/or disk controller will then write that across the IO bus to cache in the disk, where it will finally get carved into the platter. I believe.
What they are doing is exploring two different ways to concatenate in memory, one using Java and one using lower level code written in (probably) C.
Abundant clean energy from nuclear isn't painful enough to cleanse and purify our wicked souls though. We seek atonement through asceticism. Other peoples asceticism, collectively.
In some States isn't it criminal to listen in on people without them all being informed? In California for instance both parties of a phone convo have to be informed of the recording. How does my Mom know she's being recorded in my living room?
I can even envision a situation where Excel encryption is better than a PKI solution like GPG. Imagine a situation where a firm is under investigation and has to turn all email over to opposing counsel.
Or even more simply, if the intended recipient has no clue how to use PGP, but can handle an enciphered ZIP or Excel file just fine.
This is supposed to be a senior person, they should understand how PKI works (in broad strokes) and if they can't work out "Source Code Management" when asked about SCM merge conflict resolution then I would also hold that against them. It's not a fatal flaw but these are fundamental concepts, just as understanding algorithm complexity and data structures are and I would expect them to understand the fundamentals.
I guess you can have the ones that don't know those things?
I would expect some confusion from an associate level hire but a senior? Nah.
If you would be happy with 'use your public key to send it to you' then it's a perfectly reasonable interview question IMO. And a lot of developers suck in much the way a lot of plumbers suck. That seems to be the way things go. On the other hand a lot of employers seem to be allergic to paying a high rate to a technical person; they often want to make them into managers before paying higher pay grades. Some really excellent technical people don't want to be and wouldn't make good managers.
Knowing "I would use your public key to encrypt prior to sending it to you" isn't being an expert. Digging into the nuts and bolts of how you got the public key, how to avoid a MITM and so on are getting closer to 'expert'. But that's not really what he asked.
Would you think there's a need for this sort of thing and would you base it of Debian or something else? If you do web-dev, how do you do it? Prepareted scripts for setup? Anything else?... Ideas, unkown LAMP distros and opinions please."
True but the whole 'let's take our hats off' shtick is closely related to the 'why do our helmets have lights that shine in our own eyes' one; It's about showing the actors faces, and as such I have decided to sigh and try to accept it for what it is, as long as their hats being off isn't a crucial plot point or something.
They have lost their way so badly that in my recent experience they're not really even good for that any more. Plus I have a Fry's down the street, and if I didn't Amazon could have it here tomorrow, along with my new socks...
They seem to be a store that doesn't know what they want to be, honestly. They used to be big when CB radio was popular and people were buying into that, and some were continuing on into HAM radio, but once that faded and the TRS-80 was crushed beneath the wheels of the PC industry they just sat there befuddled. They could have surfed the wave of PC homebuilders I think, but they missed that. They could have morphed into a Radio Controlled models franchise, but that ship has probably sailed now.
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In that case I agree with her. If she's required to be on call 24/7 then this is BS and she's 100% in the right IMO.
Unless she was being required to carry this phone all the time I don't see the issue; when you're off the clock, clock out in the app and turn the phone off. When you start work, turn it on and clock in. What's hard about that?
Call me a whippersnapper but I think you have to lather, then rinse, and THEN you can repeat.
I lived in Subic for over a year. I didn't find AC (AirCon - lol - always sounds like a knockoff of a movie) to be crucial but I'm pretty tolerant of temperature variations. I did maintain several large dry boxes with desiccant packs to keep electronics not currently powered on and other items dry.
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I did have high speed (ish) DSL and a few other things on UPS, as I found the 3G solutions where I was located not good enough. The power outages were seldom more than a nuisance and you're right, it's not as cost effective but if the thing could function as a silent whole house UPS it would qualify as 'nice to have' in my book.
On the other hand, power out meant I could hit the Arizona for some cold beer without regret.
From my experience in the PH, just having the battery to keep your power on when the local power fails on a regular basis would be worth something even without solar cells.
Like mailvelope I guess?
I don't seem to get mod points but someone needs to mod you up.
Actually the way they did it, when you write to a file you add a byte to a memory buffer and the runtime and/or OS and/or disk controller will then write that across the IO bus to cache in the disk, where it will finally get carved into the platter. I believe.
What they are doing is exploring two different ways to concatenate in memory, one using Java and one using lower level code written in (probably) C.
Abundant clean energy from nuclear isn't painful enough to cleanse and purify our wicked souls though. We seek atonement through asceticism. Other peoples asceticism, collectively.
Wouldn't know, I've never needed them, Windows (and Linux, and FreeBSD) just work.
In some States isn't it criminal to listen in on people without them all being informed? In California for instance both parties of a phone convo have to be informed of the recording. How does my Mom know she's being recorded in my living room?
I'm going to assume that's a joke.
I wish I had mod points for both you guys.
I can even envision a situation where Excel encryption is better than a PKI solution like GPG. Imagine a situation where a firm is under investigation and has to turn all email over to opposing counsel.
Or even more simply, if the intended recipient has no clue how to use PGP, but can handle an enciphered ZIP or Excel file just fine.
Google "SCM merge conflict resolution" and see what pops out.
This is supposed to be a senior person, they should understand how PKI works (in broad strokes) and if they can't work out "Source Code Management" when asked about SCM merge conflict resolution then I would also hold that against them. It's not a fatal flaw but these are fundamental concepts, just as understanding algorithm complexity and data structures are and I would expect them to understand the fundamentals.
I guess you can have the ones that don't know those things?
I would expect some confusion from an associate level hire but a senior? Nah.
If you would be happy with 'use your public key to send it to you' then it's a perfectly reasonable interview question IMO. And a lot of developers suck in much the way a lot of plumbers suck. That seems to be the way things go. On the other hand a lot of employers seem to be allergic to paying a high rate to a technical person; they often want to make them into managers before paying higher pay grades. Some really excellent technical people don't want to be and wouldn't make good managers.
Knowing "I would use your public key to encrypt prior to sending it to you" isn't being an expert. Digging into the nuts and bolts of how you got the public key, how to avoid a MITM and so on are getting closer to 'expert'. But that's not really what he asked.
Would you think there's a need for this sort of thing and would you base it of Debian or something else? If you do web-dev, how do you do it? Prepareted scripts for setup? Anything else? ... Ideas, unkown LAMP distros and opinions please."
Why preparet when parrots work so well on demand?
Sending a message in a bottle has not traditionally been enough, whereas sending men and planting a flag is pretty common practice.
Yeah I'm OK with that, and for whatever it's worth I liked Prometheus. Was a couple hours of fun, I'm perfectly OK with that.
True but the whole 'let's take our hats off' shtick is closely related to the 'why do our helmets have lights that shine in our own eyes' one; It's about showing the actors faces, and as such I have decided to sigh and try to accept it for what it is, as long as their hats being off isn't a crucial plot point or something.
Maybe Amazon should buy them and convert them into Amazon fulfillment centers.
They have lost their way so badly that in my recent experience they're not really even good for that any more. Plus I have a Fry's down the street, and if I didn't Amazon could have it here tomorrow, along with my new socks ...
They seem to be a store that doesn't know what they want to be, honestly. They used to be big when CB radio was popular and people were buying into that, and some were continuing on into HAM radio, but once that faded and the TRS-80 was crushed beneath the wheels of the PC industry they just sat there befuddled. They could have surfed the wave of PC homebuilders I think, but they missed that. They could have morphed into a Radio Controlled models franchise, but that ship has probably sailed now.
Exactly