I have heard the priority queue is very effective at communicating the limited IT resources. Upper management, the product team, and especially marketing will have a hard time watching features move down queue as more TOP TOP items get added. At first it is hard for them to give up some features for others, but with *rigorous* defense, the whole company can be made to accept the queue, and come to terms with the limited IT resources.
From my limited experience, the OLAP community is small and/or behind walled gardens, the tools are poor and closed source, and potential employers are only interested if you have experience in *their* BI tools (Pentaho, Microstrategy, Cognos, etc). Microsoft appears to be the only one trying to establish a theoretical basis for BI, but their efforts are starting to show age despite their being so much more that can be done in the field. Finally, you will be misunderstood by the majority of Rails/PHP/Web developers: The same one who think Key-Value stores and NoSQL are the height of modern technology.
That said, BI can be technically satisfying. If you get down to the SQL/MDX you will appreciate what a database can do; which allows questions to be phrased succinctly. I have seen too much code written in procedural languages (Javascript being the worst of them) that are many lines long and run atrociously slow, that can be restated in SQL (or MDX) simply, and run a 1000x faster. I love that fact there are no loops!
From a business perspective, you have much more exposure to management and other departments: You will have improved visibility in the company, and your worth will be inflated - as you will be the one that satisfies management's appetite for more information to help make decisions.
My biggest consideration when getting one of these warranties is how long it will be gone for repair. Look at the fine print to find how long the company has to make the repair. It has been my experience that the maximum allowed time *will* be the time it takes to repair. Can you go that long without your device? I know I can not wait the requisite 60/90 days, so I do not purchase the warranties.
Say you can not fix it. Fake it if you have to. Once they have to pay a professional a few times, they will be more careful and password-protect thier machines from each other.
This is a new virus, and it can be both unstable and deadly. If you can delay getting the virus, it has a chance to evolve into a strain that is more effective at transmitting to other hosts; in other words, it becomes less leathal.
As long as you display energy and enthusiasm during the interview, your age will not be a factor.
I know a retiree that took up Python programming for fun, and he was better than most developers I know. Meeting with him, and working with him, showed me that all the cognitive science/superstition is wrong: The brain does *NOT* degrade over time, it is only your attitude.
I am now 35, I still love programming, and I can be a hacker forever!!
DVDs will fail on you when you least expect it. Service providers will dissapear over the years.
The only sure method is to maintin the backup, and incure the monthly maintnenence fee (either actual money for backup service, or consume your time maintining the backup server yourself).
My primary machine is Raid5, so data is not lost. My backup server is Raid1 (because drives will silently fail). I use a backup service just in case the other two fail (but sensitive information can not go there).
My experience is that a server can last almost a year without hardware failure. Same with hard drives: I have 6 drives, one or two will fail inside the year.
That reminds me, my backupserver died last week.:(
I would have to agree. A person's experience will be littered with mistakes, so asking them about the mistakes will reveal the size and complexity of the problems they had to solve.
I am also of the mind that only real-life work will expose true skill: I wish I could hire applicants for a couple of weeks to see how they integrate, how fast they learn, and what skills they can bring to the company.
This "research" is obviously part of the corporate plan to demonize the educated. The non-educated people are easier to manipulate; can be made to purchase more and work for less. Profitability would be much higher if the US could become a third world nation; able to produce products at China's prices, but without the overhead shipping costs.
It is a BS story by a small group of Bush lovers up here in Canada. The "professor" has a PHD in geography, not climate science, and has written no papers on the topic of climate.
I use wooden dowels for spindles, each holds a few hundred CDs. Here is a picture of my current archive spindle (easily detachable). I only have only about a thousand CDs, and no organization (except some natural chronological order).
I use CodeGuide5, which's interface is optimized for dealing with Java and it's refactorings. I also have Eclipse installed, but I find it tedious to use because it is too generic. I keep Eclipse for it's most robust CVS client so I can access some temperamental CVS servers.
I find it a valid question that IDEA is worth the few hundred dollars it may cost in order to have a more streamlined experience.
I would like to know too. I have 80gigs to backup. I currently use a friends machine, but it would be nice to pay about $20/month and not have to maintain it mayself.
There is no natural refresh frequency for human's optic nerve.
You must consider the light sources, and other surrounding electromagnetic fields to understand why higher refresh rates look worse. When in doubt, remember that most fields are alternating at 60Hz in the North America.
My monitor is set to 60hz, I see that refresh rate, but I can get used to it. 75Hz is terrible because the power supply of the monitor is still 60Hz, there is cross-talk inside the electronics, and you see a beat frequency of 15Hz (75-60). 85Hz is a little better.
If you see a car's wheel spokes apparently rotating backwards when the car is moving forward it is because the rotation of the wheel is slightly out of synch with the light source frequency (or motion camera refresh rate). Remember, streetlights blink at 120Hz, so you can observe this on a night road. You will not see this happen in daylight with the naked eye.
Assuming:
100g of popcorn fills 1/4 cubic foot
Popcorn makes a pile at 20 degrees from vertical
House is about 800 square feet
House is a rectangle
Then I get 13.5 METRIC TONS of popcorn! That amount will almost cover the house; leaving the upper corners and roof exposed.
You will have to move the popcorn unpopped, probably by one of those 18-wheelers (although I do not know if they are big enough).
You will have to pop on site. I suggest modifying a gas dryer (removing thermostat, and tilting it back so the opening faces mostly up. You may need more than one, and I hope your friend has a natural gas line to his house already.
Turn off everything in the house so no fire starts. Start popping on the roof.
Filling the house would be much easier: the 18-wheeler should be able to hold all the popcorn (unpopped), the dryer, and the blow-in insulation machine.
If you would like my spreadsheet calculator, I can mail it to you.
US Navy experience means nothing when the pile of resumes is so big yours is not even read.
Every employer I have talked to refuses to distinguish between a person with a university CS degree and a person that learnt Java in his garage. They are looking for smart people that get things done, not necessarily someone that has a degree! These employees prefer to ask simple mindbenders to determine smarts. Too bad they don't know about the few Universities who only allow smart people graduate; it could help them sort out the cruft much faster.
Finally, as you have heard already, those certifications mean nothing unless you are in a large corporation and required to participate in a "continual improvement" regime.
I consider almost all American journalism corrupt. This is compounded by the fact they claim to be impartial while leaving out important facts that do not benefit their corporate owners and do not benefit the White House.
This is not a conspiracy, just good business sense.
Shows you that U.S. Department of Labor is pulling numbers out of thier asses. Look at their growth projections by occupation. Not only are they "predicting" 22m more jobs in 2010, but it looks like most of those jobs will be in the tech sector! Yay!
My assesment of the DOL is that they are a right-wing think tank with an objective to blind the public with false information.
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I have heard the priority queue is very effective at communicating the limited IT resources. Upper management, the product team, and especially marketing will have a hard time watching features move down queue as more TOP TOP items get added. At first it is hard for them to give up some features for others, but with *rigorous* defense, the whole company can be made to accept the queue, and come to terms with the limited IT resources.
How will the marketing corporations refine their targeting advertising when your loved ones pollute your history with their love-motivated actions?!
From my limited experience, the OLAP community is small and/or behind walled gardens, the tools are poor and closed source, and potential employers are only interested if you have experience in *their* BI tools (Pentaho, Microstrategy, Cognos, etc). Microsoft appears to be the only one trying to establish a theoretical basis for BI, but their efforts are starting to show age despite their being so much more that can be done in the field. Finally, you will be misunderstood by the majority of Rails/PHP/Web developers: The same one who think Key-Value stores and NoSQL are the height of modern technology.
That said, BI can be technically satisfying. If you get down to the SQL/MDX you will appreciate what a database can do; which allows questions to be phrased succinctly. I have seen too much code written in procedural languages (Javascript being the worst of them) that are many lines long and run atrociously slow, that can be restated in SQL (or MDX) simply, and run a 1000x faster. I love that fact there are no loops!
From a business perspective, you have much more exposure to management and other departments: You will have improved visibility in the company, and your worth will be inflated - as you will be the one that satisfies management's appetite for more information to help make decisions.
My biggest consideration when getting one of these warranties is how long it will be gone for repair. Look at the fine print to find how long the company has to make the repair. It has been my experience that the maximum allowed time *will* be the time it takes to repair. Can you go that long without your device? I know I can not wait the requisite 60/90 days, so I do not purchase the warranties.
Say you can not fix it. Fake it if you have to. Once they have to pay a professional a few times, they will be more careful and password-protect thier machines from each other.
No! Do not get it too early!
This is a new virus, and it can be both unstable and deadly. If you can delay getting the virus, it has a chance to evolve into a strain that is more effective at transmitting to other hosts; in other words, it becomes less leathal.
As long as you display energy and enthusiasm during the interview, your age will not be a factor.
I know a retiree that took up Python programming for fun, and he was better than most developers I know. Meeting with him, and working with him, showed me that all the cognitive science/superstition is wrong: The brain does *NOT* degrade over time, it is only your attitude.
I am now 35, I still love programming, and I can be a hacker forever!!
DVDs will fail on you when you least expect it. Service providers will dissapear over the years.
The only sure method is to maintin the backup, and incure the monthly maintnenence fee (either actual money for backup service, or consume your time maintining the backup server yourself).
My primary machine is Raid5, so data is not lost. My backup server is Raid1 (because drives will silently fail). I use a backup service just in case the other two fail (but sensitive information can not go there).
My experience is that a server can last almost a year without hardware failure. Same with hard drives: I have 6 drives, one or two will fail inside the year.
That reminds me, my backupserver died last week. :(
I would have to agree. A person's experience will be littered with mistakes, so asking them about the mistakes will reveal the size and complexity of the problems they had to solve.
I am also of the mind that only real-life work will expose true skill: I wish I could hire applicants for a couple of weeks to see how they integrate, how fast they learn, and what skills they can bring to the company.
This "research" is obviously part of the corporate plan to demonize the educated. The non-educated people are easier to manipulate; can be made to purchase more and work for less. Profitability would be much higher if the US could become a third world nation; able to produce products at China's prices, but without the overhead shipping costs.
I just started looking at LLVM, maybe it is good for what you want.
http://llvm.org/
Same resonant pattern in the bucket at http://www.nature.com/news/2006/060515/full/060515 -17.html
Exactly. How else is the government going to sell another war without a propaganda delivery mechanism?
It is a BS story by a small group of Bush lovers up here in Canada. The "professor" has a PHD in geography, not climate science, and has written no papers on the topic of climate.
a tor-strikes-again.html
http://canadiancynic.blogspot.com/2007/03/ejankul
I use wooden dowels for spindles, each holds a few hundred CDs. Here is a picture of my current archive spindle (easily detachable). I only have only about a thousand CDs, and no organization (except some natural chronological order).
Sociopath?
Why are you breaking teeth?
I use CodeGuide5, which's interface is optimized for dealing with Java and it's refactorings. I also have Eclipse installed, but I find it tedious to use because it is too generic. I keep Eclipse for it's most robust CVS client so I can access some temperamental CVS servers.
I find it a valid question that IDEA is worth the few hundred dollars it may cost in order to have a more streamlined experience.
NO, North America is not backwards. Just the United States is backwards.
I would like to know too. I have 80gigs to backup. I currently use a friends machine, but it would be nice to pay about $20/month and not have to maintain it mayself.
There is no natural refresh frequency for human's optic nerve.
You must consider the light sources, and other surrounding electromagnetic fields to understand why higher refresh rates look worse. When in doubt, remember that most fields are alternating at 60Hz in the North America.
My monitor is set to 60hz, I see that refresh rate, but I can get used to it. 75Hz is terrible because the power supply of the monitor is still 60Hz, there is cross-talk inside the electronics, and you see a beat frequency of 15Hz (75-60). 85Hz is a little better.
If you see a car's wheel spokes apparently rotating backwards when the car is moving forward it is because the rotation of the wheel is slightly out of synch with the light source frequency (or motion camera refresh rate). Remember, streetlights blink at 120Hz, so you can observe this on a night road. You will not see this happen in daylight with the naked eye.
Assuming:
100g of popcorn fills 1/4 cubic foot
Popcorn makes a pile at 20 degrees from vertical
House is about 800 square feet
House is a rectangle
Then I get 13.5 METRIC TONS of popcorn! That amount will almost cover the house; leaving the upper corners and roof exposed.
You will have to move the popcorn unpopped, probably by one of those 18-wheelers (although I do not know if they are big enough).
You will have to pop on site. I suggest modifying a gas dryer (removing thermostat, and tilting it back so the opening faces mostly up. You may need more than one, and I hope your friend has a natural gas line to his house already.
Turn off everything in the house so no fire starts. Start popping on the roof.
Filling the house would be much easier: the 18-wheeler should be able to hold all the popcorn (unpopped), the dryer, and the blow-in insulation machine.
If you would like my spreadsheet calculator, I can mail it to you.
Good luck
Only networking will get you a job.
US Navy experience means nothing when the pile of resumes is so big yours is not even read.
Every employer I have talked to refuses to distinguish between a person with a university CS degree and a person that learnt Java in his garage. They are looking for smart people that get things done, not necessarily someone that has a degree! These employees prefer to ask simple mindbenders to determine smarts. Too bad they don't know about the few Universities who only allow smart people graduate; it could help them sort out the cruft much faster.
Finally, as you have heard already, those certifications mean nothing unless you are in a large corporation and required to participate in a "continual improvement" regime.
I consider almost all American journalism corrupt. This is compounded by the fact they claim to be impartial while leaving out important facts that do not benefit their corporate owners and do not benefit the White House.
This is not a conspiracy, just good business sense.
http://www.bls.gov/emp/emptab3.htm
Shows you that U.S. Department of Labor is pulling numbers out of thier asses. Look at their growth projections by occupation. Not only are they "predicting" 22m more jobs in 2010, but it looks like most of those jobs will be in the tech sector! Yay!
My assesment of the DOL is that they are a right-wing think tank with an objective to blind the public with false information.
There is a fool born every minute, and half the population is below average intelligence.