I've been asked in the first interview during the last 5 jobs I've interviewed for over the last year.
Why? Seems to me HR sets your salary, so unless your first interview is with HR they really don't matter. Just say some variation of "it's none of your fucking business" and move on.
Been at this since '81 or so, several jobs (scary to think of the percentage of companies I worked for that no longer exist). I've never once been asked for a salary history. They usually ask for the desired salary, which I leave blank. Let them throw out a number and start negotiating.
Works for me, every job I've ever gotten had a higher salary that the one I left.
Most interesting? I was interviewing at a company when rumors started to fly my company was going to have a layoff. I went to the manager in charge of my job (not my supervisor), asked to be laid off if the rumors were true. Got hired by the company across the street (not kidding, I walked to both of them, they were 1 mile away). Held off on turning in my 2 week notice and, sure as snot, got laid off a week later. Got all the benefits of being laid off, plus after a 1 week vacation I started my new job.
I'm gonna go with "if the half life of the element is less than a second, it makes less than optimal hull material" Then again I write device drivers, not spacecraft hulls, so I could be wrong.
Now we get fecal transplants from rats? Isn't that called "eating at an iffy restaurant"?
/ I'm gonna use this space to plug Mary Roach's Gulp // has a chapter on fecal transplants /// rest of the book is a hella good read. //// Um, Ms Roach. I'm kinda broke, and kinda sent some money your way. IfuknowwhatImean, and Ithinkudo.
I get so tired of this shit getting pulled out. Prop 13 was passed over 40 years ago. If the state can't figure out how to live within it's means in 40 years the problem ain't not letting it raise taxes enough to force retirees out of houses they've lived in their entire lives.
I've never looked at PHP. I have done javascript/ecmascript. A pathetic pile of shit called a language. I've heard PHP is worse than ecmascript, but as I've never done PHP I don't really know.
So, you taught yourself PHP and can call whatsisname irrelevant?
I can only hope I can somehow track your screen name to the name on your resume and get it shitcanned before it hits my desk.
The problem is when you're tracking down a problem and want to comment out a block of code. With braces it's a simple "if(0){....}'. With whitespace you have to indent the block, which is error prone.
As for whether or not 3D TVs will ever become popular again
From where I sit 3D was a nonstarter. Why? The glasses. I paid something like $2500 to get my eyeballs lasered so I didn't have to wear glasses anymore. So a new TV standard comes along that requires me to wear glasses? Non-fucking-starter.
Fun fact. There is only 1 news helicopter in San Diego, run by CBS8. The other stations buy footage from CBS8. Think about it. Have you ever seen SkyFox? The helicopters for channels 6 or 10? Nope. It's cuz they don't exist.
I "upgraded" to Win10 because I was about to click on something when the "psst! Hey bud, wanna upgrade?" window appeared. It started upgrading and I was afraid to stop it.
My opinions? The uptime is less than a week. It reboots whenever it wants without asking. Working on something, lunchtime, close the laptop, come back an hour later? Oh hey, fucking machine rebooted. Not to mention some of these updates take a good 20 minutes after the reboot to finally come up.
The spying pisses me off. I disable most of it, but after every "upgrade" they turn it all back on.
And it's flakey. With Win8.1 this laptop worked fine for months on end, only rebooting when I told it to. With Win10 after 4-5 days I'll open my laptop to find it won't wake up and I have to power cycle it.
IMHO, any OS that reboots without asking is a POS nobody should support. Microsoft doesn't know what I'm doing when the laptop is closed, how the hell do they feel entitled to reboot my machine without asking?
25 years ago, looking for a house for the fiance and I. Ended up buying a house by I-5 on the knowledge Caltrans was going to build a wall between my backyard and the freeway. They did. They took months to do it. Not kidding. Survey team came in, did their thing, then 2-3 months of nothing. Demo team came in to get rid of the existing brick wall, 3 days work, 3 months nothing. Peeps came in to dig holes, suckers were about 8 feet deep. I was worried my cat would fall in one so I had to buy 4-5 plywood sheets to put over the holes. Few months later people actually came in to build the wall. They dumped some iron things into the pool and didn't fish them out, left stains on my pool bottom. Within a year the paint covering started to blister. And the noise. Jeez, the noise.
Got divorced, moved to a quieter neighborhood. Whenever I visited the ex (yeah, she got the house) I couldn't believe the noise in the back yard. You couldn't carry a conversation at normal volume levels.
So, when the real estate dude and anyone else says "You'll get used to it", run. Run like hell. You'll get used to dealing with it, but you won't get used to it.
Ah yes, almost forgot. The "dust". The "dust" wasn't normal dust I've dealt with everywhere else I've lived. This "dust" was black soot-like nasty stuff.I'm guessing it was a combination of tire particles and brake particles, with a scattering of diesel stuff. Whatever, whenever I dusted I didn't get a light gray on my rag, I got a dark black.
Moral of the story? don't buy a house next to a freeway or, corollary, by a busy street.
They're installing software I don't know about on my phone/laptop, then using that software to send personal ID details to unknown servers. This has to fall under at least one of the myriad hacking laws we already have on the books.
Oh, I forgot. They donate more to congressclowns than I do.
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I've been asked in the first interview during the last 5 jobs I've interviewed for over the last year.
Why? Seems to me HR sets your salary, so unless your first interview is with HR they really don't matter. Just say some variation of "it's none of your fucking business" and move on.
Been at this since '81 or so, several jobs (scary to think of the percentage of companies I worked for that no longer exist). I've never once been asked for a salary history. They usually ask for the desired salary, which I leave blank. Let them throw out a number and start negotiating.
Works for me, every job I've ever gotten had a higher salary that the one I left.
Most interesting? I was interviewing at a company when rumors started to fly my company was going to have a layoff. I went to the manager in charge of my job (not my supervisor), asked to be laid off if the rumors were true. Got hired by the company across the street (not kidding, I walked to both of them, they were 1 mile away). Held off on turning in my 2 week notice and, sure as snot, got laid off a week later. Got all the benefits of being laid off, plus after a 1 week vacation I started my new job.
Now your telling me to add another $$$ to get a cable and thingie to measure current.
:(
My current phone sucks beans, but I can hold off another 6 months
First, they're too complex. Second, after all is said and done they're too high.
Hey Head Cheeto! Fix the damned tax laws that let this shit happen before figuring out who builds the damned fence!
Yes please
This. Fundamental research is never fruitless. Who knows what may come out of this?
I'm gonna go with "if the half life of the element is less than a second, it makes less than optimal hull material" Then again I write device drivers, not spacecraft hulls, so I could be wrong.
Who's hull is described as "an element not found on earth"
// elements are elements
/// except maybe that "island of stability"
/ particular pet peeve of mine
Cuz dying earlier would really skew the stats.
Now we get fecal transplants from rats? Isn't that called "eating at an iffy restaurant"?
// has a chapter on fecal transplants
/// rest of the book is a hella good read.
//// Um, Ms Roach. I'm kinda broke, and kinda sent some money your way. IfuknowwhatImean, and Ithinkudo.
/ I'm gonna use this space to plug Mary Roach's Gulp
They can fucking defend themselves against Best Korea. How many artillery guns and shells can you buy for this kind of money?
Much as I hate to say it, Trump is right maybe 1 time in 10.
This meets my immediate interests :)
How do you backup your droid such that if the root goes sideways you can fix it?
Difficulty: Ice Cream Sandwich device (HTC V One, hardware is shit, software iffy. Hard to tell if problems are hardware or software related).
Extra credit: about a half inch from getting the LG X Power, but would like to hang on to my HTC for another 6 months if possible.
I get so tired of this shit getting pulled out. Prop 13 was passed over 40 years ago. If the state can't figure out how to live within it's means in 40 years the problem ain't not letting it raise taxes enough to force retirees out of houses they've lived in their entire lives.
I've never looked at PHP. I have done javascript/ecmascript. A pathetic pile of shit called a language. I've heard PHP is worse than ecmascript, but as I've never done PHP I don't really know.
So, you taught yourself PHP and can call whatsisname irrelevant?
I can only hope I can somehow track your screen name to the name on your resume and get it shitcanned before it hits my desk.
bought Knuth's 3 books in the 80s
invaluable
retired, haven't bought any of his newer books
The problem is when you're tracking down a problem and want to comment out a block of code. With braces it's a simple "if(0){....}'. With whitespace you have to indent the block, which is error prone.
I prefer {} instead of tabs/spaces to define my code blocks. It's the only part of Python I don't like.
As for whether or not 3D TVs will ever become popular again
From where I sit 3D was a nonstarter. Why? The glasses. I paid something like $2500 to get my eyeballs lasered so I didn't have to wear glasses anymore. So a new TV standard comes along that requires me to wear glasses? Non-fucking-starter.
Helicopters are hellaspensive.
Fun fact. There is only 1 news helicopter in San Diego, run by CBS8. The other stations buy footage from CBS8. Think about it. Have you ever seen SkyFox? The helicopters for channels 6 or 10? Nope. It's cuz they don't exist.
Haven't listened to the radio in years, it used to be tape, then CDs, now it's a USB stick. I'm far from alone in this.
So they're going to spend $$$$$ for something of marginal use. Unless they can take over my USB, in which case I'm screaming bloody murder.
Scary so many people are using what is arguably one of the worst languages ever created.
Say the wrong thing, a look from her binds me to the spot, unable to move, think, or dig myself out of the hole I don't even know I dug myself into.
I "upgraded" to Win10 because I was about to click on something when the "psst! Hey bud, wanna upgrade?" window appeared. It started upgrading and I was afraid to stop it.
My opinions? The uptime is less than a week. It reboots whenever it wants without asking. Working on something, lunchtime, close the laptop, come back an hour later? Oh hey, fucking machine rebooted. Not to mention some of these updates take a good 20 minutes after the reboot to finally come up.
The spying pisses me off. I disable most of it, but after every "upgrade" they turn it all back on.
And it's flakey. With Win8.1 this laptop worked fine for months on end, only rebooting when I told it to. With Win10 after 4-5 days I'll open my laptop to find it won't wake up and I have to power cycle it.
IMHO, any OS that reboots without asking is a POS nobody should support. Microsoft doesn't know what I'm doing when the laptop is closed, how the hell do they feel entitled to reboot my machine without asking?
Is this the one where Wally walks through the office saying "Format c\" Cuz he really did forsee the future in that.
25 years ago, looking for a house for the fiance and I. Ended up buying a house by I-5 on the knowledge Caltrans was going to build a wall between my backyard and the freeway. They did. They took months to do it. Not kidding. Survey team came in, did their thing, then 2-3 months of nothing. Demo team came in to get rid of the existing brick wall, 3 days work, 3 months nothing. Peeps came in to dig holes, suckers were about 8 feet deep. I was worried my cat would fall in one so I had to buy 4-5 plywood sheets to put over the holes. Few months later people actually came in to build the wall. They dumped some iron things into the pool and didn't fish them out, left stains on my pool bottom. Within a year the paint covering started to blister. And the noise. Jeez, the noise.
Got divorced, moved to a quieter neighborhood. Whenever I visited the ex (yeah, she got the house) I couldn't believe the noise in the back yard. You couldn't carry a conversation at normal volume levels.
So, when the real estate dude and anyone else says "You'll get used to it", run. Run like hell. You'll get used to dealing with it, but you won't get used to it.
Ah yes, almost forgot. The "dust". The "dust" wasn't normal dust I've dealt with everywhere else I've lived. This "dust" was black soot-like nasty stuff.I'm guessing it was a combination of tire particles and brake particles, with a scattering of diesel stuff. Whatever, whenever I dusted I didn't get a light gray on my rag, I got a dark black.
Moral of the story? don't buy a house next to a freeway or, corollary, by a busy street.
They're installing software I don't know about on my phone/laptop, then using that software to send personal ID details to unknown servers. This has to fall under at least one of the myriad hacking laws we already have on the books.
Oh, I forgot. They donate more to congressclowns than I do.