I dunno. I think I did pretty well at Microsoft. That may be a "wrong place", but I always felt I could do quite a bit better by just turning down that offer and interviewing again next year.
This doesn't help out there in the real world. To get hired as a developer, you need to convince the employer you're a big, throbbing brain, first and foremost. Having QA on your resume doesn't help with that.
But not a dead end either. It's more of an impediment to your technical career. Take it from a guy who fucked up his job interview and had to spend 1.5 years in QA (the offer was too good to turn down). Even though I worked as a developer before I took that job and I've been a developer for over six years after that stint, it's still a big fat albatross on my neck, because every time someone sees my resume they all have the same question - WTF? No matter what I say in response, they'll think I'm not as good as the other guy who doesn't have a QA position on his resume, and I have to work twice as hard to convince them otherwise. Had I known back then what I know now, I would never have taken that position. And having support on your resume is an order of magnitude worse than QA.
I totally expect some new iPod models this fall which will make all other iPods look clunky and obsolete. Face it, the only reason why there wasn't much of a growth is because the latest crop of lower end iPod updates are incremental at best. The Touch helped to prop things up, but I think they could have done much better sales wise if their resources weren't stretched as thin as they were for the last 9 months or so.
... for a looooong time, but someone always screwed up the strangulation by reminding everyone just how much money it brings in. This looks like yet another strangulation attempt.
IBM is the main reason why Microsoft started filing software patents. The story goes like this. Microsoft was blissfully unaware of the importance of software patents until one day Bill received a piece of mail from IBM lawyers telling him that Microsoft owes a rather large amount of money to IBM and there'd be consequences if they didn't pay up. They did pay that year, but they also mandated that each group files patents on anything significant they do. If they don't do anything significant, they file bullshit patents anyway, because there's a requirement to file and if they don't file enough their VP would be fucked. And VPs usually don't take buttsecks from the superiors lightly.
These days, by sheer numbers Microsoft is one of the biggest patent producing machines, able to go medieval on anyone who tries to enforce patents against it.
There's just one kink to this, as Eolas story amply demonstrated - if the plaintiff is just a hollow patent troll that does NOT infringe on anything Microsoft does and simply holds a patent to a core technology, he can get mega-millions by suing their ass.
There are better devices available for recording. They typically include a high quality preamp, which is not something you'll find on a sound card. I use Konnekt 8 from TC Electronic. It's less than 300 bucks, it provides multichannel recording, XLR inputs with phantom power and monitor out.
They know Microsoft is offering all the money they've got, so by asking more they say "no" without pissing off the shareholders and at the same time play to their shareholders' primary instinct - greed. This makes it less likely for Microsoft to win in a hostile takeover scenario.
From what I hear, some features are still in planning. With Windows bureaucracy, it'll take at least 2 years to get from planning to a barely working beta. So unless W7 is just a bugfix release, it won't come out until 2010.
There was a story about a year and a half back about them switching to Aruba Networks wireless infrastructure. Guess what Aruba Networks routers and AP's run? That's right, Linux.
Are you guys using machine learning at all? If not, how do you protect yourselves against user bias (e.g. the situation where liberals like your site and conservatives don't, so you get mostly liberal stories). Personally, it seems to me that Skewz is just a glorified Digg with sliders.
Rarely do companies engage in custom software development to produce something reusable. No one rewrites databases or web servers (except, perhaps, Google) or operating systems. What people do write over and over (and then not always) are custom solutions that tie a bunch of crap together and make it accomplish a business goal. Making this software "sellable" would require four times the effort and three times the complexity and then the money would be wasted on consultants who charge $200 an hour to get an overly complex system up and running. And guess who thinks they will provide the consultants? Aaaassright! RedHat.
Geez, a language without a proper for loop. Where do I sign up? And before anyone jumps at me, I know there's the for keyword in Python. It just doesn't work the same - just try to iterate from 0 to 2 billion and see.
>> quick way to avoid articles they don't want to read
If anything, this broadens one's political horizon by letting them see what the nutcases on the opposite side think, with the added benefit of seeing what the other side REALLY cares about.
How does it feel when your product is totally pwnt before it's even released? Hundred thousand downloads of iPhone SDK within 4 days is A LOT of downloads. By June we should see some serious appage showing up, running on a real device, with a business model, brand and strong distribution channel behind it. Stakes are high, so GOOG can't throw in the towel now, but one core mistake that companies often make is they assume their competitors will stand still while they catch up. And that's just not the way it works.
I've been donating a few hundred bucks to Wikimedia Foundation each year (with my employer matching my donation dollar for dollar). I won't be donating this year unless I am sure beyond a shadow of doubt that my money is being properly spent. Sorry folks, if I wanted to burn the cash, I'd do it myself.
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I dunno. I think I did pretty well at Microsoft. That may be a "wrong place", but I always felt I could do quite a bit better by just turning down that offer and interviewing again next year.
This doesn't help out there in the real world. To get hired as a developer, you need to convince the employer you're a big, throbbing brain, first and foremost. Having QA on your resume doesn't help with that.
But not a dead end either. It's more of an impediment to your technical career. Take it from a guy who fucked up his job interview and had to spend 1.5 years in QA (the offer was too good to turn down). Even though I worked as a developer before I took that job and I've been a developer for over six years after that stint, it's still a big fat albatross on my neck, because every time someone sees my resume they all have the same question - WTF? No matter what I say in response, they'll think I'm not as good as the other guy who doesn't have a QA position on his resume, and I have to work twice as hard to convince them otherwise. Had I known back then what I know now, I would never have taken that position. And having support on your resume is an order of magnitude worse than QA.
I totally expect some new iPod models this fall which will make all other iPods look clunky and obsolete. Face it, the only reason why there wasn't much of a growth is because the latest crop of lower end iPod updates are incremental at best. The Touch helped to prop things up, but I think they could have done much better sales wise if their resources weren't stretched as thin as they were for the last 9 months or so.
... for a looooong time, but someone always screwed up the strangulation by reminding everyone just how much money it brings in. This looks like yet another strangulation attempt.
Did they fix perf in subselects and multi-way joins? No? Didn't think so.
IBM is the main reason why Microsoft started filing software patents. The story goes like this. Microsoft was blissfully unaware of the importance of software patents until one day Bill received a piece of mail from IBM lawyers telling him that Microsoft owes a rather large amount of money to IBM and there'd be consequences if they didn't pay up. They did pay that year, but they also mandated that each group files patents on anything significant they do. If they don't do anything significant, they file bullshit patents anyway, because there's a requirement to file and if they don't file enough their VP would be fucked. And VPs usually don't take buttsecks from the superiors lightly.
These days, by sheer numbers Microsoft is one of the biggest patent producing machines, able to go medieval on anyone who tries to enforce patents against it.
There's just one kink to this, as Eolas story amply demonstrated - if the plaintiff is just a hollow patent troll that does NOT infringe on anything Microsoft does and simply holds a patent to a core technology, he can get mega-millions by suing their ass.
There are better devices available for recording. They typically include a high quality preamp, which is not something you'll find on a sound card. I use Konnekt 8 from TC Electronic. It's less than 300 bucks, it provides multichannel recording, XLR inputs with phantom power and monitor out.
>> referred to Intel moving from a .65nm fab to .45nm as "disruptive"
Disrupted AMD pretty good, from what I can see.
They know Microsoft is offering all the money they've got, so by asking more they say "no" without pissing off the shareholders and at the same time play to their shareholders' primary instinct - greed. This makes it less likely for Microsoft to win in a hostile takeover scenario.
Office 2007 was 6 months late. And that's just for UI overhaul.
From what I hear, some features are still in planning. With Windows bureaucracy, it'll take at least 2 years to get from planning to a barely working beta. So unless W7 is just a bugfix release, it won't come out until 2010.
There was a story about a year and a half back about them switching to Aruba Networks wireless infrastructure. Guess what Aruba Networks routers and AP's run? That's right, Linux.
Making a big story out of his resignation (not to mention saying it hurts Microsoft) is stupid.
It's built on Sharepoint platform. There are tell tale signs all over the place.
Hmm, the Microsoft attempt looks more sophisticated: http://research.microsoft.com/~chrisko/papers/ICWSM_paper.pdf, albeit totally orthogonal to what skewz.com does.
Are you guys using machine learning at all? If not, how do you protect yourselves against user bias (e.g. the situation where liberals like your site and conservatives don't, so you get mostly liberal stories). Personally, it seems to me that Skewz is just a glorified Digg with sliders.
News at 11.
God I wish I could get paid for stating the obvious.
Rarely do companies engage in custom software development to produce something reusable. No one rewrites databases or web servers (except, perhaps, Google) or operating systems. What people do write over and over (and then not always) are custom solutions that tie a bunch of crap together and make it accomplish a business goal. Making this software "sellable" would require four times the effort and three times the complexity and then the money would be wasted on consultants who charge $200 an hour to get an overly complex system up and running. And guess who thinks they will provide the consultants? Aaaassright! RedHat.
It may be news to a CEO, but programmers who write code (and their children) want to eat and have roofs over their heads, too.
Geez, a language without a proper for loop. Where do I sign up? And before anyone jumps at me, I know there's the for keyword in Python. It just doesn't work the same - just try to iterate from 0 to 2 billion and see.
>> quick way to avoid articles they don't want to read
If anything, this broadens one's political horizon by letting them see what the nutcases on the opposite side think, with the added benefit of seeing what the other side REALLY cares about.
Or did you pull this out of your ass?
How about just prohibiting eavesdropping without a court order, period?
How does it feel when your product is totally pwnt before it's even released? Hundred thousand downloads of iPhone SDK within 4 days is A LOT of downloads. By June we should see some serious appage showing up, running on a real device, with a business model, brand and strong distribution channel behind it. Stakes are high, so GOOG can't throw in the towel now, but one core mistake that companies often make is they assume their competitors will stand still while they catch up. And that's just not the way it works.
I've been donating a few hundred bucks to Wikimedia Foundation each year (with my employer matching my donation dollar for dollar). I won't be donating this year unless I am sure beyond a shadow of doubt that my money is being properly spent. Sorry folks, if I wanted to burn the cash, I'd do it myself.