It's an entrenched brand name, the website isn't the point, they can slap the brand name on all kinds of things and many people associate the name alone with tech smart people without really ever coming here. They'll start advertising 'slashdot quality' level resumes to their clients. Then they can sell the brand name for $3million to some hardware company who can start slapping it on mice, keyboards, and web cams. The brand name can be productized, the users who are leary of the slightest bit of overlordness however have no value-add. They'll try to sell access to our personal info and monitoring services to businesses, but most of us will have seen the writing on the wall by then and left.
Slashdot communities will enable our customers to reach millions of engaged tech professionals on a regular basis and significantly extends our company's reach into the global tech community.
And with this, Slashdot is dead. Dice effectively bought the brand name so they could productize it. Dice has *no* use for the community or news, it's far too.. unconventional.. to be used for corporate gain. The brand name however.. that can bring in the money. Your slashdot user account might as well be a cnet.com user account now.
The worst they could do? Turn slashdot into a dice.com advertising board. Negative comments? Gone. Advertisements for "related job openings" on every article? Added. Users with lots of comments that have the word "java" in them? Your slashdot inboxes will be full with dice.com adverts.
Forgive my ignorance, but are you telling me that in switzerland large amounts of civilians commonly carry high powered rifles with them everywhere they go?
I somehow doubt people are using hunting rifles on speed traps, I further doubt that they would do that in america, but maybe I put too much faith in my fellow americans.. Now I would *not* be surprised to hear about this happening in the types of country where everyone walks around carrying high powered rifles all the time, but those countries have much larger troubles than speed traps anyways.
We're talking about sailing on the OCEAN here, don't you know anything about pirates? The only way to fend them off is CANNONS. Large, metal, cannons. Lots of gunpowder and a sword will be necessary.
Precisely. It's a sham of a legal system the way it works but I've seen people get tons of loans for their "business" to pay themselves their salary/pay their bills/etc and then file bankruptcy under the business to disavow all of these loans without it ever harming their personal credit one bit. Limited liability, read: No liability. If you're making money in a position where you can legitimately claim a business, do it.
I'm self taught and tired of failing on the Big O notation questions in interviews for this exact reason, so I have taken up arms in Knuth and started working my way through it. It's true, self taught usually means practical and pragmatic, which for 10 years now it has been completely impractical and non-pragmatic to sit around trying to implement your own sort algorithms or data structures and do performance analysis on them. If someone you're working with sees a problem and attempts to do this in response to it, they're simply doing it wrong. The algorithms and data structures are already written, use the written-by-smarter-people versions which have been revised over years in your language's libraries.
I have never implemented a linked list but bombed hard in interviews where I had to do so on a whiteboard twice now. It's not that I can't write a linked list, it's that being told "implement a linked list" holds no meaning to me because I don't know the requirements/definition/purpose of one. Unfortunately the good companies are strict and ask these questions and take no prisoners, so the way I see it, it's a hoop and I'll gladly jump through it at this point, but I think far too many people think it is somehow not arbitrary. It truly is arbitrary, because if it wasn't some of you would have written one in the past 10 years that was actually used in a production application, moreover you wouldn't be able to look back and say "I should have used the 3rd party implementation instead".
You missed the part where all the text books are written to the TI-83 (pictures of the buttons to press in order and all), that kid is going to be the slowest in his class if he's using your Casio while everyone is going to think he's some kind of dummy. Don't you know the most important part of school these days: conformity! He'll clearly get an F now.
You can't afford those shades, nor that cloak, sorry it'll just be flying around in your standard hoody and stained sweat pants for the foreseeable future:(
The way old timers talk you'd think this was a pretty standard activity during the 70s, so perhaps we just need some old greybeards to get to work on this brain thingy and we'll have it whipped.
+1 this is exactly what I was going to say and what I have done in the past when presented with these situations. Best bet if you *must* have non-aggregated data is to simply identify each user by a guid that get's embedded in each client, with no identifying information.
Also there are a lot of laws around the world regarding things like this which can and cannot be tracked *at all* that no amount of legal disclosure will make lawful in some places. Seriously, just avoid any form of identifying data (preferably both remotely *or* locally on the users device)
Hah +1, yeah I've come to take joy in the pain of those who present me legal documents for signing. They never expect you to read the bloody thing and always get all cranky about how long you're taking. Apt leases, car loans, new banking accounts etc every single person who's handed me one of these after about 30 minutes of me reading it just looks so dejected, plus all the questions I ask as I go, and sometimes even demand addendums. They shouldn't be handing out legal paper work for signature if they don't want to be party to a contractual negotiation.
You completely missed the point of the article, he's talking about the quality of instruction, you're referring to the ceonvnience, these two things have nothing to do with eachother.
Their marked up version is still competing with amazon, what- are they going to buy amazon's entire supply? I think amazon might decide not to sell them any of said product, moreover you have to assume this behavior is disallowed by way of the purchasing contract amazon holds with the publisher.
You completely ignore the fact that many people would be past their 24 month period, moreover I believe you get discounted upgrades for contract resigning at 18 months to ensure people upgrade before tasting the sweet taste of contractlessness, so it's actually 1/(18-n) people based on the number of people past their 18 months.
Actually you're touching on the one really really strong point of WP here, the games. On my android tablet I tried for a long time to find games that were actually decent and found a minimal number, but for my windows phone while there are admittedly less games than android, the majority of them are really strong, well-made games. I think this is because the windows phone's support for the XNA framework. Admittedly the android landscape has probably changed since I was last trying to play games on it ~1.5 years ago considering the quality of hardware has spiked since then for android devices.
Be in the industry long enough and you have to not fear being wrong, because even being good at this stuff we're all still wrong constantly. The important thing is to try and figure out if you're wrong or not rather than assuming you're not.
I should note, it was always the IDE and language they were familiar with (we wouldn't have been looking at hiring them if they weren't already quite experienced in the technology environment we use)
I must say, I have watched many people go through interviews and do well enough to get to the last stage we had: Hand them a laptop with the IDE we use setup and ask them to write, execute, and debug, a very simple program, think string reversal or parsing arithmetic strings to calculate answers like "2+3".
Many seemed promising answered technical questions accurately and seemed knowledgeable, but spent 30 minutes trying to write a loop that reversed a string only to have bugs in it. After seeing this so many times I feel it is absolutely *required*, because in reality no developer should be hired beyond junior level if a loop to reverse a string takes them more than 5 minutes *at most*.
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It's an entrenched brand name, the website isn't the point, they can slap the brand name on all kinds of things and many people associate the name alone with tech smart people without really ever coming here. They'll start advertising 'slashdot quality' level resumes to their clients. Then they can sell the brand name for $3million to some hardware company who can start slapping it on mice, keyboards, and web cams. The brand name can be productized, the users who are leary of the slightest bit of overlordness however have no value-add. They'll try to sell access to our personal info and monitoring services to businesses, but most of us will have seen the writing on the wall by then and left.
Slashdot communities will enable our customers to reach millions of engaged tech professionals on a regular basis and significantly extends our company's reach into the global tech community.
And with this, Slashdot is dead. Dice effectively bought the brand name so they could productize it. Dice has *no* use for the community or news, it's far too.. unconventional.. to be used for corporate gain. The brand name however.. that can bring in the money. Your slashdot user account might as well be a cnet.com user account now.
The worst they could do? Turn slashdot into a dice.com advertising board. Negative comments? Gone. Advertisements for "related job openings" on every article? Added. Users with lots of comments that have the word "java" in them? Your slashdot inboxes will be full with dice.com adverts.
Forgive my ignorance, but are you telling me that in switzerland large amounts of civilians commonly carry high powered rifles with them everywhere they go?
To be fair the one that ran over a speed trap was just trying a bit of performance art, he was aiming for irony and only missed slightly. Slightly.
I somehow doubt people are using hunting rifles on speed traps, I further doubt that they would do that in america, but maybe I put too much faith in my fellow americans.. Now I would *not* be surprised to hear about this happening in the types of country where everyone walks around carrying high powered rifles all the time, but those countries have much larger troubles than speed traps anyways.
Fear: a terror level warning of paisley is on the side of each one permanently ensuring the helium will never risk leaving.
We're talking about sailing on the OCEAN here, don't you know anything about pirates? The only way to fend them off is CANNONS. Large, metal, cannons. Lots of gunpowder and a sword will be necessary.
Next up, Fision created with baking soda, and nobel prize winning physicists use tetris to complete the standard model.
Asimov's laws are a straw man argument?? Nonsense, he wouldn't do that to us! No, not him!
Precisely. It's a sham of a legal system the way it works but I've seen people get tons of loans for their "business" to pay themselves their salary/pay their bills/etc and then file bankruptcy under the business to disavow all of these loans without it ever harming their personal credit one bit. Limited liability, read: No liability. If you're making money in a position where you can legitimately claim a business, do it.
I'm self taught and tired of failing on the Big O notation questions in interviews for this exact reason, so I have taken up arms in Knuth and started working my way through it. It's true, self taught usually means practical and pragmatic, which for 10 years now it has been completely impractical and non-pragmatic to sit around trying to implement your own sort algorithms or data structures and do performance analysis on them. If someone you're working with sees a problem and attempts to do this in response to it, they're simply doing it wrong. The algorithms and data structures are already written, use the written-by-smarter-people versions which have been revised over years in your language's libraries.
I have never implemented a linked list but bombed hard in interviews where I had to do so on a whiteboard twice now. It's not that I can't write a linked list, it's that being told "implement a linked list" holds no meaning to me because I don't know the requirements/definition/purpose of one. Unfortunately the good companies are strict and ask these questions and take no prisoners, so the way I see it, it's a hoop and I'll gladly jump through it at this point, but I think far too many people think it is somehow not arbitrary. It truly is arbitrary, because if it wasn't some of you would have written one in the past 10 years that was actually used in a production application, moreover you wouldn't be able to look back and say "I should have used the 3rd party implementation instead".
You missed the part where all the text books are written to the TI-83 (pictures of the buttons to press in order and all), that kid is going to be the slowest in his class if he's using your Casio while everyone is going to think he's some kind of dummy. Don't you know the most important part of school these days: conformity! He'll clearly get an F now.
You can't afford those shades, nor that cloak, sorry it'll just be flying around in your standard hoody and stained sweat pants for the foreseeable future :(
The way old timers talk you'd think this was a pretty standard activity during the 70s, so perhaps we just need some old greybeards to get to work on this brain thingy and we'll have it whipped.
+1 this is exactly what I was going to say and what I have done in the past when presented with these situations. Best bet if you *must* have non-aggregated data is to simply identify each user by a guid that get's embedded in each client, with no identifying information.
Also there are a lot of laws around the world regarding things like this which can and cannot be tracked *at all* that no amount of legal disclosure will make lawful in some places. Seriously, just avoid any form of identifying data (preferably both remotely *or* locally on the users device)
Hah +1, yeah I've come to take joy in the pain of those who present me legal documents for signing. They never expect you to read the bloody thing and always get all cranky about how long you're taking. Apt leases, car loans, new banking accounts etc every single person who's handed me one of these after about 30 minutes of me reading it just looks so dejected, plus all the questions I ask as I go, and sometimes even demand addendums. They shouldn't be handing out legal paper work for signature if they don't want to be party to a contractual negotiation.
You completely missed the point of the article, he's talking about the quality of instruction, you're referring to the ceonvnience, these two things have nothing to do with eachother.
Their marked up version is still competing with amazon, what- are they going to buy amazon's entire supply? I think amazon might decide not to sell them any of said product, moreover you have to assume this behavior is disallowed by way of the purchasing contract amazon holds with the publisher.
You completely ignore the fact that many people would be past their 24 month period, moreover I believe you get discounted upgrades for contract resigning at 18 months to ensure people upgrade before tasting the sweet taste of contractlessness, so it's actually 1/(18-n) people based on the number of people past their 18 months.
Actually you're touching on the one really really strong point of WP here, the games. On my android tablet I tried for a long time to find games that were actually decent and found a minimal number, but for my windows phone while there are admittedly less games than android, the majority of them are really strong, well-made games. I think this is because the windows phone's support for the XNA framework. Admittedly the android landscape has probably changed since I was last trying to play games on it ~1.5 years ago considering the quality of hardware has spiked since then for android devices.
Be in the industry long enough and you have to not fear being wrong, because even being good at this stuff we're all still wrong constantly. The important thing is to try and figure out if you're wrong or not rather than assuming you're not.
I should note, it was always the IDE and language they were familiar with (we wouldn't have been looking at hiring them if they weren't already quite experienced in the technology environment we use)
I must say, I have watched many people go through interviews and do well enough to get to the last stage we had: Hand them a laptop with the IDE we use setup and ask them to write, execute, and debug, a very simple program, think string reversal or parsing arithmetic strings to calculate answers like "2+3".
Many seemed promising answered technical questions accurately and seemed knowledgeable, but spent 30 minutes trying to write a loop that reversed a string only to have bugs in it. After seeing this so many times I feel it is absolutely *required*, because in reality no developer should be hired beyond junior level if a loop to reverse a string takes them more than 5 minutes *at most*.
Look at it for a few minutes and then realize... It's slashdot redone in the Metro UI. Muahhhaa! Slashdot has given in!