Too many qualified applicants, but not enough talented candidates. That is the real problem.
Anyone who has worked in Software can tell you that, the top 5% of engineers are often many times (3x-10x) as productive as the bottom 50%. There is no shortage of Qualified Candidates (people who have experience in the job), only a shortage of the top 5% of engineers (people who would do well in ANY software job). When employers say talented this is what they mean. Unfortunately most people identify themselves in the top 5% and don't realize they aren't.
My basic problem is I work in one of the least attractive positions at a very attractive company. The only way I get top 5% talent is through risk management of college recruits who I think will work out to be the new top 5%.
I don't really agree with your 5% / 50% breakdown, but we could quibble all day on where to draw the line between talented and ordinary workers. (The world is not JUST programmers.) The point I want to make is that if you're hiring, you can try all you want to get the best candidates to fill each position, but no matter how hard you try, business in general ends up with about the same mix of unusually productive workers and average to below average workers. If you're getting a little better than an average workforce for your industry, you're doing well. If you manage to get a stable of mostly high performers, you're doing extraordinarily well.
You won't change the equation by hiring H1-B foreign workers either. They're a similar mix of top performers and worker bees and you will still end up hiring your share of people who look good on paper and interview well but don't do that great on the job. All you've done is expanded your already-large pool of possible hires and made your choices more difficult.
The bottom line is to get as good as you're probably going to get, you need about ten resumes of people who look good on paper and sound plausible on the phone. You pass those on to the hiring manager, who manager narrows this down to a group of 3 or 4 who almost certainly could do the job and you interview only those people. The one who seems most competent (if he or she's not personally objectionable) is good enough because the real bottom line is you can never be sure how good they really are until they're on the job.
Forget "finding talent" and "only hirig the best." You will always hire some who don't meet your standards. So what? You either train them to be efficient workers despite their shortcomings of you fire them and move on.
It's basically a bunch of crybaby Republicans whining about how unwelcome on campus their harassment of women, minorities, gays, muslims, any anyone else not like them is.
At the University of Colorado they now have a Visiting Scholar in Conservative Thought and Policy.
That is SO cool. Send an email from your student account that says:
"We're having a bring-a-friend event at my church. Want to come?" VIOLATION
"We're organizing a voter-registration drive." VIOLATION
"Justin Beeber is so last week." VIOLATION
I had no idea what RTF is until I used Yahoo search. RTF stands for Rich Text Format that has been in use since around 1989. Do people still use RTF? Just asking because no one I know uses it. My friends and family use.doc and open office text.odt.
Yes, I am showing my age. lol
I wonder if Backdoor.Makadocs runs on older versions of Windows like Windows 7.
Lots of people use it. Using it avoids making any assumptions about what kind of word processing software is on your reader's system. Trust me, you've read plenty of RTFs and they're all over your system.
No, it uses Google to get around your (possibly existing) firewall. If you open the document from the Google server, the Google server sends a message to the C&C server.
Is it really a Google problem though? If it were I'd expect it to work on any OS.
Yes. The document goes on Google Docs and then when it's accessed, the Google viewer sees the embedded link sends a request to the C&C server. It sounds like it's more a Google exploit than a MS exploit.
The correct point of Tsu-na-mi's comment is that the people you describe are mostly NOT Republicans. I'm sure there are some in the Republican party, but the vast majorty of people who meet the AC's description identify as Republicans. More likely independents.
There are enough "reasonables" who are presently independents to take over either the Republican or Democratic party if they got organized.
"I cannot imagine party leadership will be happy with so radical a suggestion as granting copyright protection for the limited times needed to promote the progress of science and useful arts."
-- Translation: Advancement of science and the useful arts play second fiddle to profits for donors to the RNC.
"People who live in districts such as Ohio's 4th would do well to send letters of support to those who crafted the original brief."
-- Translation: You people in Ohio's 4th CD can go pound sand. Your elected representative is irrelevant because copyright law will always be made by members subservient to the recording and motion picture and IP litigation industries -- people like me.
The article is all about India. How many over-35 techies do they really have? I think what they are reporting is an experience biased by the way the tech economy development has played out in their country -- recent rapid expansion. In countries that have had a high tech industry longer, there's a bigger population of people over 35 who have been working in the tech industry since they were 20.
The things that I hear American companies seeing as problems with development in India are the same as you would expect from giving major projects over to a bunch of inexperienced programmers: sloppy, bug-ridden code, poor understanding of customer expectations and a need for real experts to go back in and untangle the mess. Young programmers need more experienced oversight to learn how to work on big, complex projects, create code that can be maintained and stay focused on goals that match customer expectations.
I expect that over the next decade, Indian development organizations will begin to recognize that the elder programmers are more effective and put the younger ones under the supervision of the older ones so they can learn to do things the right way.
There's also a lot of focus on junkware development in the article. (iOS and Android apps, for instance). When you're developing a free or cheap app for a mobile platform, you don't care about quality. It's all about who is first to the market with the flashy-looking app -- a market where poor software practices are rewarded and focus on quality and maintainability will only hold you back.
No, it's a perfectly good word to use. There's no reason to expect the sun to flicker like a candle. In fact, it couldn't. It's too big for that
Technically, I wouldn't call the sun's variation flicker. What's commonly referred to as "flicker noise" by people who characterize low-frequency noisy processes is noise that has spectral density proportional to 1/frequency. The sun isn't quite like that. It has dominant 1/f^2 (Brown noise) and 1/f^1/2 characteristics as explained in this paper:
Does a person think with surface area? Without comparative data from a large number of individuals and some known relation between brain surface area and intelligence, there is no significance to the shape of a man's brain compared to that of another man.
My company hires people as Software Engineers. We don't care if they have CS or SWE degrees. We care if they understand control systems, physical systems, complex and finite math and calculus. And they must be able to program.
Based on the comments at http://minimsft.blogspot.com/, it's the politics and social networking at Microsoft that matter much more under Ballmer's regime, not solely the technical competence.
Every company is like that. Working with people is a job requirement for managers.
They should need more than just suspicion to force such disclosure.
The probable result of this is that companies will be more reluctant to contribute software under the GPL because it means you'll get sued the next time you DON'T contribute something. Then your copyrighted, possibly trade-secret-containing software becomes known to competitors through discovery.
At Passover, he and the other disciples ate lamb just like any other Jews. There are more stories where he ate fish probably because he was from Galilee and his buddies were fishermen.
This is a hard sell for the Christians and Muslims. Jesus ate meat and according to the bible, was perfect. Muhammad ate meat and is much revered by Muslims. Surely God would have informed him if eating meat led to sin...
Well - sort of.
The aim of the kepler primary mission was to detect earth-like planets, in earth-like orbits, around sun-like stars.
Unfortunately, as one of the scientists working on the project pointed out, an early discovery was the sun wasn't a sun-like star.
The sun turns out to flicker rather less than most stars in the sun-like population.
This does unfortunate things when you're trying to pick the tiny, tiny signals of planets crossing the stars disks, as the noise swamps the signal.
It means that it can't be picked up in the primary mission length, and you need longer integration periods - hence the extended mission.
It's not to get more data than was intended, but to get back to the baseline that was assumed, before we realised that stars twinkle rather more than we thought.
(It will have the side-effect of picking up some planets in non-earthlike orbits that couldn't have been seen too - very tiny and very long orbit ones.)
Frankly, I'm more interested in why the sun doesn't flicker as much as other stars of similar luminosity. Is it because we're not between light years worth of planetoid crossing the light path? Does space itself flicker?
Controlling the US House of Representatives, they're in a great position to do something about it. In fact, they have been for two years. So let's see if they put their money where their mouth is.
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Unlikely, now that elephants have coffee. They'll be way to fast for the poachers.
"Not enough qualified applicants" my ass.
Too many qualified applicants, but not enough talented candidates. That is the real problem.
Anyone who has worked in Software can tell you that, the top 5% of engineers are often many times (3x-10x) as productive as the bottom 50%. There is no shortage of Qualified Candidates (people who have experience in the job), only a shortage of the top 5% of engineers (people who would do well in ANY software job). When employers say talented this is what they mean. Unfortunately most people identify themselves in the top 5% and don't realize they aren't.
My basic problem is I work in one of the least attractive positions at a very attractive company. The only way I get top 5% talent is through risk management of college recruits who I think will work out to be the new top 5%.
I don't really agree with your 5% / 50% breakdown, but we could quibble all day on where to draw the line between talented and ordinary workers. (The world is not JUST programmers.) The point I want to make is that if you're hiring, you can try all you want to get the best candidates to fill each position, but no matter how hard you try, business in general ends up with about the same mix of unusually productive workers and average to below average workers. If you're getting a little better than an average workforce for your industry, you're doing well. If you manage to get a stable of mostly high performers, you're doing extraordinarily well.
You won't change the equation by hiring H1-B foreign workers either. They're a similar mix of top performers and worker bees and you will still end up hiring your share of people who look good on paper and interview well but don't do that great on the job. All you've done is expanded your already-large pool of possible hires and made your choices more difficult.
The bottom line is to get as good as you're probably going to get, you need about ten resumes of people who look good on paper and sound plausible on the phone. You pass those on to the hiring manager, who manager narrows this down to a group of 3 or 4 who almost certainly could do the job and you interview only those people. The one who seems most competent (if he or she's not personally objectionable) is good enough because the real bottom line is you can never be sure how good they really are until they're on the job.
Forget "finding talent" and "only hirig the best." You will always hire some who don't meet your standards. So what? You either train them to be efficient workers despite their shortcomings of you fire them and move on.
It's basically a bunch of crybaby Republicans whining about how unwelcome on campus their harassment of women, minorities, gays, muslims, any anyone else not like them is.
At the University of Colorado they now have a Visiting Scholar in Conservative Thought and Policy.
I. Kid. You. Not.
http://www.colorado.edu/news/releases/2012/07/03/cu-boulder-commences-search-visiting-scholar-conservative-thought-and
That is SO cool. Send an email from your student account that says:
"We're having a bring-a-friend event at my church. Want to come?" VIOLATION
"We're organizing a voter-registration drive." VIOLATION
"Justin Beeber is so last week." VIOLATION
The already exploited box is the one putting information on google docs. It is used as a communication medium, like IRC or a p2p protocol.
That isn't clear in the article.
If you understand how this works, it would be helpful if you explained the mechanics.
Just my personal experience here, but I have never been unable to access my Google Docs - YMMV.
Ask your mom to unblock the service on your router.
They can. Just configure your system to open text files with cmd.exe.
I had no idea what RTF is until I used Yahoo search. RTF stands for Rich Text Format that has been in use since around 1989. Do people still use RTF? Just asking because no one I know uses it. My friends and family use .doc and open office text .odt.
Yes, I am showing my age. lol
I wonder if Backdoor.Makadocs runs on older versions of Windows like Windows 7.
Lots of people use it. Using it avoids making any assumptions about what kind of word processing software is on your reader's system. Trust me, you've read plenty of RTFs and they're all over your system.
No, it uses Google to get around your (possibly existing) firewall. If you open the document from the Google server, the Google server sends a message to the C&C server.
Is it really a Google problem though? If it were I'd expect it to work on any OS.
Yes. The document goes on Google Docs and then when it's accessed, the Google viewer sees the embedded link sends a request to the C&C server. It sounds like it's more a Google exploit than a MS exploit.
The correct point of Tsu-na-mi's comment is that the people you describe are mostly NOT Republicans. I'm sure there are some in the Republican party, but the vast majorty of people who meet the AC's description identify as Republicans. More likely independents.
There are enough "reasonables" who are presently independents to take over either the Republican or Democratic party if they got organized.
"I cannot imagine party leadership will be happy with so radical a suggestion as granting copyright protection for the limited times needed to promote the progress of science and useful arts."
-- Translation: Advancement of science and the useful arts play second fiddle to profits for donors to the RNC.
"People who live in districts such as Ohio's 4th would do well to send letters of support to those who crafted the original brief."
-- Translation: You people in Ohio's 4th CD can go pound sand. Your elected representative is irrelevant because copyright law will always be made by members subservient to the recording and motion picture and IP litigation industries -- people like me.
The article is all about India. How many over-35 techies do they really have? I think what they are reporting is an experience biased by the way the tech economy development has played out in their country -- recent rapid expansion. In countries that have had a high tech industry longer, there's a bigger population of people over 35 who have been working in the tech industry since they were 20.
The things that I hear American companies seeing as problems with development in India are the same as you would expect from giving major projects over to a bunch of inexperienced programmers: sloppy, bug-ridden code, poor understanding of customer expectations and a need for real experts to go back in and untangle the mess. Young programmers need more experienced oversight to learn how to work on big, complex projects, create code that can be maintained and stay focused on goals that match customer expectations.
I expect that over the next decade, Indian development organizations will begin to recognize that the elder programmers are more effective and put the younger ones under the supervision of the older ones so they can learn to do things the right way.
There's also a lot of focus on junkware development in the article. (iOS and Android apps, for instance). When you're developing a free or cheap app for a mobile platform, you don't care about quality. It's all about who is first to the market with the flashy-looking app -- a market where poor software practices are rewarded and focus on quality and maintainability will only hold you back.
No, it's a perfectly good word to use. There's no reason to expect the sun to flicker like a candle. In fact, it couldn't. It's too big for that
Technically, I wouldn't call the sun's variation flicker. What's commonly referred to as "flicker noise" by people who characterize low-frequency noisy processes is noise that has spectral density proportional to 1/frequency. The sun isn't quite like that. It has dominant 1/f^2 (Brown noise) and 1/f^1/2 characteristics as explained in this paper:
http://geomorphology.geo.arizona.edu/PAPERS/pelletier_96.pdf
Over much longer time scales, it might have quite a different character, but this encompasses the timescales measured by Kepler.
Does a person think with surface area? Without comparative data from a large number of individuals and some known relation between brain surface area and intelligence, there is no significance to the shape of a man's brain compared to that of another man.
My company hires people as Software Engineers. We don't care if they have CS or SWE degrees. We care if they understand control systems, physical systems, complex and finite math and calculus. And they must be able to program.
Based on the comments at http://minimsft.blogspot.com/, it's the politics and social networking at Microsoft that matter much more under Ballmer's regime, not solely the technical competence.
Every company is like that. Working with people is a job requirement for managers.
They should need more than just suspicion to force such disclosure.
The probable result of this is that companies will be more reluctant to contribute software under the GPL because it means you'll get sued the next time you DON'T contribute something. Then your copyrighted, possibly trade-secret-containing software becomes known to competitors through discovery.
Yep. She should have killed and eaten the snake - that was the true test.
But how would she have known it tastes like chicken?
At Passover, he and the other disciples ate lamb just like any other Jews. There are more stories where he ate fish probably because he was from Galilee and his buddies were fishermen.
I take this isn't a utility patent but a design one? Why is this in the news?
Yep. The claim is The ornamental design for a display screen or portion thereof with animated-graphical user interface, as shown and described.
This is a hard sell for the Christians and Muslims. Jesus ate meat and according to the bible, was perfect. Muhammad ate meat and is much revered by Muslims. Surely God would have informed him if eating meat led to sin...
Wait, didn't Eve get in trouble for eating a fruit?
Well - sort of. The aim of the kepler primary mission was to detect earth-like planets, in earth-like orbits, around sun-like stars. Unfortunately, as one of the scientists working on the project pointed out, an early discovery was the sun wasn't a sun-like star.
The sun turns out to flicker rather less than most stars in the sun-like population. This does unfortunate things when you're trying to pick the tiny, tiny signals of planets crossing the stars disks, as the noise swamps the signal. It means that it can't be picked up in the primary mission length, and you need longer integration periods - hence the extended mission. It's not to get more data than was intended, but to get back to the baseline that was assumed, before we realised that stars twinkle rather more than we thought.
(It will have the side-effect of picking up some planets in non-earthlike orbits that couldn't have been seen too - very tiny and very long orbit ones.)
Frankly, I'm more interested in why the sun doesn't flicker as much as other stars of similar luminosity. Is it because we're not between light years worth of planetoid crossing the light path? Does space itself flicker?
Controlling the US House of Representatives, they're in a great position to do something about it. In fact, they have been for two years. So let's see if they put their money where their mouth is.