I have a question sort of along the same line. I interviewed for a position at a very large internet company, and one of their primary concerns was very high performance and scalability. I went through the phone interviews and then the in-person interviews, and I actually did quite well, and was even told that I did quite well. However, in the end, I was told that while I did well, they would have liked to see more experience with very large web applications (I've worked at smaller companies). So, how do I go about learning something I think I already know, and from your experience, was that not the real reason I was not accepted?
Sorry this is a bit off-topic; I've just been dying to ask the slashdot community and this seems to be the most appropriate forum for the question.
As a technology professional, I earn my entire income from creating pages and applications on the Internet. The Internet has equalized my range of opportunities with people all over the world. I can live in the city where I grew up and work for any company in the world.
This is possible because of the open, non-proprietary nature of the Internet. On the web, a huge corporation and a single person are equal. While we live in a time where starting most types of businesses has become too expensive for an entrepreneur to even try, the Internet provides a brand new space for unlimited ideas, even for someone with almost no money at all.
If the web is no longer neutral, we will ultimately hurt our small businesses and entrepreneurs who won't be able to afford premium speeds from the major Internet Service Providers. On a non-neutral Internet, innovation will be slowed down just like the bandwidth of the web sites I create.
Please do not be fooled into thinking that an Internet fast lane is going to help anyone but the large corporations that don't really need any help at all.
That's actually not how fuel taxes work for truckers. Truck drivers have to pay fuel taxes for any states they drive through, regardless of where they fill up. So, if the driver fills up in Tennessee and spends half of the tank in Tennessee and the other half in North Carolina, he will turn in paperwork to both states. Tennessee will refund him the fuel tax he paid for fuel he didn't use in Tennessee. He will owe North Carolina for the fuel he used there. So, for truckers, where the fuel is burned is more important than where the fuel was purchased.
I have a Blackberry for work, as do many of my peers. Most of them work tons of overtime and feel that their Blackberry runs their lives. But not me. I work efficiently and get everything done within regular working hours and rarely need to deal with my Blackberry at night.
An important aspect of a properly developed AJAX application is graceful failure. Use AJAX not as a requirement, but an enhancement of the user experience. I believe gmail, for example, will work without javascript enabled, but the experience isn't nearly as fluid.
I hated the Power Glove so much! First of all, I'm left handed, which meant I could barely control my gestures. On top of that, I was six years old, so my fingers would only go about halfway into the glove.
But I was so determined to use the awesome Power Glove that I would tape pencils to my fingers and run it in the mode where you had to use the directional pad on the top, and your thumb and index finder were the A and B buttons.
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I never download movies or TV shows, but an old friend of mine recommended Six Feet Under to me. I ignored her, and then she told me again to check it out. So, I downloaded the first episode and immediately loved the show. It took me several hours to download it, and I had to watch it on my laptop, so I wasn't going to get the second episode that way. I ended up buying the Season One box set for $80. Then I bought Season Two, then Three, Four, and Five. I was so happy about this show that I wanted to see what else HBO offered, so I finally caved in and signed up for the $8/month HBO subscription in addition to my regular cable. Sure, pirating is technically wrong, but in this case a free episode was the best advertising HBO could possibly have to get my money.
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I agree with you on the warmth of vinyl. I think it's all about the production of the record. Pearl Jam's Vitalogy CD sounds like an old LP to me, even though I've only had it on CD.
And the reason the parent was modded Insightful is because slashdot's mod system doesn't increase karma for Funny mods, so people have been modding funny posts as insightful.
The majority of root servers are in the US, so I believe that would cause problems. Also, so much of the Internet is American. If that much went away all at once it would be devastating even if Europe's online.
Instead of "hacking" as a crime, perhaps the "hacker" should be charged with any crime that happens as a result. Break into a banking system, and it's fraud and possibly theft. Break into the 911 system and cause several people to die because they couldn't get help, and it's murder. Then, you don't have to make up new punishments and new laws and the punishment will be appropriate to the damage done.
It just seems obvious to me. Am I missing something here?
I asked my cousin who works for magazines, and he says for a run that small it would probably cost about $2 USD per magazine. The discounts get better when you start talking more like 20,000 copies.
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I have a question sort of along the same line. I interviewed for a position at a very large internet company, and one of their primary concerns was very high performance and scalability. I went through the phone interviews and then the in-person interviews, and I actually did quite well, and was even told that I did quite well. However, in the end, I was told that while I did well, they would have liked to see more experience with very large web applications (I've worked at smaller companies). So, how do I go about learning something I think I already know, and from your experience, was that not the real reason I was not accepted?
Sorry this is a bit off-topic; I've just been dying to ask the slashdot community and this seems to be the most appropriate forum for the question.
Go here (link from TFA). Here's what I wrote:
As a technology professional, I earn my entire income from creating
pages and applications on the Internet. The Internet has equalized
my range of opportunities with people all over the world. I can live
in the city where I grew up and work for any company in the world.
This is possible because of the open, non-proprietary nature of the
Internet. On the web, a huge corporation and a single person are
equal. While we live in a time where starting most types of
businesses has become too expensive for an entrepreneur to even try,
the Internet provides a brand new space for unlimited ideas, even
for someone with almost no money at all.
If the web is no longer neutral, we will ultimately hurt our small
businesses and entrepreneurs who won't be able to afford premium
speeds from the major Internet Service Providers. On a non-neutral
Internet, innovation will be slowed down just like the bandwidth
of the web sites I create.
Please do not be fooled into thinking that an Internet fast lane is
going to help anyone but the large corporations that don't really
need any help at all.
That's actually not how fuel taxes work for truckers. Truck drivers have to pay fuel taxes for any states they drive through, regardless of where they fill up. So, if the driver fills up in Tennessee and spends half of the tank in Tennessee and the other half in North Carolina, he will turn in paperwork to both states. Tennessee will refund him the fuel tax he paid for fuel he didn't use in Tennessee. He will owe North Carolina for the fuel he used there. So, for truckers, where the fuel is burned is more important than where the fuel was purchased.
Maybe they're actually reading the article? No...that can't be it.
I was thinking the same thing. You must be in Memphis?
Ruby on Rails is like the Macintosh of programming languages / web frameworks. So, the insulting comes quite naturally.
I have a Blackberry for work, as do many of my peers. Most of them work tons of overtime and feel that their Blackberry runs their lives. But not me. I work efficiently and get everything done within regular working hours and rarely need to deal with my Blackberry at night.
Don't blame the device. Blame your job.
BMW offers this in their 7 series sedans:
g htDetail.htm
http://www.bmwusa.com/vehicles/7/750iSedan/Highli
It's called Active Cruise Control
An important aspect of a properly developed AJAX application is graceful failure. Use AJAX not as a requirement, but an enhancement of the user experience. I believe gmail, for example, will work without javascript enabled, but the experience isn't nearly as fluid.
And what if you're playing Half Life??
I hated the Power Glove so much! First of all, I'm left handed, which meant I could barely control my gestures. On top of that, I was six years old, so my fingers would only go about halfway into the glove.
But I was so determined to use the awesome Power Glove that I would tape pencils to my fingers and run it in the mode where you had to use the directional pad on the top, and your thumb and index finder were the A and B buttons.
I never download movies or TV shows, but an old friend of mine recommended Six Feet Under to me. I ignored her, and then she told me again to check it out. So, I downloaded the first episode and immediately loved the show. It took me several hours to download it, and I had to watch it on my laptop, so I wasn't going to get the second episode that way. I ended up buying the Season One box set for $80. Then I bought Season Two, then Three, Four, and Five. I was so happy about this show that I wanted to see what else HBO offered, so I finally caved in and signed up for the $8/month HBO subscription in addition to my regular cable. Sure, pirating is technically wrong, but in this case a free episode was the best advertising HBO could possibly have to get my money.
Dr. Welch?!?!?!
I agree with you on the warmth of vinyl. I think it's all about the production of the record. Pearl Jam's Vitalogy CD sounds like an old LP to me, even though I've only had it on CD.
And the reason the parent was modded Insightful is because slashdot's mod system doesn't increase karma for Funny mods, so people have been modding funny posts as insightful.
The majority of root servers are in the US, so I believe that would cause problems. Also, so much of the Internet is American. If that much went away all at once it would be devastating even if Europe's online.
Instead of "hacking" as a crime, perhaps the "hacker" should be charged with any crime that happens as a result. Break into a banking system, and it's fraud and possibly theft. Break into the 911 system and cause several people to die because they couldn't get help, and it's murder. Then, you don't have to make up new punishments and new laws and the punishment will be appropriate to the damage done.
It just seems obvious to me. Am I missing something here?
I had trouble cancelling too, and I found that the quickest way to get through the people on the phone is to tell them that you switched to Linux.
They might steal all the old peoples' email passwords!
It's E-Cycle! or . . . maybe not.
I asked my cousin who works for magazines, and he says for a run that small it would probably cost about $2 USD per magazine. The discounts get better when you start talking more like 20,000 copies.
You'd think with a joke like this they'd at least mention something about what happens with the stocks of each company.
The site's actually kind of neat, though. I just hope Asgeir Nilsen (the registrant, courtesy of WHOIS) doesn't get any cease-and-desist orders.
you're right. i didn't RTFA. ...shouldn't have bought that Jump To Conclusions mat.
but, to argue, when used properly, UML is more than just drawing pictures and wasting time/money, but that all depends on the scale of the project
This has already been around since 1997 I believe, and it's already popular.