The only situation I can imagine where I would be so bitter about someone wasting my time when I asked them to do so is in the case where they lied to convince me to do it.
Candidates who don't know what they claim to know on their resumes account for something like 90% of the phone screens where I recommend against a hire, and about 50% of the in-person interviews. Lying on resumes seems to be endemic these days.
>> Second, from an employer's perspective, it may in the narrow self-interest of the company for such a person to go be a drain on its competitors. Where's the rational economic incentive to discourage that?
> He COULD go to work for one of your vendors...:)
That's true! In the spirit of Keep one's friends close and one's enemies closer, I should hire all these useless candidates to stop that from happening. I think I'm gonna need a bigger payroll...
Candidates that aren't quite there yet ("reply hazy, ask again later") may get a little guidance. I have certainly advised flawed but promising on what to study before they apply again (or we call them again) in the future. Candidates of the sort the article poster was asking about ("a danger to any code base") get a polite rejection from the recruiter and that is all.
I am not in the business of career counseling. I don't think that makes me evil.
I never tell a rejected candidate how badly they did. First off, once they're rejected (assuming they're really rejected rather "reply hazy, ask again later"), there is zero reason to spend another second more on them.
Second, from an employer's perspective, it may in the narrow self-interest of the company for such a person to go be a drain on its competitors. Where's the rational economic incentive to discourage that?
A packet between the two machines would go through our router, over the ethernet that the two companies shared, out the (old) external router, and down the coast through Seattle, to California, then back up the coast to Vancouver, and then finally over the same shared ethernet cable that the packet had originally gone out before finally connecting to their router.
A cross-border round trip of a few thousand miles for a net distance of about 60 feet.
Well, duh. It had to traverse a point convenient to the NSA.
One large engine is more efficient. Just think about the ratio of the surface area of moving parts in contact with each other to engine displacement - all other things being equal, one large engine will have less mechanical (friction) loss than two smaller engines.
Actually, you can bet this change is bought and paid-for by the US auto industry. Guess who's getting their clocks cleaned by Toyota's Hybrids?
Collecting fuel efficiency data for medium-duty vehicles but not publishing it until 2011? What a bold initiative!
This is about stalling until the domestics can come up with something to compete with Toyota. They won't, though, because they suck at making anything with tight tolerances.
Pedantry accepted. During my undergrad stint, non-remedial first-term English was designated 1101. Remedial English was 0101. I imagine it differs from place to place.
In case you were sick that day in remedial English 101, noun-adjective compounds - attorney general, mother-in-law, runner-up - are made plural by pluralizing the noun: attorneys general, mothers-in-law, runners-up.
If by seamless you mean every app is based on the same horrible GUI, is equally likely to crash and experience strange pauses, then yes it is seamless. My treo crashes several times a week no matter what I'm doing, and I'm a fairly light user. When I was living on it and traveling a lot, it crashed twice a day.
I agree that stability can be a real problem. It took a few firmware updates before I got my Treo 650 stable to where it crashes "only" once every few weeks. This is with heavy use of ChatterEmail+ (SSL/IMAP push client), Google Maps, Blazer, pssh, and Scrabble. I'd be more upset about this level of (in)stability if the reboots were more disruptive (i.e. data loss, or if they took a long time). They're annoying, but not as annoying as they could be - I've never had a palmos reset drop a phone call, unlike with Wince.
Have you tried the T-Mobile Sidekick (Danger)? It has the disadvantage of no third party development at all, but that does bring stability and immunity from tiresome virus problems.
I am not an idiot, and therefore do not have virus problems on my Treo.
Sidekicks are bigger and are a completely closed platform. They fail it in 2 ways. A Treo is already too big, but I put up with it because it's still pocketable. A device that requires a man-purse or holster to tote around ultra-fails.
This is all off-topic, but I think you're conflating socialism with communism. This is mere semantics, so let's move on.
On health care, the UK's NHS is not a sterling example of socialized medicine, but even that system produces better outcomes (longer life expectancy, lower infant mortality) for less money. Per-capita health care spending in the US is twice that of the UK. In fact, the US government spends more per patient than any other country in the world besides Switzerland without even providing universal coverage.
PalmOS is definitely stone-age internally, but guess what: being a PITA for programmers has *NOTHING* to do with its unmatched usability for end users.
I don't care how good WinCE's CLR is - it's a usability nightmare on a phone-sized device (why should I care what apps are running? I have zero interest in quitting this program to free up enough memory to run that program. The PIM functions also blow. And a Start menu? Please die.)
And J2ME is a very decent programming model? Yeah, great for programmers. Shitty for users. Have you ever actually *USED* third-party java apps on a Blackberry? I had the displeasure of having to carry one for $WORK years ago. Here's four words that sum up J2ME: "loading... um... still loading."
PalmOS is a crusty nightmare under the hood but somehow it's still the only thing out there that delivers a seamless *USER* experience. No loading time for app launches, excellent mapping of functions to single button presses or taps, etc.
When I want a system that's great for coders and tweakers, I use Linux on my desktop. I don't want that experience on my phone - I want a device that JUST WORKS NOW and lets me run the apps I want to run (devices that are closed to open-source or freeware developers fail it.)
Maybe Symbian will get there someday but the impression that I have is that it's entirely too carrier-friendly, not sufficiently user-friendly.
Good thing we live in America (which barely makes the top 20), land of the free. I can't imagine how horrible and repressive life would be with socialized medicine and $20/mo 10 megabit (up/down) broadband in my home.
Look at the success of Trauma Center: Second Opinion on the Wii - there's clearly room for first-class, full-price 2D console titles with innovative gameplay.
Now, will Yet Another 2D Platformer do so well at $50? Probably not, unless it's got Mario in the name.
I take it, then, that you disagree with the court's interpretation of federal law?
Yes. CAN-SPAM explicitly permits individual states to "prohibit falsity or deception." In my initial reading, this court conjures up a "materiality" requirement where none exists in statute, effectively saying that forged headers aren't examples of "material" falsity or deception because there's no detrimental reliance on same. The court totally ignores the fact that this type of deception is designed to bypass filtering (upon which many rely).
To be fair, the district court found that these errors were "immaterial" - such a determination being only relevant to this case. Judge Wilkinson essentially gutted the one area where CAN-SPAM explicitly permitted state regulation by holding that not only would "immaterial errors" henceforth not incur liability under CAN-SPAM in the 4th Circuit, but that CAN-SPAM preempts state law in the case of forged headers in plain contradiction to the clear language of the statute (US Sec 7707(b)(1)):
This chapter supersedes any statute, regulation, or rule of a State or political subdivision of a State that expressly regulates the use of electronic mail to send commercial messages, except to the extent that any such statute, regulation, or rule prohibits falsity or deception in any portion of a commercial electronic mail message or information attached thereto.
What part of this unusually clear language requires "material" falsity or deception? Talk about "activist judges."
J. Harvie Wilkinson III wrote this opinion in the 4th circuit. He's Reaganite authoritarian on the most "conservative" appellate bench in the country. You might remember him as the brave patriot who upheld the right of the executive branch of the US Government to indefinitely detain any US Citizen with no access to counsel, court, or any legal process to challenge that detention.
Basically, the 4th circuit is an incredibly hostile place for "the little guy" when challenging a big business.
We need to get ahead of the curve before we actually lose a city, which I think could happen in the next decade.
That is Grade A Fearmongering.
Lose a city? Really? How would that supposed threat be worse now as opposed to 10 years ago? Same boogeymen were around 10 years ago, same tools were available. Why is it urgent now?
More to the point, we already lost a city this decade - New Orleans. It wasn't lost to some surprise terrorist attack noone foresaw, either. Talk about being behind the curve.
Improvements in the tools (CAD/CAM) and the methods (finite element analysis) are to "blame" for this "problem."
I love overbuilt gear, too, but a RAZR built with 14 gauge galvanized steel would weigh a pound and cost as much as your old XT did when new. I for one welcome our cheap-gadget-engineering overlords.
Look, I have nothing against sports, or sports fans. If they want to go cheer whomever they want, that is fine. Just pay for the building yourself, don't use my tax dollars. Case in point - my hometown Seattle.
Yep. That's why voters in Seattle approved Initiative 91 requiring the city to receive a "fair value" cash profit greater than or equal to the rate of return on a 30-year U.S. Treasury Bond in exchange for any subsidy. It was approved by a 3-1 margin (74%-26%), I think accurately reflecting how fed up people are state subsidies for billionaire team owners (Allen, Schultz).
Are Gödel's incompleteness theorems not sufficient? I don't posit that the mind's workings can't be replicated by any machine, but that the Turing machine, operating under the rules of its particular formal system, is simply not capable of deriving all true statements within that system.
Surely this applies to the human mind as well - but the ability to define the formal system of the human mind (given its chaotic nature) would truly be god-like. The trivial ease with which humans can come up with formally indecidable propositions ("This statement is false") suggests that our mind operates at least part of the time in symbolic modes quite different than those of language or mathematics.
Mark Hurd knew or should have known as much or more about the details of this spy scandal than Patty Dunn. He got detailed reports on the progress of the investigation and somehow was allowed to skate on "I'm sorry, I should have read them but I didn't."
Thing is, Mark's beloved by investors for righting (however temporarily) the sinking ship of HP. He's also better at eating shit than Ms. Dunn, as anyone who watched the congressional hearings can attest. Looks like he's home-free at this point.
I hope karma pays him back, because I don't believe he knew nothing about the Nixonian extent of the spying undertaken in HP's name.
ext2 will be just fine for your read-only root. CF is the wrong choice for locally writeable storage in an environment where you could lose power at any time. Either build some measure of power isolation into your product to provide time for a graceful shutdown or use media without write-cycle limitations (microdrive?)
JFFS2 doesn't do you a lick of good on CF where the flash structure is abstracted by a translation layer. You don't want a journaling filesystem, either.
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Candidates who don't know what they claim to know on their resumes account for something like 90% of the phone screens where I recommend against a hire, and about 50% of the in-person interviews. Lying on resumes seems to be endemic these days.
-Isaac
>> Second, from an employer's perspective, it may in the narrow self-interest of the company for such a person to go be a drain on its competitors. Where's the rational economic incentive to discourage that?
:)
> He COULD go to work for one of your vendors...
That's true! In the spirit of Keep one's friends close and one's enemies closer, I should hire all these useless candidates to stop that from happening. I think I'm gonna need a bigger payroll...
-Isaac
Candidates that aren't quite there yet ("reply hazy, ask again later") may get a little guidance. I have certainly advised flawed but promising on what to study before they apply again (or we call them again) in the future. Candidates of the sort the article poster was asking about ("a danger to any code base") get a polite rejection from the recruiter and that is all.
I am not in the business of career counseling. I don't think that makes me evil.
-Isaac
I never tell a rejected candidate how badly they did. First off, once they're rejected (assuming they're really rejected rather "reply hazy, ask again later"), there is zero reason to spend another second more on them.
Second, from an employer's perspective, it may in the narrow self-interest of the company for such a person to go be a drain on its competitors. Where's the rational economic incentive to discourage that?
-Isaac
Well, duh. It had to traverse a point convenient to the NSA.
-Isaac
One large engine is more efficient. Just think about the ratio of the surface area of moving parts in contact with each other to engine displacement - all other things being equal, one large engine will have less mechanical (friction) loss than two smaller engines.
-Isaac
Actually, you can bet this change is bought and paid-for by the US auto industry. Guess who's getting their clocks cleaned by Toyota's Hybrids?
Collecting fuel efficiency data for medium-duty vehicles but not publishing it until 2011? What a bold initiative!
This is about stalling until the domestics can come up with something to compete with Toyota. They won't, though, because they suck at making anything with tight tolerances.
*thpppppt*
-Isaac
Pedantry accepted. During my undergrad stint, non-remedial first-term English was designated 1101. Remedial English was 0101. I imagine it differs from place to place.
-Isaac
In case you were sick that day in remedial English 101, noun-adjective compounds - attorney general, mother-in-law, runner-up - are made plural by pluralizing the noun: attorneys general, mothers-in-law, runners-up.
-Isaac
I agree that stability can be a real problem. It took a few firmware updates before I got my Treo 650 stable to where it crashes "only" once every few weeks. This is with heavy use of ChatterEmail+ (SSL/IMAP push client), Google Maps, Blazer, pssh, and Scrabble. I'd be more upset about this level of (in)stability if the reboots were more disruptive (i.e. data loss, or if they took a long time). They're annoying, but not as annoying as they could be - I've never had a palmos reset drop a phone call, unlike with Wince.
-Isaac
I am not an idiot, and therefore do not have virus problems on my Treo.
Sidekicks are bigger and are a completely closed platform. They fail it in 2 ways. A Treo is already too big, but I put up with it because it's still pocketable. A device that requires a man-purse or holster to tote around ultra-fails.
-Isaac
This is all off-topic, but I think you're conflating socialism with communism. This is mere semantics, so let's move on.
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On health care, the UK's NHS is not a sterling example of socialized medicine, but even that system produces better outcomes (longer life expectancy, lower infant mortality) for less money. Per-capita health care spending in the US is twice that of the UK. In fact, the US government spends more per patient than any other country in the world besides Switzerland without even providing universal coverage.
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I'll see your anecdotal evidence and raise you facts.
Respectfully,
-Isaac
PalmOS is definitely stone-age internally, but guess what: being a PITA for programmers has *NOTHING* to do with its unmatched usability for end users.
I don't care how good WinCE's CLR is - it's a usability nightmare on a phone-sized device (why should I care what apps are running? I have zero interest in quitting this program to free up enough memory to run that program. The PIM functions also blow. And a Start menu? Please die.)
And J2ME is a very decent programming model? Yeah, great for programmers. Shitty for users. Have you ever actually *USED* third-party java apps on a Blackberry? I had the displeasure of having to carry one for $WORK years ago. Here's four words that sum up J2ME: "loading... um... still loading."
PalmOS is a crusty nightmare under the hood but somehow it's still the only thing out there that delivers a seamless *USER* experience. No loading time for app launches, excellent mapping of functions to single button presses or taps, etc.
When I want a system that's great for coders and tweakers, I use Linux on my desktop. I don't want that experience on my phone - I want a device that JUST WORKS NOW and lets me run the apps I want to run (devices that are closed to open-source or freeware developers fail it.)
Maybe Symbian will get there someday but the impression that I have is that it's entirely too carrier-friendly, not sufficiently user-friendly.
-Isaac
That certainly explains why the 5 nations of Scandinavia (socialist hellholes all) regularly top the list of the world's least corrupt countries. I'm sure it's their brutal, dictatorial regimes that makes the difference.
Good thing we live in America (which barely makes the top 20), land of the free. I can't imagine how horrible and repressive life would be with socialized medicine and $20/mo 10 megabit (up/down) broadband in my home.
-Isaac
Get your kids Lego Star Wars II: The Original Trilogy. Easily the best PS2 game of 2006. (Just don't get the DS version - I hear it's not complete.)
-Isaac
Look at the success of Trauma Center: Second Opinion on the Wii - there's clearly room for first-class, full-price 2D console titles with innovative gameplay.
Now, will Yet Another 2D Platformer do so well at $50? Probably not, unless it's got Mario in the name.
-Isaac
No shit! I don't trust Bill Gates with my computer's security - why should I trust him with national security?
-Isaac
Yes. CAN-SPAM explicitly permits individual states to "prohibit falsity or deception." In my initial reading, this court conjures up a "materiality" requirement where none exists in statute, effectively saying that forged headers aren't examples of "material" falsity or deception because there's no detrimental reliance on same. The court totally ignores the fact that this type of deception is designed to bypass filtering (upon which many rely).
To be fair, the district court found that these errors were "immaterial" - such a determination being only relevant to this case. Judge Wilkinson essentially gutted the one area where CAN-SPAM explicitly permitted state regulation by holding that not only would "immaterial errors" henceforth not incur liability under CAN-SPAM in the 4th Circuit, but that CAN-SPAM preempts state law in the case of forged headers in plain contradiction to the clear language of the statute (US Sec 7707(b)(1)):
This chapter supersedes any statute, regulation, or rule of a State or political
subdivision of a State that expressly regulates the use of electronic mail to send
commercial messages, except to the extent that any such statute, regulation, or
rule prohibits falsity or deception in any portion of a commercial electronic mail
message or information attached thereto.
What part of this unusually clear language requires "material" falsity or deception? Talk about "activist judges."
-Isaac
J. Harvie Wilkinson III wrote this opinion in the 4th circuit. He's Reaganite authoritarian on the most "conservative" appellate bench in the country. You might remember him as the brave patriot who upheld the right of the executive branch of the US Government to indefinitely detain any US Citizen with no access to counsel, court, or any legal process to challenge that detention.
Basically, the 4th circuit is an incredibly hostile place for "the little guy" when challenging a big business.
-Isaac
More to the point, we already lost a city this decade - New Orleans. It wasn't lost to some surprise terrorist attack noone foresaw, either. Talk about being behind the curve.
-Isaac
Improvements in the tools (CAD/CAM) and the methods (finite element analysis) are to "blame" for this "problem."
I love overbuilt gear, too, but a RAZR built with 14 gauge galvanized steel would weigh a pound and cost as much as your old XT did when new. I for one welcome our cheap-gadget-engineering overlords.
-Isaac
Yep. That's why voters in Seattle approved Initiative 91 requiring the city to receive a "fair value" cash profit greater than or equal to the rate of return on a 30-year U.S. Treasury Bond in exchange for any subsidy. It was approved by a 3-1 margin (74%-26%), I think accurately reflecting how fed up people are state subsidies for billionaire team owners (Allen, Schultz).
I call this a ray of hope.
-Isaac
Are Gödel's incompleteness theorems not sufficient? I don't posit that the mind's workings can't be replicated by any machine, but that the Turing machine, operating under the rules of its particular formal system, is simply not capable of deriving all true statements within that system.
Surely this applies to the human mind as well - but the ability to define the formal system of the human mind (given its chaotic nature) would truly be god-like. The trivial ease with which humans can come up with formally indecidable propositions ("This statement is false") suggests that our mind operates at least part of the time in symbolic modes quite different than those of language or mathematics.
-Isaac
Mark Hurd knew or should have known as much or more about the details of this spy scandal than Patty Dunn. He got detailed reports on the progress of the investigation and somehow was allowed to skate on "I'm sorry, I should have read them but I didn't."
Thing is, Mark's beloved by investors for righting (however temporarily) the sinking ship of HP. He's also better at eating shit than Ms. Dunn, as anyone who watched the congressional hearings can attest. Looks like he's home-free at this point.
I hope karma pays him back, because I don't believe he knew nothing about the Nixonian extent of the spying undertaken in HP's name.
-Isaac
ext2 will be just fine for your read-only root. CF is the wrong choice for locally writeable storage in an environment where you could lose power at any time. Either build some measure of power isolation into your product to provide time for a graceful shutdown or use media without write-cycle limitations (microdrive?)
JFFS2 doesn't do you a lick of good on CF where the flash structure is abstracted by a translation layer. You don't want a journaling filesystem, either.
-Isaac