The parent tried to be funny, but a lot of companies really do not know what exactly they require... maybe the developers are needing a QA software guy, but the HR people just thinks of "developing software" so the ads are that way. Of course, once inside, try to do some programming, maybe small tasks at start... those small tasks eventually have weight in your resume.
Other tactic is to apply to relatively small companies where most people makes a lot of everything, so for sure eventually you'll be asked to do some tasks in programming.
BEGIN-ARTICLE-EXCERPT Rob Malda, one of the founders of Slashdot, says that he chose Perl for......All languages can handle the obvious things nice enough now."
... This is a nice, politically neutral statement, but it doesn't solve the problem that in many shops, there must be only one Highlander. Only a kindergarten teacher would smile and say that all are equally good. END-OF-EXCERPT (bold mine)
The writer comes from that group of people that argues that X is the best programming language, because "obviously" there must be a best programing language for whatever reason. Maybe editors should return to Kindergarten before submitting this kind of "article".
Please no more... just focus on what is currently implemented (or annoyingly implemented.) First of any, do not conform with ".. opens MS Office files"... Please try to make a smooth interoperability. I believe most OO users have to deal with MSOffice users, and it causes a really bad impression when you provide an exported "to MS Office format" doc with bad and unpredictable looking (as usual.)
>> For most financial institutions their primary goal when it comes to information assurance is to pass audits
Totally agreed. Now, thinking about why it is that way, I suspect several factors contribute but at least from my experience:
1) The security audits, despite low in tech quality, are a lot of burden to comply, being counterproductive: most of the times just struggle in order to provide the "look" of a more secure environment from the point of view of a lawyer... At end of the year, the institution really spent a lot of resources and/or time in order to be compliant, instead of working toward a really more security environment.
The auditors should try a bit to explain the involved security risks and not reducing all to disagreements with the silver-bullet policies like PCI.
2) The financial institutions have a longer than average experience in internetworking, so they carry a big inertia from legacy systems (for example, there is a prevalent idea that hackers can't harm SNA networks)... so it is difficult to make a case that the current internets are a lot different than 20 years ago and require a totally different strategy.
I think you should be tired of suggestions about the mod system, but anyway....
About each six/twelve months I read a comment that compulsively deserves to be modded (and nobody cared.) I think you may provide anyone (or maybe anyone who ever cared to mod) with a single extra *persistent* and non-renewable mod point... call it your semestral "gold mod point", just for those cases of flagrant urgency. This also may avoid the redundant (and ubiquitous) sentence "If I had mod points!..."
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Maybe a bit off-topic, but why maybe somebody can explain why I have to compile several kernel modules for every VmWare installation (a bit annoying), and nothing of that sort happens on Win XX? This also happens on kernel upgrades. Please note I'm not trying to degrade Linux/Unix by any way, its just a question.
But note that there is no impediment in order to publish just-online peer reviewed journals... maybe that's the future or arXiv. Paper must die, it just creates silly troubles... we end needing, for example, sites like JSTOR in order to access out of print numbers or foreign non imported titles.
>Encryption without authentication is worthless to anyone who cares about security; if you don't know who you're communicating with, what's >the point of encryption? For all you know, they're the very people you're trying to hide from.
Your point is valid for the Internet. But maybe inside an intranet or extranet? some policies force to "encrypt everything" in the network, but using true CA-certs is a lot of extra burden (and cost) so it make sense to auto-sign. The rationale maybe that it is more difficult for corporate users to install -for example- a fake DNS/Web Server than just running some Windows sniffer.
I really don't know the true to this issue (It seems nobody agree here) but form the article:
"As a side note, the real reason airlines make you turn all your electronics off during takeoff and landing is so you aren't distracted and can hear and follow directions if something goes wrong."
Of course a diagnostic message for that kind of error would be too complicated/ugly for a standard XP-user, so the system just halts miserably. Later your vendor/rep says: aha... that happens to silly people that don't upgrade to the robustness of Vista!
Most companies put a contract in your nose making clear that it is "The Contract", take it of leave it (in your case, the mentioned clause.) Despite appearances, you *CAN* negotiate it (of course, every company tries to show itself as too big to negotiate with a single developer.. it is just a tactic.) If you have a large user/devel community, explain to the company managers that their reputation will go to the bath tube (imagine Sun closing the source of MySQL, don't now if they can); but if the "community" is just a couple of friends, I think they'll understand your decision to resign.
Maybe your rant against singular "third parties" is correct. But the remaining situation is the perfect one for the 700B-promoters: you have the illusion of being in power to select who is on charge, but in fact you're just electing the next guardian of their establishment.
>> Screw the third parties. If they would invest in America, they wouldn't find themselves on the outside looking in so much.
Why there was never a "third party" that "invested" in America? Do you think that all the patriotic US peoples are already inside the dem/reps?
>> My only hope is that the voters check for who is voting for this and get rid of them next election.
As US-Americans continue to vote for the traditional "proposed" democrat/republican, there is no sign for change, maybe just in the tone for declarations; both party elites' are too compromised with that kind of people and its millions (as the present $700B shows). Think of Nader and others that never "take off". Sad for you and for the rest of the world.
There is no such thing as end-user-OS-boot-time. It depends a lot on device drivers and system background utilities. For example, some piece of hardware AND some release version of its driver maybe causing your trouble... especially if that hardware is removed and the driver probes a lot of time just to be sure. Same for the AV software doing weird things in order to "secure" the system *before* user interaction... At least in the hardware side, this apply for Linux too.
Same here, just for one web site that sadly I often check (www.elcomercioperu.com) when using the selectors for pagination (lots of javascript.) Most of the times the full window system (Compiz) turns unresponsive for 2-8 seconds. Annoying. The Gnome panel do not responds. This do not happen with FF2.
BTW I don't understand why GP assumed some relation of these firefox issues with the Linux swap.
>>>When a comprehensive set of great unit tests are in place, then code can be changed at will and the tests will help the programmer understand if they broke anything
Sadly, writing tests is boring... and writing the "setup" code of mock objects, dummy/semi-random data, feeding the database with it, etc... is more boring.. but this all is needed for any real-world project. Yet most people assume that trivial junit tests in small non-coupled objects is the rule. Tipically this just avoids weird values in method parameters, but no good full system behavior.
Comparing the "millions" of lines of cobol appls with most languages is not fair. Most of those "millions" are devoted to things that on most current systems are regarded as "configuration" or "rules" or "auxiliar data files". Nobody talks about the "millions" of machine code lines that represent the compiled code, for example.
Despite that, I agree that Cobol is maybe the most used P.L. in business.
Operating System WinIE7 WinIE6 FF 1.5 FF 2 Safari Windows Vista Yes - Yes Yes - Windows XP SP2 Yes Yes Yes Yes - Windows 2000 - Yes No No - Win Server 2003 (ex IA-64)Yes Yes Yes Yes - Mac OS 10.4.8 (PowerPC) - - Yes Yes Yes Mac OS 10.4.8 (Intel-based)- - Yes Yes Yes
For me the best (but a bit unreal) advice would be: identify the problematic applications or better, the routines that consume most of the system resources.
In most cases despite a lot of "sysadmin work" (for example, tuning, recompilations, updates, etc) your performance will improve to a modest percentage (maybe around 5-20% is a reasonable number) but after discovering (and correcting) for example a cpu-bound loop, or some runaway processes, or "growing" memory leaks, you can gain an order of magnitude on performance or available resources.
The bad/unreal part is getting the cooperation from the developers, and after a solid demonstration of their "performance bugs", get management support for code rewrite. Of course this is difficult to do for most administrators because of 1) their lack of programming skills or certifications, but mainly because 2) developers are mostly uninterested in performance, specially after application deployment.
Specifically look for young Java programmers asking for more gigabytes of RAM and faster CPUs to create new threads for every little piece of data being processed... well, that were my worst experiences... In your LAMP system, depending on the application nature, a check in the query plans, database structure and indexes probably deserve most of your focus.
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The parent tried to be funny, but a lot of companies really do not know what exactly they require... maybe the developers are needing a QA software guy, but the HR people just thinks of "developing software" so the ads are that way. Of course, once inside, try to do some programming, maybe small tasks at start... those small tasks eventually have weight in your resume.
Other tactic is to apply to relatively small companies where most people makes a lot of everything, so for sure eventually you'll be asked to do some tasks in programming.
Sadly I agree; from the article:
BEGIN-ARTICLE-EXCERPT ...All languages can handle the obvious things nice enough now."
Rob Malda, one of the founders of Slashdot, says that he chose Perl for...
END-OF-EXCERPT
(bold mine)
The writer comes from that group of people that argues that X is the best programming language, because "obviously" there must be a best programing language for whatever reason. Maybe editors should return to Kindergarten before submitting this kind of "article".
Computer: I'm like soo depressed! Vista is not working
Slashdotter: For sure. Like, ya know, like, it's so bad.
Computer: You got that straight! Like, why, like, he, like, never worked for me!
Slashdotter: Like, oh - my - god! Like, I like know!
Computer: Like, you know me like so good!. Like, how tech savvy R U?
Slashdotter: No that like experienced than like you.
Repeat all the above.
Regarding the enthusiasts... from the resume:
>>> On Slashdot, Chrome is still the #4 browser (after FF, IE, and Safari)
Are those stats published somewhere?
Please no more... just focus on what is currently implemented (or annoyingly implemented.) First of any, do not conform with ".. opens MS Office files" ... Please try to make a smooth interoperability. I believe most OO users have to deal with MSOffice users, and it causes a really bad impression when you provide an exported "to MS Office format" doc with bad and unpredictable looking (as usual.)
>> For most financial institutions their primary goal when it comes to information assurance is to pass audits
Totally agreed. Now, thinking about why it is that way, I suspect several factors contribute but at least from my experience:
1) The security audits, despite low in tech quality, are a lot of burden to comply, being counterproductive: most of the times just struggle in order to provide the "look" of a more secure environment from the point of view of a lawyer... At end of the year, the institution really spent a lot of resources and/or time in order to be compliant, instead of working toward a really more security environment.
The auditors should try a bit to explain the involved security risks and not reducing all to disagreements with the silver-bullet policies like PCI.
2) The financial institutions have a longer than average experience in internetworking, so they carry a big inertia from legacy systems (for example, there is a prevalent idea that hackers can't harm SNA networks)... so it is difficult to make a case that the current internets are a lot different than 20 years ago and require a totally different strategy.
I think you should be tired of suggestions about the mod system, but anyway....
About each six/twelve months I read a comment that compulsively deserves to be modded (and nobody cared.) I think you may provide anyone (or maybe anyone who ever cared to mod) with a single extra *persistent* and non-renewable mod point... call it your semestral "gold mod point", just for those cases of flagrant urgency. This also may avoid the redundant (and ubiquitous) sentence "If I had mod points!..."
Maybe a bit off-topic, but why maybe somebody can explain why I have to compile several kernel modules for every VmWare installation (a bit annoying), and nothing of that sort happens on Win XX? This also happens on kernel upgrades. Please note I'm not trying to degrade Linux/Unix by any way, its just a question.
But note that there is no impediment in order to publish just-online peer reviewed journals... maybe that's the future or arXiv. Paper must die, it just creates silly troubles... we end needing, for example, sites like JSTOR in order to access out of print numbers or foreign non imported titles.
Hope it actually worked, not like like its unusable "POSIX" add-on environment, NFS client, etc...
>Encryption without authentication is worthless to anyone who cares about security; if you don't know who you're communicating with, what's
>the point of encryption? For all you know, they're the very people you're trying to hide from.
Your point is valid for the Internet. But maybe inside an intranet or extranet? some policies force to "encrypt everything" in the network, but using true CA-certs is a lot of extra burden (and cost) so it make sense to auto-sign. The rationale maybe that it is more difficult for corporate users to install -for example- a fake DNS/Web Server than just running some Windows sniffer.
I really don't know the true to this issue (It seems nobody agree here) but form the article:
"As a side note, the real reason airlines make you turn all your electronics off during takeoff and landing is so you aren't distracted and can hear and follow directions if something goes wrong."
Of course a diagnostic message for that kind of error would be too complicated/ugly for a standard XP-user, so the system just halts miserably. Later your vendor/rep says: aha... that happens to silly people that don't upgrade to the robustness of Vista!
Most companies put a contract in your nose making clear that it is "The Contract", take it of leave it (in your case, the mentioned clause.) Despite appearances, you *CAN* negotiate it (of course, every company tries to show itself as too big to negotiate with a single developer.. it is just a tactic.) If you have a large user/devel community, explain to the company managers that their reputation will go to the bath tube (imagine Sun closing the source of MySQL, don't now if they can); but if the "community" is just a couple of friends, I think they'll understand your decision to resign.
Maybe your rant against singular "third parties" is correct. But the remaining situation is the perfect one for the 700B-promoters: you have the illusion of being in power to select who is on charge, but in fact you're just electing the next guardian of their establishment.
>> Screw the third parties. If they would invest in America, they wouldn't find themselves on the outside looking in so much.
Why there was never a "third party" that "invested" in America? Do you think that all the patriotic US peoples are already inside the dem/reps?
>> My only hope is that the voters check for who is voting for this and get rid of them next election.
As US-Americans continue to vote for the traditional "proposed" democrat/republican, there is no sign for change, maybe just in the tone for declarations; both party elites' are too compromised with that kind of people and its millions (as the present $700B shows). Think of Nader and others that never "take off". Sad for you and for the rest of the world.
There is no such thing as end-user-OS-boot-time. It depends a lot on device drivers and system background utilities. For example, some piece of hardware AND some release version of its driver maybe causing your trouble... especially if that hardware is removed and the driver probes a lot of time just to be sure. Same for the AV software doing weird things in order to "secure" the system *before* user interaction... At least in the hardware side, this apply for Linux too.
Enterprise-grade AV software is supposed to consume all CPU time. So improve:
#!/bin/sh
echo "scanning for viruses..."
yes >/dev/null
Same here, just for one web site that sadly I often check (www.elcomercioperu.com) when using the selectors for pagination (lots of javascript.) Most of the times the full window system (Compiz) turns unresponsive for 2-8 seconds. Annoying. The Gnome panel do not responds. This do not happen with FF2.
BTW I don't understand why GP assumed some relation of these firefox issues with the Linux swap.
"If you only have a hammer, you tend to see every problem as a nail."
Abraham Maslow
>>>When a comprehensive set of great unit tests are in place, then code can be changed at will and the tests will help the programmer understand if they broke anything
Sadly, writing tests is boring... and writing the "setup" code of mock objects, dummy/semi-random data, feeding the database with it, etc... is more boring.. but this all is needed for any real-world project. Yet most people assume that trivial junit tests in small non-coupled objects is the rule. Tipically this just avoids weird values in method parameters, but no good full system behavior.
And they have plans to run Firefox 5.x in a Commodore 64.
Comparing the "millions" of lines of cobol appls with most languages is not fair. Most of those "millions" are devoted to things that on most current systems are regarded as "configuration" or "rules" or "auxiliar data files". Nobody talks about the "millions" of machine code lines that represent the compiled code, for example.
Despite that, I agree that Cobol is maybe the most used P.L. in business.
Yes, Firefox+Linux is not supported.
From the Silverlight installation page:
Compatible Operating Systems and Browsers
Operating System WinIE7 WinIE6 FF 1.5 FF 2 Safari
Windows Vista Yes - Yes Yes -
Windows XP SP2 Yes Yes Yes Yes -
Windows 2000 - Yes No No -
Win Server 2003 (ex IA-64)Yes Yes Yes Yes -
Mac OS 10.4.8 (PowerPC) - - Yes Yes Yes
Mac OS 10.4.8 (Intel-based)- - Yes Yes Yes
For me the best (but a bit unreal) advice would be: identify the problematic applications or better, the routines that consume most of the system resources.
In most cases despite a lot of "sysadmin work" (for example, tuning, recompilations, updates, etc) your performance will improve to a modest percentage (maybe around 5-20% is a reasonable number) but after discovering (and correcting) for example a cpu-bound loop, or some runaway processes, or "growing" memory leaks, you can gain an order of magnitude on performance or available resources.
The bad/unreal part is getting the cooperation from the developers, and after a solid demonstration of their "performance bugs", get management support for code rewrite. Of course this is difficult to do for most administrators because of 1) their lack of programming skills or certifications, but mainly because 2) developers are mostly uninterested in performance, specially after application deployment.
Specifically look for young Java programmers asking for more gigabytes of RAM and faster CPUs to create new threads for every little piece of data being processed... well, that were my worst experiences... In your LAMP system, depending on the application nature, a check in the query plans, database structure and indexes probably deserve most of your focus.