mod_python is most definately not a requirement, although it is an option, there are several other ways to host python web apps, and fastcgi seems to be one of the more popular, there are also a large number of hosting providers that explicitly support python web apps , including some that specialize in it.
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Anyone still here? Has anyone bothered to read down this far? Are you seriously telling me, that if a candidate turned up with everything else in spades, but only used mysql before, he would be out the window? How about someone who wasnt familiar with just the testing tools? Every single thing other than 5 years java should probably be listed as "an advantage", if you end up hiring someone who cant learn a few new tools quickly, then your hiring process is braindead anyway.
2. "We offer a competitive salary," - meaningless, you will pay as little as you think I will work for, like any other sane employer. "a fun team-oriented casual work environment," - who claims not to? "excellent benefits including medical, dental, 401-k, section 125 plan, PTO and holidays." - fairly standard package
If I am a well paid successful developer, why do I bother to apply? I have no idea if you are even willing to match my existing salary. You may not want to put a price out on the table so early, but I may not be bothered to waste my time finding out if you are competitive. The job market is good right now, you dont have the power you had a couple of years ago. If you want me to apply for the job , tempt me. A fun environment? prove it, where are the photographs? Google looks like a fun environment, and I know without looking, its hard to avoid all of the photos of their offices. What do yours look like? I have no idea. And my default vision is one of bog standard cubicles and drudgery. If thats not what you are offering then make a big song and dance about it. It matters.
3. The position is in our Fremont, California headquarters, but we are open to applicants in the United States who are willing to travel frequently.
Why isnt this information in the main job information page? Why is it only in hte forum posting? And why dont you link to the precise page for the job information rather than the generic careers page and make me figure out what you are talking about? Second of all, I live in Ireland, I work for a company in California, I do great work. Shame you have cut off a massive no. of developers by demanding I work in your office and am a citizen of your country.
4. One of the main things that attract me to an new oppertunity are the people I will be working with. In your case I have no idea who they are. Any of your developers contribute to famous OSS projects? Any well known? Any talk at a lot of conferences? If so make a big deal out of it, I have moved jobs to work the right people.
You seem to think you are offering a great oppertunity, and it may be that you are. But your job posting does not reflect it. The requirement are unduly rigid, I would think upon reading them that they where concocted by a moronic HR department. There are many candidates out there you would be lucky to get who do not match them. The tone of the posting says "form letter". Get your team direct control of their job ads, you will be glad you did.
Not at all. I've been reading books from my phone for over 2 years, using ReadM first on a 7650 and now MobiPocket on a 6630 (I prefer ReadM but sadly it doesnt seem to work on the 6630). I just convert the book to html and run it through pyrite publisher and bluetooth the book to my phone. If you like scifi and fantasy the Baen free library (www.baen.com) is a great place to get books to try this out. You stop noticing the small screen pretty quickly and become immersed in the story. Turning pages is less effort than with a book , and soon you do it without consciously thinking about it.
VERY GREY looking. C'mon, lads, if you want to be competing with other user desktops, then you've got to invest in some (just a couple) designers to make it look like soemthing I'd want to use, instead of a 3rd year students' OS project.
I picked up code reading about a year ago and began to devour it, only to walk away dissapointed. This is a book I wish someone had handed me when i was fresh out of college, but anyone with a few years of experience of working on large codebases is probably going to find little of value in here. Being told what if statements mean can be a little patronising. The section of the book that compares and contrasts structures from different languages can be useful if you are making a transition to a new language. The text is well written , but I would advise anyone who is thinking of picking up a copy to browse it in a bookstore first to make sure there is some valuable material for them in there before parting with their cash.
http://www3.europarl.eu.int/omk/omnsapir.so/cale nd ar?APP=PV2&LANGUE=EN (click on the 24th).
All in all it looks great to me, its hard to imagine what kind of software can be patented with those amendments, very little. The only down side are the first handfull of amendments that go on about how god himself gave us patents, gee arent they great and the EU commits itself to worshipping at the foot of the patent alter once a day and twice on sundays. If i where reading the bill i would read these sections as the intent of the bill, and the rest as the detail, if the finished product still conveys that impression then these declarations of intent/undying love could be used as a foundation for attacks on the 'detail' in the future.
Sean
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A vat of acid costs the same no matter where you use it:) But seriously, while the uk goverment could probably get away with having a frigate pull along side and say 'give us the machine or we take it by force' , if they arrest the operators of the platform they have a whole bunch of problems. The last time the 'king' went to court it was for taking potshots at a passing fishing vessel from the platform. The judge ruled that he did not have jurisdiction, so the only trial which has touched on the platforms status as a soverign nation went their way. It could take years just to prove the uk courts have juridiction (or not as the case may be). Dropping a hard drive that the police have come to sieze in a vat of acid when you are definately on uk soil results in a charge of destroying evidence that will be a lot easier to pursue.
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They prefer not to know who you are, they advise you use anonymous remailers to contact them, and various difficult to trace means of payment. If they dont know who you are, then how does the goverment of your country even know if you are one of their citizens? They also promise that they will not turn over your data(or did the 'kings' remarks seem to call that into question), and in the event of an armed attack on the platform they drop your disks into a vat of acid and turn over the rest of the box.
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Believe it or not the book does go to a great deal of effort to make this tale at least a little plausible, the explanations given are not too far fetched (if a little long winded), and bear in mind, 12000 years ago the climate was just peachy in the Antartic.
terrible review, but the book is well worth readin
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I picked up a copy a few weeks back. The story is good, and the background is interesting, although i do think the author has spent far more time than is healthy pouring over 'chariot of the gods'. In short if you like this kind of book its entertaining , if you dont, this book wont change your mind, its no great work of literature , but itsnt badly written.
I found it passed the time on the bus to work quite nicely.
While i agree with you , if the person in question is remotely technical, if not this just doesnt work. The average computer user is practically authistic when it comes to application use. Hide a toolbar , move a button, in some cases delete their desktop icon so they have to hunt in the start menu, and that it. The sky has fallen in, the computer has broken, and if you admit that you are responsible god help you. The average, I write memos word user learnt to use it by rote. They dont understand the concepts and principles and they dont want to. Expecting them to adjust to a new user interface intuitively is a pipe dream. Give them a nice little day long class and some printouts and cheatsheets to bring back to their desk and then you have a hope.
This is incredibly obvious, one click printing, one click login, one click program launch. its not that no one thought of this before, its that its generally considered a bad idea, just like storing your clients credit card details long term (which you have to do to make 1 click work) is a bad idea.
I have lost count over the years of the amount of times where i've had to argue for more clicks for these kind of processes from a safety/responsibility point of view.
On top of which you have gjc which allows native compilation on linux (they have eclipse running on it now).
Personally i think mono is a needless duplication of effort whose only real benificiary is microsoft. If the mono effort was aimed at the existing open source jvm's it would be a real kick in the teeth for microsoft.
My advice is to find somewhere that really caters for people who are working as well as studying. Anywhere thats overly tough on deadlines is not going to work out for you. No matter how dedicated you are emergencies are going to crop up from time to time , and your livelihood is always going to win out over your studies. I started a mathematics degree with the Open University (Correspondance course with a good rep) this year, but i missed to many deadlines when the company i worked for went into liquidation, so I've given up for this year and am going to start from scratch next year. it was tough going , but if it had'nt been for the liquidation it would have been manageable. Maybe theres a similar flexible correspondance course that covers your area (as far as i know the open university covers just about everywhere see www.open.ac.uk)
try reading bitter java (not an anti java book, just a practical and realistic one), I believe theres a free pdf of the book on theserverside.com. Its full of nothing but descriptions of problems with java.
This had to happen sooner or later, The more powerfull you make the phone, the bigger the chance you have opened a security hole and missed it. The best solution will probably be for the phones to automatically check with your service provider if there is an upgrade for their firmware when you power them on, and query if you want to install it. If some-one finds a security-hole, nokia (or another major vendor), can patch it, distribute the patch to the mobile phone companies, and 2-3 days later all of the phones are immune. If this became common place, phone manufacturers would probably wind up competing on response times (dont buy nokia, motorla get their patches out twice as fast... etc , etc ). When you release a firmware upgrade. it will only be a matter of hours before the phone population is immune, and with the one open standard platform (as the major mobile manufacturers announced recently) it should become a relatively easy task.
Unless the NSA has come up with several mathemathical methods that the rest of the world has been searching for pretty damn hard , and missed (and its a big unless, they are the worlds biggest employer of mathemathicians so its not out of the question), then using trusted algorithms (e.g. IDEA and RSA) with large key sizes will make your data secure until the sun grows cold. As for do they care? Read up on echelon and draw your own conclusions.
The ability to decrypt messages sent by the Enigma machine in WWII has possibly had the greatest effect on the world today in terms on impact. Andrew Cairncross leaked enigma decrypts from bletchly park to the KGB, and they readily acknowledge they won the largest tank battle of WWII because of it. his autobiography "the enigma spy" is available. Rommel was mainly defeated because enigma decrypts where used to pinpoint which ships where shipping fuel and ammunition to his troops to raids on convoys would have maximum effect. Almost every major victory in WWII had an enigma decrypt behind it some where. David Kahns the codebreakers is probably the best text to go to for information on the enigma itself.
The enigma really is a great machine and gives a fantastic starting point into understanding other machine based ciphers . I emulated it in Java for a college project last year , but my hard drive died over the summer, so now I'm trying to hunt down my lecturer to get a copy of the source code back.
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Who needs to sell a product if you can make good money selling related services?? Good Tech Support,Good Documentation, these are the things our money should be spent on. I've spent a lot of time working in various tech support departments and I see the same thing over and over. Tech support is viewed by typical business's as nothing more than an expense, as a result as time goes on they are expected to do more with less money. slowly but surely the tech support departments morale crumbles (you should see the staff turnover in call centres), in the same company go visit the sales team,they will be as happy as can be as management see them as the breadwinners,but after a while the company starts to get a bad rep and things go pear shaped.
With the open-Source/Free model The techs and Documentation writers are all of a sudden the breadwinners. This is the main area therefore that companies can use to differentiate themselves and the customer gets a far better deal.
There are plenty of companies making fine money off free software. Redhat may have posted a loss but over here in Europe SuSe is making money. O'Reilly publishing makes good money off books on open source software and as a result they hire software creators to ensure that more will come. Cygnus software is bring in cash hand over fist by porting free software to new platforms.
You may be right , no project involving hundreds of people will spontaneously unite and sell a product. But the nature of the free software community is such that hundreds will and have united to work on massive projects. They just dont sell them at the end. They simply make it available. Once it is out there,there is nothing to stop members of the community making cash by supporting and servicing it.
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mod_python is most definately not a requirement, although it is an option, there are several other ways to host python web apps, and fastcgi
seems to be one of the more popular, there are also a large number of hosting providers that explicitly support python web apps , including
some that specialize in it.
1. You list 5 years experience in
Java Enterprise Application Development
JSP,
Servlets,
EJB,
Taglibs,
JDBC,
OO design and development,
JBoss,
BEA WebLogic,
IBM WebSphere,
HTML,
Javascript,
CSS,
Struts,
SOAP,
XML,
XSLT,
JUnit,
HttpUnit,
JWebUnit,
Cactus,
PostgreSQL,
Oracle,
DB2,
Linux
Anyone still here? Has anyone bothered to read down this far? Are you seriously telling me,
that if a candidate turned up with everything else in spades, but only used mysql before,
he would be out the window? How about someone who wasnt familiar with just the testing tools?
Every single thing other than 5 years java should probably be listed as "an advantage", if you
end up hiring someone who cant learn a few new tools quickly, then your hiring process is braindead
anyway.
2.
"We offer a competitive salary," - meaningless, you will pay as little as you think I will work for, like any other sane employer.
"a fun team-oriented casual work environment," - who claims not to?
"excellent benefits including medical, dental, 401-k, section 125 plan, PTO and holidays." - fairly standard package
If I am a well paid successful developer, why do I bother to apply? I have no idea if you are even willing
to match my existing salary. You may not want to put a price out on the table so early, but I may not
be bothered to waste my time finding out if you are competitive. The job market is good right now,
you dont have the power you had a couple of years ago. If you want me to apply for the job , tempt me.
A fun environment? prove it, where are the photographs? Google looks like a fun environment, and I know
without looking, its hard to avoid all of the photos of their offices. What do yours look like? I have no
idea. And my default vision is one of bog standard cubicles and drudgery. If thats not what you are offering
then make a big song and dance about it. It matters.
3. The position is in our Fremont, California headquarters, but we are open to applicants in the United States who are willing to travel frequently.
Why isnt this information in the main job information page? Why is it only in hte forum posting? And why dont you link to the precise page
for the job information rather than the generic careers page and make me figure out what you are talking about? Second of all, I live
in Ireland, I work for a company in California, I do great work. Shame you have cut off a massive no. of developers by demanding
I work in your office and am a citizen of your country.
4. One of the main things that attract me to an new oppertunity are the people I will be working with. In your case I have no idea
who they are. Any of your developers contribute to famous OSS projects? Any well known? Any talk at a lot of conferences? If so
make a big deal out of it, I have moved jobs to work the right people.
You seem to think you are offering a great oppertunity, and it may be that you are. But your job posting does not reflect it.
The requirement are unduly rigid, I would think upon reading them that they where concocted by a moronic HR department. There
are many candidates out there you would be lucky to get who do not match them. The tone of the posting says "form letter".
Get your team direct control of their job ads, you will be glad you did.
Not at all. I've been reading books from my phone for over 2 years, using ReadM first on a 7650 and now MobiPocket on a 6630 (I prefer ReadM but sadly it doesnt seem to work on the 6630). I just convert the book to html and run it through pyrite publisher and bluetooth the book to my phone. If you like scifi and fantasy the Baen free library (www.baen.com) is a great place to get books to try this out. You stop noticing the small screen pretty quickly and become immersed in the story. Turning pages is less effort than with a book , and soon you do it without consciously thinking about it.
VERY GREY looking. C'mon, lads, if you want to be competing with other user desktops, then you've got to invest in some (just a couple) designers to make it look like soemthing I'd want to use, instead of a 3rd year students' OS project.
I picked up code reading about a year ago and began to devour it, only to walk away dissapointed. This is a book I wish someone had handed me when i was fresh out of college, but anyone with a few years of experience of working on large codebases is probably going to find little of value in here. Being told what if statements mean can be a little patronising. The section of the book that compares and contrasts structures from different languages can be useful if you are making a transition to a new language. The text is well written , but I would advise anyone who is thinking of picking up a copy to browse it in a bookstore first to make sure there is some valuable material for them in there before parting with their cash.
Those guides will make minced meat of the average slashdotter. I've been and they know their stuff.
(And they'll let you bang away on a real enigma)
are available here
e nd ar?APP=PV2&LANGUE=EN
http://www3.europarl.eu.int/omk/omnsapir.so/cal
(click on the 24th).
All in all it looks great to me, its hard to imagine what kind of software
can be patented with those amendments, very little. The only down side are the
first handfull of amendments that go on about how god himself gave us patents,
gee arent they great and the EU commits itself to worshipping at the foot of the
patent alter once a day and twice on sundays. If i where reading the bill i would read these sections as the intent of the bill, and the rest as the detail,
if the finished product still conveys that impression then these declarations of intent/undying love could be used as a foundation for attacks on the 'detail' in the future.
Sean
A vat of acid costs the same no matter where you use it:) But seriously, while the uk goverment could probably get away with having a frigate pull along side and say 'give us the machine or we
take it by force' , if they arrest the operators of the platform they have a whole bunch of problems. The last time the 'king' went to court it was for taking potshots at a passing fishing vessel from the platform. The judge ruled that he did not have jurisdiction, so the only trial which has touched on the platforms status as a soverign nation went their way. It could take years just to prove the uk courts have juridiction (or not as the case may be). Dropping a hard drive that the police have come to sieze in a vat of acid when you are definately on uk soil results in a charge of destroying evidence that will be a lot easier to pursue.
They prefer not to know who you are, they advise you use anonymous remailers to contact them, and various difficult to trace means of payment. If they dont know who you are, then how does the goverment of your country even know if you are one of their citizens? They also promise that they will not turn over your data(or did the 'kings' remarks seem to call that into question), and in the event of an armed attack on the platform they drop your disks into a vat of acid and turn over the rest of the box.
Believe it or not the book does go to a great deal of effort to make this tale at least a little plausible, the explanations given are not too far fetched (if a little long winded), and bear in mind, 12000 years ago the climate was just peachy in the Antartic.
I picked up a copy a few weeks back. The story is good, and the background is interesting, although i do think the author has spent far more time than is healthy pouring over 'chariot of the gods'. In short if you like this kind of book its entertaining , if you dont, this book wont change your mind, its no great work of literature , but itsnt badly written.
I found it passed the time on the bus to work quite nicely.
While i agree with you , if the person in question is remotely technical, if not this just doesnt work. The average computer user is practically authistic when it comes to application use. Hide a toolbar , move a button, in some cases delete their desktop icon so they have to hunt in the start menu, and that it. The sky has fallen in, the computer has broken, and if you admit that you are responsible god help you. The average, I write memos word user learnt to use it by rote. They dont understand the concepts and principles and they dont want to. Expecting them to adjust to a new user interface intuitively is a pipe dream. Give them a nice little day long class and some printouts and cheatsheets to bring back to their desk and then you have a hope.
This is incredibly obvious ,
one click printing,
one click login,
one click program launch.
its not that no one thought of this before,
its that its generally considered a bad idea,
just like storing your clients credit card details
long term (which you have to do to make 1 click work) is a bad idea.
I have lost count over the years of the amount of times where i've had to argue for more clicks for these kind of processes from a safety/responsibility point of view.
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On top of which you have gjc which allows native compilation on linux (they have eclipse running on it now).
Personally i think mono is a needless duplication of effort whose only real benificiary is microsoft. If the mono effort was aimed at the existing open source jvm's it would be a real kick in the teeth for microsoft.
My advice is to find somewhere that really caters for people who are working as well as studying. Anywhere thats overly tough on deadlines is not going to work out for you. No matter how dedicated you are emergencies are going to crop up from time to time , and your livelihood is always going to win out over your studies. I started a mathematics degree with the Open University (Correspondance course with a good rep) this year, but i missed to many deadlines when the company i worked for went into liquidation, so I've given up for this year and am going to start from scratch next year. it was tough going , but if it had'nt been for the liquidation it would have been manageable. Maybe theres a similar flexible correspondance course that covers your area (as far as i know the open university covers just about everywhere see www.open.ac.uk)
try reading bitter java (not an anti java book, just a practical and realistic one), I believe theres a free pdf of the book on theserverside.com. Its full of nothing but descriptions of problems with java.
This had to happen sooner or later, The more powerfull you make the phone, the bigger the chance you have opened a security hole and missed it. The best solution will probably be for the phones to automatically check with your service provider if there is an upgrade for their firmware when you power them on, and query if you want to install it. If some-one finds a security-hole, nokia (or another major vendor), can patch it, distribute the patch to the mobile phone companies, and 2-3 days later all of the phones are immune. If this became common place, phone manufacturers would probably wind up competing on response times (dont buy nokia, motorla get their patches out twice as fast... etc , etc ). When you release a firmware upgrade. it will only be a matter of hours before the phone population is immune, and with the one open standard platform (as the major mobile manufacturers announced recently) it should become a relatively easy task.
Unless the NSA has come up with several mathemathical methods that the rest of the world has been searching for pretty damn hard , and missed (and its a big unless, they are the worlds biggest employer of mathemathicians so its not out of the question), then using trusted algorithms (e.g. IDEA and RSA) with large key sizes will make your data secure until the sun grows cold. As for do they care? Read up on echelon and draw your own conclusions.
The ability to decrypt messages sent by the Enigma
machine in WWII has possibly had the greatest
effect on the world today in terms on impact.
Andrew Cairncross leaked enigma decrypts from bletchly park to the KGB, and they readily acknowledge they won the largest tank battle of WWII because of it. his autobiography "the enigma spy" is available. Rommel was mainly defeated because enigma decrypts where used to pinpoint which ships where shipping fuel and ammunition to his troops to raids on convoys would have maximum effect. Almost every major victory in WWII had an enigma decrypt behind it some where. David Kahns the codebreakers is probably the best text to go to for information on the enigma itself.
The enigma really is a great machine and gives a fantastic starting point into understanding other machine based ciphers . I emulated it in Java for a college project last year , but my hard drive died over the summer, so now I'm trying to hunt down my lecturer to get a copy of the source code back.
Who needs to sell a product if you can make good money selling related services?? Good Tech Support,Good Documentation, these are the things our money should be spent on. I've spent a lot of time working in various tech support departments and I see the same thing over and over. Tech support is viewed by typical business's as nothing more than an expense, as a result as time goes on they are expected to do more with less money. slowly but surely the tech support departments morale crumbles (you should see the staff turnover in call centres), in the same company go visit the sales team,they will be as happy as can be as management see them as the breadwinners,but after a while the company starts to get a bad rep and things go pear shaped.
,there is nothing to stop members of the community making cash by supporting and servicing it.
With the open-Source/Free model The techs and Documentation writers are all of a sudden the breadwinners. This is the main area therefore that
companies can use to differentiate themselves and the customer gets a far better deal.
There are plenty of companies making fine money off free software. Redhat may have posted a loss but over here in Europe SuSe is making money. O'Reilly publishing makes good money off books on open source software and as a result they hire software creators to ensure that more will come.
Cygnus software is bring in cash hand over fist by porting free software to new platforms.
You may be right , no project involving hundreds of people will spontaneously unite and sell a product. But the nature of the free software community is such that hundreds will and have united to work on massive projects. They just dont sell them at the end. They simply make it available. Once it is out there