Well, you apply for web monkey work, they're going to see if you have the essentials. If you don't, forget about the "nice to haves".
Let's reverse the scenario - a web monkey who applies for an engineering job because he's worked as a web monkey at his previous job - an electrical engineering contractor - and has picked up some of the basics over the years. He'd be shown the door pretty quickly.
I tried for several years to teach an engineering friend how to code. The problem is that he couldn't get into the minutiae. The mindset is simply not the same.
If you had read the article, it says that in the days following getting inked, macrophages remove some of the ink and it gets to the lymph glands. All this is doing is killing cells with ink still in them, so the marcophages can remove the dead cells and the ink in them. If the inks were toxic, we'd know it by now because people with lots of tattoos would already be dropping like flies.
I would hope that, in the interest of the earth sustainability that he's going to write about, he practices what he preaches and only releases it in digital form. Any bets he doesn't?
How can they increase the supply of labor? Multiculturalism, racial integration, feminism and mass immigration increases the supply of labor, thus depressing wages and increasing corporate profits.
For a long time, this increase in the supply of labour allowed people to consume more. They could buy bigger houses, newer cars, take vacations, and the economy grew like crazy. A two-income family can earn and spend more than a single-income family, and all those "Rosie the Riveters" were no longer going to take a back seat in the economy. The growing economy created labour shortages, which increased wages, allowing people to consume even more. It was a "virtuous circle" that worked from the 1940s more or less to the late 1970s. Then things changed.
The trend of rising incomes was slowly undone, not by an increased supply of labour, but increases in productivity that averaged 2% per year. This is what created an over-supply of labour where there was none before, and is why real wages have remained stagnant for 40 years. Businesses, instead of taking those gains and re-investing them in employees, took to juicing the next quarter to keep their stocks up, even though in the long run this is self-defeating.
Les Bougon. No 's'. Awesome totally politically incorrect comedy with lots of social commentary (that was pilloried at the time by the intelligentsia as demeaning to certain members of society) and a surprise ending to the series. What other show would dare have a scruffy little dog named "Ben Laden" that eats on the table and drinks beer?
If you were one to write books and training, you might welcome fresh technologies.
+1 for cynicism, but I'll raise you 2:
The other reasons why people go for this are two-fold.
1. The whole industry is ADHD;
2. It makes it easy to "abandon ship" for another job because your current project is over-budget and over-time and that's not going to change, and you have experience with the latest hotness;
Bonus excuse: Since it's all new, nobody can tell at a glance that you're doing it wrong.:-)
A generation ago you could have said the same thing about typing. A generation before that, writing.
I have grand-kids, and I can assure you I know how to write and type. So did my mother. And of course my father could also read and write. And so could my grandparents. Sure, I took typing in high school, but how many people posting here have zero formal training to type? I'd wager most.
Unless you’re retired it’s almost impossible to live in the developed world and not interact with computers on a daily basis. So computer literacy is an important part of daily life in the USA
Nope. Half of all jobs, you'll interact with a device with a computer in it, whether you're working checkout at WallyWorld, punching up orders in a restaurant, filling in an order, or talking to the triage nurse at the hospital. None of these jobs require any knowledge of programming.
It's easy. Get behind the wheel and look like you know what you're doing, same as most weekend boaters. It's not like driving - you won't end up in the ditch or hitting the sidewalk.
Even docking isn't that hard.
Well, maybe they need to make an app to teach them how to cook? Because it's gotten to the point that making something from scratch is impossible for most people; they can't even fry a couple of eggs. That's why, when they go to college, they only buy microwavable crap. They've turned into the perfect "consumer."
Make it fast
Eat it fast
A pound of sugar
That's your breakfast.
Get diabetes
'cuz all you eat is Wheaties
and a bag of Cheesies
when you got the munchies
Get your obesity
freak on, it's destiny
Don't skip a calorie
Just don't eat next to me.
Seeing you stuff your face
Like it's some kinda race
Gotta slow down the pace
You can't even see your shoelace
Apple manufactures more computers in the US than anyone else does (Mac Pro line).
That's not saying a whole heck of a lot. The Mac Pro isn't exactly a large amount of their volume (as, say, the MacBook Pro, the MacBook Air, iPad, and iPhone). Dell's Alienware laptops and business servers are also still assembled in the US.
Also, Apple refuses to release sales figures for the Mac Pro, so there's no way to know, is there?
Well, I must say, that's a better argument for NOT preserving everything that's on the web than I was going to make,
That being said, from the second link:
The obsolescence of data is a real problem. Much of my old digital art is on Jaz discs, which are obsolete and very expensive to get transcribed.
Couldn't have been THAT important if you didn't make a copy to other media when you saw that Jaz disks were obsolete. Just like there were probably 1,000 floppies (5-1/4, 3-1/2) that I tossed while going through my "archives." Anything important was long moved to other media.
This is Apple. The factories will be designed and built in China. So will all those manufacturing jobs. Only the design of the vehicles will be done in the USA.
A 31-year-old man who infected a teenage girl with HIV two years ago was sentenced to 75 years in prison Wednesday.
But Matthew Louis Reese could face 20 more years in prison if a judge decides Thursday to add the sentence from a third charge to his punishment.
Earlier this week, Reese pleaded guilty to three charges: aggravated sexual assault of a child with a deadly weapon, aggravated sexual assault with serious bodily injury and sexual assault of a child.
The charges carried sentences of 55, 20 and 20 years in prison, respectively, and Dallas County prosecutors had asked visiting Judge Pat McDowell to make the sentences run consecutively.>more
So we do criminalize other behaviors that increase risk of infections
It's actually a lot LESS stressful than you'd think.
You have to understand that this scenario is not a "pass/fail" depending on producing a specific piece of code, but to evaluate if, in general, you have either (a) the required knowledge or (b) the ability to know how to pick it up as required.
Remember, most "programmers" fail basic tests, such as "bing, bang, boom". Or making a simple demonstration string class. This would demonstrate that you know the toolchain, how to acquire and free resources, know how to avoid buffer overruns, overloading +, -,/, *, == - you wouldn't necessarily be able to complete it in the time given because of the pressure, and that's understandable and should be explained to you.
Back when laptops cost $WAY_TOO_MUCH and were pretty crappy, I would throw my box, keyboard and mouse in my car "just in case" someone wanted me to whiteboard pseudo-code, I'd go get my box, plug it into a monitor, and write the actual code. It's actually easier to do than "this is how I would do it" - I had my work environment, my compilers, and everything else I needed. Plus, my handwriting, even on a whiteboard, is awful - so I end up drawing pictures instead if I can.
Using your own keyboard is a lot better than using $RANDOM_KEYBOARD that's hanging around their office - you get used to a keyboard and will make more mistakes if you use one from someone else - that's why you can have it when you pry it out of my cold dead hands.
Also remember - doing this takes the attention off you and onto the code itself, so you can explain it as you go along. Even if you only write mostly stubs with TODO comments and hard-coded test values, it will show how you analyze problems and organize yourself to tackle them.
After that, it becomes much easier to talk, because there's not much of a question that you are capable of doing jobs that are thrown at you, organizing a plan of attack, and doing the research to execute it. And of course, your interactions as you explain what you're doing and why will let them judge if you know how to communicate and whether you're also a good "social fit" for the rest of the team.
With laptops going so cheap, there's really not a reason to NOT bring your toolchain with you.
It's a lot easier than answering questions that are designed to trip people up. Even if the person doing the interviewing isn't a coder, but can, with your explanations, pretty much follow what you do, you're going to be a winner.
So why not just give them 30 minutes to research the question, making sure to tell them what language your software development is, and then see if they come up with something relevant? For example, if it's java, they shouldn't have a problem finding and reading the Java SE java Cryptography Architecture (JCA) Reference Guide. For C, C++, C#, Python, they can start here.
This way you'll get a feel as to whether there's a hope that they can at least make a start at adapting the right library to your needs. You can even do it with her as the other part of a "pair"; this way, you can discuss the thinking behind her decisions at any point and then maybe discuss other solutions, or how she would attack other problems. You also get a feel as to whether the candidate is a good fit with your other people.
Give Bob (or Fred) a seemingly glowing recommendation - it's the best way to get rid of him. Examples:
"He will be missed if he ever leaves. He's an integral part of the company, like our morning cup of coffee" (because he gets the donuts).
"If the competition ever hires him, it will be deadly (for the competition)
"He's basically the only guy here who, when it comes to coding against a tight deadline, can always be trusted (to f*ck it up.
"Whatever we're paying him, he's worth every cent" (but nothing to the left side of the decimal point on his paycheck).
"He's responsible for a lot of the new technology we have here in the last year" (like the thumb scanner timeclocks and surveillance cameras so he can't just turn on his computer and then go to the washroom to read the entire newspaper, including doing the crossword puzzle).
"He's the go-to guy if you need to find something obscure on the net and you don't know where to look" (like kiddie porn, sex with a donkey, or his foot fetish).
I'm sure you can think of more. And good luck with Fred.
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Php unfortunately has the most bizarest of language constructs
Let me introduce you to perl - a language that often looks like line noise.
Well, you apply for web monkey work, they're going to see if you have the essentials. If you don't, forget about the "nice to haves".
Let's reverse the scenario - a web monkey who applies for an engineering job because he's worked as a web monkey at his previous job - an electrical engineering contractor - and has picked up some of the basics over the years. He'd be shown the door pretty quickly.
I tried for several years to teach an engineering friend how to code. The problem is that he couldn't get into the minutiae. The mindset is simply not the same.
The cream only kills cells with ink, so when the macrophages dispose of the dead cells, the ink goes along for the ride.
If you had read the article, it says that in the days following getting inked, macrophages remove some of the ink and it gets to the lymph glands. All this is doing is killing cells with ink still in them, so the marcophages can remove the dead cells and the ink in them. If the inks were toxic, we'd know it by now because people with lots of tattoos would already be dropping like flies.
I would hope that, in the interest of the earth sustainability that he's going to write about, he practices what he preaches and only releases it in digital form. Any bets he doesn't?
How can they increase the supply of labor? Multiculturalism, racial integration, feminism and mass immigration increases the supply of labor, thus depressing wages and increasing corporate profits.
For a long time, this increase in the supply of labour allowed people to consume more. They could buy bigger houses, newer cars, take vacations, and the economy grew like crazy. A two-income family can earn and spend more than a single-income family, and all those "Rosie the Riveters" were no longer going to take a back seat in the economy. The growing economy created labour shortages, which increased wages, allowing people to consume even more. It was a "virtuous circle" that worked from the 1940s more or less to the late 1970s. Then things changed.
The trend of rising incomes was slowly undone, not by an increased supply of labour, but increases in productivity that averaged 2% per year. This is what created an over-supply of labour where there was none before, and is why real wages have remained stagnant for 40 years. Businesses, instead of taking those gains and re-investing them in employees, took to juicing the next quarter to keep their stocks up, even though in the long run this is self-defeating.
Les Bougon. No 's'. Awesome totally politically incorrect comedy with lots of social commentary (that was pilloried at the time by the intelligentsia as demeaning to certain members of society) and a surprise ending to the series. What other show would dare have a scruffy little dog named "Ben Laden" that eats on the table and drinks beer?
This comment is a lie.
You'll be having interviews with companies you most likely won't want to work for.
Hasn't that been true since at least the turn of the century?
If you were one to write books and training, you might welcome fresh technologies.
+1 for cynicism, but I'll raise you 2:
The other reasons why people go for this are two-fold.
Bonus excuse: Since it's all new, nobody can tell at a glance that you're doing it wrong. :-)
A generation ago you could have said the same thing about typing. A generation before that, writing.
I have grand-kids, and I can assure you I know how to write and type. So did my mother. And of course my father could also read and write. And so could my grandparents. Sure, I took typing in high school, but how many people posting here have zero formal training to type? I'd wager most.
Teach them perl.
You know the old saying, it was hard to write, it should be hard to read.
Unless you’re retired it’s almost impossible to live in the developed world and not interact with computers on a daily basis. So computer literacy is an important part of daily life in the USA
Nope. Half of all jobs, you'll interact with a device with a computer in it, whether you're working checkout at WallyWorld, punching up orders in a restaurant, filling in an order, or talking to the triage nurse at the hospital. None of these jobs require any knowledge of programming.
It's easy. Get behind the wheel and look like you know what you're doing, same as most weekend boaters. It's not like driving - you won't end up in the ditch or hitting the sidewalk.
Even docking isn't that hard.
Make it fast
Eat it fast
A pound of sugar
That's your breakfast.
Get diabetes
'cuz all you eat is Wheaties
and a bag of Cheesies
when you got the munchies
Get your obesity
freak on, it's destiny
Don't skip a calorie
Just don't eat next to me.
Seeing you stuff your face
Like it's some kinda race
Gotta slow down the pace
You can't even see your shoelace
Apple manufactures more computers in the US than anyone else does (Mac Pro line).
That's not saying a whole heck of a lot. The Mac Pro isn't exactly a large amount of their volume (as, say, the MacBook Pro, the MacBook Air, iPad, and iPhone). Dell's Alienware laptops and business servers are also still assembled in the US.
Also, Apple refuses to release sales figures for the Mac Pro, so there's no way to know, is there?
Well, I must say, that's a better argument for NOT preserving everything that's on the web than I was going to make,
That being said, from the second link:
The obsolescence of data is a real problem. Much of my old digital art is on Jaz discs, which are obsolete and very expensive to get transcribed.
Couldn't have been THAT important if you didn't make a copy to other media when you saw that Jaz disks were obsolete. Just like there were probably 1,000 floppies (5-1/4, 3-1/2) that I tossed while going through my "archives." Anything important was long moved to other media.
Don't encourage stupidity, stupid!
This is Apple. The factories will be designed and built in China. So will all those manufacturing jobs. Only the design of the vehicles will be done in the USA.
The real question is "Will it bend?"
Carjackers can apply to Apple as "automotive security experts" to do penetration testing, etc.
Go look it up yourself. It's all over the web, and I've also replied to it elsewhere.
Wearing a mask is a false security. Touch something, instinctively rub you eye, oops!
Further we don't criminalize other behaviors that increase risk of infections
Having unprotected sex if you have HIV and don't inform your partner(s) in advance will get you a visit to jail. This guy got 5 years. 12 year sentence here. In Arkansas, this guy got 12 years.This guy in Texas, 15 years in jail.
And then we have this loser
A 31-year-old man who infected a teenage girl with HIV two years ago was sentenced to 75 years in prison Wednesday.
But Matthew Louis Reese could face 20 more years in prison if a judge decides Thursday to add the sentence from a third charge to his punishment.
Earlier this week, Reese pleaded guilty to three charges: aggravated sexual assault of a child with a deadly weapon, aggravated sexual assault with serious bodily injury and sexual assault of a child.
The charges carried sentences of 55, 20 and 20 years in prison, respectively, and Dallas County prosecutors had asked visiting Judge Pat McDowell to make the sentences run consecutively.>more
So we do criminalize other behaviors that increase risk of infections
It's actually a lot LESS stressful than you'd think.
You have to understand that this scenario is not a "pass/fail" depending on producing a specific piece of code, but to evaluate if, in general, you have either (a) the required knowledge or (b) the ability to know how to pick it up as required.
Remember, most "programmers" fail basic tests, such as "bing, bang, boom". Or making a simple demonstration string class. This would demonstrate that you know the toolchain, how to acquire and free resources, know how to avoid buffer overruns, overloading +, -, /, *, == - you wouldn't necessarily be able to complete it in the time given because of the pressure, and that's understandable and should be explained to you.
Back when laptops cost $WAY_TOO_MUCH and were pretty crappy, I would throw my box, keyboard and mouse in my car "just in case" someone wanted me to whiteboard pseudo-code, I'd go get my box, plug it into a monitor, and write the actual code. It's actually easier to do than "this is how I would do it" - I had my work environment, my compilers, and everything else I needed. Plus, my handwriting, even on a whiteboard, is awful - so I end up drawing pictures instead if I can.
Using your own keyboard is a lot better than using $RANDOM_KEYBOARD that's hanging around their office - you get used to a keyboard and will make more mistakes if you use one from someone else - that's why you can have it when you pry it out of my cold dead hands.
Also remember - doing this takes the attention off you and onto the code itself, so you can explain it as you go along. Even if you only write mostly stubs with TODO comments and hard-coded test values, it will show how you analyze problems and organize yourself to tackle them.
After that, it becomes much easier to talk, because there's not much of a question that you are capable of doing jobs that are thrown at you, organizing a plan of attack, and doing the research to execute it. And of course, your interactions as you explain what you're doing and why will let them judge if you know how to communicate and whether you're also a good "social fit" for the rest of the team.
With laptops going so cheap, there's really not a reason to NOT bring your toolchain with you.
It's a lot easier than answering questions that are designed to trip people up. Even if the person doing the interviewing isn't a coder, but can, with your explanations, pretty much follow what you do, you're going to be a winner.
I specifically didn't mention zip. It's been broken for quite a while.
This way you'll get a feel as to whether there's a hope that they can at least make a start at adapting the right library to your needs. You can even do it with her as the other part of a "pair"; this way, you can discuss the thinking behind her decisions at any point and then maybe discuss other solutions, or how she would attack other problems. You also get a feel as to whether the candidate is a good fit with your other people.
Give Bob (or Fred) a seemingly glowing recommendation - it's the best way to get rid of him. Examples:
"He will be missed if he ever leaves. He's an integral part of the company, like our morning cup of coffee" (because he gets the donuts).
"If the competition ever hires him, it will be deadly (for the competition)
"He's basically the only guy here who, when it comes to coding against a tight deadline, can always be trusted (to f*ck it up.
"Whatever we're paying him, he's worth every cent" (but nothing to the left side of the decimal point on his paycheck).
"He's responsible for a lot of the new technology we have here in the last year" (like the thumb scanner timeclocks and surveillance cameras so he can't just turn on his computer and then go to the washroom to read the entire newspaper, including doing the crossword puzzle).
"He's the go-to guy if you need to find something obscure on the net and you don't know where to look" (like kiddie porn, sex with a donkey, or his foot fetish).
I'm sure you can think of more. And good luck with Fred.