Sure this technique has tons of false negatives, but I think it has fewer false positives than many other interview techniques. False positives are a much bigger problem then false negatives when hiring.
When I was a 4th grader in the 1980s my dad worked for HP. He was a middle manager. On our school's career day, he would bring a bunch of computers from work and set them up with games (moon lander, artillery, etc..). I don't remember any talk about careers or anything else, but I still remember playing the games and thinking that computers were cool. And voila, now I'm a programmer.
Obviously now-a-days most of those kids have computers at home and have games better than anything you have at your company, but I think the core thing to do is to give the kids something to have fun with that is vaguely related to where you work. Forget about the details of your individual job.
If you read that article closely, you'll note that the author forgets to mention some combinations and corrects himself in the comments:
"If you have DVI or HDMI without HDCP (ICT set or not), you don't get any video output. You must use an analog connection at this point. You can either use VGA or Component. Again, if ICT is not set, VGA will give you full resolution still (which is 1080p). Component will give you 1080i if ICT not set."
So, he is saying you can't get high quality digital output in some cases.
That's because the stuff you're downloading probably isn't WMV (HD) content. Like the article says, it doesn't degrade formats like X264 or DivX. So if you have people with HD recording equipment and they have some encoder that defaults to WMV (HD), they're gonna get stuff that doesn't play on their own system.
I found that nothing beats roasting the coffee yourself. Not only do you learn what combination of beans / roasting level you like best, but it is actually cheaper. Check out Sweet Marias (http://www.sweetmarias.com/) if you want to get started. It is really easy.
I bought one of the first Priuses when they first became available in the U.S. It is a great car. If you don't tell people it is a hybrid car before they drive it they never notice. From a standard car user point of view there is no difference between it and a normal car.
If you are some sort of car geek there may be issues with it, but take things like "no pickup at freeway speeds" with a grain of salt. Who cares? Can you drive it on the freeway? Of course. Can you pass, merge, drive up and down steep hills? Of course. Most of that stuff is like computer geeks who will talk your ears off for hours about the advantages of DDR RAM over conventional SDRAM. Of course there is a difference, but whichever you use, you can still write your email.
But there are some real differences between the Prius and a regular car. It costs half as much to operate than just about any other car from the gas savings (for me about $2000 a year). Also it produces 90% less polution than just about any other car. Those are real differences that really matter.
Anime with great writing as well as great art
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Memories - Three stories by Katsuhiro Ôtomo (directed Akira). Not available in English as far as I know, but look for an Anime club near where you live. There are bootleg, subtitled copies running around.
Wings of Honneamise (Honneamise no tsubasa) - Great sort of alternate history of the space program.
If you write an open source client/server that supports RN's plug-in API, you can use RN's plug-ins to get access to a bunch of codecs. Of course, you are still stuck with a bunch of proprietary codecs, but you can add some open source plug-ins and give people both.
If you still want HTML formatted emails and you want to avoid this problem, you can turn off images and those GET requests containing your email address will not be made.
There really needs to be a magazine for computers like Consumer Reports. It would need to follow their rules:
No advertising.
The ratings cannot be used for advertising.
All tested items must be bought through retailers who do not know the item is for the magazine. Items donated by the manufacturer must not be accepted.
It would take new releases of the browsers. SSL lets you pick which encryption algorithm you wish to use. If the browsers just picked Diffie-Hellman, then there would be no issue. One good thing to keep in mind is that some of the other RSA algorithms expire in the next few years. This means that you'll no longer have to license this stuff from RSA.
Even if you move to somewhere where it is legal to export SSL, it would still be illegal to sell your product in the US because it would violate RSA's patents. This is a good example of what happens when you base a standard on proprietary algorithms.
I think that the Dvorak layout is more comfortable. I've been using it on a Kinesis Classic QD for over a year now and every time I type on a qwerty keyboard I notice how annoying it was. I really doubt my speed has increased much. I'm certainly not any slower.
You should start monitoring the email of the executives' that want you to do this. You could probably find some juicy bits and blackmail them into letting you not monitor the email.
I just heard about this book recently in light of recent events. It is extremely interesting to see how deep these problems of exclusion and rejection are. By the first grade, many students are already rejected by their peers. The book explores what happens when the author, Vivian Gussin Paley a kindergarten teacher, sets a new rule for her students: 'You can't say you can't play'. Short book. Great read.
Wanted to express my support for the new system. While I will be keeping my threshold at -1000, I like many ideas in the new system and am very curious to see how it works out.
Keep up the amazing work Rob and thanks.
As a penalty for the inexcusable flattery of this comment, I request my score be lowered as far as is possible.
What if you like reading anonymously and you want to see all of the posts? Up to this point, I was reading anonymously because the defaults were fine with me and I figured it cut down on stressing the Slashdot machines. Now I have to stay logged in all the time because I want my threshhold at -1000.
Since I have to stay logged in, Rob could easily keep track of the my activities on Slashdot. While I trust that Rob doesn't really care and isn't really keeping track beyond my non-anonymous posts, I prefer systems which rely on trust as little as possible.
A technical solution might be the ability to add the threshold option to the URL so you can specify it without having an account.
As an aside, I think Rob should pick a Magic Number which just means no moderation at all instead of saying things like -1000. As soon as Rob hits 1000 moderators or changes the amount a moderator can change the score, -1000 may not work anymore.
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I really think you shouldn't have to use one of these, but it would solve your problem: Sendgrid, Mandril, or Amazon SES.
Sure this technique has tons of false negatives, but I think it has fewer false positives than many other interview techniques. False positives are a much bigger problem then false negatives when hiring.
The article says "encryption password" which makes way more sense.
When I was a 4th grader in the 1980s my dad worked for HP. He was a middle manager. On our school's career day, he would bring a bunch of computers from work and set them up with games (moon lander, artillery, etc..). I don't remember any talk about careers or anything else, but I still remember playing the games and thinking that computers were cool. And voila, now I'm a programmer.
Obviously now-a-days most of those kids have computers at home and have games better than anything you have at your company, but I think the core thing to do is to give the kids something to have fun with that is vaguely related to where you work. Forget about the details of your individual job.
Mechanism
The text that accompanies the water molecule breaking apart says 'chemical reaction'.
The first yellowish block is labeled 'catalyst'.
The second orangish block is labeled 'electrolytic membrane'.
The third yellowish block is labeled 'catalyst'.
The red text that happens in the yellow says 'the hydrogen releases electrons'. The labels are 'hydrogen ions' and 'electrons'.
If you read that article closely, you'll note that the author forgets to mention some combinations and corrects himself in the comments:
"If you have DVI or HDMI without HDCP (ICT set or not), you don't get any video output. You must use an analog connection at this point. You can either use VGA or Component. Again, if ICT is not set, VGA will give you full resolution still (which is 1080p). Component will give you 1080i if ICT not set."
So, he is saying you can't get high quality digital output in some cases.
That's because the stuff you're downloading probably isn't WMV (HD) content. Like the article says, it doesn't degrade formats like X264 or DivX. So if you have people with HD recording equipment and they have some encoder that defaults to WMV (HD), they're gonna get stuff that doesn't play on their own system.
I found that nothing beats roasting the coffee yourself. Not only do you learn what combination of beans / roasting level you like best, but it is actually cheaper. Check out Sweet Marias (http://www.sweetmarias.com/) if you want to get started. It is really easy.
I bought one of the first Priuses when they first became available in the U.S. It is a great car. If you don't tell people it is a hybrid car before they drive it they never notice. From a standard car user point of view there is no difference between it and a normal car.
If you are some sort of car geek there may be issues with it, but take things like "no pickup at freeway speeds" with a grain of salt. Who cares? Can you drive it on the freeway? Of course. Can you pass, merge, drive up and down steep hills? Of course. Most of that stuff is like computer geeks who will talk your ears off for hours about the advantages of DDR RAM over conventional SDRAM. Of course there is a difference, but whichever you use, you can still write your email.
But there are some real differences between the Prius and a regular car. It costs half as much to operate than just about any other car from the gas savings (for me about $2000 a year). Also it produces 90% less polution than just about any other car. Those are real differences that really matter.
Memories - Three stories by Katsuhiro Ôtomo (directed Akira). Not available in English as far as I know, but look for an Anime club near where you live. There are bootleg, subtitled copies running around.
Wings of Honneamise (Honneamise no tsubasa) - Great sort of alternate history of the space program.
If you write an open source client/server that supports RN's plug-in API, you can use RN's plug-ins to get access to a bunch of codecs. Of course, you are still stuck with a bunch of proprietary codecs, but you can add some open source plug-ins and give people both.
If you still want HTML formatted emails and you want to avoid this problem, you can turn off images and those GET requests containing your email address will not be made.
It isn't bullshit. There are some magazines that flat out will change your rating if you buy adds with them.
It would take new releases of the browsers. SSL lets you pick which encryption algorithm you wish to use. If the browsers just picked Diffie-Hellman, then there would be no issue. One good thing to keep in mind is that some of the other RSA algorithms expire in the next few years. This means that you'll no longer have to license this stuff from RSA.
Even if you move to somewhere where it is legal to export SSL, it would still be illegal to sell your product in the US because it would violate RSA's patents. This is a good example of what happens when you base a standard on proprietary algorithms.
I think that the Dvorak layout is more comfortable. I've been using it on a Kinesis Classic QD for over a year now and every time I type on a qwerty keyboard I notice how annoying it was. I really doubt my speed has increased much. I'm certainly not any slower.
You should start monitoring the email of the executives' that want you to do this. You could probably find some juicy bits and blackmail them into letting you not monitor the email.
I just heard about this book recently in light of recent events. It is extremely interesting to see how deep these problems of exclusion and rejection are. By the first grade, many students are already rejected by their peers. The book explores what happens when the author, Vivian Gussin Paley a kindergarten teacher, sets a new rule for her students: 'You can't say you can't play'. Short book. Great read.
Then what is it? A hallucination?
Wanted to express my support for the new system. While I will be keeping my threshold at -1000, I like many ideas in the new system and am very curious to see how it works out.
Keep up the amazing work Rob and thanks.
As a penalty for the inexcusable flattery of this comment, I request my score be lowered as far as is possible.
What if you like reading anonymously and you want to see all of the posts? Up to this point, I was reading anonymously because the defaults were fine with me and I figured it cut down on stressing the Slashdot machines. Now I have to stay logged in all the time because I want my threshhold at -1000.
Since I have to stay logged in, Rob could easily keep track of the my activities on Slashdot. While I trust that Rob doesn't really care and isn't really keeping track beyond my non-anonymous posts, I prefer systems which rely on trust as little as possible.
A technical solution might be the ability to add the threshold option to the URL so you can specify it without having an account.
As an aside, I think Rob should pick a Magic Number which just means no moderation at all instead of saying things like -1000. As soon as Rob hits 1000 moderators or changes the amount a moderator can change the score, -1000 may not work anymore.