I looked at this (salesforce SAP, there's not much interpretation needed IIRC, it was really obvious. Sounds like someone in Diago didn't do their due diligence and took a punt at saving themselves a lot of money, via a court case, which would also cost them a chunck of change.
Same, I played with Windows 10 a bit, but after trying to figure out how to kill the telemetry, I thought - blow this. I only really kept it to play games. Have installed Mint, and it's fantastic, been using it for a couple of months now. Not looking back.
> 2) Ads should come inline with the other HTML, as well as associated images. It's not difficult, and adblock can never really find a solution to that.
Out of interest, how do you do it with google adsense?
I scan everything to google docs, store it with date and etc and pop the copy in a binder above my desk. Works out a binder a year - super neat, and I can always refer to the hardcopy if required - not too much of an overhead to find as every is mostly date ordered.
It takes a while to figure out what works, and what is important, for me as I'm getting older I have less energy, or ability to cope, whereas in my 20's I would happily be out very, late and very drunk (UK based) and still be able to do some semblance of work/life. As it happened I really like to smoke, however unacceptable for my GF.
Now, ten years on, it is important for me to get through the work week in a better shape than I started it. That means slightly more healthy, and progressing in my work. Having your day task list ready at 6am, means during the day I know exactly what I want to acheive, and am just trying to tick off as many as possible. (I use Getting Things Done (GTD) for that.), and going to the gym gets me slightly more healthy.
I do these things first in the day, before something knocks my schedule off, hence getting up early, that way I know I am much more likely to get my stuff done.
I go to sleep at 10 or so in the evening. I was never a morning person at all, I solved it by giving up smoking, and cutting the coffee out after 1 o'clock. Of course I'm a manager now, it was much harder as a developer, I used to sit up to all hours playing away with stuff.
For getting up - I use the default Nokia phone alarm, it starts quiet and gets louder, after I while I panic and jump out of bed before it starts waking the neighbors, then I head for the toilet rather than back to bed, and from there its relatively easy to get the coffee in.
05:15 Wake up - coffee 05:30 Clear emails from inbox, check calendar, write out actions for day, send a few emails kicking things off, catch up on digg/slashdot/bbc etc. 06:30 Leave for work 07:15 Arrive at Gym - 30 minutes - 5 cycle, 10 cross trainer, 15 running 08:15 Arrive at work.. sorted.
Working as a consultant I turned up at a new customer (moderate sized pharmacy) to see what they needed. Walked in, all confident, the local tech guy met me, and I asked to look at their server room (I always liked seeing the hardware).
Anyway, as we are standing there, I think, well lets see how many users they have, so I ask if I could look at the Name & Address book. Opened up the people view, hit Control-A to see the count at the bottom of the screen of the number of records. Unfortunalty it was a very small compaq keyboard, hit delete as I turned to the local tech..
That was an issue as I understand it, but not if you integrate 'pretty' into your cvs.. i.e. after you submit changes it runs.
Infact the pretty print has a built in option to support just that so that it only runs on stuff that's been submitted when run within the cvs environlment.
Your point is good though, but I think it could be contained.
Just my own take on it. I've been interviewing and then hiring for six years.
So I finally find the perfect company to work for. Unfortunately, they're only going to hire 3 out of the 200 people they're interviewing.
Sounds a bit odd, did they get 200 CV's or try to interview the whole lot- at one time.. it sounds a bit extreme..
So here's my question: I know there are a lot of slashdotters in charge of hiring -
what post-interview actions do you like to see on the part of the interviewee?
My preference is that they do nothing. When I've spent a couple of days interviewing it all becomes a bit of a blur, and I work off off notes at the end. In any case I have a pretty good feeling as to what going to happen with the candidate.
Is it possible for him/her to seem too enthusiastic about getting the job?
Yes. You risk coming across as a bit insecure to me. Maybe high maintainence, neither traits impress.
How often should one call to inquire about the hiring process and re-express interest? What about mailing/emailing the company?
If your working through a recruiter hassle them as much as you like, same with HR if you are going direct, that's what they are there for. - just be polite..
Do you guys have any examples of when someone managed to stand out (or appeared too annoying)? Occasionally where in the interview the candidate has talked about some stuff. Getting a mail with URL's about it - I like that. It doesn't have to be tech, I'll have tried to pick up on your hobbies & pasttimes in the interview anyway, if it's stuff I'm into - them by all means.
I would just chill, keep the CV's going out. oh.. and try and find a _good_ recruitment firm to represent you. I know some of the guides say ring/email after the interview but with me it doesn't help.
Frankly the process can take a week, or 3 months.. and with 200(!) candidates it will probably take them a month to get through the interviews..
That's true, but the queen owns the monopply - as run by the postmaster general ehich is a position in government.
A chap named Tony Benn while in the labour goverment in the 70's tried get the queens head stipulation removed. Asked her nicely but apparetntly but no dice.
10% of say 5 billion dollars (figures from microsoft of 12 months up to June for EMEA region are 8 billion dollars I figure european union has just over half of that pie)
If we do the math.. thats 500 million dollars fine. which is kind of neat, cause the great thing is if they don't change it.. they can be fined again..
He says that he measured the force on pendulums of ceramic, wood, rubber, etc hanging from cotton strings seperated from his spark discharge machine by distances of SIX and ONE HUNDRED AND FIFTY meters, including walls and steel plates
OEM does a deal with microsoft for web services. fine
Microsoft enforces a deal for it's own content provider linked to the OS deal. not fine. it's a monopoly, it's using the huge stick to manipulate another company's business practice, I'd say that was an issue...
It's the monopoly issue that makes it a special case. To try to analogise....
A book distribution company adds insert for company A, the publisher says, hang on, if you do that you must include our inserts as well otherwise you can't sell our books.
The publisher is a monopoly however - the distributor gets 90% of your books from them, so in effect, if they don't agree it's likely to go out of business.
Now we have the situation where company A has to pay for a service that the publisher is now getting for free, under the threat putting them out of business.
Have to disagree. They are not supposed to leverage the monopoly power of OS's unfairly
If they want the icon on the desktop - they should do a deal with the OEM themsleves. This way they are saying - you can't have our OS unless you promote our services - something that other companies have to pay for. Thats an unfair commercial advantage in my book.
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I looked at this (salesforce SAP, there's not much interpretation needed IIRC, it was really obvious. Sounds like someone in Diago didn't do their due diligence and took a punt at saving themselves a lot of money, via a court case, which would also cost them a chunck of change.
Same, I played with Windows 10 a bit, but after trying to figure out how to kill the telemetry, I thought - blow this. I only really kept it to play games. Have installed Mint, and it's fantastic, been using it for a couple of months now. Not looking back.
Maybe we should stop them coming in, until our lawmakers get a handle of the situation
Pin? For real?
You wouldn't be bringing small slivers of conducting metal loose into any data centre I ran, I wouldn't be buying something requiring a pin either.
> 2) Ads should come inline with the other HTML, as well as associated images. It's not difficult, and adblock can never really find a solution to that.
Out of interest, how do you do it with google adsense?
Good idea, let me just patent that..
I scan everything to google docs, store it with date and etc and pop the copy in a binder above my desk. Works out a binder a year - super neat, and I can always refer to the hardcopy if required - not too much of an overhead to find as every is mostly date ordered.
It takes a while to figure out what works, and what is important, for me as I'm getting older I have less energy, or ability to cope, whereas in my 20's I would happily be out very, late and very drunk (UK based) and still be able to do some semblance of work/life. As it happened I really like to smoke, however unacceptable for my GF.
Now, ten years on, it is important for me to get through the work week in a better shape than I started it. That means slightly more healthy, and progressing in my work. Having your day task list ready at 6am, means during the day I know exactly what I want to acheive, and am just trying to tick off as many as possible. (I use Getting Things Done (GTD) for that.), and going to the gym gets me slightly more healthy.
I do these things first in the day, before something knocks my schedule off, hence getting up early, that way I know I am much more likely to get my stuff done.
I go to sleep at 10 or so in the evening. I was never a morning person at all, I solved it by giving up smoking, and cutting the coffee out after 1 o'clock. Of course I'm a manager now, it was much harder as a developer, I used to sit up to all hours playing away with stuff.
For getting up - I use the default Nokia phone alarm, it starts quiet and gets louder, after I while I panic and jump out of bed before it starts waking the neighbors, then I head for the toilet rather than back to bed, and from there its relatively easy to get the coffee in.
05:15 Wake up - coffee
05:30 Clear emails from inbox, check calendar, write out actions for day, send a few emails kicking things off, catch up on digg/slashdot/bbc etc.
06:30 Leave for work
07:15 Arrive at Gym - 30 minutes - 5 cycle, 10 cross trainer, 15 running
08:15 Arrive at work.. sorted.
The Vodafone 3G is not supported offically, and Customer care haven't got access to that information... however, check this out:
http://www.kuix.de/umts/vodafone/
Actually, thinking about it, I'll see if I can get it on our site.
The installer is windows only, and is got an interface, but is mostly fluff.
ok I confess, I actually hit ctr-x, although did 'enjoy' 60 seconds of pure terror before a realised what I had done.
Working as a consultant I turned up at a new customer (moderate sized pharmacy) to see what they needed. Walked in, all confident, the local tech guy met me, and I asked to look at their server room (I always liked seeing the hardware).
Anyway, as we are standing there, I think, well lets see how many users they have, so I ask if I could look at the Name & Address book. Opened up the people view, hit Control-A to see the count at the bottom of the screen of the number of records. Unfortunalty it was a very small compaq keyboard, hit delete as I turned to the local tech..
That was an issue as I understand it, but not if you integrate 'pretty' into your cvs.. i.e. after you submit changes it runs.
Infact the pretty print has a built in option to support just that so that it only runs on stuff that's been submitted when run within the cvs environlment.
Your point is good though, but I think it could be contained.
Use the pretty printer
It reformats your code (i use it via ANT)
Just play with the settings and see what you like, it'll reformat the code to what you want.
I just set it up here, and it works a treat.
Saves all those source code arguments about where the squigaly brackets go.
Just my own take on it. I've been interviewing and then hiring for six years.
So I finally find the perfect company to work for. Unfortunately, they're only going to hire 3 out of the 200 people they're interviewing.
Sounds a bit odd, did they get 200 CV's or try to interview the whole lot- at one time.. it sounds a bit extreme..
So here's my question: I know there are a lot of slashdotters in charge of hiring -
what post-interview actions do you like to see on the part of the interviewee?
My preference is that they do nothing. When I've spent a couple of days interviewing it all becomes a bit of a blur, and I work off off notes at the end. In any case I have a pretty good feeling as to what going to happen with the candidate.
Is it possible for him/her to seem too enthusiastic about getting the job?
Yes. You risk coming across as a bit insecure to me. Maybe high maintainence, neither traits impress.
How often should one call to inquire about the hiring process and re-express interest? What about mailing/emailing the company?
If your working through a recruiter hassle them as much as you like, same with HR if you are going direct, that's what they are there for. - just be polite..
Do you guys have any examples of when someone managed to stand out (or appeared too annoying)?
Occasionally where in the interview the candidate has talked about some stuff. Getting a mail with URL's about it - I like that. It doesn't have to be tech, I'll have tried to pick up on your hobbies & pasttimes in the interview anyway, if it's stuff I'm into - them by all means.
I would just chill, keep the CV's going out. oh.. and try and find a _good_ recruitment firm to represent you. I know some of the guides say ring/email after the interview but with me it doesn't help.
Frankly the process can take a week, or 3 months.. and with 200(!) candidates it will probably take them a month to get through the interviews..
That's true, but the queen owns the monopply - as run by the postmaster general ehich is a position in government.
A chap named Tony Benn while in the labour goverment in the 70's tried get the queens head stipulation removed. Asked her nicely but apparetntly but no dice.
Another note for non-UK: UK only country that doesn't (have to) put the country name on the stamp, queenies head does the job apparently.
Hmm.. lets see... 10% of revenue (not profit)
10% of say 5 billion dollars (figures from microsoft of 12 months up to June for EMEA region are 8 billion dollars I figure european union has just over half of that pie)
If we do the math.. thats 500 million dollars fine. which is kind of neat, cause the great thing is if they don't change it.. they can be fined again..
It was probably windy that day
OEM does a deal with microsoft for the OS. fine.
OEM does a deal with web services provider. fine.
OEM does a deal with microsoft for web services. fine
Microsoft enforces a deal for it's own content provider linked to the OS deal. not fine. it's a monopoly, it's using the huge stick to manipulate another company's business practice, I'd say that was an issue...
It's the monopoly issue that makes it a special case. To try to analogise....
A book distribution company adds insert for company A, the publisher says, hang on, if you do that you must include our inserts as well otherwise you can't sell our books.
The publisher is a monopoly however - the distributor gets 90% of your books from them, so in effect, if they don't agree it's likely to go out of business.
Now we have the situation where company A has to pay for a service that the publisher is now getting for free, under the threat putting them out of business.
If they want the icon on the desktop - they should do a deal with the OEM themsleves. This way they are saying - you can't have our OS unless you promote our services - something that other companies have to pay for. Thats an unfair commercial advantage in my book.
And spammers will know your your nationality, your age, where you're likely to live. Nice.