Google doesn't hire older engineers precisely because they are culturally different than the new grads they prefer to hire. I doubt they have a policy of age discrimination, but when interviewers fill out their evaluation forms, they can shape and tilt their answers to disfavor people they would not prefer to work with. So when you have a culture that is predominantly new grads, hiring "old guys" is not likely to happen, even if there is no official policy of age discrimination, because people tend to hire people who are similar to themselves.
I interviewed with Google, answered all their dumbass 'programming puzzle' questions, and didn't get an offer. The most experienced guy who interviewed me had 10 years of experience. I have 30+. Out of the 6 interviewers I spoke with, their industry experience 10, 5, 5, 5, 3, and 1 years. In other words, I had more experience than all of them put together.
In the end, I was glad I didn't have to decide whether to accept an offer from Google because, after seeing their work environment, which resembled a college dorm room with no privacy whatsoever, I would not have been able to work for them anyway. While this is off topic, I was amazed that a company with so much money would drink some stupid management Kool Aid and eschew giving people decent offices within which they could concentrate to work.
Will it be OK for us to hate Google once they've proven absolutely and undeniably that they are are evil? Or is it OK to start sometime before then? IMHO, a "Surgeon General's warning" ought to placed on everything Google does.
I live in northern California and we frequently have a loss of cellular service after even a moderate quake. I decided that ham radio was the only way to really be sure you could communicate in the event of a real disaster and got my ticket for that reason. I only have a 5w HT but if we have to evacuate if we ever get The Big One, I will be able to communicate even if cell towers are gone. Not predicting (or wanting this, of course), but for the effort and cost (moderate/low), I think it was well worth the investment.
I tried using Songbird on OS X and tried to help a little. I submitted a few bugs and tried building it a few times, once or twice successfully. In the end, I found it to be bloated, buggy, and unusable. I thought about "contributing" (fixing things), but when I looked at the so-called architecture (using a browser framework to implement a media player?!), I gagged, uninstalled Songbird, and never looked back.
I think of things like this as Fucking Gothic Cathedrals (FGCs). The equivalent C/C++ code would probably run in 10% of its footprint and at 5000% of its performance. Maybe I'm behind the times, but the idea of doing everything inside a browser seems stupid to me. Just saying.
First we have so-called scientists swearing we are heading for planetary collapse who are subsequently outed as having falsified their data to "prove" their hypothesis. Now we have another asshat scientist calling for a suspension of democracy so the so-called problem can be "solved". Maybe the first should be made to prove their hypothesis with verifiable 3rd party data. Maybe the second should STFU about politics and how to solve problems that haven't been scientifically proved.
War tears up both a persons flesh and their minds. It fucking sucks...
Yeah and the only thing that makes it suck even more are glib asshats like you who think the guy was a troll for posting a personal story. The cynicism of some of the comments I read on this site is amazing at times.
As for being tethered to iTunes, you can run an iPad completely without using iTunes, including buying apps, syncing contacts and bookmarks, buying music, TV Shows, movies, renting movies, the works.
I was thinking the very same thing, except how can you get your iWork data out of the iPad unless you are tethered to iTunes? Can you email your docs out of the iPad, or is iPad's lack of an SD card slot or some other removable media mean it cannot be truly free of iTunes?
That's not the real problem. Nickel pages 1.27 microns thick simply don't have enough stiffness for you to be able to pick up a page without crinkling it, never mind any risk to the skin on your fingers, which is quite resilient by comparison.
Finally, the book publishers could get a crack at what the media scrooges have gotten away with through DRM: Read once books! You can bet if they could sell you a book that could only be read one time, they'd do it in heartbeat.
Simon Bransfield-Garth, the chief executive of Cellcrypt, says Nohl's efforts could put sophisticated mobile interception technology — limited to governments and intelligence agencies — within the reach of any reasonable well-funded criminal organization.
Can someone please tell me the difference between "governments" and "well-funded criminal organizations"?
I thought a judge's job is to ensure that a trial's process is correct, not to "correct" the decision of a lawful trial by jury. Shouldn't, instead, Microsoft have to have filed an appeal to get the decision changed? A suspicious person might think this was a move intended to create a mistrial...
And who are they kidding anyway , these are just fscking calculators!
Perhaps TI's actions have more to do with what will happen if the calculators, when cracked, are turned into "computers". Due to export restrictions, could it be the cracked machines might violate export controls in places where TI can legally sell them as "just fscking calculators"?
Just watched an episode of "How Its Made" with my kids yesterday, and was stunned to see an old Apple II being used to control machinery that was manufacturing felt cloth. My jaw dropped when I saw it. Had to rewind and watch it again. The episode was filmed, I think, in 2007. Haven't Apple II's been obsolete for about 25 years?
Apple's iPhone had similar (actually, worse), problems in its first release.
I call complete bullshit on this. No way Apple would have sold as many iPhone's as they did if this was even remotely true. They would have sold about as many as the immensely popular (by comments in this topic) Android phone if it was! How the fuck did such a bullshit comment get mod'ed "2"??!!
Only developers give a shit if a platform is "friendly to developers". If a platform market is big enough, they will kiss the vendor's butt and even learn a new programming language to gain access to the market. Objective C, anyone?
Apple has always done something infinitely better than anybody else in the markets they compete in: industrial design. In the laptop business, for example, only Sony even tries, and their stuff sucks compared to MacBook Pro's. When another vendor makes a smartphone with ID as good as an iPhone, things might change. Until then, the iPhone is "it".
17. I agree to these terms on behalf of any person to whom I deliver any of the tickets I purchase, and I shall notify any such person of these terms when I deliver a ticket to them.
IANAL, but it seems if you obtain your ticket from a third party, you cannot be bound by the agreement which that party entered into when they purchased the ticket. So just make sure you are not on record with BMO as a direct ticket purchaser and you can take and publish all the photos you desire because you can't be bound by a third party agreement.
I want to hire someone passionate about the same things that my team is passionate about, someone who will have a good sense of humor when we're both still there at 2 AM, and, of course, someone who has the skills required.
I am absolutely fucking sick of people talking about being passionate about a fucking job!! WTF?!! Unless you are self employed or you are an early hire at a start up that actually has an IPO chance (and you have a 1% stake or better), there is NO reason to be passionate about a "job". Effective yes, passionate no. If you are some feckless hiring middle manager talking about being passionate about a goddamn "job", you are simply full of shit. Fuck you.
Trouble is, when given the choice, the vast majority of people would choose to not pay for military support, thinking "everyone else is paying for it, it won't matter if I don't". Suddenly the military has no funding. You can't provide a costly service that covers everyone - military protection - and then just ask nicely for contributions. It doesn't work in the real world. The military can't not protect you if you don't pay - if you live within the borders of the country, the military is protecting you, period.
What bullshit. Go read Smedley Butler's "War Is a Racket" http://warisaracket.com/. Written in the 1930's by a guy whose "cred" beats yours, buddy. War is a "for profit" business, run by the taxing authority for the benefit of their constituents (the banksters, not you or me). Perhaps if there's no money to run wars, it would be because people don't want them. Hmmm.. The rest of your screed might as well read "I think controlling people is more important than individual freedom, as long as I get to make the choices". More bullshit. You need to wake up and smell the coffee. You don't live the USA that you think you do...
Call me old school, but I think the best way to keep spam from getting to the servers would be for there to be a spirited geek vigilante initiative for a couple of years where guys with pocket protectors and baseball bats would show up on the doorsteps of spammers and break their kneecaps. I think there was a Russian spammer who got harsher treatment than this a year or two ago, but I think broken kneecaps would suffice. Just saying...
Please don't make them work in pairs, it's a horrible way to learn programming.
Totally agree. If some aspect of their project fails, how do you know which of them didn't "get it"? How do you know to help that person? Or is it good enough that only one of the pair "gets it" and does all the work? That's usually how it works out and is a shitty way to teach, if you ask me...
Amazon did the right thing in this situation, it was their only choice really.
If you have the details to back up what you say, put them in print here. Otherwise, I call bullshit. Amazon acted as the evil whipping boy for Penguin. If Penguin screwed up, Penguin should pay the injured party. Kindle owners should not have to pay for mistakes made by the publisher. Amazon could have pulled the title from future sales and told Penguin to go settle their own problems. Instead of Penguin losing, Kindle owners lost. Sadly, eBooks in general lost, too. Amazon is insanely stupid for having done this.
But the evil was in the publisher not the technology provider.
Sorry, but I have to call bullshit on this. The Right Thing for Amazon to do was to tell Penguin they would be willing pull the book from future sales. If Penguin have a legal issue with having published something they shouldn't have, then Penguin should go settle with the injured party and not ask Amazon for help by reneging on sales that had already been made. In this case, it is Amazon who are evil. Penguin, if they erred, should pay the price, not Kindle owners.
Game design is story telling. So far, I haven't seen or played a game where sexual content is critical to telling a game's story. Not saying this doesn't exist or isn't possible, but short of games where prostitution, bondage, or exploitation are central components of the game play, it seems to me that sexual content is something that is easily be factored in or out of a game's story. So why not make it an option? It certainly is extra work for game developers, but it seems it could prevent a game from being banned, and would allow both adults and non-adults (or people whose tastes would prefer it that way) to enjoy a game.
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Google doesn't hire older engineers precisely because they are culturally different than the new grads they prefer to hire. I doubt they have a policy of age discrimination, but when interviewers fill out their evaluation forms, they can shape and tilt their answers to disfavor people they would not prefer to work with. So when you have a culture that is predominantly new grads, hiring "old guys" is not likely to happen, even if there is no official policy of age discrimination, because people tend to hire people who are similar to themselves.
I interviewed with Google, answered all their dumbass 'programming puzzle' questions, and didn't get an offer. The most experienced guy who interviewed me had 10 years of experience. I have 30+. Out of the 6 interviewers I spoke with, their industry experience 10, 5, 5, 5, 3, and 1 years. In other words, I had more experience than all of them put together.
In the end, I was glad I didn't have to decide whether to accept an offer from Google because, after seeing their work environment, which resembled a college dorm room with no privacy whatsoever , I would not have been able to work for them anyway. While this is off topic, I was amazed that a company with so much money would drink some stupid management Kool Aid and eschew giving people decent offices within which they could concentrate to work.
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Will it be OK for us to hate Google once they've proven absolutely and undeniably that they are are evil? Or is it OK to start sometime before then? IMHO, a "Surgeon General's warning" ought to placed on everything Google does.
I live in northern California and we frequently have a loss of cellular service after even a moderate quake. I decided that ham radio was the only way to really be sure you could communicate in the event of a real disaster and got my ticket for that reason. I only have a 5w HT but if we have to evacuate if we ever get The Big One, I will be able to communicate even if cell towers are gone. Not predicting (or wanting this, of course), but for the effort and cost (moderate/low), I think it was well worth the investment.
I tried using Songbird on OS X and tried to help a little. I submitted a few bugs and tried building it a few times, once or twice successfully. In the end, I found it to be bloated, buggy, and unusable. I thought about "contributing" (fixing things), but when I looked at the so-called architecture (using a browser framework to implement a media player?!), I gagged, uninstalled Songbird, and never looked back.
I think of things like this as Fucking Gothic Cathedrals (FGCs). The equivalent C/C++ code would probably run in 10% of its footprint and at 5000% of its performance. Maybe I'm behind the times, but the idea of doing everything inside a browser seems stupid to me. Just saying.
First we have so-called scientists swearing we are heading for planetary collapse who are subsequently outed as having falsified their data to "prove" their hypothesis. Now we have another asshat scientist calling for a suspension of democracy so the so-called problem can be "solved". Maybe the first should be made to prove their hypothesis with verifiable 3rd party data. Maybe the second should STFU about politics and how to solve problems that haven't been scientifically proved.
How long before people begin to set up Cryptome Benefit sites that accept PayPal donations for Cryptome, and then forward the money to them?
War tears up both a persons flesh and their minds. It fucking sucks...
Yeah and the only thing that makes it suck even more are glib asshats like you who think the guy was a troll for posting a personal story. The cynicism of some of the comments I read on this site is amazing at times.
As for being tethered to iTunes, you can run an iPad completely without using iTunes, including buying apps, syncing contacts and bookmarks, buying music, TV Shows, movies, renting movies, the works.
I was thinking the very same thing, except how can you get your iWork data out of the iPad unless you are tethered to iTunes? Can you email your docs out of the iPad, or is iPad's lack of an SD card slot or some other removable media mean it cannot be truly free of iTunes?
That's not the real problem. Nickel pages 1.27 microns thick simply don't have enough stiffness for you to be able to pick up a page without crinkling it, never mind any risk to the skin on your fingers, which is quite resilient by comparison.
Finally, the book publishers could get a crack at what the media scrooges have gotten away with through DRM: Read once books! You can bet if they could sell you a book that could only be read one time, they'd do it in heartbeat.
If they sell billions and billions of them, maybe they could change the name to "Sagan"... Oh, wait a minute...
Simon Bransfield-Garth, the chief executive of Cellcrypt, says Nohl's efforts could put sophisticated mobile interception technology — limited to governments and intelligence agencies — within the reach of any reasonable well-funded criminal organization.
Can someone please tell me the difference between "governments" and "well-funded criminal organizations"?
I thought a judge's job is to ensure that a trial's process is correct, not to "correct" the decision of a lawful trial by jury. Shouldn't, instead, Microsoft have to have filed an appeal to get the decision changed? A suspicious person might think this was a move intended to create a mistrial...
And who are they kidding anyway , these are just fscking calculators!
Perhaps TI's actions have more to do with what will happen if the calculators, when cracked, are turned into "computers". Due to export restrictions, could it be the cracked machines might violate export controls in places where TI can legally sell them as "just fscking calculators"?
Just watched an episode of "How Its Made" with my kids yesterday, and was stunned to see an old Apple II being used to control machinery that was manufacturing felt cloth. My jaw dropped when I saw it. Had to rewind and watch it again. The episode was filmed, I think, in 2007. Haven't Apple II's been obsolete for about 25 years?
Apple's iPhone had similar (actually, worse), problems in its first release.
I call complete bullshit on this. No way Apple would have sold as many iPhone's as they did if this was even remotely true. They would have sold about as many as the immensely popular (by comments in this topic) Android phone if it was! How the fuck did such a bullshit comment get mod'ed "2"??!!
17. I agree to these terms on behalf of any person to whom I deliver any of the tickets I purchase, and I shall notify any such person of these terms when I deliver a ticket to them.
IANAL, but it seems if you obtain your ticket from a third party, you cannot be bound by the agreement which that party entered into when they purchased the ticket. So just make sure you are not on record with BMO as a direct ticket purchaser and you can take and publish all the photos you desire because you can't be bound by a third party agreement.
I want to hire someone passionate about the same things that my team is passionate about, someone who will have a good sense of humor when we're both still there at 2 AM, and, of course, someone who has the skills required.
I am absolutely fucking sick of people talking about being passionate about a fucking job!! WTF?!! Unless you are self employed or you are an early hire at a start up that actually has an IPO chance (and you have a 1% stake or better), there is NO reason to be passionate about a "job". Effective yes, passionate no. If you are some feckless hiring middle manager talking about being passionate about a goddamn "job", you are simply full of shit. Fuck you.
Trouble is, when given the choice, the vast majority of people would choose to not pay for military support, thinking "everyone else is paying for it, it won't matter if I don't". Suddenly the military has no funding. You can't provide a costly service that covers everyone - military protection - and then just ask nicely for contributions. It doesn't work in the real world. The military can't not protect you if you don't pay - if you live within the borders of the country, the military is protecting you, period.
What bullshit. Go read Smedley Butler's "War Is a Racket" http://warisaracket.com/. Written in the 1930's by a guy whose "cred" beats yours, buddy. War is a "for profit" business, run by the taxing authority for the benefit of their constituents (the banksters, not you or me). Perhaps if there's no money to run wars, it would be because people don't want them. Hmmm.. The rest of your screed might as well read "I think controlling people is more important than individual freedom, as long as I get to make the choices". More bullshit. You need to wake up and smell the coffee. You don't live the USA that you think you do...
Call me old school, but I think the best way to keep spam from getting to the servers would be for there to be a spirited geek vigilante initiative for a couple of years where guys with pocket protectors and baseball bats would show up on the doorsteps of spammers and break their kneecaps. I think there was a Russian spammer who got harsher treatment than this a year or two ago, but I think broken kneecaps would suffice. Just saying...
Please don't make them work in pairs, it's a horrible way to learn programming.
Totally agree. If some aspect of their project fails, how do you know which of them didn't "get it"? How do you know to help that person? Or is it good enough that only one of the pair "gets it" and does all the work? That's usually how it works out and is a shitty way to teach, if you ask me...
I woke up this morning and... my Kindle was GONE!!! Oh well.
Amazon did the right thing in this situation, it was their only choice really.
If you have the details to back up what you say, put them in print here. Otherwise, I call bullshit. Amazon acted as the evil whipping boy for Penguin. If Penguin screwed up, Penguin should pay the injured party. Kindle owners should not have to pay for mistakes made by the publisher. Amazon could have pulled the title from future sales and told Penguin to go settle their own problems. Instead of Penguin losing, Kindle owners lost. Sadly, eBooks in general lost, too. Amazon is insanely stupid for having done this.
But the evil was in the publisher not the technology provider.
Sorry, but I have to call bullshit on this. The Right Thing for Amazon to do was to tell Penguin they would be willing pull the book from future sales. If Penguin have a legal issue with having published something they shouldn't have, then Penguin should go settle with the injured party and not ask Amazon for help by reneging on sales that had already been made. In this case, it is Amazon who are evil. Penguin, if they erred, should pay the price, not Kindle owners.
Game design is story telling. So far, I haven't seen or played a game where sexual content is critical to telling a game's story. Not saying this doesn't exist or isn't possible, but short of games where prostitution, bondage, or exploitation are central components of the game play, it seems to me that sexual content is something that is easily be factored in or out of a game's story. So why not make it an option? It certainly is extra work for game developers, but it seems it could prevent a game from being banned, and would allow both adults and non-adults (or people whose tastes would prefer it that way) to enjoy a game.