They didn't seem to think there was anything unusual about asking an interview candidate to spend an entire day doing pair programming with them on their own codebase.
Heh... I had a similar situation a month or so ago. Headhunter cold-called me, told me how hard they're looking for people with serious amounts of Mac experience, so I went to see the customer (startup over in Mountain View), product wasn't terribly interesting, and then the recruiter says they want me to come in for a "coding exercise" that should only take about four to six hours. I told him my rate for very short term projects, and he actually expected me to give them six hours of my time on spec.
In Germany, the only legally available editions of Mein Kampf are those that include academic annotations that point out what a batshit insane genocidal shithead Adolf was.
Organise a "draw Jesus sodomizing Mary" contest in Texas and you'll get crazy Christian jihadists doing the same thing.
This turns out not to be the case. That dude who got tax money for an "art" piece that consisted of a crucifix immersed in urine is still walking around, with no contract on his head that I've ever heard of.
Contrary to popular belief, the president has no power at all to deal with the national debt. Our country's finances have always been the fault of the congress and its creature, the Federal Reserve.
The NSA is already ignoring the plain language of the fourth amendment, and they'll ignore this law too, if it passes. The only effective remedy is to disband the agency and prosecute every last person involved with their crimes.
In all the years that I've been in the computer industry, I've only had two complete idiots in charge of me, and in both cases I resigned and found a better situation within a month.
You've hit the nail on the head. For a product or service to unseat a market leader, it's got to be MUCH better than the status quo. Facebook was that much better than MySpace. Google plus... Wasn't.
Apple are merging OS X into IOS, albeit very slowly.
Nope. I've been there, and nobody at Apple has any such intention. Features will get passed back and forth between them, but they're very aware of the reasons that Tablet PCs failed, and they're not going to copy MS's mistakes.
There is absolutely nothing stopping them from selling their hardware manufacturing arm to someone like ACER and then releasing OSX to the market.
Been there, done that, and NeXT nearly went out of business. Not to mention, how much of a pain in the ass it was to configure Dells or other generic PCs to run NeXTSTEP.
Apple needs the Mac for their own use, and so do all of the iOS developers. They won't get out of the PC business until and unless an iPad can drive a" 5K display.
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a Senior Developer has a market value of 125K
I live in the bay area, and it's been at least fifteen years since I was willing to take a salary that low.
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Remember the days when you could tell your boss that the token fell out of the ring, and you had to take a couple of hours to find it?
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They didn't seem to think there was anything unusual about asking an interview candidate to spend an entire day doing pair programming with them on their own codebase.
Heh... I had a similar situation a month or so ago. Headhunter cold-called me, told me how hard they're looking for people with serious amounts of Mac experience, so I went to see the customer (startup over in Mountain View), product wasn't terribly interesting, and then the recruiter says they want me to come in for a "coding exercise" that should only take about four to six hours. I told him my rate for very short term projects, and he actually expected me to give them six hours of my time on spec.
I quit taking his calls.
-jcr
In Germany, the only legally available editions of Mein Kampf are those that include academic annotations that point out what a batshit insane genocidal shithead Adolf was.
-jcr
Muslims are prohibited from drawing Mohammed
Not true. The Wahabbis claim this, and most muslims disagree. There's a very rich history of Islamic art that depicts Muhammad.
-jcr
Organise a "draw Jesus sodomizing Mary" contest in Texas and you'll get crazy Christian jihadists doing the same thing.
This turns out not to be the case. That dude who got tax money for an "art" piece that consisted of a crucifix immersed in urine is still walking around, with no contract on his head that I've ever heard of.
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I'll comment in the title of a post if I feel like it.
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Thanks for that link. TIL that Warren Mosler is an idiot.
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Contrary to popular belief, the president has no power at all to deal with the national debt. Our country's finances have always been the fault of the congress and its creature, the Federal Reserve.
-jcr
Can confirm: anyone stupid enough to expose their bigotry like that is unemployable in the Silicon Valley.
-jcr
The NSA is already ignoring the plain language of the fourth amendment, and they'll ignore this law too, if it passes. The only effective remedy is to disband the agency and prosecute every last person involved with their crimes.
-jcr
Gee, what does your wife, Morgan Fairchild, have to say about this?
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Apple does no testing.
What's your next guess, sunshine?
Apple is testing their products all the time, and they don't sample, either. Every unit passes every test before it gets out of the factory.
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When I worked as an Apple repair tech, two out of every three machines off the line would fail and would require immediate refurbishing.
Bullshit. That kind of failure rate would have put them out of business.
I can almost guarantee you that Apple does jack shit for actual product testing
As it happens, I worked in Apple's Hardware Test Engineering group shortly after the iPad shipped, and I know first-hand that you're full of shit.
-jcr
In all the years that I've been in the computer industry, I've only had two complete idiots in charge of me, and in both cases I resigned and found a better situation within a month.
-jcr
There is no guarantee that we'll nuke Iran just because they nuked Israel.
There doesn't need to be. Israel is certainly capable of destroying Iran completely in a retaliatory strike.
-jcr
You've hit the nail on the head. For a product or service to unseat a market leader, it's got to be MUCH better than the status quo. Facebook was that much better than MySpace. Google plus... Wasn't.
-jcr
it’s strong enough to survive a storm at sea or getting crushed between two icebergs.
An aluminum ball is strong enough to resist forces that have been known to crush steel hulls?
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Seems like this should really be IBM's forte. I wonder why they didn't jump into it with both feet.
-jcr
Apple are merging OS X into IOS, albeit very slowly.
Nope. I've been there, and nobody at Apple has any such intention. Features will get passed back and forth between them, but they're very aware of the reasons that Tablet PCs failed, and they're not going to copy MS's mistakes.
-jcr
Get your meds adjusted, kid. I'm not going to quit signing my posts with my initials, no matter how much you whine about it.
-jcr
There is absolutely nothing stopping them from selling their hardware manufacturing arm to someone like ACER and then releasing OSX to the market.
Been there, done that, and NeXT nearly went out of business. Not to mention, how much of a pain in the ass it was to configure Dells or other generic PCs to run NeXTSTEP.
-jcr
Margins are thin
Not for the Mac, they're not. Apple's the only PC maker who doesn't have to operate on razor-thin margins.
-jcr
Apple needs the Mac for their own use, and so do all of the iOS developers. They won't get out of the PC business until and unless an iPad can drive a" 5K display.
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He took "full responsibility" the same way that Janet Reno did for the Waco massacre.
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