Eh? It's not really that hard, you could create the program in less than 1 hour if you just did it quickly. The point is that you can take your time, fine tune it, etc. All the developers we have got through this method have been very good, so far.
First, I'm in Canada. I don't know what a Credit Union is. I don't think we have them here, though I don't know why.
Second, here in Canada almost all banks charge fees for debit transactions, but typically they offer packages (i.e. $3/mo for 20 debit transactions, or keep $1k+ in your chequing account and get free unlimited debits). I don't know why people here don't complain like crazy..
Third, if you don't use your own bank's ATM (ABM in the states, I guess), you get charged $1.50, right away. And, if you use an independent ATM, you may be charged anywhere from $1.00 to $2.00 on top of that, perhaps more if it's in a bar. It's a pretty crappy situation.
As someone who has been through these for Microsoft and some other big name companies, I completely agree with the post. Although I was successful (I was offered a position), it just doesn't make sense. When you program, you don't do it in a pressure filled environment. You take your time, you gather requirements, you design and implement within the time available and you do the best job.
My perception of these tests has always been some smart-ass programmer who wants to show that he's better than anyone else making young programmers try and solve stupid puzzles as fast as possible. It's pretty ridiculous.
The company I work for now has the best idea IMO - when you submit your resume, you must also submit a working program that solves a business case outlined. You can of course take as long as you want, do it at home, and use internet resources. But the program isn't judged on just code alone, it's judged on many other elements. This course of action has allowed us to hire very intelligent and well rounded developers, and weeded out all those who were just "carpet bombing" resumes (as they wouldn't even read that they had to submit an application as well, or were too lazy to do it). In addition, we can immediately see the quality of code, style (assuming they didn't copy), and just as important how they think the UX/UI should be, etc.
Why more companies, like Google, don't do it this way is beyond me. I feel like they just want to be assholes and try to intimidate new recruits, or "show off."
According to the discovery article, "[Sterling Allan] told FoxNews.com that Paul Swanson with the U.S. Navy’s Space and Naval Warfare Systems unit (SPAWAR) can vouch for the demonstration." Also, "FoxNews.com spoke with a man at SPAWAR who identified himself as Swanson, and who said only that he was "not in a position to talk to the press." Several other sources within the Navy and the Pentagoneither declined to comment or did not return messages."
Discovery, like myself, is still skeptical. However, if it's true someone from the SPAWAR was there, it's possible there's something to it.
I'm so confused. First of all, this doesn't list the Samsung Galaxy, which has stayed updated. Or the S2 for that matter. Did they specifically pick Android devices that are not being updated (there are many, I don't deny that)?
Second of all, the original iPhone 2G, which I have, is definitely not supported by iOS5, or even iOS4 for that matter. What are they smoking?
I can't help but think this is intentionally skewed for Apple...
The Holy Land Foundation trial has led to the release, as evidence, of[82] several documents on the Muslim Brotherhood. One of these documents, dated in 1991, explains that the goal of the Muslim Brotherhood in the U.S. is "settlement," defined by the author[who?] as a form of jihad aimed at destroying Western civilisation from within and allowing for the victory of Islam over other religions.[83] In another one of these documents, "Ikhwan in America", the author alleges that the activities of the Muslim Brotherhood in the US include going to camps to do weapons training (referred to as Special work by the Muslim Brotherhood),[84] as well as engaging in counter-espionage against US government agencies such as the FBI and CIA (referred to as Securing the Group).[85]
Uh, you do realize that actually the Muslim Brotherhood hates "western culture" and the U.S., right? They have also publicly stated that they would like to wage warfare on the west?
As such, your whole comment doesn't make any sense at all. Maybe it was a terrible troll attempt, I don't know.
In Canada at least, there has been a serious lack of news about this protest. It's mentioned in passing sometimes, but that's about it. I don't even really know what it's about. I heard "protesting corporate greed in America", but I mean that's a tough thing to protest.. you're basically protesting capitalism..
Anyways, my question is why is there such a media gap about this protest? Is it on purpose (tin foil hat), or is it just because it's vague and nobody really cares about it, so the media doesn't bother?
It's a common theme on/. to argue that people should be replaced by robots, especially in remedial jobs like working as a cashier. But don't forget: these low paying and easy jobs are responsible for a great number of people's income across all countries, and often the people working them are just not capable of "doing more."
So, there is already an unemployment problem in the U.S., and we have seen what kinds of issues this causes. What are we going to do when say, 20-40% of remedial jobs are cheaply replaced with robots, and we get a 40% unemployment rate? Can you imagine the kind of chaos that would cause?
There's no easy solution unfortunately, and we must not be arrogant and simply be flippant about the remedial jobs, saying things like "well do something better" because many of "us" hold highly educated positions. I say this because at the end of the day, having that kind of unemployment rate is a death sentence for all of us with the current government/economic setup, not just those who will be out of work.
I made this account when I was 12... Slashdot doesn't allow me to change it. If anything, that's just more evidence on the fact that using the $ is stupid.
You just.. Please just stop using the $ in the Microsoft abbreviation.. I'm asking nicely. It makes it really hard to take your point seriously. I know it was all cool and shit a decade ago, but come on.
I own a PlayBook. The first thing I wanted to do with it was connect to my work computer (Windows) and remote desktop. Well, PB doesn't support PPTP or L2TP/IPSec, so that won't work. Furthermore, it doesn't have a remote desktop app, further making this impossible. I then tried to connect it to a BlackBerry (I don't own one, but a co-workers does), and it failed. The only way to make it work was to re-flash the device with the same ROM (not a new one.. I don't know why). So, then I could read e-mail, right? Yes, but you can't open attachments... wtf?
I think the above is a good summary of the overall impression people get from BlackBerry. Have you ever tried to use their desktop software for syncing music/etc to their phones? It's ridiculously awful. I actually laughed out loud when I saw it, as it took about 5 minutes just to detect the device and communicate with it. It just leaves a really bad taste in the mouth.
Which brings me to my last point, which is the development environment. For PB, it's not existent.. it's command line. Sorry, but that's not acceptable. I mean, sure, when you first release the device, but now there's still nothing? At least make an eclipse plug-in. For BlackBerry.. well, I've made a few apps for 4.6.0 and above, and it was tragic at best. There are many simple things that are just not available (some graphical markup language anyone?) - the fact that I have to write my GUI in code just reeks of outdated. And then something like connecting to the internet requires re-implementation of connection detection every time.. there's nothing built into the framework to just abstract dealing with the connection away.
I've read quite a few BB developer forums, and they are all fairly negative, or very frustrated. How can they expect a great app eco-system, when they obviously have absolutely no care in the world for their developers?
You are ignorant if you think consumer purchasing is what gives big companies their bottom line.
The majority of Microsoft's revenue is from Office sales and re-subs, and those are from corporations. There's no money in consumers from this perspective.
Microsoft needs to go back to their roots and remember that their success in the PC market these days can largely (but of course, not entirely) be attributed to the fact that many younger people pirated their OS and used it a lot.
This is why they should just let piracy go, especially for the OS and Visual Studio, that way when people enter the workforce, they already are accustomed to these things. This is why RIM should be so disturbed that many younger people don't use BlackBerry's anymore; when those younger people enter the workforce, they're going to scream and yell to get their iPhone's and Android's connected to the exchange server.
It has always been this way, and Microsoft would be stupid to forget it.
That said, there's the China piracy problem, which is outside of above.. maybe this is targeting that..
Actually he said re-balance "once a year", which means to me he just has an arbitrary day he re balances, which (if he did it today, for example), could turn out bad. He's not reacting to the market, he's just doing things "because."
I kind of agree with you. In reality, nobody can predict the market. But in practice, you don't need to. It's pretty easy to see a downtrend in the broad market, and when that happens you move from equities into bonds. And then when the market begins to trend upwards again, you do the opposite.
All you really do is follow the trend, without making any risky moves, and you will always make money both when the market goes up, and when it goes down. It's not rocket science, but it does require moving money every few months (well, only lately. before it was pretty safe just sticking with index mutual funds or straight equity).
I never understood this "diversify everything!" sentiment that plagues bank managers. It comes off as lazy, as no matter what 25% part of your portfolio (in the above example) goes up, another part will go down, since gold hedges stock and vice versa. You're always gaining/losing, hoping the gains outweigh the losses. How strange.
Why can't they do this with movies? So many of the recent films would be so much better if they didn't all aim for the 2 hour "normal" length. And since when did 2 hours become normal? I'm perfectly happy with 1 hour to 1:30.
I think this is more about "your rights." Lest we forget, we were all young once too, and not all of us were idiots. They're taking rights away. I mean, just look at this quote:
“No good things can happen to young people at that hour.”
Seems like a slippery slope to "No good things can happen to people at that hour.", no? Rights are rights,/. fights so hard for children's rights in schools, and there have been many postings about how so and so's son was expelled for "hacking." Why not out-cry over this?
VB.NET? I'm honestly curious why you use that language. C# is far more powerful, and much easier to use for anyone with a C programming background.
I'm not trolling or anything, I just honestly never understood why anyone using.NET would use VB.NET language over C#, except for in the case where VB6 was all they knew, and VB.NET was "close enough" to it..
I'm not a scientist in this field, but I'm curious (if anyone knows the actual reason) why we can't just figure out what is actually killing the bees?
I know they've been trying to figure it out for sometime now with no luck.. what the heck could it bee? (yes.... yes that was intentional... I'm sorry).
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Eh? It's not really that hard, you could create the program in less than 1 hour if you just did it quickly. The point is that you can take your time, fine tune it, etc. All the developers we have got through this method have been very good, so far.
First, I'm in Canada. I don't know what a Credit Union is. I don't think we have them here, though I don't know why.
Second, here in Canada almost all banks charge fees for debit transactions, but typically they offer packages (i.e. $3/mo for 20 debit transactions, or keep $1k+ in your chequing account and get free unlimited debits). I don't know why people here don't complain like crazy..
Third, if you don't use your own bank's ATM (ABM in the states, I guess), you get charged $1.50, right away. And, if you use an independent ATM, you may be charged anywhere from $1.00 to $2.00 on top of that, perhaps more if it's in a bar. It's a pretty crappy situation.
As someone who has been through these for Microsoft and some other big name companies, I completely agree with the post. Although I was successful (I was offered a position), it just doesn't make sense. When you program, you don't do it in a pressure filled environment. You take your time, you gather requirements, you design and implement within the time available and you do the best job.
My perception of these tests has always been some smart-ass programmer who wants to show that he's better than anyone else making young programmers try and solve stupid puzzles as fast as possible. It's pretty ridiculous.
The company I work for now has the best idea IMO - when you submit your resume, you must also submit a working program that solves a business case outlined. You can of course take as long as you want, do it at home, and use internet resources. But the program isn't judged on just code alone, it's judged on many other elements. This course of action has allowed us to hire very intelligent and well rounded developers, and weeded out all those who were just "carpet bombing" resumes (as they wouldn't even read that they had to submit an application as well, or were too lazy to do it). In addition, we can immediately see the quality of code, style (assuming they didn't copy), and just as important how they think the UX/UI should be, etc.
Why more companies, like Google, don't do it this way is beyond me. I feel like they just want to be assholes and try to intimidate new recruits, or "show off."
According to the discovery article, "[Sterling Allan] told FoxNews.com that Paul Swanson with the U.S. Navy’s Space and Naval Warfare Systems unit (SPAWAR) can vouch for the demonstration." Also, "FoxNews.com spoke with a man at SPAWAR who identified himself as Swanson, and who said only that he was "not in a position to talk to the press." Several other sources within the Navy and the Pentagoneither declined to comment or did not return messages."
Discovery, like myself, is still skeptical. However, if it's true someone from the SPAWAR was there, it's possible there's something to it.
Canada also pulled out of UNESCO after Palestine was voted in, so it wasn't just the US.
I'm so confused. First of all, this doesn't list the Samsung Galaxy, which has stayed updated. Or the S2 for that matter. Did they specifically pick Android devices that are not being updated (there are many, I don't deny that)?
Second of all, the original iPhone 2G, which I have, is definitely not supported by iOS5, or even iOS4 for that matter. What are they smoking?
I can't help but think this is intentionally skewed for Apple...
It also says:
The Holy Land Foundation trial has led to the release, as evidence, of[82] several documents on the Muslim Brotherhood. One of these documents, dated in 1991, explains that the goal of the Muslim Brotherhood in the U.S. is "settlement," defined by the author[who?] as a form of jihad aimed at destroying Western civilisation from within and allowing for the victory of Islam over other religions.[83] In another one of these documents, "Ikhwan in America", the author alleges that the activities of the Muslim Brotherhood in the US include going to camps to do weapons training (referred to as Special work by the Muslim Brotherhood),[84] as well as engaging in counter-espionage against US government agencies such as the FBI and CIA (referred to as Securing the Group).[85]
Uh, you do realize that actually the Muslim Brotherhood hates "western culture" and the U.S., right? They have also publicly stated that they would like to wage warfare on the west?
As such, your whole comment doesn't make any sense at all. Maybe it was a terrible troll attempt, I don't know.
While reading the iOS5 features page (http://www.apple.com/ios/features.html), I went down to the "Mail" section and saw:
"Format text using bold, italic, or underlined fonts. Create indents in the text of your message."
Is that really something they should be advertising? Pretty advanced stuff..
In Canada at least, there has been a serious lack of news about this protest. It's mentioned in passing sometimes, but that's about it. I don't even really know what it's about. I heard "protesting corporate greed in America", but I mean that's a tough thing to protest.. you're basically protesting capitalism..
Anyways, my question is why is there such a media gap about this protest? Is it on purpose (tin foil hat), or is it just because it's vague and nobody really cares about it, so the media doesn't bother?
It's a common theme on /. to argue that people should be replaced by robots, especially in remedial jobs like working as a cashier. But don't forget: these low paying and easy jobs are responsible for a great number of people's income across all countries, and often the people working them are just not capable of "doing more."
So, there is already an unemployment problem in the U.S., and we have seen what kinds of issues this causes. What are we going to do when say, 20-40% of remedial jobs are cheaply replaced with robots, and we get a 40% unemployment rate? Can you imagine the kind of chaos that would cause?
There's no easy solution unfortunately, and we must not be arrogant and simply be flippant about the remedial jobs, saying things like "well do something better" because many of "us" hold highly educated positions. I say this because at the end of the day, having that kind of unemployment rate is a death sentence for all of us with the current government/economic setup, not just those who will be out of work.
I made this account when I was 12... Slashdot doesn't allow me to change it. If anything, that's just more evidence on the fact that using the $ is stupid.
You just.. Please just stop using the $ in the Microsoft abbreviation.. I'm asking nicely. It makes it really hard to take your point seriously. I know it was all cool and shit a decade ago, but come on.
Thank you.
I own a PlayBook. The first thing I wanted to do with it was connect to my work computer (Windows) and remote desktop. Well, PB doesn't support PPTP or L2TP/IPSec, so that won't work. Furthermore, it doesn't have a remote desktop app, further making this impossible. I then tried to connect it to a BlackBerry (I don't own one, but a co-workers does), and it failed. The only way to make it work was to re-flash the device with the same ROM (not a new one.. I don't know why). So, then I could read e-mail, right? Yes, but you can't open attachments... wtf?
I think the above is a good summary of the overall impression people get from BlackBerry. Have you ever tried to use their desktop software for syncing music/etc to their phones? It's ridiculously awful. I actually laughed out loud when I saw it, as it took about 5 minutes just to detect the device and communicate with it. It just leaves a really bad taste in the mouth.
Which brings me to my last point, which is the development environment. For PB, it's not existent.. it's command line. Sorry, but that's not acceptable. I mean, sure, when you first release the device, but now there's still nothing? At least make an eclipse plug-in. For BlackBerry.. well, I've made a few apps for 4.6.0 and above, and it was tragic at best. There are many simple things that are just not available (some graphical markup language anyone?) - the fact that I have to write my GUI in code just reeks of outdated. And then something like connecting to the internet requires re-implementation of connection detection every time.. there's nothing built into the framework to just abstract dealing with the connection away.
I've read quite a few BB developer forums, and they are all fairly negative, or very frustrated. How can they expect a great app eco-system, when they obviously have absolutely no care in the world for their developers?
Does anyone know where a mirror is for the .apk? This article made me find out about this app, and now I want it, but I can't find the .apk anywhere.
Thanks!
You are ignorant if you think consumer purchasing is what gives big companies their bottom line.
The majority of Microsoft's revenue is from Office sales and re-subs, and those are from corporations. There's no money in consumers from this perspective.
Sorry that you don't like that fact.
Microsoft needs to go back to their roots and remember that their success in the PC market these days can largely (but of course, not entirely) be attributed to the fact that many younger people pirated their OS and used it a lot.
This is why they should just let piracy go, especially for the OS and Visual Studio, that way when people enter the workforce, they already are accustomed to these things. This is why RIM should be so disturbed that many younger people don't use BlackBerry's anymore; when those younger people enter the workforce, they're going to scream and yell to get their iPhone's and Android's connected to the exchange server.
It has always been this way, and Microsoft would be stupid to forget it.
That said, there's the China piracy problem, which is outside of above.. maybe this is targeting that..
Actually he said re-balance "once a year", which means to me he just has an arbitrary day he re balances, which (if he did it today, for example), could turn out bad. He's not reacting to the market, he's just doing things "because."
I kind of agree with you. In reality, nobody can predict the market. But in practice, you don't need to. It's pretty easy to see a downtrend in the broad market, and when that happens you move from equities into bonds. And then when the market begins to trend upwards again, you do the opposite.
All you really do is follow the trend, without making any risky moves, and you will always make money both when the market goes up, and when it goes down. It's not rocket science, but it does require moving money every few months (well, only lately. before it was pretty safe just sticking with index mutual funds or straight equity).
I never understood this "diversify everything!" sentiment that plagues bank managers. It comes off as lazy, as no matter what 25% part of your portfolio (in the above example) goes up, another part will go down, since gold hedges stock and vice versa. You're always gaining/losing, hoping the gains outweigh the losses. How strange.
Why can't they do this with movies? So many of the recent films would be so much better if they didn't all aim for the 2 hour "normal" length. And since when did 2 hours become normal? I'm perfectly happy with 1 hour to 1:30.
I think this is more about "your rights." Lest we forget, we were all young once too, and not all of us were idiots. They're taking rights away. I mean, just look at this quote:
“No good things can happen to young people at that hour.”
Seems like a slippery slope to "No good things can happen to people at that hour.", no? Rights are rights, /. fights so hard for children's rights in schools, and there have been many postings about how so and so's son was expelled for "hacking." Why not out-cry over this?
VB.NET? I'm honestly curious why you use that language. C# is far more powerful, and much easier to use for anyone with a C programming background.
I'm not trolling or anything, I just honestly never understood why anyone using .NET would use VB.NET language over C#, except for in the case where VB6 was all they knew, and VB.NET was "close enough" to it..
Canada? We're uh, right there, you know. We also don't suck, like the US.
Yea but if we don't figure out Autism, it sucks, but only for the Autistic.
If we don't figure out this, millions of people may die from lack of crops. So it sucks for everyone.
I'm not a scientist in this field, but I'm curious (if anyone knows the actual reason) why we can't just figure out what is actually killing the bees?
I know they've been trying to figure it out for sometime now with no luck.. what the heck could it bee? (yes.... yes that was intentional... I'm sorry).