There is a startup called Hire Art http://www.hireart.com/ that's doing something similar without the "gamification". Instead of playing a game like in the article, or going to the other extreme and requiring full-scale work samples, they have smaller-scale tests related to the required skills, including reading comprehension, basic numeracy/statistics, and more technical tests. An employer can choose modules and put together a short test to identify the skills they're looking for. Some tests can be graded automatically, and others are reviewed by humans.
The method in the article is tricky, because creating games for specific jobs is going to be quite time-consuming and psychologically complex. These games are good for hiring bartenders, but what if you want to hire drivers, or data-entry staff, or IT professionals? All different skills and you can't expect to know every business as well as the hiring manager.
So the HireArt approach seems like a good middle ground me: the tests are a slight barrier to the applicant so they don't send millions of copies of their resume hoping to "get lucky" on a job that isn't a match; anyone qualified shouldn't have trouble passing. Meanwhile, both the employer and applicant get a chance to make a first impression without taking too much of each others' time.
From what I hear, it seems to be working quite well so far. Applicants who get interviews are more likely to be good fits.
That's exactly what I did also. I wanted "just a phone", so I bought an unlocked VK2020 phone on ebay. It's tiny and works as "just a phone" (because even though it has other features, they're total rubbish). But it makes calls and doesn't waste space on extraneous crap.
Incidentally, I'm not doing it right either. I donate $25 monthly to the EFF. This makes me feel good about myself, and allows me to make smug posts like the above. Compare this to the amount I spend on my telephone landline, my cell phone, my cable TV, my broadband internet, electricity, gasoline, CDs, movies, videogames. So, what does my money say about my sentiments towards net neutrality? My stance on copyrights? My opinion of the Iraq war? My cashflows just called me a hypocrite.
Doesn't the EFF do some lobbying? The ACLU? If so, why do they seem to be relatively ineffective? Have you donated? (I can't find statistics on how many donations they have received, and how much money it adds up to.) You have to fight money with money, and putting some cash behind your rhetoric will make it more effective. If corporate lobby groups, media companies and special interests hire good lobbyists to write persuasive memos, they will easily persuade lawmakers who have no time to read slashdot (all of them). Solution: help the organizations who support your point of view to hire lobbyists who are just as good, and stop directly or indirectly supporting those who you disagree with. Put as much emphasis on voting with your wallet as you do on voting in the booth.
Other browsers have shown (Opera, Safari) that it's possible to have speedy back and forward buttons without taking up a gig of memory. You can claim that the Firefox back-forward code is so poorly written that it would have to be redone from the ground up, and that the developers consider a new spellchecker to be higher-priority than a time-consuming rewrite of this memory-hogging component. But please don't pretend that this is an intrinsic trade-off in browser design.
Picking the ovulating one 24 out of 30 times is a ridiculously strong result, with p-value 0.000162 - that's a hundredth of one percent! I think we're misinterpreting the article or the summary.
Selling over 100 million units, twice, has its advantages
Having an advantage is no guarantee of victory, no matter what the author of this article may think. If you shoot yourself in the foot often enough, you won't be able to walk, even if you started out with really big feet.
It's a pity that once they were allowed to bring a camera into the courtroom, they didn't take the opportunity to a) arrive on time and capture the entire procedure, b) capture audio and video clearly and c) Not behave like an idiot. The portion during which this dork's cell phone went off was perhaps the most relevant during the entire procedure, but even if it had been captured, we would probably not know what was said because of the garbled audio. If the author had borrowed a decent camera to shoot the video with, or brought along a separate microphone, maybe it would have been possible to understand the proceedings. As it is, watching that video is a waste of time.
ChatterBlocker masks unwanted chatter using a soothing blend of nature sounds, music and "anti-chatter" voices. It also offers mindfulness meditation tracks intended to increase concentration, reduce distractibility and minimize the stress response to office noise.
Right, I want to block out chattering voices with anti-chatter-voices! Brilliant!
preferably something small and that can slide into a PCMIA slot to do the syncing and charging.
I still use the fantastic Rex 6000. It's five year old technology, but its small form factor makes it better than anything currently out there. I'm sure that nowadays you could probably cram a stylus and handwriting recognition in there too, but unfortunately the concept of a "small but functional" PDA seems to have been abandoned in favor of bulky do-everything web-browsing mobile phones with cameras.
That Guy: Let's cut to the chase. There are two kinds of people: Sheep and sharks. Anyone who's a sheep is fired. Who's a sheep?
Zoidberg: Uh, excuse me? Which is the one people like to hug?
That Guy: Gutsy question. You're a shark. Sharks are winners and they don't look back 'cause they don't have necks. Necks are for sheep. [Everyone sinks down and covers their necks.] I am proud to be the shepherd of this herd of sharks and I am gonna lead you to the top in this industry of... of--
Make it fast, compliant and secure. Offer two versions for download: - Barebones, browser only, users must install their own extensions. Most geeks will want this one. - Some common and supported extensions preinstalled to support features included in competing browsers. Most people will want this one.
That website shows the drives go up to 64GB! Indeed, you can buy a 64GB flash drive at TigerDirect for the low low price of $2799.99. If you have money to burn, this may be just what you've been looking for.
And for those of us with Powerbooks with ambient light sensors, there is Shadowbook, which can be used with Virtue Desktops to switch between virtual desktops with the wave of a hand. It's a bit gimmicky, but fun.
Wow, thanks for the tip! I did some research and just bought the VK2020 from http://www.wapzon.com/web/prodetail.asp?Pid=8497 . Main improvement over the 2000 is the longer battery life (also it has Bluetooth and MP3 player features, but that doesn't matter to me).
I like the idea of having a tiny phone that just works as a phone -- no space wasted on cameras and other rubbish. The main drawback to this phone seems to be that the firmware isn't very refined, so there are occasional random glitches. See http://www.howardforums.com/showthread.php?t=87515 6 for details.
Samsung has a new thin phone too (t509), but it's still bigger and heavier than the VK with annoying bells and whistles.
I bought a nice 4GB thumbdrive from Apacer a few months ago in Taiwan, for the equivalent of about $200. It's nice and fast, and with 4GB, I haven't run out of room yet. Here's the link:
http://www.apacer.com/en/products/Handy_Steno_HT20 3_200X_specs.htm
I don't think they sell over the internet, but you can probably try to look for it, if you're in the market for high-capacity flash drives.
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There is a startup called Hire Art http://www.hireart.com/ that's doing something similar without the "gamification". Instead of playing a game like in the article, or going to the other extreme and requiring full-scale work samples, they have smaller-scale tests related to the required skills, including reading comprehension, basic numeracy/statistics, and more technical tests. An employer can choose modules and put together a short test to identify the skills they're looking for. Some tests can be graded automatically, and others are reviewed by humans.
The method in the article is tricky, because creating games for specific jobs is going to be quite time-consuming and psychologically complex. These games are good for hiring bartenders, but what if you want to hire drivers, or data-entry staff, or IT professionals? All different skills and you can't expect to know every business as well as the hiring manager.
So the HireArt approach seems like a good middle ground me: the tests are a slight barrier to the applicant so they don't send millions of copies of their resume hoping to "get lucky" on a job that isn't a match; anyone qualified shouldn't have trouble passing. Meanwhile, both the employer and applicant get a chance to make a first impression without taking too much of each others' time.
From what I hear, it seems to be working quite well so far. Applicants who get interviews are more likely to be good fits.
Disclosure: I know one of the company's founders
Fixed the typo for you.
That's exactly what I did also. I wanted "just a phone", so I bought an unlocked VK2020 phone on ebay. It's tiny and works as "just a phone" (because even though it has other features, they're total rubbish). But it makes calls and doesn't waste space on extraneous crap.
Incidentally, I'm not doing it right either. I donate $25 monthly to the EFF. This makes me feel good about myself, and allows me to make smug posts like the above. Compare this to the amount I spend on my telephone landline, my cell phone, my cable TV, my broadband internet, electricity, gasoline, CDs, movies, videogames. So, what does my money say about my sentiments towards net neutrality? My stance on copyrights? My opinion of the Iraq war? My cashflows just called me a hypocrite.
Doesn't the EFF do some lobbying? The ACLU? If so, why do they seem to be relatively ineffective? Have you donated? (I can't find statistics on how many donations they have received, and how much money it adds up to.) You have to fight money with money, and putting some cash behind your rhetoric will make it more effective. If corporate lobby groups, media companies and special interests hire good lobbyists to write persuasive memos, they will easily persuade lawmakers who have no time to read slashdot (all of them). Solution: help the organizations who support your point of view to hire lobbyists who are just as good, and stop directly or indirectly supporting those who you disagree with. Put as much emphasis on voting with your wallet as you do on voting in the booth.
Other browsers have shown (Opera, Safari) that it's possible to have speedy back and forward buttons without taking up a gig of memory. You can claim that the Firefox back-forward code is so poorly written that it would have to be redone from the ground up, and that the developers consider a new spellchecker to be higher-priority than a time-consuming rewrite of this memory-hogging component. But please don't pretend that this is an intrinsic trade-off in browser design.
Picking the ovulating one 24 out of 30 times is a ridiculously strong result, with p-value 0.000162 - that's a hundredth of one percent! I think we're misinterpreting the article or the summary.
Having an advantage is no guarantee of victory, no matter what the author of this article may think. If you shoot yourself in the foot often enough, you won't be able to walk, even if you started out with really big feet.
It's a pity that once they were allowed to bring a camera into the courtroom, they didn't take the opportunity to a) arrive on time and capture the entire procedure, b) capture audio and video clearly and c) Not behave like an idiot. The portion during which this dork's cell phone went off was perhaps the most relevant during the entire procedure, but even if it had been captured, we would probably not know what was said because of the garbled audio. If the author had borrowed a decent camera to shoot the video with, or brought along a separate microphone, maybe it would have been possible to understand the proceedings. As it is, watching that video is a waste of time.
In case you didn't know, space pirate investors are just like regular pirate investors ... but in space!!!
Right, I want to block out chattering voices with anti-chatter-voices! Brilliant!
I still use the fantastic Rex 6000. It's five year old technology, but its small form factor makes it better than anything currently out there. I'm sure that nowadays you could probably cram a stylus and handwriting recognition in there too, but unfortunately the concept of a "small but functional" PDA seems to have been abandoned in favor of bulky do-everything web-browsing mobile phones with cameras.
That Guy: Let's cut to the chase. There are two kinds of people: Sheep and sharks. Anyone who's a sheep is fired. Who's a sheep?
... of--
Zoidberg: Uh, excuse me? Which is the one people like to hug?
That Guy: Gutsy question. You're a shark. Sharks are winners and they don't look back 'cause they don't have necks. Necks are for sheep. [Everyone sinks down and covers their necks.] I am proud to be the shepherd of this herd of sharks and I am gonna lead you to the top in this industry of
Fry: (whispering) Package delivery.
Make it fast, compliant and secure. Offer two versions for download:
- Barebones, browser only, users must install their own extensions. Most geeks will want this one.
- Some common and supported extensions preinstalled to support features included in competing browsers. Most people will want this one.
That website shows the drives go up to 64GB! Indeed, you can buy a 64GB flash drive at TigerDirect for the low low price of $2799.99. If you have money to burn, this may be just what you've been looking for.
Brilliant. You had me at "clone giant boobies".
And for those of us with Powerbooks with ambient light sensors, there is Shadowbook, which can be used with Virtue Desktops to switch between virtual desktops with the wave of a hand. It's a bit gimmicky, but fun.
I just tried the exploit demonstration page, and it doesn't seem to do anything. Using Firefox 1.5.0.5 on Mac OS X. Any ideas?
Imagine a grammar checker -- it might make you loose you're mind.
Wow, thanks for the tip! I did some research and just bought the VK2020 from http://www.wapzon.com/web/prodetail.asp?Pid=8497 . Main improvement over the 2000 is the longer battery life (also it has Bluetooth and MP3 player features, but that doesn't matter to me). I like the idea of having a tiny phone that just works as a phone -- no space wasted on cameras and other rubbish. The main drawback to this phone seems to be that the firmware isn't very refined, so there are occasional random glitches. See http://www.howardforums.com/showthread.php?t=87515 6 for details.
Samsung has a new thin phone too (t509), but it's still bigger and heavier than the VK with annoying bells and whistles.
It looks like a useful gadget ... now if only they could make it in the form of a suppository...
Armed military robots running Windows bring a new meaning to Blue Screen of Death.
It's missing the Windows key ...
Take-Two does have a history of questionable accounting practices ...
I bought a nice 4GB thumbdrive from Apacer a few months ago in Taiwan, for the equivalent of about $200. It's nice and fast, and with 4GB, I haven't run out of room yet. Here's the link: http://www.apacer.com/en/products/Handy_Steno_HT20 3_200X_specs.htm
I don't think they sell over the internet, but you can probably try to look for it, if you're in the market for high-capacity flash drives.