Ok, we're talking about designers, so let's touch on the supposedly most well-known design firm there is: RazorFish. Another site that requires Flash. I'm very sure that Flash is not on the w3c standards list.
Well, Apple didn't hesitate to put the standard set of DVD bullshit on the Mac. What makes you naive enough to think that Apple will somehow set itself above crippling the other parts of its computers? Like any company, they're in it for the money. And there's money in digital rights mismanagement.
This isn't language translation. All they have to do is look for a known city, followed by a known state abbreviation. The last two lines will be the address. And to make sure there's no junk data, they can simply verify that the address exists.
It is indeed a bit ironic that commercial harassment companies (they call themselves 'direct marketers') use the name harvest, when infact what they are directly doing is destroying thousands of miles of rain forests each year. A harvest implies they actually grow plant matter, not waste it.
I recycle all my junk mail too. I've got a recycle can right next to my trash can for it (and other recyclables, of course). It beats just trashing it.
Most Americans don't, and that glossy crisp paper you get from the divorce lawyer three blocks down? That's printed from 90% first generation wood.
1. Junk mail costs the sender totally, I don't spend a cent. While spam costs me download time, bandwidth, and a bunch more.
Unless you find global warming has no cost to you. Junk mail costs us money in disposal charges, but more importantly, destroy large parts of our rain forests for the paper. And odds are, you aren't recycling that junk mail are you?
This post smacks of something called credentialism. It's been around for a very long time, and it's sort of a modern feudalism: adults who are white collar with college degrees can send their kids to good colleges. Adults without a degree can't send their kids to either good schools or good colleges. And so the cycle repeats itself.
This cycle was turned on its head during the past 100 years. Through unions, blue collar wages have gone up, and through scholarships, more people enter the white collar job market. Now, during the past few decades, the Internet has allowed people to self-educate. People who are self-educated are generally more motivated, more confident, and less ignorant. Although this change is slow, and with the economic backlash, many companies have reverted to the old way, credentialism will slowly die. High school kids cannot read their own deplomas, community college students beat Harvard students on game shows.
You're just bitter because you're dupped into the old wrong ways of thinking. Well, what do you call a college drop out in ten years? Boss.
Well, sort of. I've worked mostly at small to medium sized companies, and for a VERY large company (GE owned). Although it varies, the general rules are:
Small companies usually have smaller teams. Larger companies usually have larger teams.
In small teams, each team member has a broad role, but certain skills. There is a need for an exact match of personality and skills.
In large teams, each team member has specific tasks. The team works collectively, and there's really nothing specific a company will really need.
So you see, in a large team, they're just looking for general ability. Someone with a degree will probably be reasonably intelligent, at and least know something. If you get a big enough pool of people, all of them filtered by degree, you will probably be able to finish most projects.
In a small team, the company needs self-starters. The skills are special, and indeed a small team cannot afford to filter by something as generic as a degree: they're looking for specific skills.
Also, people in small teams work harder, but generally have more fullfilling tasks. Would you rather spend 10 hard-core hours writing a variety of tasks or spend 4 hours a day doing the same thing every day?
Whether you have a degree or not, I'd go for the small team. And a good team leader is not dumb enough to look at a degree. A department manager is too busy to care about specific skills. As a final note, in a small company, you'll have a good list of accomplishments to show another small team. A big company will respect that you worked for other big companies. Choose now, because it's hard to change cultures. I suggest you go for a small company. You have a better chance of landing a job, and the jobs are better.
Here's one: Major insurance company seeks mid-level programmer. Requires Master's degree in Computer Science or related field and minimum 10 years experience developing in C/C++ and Java. $65,000US + Benefits.
These kind of bullshit postings were around in the dotcom era too. Usually they just put random degree and language requirements up there to limit the number of responses. In truth, they aren't looking for someone who's known Java since before it was released.
It's true that more clueless HR managers are putting more random stuff in their requirements docs. What you really need is to just know someone in a company, who can bypass the HR.
I'm starting to get concerned about the growing number of laws regulating spam. A lot of spam I get says "This email cannot be considered spam because it is in compliance with XYZ"
So my question is, are these moderate anti-spam laws really helping or hurting? I see them, in the long run, offering some legitimacy to spam. In that these laws are so weak, that they don't really curb spam, but because they are the only regulation on the topic, spammers will point their ISPs to these laws and demand service.
I'd say maybe the community should fight all laws but out-right bans on spam.
That's a really weird way of saying $200,000: "nearly a quarter of a million dollar"
yes, but then again, this is slashdot. Be glad they didn't say nearly a korter of a mellion" -- besides, it is roughly 25 cents after taxes and Microsoft legal action.
Slashdot has hit a new low by announcing news that didn't happen. And in related news, Star Wars Episode 2 will not be nominated for best picture. Sorry to let you all down in advance.;-)
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Dare I say, who cares about shows on the WB and why is this a headline?
* int foo (int *bar) {...} ---> passing directly a reference
Yes, but you can't do that in PHP, can you? This, by the way, is why C++ is a problem for object oriented design. But it gets worse in PHP because INTERNAL FUNCTIONS tend to copy objects by value, and you have to rewrite those too. There are times, even, when it's impossible to get around.
Real object oriented languages like Smalltalk, Python, and Java don't pull this kind of crap.
And really, if you had any programming experience and didn't think of putting & in front of a variable to get a reference, should you be programming?
Anyone who designs a language that every copies an object implicitly should be banned from using a computer. I take it you're used to design of C and C++, which although similar to PHP, are less crackheaded. Every C++ programmer worth is salt doesn't use objects directly, he uses pointers and -> operators. This can't be done in PHP, especially if you plan on using PHP's internal functions on your objects.
Unlike PHP, most other languages that do this don't do it internally either. You can't use PHP internal functions like sort() because they copy object. You can't do variable assignments: $object1 = $object2 and get a proper result.
It's never OK to implicitly copy an object. Ever. And the people who designed PHP did later correct their mistakes somewhat in the latest version of PHP, so that object assignments are real assignments, not duplications.
Err... isn't this pretty common among programming languages?
No, it isn't. C does not feature objects or classes at all, so that's moot. In C++, everyone works with pointers anyway. Object-pascal does not constantly copy objects either. I've never found an implementation of object orientation as poor as PHP's..
This isn't a bug so much as a crack-headed design, but PHP has some of my favorite problems, in that everytime you touch an object, it makes a copy
function($object);
Meaning that function() will not be sent $object, but a copy of $object. I spent a long time, after writing a system, finding each little place and putting & chars in there. Sometimes it was impossible to do, and most of the time, there was really no way to warn me if an object was copied.
Their maximize button under the "Windowing" tab in the widget demo doesn't work right under IceWM, or any X wm for that matter because X doesn't have a notion of maximize.
Furthermore I found two places on the fonts tab where widgets overrun: the "font name" over runs the frame and the textbox, and "Sample" over runs bold.
The answer is, at the point that your attorney tells you that it will. Seriously, this is a question for an attorney. You've clued into the fact that it's a legitimate legal question, so go ask a legal professional.
Defence: But Your Honor, the opinions on the Internet web site 'H T T P colon slash slash dot dog o r g slash' clearly state that my client is innocent. What more legal proof do you need?
Plaintiff: Objection. Many of these opinions were modded down as redundant, your honor.
Your Honor: Strike comments modded below three from the record! Case dismissed.
Not exactly. Some companies have silly little contracts like "You promise not to benefit from working here. Any ideas you have for the rest of your life are property of The Corporation. You agree to random anal searches five years after the end of employment"
They stick all kinds of crazy stuff in employment contracts. I think I can only drink Pepsi, as one of my prior employers was partnered with a CEO who happened to have a son who worked at Pepsi-CO.
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Ok, we're talking about designers, so let's touch on the supposedly most well-known design firm there is: RazorFish. Another site that requires Flash. I'm very sure that Flash is not on the w3c standards list.
I think you meant to post "his" name, not "is" name.
This isn't language translation. All they have to do is look for a known city, followed by a known state abbreviation. The last two lines will be the address. And to make sure there's no junk data, they can simply verify that the address exists.
The Devil
1 Microsoft Way
Redmond, WA 98052
Jack Fuck-me-in-the-ass Valenti
MPAA
15503 Ventura Boulevard
Encino, CA 91436
Just to start off with a few.
It is indeed a bit ironic that commercial harassment companies (they call themselves 'direct marketers') use the name harvest, when infact what they are directly doing is destroying thousands of miles of rain forests each year. A harvest implies they actually grow plant matter, not waste it.
This cycle was turned on its head during the past 100 years. Through unions, blue collar wages have gone up, and through scholarships, more people enter the white collar job market. Now, during the past few decades, the Internet has allowed people to self-educate. People who are self-educated are generally more motivated, more confident, and less ignorant. Although this change is slow, and with the economic backlash, many companies have reverted to the old way, credentialism will slowly die. High school kids cannot read their own deplomas, community college students beat Harvard students on game shows.
You're just bitter because you're dupped into the old wrong ways of thinking. Well, what do you call a college drop out in ten years? Boss.
- Small companies usually have smaller teams. Larger companies usually have larger teams.
- In small teams, each team member has a broad role, but certain skills. There is a need for an exact match of personality and skills.
- In large teams, each team member has specific tasks. The team works collectively, and there's really nothing specific a company will really need.
So you see, in a large team, they're just looking for general ability. Someone with a degree will probably be reasonably intelligent, at and least know something. If you get a big enough pool of people, all of them filtered by degree, you will probably be able to finish most projects.In a small team, the company needs self-starters. The skills are special, and indeed a small team cannot afford to filter by something as generic as a degree: they're looking for specific skills.
Also, people in small teams work harder, but generally have more fullfilling tasks. Would you rather spend 10 hard-core hours writing a variety of tasks or spend 4 hours a day doing the same thing every day?
Whether you have a degree or not, I'd go for the small team. And a good team leader is not dumb enough to look at a degree. A department manager is too busy to care about specific skills. As a final note, in a small company, you'll have a good list of accomplishments to show another small team. A big company will respect that you worked for other big companies. Choose now, because it's hard to change cultures. I suggest you go for a small company. You have a better chance of landing a job, and the jobs are better.
It's true that more clueless HR managers are putting more random stuff in their requirements docs. What you really need is to just know someone in a company, who can bypass the HR.
So my question is, are these moderate anti-spam laws really helping or hurting? I see them, in the long run, offering some legitimacy to spam. In that these laws are so weak, that they don't really curb spam, but because they are the only regulation on the topic, spammers will point their ISPs to these laws and demand service.
I'd say maybe the community should fight all laws but out-right bans on spam.
WB. UPN. Am I supposed to make some kind of distinction?
Dare I say, who cares about shows on the WB and why is this a headline?
Yes, but you can't do that in PHP, can you? This, by the way, is why C++ is a problem for object oriented design. But it gets worse in PHP because INTERNAL FUNCTIONS tend to copy objects by value, and you have to rewrite those too. There are times, even, when it's impossible to get around.
Real object oriented languages like Smalltalk, Python, and Java don't pull this kind of crap.
Unlike PHP, most other languages that do this don't do it internally either. You can't use PHP internal functions like sort() because they copy object. You can't do variable assignments: $object1 = $object2 and get a proper result.
It's never OK to implicitly copy an object. Ever. And the people who designed PHP did later correct their mistakes somewhat in the latest version of PHP, so that object assignments are real assignments, not duplications.
Their maximize button under the "Windowing" tab in the widget demo doesn't work right under IceWM, or any X wm for that matter because X doesn't have a notion of maximize.
Furthermore I found two places on the fonts tab where widgets overrun: the "font name" over runs the frame and the textbox, and "Sample" over runs bold.
Plaintiff: Objection. Many of these opinions were modded down as redundant, your honor.
Your Honor: Strike comments modded below three from the record! Case dismissed.
Not exactly. Some companies have silly little contracts like "You promise not to benefit from working here. Any ideas you have for the rest of your life are property of The Corporation. You agree to random anal searches five years after the end of employment"
They stick all kinds of crazy stuff in employment contracts. I think I can only drink Pepsi, as one of my prior employers was partnered with a CEO who happened to have a son who worked at Pepsi-CO.
It warms my heart.