Well, the hard-drive makers are correct on the size thing - a Gigabyte is 1000 Megabytes, and the OS and software makers are wrong.
Yeah, they coined the term and have been using it for 40 years, but they're wrong.
Gigabytes are actually displayed as Gigabytes, or that the listing is changed to correctly display Gibibytes as the value? (or Kibibytes, Mebibytes, whatever)
Listen, just because someone comes up with a standard doesn't obligate everyone to use it, especially when they already have a perfectly workable system already. Claiming that NIST can impose an unwanted standard on the world is like saying that it isn't a word until the OED lists it.
A lot of staffing/head hunter companies are locking companies into contracts, e.g., you will pay us for 6 months regardless of how long the employee works.
You'd think that would incent them to retain people. If smitty is getting offers for 40% raises, then something is seriously messed up.
Right. President Clinton, in this case. A Democrat.
With a Republican congress that, a few years before shut down the federal government to piss off Clinton, and also had enough votes to ram through a veto override while doing its best to impeach him on anything they could find. damn right he signed it.
You should be able to build a hashmap in 10 minutes (data structure + sketch the algorithms). additional reqs men you're doing well - they often have a reason for them, and you have to do this stuff in the real world anyway.
When I asked what would happen if they couldn't find any takers, he said airily that his clients would simply defer their software projects until they could hire programmers at "the appropriate rate".
This shows how out of touch your 'cruiter and his clients are.
Quoting economic theory doesn't cut much ice
Sure it does, you just have to translate: "Pay what it takes to make your strategically vital stuff go or your competitors will rape you and eat your corpse." Simple and direct.
,p>Or they're talking about some internal portal thingy v2.0. Who cares about that stuff? If you can't make a business case for it, then they're right.
As someone once remarked, there is no economist so distinguished that you can't find another, equally distinguished, to call him a gold-plated liar.
I am an amateur economist, and I'm happy to give the finger to any econ guys that disagree with me. Difference is, I'll only expound on stuff where I can verify a causal link. Especially if that link makes me money:)
And as someone else noted, "if all the economists in the world were laid end to end it would be a very good thing".
nobody ever said that. Dorothy Parker said "If all the women in Yale university were laid end to end, it wouldn't surprise me one bit", but that's not really relevant, is it?
He'd look pretty damned stupid if I were to show it to his boss and his boss liked it (of course, that'd get me fired).
So pull a dogbert: hire yourself as an external consultant, charge a ridiculous fee, and give the idea to the executives. Or piss off your boss, but inform his boss that you have other ideas that could prove valuable. Are they really going to fire you after you give them $5M PER YEAR?! Collect a nice 50% bonus and get a fat raise to boot.
Nigga, Please. Any engineer worth their salt should be able to work out a linked list algorithm in a 50 minute interview session. Probably two or three if they're variations on a theme. They should at least be able to sketch the broad strokes of something more complex, but requiring the ability to push something to completion also avoids the guys who can never finish a project.
A free market would be one in which both goods and labor could move freely, all over the world. If the government keeps most Indians and Mexicans out of your workplace, then the government is artificially subsidizing you.
Shocker! The government maintains some semblance of stability in the country and nominally works for the behalf of its citizens. Tell me this: Why shouldn't government policy favor Americans over Indians?
Anyway, your example sucks: there is a more or less free labor market within the US (only real barrier is relocation).
Additionally, managers in silicon valley have a track record of strong bias in favor of graduates from a single-digit list of colleges, and of Caucasian, Oriental, or Indian descent males.
Ahh, the requisite racial crusading jackass.
If you include women, blacks, American Indians, Hispanic-descent citizens, various "halfbreeds", and graduates of other fine universities (especially state universities) - rather than reserving them to support (or janitorial) positions, there is no shortage whatsoever.
Yeah, I'm sure that the guys who clean the floors all have CS degrees or know how to write code. Face it, half breed or no, there are enough startups out there that, should they have the ability, they'll have a good job.
You have to PAY them on the basis of performance, respect their opinions, and avoid filing the serial numbers off their ideas and crediting them to the stars from that tiny pool of ivy-league whites and orientals. If you hire them and then systematically abuse them and pay them 2/3 of what you pay the in crowd, they'll burn out and drop out.
Why treat them any differently from the whites? You think favoritism is strictly a racial thing?
Schools that do poorly should be the ones getting money- while the money itself won't fix the problem, it could go a long way to fix the real issues the school has, such as lack of supplies, technology, current textbooks, and competent teachers.
You named one thing that is actually a factor. Most of what causes schools to fail is out of the control of those schools - it's a question of environment and parents. Sorry about your little brother.
Oh bullshit. Good development and good code isn't about reinventing the wheel when good algorithms and code already exists.
Linked lists are a known complexity problem, so throwing some code out and refining it makes for good interview fodder. Presumably you won't do that in your job - STL and java both provide good implementations.
But, all the MS teams do is ask bullshit interview questions. Why are manhole covers round? How do I implement a list?... Those questions don't find good candidates.
They eliminate bad ones, though. The manhole cover thing not so much, but I do interviews, and I do ask about implementing linked lists and other basic things, just to make sure that the candidate can show me something. Advanced candidates get 'remove the current node from the list without the head pointer', and the really good ones can explain why this is stupid to even try.
Let's remember here that the reason 9-11 happened was because of intelligence failings.
That may have been the proximate cause, but the reason for attacks like 9/11 are linked to us walking around the mideast and stirring things up with our dicks. If we allowed these countries to settle their issues, we could end up with a country that mocks us like we mock france before we go over there and gawk at the Eiffel tower.
Bush's solution, which was essentially to manufacture evidence about Iraq, thus embroiling the US in a war which, after being won, has spiraled the country into a civil war.
While I won't argue the amnufacture of evidence, I must dispute that we have won anything. The only measurable goal that I can think of that we have actually met is the removal of saddam hussein, and that was declared after the fact. We went over there and stick our dick in Baghdad. Shocking that the Iraqis objected.
Probably because Iran has openly stated its desire to wipe Israel off the map should it ever have the means to do so.
By which I assume that you mean drive the fundies out of power and normalize relations with Israel, right? Are you aware that Khamenei (sp?) has issued a fatwa declaring that use of nuclear weapons is inconsistent with Islam?
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Well, the hard-drive makers are correct on the size thing - a Gigabyte is 1000 Megabytes, and the OS and software makers are wrong.
Yeah, they coined the term and have been using it for 40 years, but they're wrong.
Gigabytes are actually displayed as Gigabytes, or that the listing is changed to correctly display Gibibytes as the value? (or Kibibytes, Mebibytes, whatever)
Listen, just because someone comes up with a standard doesn't obligate everyone to use it, especially when they already have a perfectly workable system already. Claiming that NIST can impose an unwanted standard on the world is like saying that it isn't a word until the OED lists it.
Now that computers are part of real engineering work, even the slightest amount of ambiguity is not acceptable .
Since when are lying marketroids doing real engineering?
I'll fix up the script as soon as you point to a senior FBI guy who can be trusted with it.
That's partly because when the iPod took off there weren't many competitors with Apple's stature.
Which is another way of saying that the iPod beat all comers.
You seem to have no concept of loyalty to an employer, etc.
At least there is symmetry. I'll show loyalty when they do the same.
That said, how do you borrow under the inflation rate?
Get a good credit card and wait for the 0% offers that show up from time to time.
I do not recall that my credit report from any of the major agencies included information on my employers.
Mine does. It includes one contracting shop from a few years back and a job I had more than 10 years ago. No dates attached, naturally.
A lot of staffing/head hunter companies are locking companies into contracts, e.g., you will pay us for 6 months regardless of how long the employee works.
You'd think that would incent them to retain people. If smitty is getting offers for 40% raises, then something is seriously messed up.
Right. President Clinton, in this case. A Democrat.
With a Republican congress that, a few years before shut down the federal government to piss off Clinton, and also had enough votes to ram through a veto override while doing its best to impeach him on anything they could find. damn right he signed it.
I guess the alternative is to start a competing company and grind your old place into dust. Revenge + profit is a nice way to get things done.
You should be able to build a hashmap in 10 minutes (data structure + sketch the algorithms). additional reqs men you're doing well - they often have a reason for them, and you have to do this stuff in the real world anyway.
When I asked what would happen if they couldn't find any takers, he said airily that his clients would simply defer their software projects until they could hire programmers at "the appropriate rate".
This shows how out of touch your 'cruiter and his clients are.
Quoting economic theory doesn't cut much ice
Sure it does, you just have to translate: "Pay what it takes to make your strategically vital stuff go or your competitors will rape you and eat your corpse." Simple and direct.
As someone once remarked, there is no economist so distinguished that you can't find another, equally distinguished, to call him a gold-plated liar.
I am an amateur economist, and I'm happy to give the finger to any econ guys that disagree with me. Difference is, I'll only expound on stuff where I can verify a causal link. Especially if that link makes me money :)
And as someone else noted, "if all the economists in the world were laid end to end it would be a very good thing".
nobody ever said that. Dorothy Parker said "If all the women in Yale university were laid end to end, it wouldn't surprise me one bit", but that's not really relevant, is it?
He'd look pretty damned stupid if I were to show it to his boss and his boss liked it (of course, that'd get me fired).
So pull a dogbert: hire yourself as an external consultant, charge a ridiculous fee, and give the idea to the executives. Or piss off your boss, but inform his boss that you have other ideas that could prove valuable. Are they really going to fire you after you give them $5M PER YEAR?! Collect a nice 50% bonus and get a fat raise to boot.
where will the next version of Windows come from?
I dunno, India or China?
Nigga, Please. Any engineer worth their salt should be able to work out a linked list algorithm in a 50 minute interview session. Probably two or three if they're variations on a theme. They should at least be able to sketch the broad strokes of something more complex, but requiring the ability to push something to completion also avoids the guys who can never finish a project.
A free market would be one in which both goods and labor could move freely, all over the world. If the government keeps most Indians and Mexicans out of your workplace, then the government is artificially subsidizing you.
Shocker! The government maintains some semblance of stability in the country and nominally works for the behalf of its citizens. Tell me this: Why shouldn't government policy favor Americans over Indians?
Anyway, your example sucks: there is a more or less free labor market within the US (only real barrier is relocation).
Additionally, managers in silicon valley have a track record of strong bias in favor of graduates from a single-digit list of colleges, and of Caucasian, Oriental, or Indian descent males.
Ahh, the requisite racial crusading jackass.
If you include women, blacks, American Indians, Hispanic-descent citizens, various "halfbreeds", and graduates of other fine universities (especially state universities) - rather than reserving them to support (or janitorial) positions, there is no shortage whatsoever.
Yeah, I'm sure that the guys who clean the floors all have CS degrees or know how to write code. Face it, half breed or no, there are enough startups out there that, should they have the ability, they'll have a good job.
You have to PAY them on the basis of performance, respect their opinions, and avoid filing the serial numbers off their ideas and crediting them to the stars from that tiny pool of ivy-league whites and orientals. If you hire them and then systematically abuse them and pay them 2/3 of what you pay the in crowd, they'll burn out and drop out.
Why treat them any differently from the whites? You think favoritism is strictly a racial thing?
Schools that do poorly should be the ones getting money- while the money itself won't fix the problem, it could go a long way to fix the real issues the school has, such as lack of supplies, technology, current textbooks, and competent teachers.
You named one thing that is actually a factor. Most of what causes schools to fail is out of the control of those schools - it's a question of environment and parents. Sorry about your little brother.
Oh bullshit. Good development and good code isn't about reinventing the wheel when good algorithms and code already exists.
Linked lists are a known complexity problem, so throwing some code out and refining it makes for good interview fodder. Presumably you won't do that in your job - STL and java both provide good implementations.
But, all the MS teams do is ask bullshit interview questions. Why are manhole covers round? How do I implement a list?... Those questions don't find good candidates.
They eliminate bad ones, though. The manhole cover thing not so much, but I do interviews, and I do ask about implementing linked lists and other basic things, just to make sure that the candidate can show me something. Advanced candidates get 'remove the current node from the list without the head pointer', and the really good ones can explain why this is stupid to even try.
So... some guy whose passion is tinkering with chemicals, he's going to leave his job and go back to school and learn IT.
Or it'll be the guy who just wants a job to fund his hobbies and family. Lord knows there are more of them around.
Let's remember here that the reason 9-11 happened was because of intelligence failings.
That may have been the proximate cause, but the reason for attacks like 9/11 are linked to us walking around the mideast and stirring things up with our dicks. If we allowed these countries to settle their issues, we could end up with a country that mocks us like we mock france before we go over there and gawk at the Eiffel tower.
Bush's solution, which was essentially to manufacture evidence about Iraq, thus embroiling the US in a war which, after being won, has spiraled the country into a civil war.
While I won't argue the amnufacture of evidence, I must dispute that we have won anything. The only measurable goal that I can think of that we have actually met is the removal of saddam hussein, and that was declared after the fact. We went over there and stick our dick in Baghdad. Shocking that the Iraqis objected.
Probably because Iran has openly stated its desire to wipe Israel off the map should it ever have the means to do so.
By which I assume that you mean drive the fundies out of power and normalize relations with Israel, right? Are you aware that Khamenei (sp?) has issued a fatwa declaring that use of nuclear weapons is inconsistent with Islam?
you agreed not to let that happen in your EULA
Ferraris don't have EULAs. Besides, I'd rather xerox a 911.
on a third hand (where'd that come from?), zero tolerance doesn't count if that fatass has an influential or difficult to deal with parent.
That would be the gripping hand, and it describes how things work. Lean to subvert it or suffer the consequences.