I am sure that there are many capable software engineers rejected by places like Google and Microsoft. In some ways these places build a type of mono culture by trying to fit the same evaluation technique to everyone. Everybody's different. In the end an interviewer has to go on his/her gut feel.
Actually I think the company is been smart. They are giving a skilled Unix guy a chance to adapt his skills to Windows since it is so widely used in the company. Knowing unix scripting is cool but knowing Windows and Unix automation techniques means you can cover pretty much any situation that will ever occur.
What you really haven't done is explained your need very well
The role is rather adhoc. I could be scripting some testing processes that move files around and import into databases or I could be adding features to Outlook...for example a simple timesheet and leave application interface that would send leave requests to the appropriate manager.
Being able to quickly prototype something is essential here.
I still remember the look on a PC clone owning friend when I showed him my Amiga 3000 running 3 operating systems at the same time. Namely, MSDOS via PC-Task running Turbo C, Mac OS via shapeshifter running MATLAB and browsing the Internet on the Amiga side with the iBrowse browser. Oh and those huge virtual screens and screen dragging so I could see all OSes at once.
That was 1992. Imagine what it would be like today if had continued development?
What original ideas do Microsoft Research come up with? My Nokia E71 has a 2D barcode reader so this is merely an incremental improvement on a well known idea. What next, graphic user interfaces?
Put this in SBC (Single Board Computer) form together with wireless support and a nice sized flash hard drive would make it ideal for applications such as home monitoring and other uses around the typical house for us home automation geeks.
I live in a Third World country called Australia where they build new housing estates in capital cities that only have access to either dial up or the slower versions of ADSL. No cable, no ADSL2+. Though there is the insanely expensive Bigpond Wireless Broadband that has 100MB plans for $70/month, maybe I should seek a government grant and build myself a satellite antenna.
Good luck to India for trying to reach a worthy goal, here in Oz you can't always get decent internet connectivity as the Telcos and governments play that time honoured game of "pass the buck".
Oh well, the federal election is coming and one side has promised "Internet Nirvana (tm)" for us all or did I just see pork with wings fly pass my window as I write this comment!
According to their info page here:
http://www.mocana.com/ssl.html
They implement SSLv3 with Triple-DES. What about TLS? How much would that add to their footprint?
What about AES cipher and SSL session caching for the server?
Seems to be a few pieces missing here.
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I am sure that there are many capable software engineers rejected by places like Google and Microsoft. In some ways these places build a type of mono culture by trying to fit the same evaluation technique to everyone. Everybody's different. In the end an interviewer has to go on his/her gut feel.
Actually I think the company is been smart. They are giving a skilled Unix guy a chance to adapt his skills to Windows since it is so widely used in the company. Knowing unix scripting is cool but knowing Windows and Unix automation techniques means you can cover pretty much any situation that will ever occur.
I would imagine Windows XP and later.
Lots of useful info at those links. Thanks!
What you really haven't done is explained your need very well
The role is rather adhoc. I could be scripting some testing processes that move files around and import into databases or I could be adding features to Outlook...for example a simple timesheet and leave application interface that would send leave requests to the appropriate manager. Being able to quickly prototype something is essential here.
Good response. Thanks!
I still remember the look on a PC clone owning friend when I showed him my Amiga 3000 running 3 operating systems at the same time. Namely, MSDOS via PC-Task running Turbo C, Mac OS via shapeshifter running MATLAB and browsing the Internet on the Amiga side with the iBrowse browser. Oh and those huge virtual screens and screen dragging so I could see all OSes at once. That was 1992. Imagine what it would be like today if had continued development?
What original ideas do Microsoft Research come up with? My Nokia E71 has a 2D barcode reader so this is merely an incremental improvement on a well known idea. What next, graphic user interfaces?
Put this in SBC (Single Board Computer) form together with wireless support and a nice sized flash hard drive would make it ideal for applications such as home monitoring and other uses around the typical house for us home automation geeks.
I live in a Third World country called Australia where they build new housing estates in capital cities that only have access to either dial up or the slower versions of ADSL. No cable, no ADSL2+. Though there is the insanely expensive Bigpond Wireless Broadband that has 100MB plans for $70/month, maybe I should seek a government grant and build myself a satellite antenna.
Good luck to India for trying to reach a worthy goal, here in Oz you can't always get decent internet connectivity as the Telcos and governments play that time honoured game of "pass the buck".
Oh well, the federal election is coming and one side has promised "Internet Nirvana (tm)" for us all or did I just see pork with wings fly pass my window as I write this comment!
Beach Head II
Both Beach Head I and II were excellent games. Ahh the memories....
According to their info page here: http://www.mocana.com/ssl.html They implement SSLv3 with Triple-DES. What about TLS? How much would that add to their footprint? What about AES cipher and SSL session caching for the server? Seems to be a few pieces missing here.