You simply do NOT compromise your code for "efficiency" when you are already running a script language. Any web site is extremely scalable, when you grow you just plug in more servers, at some point your database can't handle the load so you start caching your pages, then you add more servers etc.
You never EVER compromise your code for efficiency when you can get 100 times more bang for the buck by adding additional servers.
Nice, embed php code within HTML. That's bound to be fun debugging. Having to skim through thousands lines of html to find some embedded control statement.
Always wondered why bondsmen was willing to give out money for bail, when there didn't really seem to be any economic incentive to it.
Here we don't have bails, if you have done something really bad, you get to sit in jail while the court figures out how to punish you, else you are usually asked to show up on court dates.
I found that my laptop had infrared turned on when windows somehow managed to communicate with a printer sitting in the same room - also apparently having its infrared turned on. Fairly new laptop, old piece of junk printer.
Just out of curiosity, why are you still running on that old junk?
A second hand P4 shouldn't cost more than $100 - you can even get a complete computer for around $199 that should be more than adequate for your off the mill ubuntu install.
states they where on 5 fathoms = 30 feet of water, the wave was 100 feet high (I'm guessing the guy means 100 feet above normal level) so that makes the wave 130 feet (40 m.) That is one fudging big wave, but its far from 1725 feet (525m.) high - its far more likely that the 130 feet of wave being pressed up the small valley will have so much force it will keep climbing up to that level.
If you for instance get invited into the community theres a big button telling you press here to enable this feature. No where does it explicitly tell you that hitting that button will add all sorts of tracking information to your account freely available to any one else - and no way of opting out again. (This might have changed after I pointed out to them that their practice was in fact illegal and I would take it up with local consumer agencies if they failed to remove this information for my account - I can't actually check that because their current method of removing your information is to ban your account from the steam community (no I'm not kidding))
Indians can be quite well educated, just like the Chinese, however one major problem I have heard of is their social "programming".
When outsourcing you have to be extremely specific in what you want, because you get what you asked for, no questions asked, even if it wont actually work. Independent thinking is frowned upon so you will often not get what you wanted, but what you asked for.
Start worrying when companies start to outsource to Poland, not only are they smart, but they can think for themselves. (Romania will be right behind them, however they still have a couple of language barriers, but that's just a matter of time)
Well a plane crash-landing from 100 ft. is usually going a couple of hundred miles per hour, getting to zero from that speed usually involves quite a bit of force.
A blimp crashing from 100 ft. while be going at much slower speeds and thus your chance of survival will be greatly enhanced.
In Denmark the first 3 months of your employment both the employer and employee can terminate it with a days notice. After the 3 months "test period" and until the first 6 months of employment both parties have to give 1 months notice. After 6 months the employer has to give 3 months notice, the employee has to give 1 month. This goes on at regular intervals (for the employer), employee stays at 1 month notice.
The good thing about this is both parties can try each other out with very limited damage if things doesn't work out. However, if the employer does like what you do, he is stuck with you and you can start making plans for your life. This way we don't really need to see your code, we can just terminate your employment if you can't do what you said you can.
While I used to think the whiteboard coding was a load of crap I have come to respect it.
As the GP said, having someone create a solution to a problem - pseudo code or whatever - tells you heaps about how he or she works. For instance, if you put me up on that whiteboard I would start by outlying the problem, going over each step and checking what I would need (writing it on the whiteboard), then I would sketch the solution and if they want me to proceed, create a solution - that's how I do my work normally, on pen and paper before I start typing at a computer. Show them that you aren't a cowboy when coding, but rather stop and think about the problem before you dive into it.
You just have to give the candidate the assignment with them home and have them turn it in after, say 24 hours, or whatever matches the complexity of the assignment. That way you can see how he or she works in a more normal setting.
If you want to support Linux you need to have the big players backing Linux. When best buy put Linux on the shelves you need to show them there is a market interest in Linux - slowly customers will come asking for Linux games/programs, then best buy will go ask their suppliers for games/programs, and suddenly the market will start catering to Linux.
While I program for a living much of my day is spent writing stuff with pen and paper. A computer simply cannot support the same flow of thoughts as a couple of pieces of paper can. When I'm done sketching out my project I turn to the computer for the actual programming./so >200//Also I think it scores a point or two with the boss when you take notes pen and paper wise, he can see that you are actually paying attention while someone staring intensely at his laptop screen could just as well be playing solitaire.
You know, if law enforcement "fucked up your volume" as you so nicely put it, they have just destroyed whatever evidence you where trying to hide. So why would anyone using true crypt have a problem with that?
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Think you totally missed the point.
You put plausible data into the encrypted volume, when they ask for your password you give it up, they access the encrypted volume and see you got porn/financial stuff/what nots you don't want others to see. What they can't see is the fact that there is another volume hidden inside this, which there is no way of knowing unless you got the second password. Waterboarding the person makes no sense since he has already given up the password giving you access to the "entire" volume.
No, the reason why we wanted to believe was that he was being found guilty by weak circumstantial evidence.
No man should ever face 25 years in prison because some jury didn't like him, if he is guilty beyond reasonable doubt then lock him up, but in this case there was quite a lot of doubt (until today).
The fun thing is they ship the crap stuff to the US and good stuff to EU because we require higher warranties. Here in Denmark for instance they are by law required to show that anything failing within the first 6 months is misuse by the customer. On top of that we get another 1 and a half year where any defects are still considered under warranty, but its up to the user to show that its a faulty product - however, in practice electronic shops grant a full 2 year warranty, with pretty much no questions asked due to the competition.
So any company selling hardware in Denmark has to take care the stuff works or they will end up having to replace it 2 years down the road, that means the good runs end up here. (A good example is the Samsung F8 series, any model destined for Scandinavia is labeled BDX and comes with on site service per default and are pretty much guaranteed to work for 5+ years)
No its not trivial to check that. Factorizing a 1024 bit number you really really want to get it right in the first go, if the algorithm isn't proven you can only hope whatever you get returned is correct.
on the quality of your university, around here we are more than happy to pick up anyone who haven't got any real programming experience but got a degree from DIKU (CS department at the university of Copenhagen).
If the CS degree is worth its salt you should be well aware of how to program in theory, should be well into algorithms, the actual programming in a language is quite a simple thing to learn if you understand the fundamentals of CS.
A good company should put you under the wings of someone experienced - have them double check your work till you are confident in yourself. There is no shame in admitting you need experience.
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NO! NO NO NO no no no no NO!!!!
You simply do NOT compromise your code for "efficiency" when you are already running a script language. Any web site is extremely scalable, when you grow you just plug in more servers, at some point your database can't handle the load so you start caching your pages, then you add more servers etc.
You never EVER compromise your code for efficiency when you can get 100 times more bang for the buck by adding additional servers.
Nice, embed php code within HTML. That's bound to be fun debugging. Having to skim through thousands lines of html to find some embedded control statement.
And you complain about the placement of else...
Ah so that's how they work.
Always wondered why bondsmen was willing to give out money for bail, when there didn't really seem to be any economic incentive to it.
Here we don't have bails, if you have done something really bad, you get to sit in jail while the court figures out how to punish you, else you are usually asked to show up on court dates.
I found that my laptop had infrared turned on when windows somehow managed to communicate with a printer sitting in the same room - also apparently having its infrared turned on. Fairly new laptop, old piece of junk printer.
Just out of curiosity, why are you still running on that old junk?
A second hand P4 shouldn't cost more than $100 - you can even get a complete computer for around $199 that should be more than adequate for your off the mill ubuntu install.
states they where on 5 fathoms = 30 feet of water, the wave was 100 feet high (I'm guessing the guy means 100 feet above normal level) so that makes the wave 130 feet (40 m.) That is one fudging big wave, but its far from 1725 feet (525m.) high - its far more likely that the 130 feet of wave being pressed up the small valley will have so much force it will keep climbing up to that level.
Wrong.
Read the article, the 4870x2 will come with 2GB memory giving it an effective of 1GB since they need to duplicate it.
No not really.
If you for instance get invited into the community theres a big button telling you press here to enable this feature. No where does it explicitly tell you that hitting that button will add all sorts of tracking information to your account freely available to any one else - and no way of opting out again. (This might have changed after I pointed out to them that their practice was in fact illegal and I would take it up with local consumer agencies if they failed to remove this information for my account - I can't actually check that because their current method of removing your information is to ban your account from the steam community (no I'm not kidding))
Indians can be quite well educated, just like the Chinese, however one major problem I have heard of is their social "programming".
When outsourcing you have to be extremely specific in what you want, because you get what you asked for, no questions asked, even if it wont actually work. Independent thinking is frowned upon so you will often not get what you wanted, but what you asked for.
Start worrying when companies start to outsource to Poland, not only are they smart, but they can think for themselves. (Romania will be right behind them, however they still have a couple of language barriers, but that's just a matter of time)
Well a plane crash-landing from 100 ft. is usually going a couple of hundred miles per hour, getting to zero from that speed usually involves quite a bit of force.
A blimp crashing from 100 ft. while be going at much slower speeds and thus your chance of survival will be greatly enhanced.
Well my bad, around here people are sane and don't sue left and right.
You speculate that they turned down your application because it was too good?
So you didn't actually ask why they turned you down? You just sit there with a grudge, making most likely false assumptions. Smart move.
Ever crossed your mind that they might have found someone just as good, but with, perhaps more experience? Or asking less pay?
In Denmark the first 3 months of your employment both the employer and employee can terminate it with a days notice. After the 3 months "test period" and until the first 6 months of employment both parties have to give 1 months notice. After 6 months the employer has to give 3 months notice, the employee has to give 1 month. This goes on at regular intervals (for the employer), employee stays at 1 month notice.
The good thing about this is both parties can try each other out with very limited damage if things doesn't work out. However, if the employer does like what you do, he is stuck with you and you can start making plans for your life. This way we don't really need to see your code, we can just terminate your employment if you can't do what you said you can.
While I used to think the whiteboard coding was a load of crap I have come to respect it.
As the GP said, having someone create a solution to a problem - pseudo code or whatever - tells you heaps about how he or she works. For instance, if you put me up on that whiteboard I would start by outlying the problem, going over each step and checking what I would need (writing it on the whiteboard), then I would sketch the solution and if they want me to proceed, create a solution - that's how I do my work normally, on pen and paper before I start typing at a computer. Show them that you aren't a cowboy when coding, but rather stop and think about the problem before you dive into it.
You just have to give the candidate the assignment with them home and have them turn it in after, say 24 hours, or whatever matches the complexity of the assignment. That way you can see how he or she works in a more normal setting.
No no no!
If you want to support Linux you need to have the big players backing Linux. When best buy put Linux on the shelves you need to show them there is a market interest in Linux - slowly customers will come asking for Linux games/programs, then best buy will go ask their suppliers for games/programs, and suddenly the market will start catering to Linux.
While I program for a living much of my day is spent writing stuff with pen and paper. A computer simply cannot support the same flow of thoughts as a couple of pieces of paper can. When I'm done sketching out my project I turn to the computer for the actual programming. /so >200 //Also I think it scores a point or two with the boss when you take notes pen and paper wise, he can see that you are actually paying attention while someone staring intensely at his laptop screen could just as well be playing solitaire.
You know, if law enforcement "fucked up your volume" as you so nicely put it, they have just destroyed whatever evidence you where trying to hide. So why would anyone using true crypt have a problem with that?
Think you totally missed the point.
You put plausible data into the encrypted volume, when they ask for your password you give it up, they access the encrypted volume and see you got porn/financial stuff/what nots you don't want others to see. What they can't see is the fact that there is another volume hidden inside this, which there is no way of knowing unless you got the second password. Waterboarding the person makes no sense since he has already given up the password giving you access to the "entire" volume.
No, the reason why we wanted to believe was that he was being found guilty by weak circumstantial evidence.
No man should ever face 25 years in prison because some jury didn't like him, if he is guilty beyond reasonable doubt then lock him up, but in this case there was quite a lot of doubt (until today).
Erhm?
Currently a is $1.5, so if your stuff is priced the same i.g. $100 = 100 then you get the stuff way cheaper than we do.
The fun thing is they ship the crap stuff to the US and good stuff to EU because we require higher warranties. Here in Denmark for instance they are by law required to show that anything failing within the first 6 months is misuse by the customer. On top of that we get another 1 and a half year where any defects are still considered under warranty, but its up to the user to show that its a faulty product - however, in practice electronic shops grant a full 2 year warranty, with pretty much no questions asked due to the competition.
So any company selling hardware in Denmark has to take care the stuff works or they will end up having to replace it 2 years down the road, that means the good runs end up here. (A good example is the Samsung F8 series, any model destined for Scandinavia is labeled BDX and comes with on site service per default and are pretty much guaranteed to work for 5+ years)
No its not trivial to check that. Factorizing a 1024 bit number you really really want to get it right in the first go, if the algorithm isn't proven you can only hope whatever you get returned is correct.
For crying out loud! How can you Americans keep accepting this load of BS?
Stuff like that would never fly here in Denmark, what happened to the customer is always right etc?
on the quality of your university, around here we are more than happy to pick up anyone who haven't got any real programming experience but got a degree from DIKU (CS department at the university of Copenhagen).
If the CS degree is worth its salt you should be well aware of how to program in theory, should be well into algorithms, the actual programming in a language is quite a simple thing to learn if you understand the fundamentals of CS.
A good company should put you under the wings of someone experienced - have them double check your work till you are confident in yourself. There is no shame in admitting you need experience.