There's nothing slow about Windows, except that 99.998% of its users don't know how to configure or run it properly. Say it's hard to use, but don't say it's slow.
must include company name
mandatory salary ranges
must give desired fill date
search jobs within given distance of arbitrary location
Someone said:
> find a way to penalize recruiters who post non-existant jobs > for resume collection.
The ideal job site would be symmetrical -- as much a repository of talent as of jobs. With appropriate search capabilities over resumes, listing a filled or fake job should be pointless.
Like craigslist, it should be funded by employers rather than applicants (that includes selling ads for us to watch). This also makes life hard for recruiters.
Posts could vanish after the "desired fill date". To encourage applicants, fill dates could still not be set too far ahead.
I'd like to add:
suggest-a-job feature, ala Amazon
'people who applied to this job also applied for...'
'most popular jobs among people like you...'
don't be trendy
please, god, no tags
please god no social networking
foster dialog about jobs
"more like an interview"
avoid structured resumes, structured job listings
ie 'willing to travel = 75% of time'
create a culture that discourages laundry lists
To offset standard job description BS, require that posts
show a small org tree centered around the job. Offer an
ajax tree-constructor tool to make the trees' appearance
uniform. Require at least two nodes, with a title and one-
line description at each node. In addition, require all of
an employer's jobs be shown in his trees, up to some large
number (like 20). Nodes are clickable.
every job gets a number
differentiates multiple openings with the same title
'We're building the world's best ___ system, and we plan to
dedicate a person just to do testing of its ___ function.
How would you do this? Is this really a full-time job?'
replies
visible reply rate for each position
'BetterWidgets has replied to 82 of 1005 responses about
this job, and 390 of 24,000 responses about all of their
jobs since October 2004.'
The bees made up for the extra work by stretching out their wing stroke amplitude but did not adjust wingbeat frequency.
"They work like racing cars," Altshuler said. "Racing cars can reach higher revolutions per minute but enable the driver to go faster in higher gear. But like honeybees, they are inefficient."
I know what you're thinking: this makes absolutely no sense. Caltech's own press release is at least intelligible.
Tomo Hiratsuka writes "Honda's ASIMO robot has received his annual refit and now has the power to carry objects with a cart, serve drinks, and run with both feet off the ground at up to 10mph."
These print encyclopedia comparisons crack me up. Comparing door-to-door kindling like Britannica with Wikipedia is a flamboyant exercise in retardation. The number of topics rigorously covered by the latter -- in advanced fields like number theory, unification physics, voting systems, music theory, software, etc. etc. (not to mention literature and contemporary culture) -- that would cause lavatory parchment like Britannica to burst into flames upon mere mention is astounding.
From where does a word like "Britannica" derive, anyway? How anyone can mention a publication called "Britannica" in a straight-faced discussion of scholarly reference material is certainly a mystery.
And throwing around a count of "inaccuracies" per article takes scholarly trash-talk to a new level. I can't imagine a more vacuous metric for... well, anything.
which just describes a method for making mice with IGF2R knocked out only in certain tissues (total knockout is fatal).
A big name in behavioral genetics is Plomin. A nice overview of the heritability of g, along with preliminary results of a DNA-pooling study pointing to IGF2R is
I cold-turkied from QWERTY to Dvorak in 2001, at the tender age of 24, after having been a QWERTY touch-typer since age 14. I read about "extinction" (forgetting QWERTY) on the 'net before doing the switch, but dismissed the idea as never-going-to-happen-to-me.
Well, it happened to me. BEFORE I got up to speed on Dvorak = 3 weeks of total hell. And weird. I could feel the signals being sent, but my fingers wouldn't move. "This is a trick," I thought, "I'll just move my fingers and the signals will hook back up." Wrong I was; only gibberish came out.
Apparently, if new training is similar enough to something you've already learned, and the thing you already learned isn't being used, the neurons that were doing the original thing are likely to be retrained for the new one. Reports indicate, and it seems reasonable, that this can be prevented by continuing to practice the old while learning the new. For me, though, being unable to type is such unbelievable hell that I would never have practiced Dvorak if I hadn't forbidden myself QWERTY.
Re. Maltron: hands-flat isn't as good as hands- vertical. Ultimate is probably DataHand, with each unit mounted vertically (though I haven't tried one myself).
Re. the straightdope article. Don't fall for this tripe.
Re. RSI -- mousing has been more damaging than typing to me, but my condition did improve when I switched to Dvorak.
Keyspansupports Linux. We're about to release a new version of the driver, which we've modified in-house to fix many bugs. I wouldn't say we excel at Linux, but we're interested in it, and as far as I know our policy is to devote as much time as we can based on estimated sales into the Linux market. Anybody out there trying to run a headless server on a machine without native DB-9 ports?
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Not necessarily true, in light of epigenetic inheritence.
There's nothing slow about Windows, except that 99.998% of its users don't know how to configure or run it properly. Say it's hard to use, but don't say it's slow.
There have been some good answers so far:
must include company name
mandatory salary ranges
must give desired fill date
search jobs within given distance of arbitrary location
Someone said:
> find a way to penalize recruiters who post non-existant jobs
> for resume collection.
The ideal job site would be symmetrical -- as much a repository
of talent as of jobs. With appropriate search capabilities over
resumes, listing a filled or fake job should be pointless.
Like craigslist, it should be funded by employers rather than
applicants (that includes selling ads for us to watch). This
also makes life hard for recruiters.
Posts could vanish after the "desired fill date". To encourage
applicants, fill dates could still not be set too far ahead.
I'd like to add:
suggest-a-job feature, ala Amazon
'people who applied to this job also applied for...'
'most popular jobs among people like you...'
don't be trendy
please, god, no tags
please god no social networking
foster dialog about jobs
"more like an interview"
avoid structured resumes, structured job listings
ie 'willing to travel = 75% of time'
create a culture that discourages laundry lists
To offset standard job description BS, require that posts
show a small org tree centered around the job. Offer an
ajax tree-constructor tool to make the trees' appearance
uniform. Require at least two nodes, with a title and one-
line description at each node. In addition, require all of
an employer's jobs be shown in his trees, up to some large
number (like 20). Nodes are clickable.
every job gets a number
differentiates multiple openings with the same title
access via http://domain.com/number
have posts solicit problem-solving
'We're building the world's best ___ system, and we plan to
dedicate a person just to do testing of its ___ function.
How would you do this? Is this really a full-time job?'
replies
visible reply rate for each position
'BetterWidgets has replied to 82 of 1005 responses about
this job, and 390 of 24,000 responses about all of their
jobs since October 2004.'
From the linked (LiveScience) article:
I know what you're thinking: this makes absolutely no sense. Caltech's own press release is at least intelligible.
-Carl
This video implies the top speed is 6 km/h, which is just under 4 mph...
-Carl
These print encyclopedia comparisons crack me up. Comparing door-to-door kindling like Britannica with Wikipedia is a flamboyant exercise in retardation. The number of topics rigorously covered by the latter -- in advanced fields like number theory, unification physics, voting systems, music theory, software, etc. etc. (not to mention literature and contemporary culture) -- that would cause lavatory parchment like Britannica to burst into flames upon mere mention is astounding.
From where does a word like "Britannica" derive, anyway? How anyone can mention a publication called "Britannica" in a straight-faced discussion of scholarly reference material is certainly a mystery.
And throwing around a count of "inaccuracies" per article takes scholarly trash-talk to a new level. I can't imagine a more vacuous metric for... well, anything.
-Carl
It's a mystery what research this article is referring to.
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We'll have to watch for a paper.
The only related paper I could find from Jirtle is
http://ajp.amjpathol.org/cgi/content/full/162/1/3
which just describes a method for making mice with IGF2R
knocked out only in certain tissues (total knockout is
fatal).
A big name in behavioral genetics is Plomin. A nice
overview of the heritability of g, along with preliminary
results of a DNA-pooling study pointing to IGF2R is
http://bjp.rcpsych.org/cgi/content/full/178/40/s4
The first paper I could find pointing to IGF2R goes back
to 1998
http://tinyurl.com/8yavr?__ChorneyEtAl1998
-Carl
I cold-turkied from QWERTY to Dvorak in 2001, at
the tender age of 24, after having been a QWERTY
touch-typer since age 14. I read about
"extinction" (forgetting QWERTY) on the 'net
before doing the switch, but dismissed the idea
as never-going-to-happen-to-me.
Well, it happened to me. BEFORE I got up to
speed on Dvorak = 3 weeks of total hell. And
weird. I could feel the signals being sent, but
my fingers wouldn't move. "This is a trick," I
thought, "I'll just move my fingers and the
signals will hook back up." Wrong I was; only
gibberish came out.
Apparently, if new training is similar enough to
something you've already learned, and the thing
you already learned isn't being used, the neurons
that were doing the original thing are likely to
be retrained for the new one. Reports indicate,
and it seems reasonable, that this can be
prevented by continuing to practice the old while
learning the new. For me, though, being unable to
type is such unbelievable hell that I would never
have practiced Dvorak if I hadn't forbidden myself
QWERTY.
Re. Maltron: hands-flat isn't as good as hands-
vertical. Ultimate is probably DataHand, with
each unit mounted vertically (though I haven't
tried one myself).
Re. the straightdope article. Don't fall for this
tripe.
Re. RSI -- mousing has been more damaging than
typing to me, but my condition did improve when I
switched to Dvorak.
Three posts on my blog give more info:
http://www.lumma.org/microwave/#2003.07.21
http://www.lumma.org/microwave/#2002.10.08
http://www.lumma.org/microwave/#2002.07.09
-Carl
"A revolution requires that people leave their house."
A revolution also requires people who know how to form sentences featuring number agreement.
-Carl
Huh? What happened to my link?
http://tinyurl.com/pmxz
[imaging-resource.com]
World's first and only palmtop solid-state broadcast-quality video camera with no SCMS, incoming @ US $600. Still no audio equivalent!
Keyspan supports Linux. We're about to release a new version of the driver, which we've modified in-house to fix many bugs. I wouldn't say we excel at Linux, but we're interested in it, and as far as I know our policy is to devote as much time as we can based on estimated sales into the Linux market. Anybody out there trying to run a headless server on a machine without native DB-9 ports?