I recently took a "Managing Within the Law" class. Short answer: with today's litigious society, the instructor (a lawyer) suggested holding your tongue. As an individual contributor, the company can be sued. If you're a people manager, both the company AND yourself can be sued directly.
If you felt the candidate wasn't the suing type, I would still suggest keeping all feedback strictly to facts-- nothing like "you seemed weak in this area", but "you weren't able to come up with any new features in JDK 1.5".
You can download the code (or purchase a PDF cheaper than the dead tree version) here:
http://www.nostarch.com/frameset.php?startat=wcps
Gotta love a published that has the balls to make the code available for free. I've got the Wicked Cool Shellscripts book, but find grep'ing the source a much handier way to recall examples.
This petition circulated from Jan 03 - Dec 04 before it appears to have become innoperable. There's also been a similar effort in one of the forums used for a SC open source clone. What makes you think spamming Alex Ness will result in more favorable results??
After the dotcom bust, enrollment was largely cut back down to those who were genuinely interested in the industry, not just after a quick buck. For that, we should all be grateful.
As I read through the comments so far, there hasn't been a single negative reply (within my threshhold) in regards to the delay, and I also applaud Id's efforts.
Funny though, 'cause when I read this, I thought it sounded strikingly similar to the licensing delays Sun has in releasing the Solaris source code, which more people than not criticize as feet dragging or worse.
Sure, they're not exactly parallels, but both Id and Sun have positive history in the open source world (thats not intended as a troll...)
Why is that Id gets slack while Sun gets stiffed for attempting the same thing?
I'm all for clean low-cost energies, but wind technology just doesn't work. The silicon valley outskirts near Livermore has had wind turbines for decades. Those things are rarely spinning, and are often broken. It can't be cost efficient to replace this giant motor/generator all the time because the technology sucks. If they worked, there would be more of them sprouting on Them Thar Hills- but its just the opposite, they're not rebuilding them as they fail.
And hydroelectric energy is hardly good for the environment either. Anything downstream from where the dam is built will be forever changed, and rarely for the better.
Its silly to invest in alternate energy supplies just for the sake of doing something different. Often the environment is worse of for it.
I'm glad to finally see a resemblance of competition in the mp3 player market, even if the consensus is the iPod is still marginally better. If nothing else, it'll keep Apple on their toes and drive more innovation.
You gotta wonder how long of a lifespan the dedicated mp3 player will have though, as memory prices drop and other devices such as mobile phones start incorporating mp3 functionality for nearly free.
I think there will always be a market for dedicated mp3 players- especially as their prices and sizes continue to shrink (who wants to strap their treo to their arm when they go jogging?), but they manufacturers need to think about what they can do to make them more useful while they wait for technology (MRAM) to allow for sweeter hardware. Apple's photo iPod is a step in the right direction, even if it is considered a failure- next gen players better have more wizbang.
If the boys with fat pipes start indexing "deeper" into sites, I think we're going to see a lot of sites going offline until they've been refactored to handle this sort of thing.
The frontend webservers that serve the static pages are fine (they're already being spidered now), but the dynamic content, largely dependant on databases and such, very likely wasn't built to handle this sort of load. Once the new engines get their hooks into these pieces, they're going to be in trouble.
I still vividly remember a segment on 60 Minutes (roughly 10 years ago) about Chernobyl. It never really sunk in for me how major the devastation was until then- you need to *hear* it as well as see it.
Photos can't really do justice to how eerie the place really is. There are complete scenes of every day life frozen in time- exactly how they were so many years ago- minus the people.
There's a fine line between persistance and pestering. Giving your superiors an ultimatum isn't going to be as affective and convincing them why its in their best interest to give you a development position.
The two most influencing factors in a good wine are:
#1- the ingredients (grapes)
#2- the process
Coppola and crew may have the process to make good wine. A good vintner can even salvage a bit from questionable grapes through solid process. But there's very little you can do to help the final product if conditions aren't ideal for the vines (which is very likely to include this section of Marin). There's a reason why certain areas, like Napa and Sonoma, demand such high land prices. They produce consistant high quality grapes. Sure, Marin may have an occasional good year- but the typical vintner can't just toss their harvest for the year after a unfortunate change in weather. (not a problem for Lucas!)
With the way wine prices have dropped this past decade, you can get an exceptional bottle for well under the price Lucas/Coppola are asking. Stick to areas known to product good grapes. And help the little guys who are (trying to) make a living making wine because they love it- not some guy who kept it "on the back burner" for years before bringing in the big guns to make it for him.
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I recently took a "Managing Within the Law" class. Short answer: with today's litigious society, the instructor (a lawyer) suggested holding your tongue. As an individual contributor, the company can be sued. If you're a people manager, both the company AND yourself can be sued directly. If you felt the candidate wasn't the suing type, I would still suggest keeping all feedback strictly to facts-- nothing like "you seemed weak in this area", but "you weren't able to come up with any new features in JDK 1.5".
You can download the code (or purchase a PDF cheaper than the dead tree version) here: http://www.nostarch.com/frameset.php?startat=wcps Gotta love a published that has the balls to make the code available for free. I've got the Wicked Cool Shellscripts book, but find grep'ing the source a much handier way to recall examples.
This petition circulated from Jan 03 - Dec 04 before it appears to have become innoperable. There's also been a similar effort in one of the forums used for a SC open source clone. What makes you think spamming Alex Ness will result in more favorable results??
After the dotcom bust, enrollment was largely cut back down to those who were genuinely interested in the industry, not just after a quick buck. For that, we should all be grateful.
As I read through the comments so far, there hasn't been a single negative reply (within my threshhold) in regards to the delay, and I also applaud Id's efforts. Funny though, 'cause when I read this, I thought it sounded strikingly similar to the licensing delays Sun has in releasing the Solaris source code, which more people than not criticize as feet dragging or worse.
Sure, they're not exactly parallels, but both Id and Sun have positive history in the open source world (thats not intended as a troll...) Why is that Id gets slack while Sun gets stiffed for attempting the same thing?
I'm all for clean low-cost energies, but wind technology just doesn't work. The silicon valley outskirts near Livermore has had wind turbines for decades. Those things are rarely spinning, and are often broken. It can't be cost efficient to replace this giant motor/generator all the time because the technology sucks. If they worked, there would be more of them sprouting on Them Thar Hills- but its just the opposite, they're not rebuilding them as they fail.
And hydroelectric energy is hardly good for the environment either. Anything downstream from where the dam is built will be forever changed, and rarely for the better.
Its silly to invest in alternate energy supplies just for the sake of doing something different. Often the environment is worse of for it.
I'm glad to finally see a resemblance of competition in the mp3 player market, even if the consensus is the iPod is still marginally better. If nothing else, it'll keep Apple on their toes and drive more innovation.
You gotta wonder how long of a lifespan the dedicated mp3 player will have though, as memory prices drop and other devices such as mobile phones start incorporating mp3 functionality for nearly free.
I think there will always be a market for dedicated mp3 players- especially as their prices and sizes continue to shrink (who wants to strap their treo to their arm when they go jogging?), but they manufacturers need to think about what they can do to make them more useful while they wait for technology (MRAM) to allow for sweeter hardware. Apple's photo iPod is a step in the right direction, even if it is considered a failure- next gen players better have more wizbang.
If the boys with fat pipes start indexing "deeper" into sites, I think we're going to see a lot of sites going offline until they've been refactored to handle this sort of thing.
The frontend webservers that serve the static pages are fine (they're already being spidered now), but the dynamic content, largely dependant on databases and such, very likely wasn't built to handle this sort of load. Once the new engines get their hooks into these pieces, they're going to be in trouble.
I still vividly remember a segment on 60 Minutes (roughly 10 years ago) about Chernobyl. It never really sunk in for me how major the devastation was until then- you need to *hear* it as well as see it.
Photos can't really do justice to how eerie the place really is. There are complete scenes of every day life frozen in time- exactly how they were so many years ago- minus the people.
There's a fine line between persistance and pestering. Giving your superiors an ultimatum isn't going to be as affective and convincing them why its in their best interest to give you a development position.
The two most influencing factors in a good wine are:
#1- the ingredients (grapes)
#2- the process
Coppola and crew may have the process to make good wine. A good vintner can even salvage a bit from questionable grapes through solid process. But there's very little you can do to help the final product if conditions aren't ideal for the vines (which is very likely to include this section of Marin). There's a reason why certain areas, like Napa and Sonoma, demand such high land prices. They produce consistant high quality grapes. Sure, Marin may have an occasional good year- but the typical vintner can't just toss their harvest for the year after a unfortunate change in weather. (not a problem for Lucas!)
With the way wine prices have dropped this past decade, you can get an exceptional bottle for well under the price Lucas/Coppola are asking. Stick to areas known to product good grapes. And help the little guys who are (trying to) make a living making wine because they love it- not some guy who kept it "on the back burner" for years before bringing in the big guns to make it for him.